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Pete Lombardo

How to recover data from a failed hard drive.

Here’s the scenario.   You have a computer that’s been running for years.  Everything has been fine until one day when it crashes on you.  Perhaps it goes out in style with a BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death).   You don’t realize the impact yet.  You reboot, but when it starts to load, BAM!, another BSOD.    Now you panic.  Your heart starts beating really fast, and you start to sweat uncontrollably as you think about all of those pictures that can never be retaken.  Gone.  All gone.   Or is it? Did you know that when a hard drive fails, it’s usually not completely dead?   Even if you cannot boot up into Windows, it’s still likely that you can recover some data from it. Here’s what you need to do. TURN THE COMPUTER OFF! – This is an important one.  The longer the drive runs, the worse it will be.  If you can hear the drive clicking, time is of the essence.  Turn the computer off and prepare for the next step. MAKE A PLAN – You need to identify what your absolute most important data is.   Is...

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Pepperoni Bread

Mozzarella and pepperoni rolled up together with a drizzle of olive oil and some crusted cheddar cheese on top. If only you could smell it too!

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Run Forest, Run

Kudos to my brother Anthony for running a 10K today!    It’s an uphill battle, but you can do it!

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Dinner

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First Post

This is the first of many!

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Welcome to Brandyce.net!

This newly created site will be used as our blog.   More stories to come.

Pete Lombardo

How to mount a USB 2.0 Device in QEMU

Add the following line to the command-line before starting the VM. \-device usb-ehci,id=ehci After you boot up the VM, press control-alt-1 to get to the console.  Type the following. info usbhost Look for the device that you want to connect to the host.  It will list a Bus, Addr, Port, and Speed.   If the speed is 480 Mb/s, then you need USB 2.0 to mount it.  Let’s say that the Bus and Port are 2 and 1 respectively.   Then we would type the following command to mount this as a USB 2.0 device. device\_add usb-host,bus=ehci.0,hostbus=2,hostport=1 And that’s it.   Your USB 2.0 device should work!