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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 09:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsaikoToday I brought in my external Maxtor hard drive to back up my school computer on. I knew that it was pretty full (even for a 92 GB drive), but figured that I could browse through what was on there, delete old stuff off, and add new stuff.
Then I came across a problem. In order to delete off the drive, you have to have permission to do so. The permissions on the external drive are set to Administrator. On my home computer, I am administrator. On this computer, not so much. Meaning I cannot delete anything off my own drive. Okay fine. I'll just zip the files, which will make them small enough that I can copy them onto the drive.
No go. It won't let me transfer a zipped file to it. I have no idea why. It keeps giving me a write disk protection error which should have absolutely nothing to do with a bloody zipped file.
Well, I can transfer the files unzipped. There's barely enough room, but I should be okay.
Nope. Drive fills up before it can completely copy over my thesis work which is the most important stuff. And of course, since I can't delete anything from the drive, I can't free up more space to make sure that the most important stuff makes it onto it.
I'm burning some DVDs right now with the information and trying to figure out how the hell to get a second back-up of this stuff on my own damn drive.
Technology sucks sometimes.
EDIT: So, one of the other students has administrative rights to the computer we use with the large screen. He logged me in as him and I was able to clean off enough space to back-up my school files.
Ridiculous, but it worked.
Then I came across a problem. In order to delete off the drive, you have to have permission to do so. The permissions on the external drive are set to Administrator. On my home computer, I am administrator. On this computer, not so much. Meaning I cannot delete anything off my own drive. Okay fine. I'll just zip the files, which will make them small enough that I can copy them onto the drive.
No go. It won't let me transfer a zipped file to it. I have no idea why. It keeps giving me a write disk protection error which should have absolutely nothing to do with a bloody zipped file.
Well, I can transfer the files unzipped. There's barely enough room, but I should be okay.
Nope. Drive fills up before it can completely copy over my thesis work which is the most important stuff. And of course, since I can't delete anything from the drive, I can't free up more space to make sure that the most important stuff makes it onto it.
I'm burning some DVDs right now with the information and trying to figure out how the hell to get a second back-up of this stuff on my own damn drive.
Technology sucks sometimes.
EDIT: So, one of the other students has administrative rights to the computer we use with the large screen. He logged me in as him and I was able to clean off enough space to back-up my school files.
Ridiculous, but it worked.