Sunday, January 5, 2014


i singled that pic out for a reason. yikes. ahahahaha...

anyways, the inri phase (and related playlists) is now completely constructed on youtube. there are a few genre-specific playlists (jazz/prog, song-oriented, noise, ambient) as well as a full playlist of all uploaded tracks and also one that starts off the beginning of the next phase, which i'm calling a transitional phase (from kiddie phase into serious phase).

i'm sort of struck by how productive and exploratory '99 was for me. the transitional bleed in is two hours, all from '99. and it's about a quarter of what i finished that year.
file: missed connection [1999].mp4
composition: missed connection
status: downloaded youtube video
file: 07 the day inri messed the world up [1999].mp4
composition: the day inri messed the world up (original cover of the nine inch nails track, the day the whole world went away, with samples from it)
status: downloaded youtube video
reinstall failed to write to the disk.

ugh.

let's do another chkdsk and wait for it to finish, no matter what...
timed out near 80. ugh. i'm only going to try it one more time before i give a reinstall a try.

....and now it just rebooted, so here comes an attempt at a reinstall....

i don't want to delete the partition yet. it would be nice to recover my open tabs. yeah. lol. well, it would. i don't see why a reinstall would wipe them out...
file: book it! [1999].mp4
composition: book it! (raw mix)
status: downloaded youtube video
file: 09 tribute [1999].mp4
composition: tribute
status: downloaded youtube video
file: 07 chemical warfare (will burn off your nose hairs.mp4
composition: chemical warfare (album mix)
status: downloaded youtube video
file: 01 jesus gets fucked on robitussin [1999].mp4
composition: jesus gets fucked on robitussin
status: downloaded youtube video
on the other hand, it just jumped very quickly through 30,000 segments - a quarter of the partition. it went from 50% to 75% in a flash. so, it may still balance out. and 5% of the partition is still less than 1% of the drive....

(i'm also making the error of attaching file segments to physical segments, which i know is an error, but can't really be applied like that)

which is to say i'm talking about the percentage of the mft, rather than the percentage of the disc. i'll probably keep doing that. intuition. but knowing that 5-10% of the file records are unreadable doesn't *actually* tell me how much of the disc is "bad". and knowing this is a drive with a windows os, office and other programs with lots of little files means it really honestly might not be as bad as it looks. i mean, it could be 5000 corrupt 10K files. no, it could. an optimistic projection, but it could.

...and that's why we run the utilities.
i don't know whether it's normal or not, but it's a little relieving to realize that 3% means 30%, 4% means 40%, etc. seems like a bug in the program.

so, i'm at a little over 40% after 18 hours, indicating it should be done by this time tomorrow.

well, the first pass anyways.

of the first partition. i'm really hoping i don't need to do this for the second partition. it's roughly 10x the size. yeah. but size isn't the only factor. in fact, i'll try a reinstall before i do it. i'm kind of still hoping it's just the boot sector.

it's kind of got me wondering if i should defrag the fucker from time to time. the conventional wisdom is not to defrag large drives. but is a 50 gb partition that big?

there were a lot of errors at the front of the mft, but now i'm going 10-20K sectors between problems.

see, it never told me it couldn't find a hard drive, or there wasn't an os. the hard drive test failed, but that's not the same thing as "no hd" or "no os". it bootstrapped itself into a 100 MB startup utility partition - on the hd. yet, it couldn't find the boot database thing (whatever it is now, i should know this, i went over it in vista support training, but in practice all i ever had to tell anybody was to run the utility, which i can't get to start because i can't read the partition). that says dead partition, meaning dead database shit, not dead disc.

i just can't parse randomly dying drives. but i've seen mbrs evaporate.

it hit a rough spot around when i fell asleep this afternoon and may even still be in it. its still hard to say if its salvageable, but the damage report is going to be bad. upwards of 5% of the partition, even, maybe.

it's a big drive. as mentioned, i could halve it and still have too much space. but that indicates imminent mass failure.