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This is the instruction I followed http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step I made it to the section "Quick search for partitions" in the middle of the page, and when I pressed p, I got the "can't open filesystem" error message in the 2nd picture. The reason there are 2 lines in...

Looking at the instructions, I think I'll risk not cloning it because it says if I don't know what I'm doing, I can risk erasing everything. I tried TestDisk and here are the results.

I'm going to give this a shot. Is there a way I can backup the drive first in case the recovery process goes wrong? I can't access the drive so I'm not sure how to back it up.

That's true. What's a magic initialization cylinder?

I know and I agree, but it's too early to give up without having tried many options yet. Given that the circumstances don't seem to point to any real failure, and that the drive was lying untouched for a few years after working perfectly the last time it was disconnected, it seems that the...

Tried putting it into an older system with an IDE connector, but exact same results. 1. Does that software have a pretty deep and accurate recovery method? 3. I tried "chkdsk x: /r", but I got "the type of the file system is NTFS. Unable to determine volume version and state. chkdsk aborted"...

Sorry, I updated my first post to correct some error messages that I got wrong. I was writing them off the top of my head earlier today, and I later found out they were incorrect.

I'll try the system with an IDE connector. Is this different in nature than using the IDE to SATA adapter I attached to the hdd?

The problematic hdd had acted as an internal secondary hdd in my build about 4 years ago. It's an IDE hdd with about 80GB capacity, and was connected to a mobo that had an IDE connector on it. I used it for 2 years, then it got disconnected and lay unused for the next 2 years. Until this year...

I tried virtualbox once but it felt less smooth than working on a real platform, so that's why I preferred the feel of directly using XP. Is it normal for System Reserved to be labeled as C? I'm running in XP so I thought C should be where XP is installed. I've also never experienced being able...

Thanks everyone. I'm trying out method 2 but I'm not sure about some things. Is there an updated instruction set? I downloaded EasyBCD but the newer layout is not the same as the ones in the sevenforum screenshots. For method 2, step 10 in...

I have 2 hard drives, with Windows 7 installed on the main hard drive and nothing on the 2nd hard drive. I've been using Windows 7 this way for a while, but I decided to install XP onto the 2nd hard drive so that I could dual boot. But after installing XP, whenever I boot up my computer, it...

The 4550 I linked to in my OP is definitely a DDR3, so should I get that over the 9500GT which is DDR2? The ranking that evilsofa referred to shows the 9500GT is better, but I don't know how reliable that list is.

I think it's a 1440x900. Isn't the 4550 DDR3?

Ok I'll look into the 4650. Just curious what aspect makes the 9500GT faster than the 4550?

Even for minimal, non graphic intensive gaming? I'm thinking more along the lines of the Civilization or Age of Empires type games, not something like Crysis.

Are you referring to the 8800gt? How much do they usually go for? I'm looking to spend no more than $30 on a video card.

Not a big gamer but I occasionally play RTS games. Both are the same price. Which one is better ($30) EVGA GeForce 9500 GT 512MB GDDR2 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130378 ($30) Gigabyte Radeon HD 4550 512MB DDR3...

Okay thanks to all.

The first 3 features are all I'm interested in comparing at the moment. It's because I'm only considering free AV programs as my choices, so I wanted to compare them on an equal footing. As long as Avira's base features that are shared by both the free and premium have the same detection rate...

I think I wasn't phrasing my question clearly. So for example, according to the 1st line of the comparison chart on Avira's website, both the free and premium versions have "protection against viruses, worms and Trojans". Does this mean that both versions will detect viruses, worms and Trojans...

I did see that, but I wanted to know whether the detection rates would be different even for features that are included in both the free and premium versions.

AV-Comparatives' test only considered the premium version, but how much worse are the numbers usually for the free version?

Is WAN IP what I'm doing when I'm on the internet?

When I access my router through my browser, are all those customization options the firmware you're referring to? So when I bought the router, I'm using the default firmware, and the openwrt you're suggesting is another firmware? In order to check if someone's tampered with my router, I would...

What's a WRT? I'm using a standard D-Link router for home use. How is it possible for someone to update the router with such a sniffer, and what can I do to prevent or at least notice someone has tried to do that?

So theoretically it is possible for a very good hacker to use wireless to sniff wired? And in that case, if I turn off wireless broadcast when not in use, am I significantly reducing my risks?

I'm using a router primarily to share the internet with several desktops. I rarely use the wireless part, but I leave that on just in case I need to use a laptop. I know that wired connection is generally more secure than using wireless connection. But if I leave the router to broadcast wireless...

I'm using 32 bit windows in both virtual box and on the host computer. I currently have 4gb of ram installed into my computer, and I know that 32 bit windows has a 4gb ram cap. If I install 4 more gb of ram into my physical computer, can I allocate 4 gb to my vm, with the remainder 4gb going to...

Ok, what you and gushpin said are right, pressing F2 worked. It wasn't working for me before because in order to get it to work this time, I was tapping F2 really fast so that I wouldn't miss my window of opportunity. Thanks.

Yeah, that's what I usually do when I want to change boot order, but the computer doesn't even give me a chance to input any keys in the beginning to go to the bios or any other menu. The screen just goes straight to that list of options I mentioned above, so I'm stuck.

My computer suffered a fatal error of some sort. Every time I turn on the computer, I'm presented with the screen that asks me whether I want to enter using safe mode, last known good configuration, or normally. But even after picking any one of these options, the screen will turn black for 1...

I'm upgrading my OS to windows 7 32 bit on my motherboard, but it apparently doesn't provide any support for windows 7. Does that mean I can't go with the upgrade anymore?

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I tried connecting it via esata after booting it up, so the boot issue isn't a problem anymore. But my computer doesn't recognize the hard drive. I don't even think I hear the hard drive spinning, although when I first connected it, it gave several intermittent buzzing sounds and then became silent.

So esata is something you can connect and disconnect while the computer is turned on, like usb? I'll try this and give an update

Thanks. I tried connecting it, and my entire system doesn't boot up anymore. Will adding a malfunctioning hard drive prevent the primary OS hard drive to fail to boot up too? I added the failing hard drive via esata.

So if I just connect it to my computer, it should just detect it as an additional drive? This hard drive has an OS installed on it, so how does the computer know not to boot from this drive?

I'm using a Western Digital Caviar Green hard drive and it just failed on me. I'm trying to recover data from it by connecting it to another computer as a slave, but when I looked at the back, there's no jumper on it and no indication of master and slave configurations. The diagram is available...

Whenever I try to boot from the usb drive, my computer always just boots from my primary hard drive with xp on it. I'm running a gigabyte motherboard, so I press F12 when it POSTs and I have a couple USB options: USB FDD, USB ZIP, USB HDD, USB CDROM. I tried all of them, but the flash drive...