Smallshinyant

Oh cool, no doubt I had a good stare at it then. My coffee guy told me about it, he's been selling his coffee there for a few month's and had been telling me to go along. So finally i did and it was well worth it. Apart from the coffee guys machine being broken

Hi all, Just wanted to ask if anyone else has gone to the goodwood breakfast club. Me and the wife went for the first time at the weekend, and partfully due to the weather, we had a really good time. If the queue to get in was good fun, surrounded by a supercharged Porsche and an something very very green. They only run one a month, but this month it was all convertibles was upset there was no aerotop supras , but there were some really good cars including a Lambo with number plate "AWE55OM" a whole world of AC Cobra's and lots of other cool cars. It seems that there are no entrance fees for visitors or cars showing. I took some pictures if anyone is interested? They are doing a Modified car theme in November for anyone who has more than just a shiny dust caps.

i'm gonna go with give spinrite a go. should recover enough data for windows to be able to pull something off it.

Ahh, if you have not used an iso file before it can seem confusing. Its not so hard but only if you have the software to burn it. .ISO is an image of a whole CD. You would need to use something like NERO burning program or use something like http://www.cdburnerxp.se/features.php to burn the iso file onto disc. Just open up the program and then there is an option within the burning software to open .iso file. Or just find a floppy disc

lol, good luck. You can make a boot CD too, if you have any of those lying around. Even a boot USB stick, but that can get complicated.

Well give it a go fist then. if not, take the hard disk out the case, with any luck it will be a Standard drive that you can just plonk into a machine, or it maybe one of the smaller form factors in which case you may need to swap the drive out of a laptop. i found this on his site. "Is SpinRite compatible with USB and Firewire devices? The best answer to this is a firm "maybe". DOS device drivers are available for most USB and Firewire controllers. If such drivers are added to a DOS boot diskette so that your USB or Firewire drive is "seen" by DOS, SpinRite will also be able to "see" and operate with it. However, the performance of the drive through the DOS drivers and the serial (USB/Firewire) cable will likely be far lower than if the external drive were connected directly to a PC's motherboard controller. If you have the ability to temporarily relocate the IDE drive inside of the external enclosure to a PC— plugging it directly into the motherboard's controller — SpinRite will be able to operate at the drive's highest possible performance."

sorry because it took me so long to respond i missed that extra bit. Quick run down on how to work spinrite. -Obtain a copy.. Use a working computer to burn spinrite to a CD. -Make sure the Hard disk you want it to scan is in the machine you want to use to fix it(It wont work via USB(i dont think)) -Put the CD in, boot up the computer using the CD. spin rite will take over and guide you through what to do next. -If spin rite can't see your drive, then your talking mechanical fault. If spin can see it, you should be in luck for at least some data recovery. -My advice go for a level 4 scan. It may take 12Hours+ but let it do its thing. Any questions just ask. p.s. For more about the guy who wrote the software go to his site. loads of handy securty information and some handy free software. or check out his security podcast at http://twit.tv/sn (Carefull its very geeky in there)

Well sorry for jumping into the thread so late. but its possibly the most effeciant hard drive recovery software there is. Made by a guy call Steve Gibson who is a security nd data guru. anyway, you can pick it up at grc.com or its possible to find it elsewhere and if it works go pick get yourself a copy. I use in my IT role at the NHS for when nothing else works. If there is a chance your drive can be read again with out mechanical repair spinrite will fix it. sorry for the delay in response.

sorry, have you tried spinrite?

Good work. Looks great

Congratulations!

That gives me a nice warm glow. (might just be the new phone mast outside)

Happy Birthday

Im curious. what do you want to wire to it? 50p on parachute deployment system!

Cute .. although thats probably not not the best description.. Seriously mate looks great. could do with a picture a bit further back.

if they come round again PM me. although i will have to ask the wife.

I hope this kit is fisher-price easy to fit. I like the look of the carbon dash.

Great write up. Looking forward to seeing the new parts going in. Did you notice the turbo's running badly before the rebuild? (sorry if missed something) p.s. the engine so close to the shiny paint work keeps making me nervous. can you move it?

Leave black and paint the pattern of a pac-man game being played on the bonnet. Think that counts as a yes

Blimey, every 9000miles! off to halfords

Awesome, looking forward to full side on pics

oh i love racing games, but everything looks fake on my TV . Am i the only person still playing forza 2?

wow, i want to visit your Santa's grotto (work shop). welcome

oh i wanted the drag strip in the south. On the plus side i gonna end up in a home one day

£15K worth of supra! how could you not go back to sup