Computer Jargon

[Dohmar]

yep.

Im not going to reformat yet. Bit of an adventure actually. Even tho im pissed of I guess im learning more.

chuck the suspect drive into the usb caddy and then into a pc with the appropriate utilities (or enough space for you to copy your data to)

depending on whats actually gone wrong, you might need to run a partition recovery tool or a filesector tool in addition to the chkdsk/norton disk doctor

if u get stuck pm me

-D

[PREISS]

Cheers ,Will give this a crack.

Even if I just get some music files and various pics and data Ill be happy. Not worried about the drive running windows properly as Ill reformat after without hesitation.

[TALBO]

I found the Windows directory (hidden) had been moved inside a folder called "found.000" because of a disk error, I didn't see this folder until I changed settings in explorer to 'show hidden folders and files'. I copied the windows directory out of this folder back onto the C drive and the drive booted again as normal.

I've only ever seen this on one occasion.....

[PREISS]

O ffs.

Just pulled the external apart. the caddy is f'n old skool connected. No sata etc.

Prolly just get another ext case of ebay or something

[nicr4wks]

If you have another PC that works, check if it has a spare sata port on the motherboard and plug the drive in.

Drive should show up under my computer, if not check disk manager & bios to see if it was detected correctly.

[kb-r33]

Any1 have a spare Vista cd i could borrow to make a copy as i needa format my compt from stupid viruses =[

[Aberax]

Any1 have a spare Vista cd i could borrow to make a copy as i needa format my compt from stupid viruses =[

Maybe....you need 32 or 64 bit?

[Madaz]

Craig - maybe try this

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?...amp;tag=nl.e101

[PREISS]

Cheers Steve. Will try that is all fails.

Got a caddy on order ready to pick up tomorrow from msy. 34 bucks., will come in handy in the future so its not really a waste

[Madaz]

for the few truely geeky people out here i have some news that my be new for some and old for others....

Docsis 3 - Broadband is coming to Melbourne and here are the cable tests from it

[heslo]

If it's being offered through Tel$tra, I won't use it. Don't care how fast it is

[TALBO]

Realistically.... how fast does one need to download pron?

[Nightcrawler]

^^^ That is a silly question

Also, I wish the telcos would concentrate on upgrading current obselete hardware that stops people like me living a whole 7km from the city getting ADSL2+, rather than spending mega-bucks doing tech that people don't really need.

[bezender]

lol how crappy is the upload... my dsl upload is the same

[bezender]

^^^ That is a silly question

Also, I wish the telcos would concentrate on upgrading current obselete hardware that stops people like me living a whole 7km from the city getting ADSL2+, rather than spending mega-bucks doing tech that people don't really need.

internode naked dsl is the answer to ur question

they strip the dial tone from the line and can get up to 7.5Km from the exchange

http://www.internode.on.net/news/2008/08/102.php

[TALBO]

obselete hardware that stops people like me living a whole 7km from the city getting ADSL2+

You'd think we were living in a third world country.... then again third world countries probably have better infrastructure than we do! Is it really 2009...?

[bezender]

You'd think we were living in a third world country.... then again third world countries probably have better infrastructure than we do! Is it really 2009...?

http://www.speedtest.net/global.php

[TALBO]

http://www.speedtest.net/global.php

Hahaha...

[Madaz]

lol you can keep your internode 24mbit

[Nightcrawler]

internode naked dsl is the answer to ur question

they strip the dial tone from the line and can get up to 7.5Km from the exchange

http://www.internode.on.net/news/2008/08/102.php

I wish .... my line comes off a RIM, so ADSL1+ is the best it is capable of - and I only get 3Mb out of the theoretical maximum of 8Mb