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GetDataBack for NTFS, if the original MFT is more or less untouched and GetDataBack can find it and analyze it, there are many chances of recovering near everything including proper folder layouts and filenames.

Pre-failure just means that attribute is more critical than others (remember the three ones I highlighteed) and a failure for these ones is covered officially by the warrany and the hard disk maybe will crash eventually if the Norm-ed value is lower than the threshold. When you are running...

Have you tried the generic and standard AHCI drivers bundled with Windows (installing them manually via the device manager) instead of the ones installed yes or yes by the installer of Radeon drivers? According to certain people, system is more responsive when generic AHCI drivers handles the...

If you are in doubt about the health of a given HDD, there is always the option of running the extended self-test (a test actually built-in in the drive itself, which will test the surface, mechanics and whatnot) via smartctl, or GSmartControl if you prefer a GUI for running and monitoring these...

Assuming you really want to install Windows XP go for any Samsung model (or Intel ones, more expensive, though), mainly to the official app offered by Samsung to perform TRIM passes even if the installed Windows OS (XP, Server 2003 or Vista) doesn't support that command natively. Personal...

No, I don't have any instant messenger (I closed my accounts a time ago). Do I need to perform more tests? Edit. I have performed another test. - I have downloaded this official BIOS for 7800 GTX 256 MB card: ftp://ftp.leadtek.com.tw/entertainment_graphics/BIOS/050628_PX7800GTX/2A30p.zip -I...

I have noticed that possibly GPU-Z makes bad dumps of VGA BIOSes, at least with the old NVIDIA cards I own to test with (Asus EN7800GTX 256 and XFX 7900 GTX EE, both with untouched BIOS). The BIOS dump made by GPU-Z doesn't match the one performed by another utilities, there are 24 bytes which...