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| Thread ID: 116016 | 2011-02-13 22:47:00 | Dad's XP pro 80gb Seagate IDE died saturday | goodiesguy (15316) | PC World Chat |
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| 1177897 | 2011-02-13 22:47:00 | My dad's 80gb ide harddrive finally died on saturday. His computer was going incresingly slow, even with 2.4ghz cpu, 1.2gb ram, ATI RADEON 9600 256mb . To the point that it wouldn't boot into windows, and if it did, it would be unuasble. I kept telling him that it was his hard drive, but did he listen? NO! He kept putting the xp disk in and doing a repair. I thought that his sata drive might of been causing the issues, but it was his main drive. At the moment, he's running a brand new 80gb drive (it was given to me ages ago), which i installed windows 7 home premium onto. He wanted to try to recover the data off the dead drive. I put it as a secondary drive, it stopped the system from booting. I put it in an external enclosure, and it showed the drive in my computer, but with no Empty/Full Line (basically had no capacity). So it's dead. I told him he should of backed up, although the stuff he wanted to recover he can re send to his email. Also, in a few weeks, my uncle is giving him a mac, yes a mac, as my dad on browses the net, email etc.. Once he gets the mac, i get his PC!!!! woohoo it has a Gigabyte Mobo, 2.4ghz CPU (probably AMD, am unsure, haven't used it in ages) 1.2gb ram (will have 1.5gb ram once i get it) 256mb ATI Radeon 9600. Once i get it i'll shove the sorround sound card back in it, and put my hard drives and dvd drives in it. Also, his computer has a temperature thing on the front, and his pc kept on getting hot. No wonder, he only has 1 fan at the back (and cpu fan). When i get it, i'm shoving 2 fans at the front (it has bits for 2) and another 1 at the back. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1177898 | 2011-02-13 22:54:00 | At the moment, he's running a brand new 80gb drive, which i installed windows 7 home premium onto. Why on earth would you buy a brand new 80GB drive these days!? :stare: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1177899 | 2011-02-13 22:56:00 | Why on earth would you buy a brand new 80GB drive these days!? :stare: I didn't, it was given to me ages ago. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1177900 | 2011-02-13 22:57:00 | I did the other day as the OS drive for my NAS box. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1177901 | 2011-02-13 23:44:00 | I didn't, it was given to me ages ago. Then it isn't brand new :p |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1177902 | 2011-02-14 01:10:00 | And goodiesguy you might finally end up with a legal copy of the operating system as a bonus as you were using Dad's XP Pro. That has to be a plus in my opinion. |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1177903 | 2011-02-14 02:55:00 | My dad's 80gb ide harddrive finally died on saturday. His computer was going incresingly slow, even with 2.4ghz cpu, 1.2gb ram, ATI RADEON 9600 256mb . Exact same thing happened to a friend of mine. His PC was terribly slow, HDD light was always on, he installed new RAM but it didn't help, then he was getting BSOD all the time. Eventually I came over, checked his HDD and found over 1000 reallocated sectors - I think I got to it just in time! Recovered as much as I could with gnu_ddrescue (lost only about 4MB) and he bought a new drive. Working great so far. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1177904 | 2011-02-14 03:20:00 | drive might of been causing he should of backed up . Might have, Should have . Of In a general sense, from, or out from; proceeding from; belonging to; relating to; concerning; -- used in a variety of applications; as: Denoting possession or ownership, or the relation of subject to attribute; as, the apartment of the consul; a man of courage . |
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