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I fixed the entire problem, and my system runs faster than ever before thanks to the SSD. For others with similar problems in the future: 1. I ran SpinRite (GRC*|*Hard drive data recovery software**) on the original drive for over 12 hours, and even though it got through less than 0.05% of the...

I have had a great deal of luck with the free, open source program Photorec (link: PhotoRec - CGSecurity). If you specify it to use only free space, it should run relatively quickly unless you have a huge harddrive. Keep in mind that the longer you use your system, the less chance there is that...

Background: After having two HD failures with my (new as of the end of the summer) Dell Latitude E6410 over the course of several months, I decided to go the SSD route. The data from my second drive is backed up, but I had many large applications installed that I will need to use in about two...

I have spent the last week setting up a "fakeRAID" RAID1 array using the BIOS settings of my GA-P35-DS4 Motherboard. I have Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit and Vista Ultimate 64 bit installed. Every time I shut down the machine properly and start it up again, my second HD is designated as "offline" and my...

Exactly - I couldn't remember what it was called, thanks. That pointed me in the right direction: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20430373-Wired-using-a-BEFW11S4-as-a-switch http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/r22835997-Wired-BEFW11S4-as-Wired-Switch-only I connected Router1-Ethernet1 to...

Update: Ubuntu boots again - think it was the existence/nonexistence of the third HD that caused that problem (I removed it). However, I added the IDE drive again, and the system does not boot when there is a disk in the drive.

Update: Ubuntu still does not boot, and I got the error message again: continuous short beeps = power error. Does this mean that my PSU is completely broken, or could there also be a power wire dangling against something it shouldn't? I'm going to sort through my PSU cables now.

Update: Ubuntu just failed to boot, dropping me to a shell prompt (though it did boot fine, twice, a few minutes ago). I'm taking out the IDE drive and hope that everything will return to normal.

This is getting stranger and stranger. CalcProgrammer1, I had everything in BIOS set correctly. I was correct in assuming that the existence of an additional drive was important - the jumper settings were set as "cable select," and they needed to be "master". Anyway, the IDE drive is able to...

Before you do any more advanced troubleshooting, check that the "speaker" cable is properly connected to your motherboard. I built a system 3-4 years ago and never had a startup beep because the speakers built into the case were not connected until two days ago, when I decided to clean the dust...

Update: I switched all the BIOS settings over to SATA from IDE emulation mode, and SpinRite still recognized my disks. This is still booting from FDD, though, so my original problem is not resolved. Has anyone else had problems where perfectly fine system disks were unable to run on their...

Try putting the RAM and HD from the new computer in the similar computer and see if that one boots up fine. I've never had a motherboard, fan, or processor fail on me yet, but you could try disabling fan-monitoring features in the BIOS so that your Windows install is unaware of the problem with...

I'm not sure exactly what you mean (as I said, new to networking). Each router has five ethernet ports: Router1: Internet, Ethernet1, Ethernet2, Ethernet3, Ethernet4 Router2: Internet, Ethernet1, Ethernet2, Ethernet3, Ethernet4 In my test, I connected Router1-Internet to the modem and...

To my knowledge, it is impossible to recover data from a storage device that is unrecognizable. I would try cleaning the contacts of the card. Are they scratched or dusty? Are your computer and camera able to recognize other memory cards? I have a card that is no longer recognized by my DSLR...

I am using the newest version of SpinRite (6.0) and can get it to run from a DOS prompt by typing "spinrite" or "spinrite.exe" when the executable is in the active directory. In response to your question: http://www.grc.com/sr/faq.htm: "SpinRite provides complete interaction with IDE-interface...