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johnp
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| Posted on Monday, June 16, 2003 - 07:10 pm: |
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mike,ill try to make along story short,it started with a usr modem installation,come to find out was the wrong driver c.d. but i kept trying to install driver from different angles,until i realized maybe it was packaged wrong,yep,i downloaded correct driver from usr homepage,during all this,whether or not i fubard something or it was the driver,...i cant run scandisk all the way hardrive just chatters,to day i shut computer off and rebooted here is the course of events:boot up.....one or more of your disk drives may have developed bad sectors....next it says something to the effect of booting up in safemode..hit ok....goes back to microsoft scandisk...it states:some data stored in drive c is probably about to fail,data can still be read from this area,it takes much longer..indicates this area of drive has become unreadable....(choose fix it)to move the affected data to undamaged area of C scandisk will then mark the failing area to prevent it from being used.....so i hit "fixit" and after about an hour of hardrive steadily cruching away its only scanned 1'079 sectors out of about 150,000 sectors,it stated so far of 2 bad sectors,i finally shut the computer down......what do you think possible infected driver from usrobotics
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Mike
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| Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 08:01 am: |
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If the Harddrive is making a clattering noise it is dieing. : (
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johnp
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| Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 09:59 am: |
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its not clattering....it sounds like it usually does when its working (crunching numbers)but it just keeps going and wont make any progress in scandisk..........do any good to reformate hardrive?
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Mike
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| Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 05:55 pm: |
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Try running scandisk in safe mode and defrag. You could try going into safe mode and go to the device manager and remove everything that has a problem, then reboot or remove all listings and let windows reinstall them, last resort reformat and start out fresh.
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johnp
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| Posted on Tuesday, June 17, 2003 - 08:59 pm: |
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mike,two questions...
1)how do i boot up in safe mode? and
2)im thinking seriously about installing motherboard and bigger hardrive im running 166 and 3 gig drive....i have a 200 w power supply what is the fastest motherboard i could use,sorry,how about 3 questions.....and how much are power supply's.........your help is much appreciated....jp
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Mike
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| Posted on Thursday, June 19, 2003 - 07:20 pm: |
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Just before the windows picture appears start hitting the F8 key to get to Safe Mode.
200 watt power supply is not much 350 to 450 is common now, they run about 35 0n up, Mobos you can get for 100 and down. Upgrading is a cheap way to get a better computer, you can get a 20 gig harddrive online for around 50, graphic cards for around 100 on down depending on if you do any gaming. Start with a Mobo then buy the Ram, graphics card and power supply that work with it, make sure the Mobo has enough PCI slots for any add on cards you need.
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johnp
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| Posted on Friday, June 20, 2003 - 09:22 pm: |
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thx...mike for the info...i talked to my wife and will probably take my son's computer (1.2g)and get him a 2 or up gig,do you have any idea what the cost would be (ballpark figure)im either going to build it or just purcase the tower assy,dont need moniter keybord speakers and such just the computer,what would you recommend,what do you think of the cheaper sets like Emachine....etc are they an o.k computer?
jp
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Mike
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| Posted on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 01:43 pm: |
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Emachines are fine for basic stuff like surfing word processing etc. You could probably get a Dell for a little bit more $ and would be a better machine and they have good support. You could upgrade by building one for as little as 500 to 700 depending on what you are using it for and what parts you can use from the old computer and if you have an OS to put on it. I build my own because it is fun and I know what is in it, I use OEM parts which are cheaper to buy, but that means I am the only tech support for it. Check out the section on building my last computer on the site, under Computer Help-- Build your own computer, it is a Gaming Machine, high end : )
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john p
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 09:26 pm: |
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mike,going threw your hardrive formatting procedure i ran into a snag...in (fdisk)1.Delete primary DOS partition,it asks me to confirm my choice and when i do it wants the volumn label,i can see the volume label at the top of the page but cannot type the exact characters in some look like music notes........im not sure where to go from here.
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Mike
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| Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 12:08 pm: |
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Volume Label would be what you named the drive, which you may not have, leave it blank then try.
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john p
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| Posted on Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 10:07 am: |
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that makes since,i named it drive c,i did try leaving it blank but it would just return me back to fdisk,i used format c\s at the A: prompt and was unable to format because of bad sectors,any way im looking on ebay for new drive or like new ,no more than 10g i use it mainly for web and email,thx for help...jp
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mike
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| Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 01:02 pm: |
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did you delete the primary partition then create a primary dos partition then format.
Egghead has some good deals and tiger direct.
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