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Has anyone got a HIAB and live somewhere between Nottingham and Basingstoke?? need a big thing moving

many thanks :)

Jez

I have a mate that has two big ass Scanias for moving plant around.. and One of the Shire members that goes to the club meet has a masive Hiab, he drops 20' cabims off to me onsite from time to time.

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I have an external HDD that has corrupted itself for some reason, I downloaded a recovery program that showed me all the files but then demanded I register it before it would recover any of them :angry: the filesystem is completely gone, it's forgotten the drive letter and everything but obviously not too bad as all the files seem to show up in the recovery proggy.

Is there a free option? Does Windows have anything that will do it? Can the disk be recovered in-situ as the prog I downloaded wants to copy everything off the HDD, trouble is it's ~200G and I'm not sure I have the space on my other drives! :blink:

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Needed two rears for Jan's MX5.

Searched on t'internet for best price brought up a link to:-

www.etyres.co.uk

with a number of options this looked great, will arrive and be fitted next working day and will fit the tyres of my choice, Avon ZV3's at a cost of £85.

Superb service.........NOT.

At 8.31 am next day I recieve a voicemail message from "Darren at eTyres"" Can't fit today (tuesday) but we can fit Friday...."because we are some distance from youi"........I ring Darren back to confirm this is the situation.......yes it is No worries I say because my debit card has not been charged....errrr Darren responds... actually it has, it was when you placed your internet order???!!!

I point out to Darren that reputable internet retailers (like Amazon) do not charge customers accounts until goods purchased have been supplied/dispatched. After assuring me my debit card will be refunded the phone goes down.....

Make your own judgment....

Oh BTW the same tyres were fitted the same day, at the same price, at my local fitters (North East Tyres & Exhausts @ Morgan Drive in Guisborough) in 9 minutes flat.....only called in to check the price!!!! Should have started here in the first place.

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I have an external HDD that has corrupted itself for some reason, I downloaded a recovery program that showed me all the files but then demanded I register it before it would recover any of them :angry: the filesystem is completely gone, it's forgotten the drive letter and everything but obviously not too bad as all the files seem to show up in the recovery proggy.

Is there a free option? Does Windows have anything that will do it? Can the disk be recovered in-situ as the prog I downloaded wants to copy everything off the HDD, trouble is it's ~200G and I'm not sure I have the space on my other drives! :blink:

You might find something on this site

http://www.nonags.com/nonags/menu.html

it's pretty good for freeware

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Yep £60 ………. but often you ruin the shaft taking it off as they are b***er to shift…………… stealer stores tells me its 50/50 and I was in the wrong half :angry: …….. although there is a removal & fitting ‘tool’ that is used by the large reconditioner outfits. :rolleyes:

Ian

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be very very careful with what you do.

HDD failure generally occurs for 2 reasons, physical and electronic. If the drive is reading something then you probably have an electronic failure- but you mayfind that this failure randomly causes errors that cannot be fixed by a recovery prog.

if you really need the data then get it shipped off to a recovery specialist promptly and don't power up the drive anymore. If you don't really need the data then it is probably worth the risk of trying to fix it yourself.

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I find most of the HDD corruptions I've suffered have been due to a software 'ckup, or more recently power outage while BitComet was running overnight. Never (yet) had one physically or electronically fail.

Hell, on my Amiga there was a free disc recovery util that was brilliant - I guess that's too much to expect from XP, nothing like progress is there :rolleyes:

Ian,

I'm currently giving "Disk Doctors NTFS Data Recovery" a go but the other proggy was "GetdataBack for NTFS", they were just the first free-ish ones to leap out at me from Google...

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i've just had a HDD physically fail on me- the second one in two years!

the first one i got all the data off by sticking it in the freezer overnight - an old wives trick that seems to work well on physical problems.

the second one is too precious to take the risk on so i've just sent it off- why is it that the one folder you don't seem to have selected to be backed up is the on you stick all th really important stuff in?

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We had exactly the same problem last year. The girlfriend traded her Peuguot for a Golf and got the same letter demanding money from the DVLA.

I phoned them up and explained that she'd sent the slip back (that might not have been 100% true, I can't remember) and gave them the dealers name and address. As long as you say it was posted your job is done.

They apologised saying that their backlog meant all the paperwork wasn't up to date and cancelled the penalty. Job done

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:D:D These are thoughts well worth to be remembered!

>If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous

>erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff

>had been stolen... and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind tends to see

>things a bit differently than the rest of us mortals. Here are some of his

>gems:

> 1- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

> 2- Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it

> back.

> 3- Half the people you know are below average

.

> 4- 98% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

> 5- 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

> 6- A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts

> feel so good.

> 7- A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

> 8- If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the

>rain.

>

> 9- All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

>

> 10- The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse

> gets the cheese.

>

> 11- I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me

>before we met.

>

> 12- OK, so what's the speed of dark?

>

> 13- How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

>

> 14- If everything seems to be going well, you have

>obviously>overlooked something

.

> > 15- Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

>

> 16- When everything is coming your way, you're in the

>wrong>lane.

>

> 17- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense

> to>be lazy.

>

> 18- Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off

>now.

>

> > 19- I intend to live forever; so far, so good.

>

> 20- If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her

>friends?

>

> 21- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet

>engines.

>

> 22- What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

>

> 23- My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes,

> so>I made your horn louder."

>

> 24- Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

>

> 25- If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence

>that>you tried.

> > 26- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of

> thinking.

>

> 27- Experience is something you don't get until just after

>you need it.

>

> 28- The hardness of the butter is proportional to the

> softness of the bread.

>

> 29- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal

>from many is research.

>

> 30- The problem with the gene pool is that there is no

> lifeguard.

>

> 31- The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have

to catch up.

>

> > 32- The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is

required to be on it.

>

> 33- Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't

have film.

>

> > 34- If your car could travel at the speed of light, would

your headlights work?

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