Reviving an Eee PC

Thanks guys, you are basically confirming what I thought. Taking Dave’s advice and giving it up, apart from a strip down and maybe rescue the Hdd, which is 320GB. I can either put that into my desktop, or connect to my 1TB external SATA and format it, after Check disc takes a look at it.  Bound to find a use for it, hopefully.

Which option would be best, what does The Team think? I could sell it minus Hdd as Spares or Repairs on Fleabay.

Good to know I’m not alone Nolan!

Always been interested in flight, so I know what you mean there. My dad had his first flight in 1912 in the place he grew up; Wolstanton, Stoke. It has a huge green space, left in perpetuity to the people and not to be developed. That space is where an early aviation pioneer, Samuel Franklin Cody, chose to fly his string bag of an aircraft, offering free flights to local kids who would help him pack at the end of the day. Only dad and his brother dared to volunteer and the experience coloured his whole life. In 1953 we were on holiday in Blackpool and dad took me to the then Squires Gate Airport, for a flight in a De Havilland Dragon Rapide biplane, over the Irish Sea, around the Isle of Man twice and back to Blackpool. Dad was severely chastised by mum for that, because he had sneaked me away without telling her what we were going to do.

That experience hooked me as it had hooked dad in 1912, at the same age too! It led to joining the Army Air Corps and learning all about the Theory of Flight,* wing and rotor surfaces and why they are shaped just so.

*ToF is simple in its basics: Lift and Thrust have to overcome Mass (weight) and Drag. It’s a lot more complicated than that in reality, but that is the essence.

And it was my dad who said to me “Never grow up son, people expect too much of you!” ??

I have finally finished preparing the 320GB ex-EePC drive and learned a bit more in doing it. It had 2 separate main drives and attached to each was a Hidden drive, one of which contained the original Asus Recovery, although what the other contained is still a complete mystery, as I could not remove it. I had to resort to buying Easeus Master Partition Manager in order to merge the main drives “H” and “I” and this removed the first Hidden Drive by incorporating that into the Merge, within the new, larger “H” drive partition. It also recreated the MBR. However, the second Hidden drive could not be removed, but is listed as ‘inactive’ so I simply wiped it and left it alone: it is very small so I cannot see it causing problems.

Quite pleased with Easus MPM, apart from the fact that a “Pending” operation does not seem to end! Eventually I just Exited and checked the drive on Windows Explorer: it had created the new larger drive OK. Checked the drive with Checkdisc, it’s fine. Now to install it in my desktop, but not before I finish completing an older desktop that I intend to sell cheaply on local FB. This is a project I began some time ago, I am aware that older PC’s do not fetch a good price so will price it at around £50 and take whatever, just to remove it for space.

I have to keep my remaining brain cells alive during the chemo by doing stuff, but have to report that I am feeling quite well atm. Even my normally gammy left leg is behaving, which means I can take more exercise and hopefully help the treatment programme by keeping my engine going.