Recent content by AussieBloke

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    Monitor randomly goes black for a second every so often

    Hi there, I am not a guru, I am just an enthusiast with two machines. I had the same issue with the same SSD. In short, from my assessment of the issue is with the SSD and I don't have a fix yet. Justification for my assessment is below and would welcome any criticism or feedback: After much...
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    Cannot Format Hard Drive Window 7

    Thanks Guys Not sure where my previously posted answers went. I will check out the supplier website (hitachi). What I did in the short term was add an extra volume to the disk at about the 500mb mark to 1TB - So far so good . However I have been advised that once your disk starts getting bad...
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    Cannot Format Hard Drive Window 7

    I cannot format a hard drive. I have managed to recover all my files using TestDisk (highly recommend) and now I want to format the disk. I get the error message "The format did not complete successfully" from Disk manager. When I use DiskPart and use "FORMAT OVERRIDE RECOMMENDED" it says...