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Expletive deleted. PC still hangs with new disk. Right now I'm sick of computers, I'm off to watch telly.
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posted at 19:26:56
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Tried Paint Shop Pro 7 preinstalled on laptop to.. |
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Tried Paint Shop Pro 7 preinstalled on laptop to find it is a 30 day trial. Cheek. Tried Dell Image Expert and that just moans about'Error Opening Database: 2000'. No entries for this program at all in the Dell support database. Uninstalling this crap.
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posted at 18:40:00
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Setup offered to repair the windows installation on.. |
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Setup offered to repair the windows installation on drive C so I chose that..After 1/2 hour It's moved the main partition from H to G. ARGH. Clean install it is then.
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posted at 18:10:08
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I'm not risking anything, I'm reinstalling Windows.. |
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I'm not risking anything, I'm reinstalling Windows XP on drive C. I've pulled the USB->flash card adapter that caused the problem.
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posted at 17:40:16
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New disk runs in Ultra DMA mode 5 which is.. |
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New disk runs in Ultra DMA mode 5 which is different to the old disk. I will be VERY happy if it fixes my lockup problem but I am not optimistic.
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posted at 16:40:32
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Phew, got photo's back. |
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Phew, got photo's back. Writing them to 2 CD's right now.
New hard disk is a Western Digital Caviar WD800, 80G, 7200 rpm. Seems 0K so far. I have a feeling that windows may boot very quickly but at the moment it is more concerned with chkdsking the flaky drive.
One possible problem: Windows has installed itself as drive H with no drive C. Is that going to break every piece of software in the world or what?
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posted at 16:32:00
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Was waiting for a shoe repair, looking round and.. |
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Was waiting for a shoe repair, looking round and saw a keyring that had a blank the size of a £ coin to use as the deposit for a shopping trolley. 'Never be without a pound' it said. I bought one for the gym locker, perfect to hang on the gym bag. If it works I'll buy the wife one. When I give her a pound she never gives it back.
It cost a pound. If it does not work I could drill a hole in a real pound and use that.
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posted at 09:57:20
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Chkdsk had finished by the time I got home. |
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Chkdsk had finished by the time I got home. There was a lost and found directory with the pictures underneath. I found them using the recovery console. They had odd permissions and I couldn't CD into the directories.
I put the disk in another computer here that runs an old version of linux (SUSE 7.1). It could not handle version 5 of NTFS and would not show the hidden files.
New disk today, I'm not going to risk using the old one again. In case it was a virus I won't execute anything from the old disk.
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posted at 07:25:52
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