[H] System no boot

2009-04-30 Thread Joe User
Hello, System booted up fine, then I pressed reset to stop it from booting. My intention was to get it into safe mode, thats why I reset it. Tried to get it to boot again and mashing F8 and now it just hangs after the BIOS/POST. The screen is on so it's getting a signal from video, but nothing

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-30 Thread Gary Udstrand
I signed up for a Happy Easter promo, depending on the number of people the price would drop. They sent me an email with the final price, try this link:

Re: [H] System no boot

2009-04-30 Thread Lubomír Čabla
Hello, try go to BIOS SETUP (mostly key DEL or F2 or F10), save on exit and try again to boot. On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Joe User joeu...@chronic.org wrote: Hello, System booted up fine, then I pressed reset to stop it from booting. My intention was to get it into safe mode, thats

Re: [H] System no boot

2009-04-30 Thread Joe User
Hello Lubomír, Thursday, April 30, 2009, 8:27:15 AM, you wrote: Hello, try go to BIOS SETUP (mostly key DEL or F2 or F10), save on exit and try again to boot. Thanks, I have done that a few times. In fact, I loaded the bios setup defaults and no go. Took the drive and placed into another

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-30 Thread Tim Lider
Although, the WDC TLER is a good feature I am concerned how WDC drive are having Firmware issues on their higher capacity drives. Yes It seems WDC is having the same issue that Seagate had (Has), just Seagate had the balls to tell the media about it. If you are looking for 1TB drive take a look

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-30 Thread Jason.Tozer
I've been running 4 x Samsung F1 spinpoints in a RAID5 for a few months now. Quite quiet, very fast and no problems yet *touches wood* Can fault them so far but depending on how crucial your data is and whether you run them 24/7 it might be worth paying the premium for the WD Enterprise

Re: [H] System no boot

2009-04-30 Thread Joe User
Issue resolved. Chkdsk found some indexes out of whack. It repaired them and it's booting fine now. I guess I should not press reset when it's booting? ;) -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...

Re: [H] Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-30 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, jason.to...@cliffordchance.com wrote: I've been running 4 x Samsung F1 spinpoints in a RAID5 for a few months now. Quite quiet, very fast and no problems yet *touches wood* Can fault them so far but depending on how crucial your data is and whether you run them 24/7 it

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-30 Thread Veech
ok thank you! I ordered it, looks like it's a download. - Original Message - From: Gary Udstrand g...@digitalwind.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 06:22 Subject: Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal? I signed up for a Happy Easter promo, depending on

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Which 1TB(ish) drive to use in RAID-1 setup?

2009-04-30 Thread Stan Zaske
Spinpoint F1, 1 TB, Promo code: EMCLRPL42, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152102nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL043009cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL043009-_-HardDrives-_-LG1A-_-22152102 $79.99 free shipping Christopher Fisk wrote: On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, jason.to...@cliffordchance.com wrote: I've

[H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread tmservo
The note on unlimited keys is the interesting part Dear Microsoft U.S. Partner, We hope you are as excited as we are about today’s milestone, as we make the Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) broadly available for download to managed Beta program

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Scott Sipe
Any word on the eventual upgrade pricing? I've got a Vista Home Premium 32-bit that I'd kind of like to upgrade. (and am considering switching to 64-bit) Scott On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:50 PM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: The note on unlimited keys is the interesting part

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread FORC5
went to link and the download links were grayed out. Busy ? maybe like to play with it, playing with the beta fp At 12:50 PM 4/30/2009, tmse...@rlrnews.com Poked the stick with: The note on unlimited keys is the interesting part Dear Microsoft U.S. Partner,

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread tmservo
It says may 4. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:58:39 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement went to link and the download links were grayed out. Busy ? maybe like to play with it, playing

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread FORC5
guess I need to slow down and read more :-D fp At 03:09 PM 4/30/2009, tmse...@rlrnews.com Poked the stick with: It says may 4. :) Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: FORC5 fuf...@cox.net Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:58:39 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Win7

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Bryan Seitz
It is up on MSDN and I'm dling it now even though I already had it lawl :) On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 03:24:23PM -0700, FORC5 wrote: guess I need to slow down and read more :-D fp At 03:09 PM 4/30/2009, tmse...@rlrnews.com Poked the stick with: It says may 4. :) Sent via BlackBerry

Re: [H] Acronis True Image deal?

2009-04-30 Thread Gary Udstrand
Your welcome. :-) -- Gary http://www.twigsandtracks.com Twigs snap and tracks fade, a photograph reacquaints On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Veech ve...@earthlink.net wrote: ok thank you! I ordered it, looks like it's a download. - Original Message - From: Gary Udstrand

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Rick Glazier
Can you post the (YOUR) official MD5? (Or back channel it to me.) I read they are a lot of imposters out there... Rick Glazier From: Bryan Seitz It is up on MSDN and I'm dling it now even though I already had it lawl :)

Re: [H] Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Bryan Seitz
File Name: en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x64_dvd_347803.iso Date Posted (UTC): 4/30/2009 6:00:41 AM SHA1: FC867FE1AB2E0A9796F9E4D155B44EA6998F4874 ISO/CRC: 58FB2BE0 File Name: en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x86_dvd_349010.iso Date Posted (UTC): 4/30/2009 6:00:41 AM SHA1:

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Stan Zaske
Do you have a file size on those? Bryan Seitz wrote: File Name: en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x64_dvd_347803.iso Date Posted (UTC): 4/30/2009 6:00:41 AM SHA1: FC867FE1AB2E0A9796F9E4D155B44EA6998F4874 ISO/CRC: 58FB2BE0 File Name: en_windows_7_ultimate_rc_x86_dvd_349010.iso Date Posted (UTC):

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Bobby Heid
I'm downloading the X64 version from MSDN now and it has allocated 3,194,168 KB. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:32 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread tmservo
Same. I already got the 32bit. Bad news: will not upgrade build 7000. Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bobby Heid bh...@sc.rr.com Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:42:19 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Win7 rc announcement I'm downloading the X64

Re: [H] [Bulk] Re: Win7 rc announcement

2009-04-30 Thread Greg Sevart
Sure it will. You just have to modify a file first. It was done intentionally, as there's not much value for MS in the upgrade experience for people going from beta to RC1. http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/04/07/delivering-a-quality-upgrade-exp erience.aspx Here's what you can do to bypass