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Folkert Rienstra wrote: "David A. Flory" <dafloryspamx(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:cbogh.9348$hI.9162(a)newssvr11.news.prodigy.net Rod Speed wrote: jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2(a)houston.rr.com> wrote: The common drives available in my price range are Maxtor, Segate, Western Digital and m... 16 Dec 2006 12:07

Wierd chkdsk issue
I have a weird problem when I run chkdsk /r on a NTFS partition (win XP SP2). I get a the message like: "Windows replaced bad clusters in file 733 of name \FOLDER\FOLDER\FILE.EXT." It's weird because chkdsk also reports: "Windows has checked the file system and found no problem." And "0 KB in bad sectors... 20 Dec 2006 20:36

My hard drive crapped the big one
It totally stopped working and it made a moderately loud klunking noise every few seconds. Anybody know what that noise is exactly? Is there any hope in hell of making this thing work long enough for me to get back my files? On another computer, I have a maxtor & a quantum hard drive that both lasted 8 yrs witho... 14 Dec 2006 00:24

help please
I have a dell laptop which i wanted to reinstall the operating system on, so i copied all my personal files including email etc onto some sony rewritable cd's. After writing them (by using the drag-n-drop method) onto the cd I opened several files on each cd to verify they were copied sucessfully. After convincing ... 12 Dec 2006 14:00

5 1/4" floppy drive question
I have a lot of 5 1/4" floppy disks I would like to copy to CD-R. These are mostly Quickbasic and PDS 7.1 libraries and source code and such, and are not generally around any more. I do not currently have a computer able to read these disks, but have a couple of 5 1/4" drives w/cables I have saved from computer... 14 Dec 2006 01:28

This PC any good for...
Question for those in the UK really... A relative has been offered a new PC by a local store. She's keen to purchase from them as they provide good local support. She doesn't play computer games so would this be a reasonable machine for surfing and word processing these days? What about the chances of it running ... 18 Dec 2006 01:06

Windows install from USB drive
I want to reinstall Windows xp on my wifes laptop but the cd drive is bust. I was wondering if it is possible to copy the installation disks to a portable usb hard drive and boot her computer using a usb flash drive and then do the install off the portable drive? Any advice please? -- Posted via a free Usenet a... 1 Dec 2006 01:43

Bad Hard drive or doing something wrong?
I bought a used Seagate Medallist 8641 St38641A 8 GB hard drive on ebay. I installed it in a Compaq Presario 5204 desktop machine. Partitioned it with Seagate's latest edition of Disc Wizard on two floppies made from a download from their site. All was going well got windows 98SE on it and it booted but as soo... 29 Nov 2006 11:17

Recover NTFS file system from a RAID 1 ATA disk
I had a RAID 1 system which has failed. I don't want to buy new RAID hardware so my problem is to recover my files from the harddisk. I have tried by means of FindPart where all seemed to work fine apart from the fact that all the files copied have a non valid format. I simply cannot open the JPG files in the photo... 17 Jan 2007 05:30

SCSI drive corruption
Hi, I have an Atlas II 15K 147 gig SCSI drive on an Adaptec controller. I keep getting corrupt mft's and volumes when I add more than 50 or so files to the drive. Under 50 files it seems to run OK. This drive is on a server 2003 box. Questions... 1) The cable is 3 feet long, with 4 connector on it. The... 30 Nov 2006 16:59