The **OFFICIAL** GMAIL Thread

[shocksta]

linuxwannabe gets lucky... many of us have asked for an invite way before him in this thread and he gets one... *tsk*

 

[FiDo14DiDo]

out of invites

 

[comat0se]

I'd like a Gmail invite please. Have pity on me.... I've lost all my teeth, and I'm unemployed. Ok, only half of that is true.

 

[imported_ich]

Webbox has gone to hell. I'd love to try an alternative if someone's got a spare invite laying around...

 

[dirkl]

I have bad breath and no friends

 

[Jagg]

If someone can help me solve my HD problem, i'll send you a Gmail invite:

I installed a new seagate ultra-ide 200gb hd (as a second drive and purchased as an AT HD) in my p4 3.0 system with a 120gb SATA boot drive and 1GB of ram (it's the new Dell XPS). The seagate is jumpered as a primary master since that is the only way i got it to work. The SATA is the boot drive with windows. It worked great for about 2 months, but the other day i was gaming from it and the whole system locked and i got an 'exception' error.

When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

Any ideas or good website/forums to use to recover my files? I tried using ontrack recovery software, but since the drive is not recognized by windows, the program would not recognize it.

 

[qt0cali]

Originally posted by: FiDo14DiDo
got 3 invites...PM me with email. if u don't get a response, you were too late.

awesome! thanks for the invite. i'll post invites as they become available.

 

[shocksta]

Originally posted by: qt0cali

Originally posted by: FiDo14DiDo
got 3 invites...PM me with email. if u don't get a response, you were too late.

awesome! thanks for the invite. i'll post invites as they become available.

 

[sullie]

I'd like a g-mail account - I'm not a lurker since I joined - pretty please with sugar on top!

 

[stonedoor]

Originally posted by: Jagg
When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

I guess the insufficient drive space was mentioning about your 120Gb boot drive, which is smaller than 200 Gb drive. Don't know if it work or not - you might try it with a larger boot drive, or try it with another PC with larger hard drives. Good luck!

 

[Kenny0829]

Originally posted by: Jagg
If someone can help me solve my HD problem, i'll send you a Gmail invite:

I installed a new seagate ultra-ide 200gb hd (as a second drive and purchased as an AT HD) in my p4 3.0 system with a 120gb SATA boot drive and 1GB of ram (it's the new Dell XPS). The seagate is jumpered as a primary master since that is the only way i got it to work. The SATA is the boot drive with windows. It worked great for about 2 months, but the other day i was gaming from it and the whole system locked and i got an 'exception' error.

When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

Any ideas or good website/forums to use to recover my files? I tried using ontrack recovery software, but since the drive is not recognized by windows, the program would not recognize it.

You checked all cables and everything, I HOPE.
I'd try Cable Select on BOTH drives, and make sure you hook the cable up properly.
I don't need your gmail, got one of my own, just trying to help I HOPE
But bios DOES see it right?
did you run a virus check ?

 

[Jagg]

Originally posted by: Kenny0829

Originally posted by: Jagg
If someone can help me solve my HD problem, i'll send you a Gmail invite:

I installed a new seagate ultra-ide 200gb hd (as a second drive and purchased as an AT HD) in my p4 3.0 system with a 120gb SATA boot drive and 1GB of ram (it's the new Dell XPS). The seagate is jumpered as a primary master since that is the only way i got it to work. The SATA is the boot drive with windows. It worked great for about 2 months, but the other day i was gaming from it and the whole system locked and i got an 'exception' error.

When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

Any ideas or good website/forums to use to recover my files? I tried using ontrack recovery software, but since the drive is not recognized by windows, the program would not recognize it.

You checked all cables and everything, I HOPE.
I'd try Cable Select on BOTH drives, and make sure you hook the cable up properly.
I don't need your gmail, got one of my own, just trying to help I HOPE
But bios DOES see it right?
did you run a virus check ?

Thanks Kenny. I think i tried cable select when i first got the drive, but it didn't work. Bios DOES see the drive and i doubt its a virus since it was running fine and i have no viruses on my main drive.

BTW, i did run the seagate diagnostics from the boot disk which also returned bad sectors, but after it ran, it told me to reboot and the drive still wasn't visible in windows.

 

[SenorBiggles]

Originally posted by: echomyst

Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
i'll take one, if an established AT member wants to help me out.


I refuse to play trivia with all the gmail-noobs and trolls that are coming out of the woodwork for this.

Excuse me, "gmail-noobs"? "trolls"? I've been around on this forum since 2002. Just because I don't have loads of time to post all the time, it doesn't make me a "troll." Do you even know what a troll is? Trolls don't give out gmail invites.

