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Why did you have to buy a new machine? Couldn't you have copied the data to an external disk instead of a new machine, then formatted the hdds, maybe flashed th
by ajju 17y ago
Why did you have to buy a new machine? Couldn't you have copied the data to an external disk instead of a new machine, then formatted the hdds, maybe flashed the bios and started over?
- Vivtek 17y agoYes. But by that time I'd already spent three days, and wanted to have a Linux box to be sure nothing could possibly execute on it while I was poking in the data, and since this all happened on my birthday to start with, my wife said, "Go out and buy a new machine or two." So I did, and didn't regret it.