Day 48 : New Home

Finally, my daughter got back (?) from my wife's home town to Tokyo.
I'm not sure how long we will be here, but anyway it's her first home town. :)



BTW, this time my daughter moved with her mother and grand mother by Shin-Kansen.
There are several reasons. For example, I don't have a child-seat yet.
But, the most important one is that I had to convey a lot of things and thus there was no room for passengers as the picture below shows.



Yes, I was a truck driver. :o

Day 47 : Great Grand Mother

My grand mother lives in Kakegawa city, Shizuoka.
Very close to my home town.
Since I knew that I would have a child, I wanted to let gramma see her great grand child.
Gramma is now 95 years old and recently sometimes hard to recognize even her grand child.
Oh well, the grand child is me, by the way. :o
But, today she was conscious and seemd to recognize the great grand daughter.
People of 4 generations had a happy time. :)

The next task is going to Izumo city, Shimane where my wife's grand parents live and
we had the wedding ceremony. We need to take an airplane to get there. So, I'm planning
the trip in the next May, I mean Golden Week. :)

BTW, pictures?
Again, please contact me. :o

Day 46 : The First Visit to the Shrine

Today, I took my daughter to the Ooi Jinjya Shrine in my home town for "お宮参り." (Omiya-Mairi, "The first visit to the shrine")

Omiya-Mairi is a kind of Japanese Shinto based ritual.
Roughly speaking, the purpose is reporting baby's safe one-month growth and conveying appreciation to the (Shinto) God.
As it's a very good day today for celebrations, there were lots of families for not only Omiya-Mairi but also Shichi-Go-San which is another Japanese traditional ritual for children. :)

Well, pictures?
Ha ha, they are not public. If you'd like to see them, please write to me. :)

ThinkPad X61 : USB HDD Case and Full Backup

Well, it's a real better safe than sorry thing. :0

As I didn't have an USB 2.5" SATA HDD case so far, today I went to Akihabara on my way back from a small business trip within Tokyo area.

Right below is the USB HDD case I bought. Century COM25EU2B, \2,980-.



BTW, left above is not a 2.5" HDD, but a 3.5" one. Seagate ST3320620AS(320GB,SATA) \10,300-
Actually, my desktop PC also had an HDD trouble recently, and it's a replace. :)

Well, I wrote "better safe than sorry" at the front.
What I wanted to do is of course full HDD image backup and the below is a terminal log.

| [root@zorac ~]# dd if=/dev/sdc of=/mnt/sdb1/x61-initial-hdd-160g.img bs=10240
| 15629090+1 records in
| 15629090+1 records out
| 160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 5464.87 seconds, 29.3 MB/s

/dev/sdc above is the ThinkPad HDD connected by the USB case, and the image file is saved onto the 320GB new HDD.
It took about 1.5 hours. :o

ThinkPad X61 : Breakthrough

Well, finally the recovery process succeeded.

I think the key point was that I loaded default settings of BIOS.
I'm not sure why, but anyway this time I didn't see "Unknown hard error..." message.

BTW, ThinkPad recovery process takes veeery long time, several hours. :(
According to a colleague of mine, Panasonic does recovery very fast, only an hour.
I'm wondering what is the difference...

Anyway, after seeing the first installation process screen of Windows, I turned off the switch and went to bed. :o

ThinkPad X61 : A Spare HDD

As I wrote before, Windows complains that there are hardware errors.
Although I was doubtful, anyway I bought a spare HDD.



But, still the recovery process does not work reporting the same errors even after I updated BIOS. :(

Any kinds of clue needed...

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Guin Saga 117
The Departure at Dawn
Kaoru Kurimoto
ISBN 978-4-15-030906-0

ThinkPad X61 : A Big Trouble

After more than 4 months hibernation, finally I began to setup my ThinkPad X61.

I resized the Windows partition and created Linux partitions 4 months ago, and so it's ready for installing a Linux distro. But, I did recovery before moving on to the production phase.
Yes, it's better safe than sorry. :)

Well, of course I created recovery CD and DVD without any troubles and kept the hidden recovery data partition intact. Thus, I never imagined that I would have difficult troubles.

1. When I tried to do recovery using the system recovery disk, its installer complained that there was not enough space.
   Even the partition which the installer was trying to copy files was created by the installer itself! :(
2. After restoring the recovery data partition and did recovery booting from it, Windows reported "Unknown hardware error..." :(

Thus, at this moment, even Windows does not boot. :(

BTW, I guess some guys say, "Abandon Windows!" (Hey Sam, it's you. :o)
I know.
But, I need Windows because of my office works. :(

What can I do....?