He's the troll, dear. The best way to deal with them is to ignore them. Let him continue to increase his post count in OT forums answering questions like "which futurama character are you?" so he can be better than us all.

 

[M0NEYSH0T]

Originally posted by: Jagg

Originally posted by: Kenny0829

Originally posted by: Jagg
If someone can help me solve my HD problem, i'll send you a Gmail invite:

I installed a new seagate ultra-ide 200gb hd (as a second drive and purchased as an AT HD) in my p4 3.0 system with a 120gb SATA boot drive and 1GB of ram (it's the new Dell XPS). The seagate is jumpered as a primary master since that is the only way i got it to work. The SATA is the boot drive with windows. It worked great for about 2 months, but the other day i was gaming from it and the whole system locked and i got an 'exception' error.

When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

Any ideas or good website/forums to use to recover my files? I tried using ontrack recovery software, but since the drive is not recognized by windows, the program would not recognize it.

You checked all cables and everything, I HOPE.
I'd try Cable Select on BOTH drives, and make sure you hook the cable up properly.
I don't need your gmail, got one of my own, just trying to help I HOPE
But bios DOES see it right?
did you run a virus check ?

Thanks Kenny. I think i tried cable select when i first got the drive, but it didn't work. Bios DOES see the drive and i doubt its a virus since it was running fine and i have no viruses on my main drive.

BTW, i did run the seagate diagnostics from the boot disk which also returned bad sectors, but after it ran, it told me to reboot and the drive still wasn't visible in windows.

Write Zero's to the drive and then try it...

 

[Kenny0829]

Humm..... was working..... now bad sectors..... and not there according to windows.....only thing I can think of might be drivers, but those bad sectors sorta worry me, drive might be toast, hate to say

 

[popeye44]

If Anyone has an invite I'll return the favor back to here. I've been gone the last 11 days kinda missed it

 

[kevman]

Originally posted by: Kenny0829
Humm..... was working..... now bad sectors..... and not there according to windows.....only thing I can think of might be drivers, but those bad sectors sorta worry me, drive might be toast, hate to say

I tend to agree with that, it sounds like its a physcal hardware problem. sorry man....

 

[Kenny0829]

Originally posted by: popeye44
If Anyone has an invite I'll return the favor back to here. I've been gone the last 11 days kinda missed it

check your PM

 

[Loxias]

Originally posted by: Jagg
If someone can help me solve my HD problem, i'll send you a Gmail invite:

I installed a new seagate ultra-ide 200gb hd (as a second drive and purchased as an AT HD) in my p4 3.0 system with a 120gb SATA boot drive and 1GB of ram (it's the new Dell XPS). The seagate is jumpered as a primary master since that is the only way i got it to work. The SATA is the boot drive with windows. It worked great for about 2 months, but the other day i was gaming from it and the whole system locked and i got an 'exception' error.

When i rebooted, i got a blue screen message from WinXP that the new HD drive volume was 'dirty' and it used a dos-like chkdsk to run a diagnostic which was returning bad sectors from 1500-67000. After the chkdsk ran (and said it couldn't fix the sectors due to insufficient drive space , even though i had 150GB free), the pc booted normally, but the drive was not there anymore. Now every time I boot, i get that chkdsk screen or a drive error from the bios if i change the setting. I now have the drive disabled in the bios. I have some really important home movies on the drive that i need to recover.

Any ideas or good website/forums to use to recover my files? I tried using ontrack recovery software, but since the drive is not recognized by windows, the program would not recognize it.

When you say that the drive isn't recognized by Windows do you mean you don't have a drive letter? If it's running a chkdsk everytime it boots, Windows is seeing it. Check that the drive is listed in Device Manager. If it is and there isn't an exclamation mark check out Disk Management and make sure it's listed in there. I'd agree that it's a hardware problem, but if you weren't using Dynamic Disks or have anything other than a Basic Disk then you still at least have a possibility of recovering the data.

 

[KeyzerSoze]

if anyone has another invite to share, please PM me. i'll do the same once i can. thanks.

 

[azzieo]

could someone please, send me an invite?

 

[mrokkam]

Originally posted by: Kraeji
Please send me an invite.. I am a orphan and am homeless. Have pity on me.

Homeless?? Then why do you want gmail? U wont be able to make enough use of it

Mohan.

 

[popeye44]

Thanks Kenny, as soon as I get invite I'll return the favor to another.!

 

[Kenny0829]

No problem.
Now I know what you drive !!!!!

kevman
Check your PM

 

[Reel]

Hey, if you are still feeling generous, I would love an invite too please.