Second Drive Not Recognized in Win98

hey jeff remember me..lol..

jeff if you ever work on computers
you should read this..

im going to go off on a little tangent point here..
but it is kinda the fault that made all of this problem..
and why i moved my hard drive to another computer in the first place..

remember what started it all was..
when my Abit KT7-raid mother board died..
and i put my salve Quantum (data only) drive into a Compaq 5000 US

well heres what my KT7 computer was doing...
it keep locking up..
freezing..
it would freeze up on the windows 98 logo screen..
it wouldent get past that..
and sometimes it wouldent even make it to that..
one day it was fine..
the next day it was dead..
i couldent get into windows 98..

i read fourm after fourm..
and tried everything all of them said..
to try and fix my computer...

replace the memory..
replace your power supply..
replace your video card..
replace your processor..
sound card....
cables..

this that..this that
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...

reinstall windows..

yeah thats the fix everyone recomends...
when nothing they recomend works...
re-install windows...

none of what i did worked!..
short of re-installing windows

well guess what jeff..i figured it out..
and fixed my Kt7 motherboard..
and im thinking this might be a big problem with more peoples computers
then most people know about...

it has to do with a manufacturing defect with MILLION AND MILLIONS
of capacitors that were put in almost every mother board made
Abits..Msi..Giga-bytes...ALL OF THEM..

i found this web site..http://www.badcaps.net

and i read this page.....http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
**this is the page that explains how it all happened**

and i read their fourm...http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
to find out how to fix it..

well i re-capped my motherboard..
and soldered all new Nichicon caps in my board

and replaced all my **bluging TP-cons**..i replaced them all..all the caps
on the board..
there is picture apon picture of these bluging defective capacitors in their
fourm
from peoples post's in it...
i wonder how many people have this problem and don't even know..
and i wonder how many boards have been thrown out because of it..

well now my mother board runs better then it did brand new..
it runs like superman on steroids..lol..

i wish i would have read those articles years ago because all the problems
i ever encountered were probably all related to this problem..
till one day...it got so bad..
it wouldent work no more..
and my mother board died

plus!!!
i had 2 power supplys i bought over the years that died..
a 350 watt one..
and a 400 watt one..
guess what..
i replaced 6 caps in one..for like 4 dollars
and 5 caps in the other for 3 dollars..
they work now!!!!
i wish i would have knew..
i would have not had to buy third power supply for 65 bucks..

i have a 32 inch TV i bought a few years back..
the top and bottom of the picture
got big black lines in them..top and bottom..like 3 inches wide..

so i bought a new TV for like 400 bucks..
because my old one went bad with those big black lines..
well guess what...
i replaced 1 cap..for 65 cents..
and now my TV works again...

lol..im going Cap replace crazy..lol...

i wish i would have read that web page years ago...
i would have saved alot of money..
anyways..

maybe alot of problems people think are caused by this or that
really might just be bad caps...
im going to check those first thing from now on !!!!!

back to my hard drive...
well..
i put that hard drive back in my RECAPED Kt7...and its seeing it..
nothing was wrong with the hard drive to start...
it was the stupid Compaq system..

BUT!!!
BUT
but i did some things to the Hard drive using TESTDISK..
that the developer of TESTDISK had me do..
like changing things on the master boot thing i think...

and now the files arent acessable...
i see funny looking files and folders
they all have funny symbols..
insted of the names..
and...i dont know...
i think i messed stuff up doing what he said to do..
...anyways...i'll look into that..
and try to find out what things i did..
so i can tell you what i did..
its hard talking to that guy..
i dont think he speeks english.....im guessing..

i'll do that in my next post to you..

but yeah it was that gay AZZ Compaq...nothing was wrong with the hard drive
in the first place...
it was something in that stupid compaq set up..
im going to have to ask that TESTDISK guy what i did and how to reverse it
if i can...

yeah thanks for trying to help me Jeff..
talk to you soon buddy....
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!


