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Im not here to promote any software over another, but i would just like to say that File Scavenger is the best deleted partition/file recovery tool out there. I say so because when i put in a 120gb drive to replace my defunct 60gb drive i accidentally overwrote one of my partitions. So here I am like ARGG!!!! Because i had already written to the partition and resized it and all that stuff. So im looking around, i try a lot of different programs, from Easy Recovery 6 to Fast File Undelete. Easy Recovery 6 is by far the biggest waste of time and money in a program. So i happen across File Scavenger and read some of the testimonials and am like what the hell so i run it and VOILA, I regained over 30 GB of data that i thought was gone forever. As i said before Im not trying to promote the program i just want to say that if anyone else ever gets in a bind to get this program. A single user liscense is only $40USD, so it is a damn good trade off for anyone that has ever been in the situation i just described.

I guess its kind of a moot point come next round of imaging programs since they are both owned by Symantec now. Anyway Im trying to find out what is better, Ghost or Drive Image 7? I have been a long time user of Drive Image but The Virtual Recovery Environment with 7 just takes FOREVER to load up. I don't want to have to wait 40 minutes to be able to restore an image, if I did then I would just reinstall the OS Anyway which program would you IT pro's recommend for a home product Drive Image 7 or Ghost 2003?

trying to figure out why Im getting the error "450 Cannot open file for reading", Im using FlashFXP to connect to the FTP and have not had a problem before getting anything off this drive/FTP. Any clues?

just got a new vid card and am trying to sell this one. If you live in the US I will pay shipping and the cost is $160 (open to adjustment within a few dollars). If you live in Canada the price is $150USD but you pay shipping. Post here or PM me if interested. All Instant messaging services listed in my profile are correct aswell if you want to contact me that way.

sold the card. Sorry for not up[censored] earlier.

I have a 120gb Maxtor drive and recently after a CD burn failed I checked the drive for bad sectors. Upon chkdsk completion the log displayed about 17mb in bad sectors. The other volumes are not displaying any bad sectors (yet). The price of HDs is not that much so it would not be a big hit to the wallet to replace it. Im just wondering if it would be wise to do it. I know as drives get worn they get more and more bad sectors, and the drive has a lot of reading/writing done to it. So questions: 1. Is 17mb a lot of bad sectors? 2. Should I replace the drive? 3. What can I do to prevent more bad sectors?

Personally I like WinRAR because I download a lot more things that come in .RAR format than .zip format ( i do a lot of newsgroup downloading), I also like the way WinRAR works compared to WinZIP because Winzip you need external programs if you run into a non-recognized format. So WinRAR for me because it supports: .zip .rar .gz .tar .ISO .CAB .ACE

there is somthing that is defunct in your startup keys. This happens when you have a defunct program in there. I use Start Right from http://jackass.arsware.org/ this is a good program for managing your startup stuff and it will load them one at a time instead of everything at once like windows does by default.

On some of the computers at a network I manage use NAV 2002. The problem with this is that it won't update virus defs, it won't run scans, it is pretty much useless unless im logged on as admin. Well I can only get there about once a week if that so I need an A/V program that will continue doing its job even when nobody is on. Here is what im looking for: 1. Not too big of a resource hog, these are not "top of the line" computers 2. HAS to play nice with multiple users even when nobody is logged on 3. All the standard A/V features (e-mail scanning, on access scanning, you know the basics) Any ideas?

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ive always been meaning to try symantec corp. Ive kinda shied away from it because i thought it always had to be deployed from a central server.

this is odd but it seems there are times when the game i play if I play it at high priority then it seems that my cable modem will sit there for like 30-45 seconds sometimes with the downstream light doing nothing and the upstream sits there and blinks. After that time everything is fine, then 10-15 minutes later it happens again. The game doesnt do this when i run it in normal mode. I would like to be able to run the game in high but if my modem keeps dropping packets then im not going to be able to

I have a game that uses a launcher to load it and I was wondering if there was a way to set the priority of the program the launcher loads to high without having to alt-tab out and do it every time i load the game. I tried fooling with wintasks but can't get it to set the process to anything but RealTime. Any other ideas?

i found a cool work around. A command line program called process.exe will change the priority class of the program. All I had to do then was just set up a batch file calling process.exe to raise the priority of planetside.exe to high. The problem is that 2 different EXEs launch the game. There is the launchpad which is its own app, then that calls Planetside.exe so even if i launched launchpad at high planetside would still run normal. So I made a batch file and put in "process /high planetside.exe" and set it to the key combo ctl-alt-h so now when Im in game all I have to do is hit clt-alt-h and the priority raises to high from normal. Then to bring is back down again I just hit clt-shit-n and it brings it back down to normal.

thx for the replies. No its not system shock 2 its Planetside. Also this tool sets the processor affinity. Im not looking to run on one processor Im looking to run it at High Priority all the time.

I have no problems with Sygate PF Pro running on my XP computer, I set the settings manually on the Windows Boxes i have used and have no problems. Windows XP Second NIC: IP: 192.168.0.1 Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Workgroup: Workgroup Windows ME Primary IP: 192.168.0.2 DNS: ISPs DNS address from running wntipcfg in Windows XP Subnet: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Workgroup: Workgroup Doing that setup I have no problems sharing the ISP.

you might want to also look at a wireless solution if your having problems getting CAT5 cable to parts of your house.

i use Avast! A/V and havent had any probs with it. I hanvet tried the new AVG yet though...

I use Nero for data and audio and A120% for emulation and image burning.

I tried NIS 2002 but had to ditch it because i ended up having to reinstall it every 4 days, so I won't try a new NIS for a while. Though now that i have 2 boxes I might think about looking into NAV corporate. As for firewalls, I use Sygate PF, its awesome.

resizing extended partitions is easy. If you dont boot of the drive format the whole drive to be an extended partition. That way you can resize the drive quite easily and quick. Some Simple rules on Partitions: If you boot off the drive set it was Primary If you do not need to boot off the drive set it as extended (dynamic). The difference between Primary and Extended partitions: A Primary partition is only one partition. Where and extended partition is a petition inside a petition. Your drive will format that partion once and then it will make up the petitions inside the petition. This makes it 400x easier to resize partitions. The reason is that since the partion is already partitioned once and free space in the Extended partition can be made into a new parition quite easily. Where if its a primary partion the partition must be destroyed then recreated to make a new one.

try running Fdisk /mbr or in the recovery console type FixMBR It sounds like the MBR on the disk needs to be rewritten. I had this happen to me after resoring a disk image to a new hard drive. It wouldnt boot into windows it would get to the login screen and never past that.

everytime i try to access a file explorer crashes out. The file will rename and move fine from a command prompt just that explorer crashes whenever i highlight the file.

i fixed it by removing the show common tasks in folder view. It seems WMP doesnt like the AVI file but it still plays so hell with WMP!!

I dont think im going to get Halo PC, too many other games coming out now, HL2, Doom 3, Planetside: Core Combat, Max Payne 2, Breed It looks good and all but its been too long in coming and anything from MS and Gearbox, 2 companies i despise, i will not be purchasing this game.