TBF Preparations (3) - Computer Hard Drive Upgrade

“SET OUT ONE CLEAR eve for a sail west, with a westerly breeze to stir the sails and the downtown towers flashing gold astern. Let the gentlest of chop lick the leeward rail.“

Kimball Livingston, Sailing the Bay, 1st edition

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My preparation for the Three Bridge Fiasco (TBF) continues.

One of those preparations is to upgrade the hard drive on my laptop from 88 Gigs to 298 Gigs. I got a copy of EZ GIG II and bought a Western Digital 320 Gig drive (you never get all the Gigs on the box).

I was down to 2 Gigs with the old drive and had a 100 Gig external drive full up, with backed up files and other files I'd moved off to make room. It was getting to be a hassle. There are about 27 tiny screws on my Sony Vaio 17" laptop (it has a sweet screen), and once you get ready to pop the top, you have to pry it off of the 'snaps' under the hinge for the screen. Talk about terror! I have visions of cracking the case every time I do this.

The worst is over, I now have about 200 Gigs of free space, and only about 60 Gigs of files to transfer onto the new drive from various external hard drives - once I figure out what files are duplicated. For some reason, they are coming over very, very slowly from what appears to be a USB 1.0 bottleneck. I know I have 2.0, but have all day and am not inclined to figure it out.

I'm going to spend this slow time on a slow day to bask in the glow of not cracking the case and having excess bytes to fill.

I have several posts in DOC files to get up on the blog, and some more TBF prep work to do.



I've made a lot of progress on my reading, as the Excel Graph now shows, I've read ALL of EVK4, and Sailing the Bay with CJ. Tilly will get his turn soon. Reader will keep me up to date on an ongoing basis from now on with the first two. I'm also up to chapter 23 of Chapman, Marlinspike Seamanship. 795 pages out of 928!


When I get all the files transferred, I'm going to download Google Earth, install MapSource, and finish my post(s) on the Tides.