How KICK-ASS is your computer?

[tiger88]

Do you have multiple hard drives in your machine? Maybe the other drive has a loose cable and isn't being picked up.

If you just have the one drive and your files are simply gone then first thought is that someone has hacked you, taken what they wanted and trashed the rest. Take a look in your recycle bin just in case you accidentally dropped them in there yourself.

Another possibility is that you've accidentally moved the whole folder to somewhere unexpected (easily done with Explorer). Do a file search for mp3 or jpg or whatever is appropriate for your missing files.

first off thanks for the help

1. i believe its a single hard drive.... gateway 1450

2. hacked? hope not ..not in the recycle bin... i had some word docs and pics in there but they are gone now rec bin got cleaned up

3. i dunno man.... i wnt to "search" and typed in some songs and pic names but no luck as of now

 

[Mr. dB]

Or he hosed his FAT16 file structure in the process of the hard power cycle. Run scandisk.exe and see if it finds any damaged or interleaved files, and let it repair them.

 

[tiger88]

so i just did a search for "jpeg" and some things came up.... like a frw pics that i had.. not the around 75 i had in my folders though..so i dont think the stuff is gone

 

[Deterass]

P3 with a gig of ram and a bad ass video card

 

[tiger88]

Or he hosed his FAT16 file structure in the process of the hard power cycle. Run scandisk.exe and see if it finds any damaged or interleaved files, and let it repair them.

i think it could be the hard drve power cycle thing...

it was froze so i used the power button.... to off it

then on'd it by the power button then offed it again since it froze again..then on'd it on again and its all gone..

even my background went away was a different pic now its a gateway default pic
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my music and my pics

 

[ziggyziggy]

I like my Mac. According to this guy, Macs rule.......

"I'd cut my own nuts off before I would use a PC. God knows I don't use them anyway."

Zig

 

[gonelifting]

I'm actually looking at dell for a new PC for some time in the future.

This is my current set up. Can't believe it's still working on Windows 98.
400mhz P2 100 FSBus
128m ram
10g HD

I added 1 or 2 128`s to the ram at a later date. Not sure how many. Bought it in 1997? roughly (don't start calling me out on that asscollectors). for about $3500 with a 19 inch monitor and a few programs etc...

One question.. What's the difference between a Intel P4 or M processor? Which is better to go with?

I've been looking at P4 or PM 3ghz 2gRamm 19 inch montior 256 video card, 160 HD ... roughly $1500.

Pentium M or p4? and what the hell is Dual core blah blah...

 

[pintoca]

WTF?? It is PLAIN WRONG to have a computer thread and not PM me about it, you mofos!!!



Anyway,

I built our home system:

- AMD (yeah, fugg Intel) Athlon 2800+, 2,25 GHz, 333 FSB
- 1 Gb RAM
- 2x80 GB 7200 S-ATA HD for Operating System, in Mirror Configuration (Raid 0)
- 2 x 200 Gb 7200 s-ATA HD for DATA, non stripping (I hate losing data to that, and don't feel like making a RAID 5 array home and losing 1 drive)
- Radeon 9700+ (DirectX9, HW compliant, 128Mb)
- Gb Ethernet
- 16X Multimode DVD writer (one need space for all the stuff in those 400Gb)
- 6 fans, temperature controlled, inside the case, negative pressure system (considered a water cooled system, but at the time it was too much hassle)
- Creative Audigy Player (5.1 sound)

I then did some modding to the case, here are the results

 

[Buddy_Christ]

2.4ghz in both the laptop and the PC.

PC has a decent video card (although probably not a good gaming card) and 512mb ram.

Laptop has about as good of video as you'd expect out of a Dell and 256mb ram. The picture quality is actually pretty good though, and video plays nicely. Sucks that I can't get the resolution over 1024x768, but the 15" display impressed me for such a cheap laptop.

 

[ziggyziggy]

Nice system! But I think I will stick with my powerbook.

Zig