{"id":563,"date":"2008-04-10T20:04:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=563"},"modified":"2008-04-10T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T04:15:48","slug":"no-more-hard-drive-space-i-have-a-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/no-more-hard-drive-space-i-have-a-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"No more hard drive space?  I have a solution!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"565\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/no-more-hard-drive-space-i-have-a-solution\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"381,292\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mbp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-565\" title=\"mbp\" src=\"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/pcmag-mbp-17inch1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just format your whole computer drive and start over!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I had to do today. Due to many accumulative factors from several years of abuse, my computer got to the point late yesterday that it would not even boot up. After trying all of my usual voodoo that nearly always works, I had to give up and just format the drive and start over.<\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m always backing up, I have lost nearly nothing in the process, but it&#8217;s still a pain to to reinstall everything from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>So now that I&#8217;m back up I hope to post a few new things soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just format your whole computer drive and start over! That&#8217;s what I had to do today. Due to many accumulative factors from several years of abuse, my computer got to the point late yesterday that it would not even boot up. After trying all of my usual voodoo that nearly always works, I had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-text"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-95","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5903,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/18\/long-live-our-tivo-hd\/","url_meta":{"origin":563,"position":0},"title":"Long Live Our TiVo HD","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"November 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Originally written but never published on January 7th, 2017.\u00a0 Back in 2008, we upgraded our living room with an HD TV, HDMI amplifier, and brand new TiVO HD. 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