"Jeff Richards" wrote:

That's OK - I'm watching.

mikesmith wrote:
[snip]
it has to do with a manufacturing defect with MILLION AND MILLIONS
of capacitors that were put in almost every mother board made
Abits..Msi..Giga-bytes...ALL OF THEM..

i found this web site..http://www.badcaps.net

and i read this page.....http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
**this is the page that explains how it all happened**

and i read their fourm...http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
to find out how to fix it..

well i re-capped my motherboard..
and soldered all new Nichicon caps in my board

and replaced all my **bluging TP-cons**..i replaced them all..all the
caps on the board..
there is picture apon picture of these bluging defective capacitors
in their fourm
from peoples post's in it...
i wonder how many people have this problem and don't even know..
and i wonder how many boards have been thrown out because of it..

well now my mother board runs better then it did brand new..
it runs like superman on steroids..lol..
[snip]

My roommate's Abit K-7 mb also had problems and I found one bulging cap and
replaced it. I thouht it was very difficult to replace. It is still working
like a charm.
This was several years ago. Yes, the bad caps were on many MBs and all
because some cap mfg was using a stolen chemical component formula that had
the wrong chemicals in it, or so I heard.
How did you replace all those caps? What method did you use and what
equipment did you need?
Don't go cap crazy, and remember, the ones in a TV set, etc have a lot of
high voltage in them and could cause serious injury, even death.

Sorry I can't help you on the HDD problem either, but hopefully someone here
can.
Buffalo

mikesmith wrote:
| hey jeff remember me..lol..
|
| jeff if you ever work on computers
| you should read this..
|
| im going to go off on a little tangent point here..
| but it is kinda the fault that made all of this problem..
| and why i moved my hard drive to another computer in the first place..
|
| remember what started it all was..
| when my Abit KT7-raid mother board died..
| and i put my salve Quantum (data only) drive into a Compaq 5000 US
|
| well heres what my KT7 computer was doing...
| it keep locking up..
| freezing..
| it would freeze up on the windows 98 logo screen..
| it wouldent get past that..
| and sometimes it wouldent even make it to that..
| one day it was fine..
| the next day it was dead..
| i couldent get into windows 98..
|
| i read fourm after fourm..
| and tried everything all of them said..
| to try and fix my computer...
|
| replace the memory..
| replace your power supply..
| replace your video card..
| replace your processor..
| sound card....
| cables..
|
| this that..this that
| BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...
|
| reinstall windows..
|
| yeah thats the fix everyone recomends...
| when nothing they recomend works...
| re-install windows...
|
| none of what i did worked!..
| short of re-installing windows
|
| well guess what jeff..i figured it out..
| and fixed my Kt7 motherboard..
| and im thinking this might be a big problem with more peoples
| computers then most people know about...
|
| it has to do with a manufacturing defect with MILLION AND MILLIONS
| of capacitors that were put in almost every mother board made
| Abits..Msi..Giga-bytes...ALL OF THEM..
|
| i found this web site..http://www.badcaps.net
|
| and i read this page.....http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
| **this is the page that explains how it all happened**
|
| and i read their fourm...http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
| to find out how to fix it..
|
| well i re-capped my motherboard..
| and soldered all new Nichicon caps in my board
|
| and replaced all my **bluging TP-cons**..i replaced them all..all the
| caps on the board..
| there is picture apon picture of these bluging defective capacitors
| in their fourm
| from peoples post's in it...
| i wonder how many people have this problem and don't even know..
| and i wonder how many boards have been thrown out because of it..
|
| well now my mother board runs better then it did brand new..
| it runs like superman on steroids..lol..
|
| i wish i would have read those articles years ago because all the
| problems i ever encountered were probably all related to this
| problem..
| till one day...it got so bad..
| it wouldent work no more..
| and my mother board died
|
| plus!!!
| i had 2 power supplys i bought over the years that died..
| a 350 watt one..
| and a 400 watt one..
| guess what..
| i replaced 6 caps in one..for like 4 dollars
| and 5 caps in the other for 3 dollars..
| they work now!!!!
| i wish i would have knew..
| i would have not had to buy third power supply for 65 bucks..
|
| i have a 32 inch TV i bought a few years back..
| the top and bottom of the picture
| got big black lines in them..top and bottom..like 3 inches wide..
|
| so i bought a new TV for like 400 bucks..
| because my old one went bad with those big black lines..
| well guess what...
| i replaced 1 cap..for 65 cents..
| and now my TV works again...
|
| lol..im going Cap replace crazy..lol...
|
| i wish i would have read that web page years ago...
| i would have saved alot of money..
| anyways..
|
| maybe alot of problems people think are caused by this or that
| really might just be bad caps...
| im going to check those first thing from now on !!!!!
|
| back to my hard drive...
| well..
| i put that hard drive back in my RECAPED Kt7...and its seeing it..
| nothing was wrong with the hard drive to start...
| it was the stupid Compaq system..
|
| BUT!!!
| BUT
| but i did some things to the Hard drive using TESTDISK..
| that the developer of TESTDISK had me do..
| like changing things on the master boot thing i think...
|
| and now the files arent acessable...
| i see funny looking files and folders
| they all have funny symbols..
| insted of the names..
| and...i dont know...
| i think i messed stuff up doing what he said to do..
| ..anyways...i'll look into that..
| and try to find out what things i did..
| so i can tell you what i did..
| its hard talking to that guy..
| i dont think he speeks english.....im guessing..
|
| i'll do that in my next post to you..
|
| but yeah it was that gay AZZ Compaq...nothing was wrong with the hard
| drive in the first place...
| it was something in that stupid compaq set up..
| im going to have to ask that TESTDISK guy what i did and how to
| reverse it if i can...
|
| yeah thanks for trying to help me Jeff..
| talk to you soon buddy....
| THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!

