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revrent

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Level 69 Troll

**** ART LETS KILL

BTW Hard drives are pretty cheap , if you still are having any issues w/ bad clusters, buy a new one and copy it over, or a large flash drive for the stuff you will not want to be lost.(and they are a lot easier to install now) In my very limited computer knowledge, it seems that once they start to go it is a rather fast decline.

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Sarcasm Inc

Avatar: 124937 2010-01-24 16:34:47 -0500
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[pizza party]

Level 69 Hacker

Not needed anymore now that we have the SarcMark

xxEmoxKidxx Posted:

Look on the bright side. At least you’re not trying to figure out what’s wrong with this set up.

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Well, I’d imagine the RAID setup got rather confusing, and the owner stuffed it up, or he forgot which array was the boot drive. Log in to see images!

Failing that, I’d imagine that the SATA controllers got overloaded, or that the fact it’s sitting out in a static environment had something to do with it.

Sarcasm Inc

Avatar: 124937 2010-01-24 16:34:47 -0500
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[pizza party]

Level 69 Hacker

Not needed anymore now that we have the SarcMark

Oh, and if you follow the lead coming out of the back of the PSU, you’ll find is disappears into the carpet. So the trouble might be a lack of power. Log in to see images!

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
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Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

Now I’m getting a disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del when I start it, that’s when I boot from the HHD as the primary thing Log in to see images!

man-man

Avatar: 156485 2010-01-24 16:36:14 -0500
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[Harem and Sushi Bar]

Level 69 Hacker

Selfish fine upstanding member of society

xxEmoxKidxx Posted:

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First up, not all of those hard drives are even plugged in My bad, they might be, can’t really tell though. Second, most of the ones that have power don’t have any data connection to the motherboard. So if we make the generous bumumption that this picture makes sense in some way, then I’d say the owner must be testing to see if their PSU provides enough power to run that many hard drives by connecting them one group at a time.

Also that’s not a bluescreen error, it’s running Memtest86 (I’ve become very, very familiar with that program in recent times, don’t ask why, it’s a long story and not even interesting to me) so maybe his check for whether it has enough power is whether the RAM still works properly. Or generally whether the system is stable enough to do something with all the drives attached, because checking the RAM specifically would be a stupid way to test the power provided.

man-man edited this message on 03/30/2010 9:17AM

Spot

Avatar: 34067 2011-11-01 00:35:29 -0400
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[Good Omens]

Level 35 Re-Re

Singularly the ****!

First, back up anything important. As you’re getting bad clusters that most likely means the drive was physically damaged when it was dropped – the more you use it, the more damage is caused.

Second, get a replacement drive – as it’s a Vista PC that’ll mean a 2 1/2” SATA drive.

They’re easy to replace. If you look underneath the laptop there are a number of covered slots for things that people usually want to replace or upgrade (hard drive, battery, RAM, etc) The hard drive will slide in from one side. You’ll need a small screwdriver.

Use the recovery CD, restore your backed up files.

An alternative approach, or additional step, would be to get an external caddy to hold your old drive, so if it’s still working you could copy anything off it you missed earlier.

Spot

Avatar: 34067 2011-11-01 00:35:29 -0400
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[Good Omens]

Level 35 Re-Re

Singularly the ****!

i mean woof

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
]

Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

Celerysteve Posted:

Now I’m getting a disk read error occurred press ctrl+alt+del when I start it, that’s when I boot from the HHD as the primary thing Log in to see images!

I can’t get it boot up now, and if I use the recovery disk it’s going to wipe everything and erase it? Is there any way to save all my stuff?

If it was in such bad condition and there was such uncertainty it would boot up again, why didn’t you save your **** before rebooting and running chkdisk? You were told to back up your files right off the bat.

There’s a possibility that if you reinstall Vista over the same partition without reformatting, you can access your files (and SAVE them, and then get a new drive). If the drive’s too damaged, it probably won’t work. Otherwise, you can pay someone to try and recover your files. Make the dumb **** that broke it pay for the new drive/data recovery, as she is legally liable anyway.

1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 edited this message on 03/30/2010 11:20AM

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
]

Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

Yeah, it’s completely ****ed… I can’t even reformat it. I guess I need to replace the hard drive. I hope nothing else is ****ed up. This is a ****ed up situation.

I took it out and looked at it and put it back in but now when I try too boot from the hhd it just gives me a blinking cursor, but I can still boot ok from the disk it’s just all the option don’t really do anything to fix it.

Geek skawd that box, dawg

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
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Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 Posted:

Geek skawd that box, dawg

Don’t know what that means. Maybe I can buy a bigger hard drive for this cheap junk. That just gives me more storage though right? Won’t make it really run better. You like big ones though don’t you?

Hard drives aren’t very expensive, but buy what size you think you need. I meant take it to Geek squad (Best Buy) or a local computer shop if you want to try and recover your data.

Does it go anywhere into the boot process? Like where does it stop?

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
]

Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

When I try to reformat it gives me different errors like can’t create partition, etc in like less than a minute into it.

It’s probably just booting that much from the CD, I guess.

You’re not making it sound like your old data’s that important, but you can try to:

1. Buy the same size drive

2. Buy one of these to connect them ($20)

3. Put this on the new drive: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ddrescue/ (ddrescue-1.11.tar.gz)

4. Figure it out from this manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html

It should copy everything from your old drive, while ignoring the bad sectors. Otherwise, pay someone else to do the recovery (possibly hundreds of dollars).

grinsen

Avatar: 81597 Sun Dec 14 02:08:47 -0500 2008
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Level 69 Troll

“Human Yeast Infection”

That’s definitely physical errors. You need a new drive. Don’t even try to boot from it or partition it anymore.

Like leetlol said, the only thing you can do about your files is buy some file recovery software and slave the bad drive on another system, or if it means that much to you, take it to data recovery experts which will cost you several hundred if not thousands of dollars.

I’ve had a similar situation happen to me, I bought a cheap ($10) 2.5” to 3.5” adapter for the hard drive and plugged it in my desktop. That worked for the file recovery.

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
]

Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

Yeah best buy wants $70 bucks just to run a diagnostic and I can get the hard drive for that. At least I’ll have a bigger hard drive in the end… This one was a measly 74gb.

My data is you know, maybe worth paying $100 to get replaced, I wouldn’t pay more than that. It still sucks bum losing all my porn and roms and downloaded movies I mean important business dogreat timesents.

Hi. Good morning. Next time keep your data burned to CD’s/DVD’s or a thumb drive or an external HD or even upload them to a Gmail/Docs account because you have nearly 8g’s that way and you can make as many accounts as you want.

Celerysteve

Avatar: 61989 2011-12-28 11:21:37 -0500
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[Temple of the Anth-
ropomorphic Majesty
]

Level 35 Troll

Right from the moment when I saw Saw, I laughed.

1337xxxxxxxxxlolololololololololxxxxxxxxx1337 Posted:

Hi. Good morning. Next time keep your data burned to CD’s/DVD’s or a thumb drive or an external HD or even upload them to a Gmail/Docs account because you have nearly 8g’s that way and you can make as many accounts as you want.

I know for sure. I totally shouldn’t have listened to megazeroexe and ran the dsk chk right away, that ****ed it up, but I think he meant well.

I’m going to get some money coming up here, after looking at the hard drives I’ve decided better just to pay few hundred dollars more and get a cheap laptop with like 4gb ram and a much bigger hard drive. What I had was (512 when I bought it upgraded to) 1gb.

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