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PC help please
My computer went t!ts up big time and have now set up the laptop onto the net. Now I have a problem that if I log onto this site the “last 24 hours” button won’t show any results. Is this a setting fault on my puter (?) (?) (?) (?)
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Its the Forum Mike… you might have noticed blue buttons too!
The people behind the scenes are making changes to this placeWhat is the main computer issue Mike?
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Hard drive blew up! Tried to reformatt but there is a critical part of the start up sector thats got corrupted. Put in a new drive and am still busy trying to get everything up and running again. You don’t realise how much stuff you keep on computers untill they die on you. And yes I lost a lot of things that was not backed up (it’ll never happen to me syndrome) No work lost as I back that up immediatelly, but lost photos and stuff downloaded from the net.
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ah. glad you backed up. I had a feeling you was going to say something like this… also, if your on XP (legal copy), I suspect you had to ‘activate’ windows… but as the main harddrive is part of the activation-key, I guess you may have to talk to Microsoft…
I guess your using a new harddrive, a corrupt harddrive is a sign of failure or the FAT table went haywire. If it was FAT, then there is a few things you can do, but if the drive was ticking or being a pain, then it could have been sent off.
im off to bed
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Did you try Formatting MBR (master Boot Record) as a matter of interest?
Goop.
U can do it in DOS
You are allowed to change 6 items I think before you need to re activate your Key. -
Doing a surface scan can work sometimes, stops trying to use bad sectors on the HD
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My big bruvver is a puter engineer and sorts out my self inflicted problems, but this one was a gonner, so said a few choice words before sending him to hard drive heaven, AKA the dustbin. :lol1:
Thaks all for your input. :thumbup2:
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