Hey all, I've got a question about the best port forwarding solution with my Linksys 4-Port cable router that I use for my house. I would like to use BitTorrent to its full potential (like, better than 4KB DLs) but would really prefer to not have to use static IP routing (there's a notebook on...
Somebody said something about Logitech earlier in this thread, I know this is slightly OT but anybody know what their policy is? I have a Logitech Dual Optical that they gave me for some focus group thing I did that took a sh!t on me, wonder if they'll replace it...
I posted a few days ago with a problem involving my hard drives mysteriously screwing themselves up in some way or other. First my D drive corrupted itself anf then C: wouldn't boot. I reinstalled WinXP and was on my way again, but today, the day after this whole fiasco got fixed I am...
Well, I'm writing from the previous broken machine. It works again, and all my files are still here. Have to do some reinstalls but having most of my files preserved is awesome, and definitely the best that could be done. Thanks so much for your help!
Unfortunately it was already set that way. Creating another one just like that and attempting to boot from it didn't work. I have both those files there, is it possible that hal.dll actually is corrupted, im which case I would need to copy a new copy of it from the WinXP CD on that drive?
Okay, here's what it looks like after I confirm I want to use fixboot:
"The filesystem on the startup partition is unknown.
FIXBOOT is attempting to detect the file system type.
The boot sector is corrupt.
FIXBOOT is checking the file system type...
The partition is using the NTFS file system...
Well, tried fixboot and fixmbr, neither of which managed to fix my problem. Still says a read error occured. I don't get it though, because while it does fixboot it tells me it detects that it is a courrupted NTFS partition. If it knows that why can't it just fix it, at least to the point where...
Alrighty, got it to boot from CD with both drives attached to the mobo IDE. Repartitioned and formatted that 60GB drive, so that's all cleaned up now, but the 200GB still won't boot and the partition info on the screen in the WinXP disc says that the entire drive (except for 8MB, as always) is...
Just to update: I do have the BIOS version you mentioned, so we can take that off the list of prossible problems. Also, I was able to reformat the other drive and now with that drive completely clean and the other one in the state it has been in I still have the error. The error is, as I said...
It is a Promise TX2 controller. As to the BIOS version I do not know, but that's a very good question and I'll check it out as soon as I get home (I'm writing from school). It had been supporting that 186GB drive as such for quite a while with no problems. If it is using an earlier BIOS version...
Good advice, yielding new results but not the ones I wanted to see. Still has a read error on the 200GB C drive, which is not detected when connected alone to the ATA controller card, and takes a long time to be detected on the mobo's IDE bus. The D Drive IS detected alone on the ATA controller...
Alrighty, thought about that and did it after that post. Still says there's a read error. Any other suggestions? Really hoping these two drives didn't just decide to die on me at the same time. Any chance it might be a mobo issue? Just thinking about that due to the fact that not only is the C...
Over the weekend my computer went from being a wonderful performer to losing its will to live. This is the first time in recent memory that a problem has arisen that has been so devastating as to not even let me repartition and reformat. On Sunday last week my WinXP Home Edition box began...
Dumb question: If/when I buy this drive can I use the controller card to use it as a third drive? I have been putting off buying a bigger HD for a while, but my current two just aren't cutting it. The problem is that I am too lazy to back up everything with my inconsistent and lam CD-RW drive...
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