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[Nicholas Steel]

Windows XP, Vista and 7 32bit as well as 64bit all officially support up to 2 terabytes. Greater then 2 terabyte capacities require unofficial support provided through the Motherboard/BIOS. (I forget if Windows 9x had an artificial limit of less then 2 terabytes and I'm unsure if they decided on a new official Standard for greater capacities yet)

The easiest way to backup stuff in this situation is to get an external hard drive and connect it to the PC, somehow acquire a copy of a Linux Live disc of a distribution that supports NTFS formatted partitions and boot off the disc. You will be in a Linux operating system that runs 100% in RAM and does not touch the hard drive at all allowing you access to functionality that you otherwise couldn't access like a web browser, hard disk recovery software etc. Simply copy stuff from the broken HDD to the external.

Edited by franpa, 03 October 2011 - 08:54 AM.

[Old-Skool]

aahh franpa, five steps behind again. I repeat, partition made. no backup necessary


When I turned my machine on today I was annoyed to discover it didnt automatically boot into windows. how do I change that?

Edited by King Aquamentus, 03 October 2011 - 07:29 PM.

[Ventus]

Hey Old-skool
Let me ask how did everything go
Did you get all the drivers installed alright?

EDIT: what do you mean By that
Do you mean its telling you pick a thing to start up
Then it has a count down?

I know how to change the Start up Options
If you need help i can help you with this

Edited by Ventus, 03 October 2011 - 07:27 PM.

[Old-Skool]

yes i'd like it to boot into windows automatica-why am I using my 3ds still

[Ventus]

yes i'd like it to boot into windows automatica-why am I using my 3ds still

Okay! Can you turn your computer on?
And start windows up?

After you start windows up

On your desktop. Look for your "My computer" icon

Right click it and go to properties
And then System properties opens
You should see 7 tabs

Now Click The "Advance" tab

You'll see Three things
1.Performace

2.User profils

3.Start up and recovery <click this one


You'll see a window open up with some options

Now look for a option Called "Time to display list of Operating systems"
Theres a check box next to it
Click it off

Then Click OK

After that Restart and see if windows will start up automatically

Hope that'll help

[Old-Skool]

Actually I'm on my computer right now. This is my first post with it.

I'll try that. thanks.

Edited by King Aquamentus, 03 October 2011 - 07:50 PM.

[Ventus]

All righty Hope that helps you

[Old-Skool]

I'd not worry so much about drivers for tonight. I've got flash and java installed on here so far, as well as my <3 Firefox w/ noscript and adblock. may need to reinstall the graphics card driver, though that hasn't really been a nuisance (aside possibly from causing issues opening up windowed Zquest. But just Windowed.)

[Ventus]

I'd not worry so much about drivers for tonight. I've got flash and java installed on here so far, as well as my <3 Firefox w/ noscript and adblock. may need to reinstall the graphics card driver, though that hasn't really been a nuisance (aside possibly from causing issues opening up windowed Zquest. But just Windowed.)

Yeah you need to Reinstall That graphics driver when you get a chance

And may i ask is windows Starting automatically now?
after messing with the settings

[Old-Skool]

yes, but now I've installed SP2 and my wireless adapter isn't getting a signal from the very wireless network I'm on right now, right next to the computer! AAAAAAAA

There is like one network in range of it, encrypted, and it isn't mine.

EDIT: now it is up. apparently a very coincidental downtime...?

Edited by King Aquamentus, 04 October 2011 - 07:36 PM.

[Ventus]

Yeah it must've been Downtime so Thats good to hear the computer is running again

And you only have Service pack 2?
You know they have Service pack 3 out right

[sigtau]

Service Pack 3 is known to have some issues with newer hardware (even though half the reason it was released in the first place was to negate those issues, among other things).

With the old drive intact, have you been able to recover anything?

[Ventus]

@Sigtau: I believe his data is still there
He said Here that the data on the other drive was still intact
And also I've never Had any issues with Sp 3 at all with hard ware
Wonder why i've never had any issues with sp3?

actually... you know how in disney movies it always looks like one of the good guys died at the end but then he turns out alright?

all the data on that drive is intact.

See he said the data was still intact
So thats Really good

[Old-Skool]

SP2 comes before SP3. It is recommended to run through processes for both of them.

[Ventus]

@Old-skool: Oh it is Hm...Thats a first time I heard that:lol: