Hardware & Devices

Yes, you need a router. Trinity: Neo... nobody has ever done this before. Neo: That's why it's going to work.

First: You need to start your recovery as soon as you realize that you made a mistake. Do not, under any circumstances, create new files, because they might get assigned sectors that contain your previous data. The best way: do a complete backup of your HDD using a Boot-CD (like UBCD or Knoppix). Place that image on the network. Keep working with that Boot-CD. Do NOT reinstall Windows or anything. First things first: Use recovery software to try and restore the Partition- and File-Tables. If they have been overwritten, the software might be able to "guess" some of the information. You need to restore the exact same partition table. After restoring the file tables, you might have (nor not have) regained your data. If you do not see your data, the file-table might mark the files as deleted. Try any undelete-tool. This is, by no means, a complete how-to, but it might help you find some starting points. If you deem this to complicated, you can always hire a data recovery company. They do this kind of stuff all the time, and usually VERY welll, but their services are quite expensive. The last quote I saw was for an overnight recovery of an 40 GB HDD and the price was around 10.000 EUR. Also, if you have accidentally overwritten any of the data that you now want to recover, all bets are off. Recovery companies might be able to use their special equipment to measure "magnetic leftovers" and restore portions of overwritten data, but there is no surefire way of recovering overwritten files. That, again, is even more expensive (six figures). Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.

Sebastian Schneider wrote: Try Smartfan (I think) or another fan-tool. Amazing! Thanx that was exactly what he was referring to. I'l give it a go first then try tweaking with the wiring. Much thanx for the reply!:-D Aim small, miss small

Thanks, but at me other situation. I have cash terminal with the modem (Siemens M35i) and OS WinXP. In it there are three network connections, and depending on a sim-card the necessary connection gets out. Connection to be made through RAS, therefore I cannot send a AT-command

Depends. If you are lucky, its just "COM1" and you use it like you would use any serial port. For USB-Ir-Devices: sorry, no idea. Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.

A few years back, PC hardware suppliers stocked housings which you fitted into a 5.25 inch slot and connected to a motherboard IDE connector and to a hard-drive power supply cable. They had a removable tray which took a normal 3.5 inch IDE drive. Sometimes they had a small fan, other times they just let the hard drive overheat. Very useful for large backups (cheaper than a tape drive, etc.) The hard drive was not hot swappable, since it used the normal IDE interface.

Unfortunately that didn't help. Thanks anyway :) Paul Where are you?[^] How much time is left?[^]

The Optiplex GX620 isn't "protected" against adding a larger drive, as I've seen a 750GB drive and a second 160GB added into one, although of course, there were additional cables required, since the chassis only has power cables supplied to the first and second drives, so an extra power cable and 2 data cables were needed. Now if only they'd let me borrow the 750GB drive :) ... Steve S Developer for hire

Measuring CPU is easier than measuring ram. You create an algorithm without heavy memory access and a loop calling it. now you can either set a constant loop count and measure the time to execute, or you create a multithreaded application and interrupt the loop after a fixed timeout. RAM is more difficult, as you need to access it using CPU instructions... That means, that the score will strongly depend on the kind of algorithm you use to measure the performance! I'd suggest using SSE instructions, since you can bypass the CPU cache that way. MOVNTQ for example. Most benchmarks I've seen use a linear scale to measure both CPU and RAM. But that also depends on how to evaluate the score with you application. Don't try it, just do it! ;-)

For most projects that's overkill, but if you're compiling a big project or hosting a large local DB you can never have too much hardware. Opterons are the high end server/workstation version of the Athlon64, they're x86-64 chips. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

GetVolumeInformation is the API you need. If it's a memory stick, odds are good it will be FAT of some kind. Steve S Developer for hire

ok fixed, just disabled a stupid firewall "no need to name it!" Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight! (\ /) (O.o) (><)

Plug the thing into the machine, wait for the drive latter to show up in My Computer. Right-click it and pick Format. You have your choice of NTFS and FAT32 on an XP box. Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP - Visual Basic

Acronis Disk Director Suite and Acronis True Image have a cloning product that I use frequently to do just what you are asking. You can even make an image using Acronis True Image and restore it onto a larger drive. It's very easy to do. Will take about 1 minute to set up and it will run for 10 to 30 minutes depending on the size of the image and the speed of the system. My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered process, husband to a murdered thread. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next. - Gladiator I work to live. I do not live to work. My clients do not seem capable of grasping this fact.

hey u know .... problem has been automatically fixed....:-D but i would like to let u know..that i tried continious pinging 4.2.2.2 , and the responce was 2 reply...:)2 lost...:(2 reply...:)2 lost....:(and so on...i tried for 40 responces and it was all same...:doh: i went out for couple of days....when i came back...every thing running fine..... but i m still not able to understand this DA VINCY CODE...will do some reserch on it... hope will find the exact reason.....:-> thanks for yr co-operation ..... :rose: RST

My guess is the DHCP server on the router is still enabled and is telling the clients that it's the default gateway onto the internet. Which is to say the LAN IP of the wireless router is being set by it's DHCP server as the DEFAULT GATEWAY to DHCP clients. This isn't true. The default gateway should be the LAN IP of your DSL/Cable modem. Tell me the LAN IP of your wireless router then do an IPCONFIG /ALL on one of the affected machines. Please note if you are cable connecting your LAN into the WAN port of the router and your LAN and the wireless router are on the same subnet your dead in the water. If your LAN from the ISP is 192.168.0.X and your wireless routers LAN is 192.168.0.X nothing will work for the wireless LAN side. They need to be in different subnets. 192.168.1.X as an example.

I've done that too with Partition Commander. This particular drive has about 50 gig of stuff on it, so ghosting it would be best - copy it and expand it into the new one. But, like I said before, I haven't been able to get it to work with the two drives I have tried. I guess if it would work in another machine, I should at least replace the IDE cable since I have a couple of spares.

Try reading through some of my articles and see if you can discern the problem after reading the TCP/IP Networking one. http://www.codeproject.com/script/articles/list_articles.asp?userid=440521[^]

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