How the heck is this done? We bought an OLD house last year1850We were told that the house had been insulated as much as possible, and with its new windows, boiler, etcit did appear that many energy upgrades had been doneCome cold weather, though, and we can tell the walls are thin and poorly insulated inside, because you can just feel itIn really old houses the studs and such aren't spaced perfectly like in new construction so if they tried blown-in insulation, it's got to be spottyI look longingly at the big pink rolls of insulation in Home Depot.I can't seem to find any articles about HOW to insulate an existing homeIsn't the only choice to either rip down the drywall or rip off the siding?
I have heard of devices (long time ago, memory fading) with accompanying programs, that can be installed on personal computers that will allow you to connect to your computer from another computer and enslave your hard driveWhile your drive is a slave, it is not visible to your PC (which means if you enslave the drive with the OS on it, it will crash and nothing will workHowever you can temporarily slave a 2nd drive, across either an RJ crossover cable or via USB as a MSD, to be visible in the other systemAs explained, while enslaved, the drive will not be visible or active in your personal system, however, once disconnected, and the isolation program disabled, the drive becomes visible againI am not sure if it can be done as above with partitions or virtual drives, but I'm sure such a feature is available with programs in much higher price bracketsThe only criteria I can remember is that the drives must have an auto option at the jumpers (Master, Slave, Auto), and to be set as such, the PC being slaved must stay connected to mains power to run the drive (battery power will only work if the system is active, which means you require 2 drives), and the enslaving computer (the public computer), must have enough RAM to support the slaveIf it's any consequence, it'd be a lot easier and cheaper to buy a portable USB HDD case, then you can remove your HDD from your PC, put it in your portable, and connect to the public PC same as a thumb driveretail for just the case is US$20-30, and very easy to use, compatible with both physical size drives, and requires no softwareotherwise you could be looking at $hundreds.
