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  1. jtdoom

    hard drive surgery

    Hi I heard of the freezer trick couple of years ago, and have used it three times, and twice with what one calls success. IMHO, it should only be tried when you think an axle seized. there are two axles if you hear the actuator click it can swivle (axle is free) if you cannot hear the...
  2. jtdoom

    FDISK problems

    Hi spinrite is no longer free (last time I looked it weren't), but it is is one of the better proggies, that is for sure... ========== yup, the damage is likely to be in the area where FAT and/or FAT mirror gonna be stored... As long as we remember that this HDD is no longer good for bizz...
  3. jtdoom

    FDISK problems

    btw it hangs at 99? if this drive is no longer under warranty, you could use fdisk to make a partition of 98 percent of total, and keep in mind that it showed errors (iow, this hard disk should not be used for bizz critical usage) if under warranty, and heads settings are okay (some BIOS...
  4. jtdoom

    FDISK problems

    I just reread all this i suggest you use wipeout (you can get it at lurkhere.com) to clear all the stuff in mbr/embr then, after you reboot, again use fdisk after fdisk you reboot (you must be aware that rebooting is important...) and then use format C: /U /C (do NOT use /S ) the following...
  5. jtdoom

    FDISK problems

    hi you may have motherboard antivirus feature on. I suggest you boot into CMOS setup (look at bios settings)
  6. jtdoom

    Maximum number of files on CDR?

    Hi FAIK, CDFS uses 512 byte sectors 127300 times 512 bytes is about 65megabyte that means that on average, you could have 32 megabyte slack on the CDROM that, plus the TOC... (I do not know off hand wether it gets bigger as the number of files increases) anyway, I think that for archiving huge...
  7. jtdoom

    Recover data from a .qic file

    Hi all, FAIK, MsBackup is version dependant. eg, win 98 version cannot restore a QIC file made by an older win95 version and vice versa. what version of the OS was it created with? you may have to change the file attribute since putting it on a CDR makes the file read only, you can only do so...

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