As it says, I had a system, Athlon 2800, 2xHDD IDE system, one had ME on, one had XP on, dual boot, then the ME system became obsolete, so use the XP, then it failed in a desolate way, no bluescreen, no BIOS boot even, after a powercut.
At the same time my brother decided, because of receipt of an Apple compy for free, he would play with his Dell PC, saw a red switch on the back that said 110/220, and thought it would be fun to see what it did. BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I ended up with a system, Pentium 3400, ye olde IDE disks, plus SATA disk from the Dell, 2gb memory out of the remains.
BUT the IDE XP disk is murdered, with ALL my data on. It is either recognised, or not, or I can access data or not, depending on I suppose the temperature in the room?
Can I fix the Hdisk, and which processor is better? A Pentium D dual core 3400, or Athlon 2800? on Windows 7? I had to ring MS to make it work properly.
I had a USB stick that failed also recently, but the failed component fell off, and was resoldered in, and it works again, so anything is possible.
At the same time my brother decided, because of receipt of an Apple compy for free, he would play with his Dell PC, saw a red switch on the back that said 110/220, and thought it would be fun to see what it did. BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I ended up with a system, Pentium 3400, ye olde IDE disks, plus SATA disk from the Dell, 2gb memory out of the remains.
BUT the IDE XP disk is murdered, with ALL my data on. It is either recognised, or not, or I can access data or not, depending on I suppose the temperature in the room?
Can I fix the Hdisk, and which processor is better? A Pentium D dual core 3400, or Athlon 2800? on Windows 7? I had to ring MS to make it work properly.
I had a USB stick that failed also recently, but the failed component fell off, and was resoldered in, and it works again, so anything is possible.