Originally Posted by Rich84 (Post 8930078)

I hope you didn't have "snots running down your nose"..Maybe you did.

Originally Posted by weq92f (Post 8930168)

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Successfully swapped out a dying hard drive with a new solid state drive on my daily driver laptop.

Purchased a Samsung EVO 512GB 2 1/2 inch internal drive ( SSD ). Placed it into my CD/ROM media unit caddie for SATA drives and booted up my machine. Now with the new drive connected, I use native windows 10 tools to write partition info on it with a 300GB partition ( same size as the dying drive's partition ) and format it NTFS.

Downloaded Clonezilla Live zip file, extracted to a USB thumb drive and then made that bootable using /utils/win64/makeboot64 on the USB drive.

Shutdown and booted the Clonezilla software from the USB drive by editing the BIOS to boot from the USB stick first and the HDD second. The software is GUI driven. I used disk-to-disk cloning and successfully recovered ( -recovery ) the Operating System environment as well as all my installed programs/data and my personal files. Basically made an exact replica of my old HDD onto my new SSD.

Fun fun... This process took about an hour from start to finish. It was writing at 7GB/minute onto the new SSD.

Installed the new SSD into the laptop's HDD bay ( internal ) and booted. Now I'm typing out this message to you all. :) ...On a MUCH faster machine.

-klb

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 (Post 8930334)

I'm glad you made some progress, but, that was all Greek to me!

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 (Post 8928289)

Didn't work on Ol Blue but on the daily driver. It needed a fuel pump and I hate dropping the tank. So I got creative. It was a lot easier...

Originally Posted by LT7A (Post 8930510)

I'm curious about your exhaust. The y ahead of the muffler looks like a better transition than the stock one on my 1993. Also, do you have dual cats before that? Where you live, I doubt you are running without one.

Originally Posted by Gotenntitans (Post 8931649)

https://i.ibb.co/8NxGZ9v/15-DEB0-BE-...3605-A0147.jpg
Washed, waxed, and detailed wifey’s 2010 Camaro SS. That car is fun to drive, but that black paint keeps me hoppin’ trying to keep it clean! Someone told me that black vehicle owners should never let them get really dirty…….keep em fairly clean and they’ll look good longer. I’m trying!

Originally Posted by Gotenntitans (Post 8931742)

That’s a pretty blue and I like how your tail spoiler goes up higher like my friend’s old ‘78 Z28 did. I don’t know about rarities and all that. I was told because our “SS” emblem is white, it means that it did not have the RS package or it would have been red. No worries; Mama wanted it and it’s a low mileage garage kept cream puff so we bought it out of Iowa last December. Santa & Mrs. Claus both had a good Christmas!
https://i.ibb.co/Zh6xbkN/BF81-EE91-4...41-C515148.jpg

Originally Posted by Gotenntitans (Post 8931649)

[Someone told me that black vehicle owners should never let them get really dirty…….keep em fairly clean and they’ll look good longer. I’m trying!

Originally Posted by Gotenntitans (Post 8931649)

https://i.ibb.co/8NxGZ9v/15-DEB0-BE-...3605-A0147.jpg
Washed, waxed, and detailed wifey’s 2010 Camaro SS. That car is fun to drive, but that black paint keeps me hoppin’ trying to keep it clean! Someone told me that black vehicle owners should never let them get really dirty…….keep em fairly clean and they’ll look good longer. I’m trying!

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8931941)

If cared for black will look good for years . 57 year old paint

Originally Posted by yuccales (Post 8931979)

Reflection pics are awesome! ;)

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8932071)

Today I replaced the rear tire on my wife’s bike. Electric tongue jack works great for braking the tire bead. Use a harbor freight spin balancer works out well

Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20 (Post 8932110)

Great technique, I didn't know HF had a spin balancer....

Originally Posted by 72c20customcamper (Post 8932148)

Used the wrong term . It's a stand balancer

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck (Post 8932301)

Introduced little man to riding on the lawnmower and my C10 this weekend.

Originally Posted by FleetsidePaul (Post 8932304)

Get ready. He'll be asking for the keys soon enough.(for the truck not the lawnmower)

I had a friend that always had to mow the lawn at his parents house. That was his chore. They had a huge lawn. They had a power mower but it was a push mower. He pushed that mower around for years.

When he moved out and his dad had to take over the lawn duties his old man immediately bought a really nice riding mower. :lol:

He was a little steamed about that.

Originally Posted by 67ChevyRedneck (Post 8932376)

Not exactly the same, but I was primarily responsible for my parents yard. About 6 of their 10 acres is yard, rest was wooded. We always had old busted ass used mowers I would have to fix at least once a month and they never seemed to have a deck larger than 42". They were at least riders though.

I went off to college fall of 1999 many states away. By summer 2000 my dad had a brand new rider with a 54" deck :rolleyes: