I dont have it in front of me right now, but, looking to get a rough idea of how much it might worth before i format it and sell it. I can provide more specs later, but wanted to post this before i forgot again :D
dell vostro 1510, 15" (150 dollar option) screen, 320gig hard drive, 256mb...
Well i was able to get the MBR fixed last night by having only Drive 0 connected. I was also able to browse my files through notepad in the recovery console :p. However i did everything i could think of to find a way to get into safe mode so that i could get the new driver in place, but no dice...
You could run some tests against the hard drives to see how many bad sectors you have etc. There is a free program you can download to check that but i cant think of it off hand. I'll keep digging up those brain cells and post up a link to it when i remember :D
Had an idea last night. If i have just one of my raid drives, like drive 0, connected, could i get the MBR and driver issues fixed on that drive and then rebuild the array so it has the new info? Or would that be a better question for the hard drive forum?
Yea, i told windows to install the updates, and then it said to reboot and now im fucked.
:( i hope its not a root kit because all i did today was update the drivers and open outlook :(
First the technical details:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3R LGA 775 Intel P45
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
2 Western Digital 640gb drives in a Raid 1 array.
Using the motherboards on board raid
Now for what happened.
Windows update found an update for my raid driver, and since i have never...
I updated to 1237 which is the recomended one to get this processor to work. Im scared to upgrade it to the latest (1238) for fear that it wont boot at all (experienced this last night)
So i got my Q9650 installed and working last night (what a nightmare that was!) The problem is, when i took out one set of memory it booted up and ran fine. If i left all 4 gigs in, i would not get past the bios screen with the number of processors and their speed.
The memory i have is -...
bought a 1u server not long ago. Its got a 160gig hitachi ata/ide drive in it. Well i found my old western digital 160gig enhanced ide drives and thought i would put one in for some extra storage. Well....it doesnt fit....notice the very slight difference in the spacing of the power and ide...
my latest that i submitted with the obvious contact info taken out, and company taken out :cool: let me know any ideas you have
Objective To become a PC Support Specialist
Education Bachelors of Science,Information Technology Management
University of...
what they should really do with this article is compare vista, with the initial release of XP. yes there are alot of areas where microsoft f'ed up majorly. but there were also these same kinds of problems when xp was released. Give vista 5-6 years and then see how it stacks up against xp. It...