Format away, little drive. And then, when you least expect it...

[active_apathy]

So, to end the drive space debacle, as of yesterday I have my supertransmitting supercable. Hooray!

...but the drive bay is sideways, and my new cable has plugs that kind of stick out. And where it's attached to the drive, it's perfectly aligned with a support thingy for the side panel of the case. Leaving the side panel off forever is always an option (and in summer, with my older machine, I've been known to relieve it of the other side too. But not the top; the top is, unfortunately, structural. Boo.)

So, today's mission OF DOOM was to fix this problem.

In what may be the least extreme casemod ever, my side panel is now down to two-thirds of a support thingy, my new drive is working perfectly, I've finally seen Razor, and as of this afternoon the cake is most certainly not a lie.



And, on the subject of cake and lies: Portal broken-image icons!

Comments

[raptor-au.livejournal.com]

Did you know you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the Aperture Science Self Esteem Fund for Girls? It’s true!

[arib.livejournal.com]

I seriously need to set up my PC and get Portal already. Much as I love my Macbook, the game options are slim.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You do! And then there will be cake.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Thus far, unable to get the aperture website to work.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Try logging in. The username and password are hidden in one of the test chambers in Portal. Or, if you'd prefer, I can tell you what it is.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

See, I would have tried reversing the cable (you can plug either end of the cable into the drive) or, if your original drive cable doesn't stick, swap cables.

Or somesuch.

But let me not interfere with your X-TR33M c@se mod fun

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm well aware of that, but - since both ends of this particular cable are the same - I didn't see much point in trying it.

It's much the same story for swapping the drive cables - the new drive sits right under the old one, and both cables plug into the same spot. Swapping them would leave exactly the same problem, and the cable for the optical drive doesn't reach far enough to even think about using it instead.

So, the simplest solution was to take out part of a piece of metal, the sole structural function of which is to keep keen yet clumsy users from bending the side panel.

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

That cake is a lie image icon is the cutest!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I liked it. Plus, I kind of meant to make a whole series of fandom broken image icons, kind of like the cake ones; I may just get around to doing so eventually.

[whysyn.livejournal.com]

Take the cable back and get one with a right angle connector.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The trick to that would be finding somewhere here that actually sells one. Which, well, there isn't. Since some time spent slightly weakening a non-structural part of the case meant I could just use the one I had - and, by extension, my new drive - I'm fairly happy with my solution.

Plus, it gave me something to post about, so it's not all bad.