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Lord Flame Stryke
that's working well for me. My desktop is still not running, and my laptop
likes to freeze on me (to the point where it can't even pull up the
security menu on a three-finger salute) and needs to be restarted rather
frequently..... But, at least something is working right.....
Draco18s
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That's good to hear, at least, to some extent.
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Lord Flame Stryke
news:MPG.257ee828c...@free.teranews.com:
>> Well, good news on the router front: I went out and bought a new
>> one, so that's working well for me. My desktop is still not running,
>> and my laptop likes to freeze on me (to the point where it can't even
>> pull up the security menu on a three-finger salute) and needs to be
>> restarted rather frequently..... But, at least something is working
>> right.....
> That's good to hear, at least, to some extent.
Yes, and good news on the laptop sense, in a way..... Diagnostics
indicate my HDD is failing. After a random time, the HDD stops
responding, spinning, reading, etc, so I have to do a forced shut down
as even the 3-finger salute doesn't work. But, I've got an extended
service plan with Dell, so they're going to send me a new HDD free of
charge (5-7 business days) at which time everything should be working
properly.
>
Dafydd Edward Dragon
If you want to try and rescue information off of the drive, I recommend
using spinrite on it, then copying the information over to a new hard
drive A.S.A.P. Spinrite is a nice program that overrides the hardware
controller and does an amazing job recovering damaged sectors of data,
it also has a nice maintenance mode which I use on my hard drives on
occasion to remagnitize them. Spinrite isn't free but erm.. it's easy to
acquire. It's also incredibly tiny, only a few MB.
Lord Flame Stryke
news:KxTSm.57569$Wd1....@newsfe15.iad:
>> Yes, and good news on the laptop sense, in a way..... Diagnostics
>> indicate my HDD is failing. After a random time, the HDD stops
>> responding, spinning, reading, etc, so I have to do a forced shut
>> down as even the 3-finger salute doesn't work. But, I've got an
>> extended service plan with Dell, so they're going to send me a new
>> HDD free of charge (5-7 business days) at which time everything
>> should be working properly.
> If you want to try and rescue information off of the drive, I
> recommend using spinrite on it, then copying the information over to a
> new hard drive A.S.A.P. Spinrite is a nice program that overrides
> the hardware controller and does an amazing job recovering damaged
> sectors of data, it also has a nice maintenance mode which I use on my
> hard drives on occasion to remagnitize them. Spinrite isn't free but
> erm.. it's easy to acquire. It's also incredibly tiny, only a few MB.
Thanks, but all I had on the laptop were a few characters, and some
mail. I've backed up the characters, and the new HDD is installed and
running (yay) so I'm back online.
Now, if only the desktop was running, too.....
Dafydd Edward Dragon
Murrm, glad you managed to figure it out then LFS. Wish you luck on the
desktop computer.
~Dafydd Edward Dragon~
Lord Flame Stryke
news:hg96hj$76l$1...@aioe.org:
>>> If you want to try and rescue information off of the drive, I
>>> recommend using spinrite on it, then copying the information over to
>>> a new hard drive A.S.A.P. Spinrite is a nice program that
>>> overrides the hardware controller and does an amazing job recovering
>>> damaged sectors of data, it also has a nice maintenance mode which I
>>> use on my hard drives on occasion to remagnitize them. Spinrite
>>> isn't free but erm.. it's easy to acquire. It's also incredibly
>>> tiny, only a few MB.
>> Thanks, but all I had on the laptop were a few characters, and some
>> mail. I've backed up the characters, and the new HDD is installed
>> and running (yay) so I'm back online.
>> Now, if only the desktop was running, too.....
> Murrm, glad you managed to figure it out then LFS. Wish you luck on
> the desktop computer.
Well, I think I'll start rebuilding it from the groud up again, starting
with a new power supply..... If that was the problem, no sense in
starting it all over again.....
Simon Richard Clarkstone
> If you want to try and rescue information off of the drive, I recommend
> using spinrite on it, then copying the information over to a new hard
> drive A.S.A.P. Spinrite is a nice program that overrides the hardware
> controller and does an amazing job recovering damaged sectors of data,
> it also has a nice maintenance mode which I use on my hard drives on
> occasion to remagnitize them. Spinrite isn't free but erm.. it's easy to
> acquire. It's also incredibly tiny, only a few MB.
I just used dd from a linux livecd ;-)
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Simon Richard Clarkstone
> Yes, and good news on the laptop sense, in a way..... Diagnostics
> indicate my HDD is failing. After a random time, the HDD stops
> responding, spinning, reading, etc, so I have to do a forced shut down
> as even the 3-finger salute doesn't work.
I found that in the early stages, waiting 10 sec - 10 min would make it
recover suddenly, allowing you to shut down in an orderly way. Yours
might be different though.
Lord Flame Stryke
news:kImdnUkJ5cOsv9fW...@giganews.com:
> Lord Flame Stryke wrote:
>> Yes, and good news on the laptop sense, in a way..... Diagnostics
>> indicate my HDD is failing. After a random time, the HDD stops
>> responding, spinning, reading, etc, so I have to do a forced shut down
>> as even the 3-finger salute doesn't work.
>
> I found that in the early stages, waiting 10 sec - 10 min would make it
> recover suddenly, allowing you to shut down in an orderly way. Yours
> might be different though.
>
Well, it's gone now, got a new HDD installed. Plus, I got a USB HDD
enclosure, so my 1TB drive from my desktop (that's still not working) is
now a 1TB external USB drive for my laptop.