I'm sure Jeff remembers & is still watching. Few of us can recall he has
gone senile yet & he is wearing triple-thick trifocal glasses! I'm no
expert on caps, & the site you posted won't come up for me; so, answer
Buffalo's questions when you get a chance too. You should hesitate to
recommend a thing that could electrocute us. We get our electro-shock
brain therapy & restarted hearts on an as-needed basis here! Keep us all
informed.

I don't want to step on the toes of your TESTDISK guy, but, yea, try to
recall what he said & what has been done. Was it determined that the
Quantum Fireball Hard Drive had MaxBlast unnecessarily installed? Is the
TESTDISK guy trying to uninstall it or to reinstall it? Maybe post what
MBRWork shows for the MBR on the Fireball. What partition type does it
show?

| "Jeff Richards" wrote:
|
| That's OK - I'm watching.

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

The capacitor issue is widely known, although the machines in which it
occurs are that much older now and repair people are not running into it
that often, so it's very easy to overlook. Also, that particular problem was
associated with particular models of motherboard so a lot of people won't
come across it at all.

But those capacitors don't age well, and the problem has existed in other
equipment for many years. I'm sure I can remember an article way back from
the 70's where a technician had to decide whether or not the effort in
replacing all the suspect caps in a TV was going to cost more than replacing
it. So you are certainly not the first, and probably not the last, to be
bitten. I have just thrown out a massive 12v power supply with an array of
huge electrolytic capacitors that would have made a terrific power supply
for a large model car or train layout, but I was too scared to turn it on
for fear that the ancient capacitors would explode as they charged up, and
that would have been a real mess!

If my guess about the disk drive was correct then any changes you have made
to that disk could be the cause of the problem, and might not be reversible.
I did warn about not letting anything be written to that drive :-{ If
something in the boot or MBR area has been changed, then the garbled data
such as you are seeing is confirming my guess. I agree that your best option
is to try and undo what was done. Another option is to prepare a boot floppy
with the drive management software installed, boot to it, and see if the
disk is recognised when the drive management software is running. If all
that fails, standard disk data recovery tools might be able to put some of
the disk back together - at least fragments of files could be recovered, and
depending on how important they are, you may be able to reconstruct them.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"mikesmith" wrote in message
...
hey jeff remember me..lol..

jeff if you ever work on computers
you should read this..

im going to go off on a little tangent point here..
but it is kinda the fault that made all of this problem..
and why i moved my hard drive to another computer in the first place..

remember what started it all was..
when my Abit KT7-raid mother board died..
and i put my salve Quantum (data only) drive into a Compaq 5000 US

well heres what my KT7 computer was doing...
it keep locking up..
freezing..
it would freeze up on the windows 98 logo screen..
it wouldent get past that..
and sometimes it wouldent even make it to that..
one day it was fine..
the next day it was dead..
i couldent get into windows 98..

i read fourm after fourm..
and tried everything all of them said..
to try and fix my computer...

replace the memory..
replace your power supply..
replace your video card..
replace your processor..
sound card....
cables..

this that..this that
BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH...

reinstall windows..

yeah thats the fix everyone recomends...
when nothing they recomend works...
re-install windows...

none of what i did worked!..
short of re-installing windows

well guess what jeff..i figured it out..
and fixed my Kt7 motherboard..
and im thinking this might be a big problem with more peoples computers
then most people know about...

it has to do with a manufacturing defect with MILLION AND MILLIONS
of capacitors that were put in almost every mother board made
Abits..Msi..Giga-bytes...ALL OF THEM..

i found this web site..http://www.badcaps.net

and i read this page.....http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
**this is the page that explains how it all happened**

and i read their fourm...http://www.badcaps.net/forum/
to find out how to fix it..

well i re-capped my motherboard..
and soldered all new Nichicon caps in my board

and replaced all my **bluging TP-cons**..i replaced them all..all the caps
on the board..
there is picture apon picture of these bluging defective capacitors in
their
fourm
from peoples post's in it...
i wonder how many people have this problem and don't even know..
and i wonder how many boards have been thrown out because of it..

