21st July, 2019.
Yep: I’ve finally managed to sell that hard drive!
Which sounds like an odd thing to want to tell you about, I know.
Let me just summarise, though.
I had a little money from an inheritance, recently.
And got hold of a new external hard drive: something I could use to store my media collection on.
Of course, this meant I had a spare one to get rid of.
Except — would you know it? — there was an issue.
Apparently? The thing had an unexpected partition: an EFI Boot partition that was blocking access to the rest of the drive.
I really don’t trust technology, sometimes!
But managed to post up a question on Apple’s own support forums: here.
This is the command, just in case you need it:
sudo dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/diskN bs=100m count=10
It worked …
It got HWTech a big ‘Thank You’ … and me some handy cash.
Which is nice …
~≈†≈~
In other news?
That same inheritance?
Got me a book … dating back some ⨯ amount of years ago.
As a youngster? I’d swapped … something or other, with a neighbour: for a copy of an interesting graphic novel — a reprint from the Nineteen-forties or fifties — called Tales from the Trigan Empire.
Something I’d long since lost.
But was able to buy from Amazon, recently.
For an eyebrow raising price.
Frankly?
I’ve been reading through it, marvelling at the artwork and story, thinking you couldn’t do it like that, today.
And thinking “Is it me, or has the font shrunk?”
At any rate … ?
It’s nice to be reading it, again …
~≈†≈~
