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    Serious HDD errors. Please help

    I couldn't get Active File Recovery over here. I purchased IOLO Search and Recover (one of the few I could find) instead but it won't even accrss the disk. I've even tried mbrfix to no effect. I finally got Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test to run. I ran the advanced test but it declared the drive...
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    Hard drive no longer recognized - please help

    Hey nikko, have you solved this one yet? I'm in a quite similar situation. But I cannot even run checkdisk. http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=2009128&enterthread=y
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    need a good tv tuner software

    VirtualVCR is a free software and I've been using it. It works really well but with limited options. http://virtualvcr.sourceforge.net/
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    Serious HDD errors. Please help

    Hi everyone, I have been receiving a number of hard drive errors and I would really appreciate some insight from the experts here. Well, it started yesterday when I ran PerfectDisk to defrag my Hitachi SATA2 250gb hard drive. It ran fine until towards the end when I came across numerous...
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    How to: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows.

    No I did not configure any raid with the old MB. It's okay I got it to work already. I just installed all the Windows updates and somehow it ran checkdisk during boot. After about half an hour it started to work fine. Thanks a lot for your assistance.
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    How to: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows.

    i can see the 250GB disk but it only gives me the option to: open, explore, change drive letter and path, delete partition, format it or view properties.
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    How to: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows.

    Thanks dclive and Arkaign for the replies. I am using Windows 2000 SP4. How much does that differ from XP? I really regret changing from a VIA chipset to an nVidia one now. This is going to be a bit OT, but I tried to install a fresh Windows on a 80gb hard drive. But when I do that, I can't...
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    How to: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows.

    Hi... it's a bit urgent, so I wonder if anyone can help? How do I install the SATA drivers for my new mobo w/o overwriting the drivers for my current one?
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    How to: Upgrade your motherboard without reinstalling Windows.

    Hi everyone, I tried to upgrade from my good old Barton 3000+ (ACPI Uniprocessor PC) to a AM2 x2 3800+ (ACPI Multiprocessor PC, if I'm not mistaken) with the Standard IDE controller trick, but I encountered the dreaded blue screen with the header "inaccessible boot device". I am actually using 2...