#drivefailure — Public Fediverse posts

LaCie external USB-C drive I use as my secondary backup has just died. Poor quality crap.

So. I use a 4Tb Thunderbolt drive with Time Capsule (always connected when I’m using my laptop), and create a weekly drive image to this second drive using Carbon Copy Cloner. So it’s had minimal use since I bought the laptop in 2024. Say 100 uses.

Except this is a replacement for the original which failed inside six months. So two drives from LaCie fail, both under 2 years old, both minimal usage.

No more LaCie for me then.

#LaCie #DriveFailure

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Well I’m back. Mostly. God everything is so slow on a physical hard drive than the nvme 2tb m.2 system drive!

Ended up doing a robocopy c:\users\me g:\users\me /move /copyall /s /e /w:0 /r:0 /mt to move the contents of my %userprofile% to another drive which I was booted in Recovery Mode.

Then using regedit to edit HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\{SID}\ProfileImagePath and point %UserProfile% to it’s new location (g:\users\me).

So far I’m back. Just slow. It’s taking a noticeable long time to launch applications and navigate windows.

But at least I’m back until I can get this drive replaced.

#Windows11 #BusinessContinuity #DisasterRecovery #DriveFailure #BootDisk #SystemDisk #BSOD

Catharsis, in pictures.

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#DriveFailure
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