what happened like a month ago, or whenever... was my primary drive.. which i dont really put anything on... so its not a big deal when something happens to that.. plus then i was able to easily backup files..

but now im looking at just getting a new hard drive.. its a good time to do it.. lol..

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

yayy ontrack, im assuming thats to tape your backing upto... you prolly know but BACKUP-BACKUP-BACKUP!!!!

8-) get ur mom a computer from 1998 for emails and interwebs....

yea i have somethin similar to that dia, pc angel, houses a small drive for recovery console..

good thing you were able to get it all back.. time for a new hd, and a 300$ dell for ur mom

I like my dell :D except the video card by ATI ...

well its not exactly easy to back up 120gb (add 300gb more if you include my other hard drive too thats full)


tho i do plan on getting a 400 or 500 gb internal to replace my 180.. so i guess after that i can use the 180 for backups

i cant stand this dell.. (dimension 8100) ..ive had it since i was like 16 or 17, so that could be more reason why i hate it.. tho ive replaced a good amount of the stuffs inside.. but the damn 1700mhz cpu and the slow ass RDRAM kills me.. holds back my video card too :( tho my card isnt that great (MSI GeForce 6600GT) but i should definitly get better FPS in dod with the card running at the lowest settings

but i dont exactly have the funds to build myself a new one.. so im kinda outta luck

I've got a dimention 5100 ... radion x600<<<gay
3.00ghz cpu

2x 512 memory jobbies and 250g HD and 320g ext hd

seems to work fine... got it 2 years ago for £565 (x2 for dollars)

well the hard drive is definitly dying...

what shit lol, spent days copying all the files BACK over to it after reformatting it..

now its acting up again.. takes 4 or 5 bootups till it even gets recognized.. it randomly stops working after I finally get the damn thing to even work at all... and when it does work.. reading or writing to it.. it will slow down.. stutter a few times.. and then work fine for a minute before stuttering again.. its especially noticable running music, or video files .. or playing games.. then the same files are totally smooth when running them off the other drive..

ran chkdsk overnight (took forever.. idk.. it ran for about 5 or 6 hours before i went to bed and it was only 33% on step 4, and it was 20% about 3 or 4 hours earliar lol) and it found a ton of problems.. and of course its attempt at fixing the problems is just deleting the data in those sectors and telling me that not only do the errors still exist, but that it has also deleted some of my files..

so i bought a 500gb drive today..

only problem is its a SATA drive and my pc needs IDE or whatever.. and of course not a single store around here has any adaptors in stock.. so i had to order one online.. which means i wont be able to do anything for like a week probably..

so ya.. since i enjoyed not being around last weekend... im gonna do it for another week or two.. at least...