Help me with my Hard Drive... please...

2004-02-27 07:30:46 pm

Alright, I'm having a bit of trouble with a USB 2.0 Western Digital hard drive on a Windows XP computer. It was working fine until a couple of days ago, when it decided to stop working altogether. At first, it would just freeze my computer when I tried to access it (either through Windows Explorer or running anything off it). Then today, I tried to fix it again and unplugged it, restarted the computer, and plugged it back in. It just got worse from there. Now, I go to preferences, and it thinks the data type is RAW (not FAT32, like it used to be, or NTFS, WinXP's format version) and it says it has 0.0 GB of total space, instead of 75.4, like it's supposed to. It even freezes when I try to reformat it, so that's out of the question. I'd like to fix this without any data loss, so any help you can give me would be GREATLY appreciatted.

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fractic

2004-02-28 03:55:08 am

you could try using it on another computer. Either winXP or an older version. It could be your PC. And else you might want to visit a hardware store.

ShadowMagus

2004-02-28 11:41:20 am

That thought occurred to me as well. It might also be my USB cable, but all the connectors look fine. I'll try at my friends today.

BTW, does anyone who's had Calculus know an easy way to remember the trig derivatives and integrals?

DominicanZero

2004-02-28 12:24:02 pm

直死の魔眼使い

Hard to know... At least I know the basic derivatives of the trig functions, but the integrals ain't so easy. :P

What book are you using for calculus?

Light of Day

2004-02-28 02:14:45 pm

Quote from ShadowMagus:

BTW, does anyone who's had Calculus know an easy way to remember the trig derivatives and integrals?

If there exists an easy way to remember them, I'd really like to know it. I usually forget all but cos and sin unless I practice them at least every week. The only kind of hint I've ever found is that the derivatives and integrals of cos are kinda like sin, and those of cosec are kinda like sec. I usually have to cram like crazy just before an exam to refresh my memory.

skynes

2004-02-28 02:34:44 pm

Trig? Is that like SohCahToa n stuff? Been years since I did anything even remotely like that...

Light of Day

2004-02-28 02:38:55 pm

Quote from skynes:

Trig? Is that like SohCahToa n stuff? Been years since I did anything even remotely like that...

*is majoring in maths at universities, and STILL uses SohCahToa to do basic trig*

Yup, it's one and the same. However, at higher-level maths you do a LOT more with trig than work out angles. We're talking about involving trig functions (sin, cos and tan, among others) in calculus. If you don't know what calculus is, chances are you won't want to know.

ShadowMagus

2004-02-28 02:57:52 pm

Yeah, my AP Physics class uses Trig, and my friend (who's in precal) was complaining about doing the trig proofs (cos^2x+sin
^2x=tan^2x, stuff like that) so I showed him my Calc assignment. He shut right up.

fractic

2004-02-28 03:17:06 pm

I've got a 500 page book on calculus for my study (math aswell). It can serve as a murder weapon if handed correctly (hard cover :D). But calculus is definatly the worst subject. And btw cos^2x+sin^2x=1. I also still use soscastoa(dutch version ;)). Personally i've never seen the cosec and the sec though. Just the normal and hyperbolic versions (I guess I can't run from them though)

Light of Day

2004-02-28 03:35:25 pm

Quote from fractic:

I've got a 500 page book on calculus for my study (math aswell). It can serve as a murder weapon if handed correctly (hard cover :D). But calculus is definatly the worst subject. And btw cos^2x+sin^2x=1. I also still use soscastoa(dutch version ;)). Personally i've never seen the cosec and the sec though. Just the normal and hyperbolic versions (I guess I can't run from them though)

500 pages? Hah! Ph33r my 1200+ page calculus book of doom! Mine would also probably make a pretty good weapon, provided I was strong enough to swing it effectively, but at the moment it's serving just fine as a doorstop.

Unlike sin and cos, I don't think cosec and and sec are universally recognised abbrieviations You may have seen them, and just called them something else. I know n my country at least maths course introduce them WAY before hyperbolic functions. Sec means secant, and cosec means cosecant. sec x = (cos x)^-1 and cosec x = (sin x)^-1 (Darn cos^-1x being inverse cos, forcing me to use brackets to make it clear what I mean). As you've probably uessed, there's also a name for (tan x)^-1, which is cotangent, or as I abbrieviate it, cot. Don't worry too much about them, they're similar enough to normal trig functions that they won't pose much of a problem if you meet them. It may be that in your country they're viewed as similar enough that you don't have to learn them. The only thing they really do is provide a neat way of writing recipricals of trig functions. That, and sec and cosec produce funky graphs. 8)

[quote="fractic"]I've got a 500 page book on calculus for my study (math aswell). It can serve as a murder weapon if handed correctly (hard cover :D). But calculus is definatly the worst subject. And btw cos^2x+sin^2x=1. I also still use soscastoa(dutch version ;)). Personally i've never seen the cosec and the sec though. Just the normal and hyperbolic versions (I guess I can't run from them though)[/quote]
500 pages? Hah! Ph33r my 1200+ page calculus book of doom! Mine would also probably make a pretty good weapon, provided I was strong enough to swing it effectively, but at the moment it's serving just fine as a doorstop.

Unlike sin and cos, I don't think cosec and and sec are universally recognised abbrieviations You may have seen them, and just called them something else. I know n my country at least maths course introduce them WAY before hyperbolic functions. Sec means secant, and cosec means cosecant. sec x = (cos x)^-1 and cosec x = (sin x)^-1 (Darn cos^-1x being inverse cos, forcing me to use brackets to make it clear what I mean). As you've probably uessed, there's also a name for (tan x)^-1, which is cotangent, or as I abbrieviate it, cot. Don't worry too much about them, they're similar enough to normal trig functions that they won't pose much of a problem if you meet them. It may be that in your country they're viewed as similar enough that you don't have to learn them. The only thing they really do is provide a neat way of writing recipricals of trig functions. That, and sec and cosec produce funky graphs. 8)

skynes

2004-02-28 04:24:59 pm

I think I'll stick to Java and VB... They make more sense to me..

Ahh my little programming languages... thou shalt never faileth me...... lol

nate

2004-02-28 04:58:00 pm

Quote from skynes:

Ahh my little programming languages... thou shalt never faileth me...... lol

'thou' is not (and never was) a plural second person pronoun in english. only 'you' (modern) or 'ye' (early modern english and earlier) would be appropriate here.

further, the -th inflectional suffix was used exclusively to indicate the third person singular conjugation (which today is -s), i.e. he worketh/he works, he slideth/he slides.

ShadowMagus

2004-02-28 06:18:16 pm

Wow Nate. Thanks for teaching me things about the English language I never wanted to know. I'm going to go back being ignorant, 'k?

In other, completely random news, "Soak up the Sun" is playing somewhere in my house. I have the only copy in my house. I swear, if my sister's in my room again, I will have to kicketh her butt.