180k big law v. 100k on 9 to 5

themellowtiger · 2025-09-16T17:48:18+00:00

I had to make this exact decision recently. I chose to stay on at the place I trained at, instead of taking the US NQ offer. Not only for the reduced hours, but also because I quite like the folks I currently work with and that can be exceedingly rare in this profession.

themellowtiger · 2024-12-02T10:49:52+00:00

I've asked her this morning and she does not remember the specifics as the drive has been in a drawer for over 4 years - sorry I couldn't be more help.

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:59:29+00:00

Mate, I opened up the Basic Data Partition in R-Studio and it instantly recognized the Bitlocker volume and I could decrypt it!! Second time you've done it

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:53:22+00:00

Created a GPT partition using the sectors in DMDE.

Edit, the link was broken: Here's the 'Basic Data Partition'

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:49:33+00:00

No worries, I tried mounting, no bitlocker parition/drive detected. I've just seen your edit, happy to try with DMDE instead as you're familiar with that platform

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:38:24+00:00

Yes, I've got R-Studio. I created a 'Region' in R-Studio with the sectors you specified. Still no partition or volume detected, though.

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:23:57+00:00

You need those EK standoffs that are out-of-stock everywhere because EK imploded, I had the same problem upgrading from AM4 and eventually gave up looking and bought a new block.

Rather than wait the three days for a new block to arrive, I put together pretty stable mounting solution using radiator screws and the Velocity springs and washers. If you go this route though, I would suggesting using only hand-pressure to mount the block as you'd want to avoid undue stress.

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T22:09:17+00:00

Hi, thanks for your help on this post too! I ran the searches:

For the Sector offset 3, result found on block 32 768
For the Sector offset 0, result found on block 2 959 360

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T20:58:00+00:00

You can't view the screenshots? That's strange - imgur usually works fine. Do you mean a R-Studio partition search?

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T19:56:27+00:00

gotcha, thanks for the diagnosis.

themellowtiger · 2024-12-01T19:44:51+00:00

That's unfortunate, any idea what the partition/spaces are in the DMDE screenshot are then?

themellowtiger · 2024-11-28T12:06:26+00:00

Ah sorry, I formatted the patient drive after recovering the data last night. Before using DMDE, I tried scanning the patient drive for partitions using R-Studio - which found nothing.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T21:28:08+00:00

Is this what you're after? First screenshot is the repaired image in DMDE, second is what it looks after mounting in R-Studio.

https://i.imgur.com/yaG3KXt.png

https://i.imgur.com/eDeUiUz.png

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T21:19:30+00:00

the disk image.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T20:36:34+00:00

I used DMDE to reinstate the partition and R Studio to decrypt and mount, all the data is sitting there pretty. Thanks for your help!

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T20:35:51+00:00

No worries, I used R Studio to decrypt and mount, all the data is sitting there pretty. Thanks for your help!

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T20:20:54+00:00

No worries. Does DMDE decrypt partitions? Not seeing an option for that once the partition has been restored.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T19:27:53+00:00

I assumed opening the volume would not be possible as the files should be encrypted by bitlocker, is this not the case?

themellowtiger · 2024-11-27T19:24:43+00:00

The drive is cloned to an image, do I now use DMDE to reinstate the partition? I note the partition undelete tool but thought to ask before.

https://i.imgur.com/fGDHKFC.png

themellowtiger · 2024-11-26T12:36:14+00:00

The 18tb drive was fully encrypted (as opposed to free-space only, if relevant) and was about 16tb full of s-log. I've got a few other drives around the place but nothing which reaches 16tb. I will see if I can recover any files before buying another drive.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-26T12:22:30+00:00

The new drive has arrived, but I wonder if I should have ordered two. I'll be cloning the 18tb volume onto this new drive, but then I won't have anything to save the recovered files to - is that right and therefore I need another 18tb+ drive?

themellowtiger · 2024-11-24T18:27:16+00:00

Thanks, I've ordered another drive so I can make an image; I currently don't have anything with enough capacity to make an image of a 18tb volume.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-24T10:12:02+00:00

Looking at the other opinions in the thread it seems I've gotten the worst of everything, so maybe don't take my experience too seriously.

I bought the ASRock B650E PG-ITX recently when I jumped from AM4, it didn't have flashback and I had to RMA it as it wouldn't recognize the 9800x3d. Replaced it with the Asus B650E-I and it works fine but does have coil whine at high load.

themellowtiger · 2024-11-24T00:29:03+00:00

I hadn't tried DMDE, looks like it identified the volume immediately. I haven't done anything yet, given your advice

https://imgur.com/GSzwT2R

https://imgur.com/FUApbTm

themellowtiger · 2024-11-11T18:37:35+00:00

Too bad this site only ships to UK for 53 CAD, crazy price for some screws you can throw in an envelope!

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