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  • Friday 13th strikes again

    From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Sat Nov 14 02:40:40 2026
    The other day I loaded up VirtualBox to play with a couple of VMs I had setup previously. To my horror, my E drive was missing, where all my vbox files are.

    I had been having some issues getting my PC to boot to disconnected all the USB drives and figured I'd unplugged the 2x4GB mirrored drives while I was trying to get it to come up.

    Skip forward to last night, I decide it's time to reconnect the hard drives. Update Windows several times, a few reboots, some apps update automatically and I finally get to shutdown, drag out the tower from under the desk and face the dust...but, to my surprise, the only drive in there is an old 120GB SDD along with the M.2 on the motherboard.

    This is quite a puzzler so...who's got my hard drives!?!?

    Unfortunately I've got piles of the damn things. PATA ones, SATA ones, some good from prior upgrades, some bad...this isn't going to be fun tracking them down. I can't be the only one who loses random hardware out of their PC? :)

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