All your PC problems, Volume 2

VidaRed

http://www.warez-bb.org/ or limewire

and use nero to burn it

I_live_cement

Limewire doesn't agree with me so I download everything in torrents, using Azeurus.

VidaRed

torrents are slow..goto that site and see for yourself

I_live_cement

I just leave them overnight and in the morning everything will be downloaded.

Edit: The link doesn't work.

VidaRed

link is working...if your getting 500 error then just refresh it couple of times...there are upgrading there servers

I_live_cement

Ok thanks.

I_live_cement

I'm having trouble registering for this site, I haven't received the activation email. Any help would be appreciated.

VidaRed

check your spam box in your email

that site has over half a million members

I_live_cement

Yeah I've checked that too, I'll just have to wait for it I guess. Thanks for the help.

VidaRed

how long before did you sign up ?

I_live_cement

Yesterday at about 8pm. I've requested about 5 more activation emails but they don't come. Could it be linked to the server problems yesterday?

VidaRed

use a different email address....usually it comes instantly

I_live_cement

I've already registered with one email adress but there doesn't seem to be an option to change email.

VidaRed

register again then and use a different email

btw which email did you use...should i register for you ?

I_live_cement

Registered again with a different email but still no luck, it must be a site problem.

VidaRed

what username do you want

I_live_cement

Why?

VidaRed

to check whether you username is in the registered list or not

I_live_cement

I've registered twice:

Once under 'I_live_cement' and then under 'cleverninja'

VidaRed

yep both of them are registered...though hotmail/msn does not work

I_live_cement

I used gmail for the second one but it still hasn't come. Should I just wait?

VidaRed

try clicking on resend activation

I_live_cement

I've pressed that 5 times for each username but still no email.

VidaRed

let me sort it out

I_live_cement

I didn't see this post before but how would I 'locate' the file? Thanks.

Derek Brown

I've registered but not received the activation email, either. How do you check the spam box? Don't know that I've got one (computer retard)

WeasteDevil

Right, my desktop PC hard disk has had a spastic incident and the computer will not boot anymore. When the Windows XP logo and the blue Kit of Knight Rider fame loading bar comes up, it has a wobbler and blue screens - so fast that I had to video it to see what it says - before reseting itself. Safe mode does the same. I put an XP CD in, and it knows that there are two partitions on the drive, but has no clue as to their volume label or name.

I have backups of most of my data on DVD (1 month ago), so do I either wipe this fucker totally and go through the bother ofinstalling everything again that way (and lose the last month of data), or should I go and get a new HDD (I was going to add a second in any case) and use some software to try to salvage what is already on there (and one month of data) before I wipe the entire disk? A second consideration here is that *cough* quite a bit of the software I use is iffy, and I do not have backups of the RAR files, which will mean having to download the shit again if I can even find them.

If option 2, what is the best software to recover data off a spazzed out disk?

Shotgun raisin

Have you tried loading a Linux LiveCD to see if your drives are still accessible? Something like Knoppix is a good option for this.

If your HD's definitely fubar, try getting Hiren's bootcd and running Partition Table Doctor (and a few other things if you feel like it). Spinrite is something else you should try. It's probably the best hard drive recovery software out there, but it'll take ages to run if your HD's as knackered as you make it sound.

If none of that works, connect you HD to another PC and run Recover My Files (an undelete program I've personally used with some success) to save what you can.

WeasteDevil

Thanks, I've not tried anything yet, I'd rather wait and make the right choice. I'll take a look at the programs that you have mentioned.

How about as a temporary measure, I take the HDD out of my PS3 (it's a 2.5" SATA - my PC has a normal 3.5" SATA HD)? I think that they are compatible are they not unlike IDE drives? If I formatted that for the PC, and then installed XP to it and booted off that, I should be able to rescue my data files or maybe repair the disk as best as possible? Good short term idea or not?

Shotgun raisin

That's a good idea. Your 2.5" drive should be able to work in you PC, but I'd be a little worried about how the PS3 reacts when you put the drive back into it. Sony tend to be a little finnicky about their proprietary measures, so just be sure that there aren't going to be any file system issues when you make the switch back.

You'd run Hiren's BootCD and Spinrite from CD, so you wouldn't need an additional hard drive installed while you try to fix a corrupted drive. If that doesn't work and you want to try to recover lost data instead, a secondary drive would definitely be the right move. But I'd try fixing the HD by booting from CD first.

Stanley Road

When it blue screens and reboots in a nanosecond you have to press F8 on reboot and chose "Dont automatically restart on sytem Failure"

Then you can read the bsod death message out to us all and we can unanimously shout "NO IDEA"

Stanley Road