Pre Veteran Thread (2012) - Everybody is Welcome !

[Meggers]

Hi Meggers.

You would think that Popeye and the bunch would've wisened up to Wimpy after a while. They weren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

No they were not. Well...look at who Popeye dated! Olive! There wasn't much to her. Way too skinny!

 

[FranC]

LOL Meggers............

 

[tiburonfirst]

later, whis!

have none of you guys looked at GRC | Gibson Research Corporation Home Page   or is familiar with the program? we gotta have some computer people here!

 

[LostVapeMonster]

Hi Frannie-fran-fran. How's it going?

 

[AttyPops]

I looked at it Tibby. Depends on the nature of the failure. Like all things it seems, there's exceptions (and a wiki... SpinRite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

However, if a hard drive's circuit board, drive motors or other mechanical parts are defective, or there is systemic file system corruption, SpinRite may be of little or no help.[3]

So a mechanical failure (drive spindle/bearing failing) it won't help. It will try real hard though. May be worth it. However, it isn't free. There's public domain stuff to do the same thing freely (maybe as well?). Per the wiki:

Though there are many commercial and freeware file recovery programs available, besides SpinRite only the HDD Regenerator offers direct hardware-level access to the disk, while others are more suitable for recovery of deleted and corrupted files and formatted drives. Some are intended to recover only accidentally deleted files (e.g., FreeUndelete). Others will recover files of certain types, using knowledge of the file structure (e.g., GetData's Recover My Files).

 

[LostVapeMonster]

Never could understand all that fighting between Popeye and Brutus(?) about that twig on legs.

No they were not. Well...look at who Popeye dated! Olive! There wasn't much to her. Way too skinny!

 

[LostVapeMonster]

 

[Wabbeln]

later, whis!

or is familiar with the program? we gotta have some computer people here!

Hey Tibs, PM me with what's going on. I may be able to help. Or I can message you my number and try to see what the best option would be.

 

[LostVapeMonster]

Puttin up some pics for ManuDawg. Love Minpins. So cute.

 

[tiburonfirst]

I looked at it Tibby. Depends on the nature of the failure. Like all things it seems, there's exceptions (and a wiki... SpinRite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)



So a mechanical failure (drive spindle/bearing failing) it won't help. It will try real hard though. May be worth it. However, it isn't free. There's public domain stuff to do the same thing freely (maybe as well?). Per the wiki:

they've been in business since 1988 which says a lot ....... they also will refund if it does not work. my problem - you need to burn a boot cd - my burner is in the failing lap top ...... sigh
and all the people i know come to me for help and don't know a thing about their computers that might help me ....

 

[tiburonfirst]

Hey Tibs, PM me with what's going on. I may be able to help. Or I can message you my number and try to see what the best option would be.

thanks, wabb! message away!

 

[AttyPops]

Hey Tibs, PM me with what's going on. I may be able to help. Or I can message you my number and try to see what the best option would be.

Well, if you do that... listen to the drive over the phone. Let us know if its a bearing or head squeal type of thing, huh?

 

[AttyPops]

Tibby... it's probably good software and a good company. It just depends on the exact problem as to if it can help.

I don't know what the exact problem is. Did you try to clone it with that software I mentioned? Did it work? It will try hard to read a sector too. Can use a USB flash drive to boot also.

Do you hear a high-pitched whine when the drive is spinning?

 

[FranC]

Good luck Tib.............

 

[tiburonfirst]

the lap top is not able to boot from a usb device - i checked the bios. i was able to finally get into the command prompt and ran chkdsk /f. no luck - same error messages pop up ........

 

[Meggers]

Should we be discussing tech stuff on this thread? ...

 

[tiburonfirst]

Good luck Tib.............

thanks, frannie! this time i'll need it!

 

[tiburonfirst]

Should we be discussing tech stuff on this thread? ...

what's so different to deer and bikes?????

 

[tiburonfirst]

Well, if you do that... listen to the drive over the phone. Let us know if its a bearing or head squeal type of thing, huh?

no noise in the drive - but the video fan is in overdrive ...... sigh

 

[AttyPops]

the lap top is not able to boot from a usb device - i checked the bios. i was able to finally get into the command prompt and ran chkdsk /f. no luck - same error messages pop up ........

You ran WHAT? Oh...no.....

lol.

Dinner. BB in a bit (fast as I can).