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seanb64: He knows what you are say. What Gavion0 means is this: Re-partitioning your harddrive is OS independant. Because of this, you can use whatever tool you want, be that a DOS based FDISK or a Linux based PartEd. Becuase you are booting off of a boot disk, the OS on it does not matter. Say I boot off of an Slackware boot disk. I load up PartEd (or whatever it uses for partitioning) and create a new NTFS partition. Then you can pop out the Linux boot disk and boot to normal Windows as you normally do.

Looks soooo much better than before, especially the frontpage (I hated the frontpage with a passion). Great work Bob! :)

Gotcha. Glad everything is ok. On IRC, we all feared there was a bad storm, and didn't want some lightning to blast away at your servers.

Having some server trouble Bob? The IRC server has been dieing all day. I'm not complaining (dont really care), just want to make sure its not dieing and you didnt know about it :)

Yes, my chipset is a VIA. I'm thinking its either my motherboard, or my OS (Win2k prof). I am considering doing a reinstall of Win2K soon. See, the RMA drive that I got doesnt work either. I put it in, and within the next day or so I was getting Delayed write failures out the wazoo. Then I started BSODing. I've been busy, so havent had time to work on it. I just pulled the power plug and the IDE cable, and left it sitting in my case. Gonna try some stuff this weekend. Firstly, I have an old CD-Rom drive I'm taking out (have a burner in addition to it, so dont really need it). Then I'm going to put each harddrive on one IDE chain, the CD on the other. If that doesnt work, I'm going to give each HDD its own chain, and put the CD on the 'good' HDD chain. In addition to that, I'm going to boot into DOS from a floppy and do a low level format on the drive. I've always had problems doing formats from Windows, they never seem to go quite right (even when using PartitionMagic). WIsh me luck :)

You could try this link: http://homepage.mac.com/dgiessel/PhotoAlbum5.html Never tried, might/might not work. I've heard this is the 'standard' way of removing GPU HSF though

You might want to look into online cafe software. Alot of these boot you from the system after x amount of time. Not sure if that would work for you though, as they may need to be connected to a network.

Could always try a Linux breed too, as most can be run on old computers quite well.

Nah, dont worry about it. Mine does that, and is just fine. Its because of the voltage going through it. This can also occur when the power is on, but the computer is not (monitor is getting power but no signal). This causes it to squeal as well. All monitors emit some kind of hum or squeal, but is generally unnoticeable. Some are louder than others (like my monitor im on right now), and people with good hearing can pick it up easier. Usually, its not a problem. But it could be a sign that your monitor is on the way out.

Also, get Spybot: Search and Destroy. Free spyware detection program.

Well, its pretty safe to say it was the old drive (notice the was) :) I was working friday night when the drive (admist a flurry of errors) *turned* off. Yup, just turned off, then back on. I killed power, and left the thing sitting till today. I went out and got a 80gb Samsung drive for fairly cheap, as I cant wait for the RMA to show up (sched. for wed.). Too much to do. Cloning the drive was a headache. Norton Ghost would not clone it because of bad sectors. I did yet another thorough drive scan (taking up easily a hour and a half), finding a ton of bad sectors and clusters. Aftwards, Ghost let me clone, which took 40 minutes. And now here I am! Working perfectly!

Chkdsk didnt show anything unusal (fixed bad sectors each time, but didnt seem to fix anything). Defragged for the heck of it, didnt help. Disabled write-caching, didnt help. Fiddled with registry options, didnt help. Disabled the VMWare computer running, didnt help. Re-wired the drive so that it was on its own molex cable. Swapped out the IDE cable for a brand new one. Made sure it was seated properly in the slots. SMART check on the disk says its fine. Nothing worked so far. I had a very very mild FSB overclock. I brought it down to normal. Also brought down any memory overclocking as well. I've read and worked through every article on the net about this error. None seem to have worked. It only happens when I move about large amounts of data (such as downloading an ISO file). Everyone I've talked to has said that this happened to them right before their drive died. If the OC doesnt fix it, and no one else ha any ideas, I'm going to request a RMA, my warranty is still good. Which is unfortunate. Its a fairly new drive, as far as hard drives go.

I need help, and fast. This has happened to me only once before, and I have no idea how I fixed it. I seem to have problems with my disk subsystem, or networking, or the OS in general. I get two different errors under the Event Viewer: and I get many Disk errors, and then on or two Ftdisk errors everyonce in a while. Its not serious right now, but last time it happened, it got serious very fast. I'm running it through a battery of analysis tests. Ill let you know if the HDD analysis boot disk shows anything, and if Chkdsk shows anything either. Thanks, appreciate the help EDIT: BTW, Im not running any raids or SCSI drives.

I can see your finger. :( Its kinda blurry, but it looks nice. I like the one we have now, personally though.

*GavioO gets mass suck-up points* :) I'll get back to my mass news posting once my net is stable again.