Many thanks for ALL those details Mr.C - have a great holiday, you deserve it. The system isn't new and has been OK up till SP3 days at which...
. Thanks Mr Jones and Mr C. I'll try the Post Install trick after I run Acronis and let you know the result. Haven't had much to do with SATA...
First you have to prove that it's broke. You could try starting from cold and go straight into the BIOS setup and look for Volts and Temps and...
I've heard that, in some cases, the OS (XP Pro) can be installed without initiating the Sata drivers prior to completing Windows Setup....
I started with Kaspersky when it was a virtual unknown but, I don’t want to praise it too much, they’ll put the price up. Probably the main...
Yes Billy. You can be - as assured as you will ever be, and it’so blatantly obvious. Leaves the LED for dead. It was a real eye opener to me...
My Shemantrics are a little rusty. Is NIS a firewall? If so, that would be why the Windows Firewall gets turned off by NAV2005 during the...
EVERYBODY is well advised to go back and read BillyBobs first comments. A machine with problems almost always has an "impatient operator" who...
FORMAT's There are a number of variables in this area and the deeper one goes the more critical it is to understand what it is all about. The...
Minnesota.. Sparrow is on the button. That HDD could well outlive your kids. If you're thinking "Backups" it would also be a safe place to...
Sorry, brain is one day older. If an image can be made to another HDD or DVD it can easily be mounted as a virtual drive and the necessary...
Just reinstated the brain a bit. Running FDISK from either a w9x CD or floppy will quickly show what partitions you're looking at, and on what...
It does look that the DIR was looking at a RAMDISK. The fact that it went so fast at first and that Window says that it needs Formatting, bares...
Minnesota 2 cents worth. When it comes to recovery tools my bacon has been saved many times using Acronis TrueImage. A straight up piece of...
Thanks sparrow As you can see, I question everything, especially myself. Isn't it too early to be destructive if a standalone Boot CD that, as...
G'Day sparrow Does you last suggest something destructive on the original?? If Linux, maybe a bootCDable version like Knoppix etc. Pop
G'Day All Just some things to bounce around. Isn't the funny DIR the DOS way of not being able to handle NTFS?? The space after DIR is...
Snape If the drive came without a warranty you may well have a nice little paper weight. If you, or a friend, is familar with going inside a...
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