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Re: Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-25, 04:19

If you've over-voltaged your hard drive you can get some life out of it by simply removing the TVS diode (Transitional Voltage Suppressor). Most drives that people think are 'fried' actually just have blown diode. http://i36.tinypic.com/5k1xcn.png If you can solder, it would be best to add a new …

Re: Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-24, 04:21

Well, I ran HDAT2 on the "unformattable" drive (which actually turns out to be an 80GB :O), and other than some bad sectors near the beginning of the drive, it actually appears to be fine. I'm going to try giving it another format. EDIT: So far, so good. Running HDAT2 in it's most intensive mode …

Re: Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-23, 17:53

Damn, I just fried my spare 60GB laptop drive. XD I knew the cheap adapter I used it with would do something bad eventually. :P I plugged the thing in, and only afterwards did I notice that I had missed the connection by one row of pins, causing power to surge through the drive's electronics and …

Re: Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-23, 13:40

I'd use HDAT2 to run a thorough surface scan, if you haven't done that already. Once you know where the problematic areas are, you might be able to avoid them. Partition the drive such that the bad regions won't be used. Bad sectors should be marked once you've scanned for them, but more of them …

Re: Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-23, 09:01

I almost forgot about that. I might have to give it a try. XD EDIT: For some reason, this disk I'm working with won't even take a format. I'm trying to format it to FAT32 using the Linux tool Gparted so I can scandisk it later, but it's taking seemingly forever. :P Should I give up at this point, or …

Is there a way of formatting a damaged hard drive to squeeze some extra usage out of it?

Posted on 2013-04-23, 08:55

I've got a couple of damaged IDE hard drives, both around 60GB that I want to squeeze some extra life out of just to mess around, and I'm wondering if there are any tools out there that'll let me get them running. I don't really care too much about data recovery, I just want to throw one of these …

Re: Computer Chronicles: i486

Posted on 2013-04-17, 01:15

Fuck'n'shit 9,000 for a portable 486?? WTF?? Who's gonna by that when you can get an iphone with 1000x the power. Who the hell wants an iPhone? I'd rather have a portable 486. :) Same here, and the funny thing is, I'm only 19. XD Who needs Angry Birds when you have Scorched Earth? :D That being …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-04-13, 21:02

I should've guessed there'd be a Windows 95 patch. I didn't even think to check. ^_^; This is what happens when you race to finish a script and everything. More details for the Additional Information section. :P The Win95 patch isn't that well known about outside of the Carma community, partially …

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-04-13, 11:20

Just checked out the Carmageddon episode Chris and it is great as always. Carmageddon is a great game though there is one thing I wanted to bring up in regards to the GOG.com version if you want to play it in Hi Res mode without the problems with DOSBox's framerate issues. GOG provides a Windows 95 …

Re: Fun with windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-04-12, 06:28

Win3.x is quite fun to play around with, though it's been a few years since I've used it for anything. It's got a specific "charm" to it that other versions of Windows seem to lack.

Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-04-09, 21:36

Well, I just watched your 3D Dinosaur Adventure review and all I can say is OMG OMG OMG OMG YOU'RE COVERING (moderator edit: censored! --HunterZ) :D :D :D As you can see, I love that game. XD You know, it would be nice if you edited that out... the whole idea of "send your guesses by email" works …

Re: Advice for setting up an oldschool LAN party

Posted on 2013-04-03, 21:25

The reason why I don't want to bother with BYOD is because it can be a major pain in the ass to get other people's computers to all work together, in my experience. What can make it even worse is when people bring their machines at the last minute, which they tend to do, which ends up stalling …

Re: Advice for setting up an oldschool LAN party

Posted on 2013-04-02, 08:28

Age of Empires II is great for LAN multiplayer. UT2004 is also good, but that's pushing the hardware more. Star Control II Melee mode - Does the modern source port "Ur Quan Masters" have any kind of LAN multiplayer for this? Because that would be awesome. It's only 2 player, but people can make a …

Re: Advice for setting up an oldschool LAN party

Posted on 2013-04-02, 03:32

Now I'm gonna be that guy and say that setting up numerous decent computers each with monitor etc could turn out somewhat costly and in fact you don't even know for sure if your audience would be interested in it? Just saying that there exist source ports for a lot of these games which make them …

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