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post #21 of 29
12/17/09 at 5:20pm
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wonder if its a loose connection....never taken a laptop apart b4.....I could do with a faster internal drive 7200RPM anyway....this ones only a 5400
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post #22 of 29
12/17/09 at 5:22pm
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you heard of Salvation HDD Scan & repair V3.0
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post #23 of 29
12/17/09 at 5:26pm
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Just doin a salvation Scan see what that comes up with, its gonna take a while, in the meantime....I'm starvin PIZZA

cheers for ure help bro
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post #24 of 29
12/17/09 at 5:28pm
Pizza? Now I am hungry. Enjoy the break, save the heartburn for later

cheers ...
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post #25 of 29
12/17/09 at 10:36pm
have you tried running a test on the hard drive in the bios? :/
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post #26 of 29
12/18/09 at 6:34am
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have you tried running a test on the hard drive in the bios? :/

yep have done 2 tests so far SeaTools couldn't find any drive even tho the drive is a Seagate Momentus.

Salvation scanned the drive without any probs

I wiped the drive overnight using Dariks Nuke and Boot

and now I'm trying to install XP Pro SP3,

its at 88% (formatting) and looking good so far, in fact its now I think installing the OS come on!!!!

But drive is maybe suspect so we'll see what happens if the install is successful

cheers guys
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post #27 of 29
12/18/09 at 7:46am
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Excellent....Nice Clean XP Pro SP3 installed

seems Nuke and Boot did the trick

working sweet

need to format the other partition now

then install all my Acer drivers

Anybody recommend a good reliable Anti Mal Virus Trojan software ?? had AVG on the last Sys and it was poo IMHO
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post #28 of 29
12/18/09 at 10:37am
Use free avast. You just have to re-register every 14 months but its very good (AV)
As for spyware etc Malwarebytes is free and also very good. Just make sure you update it after installing and everytime before using it.
Another good one that works in the background and very inobtrusive and stops crap from loading is SpywareBlaster. Update it and get the new signatures every few days. I use all three and they complement each other very well. Have never been bothered by any nasties
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post #29 of 29
12/18/09 at 12:13pm
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Originally Posted by saugen48 View Post
Use free avast. You just have to re-register every 14 months but its very good (AV)
As for spyware etc Malwarebytes is free and also very good. Just make sure you update it after installing and everytime before using it.
Another good one that works in the background and very inobtrusive and stops crap from loading is SpywareBlaster. Update it and get the new signatures every few days. I use all three and they complement each other very well. Have never been bothered by any nasties
Nice One Saugen just what I needed to know

cheers
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