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Wait until after Aug if possiable some new CPU's/Dual CPU mobos over yond horizon! :)

What about USB soundcard/Speaker... I've never used one though myself but maybe you'd get better sound quality out of it. Mount it in a picture fram and use a picture screen saver for when it's not inuse. Man I need to remote up an entire house lol

Where's the BeOS, Lindows and OS2 warp... only kidding... what was warp 40 disks? LMAO

Arn't they all thus if you like and use a program... BUY it... that way the creator will add more too it or make more! and if you cannot afford then buy it when you can... oh how poor we (well I am) lol well probably rich when you compare how much this lot is probably costing the Hak.5 crew

I think regenerator only works on internal drives (aka last time I used it, it was internal only via boot disk as I recall - been a while) If I were you though I'd get a secondary system (something old ish) or remove your good drives from your PC when you try this stuff and plug the drive in internally 1) Because you don't know if the USB circuit is having a problem (or your drivers for such (unless your bios recognises USB to boot from) 2) The drive may have a power problem and well you want to minimise any loss here.

hmmm wonder if I can get away with this... ooo lookie a security search engine... http://astalavista.box.sk/

Probably best if you clone the drive sector for sector (I think Drive image will do that) then you have a copy you can play with - not sure how that will effect your data resoration of corrupt sectors with some programs though. Anyhoo don't just throw the drive when your done try this: http://www.dposoft.net/ - HDD Regenerator It uses the drive heads and basicly trys to remove the magneticly polarised cluster. Also you can just resize the partitions on the drive to leave the damaged sectors unused (that got me 2 more happy years use out of a drive once - dang IBM drives - Edit that and resoldering the power connector :roll: )