Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Sunday, 11 October 2009
GParted
I upgraded Elliot's PC to Windows XP today. The drive was partitioned as a 2Gb C: drive (system) and a 14Gb D: drive (data). The version of XP was old, but there wasn't enough space to install SP2. Time to reach for GParted!
I found that I'd left half the disc empty (don't know why) so I first moved (extended partition) D: up to use all the space. I then resized the partition to leave 6Gb unallocated above primary 1.
Next I tried to resize the primary partition to 8Gb. I got bad sector errors that chkdsk wouldn't fix. Seems that they were phantom errors that are widely noted on the internet.
Finally I used fdisk to delete then recreate primary 1, then ntfsresize on the command line to force the resize.
At reboot XP wanted to run chkdsk but it booted fine and seems good. Happy!
I found that I'd left half the disc empty (don't know why) so I first moved (extended partition) D: up to use all the space. I then resized the partition to leave 6Gb unallocated above primary 1.
Next I tried to resize the primary partition to 8Gb. I got bad sector errors that chkdsk wouldn't fix. Seems that they were phantom errors that are widely noted on the internet.
Finally I used fdisk to delete then recreate primary 1, then ntfsresize on the command line to force the resize.
At reboot XP wanted to run chkdsk but it booted fine and seems good. Happy!
Friday, 17 July 2009
Nokia Music Store #FAIL
I recently got a Nokia 5800 and, in a moment of boredom, decided to try out the Nokia Music store. The phone, after all, is tagged XpressMusic so I thought the process would be easy.
Creating an account was straight forward, I logged in and selected a track and paid for it. I actually paid £8 for eight tracks. I set it downloading and carried on my journey home.
Now coverage around us is not brilliant and by the time I got home the track still seemed to be downloading. I left it for some time but it seemed to make no progress. Eventually I stopped it and connected via our wireless LAN at home - that would be quicker.
No it wasn't. The phone then complained that it was out of memory and I should close other applications. I didn't have any other applications running. I checked the internal memory and had around 70Mb available. A quick Google revealed this to be a common problem.
No matter I thought, I'll get it on my PC and USB it to the phone.
This wasn't easy either. Nokia Music store front page is all Flash and only displayed a blank page on my old Fedora 6 machine. On my Fedora 10 laptop I got a page telling me that my operating system isn't supported.
Not a terribly streamlined, Xpress experience.
But it gets worse. This morning I wanted to play the start of the track so that my daughter could identify it. It started playing fine but then popped up a modal dialog box saying that it was checking the licence. Because the dialog was modal I then couldn't stop it from playing or quit the music player. In the end I turned the phone off.
I've deleted the track now, I'll get stuff from Amazon in future.
KTHXBAI Nokia Music Store
Creating an account was straight forward, I logged in and selected a track and paid for it. I actually paid £8 for eight tracks. I set it downloading and carried on my journey home.
Now coverage around us is not brilliant and by the time I got home the track still seemed to be downloading. I left it for some time but it seemed to make no progress. Eventually I stopped it and connected via our wireless LAN at home - that would be quicker.
No it wasn't. The phone then complained that it was out of memory and I should close other applications. I didn't have any other applications running. I checked the internal memory and had around 70Mb available. A quick Google revealed this to be a common problem.
No matter I thought, I'll get it on my PC and USB it to the phone.
This wasn't easy either. Nokia Music store front page is all Flash and only displayed a blank page on my old Fedora 6 machine. On my Fedora 10 laptop I got a page telling me that my operating system isn't supported.
Not a terribly streamlined, Xpress experience.
But it gets worse. This morning I wanted to play the start of the track so that my daughter could identify it. It started playing fine but then popped up a modal dialog box saying that it was checking the licence. Because the dialog was modal I then couldn't stop it from playing or quit the music player. In the end I turned the phone off.
I've deleted the track now, I'll get stuff from Amazon in future.
KTHXBAI Nokia Music Store
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