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I remove the 2nd card and now i'm only running one HD6870 but still noticing some hickups in games. Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi Everyone, My pc has been acting-up recently and I'm experiencing what i can only describe as short freezes or hiccups where the system will not respond for 5 - 10 secs. After the freeze the system resumes regular operation (ie. programs keep running, video keeps playing etc.) I didn't...

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Hey guys, Just read that you can install Snow leopard without any previous version of Mac OS X...Is this still true today? http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/2900-snow-leopard-install-or-without-leopard-plus-snow-leopard-review.htm Crazy...

I took the drive that was not recognized by the OS to a data recovery business. They informed me that the drive has a "bad firmware encryption" and that they could possibly recover the data. Before I proceed, I'm wondering if anyone knows a way to pull data in this type of scenario.

Quick update on my progress....(if you can call it that) I plugged the external drive containing the suspected faulty WDC WD5000AAKS-22TMA drive to my vista laptop and it showed an entry under disk manager. The drive appeared as follows: Disk 1 Not initialized My concern is that if i...

Thanks for the software suggestions. The problem i am having is that 1 of the two drives is not appearing in under my computer > manage > disk management (windows 7 64bit) but i can see the disk in the device list when i check under system devices. I have the problem drive in an external usb...

Looks like things are a little more challenging. I believe i have identified the drive that is causing issues however the problem is that it's not being recognized by the BIOS. I let my system boot into Win7 then plugged in the external drive (with HD in question) and it was recognized as...

I'll check out ddrescue. Tried search for linux rip cd but no luck. Is this a particular distro you are referring to? (not a linux guy at all).