Where is the solid works hard drive/computer

Where is the solid works hard drive/computer?
In the move @toma took it home, he has become unresponsive after saying that its at the space and i should “search for it”. I searched around and only found this computer.

This computer has three hard drives and boots to windows. The windows install does not have solid works on it and only has access to one drive. I will be coming back Sunday to remove these drives from the computer, and scan them to see if they are the solid works drive. Unless @toma tells me where the hard drive is.

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The SSD is in there, if you look a little harder.

But the image of the drive is on one of the 500gb drives. A big ass file called “backup-of-sda-solidworks-machine.img” or something like that. You’ll have to boot in linux and get it.

I’m glad that you’ve decided to take on this responsibility. I’ve been really reluctant to do much in the space with the computers because all the negative feedback I’ve received as the result people lashing out at me. But if you are taking on that responsibility that’s great.

Perhaps if you cool down for a bit and give yourself some time I can help you with this. But I don’t think today is appropriate for us.

Also, the “Solidworks machine” was my personal machine which I had loaded out to the space. I’ve put that one together, which is one I also donated, and upgraded, with an SSD for solidworks instead. Should be good. But I’ll let you take it from here.

I have removed all the drives and taken them home to extract the image. You
are no longer needed, and no longer the road block.

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In all fairness, I stole the solidworks machine from VHS and held it captive all for myself. After you politely inquire about its status I refused to respond quickly. After a few seconds that must have felt like ages I scowled at you and said it was already back in the space.

You, in a cool and confident manner gauged what I had done and cast me aside, beckoning “you don’t need to be in that project any more”.

I revealed that it was hidden in plain sight. I had secretly left it in the computer that was suppose to be the new solidworks machine.

I then cowardly told you “go figure it out” and questioned you “would that be okay”.
Pathetically I then turn those terms be an ultimatum. “unless you want to be decent with eachother and possibly a little less hostile”

This thread makes me sad.

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Hard drives were unrecoverable because of the way they were created. (Bad Sys Admin)
CD key is lost, and not recoverable.

We have installed Solidworks on the computer and email Solidworks HQ for a replacement CD key.

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Can you please just stop.

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I found VHS’s copy of Solidworks locked in the VHS Admin filing cabinet, where it was suppose to be, and always has been. So in the event you can’t find it please check this locker. In case someone is under the impression Dallas has it, that isn’t true.

@laftho went threw the process of installing Solidworks on the machine so everything should be functioning.

The original Solidworks machine was a computer I brought in for VHS. It was my watercooled AMD fx-8120 8 core, on a gigabyte 990fx-ud3, with 32gb of ram, a quadro 4000 and 4x 60gb SSDs. It had my personal copy of Windows 8 as well.

I brought it in to the space for people to use, and installed VHS’s copy of Solidworks on it. Prior to bringing it in I formatted it so the machine was pretty fresh and snappy. During the move people were asked to bring their stuff home, so I brought the computer back home.

Although the machine was used by many, it was never really used to its full potential. It is one hell of a machine and I went a little overkill on the thing. So I decided to hold onto it and replace it with the current one.

The current one is another one of mine (Or @JohnC 's, we both brought in similar machines). It’s a Intel Q6600 quadcore on an Asus p5k motherboard, with 8gb of ram. It has a 128gb ssd (JohnC’s) and a Geforce 460GTX 1gb (@RobertButterworth’s), and 2 500gb HDD (random space donations, mdadm raid1 {toss the drive in, mount /dev/md/raid1 /mnt, the backup image should be here /mnt/sda-of-vhs-solidworks-machine.img} ), a 80gb drive (ubuntu), and a 320gb hdd (clone of the old solidworks machine {/mnt/sda-of-vhs-solidworks-machine.img})…

I did a bios mod to the geforce 460gtx and it’s recognized as a Quadro 4000m, which greatly benefits solidworks. Its on par with the real Quadro 4000 I had in there.

I had brought it to the space, backed up the SSD onto the 500GB and did a clean install of my personal windows 8. My intention was to install Solidworks on there and transfer everything back but I’ve been reluctant to do so.

I’m sure everyone has noticed there hasn’t been any computers set up. I’ve been unmotivated and hesitant about doing it. Same goes with the servers, which runs a voip server so we can have multiple phones.

I know two people have been pushing me to get the solidworks machine up, and I’ve been getting their slowly. To be honest my slow progress was not due to a lack of appreciate or anything like that. I’ve been reluctant to set up the desktop computers, the server so all the phones work, and the Solidworks machine because of the feedback I receive. Posts like this are the primary reasons I haven’t been motivated to do anything about it.

As for the hostility directed towards me I feel like I’ve done my due diligence here. I understand that @funvill is mostly upset because I’m shooting down his proposals. I’ve actively tried to make compromises and I’ve tried working with him but he’s been uncooperative and combative as such.

The backup of the solidworks machine is still there on the 500gb harddrive. I restored the backup onto a 320gb harddrive that I tossed in the computer, and I even got it boot. However someones managed to install a virus on the solid works machine already. It’ll probably need to be revisited but I’ll leave that to someone else.

If anyone else needs more information about the solidworks machine feel free to PM me.

@funvill, I’d appreciate it you would stop. This is no good for VHS.
Same team dude. same team.

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@toma Your “contributions” to this project are no longer need or wanted. Your the reason that this project has not progressed and has hurt the community. Take back your “Personal” hardware, as it is no longer needed like your “expertise”. We don’t want people using “their” hardware to blackmail the membership into doing it their way and stilling projects. We will used donated hardware for this project.

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Come on, guys