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Nation building, now with ten percent less carbon tax in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 1 points 3 days ago

This, but with serfs free pouring barrels of bitumen on the fire.

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's beyond a software fix at this point. I haven't had a flicker of life from the drive after switching power/sata cables, a usb drive enclosure and a hdd docking station (i've confirmed the external devices work with a different drive). I'm all for booting to linux, but the bios doesn't report that anything is connected when going through the sata ports.

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Ya, it's definitely out of my ability. I'm going to start getting quotes for data recovery services around me.

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya, i'm coming to the conclusion that it's beyond me and needs professional help. Tried the external enclosure and got nothing as well.

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 2 points 1 week ago (7 children)

i just tried swapping the power and sata cables between the good and bad drives and was able to boot up from the good drive, but no bad drive. so the cables are good

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 3 points 1 week ago

Ya, I'm approaching that point of maybe paying for it, but want to exhaust the options I can do.

Help resurrecting a dead SSD in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 3 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I just tried a new Sata cable and no luck 😞 I've tried 4 out of 6 Sata ports on the mobo. I know one is working cause the c drive still boots.

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Help resurrecting a dead SSD (self.techsupport)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ShaggyBlarney to c/[email protected]

18 comments fedilink

Two days ago, my SSD stopped showing up on my computer (it doesn't show up in file explorer, disk mgt., device mgt., bios). There was little warning of drive failure; i was downloading a new game to it that morning (had to restart a failed download twice, but the third time succeeded). It's been humming along without issue for a couple of years now. There are some personal projects, photos, maybe game saves i'd like to retrieve if possible. Any ideas or tips would be helpful?

So far i've tried:

restarting
scanning with device mgr, disk mgr, in the bios
power cycling the drive with the sata unplugged
switching the sata cable to another port (no show)
switching out the drive for a blank drive(no show as well)

next steps are to try cloning the drive with a 2 bay docking station

spec info:

drive: 1 TB western digital SA510, working as the secondary drive.
OS: Windows 10

Edit: thanks for the advice. It looks like this is out of my range of abilities to recover so I'm looking to a professional service now. Let me know of a good data recovery service in the greater Vancouver area of you know of one.

Insufferable in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Cries in Business Central AL

There's a convenience food that is not available at most grocery stores. One that I would pay extra for. Day old refrigerated rice. I would make fried rice more often. in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 9 points 1 month ago

Freshly cooked instant rice is just not the same as day old rice for fried rice. Day old rice has had a chance to cool down and lose some moisture.

What game(s) would you use to introduce someone to WASD/Mouse controls? in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 7 points 1 month ago

Firewatch

Carney kills consumer carbon tax in first move as prime minister in c/canada

[–] ShaggyBlarney 3 points 2 months ago

Ya and he axed the tax...wait pp has no talking points now

Google Chromecast down: Users report streaming issues as service suffers huge global outage in c/[email protected]

[–] ShaggyBlarney 5 points 3 months ago

I've got a 2nd gen that I'm hoping they'll patch. It sounds like it's an expired security certificate across the board. These usually aren't a hard fix to push out and Google had stated to support existing Chromecasts for the near future.

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Help understanding mortgages, monthly payments and cmhc (self.personalfinancecanada)

submitted 2 years ago by ShaggyBlarney to c/personalfinancecanada

3 comments fedilink

I'm trying to put together a google sheets reference chart for mortgage payments but I'm having a hard time figuring out the cmhc portion.

The basics of the chart is having a row for the price (200k-900k, incrementing 25k per row), down payment amount by %(set as a global in a field above), the cmhc insurance amount (price amount - down payment * CNBC rate based on down payment %; is this right?), monthly payment amount (using the PMT function on sheets, this is close but not matching to other calculators). My input for the PMT is the interest %/12, the lifetime (300 monthly period, 25 years), the total amount of the mortgage (price - down payment + CNBC insurance). This is mostly working but is still off by 10s-100s on the monthly payment. Is there something like graduated % in calculating the cmhc amount that I'm missing?