Posted by DAN on September 01, 19101 at 00:03:41:
In Reply to: Re: DAN : Damaged C Drive... posted by cornmeal2 on August 31, 19101 at 07:58:33:
TRY LOOKING AT www.pricewatch.com FOR BEST PRICES,,
IT DEPENDS AN WHAT YOU WILL USE IT FOR
AS TO HOW MUCH YOU WONT TO SPEND,,A BASIC COMPTER
WITH 17 INCH MONITOR,,20 GIG HARD DRIVE ,,32 MEG
COLOR CARD AND SOUND BLASTER SOUND WITH 50 SPEED CD AND 128 MEG RAM AND 56 K MODEM CAN BE HAD
FOR UNDER $800,,IF YOU WONT THE BEST, I'D GET A
FRIEND IN THE KNOW AND SELECT THE INDIVIDUAL PARTS
SUCH AS INTEL BOARD AND INTEL CPU 1.6 GIG OR SO AND 64 MEG COLOR CARD AND 52 X ACER CD AND 12 X ACER BURNER AND A NON WIN MODEM AND 256 MEG RAM
AND A 40 GIG OR SO ATA 100 WESTERN DIGITAL HARD DRIVE AND PUT IT TOGETHER YOUR SELF,,ONE OF THE CAN BE PUT TOGETHER IN ABOUT 30 TO 45 MINUTES,,
INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE WILL TAKE MOORE TIME
LOOK AT THE PRICES IN www.pricewatch.com
DAN
: Thanks Dan... I now see that I will have to get a totally new computer cause to replace my hard drive in such a small machine is not all that cost effective for what i COULD get out of a new machine. Any recommendations? :-)
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: : THEY ALL GO BAD WITH AGE,,THATS THE DAMAGE IT'S REFERING TO,,I WOULD GET OFF WHAT I COULD AND REPLACE IT,,
: : DAN
: : : Please tell me how my hard drive could possibly have gotten damaged. I have damaged sectors, and when I run Scan Disk it can not fix the drive due to a data error encountered while reading the FAT drive. (Whatever THAT means!! I just copied it down from my error message.) Scan Disk will not fix it and the damaged cluster is "being used by the \JAVA\PACKAGES\OJTRVBON.ZIP file" (Again, whatever THAT is?!?!?) It finally stated that "one area of Drive C has sustained physical damages, and although might be caused by an isolated incident, it is often a sign of impending hardware failure". It told me to backup my files ASAP (which I tried to do but could save only my small personal files), and is now running scan disk each and every time I turn on my machine with the same 'can't fix it' results! Please help me. Thank you. cornmeal2