Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-28, 04:17

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by ontrca

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1) do NOTHING with that drive, treat it READ ONLY 2) use a program like "Recuva" or "File Scavenger" and do a long search on your disk 3) you need an extra disk where you can park your restored files 4) you will probably lose some files, deal with it - the partitions don't have drive letters …

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Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-27, 09:26

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by ontrca

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First thing you should do now is to save the "project" file. Second thing to note is that the unregistered copy may have a file size limit to restore (like 64 kB). Yes, the DEMO has a file size limit, it's a really small size of 64k. I got the full version(Premium) :) And the first thing I did was …

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Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-27, 05:12

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by ontrca

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It's taking alot of time but everything seems to be going great at the moment 😀

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Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-26, 22:47

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by ontrca

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1) do NOTHING with that drive, treat it READ ONLY 2) use a program like "Recuva" or "File Scavenger" and do a long search on your disk 3) you need an extra disk where you can park your restored files 4) you will probably lose some files, deal with it - the partitions don't have drive letters …

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Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-26, 06:35

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by ontrca

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1) do NOTHING with that drive, treat it READ ONLY 2) use a program like "Recuva" or "File Scavenger" and do a long search on your disk 3) you need an extra disk where you can park your restored files 4) you will probably lose some files, deal with it - the partitions don't have drive letters …

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Re: May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 13:14

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by ontrca

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I've Googled quite a bit and I don't think there is a way to get my data back 🙁 And the drive was almost full too 🙁

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May I ask a question about hard disk partitions?

Posted on 2023-11-25, 10:27

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by ontrca

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I was messing around with a DOS program in Windows 11 and it partitioned one of my hard drives with random partitions. Is there any way to put my hard drive back together(delete the partitions) without losing my data/get my data back? I included a screen capture of Disk Management. (Disk 0, …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-10, 12:33

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by ontrca

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-11-08, 20:00: ontrca wrote on 2023-11-08, 19:36: An AT motherboard has two 9-pin serial port connections.., one can be used for a serial mouse.., what can I use the other one for? 😀 The other one could be disabled in the BIOS settings or used for doing a null modem connection. …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-08, 19:36

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by ontrca

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An AT motherboard has two 9-pin serial port connections.., one can be used for a serial mouse.., what can I use the other one for? 😀

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-08, 15:34

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by ontrca

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I have this NOS(new old stock) case also, it has an Amptron PM-8600A motherboard in it at the moment 😀 Can't decide if I want to put a different MB in it 😀

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-07, 07:20

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by ontrca

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I guess I'll start on a DFI 586ITBD :) It has 256mb ram at the moment. 166mhz CPU at the moment. But I'm gonna try the BIOS update that @Gmlb256 suggested :) I have an AMD-K6-2/400 :) That's a 430TX board, it only caches 64MB of memory. Having 4 times that would actually give you worse performance. …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-05, 19:46

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by ontrca

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-11-04, 13:52: ^ Yep, but that limitation can be mostly mitigated by installing a K6-III or K6plus (K6-2+ and K6-III+) CPUs due to them having on-die L2 cache. I only had an AMD-K6-2/400 that I put in it 😀

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-04, 05:08

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by ontrca

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2023-10-31, 02:29: Uniflash would probably work, so that's another option. Uniflash worked 😀 Thank You 😀

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-11-01, 15:10

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by ontrca

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For me, the "best" ones are both revisions of DFI 586ITBD and the FIC PA-2013, the ATX power connector is very convenient nowadays. Both DFI motherboards are based on the Intel 430TX chipset and there is a modded BIOS that allows you to use larger HDDs up to 128GB and adds support for AMD K6plus …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-31, 00:54

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by ontrca

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For me, the "best" ones are both revisions of DFI 586ITBD and the FIC PA-2013, the ATX power connector is very convenient nowadays. Both DFI motherboards are based on the Intel 430TX chipset and there is a modded BIOS that allows you to use larger HDDs up to 128GB and adds support for AMD K6plus …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-28, 10:24

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by ontrca

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I forgot I have this MB also: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 AT Socket 7

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-28, 10:15

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by ontrca

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Agree ! Depends on what you are going to do with it ! the FIC PA-2013 is sort of the infamous FIC 503+ but in ATX form and is the best of those boards for CPU support IMHO I have 6 New Old stock tower cases and 2 New Old Stock desktop cases and I'm trying to decide which motherboard I want to put …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-28, 10:08

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by ontrca

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Horun wrote on 2023-10-28, 02:11: Agree ! Depends on what you are going to do with it ! the FIC PA-2013 is sort of the infamous FIC 503+ but in ATX form and is the best of those boards for CPU support IMHO What am I going to do with it/them? DOS/Win 3.11/Win95/Win98/etc. Parts swap Tinker, …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-28, 09:52

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by ontrca

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Some of these boards are babyAT, others are ATX. Which case and PSU(s) do you have? Some support only SIMMs, others SIMMs and DIMM and at least one DIMM only. Which memory do you have / intend to use? One board has known issues with relatively high-current AGP cards. Others only support PCI or ISA. …

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Re: Would someone mind ranking my socket 7 motherboards from best to worst please? :)

Posted on 2023-10-28, 09:47

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by ontrca

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Some of these boards are babyAT, others are ATX. Which case and PSU(s) do you have? Some support only SIMMs, others SIMMs and DIMM and at least one DIMM only. Which memory do you have / intend to use? One board has known issues with relatively high-current AGP cards. Others only support PCI or ISA. …

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