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Yes, i've tried it many times. Tried to use a floppy, same error. Moved the disk to a desktop computer and same error. Used an old 2GB laptop disk with spinrite and it completes fine under the same setup/tools. could it be 40Gb, the size being too big for spinrite?

hi everyone. i've got a dodgy computer and windows 2000 on it. the computer hangs up and we have to reboot. somewhere along the line the MFT got corrupt. so chkdsk tried to solve some problems (inconsistencies) and it usually deletes data in order to fix them. its approach kill, bury, deny...

hi people... having used spinrite i've never seen it crash. but it has crashed on my laptop. its a toshiba 40gb disk. one minute after it starts scanning the drive it fails with the error "Division Overflow Error" at 394A i don't think its a faulty disk because scandisk is doing a fine job. so...

Scandisk is good but it doesnt consider io success times. scandisk will try to recover a sector only if the drive returns crc error after performing multiple read attempts. i'm looking to go below that level. so even if a sector is successfully read after multiple attempts, i would like to mark...

Hi Everyone I'm searching for a tool that works in DOS or LINUX. It would scan the hard disk surface and monitor the read / write times of each sector. Giving us the ability to mark some areas as bad sectors so that operating system doesn't attempt to use them. I think such a tool could be...

Hi Guys I've disabled activeX downloading from IE settings. But a strange thing happened. I was surfing along fine, hoping to download a software, but strangely enough by clicking on a link, it downloaded the setup and started it. This was really strange, how could it download an executable and...

No, i've not tried to mount it on linux, but i think in this case it might not help much. the drive is a laptop ide drive 6.3 Gb Hitachi/IBM. it started developing bad sectors six months ago but windows 2000 just carries on, without any notification. So situation became so bad that the...

Hi Guys I have a problem. Can anybody help me out PLEASE ........ My hard disk has passed old age and is about to die, but i've got some stuff on it i must must save. Its 6Gb Hitachi SMART capable IDE drive. If i had ever run SMART monitoring i could have made a backup, but now its too...

I've got a dsl router forwarding all traffic to my linux box. even when the linux box is not on the network, the traffic with source address 127.0.0.1 can be seen by another packet sniffing computer. all invalid traffic like this is blocked by linux box. i've never thought about a virus...

I've built a mandrake linux firewall/web/dns server. my contingency plan was to have a backup router. so i used this linux floppy firewall. http://freshmeat.net/projects/floppyfw/ it makes any pc, with a floppy disk drive alone, no keyboard, monitor or mouse, just two network cards into an...

I'm on adsl and getting spoofed packets of very regular pattern at very regular time intervals. the source address is 127.0.0.1 has anybody seen that before ? http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Board=security&Number=1173702 details are on adslguide forum, above link

I've done a fresh reinstall of windows, with drivers that came with the motherboard. The problem was still there. Windows update gives a later version of SIS graphics drivers, and even with that, the problem doesn't go away. And yeah my pc-chips motherboard was giving me strange problems, like...

A year long battle with pc-chips motherboard, and its not over yet! here's my story... is there a solution?? I've had a pcchips motherboard (SIS chipset) for a year, sis900 on-board network, and ide, shared memory graphics. My pc used to crash at least once a week on windows, but never on...

If your bios has boot record virus protection enabled, then goback will stall on each start. A blank screen appears after goback timed-prompt, and a key press (enter) starts the booting process of windows 2000. Disable the boot record virus protection from bios, and its sorted [pipe]

Same problem was occurring with my pc, when i had my mobile phone connected with the usb port. It seems that usb is not properly implemented on specific motherboards and it conflicts with ACPI bios interface, maybe...

you're right, four instances of sound recorder won't be able to do what i need. I have developed a program for sound recording that will allow me to choose which input to record from. The problem still is to find the right sound card. well, thanks for all the info. i'm a bit curious about sound...

I have four different channels, like tv, radio, mic+amplifier and telephone speaker. is there a pci sound card that has four line-in channels? such that i can run four windows of sound recorder program and record sounds simultaneously into four different files? the idea for buying...