Joined: Apr 14, 2011
Posts: 407
Location: UK
Hello BK's Green here! I have no hard drive at the moment because it died yesterday. Don't ya just love computers. I hope to have it all sorted out in the next week. I hate doing this sort of stuff because I would rather be working on the oily lump of VW Golf GTI than fiddling with the dark art of soft and hard ware. I will catch you all soon. Wish me luck
Think of the withdrawal symptoms I am going to have with no gaming PC!!!!!!!!! aHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Fortunately it didn't have much saved on the HD But it will still tickle my brain trying to find all the stuff it did have!?
I had it checked and without actually removing the disk and placing it into another chassis it aint having it!
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Joined: Jan 21, 2011
Posts: 270
Im fairly certain even if its "dead" there are many programs out there where you can salvage most of whats on there.
Sorry to hear that. Newegg just had a killer deal too on 1TB HDDs. $50! I wish i got one but i been DLC crazy plus BF3 purchase is on the horizon.
Joined: May 31, 2011
Posts: 2631
Location: Fort McMurray, AB
I've used a program called GetDataBack to reciver data from hard drives that took a poop on my feelings. It worked rather well. OF course, You need a workign computer to plug the drive and move the files to.
A good remidner that more than one HDD is good to ahve.
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Joined: Jan 29, 2011
Posts: 151
9 out of 10 drives will run long enough as a slave to recover data after a dump, but you can always use the list of what you should never do to a good drive that sometimes helps, Like freezing, Dropping flat on a hard surface, I have used some weird things.
Joined: Apr 14, 2011
Posts: 407
Location: UK
Cheers for all the tips guys. However as I said I am not bothered about the data as there was not much there in the first place. What am I now thinking about is what to replace it with. I am thinking SSD and a small HDD to back it up. I am open to suggestions. I do not know much about RAID, partitioning etc and as I have said before it is all a bit too techie for. I have done a bit of research and come up with this.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/products/SSD/downloads/SSD_vs_HDD_is_there_a_difference_Rev_3.pdf
Not sure if it is just an elaborate sales pitch or useful information?
Any way guys all tips will be read and even some acted upon. Things are time critical as I don't know how much longer I can survive without my PC.
I hope to advise my PC repair man tomorrow so get typing BK's lets see how you view this.
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Joined: Jun 28, 2011
Posts: 170
Location: Avondale, AZ
Look at this link for a good explination of RAID arrays. I prefer a RAID 0 (2 matching disks), it's fast, but not fault tolerant. As long as you back-up regularly, that shouldn't be a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
That being said, I'm looking to stick SSDs in the rig I'm getting ready to build. They're really fast and there are no moving parts.. They are a bit expensive per gigabyte, so if cost is an issue Id go with a couple of high capacaty HDD.
Joined: Mar 08, 2010
Posts: 1934
Location: Northampton, UK
It's not advisable to Raid a pair of SSDs as you then can't run TRIM to manage the fragmentation.
Also I always backup my data to an external drive - every year or so I re-install from scratch to get rid of any incremental stuff.
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It's not advisable to Raid a pair of SSDs as you then can't run TRIM to manage the fragmentation.
Also I always backup my data to an external drive - every year or so I re-install from scratch to get rid of any incremental stuff.
What about one SSD and one HDD? what is your opinion on this type of set up please?
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Joined: Jun 28, 2011
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It certianly would be the best of both worlds...speed of the SSD, capacaty of the HDD.
Joined: Apr 03, 2010
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Location: Loveland, Colorado
I currently have an SSD and I wouldnt trade the world for it, but the drive is only 160GB so I only use it for OS and System related items. For everything else I use a mechanical drive in total of about 8TB of storage. If you are only looking to run one drive or dont have the power to run multiple drive my suggestion would be a Hybrid drive.
-->Hybrid drive<--
You get the benefit of a high speed SSD for your cache and the low cost of a mechanical drive.
Just my 2 cents.
Joined: Apr 14, 2011
Posts: 407
Location: UK
OK guys we move on - I now have a 120GB SSD vertex 3 hard drive - I have reinstalled vista home premium (temporarily) 2 strange things now happen
1 - I can not open the microsoft hotmail log in page. When i try all that happens is the browser keeps opening tabs that fail and so on repeat process
2 - My G35 logitec headset is not working in TS3 only. I have uninstalled and reinstalled both headset and TS3 and still the same
Does anyone have any fixes please?
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I I tend to rebuild with a large-ish SSD and a pair of HDs soon.
1. I think your problem with hotmail maybe because you now have an 'older' version of internet explorer. Try using firefox or chrome or safari as a check.
Joined: Jan 09, 2010
Posts: 502
Location: Connecticut
Ok, as far as your TS issue with your sound...It is better and easier if I was in your computer, or I can walk you through things..But I will try to help you trouble shoot it here now...
Team Speak
1. Start TS and click on
Settings
2. Go to
Options
3. Go to
Playback
4.. Be sure
Playback mode: is set for
Automatically use best mode AND
Playback Device: Here you must choose what ever you are using to hear your sounds with. I have mine set to my
G-930 Head Set (Logitech G930 Headset)
Windows Sound
On the bottom of your
Task bar next to your time, Right Click on the little
speaker and choose
Playback Devices.
Here you need to see what Windows (or you) has specified to be your
Default Playback Sound Device You need to Right Click on what ever device you want to use and set it as
Default
Let me know what you find...I will be on TS today (8/14/11) till about 4pm EST. or just PM me and I'll get it too...
The issue with your Windows log in page, this might be a simple thing like all the Windows Updates....If you just reinstalled windows, I think there's like over 130+ updates. I do know that there is a Windows Live update in there. And you also might have to have the latestIE9 running also...If you don't want to try Firefox and Google Chrome too, like UchiMata suggested.
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Joined: Apr 14, 2011
Posts: 407
Location: UK
Hi Hawkeye.
All of your suggestions followed through man. I think you may have been at crossed purposes - it is my microphone not working - i hear all fine in my headset but can not get the mic to work in TS.
It works fine in windows tests and logitect test modes, it even works fine in game talk - It is just on TS3.
As for the internet isses I doo keep being asked if I want to chose an internet browser pop up from microsoft. I will follow through with it and see what occurs.
I will be istalling windows 7 shortly so not too fussed atm.
Thank you Buddy for your assistance thus far
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