well now my mother board runs better then it did brand new..
it runs like superman on steroids..lol..

i wish i would have read those articles years ago because all the problems
i ever encountered were probably all related to this problem..
till one day...it got so bad..
it wouldent work no more..
and my mother board died

plus!!!
i had 2 power supplys i bought over the years that died..
a 350 watt one..
and a 400 watt one..
guess what..
i replaced 6 caps in one..for like 4 dollars
and 5 caps in the other for 3 dollars..
they work now!!!!
i wish i would have knew..
i would have not had to buy third power supply for 65 bucks..

i have a 32 inch TV i bought a few years back..
the top and bottom of the picture
got big black lines in them..top and bottom..like 3 inches wide..

so i bought a new TV for like 400 bucks..
because my old one went bad with those big black lines..
well guess what...
i replaced 1 cap..for 65 cents..
and now my TV works again...

lol..im going Cap replace crazy..lol...

i wish i would have read that web page years ago...
i would have saved alot of money..
anyways..

maybe alot of problems people think are caused by this or that
really might just be bad caps...
im going to check those first thing from now on !!!!!

back to my hard drive...
well..
i put that hard drive back in my RECAPED Kt7...and its seeing it..
nothing was wrong with the hard drive to start...
it was the stupid Compaq system..

BUT!!!
BUT
but i did some things to the Hard drive using TESTDISK..
that the developer of TESTDISK had me do..
like changing things on the master boot thing i think...

and now the files arent acessable...
i see funny looking files and folders
they all have funny symbols..
insted of the names..
and...i dont know...
i think i messed stuff up doing what he said to do..
..anyways...i'll look into that..
and try to find out what things i did..
so i can tell you what i did..
its hard talking to that guy..
i dont think he speeks english.....im guessing..

i'll do that in my next post to you..

but yeah it was that gay AZZ Compaq...nothing was wrong with the hard
drive
in the first place...
it was something in that stupid compaq set up..
im going to have to ask that TESTDISK guy what i did and how to reverse it
if i can...

yeah thanks for trying to help me Jeff..
talk to you soon buddy....
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP!!!


"Jeff Richards" wrote:

That's OK - I'm watching.

hey bufflo..lol...i wana talk to jeff!! or PC..lol..
about my hard drive...

but to answer your question about what i did...
i replaced all the caps...
about 40 or so of them..

you gota get the right kinds of caps to replace them..
not just the right ""microfarad..and the volts...and the heat range""
they gota be the same CLASS TYPES..""OR BETTER""
like THE RIPPLE CURRENT..rating..higher is better
theres a special class type of caps for computers...

ha ha...what type of tools did i use...

i just used a NEW ""30 watt "" radio shack soldering iron..
you gota tin the tip...and keep it clean...
a lil sponge to clean the tip..
you ever solder anything before?..

and a roll of radio shack 60/40 .032 thick solder..
and my big magnafying glass stand that has a light on it..
a lil pair of wire snips..
and the all important NEEDLE..sewing needle...
the needles to poke the hole threw after removing that caps...

first i'd put a real little extra drop of solder on both ends of the cap..
just a lil bit..real little
it makes it easier to heat..adding a lil extra bit of solder to remove them..
then i heated one end..gave it a lil easy pull..pulling it out a lil..
then the other end..
back and forth..
lil heat pull easy..lil heat lil easy pull...back and forth..
like rocking it out...
it takes like 2 times...maybe 3 per side of the cap..
not pulling it hard..nice easy
cause if you pull it and force it..you can pull up the copper foil on the PC
board...
nice and easy...back and forth..one side then the other...

then after i had the cap out...
there would still be solder still in the whole...
so..
i'd put the needle in the whole on one side of the board..
then heat the other side of the hole on the other side of the board..
while i'd push the needle threw...
((might even put a lil bit of solder on it again so it would heat easy))

push threw the lil bit of solder left behind with the needle..
the solder doesnt really stick to the stainless steel of a needle..
and there you go...you'd have a nice clean hole...

(i put the needle into a lil square peice of plastic like a knob)..
the plastic knob on the end..to have something i could push on

like make a lil tool..
your lil needle tool..lol...

then after having a nice lil clean hole..
put your new cap in the right way...
gota make sure its in the right way...
negative...positive...

then solder it up...
real little bit of solder...takes like 2-3 seconds
have a nice lil shiney solder joint..
then clip off the extra bit of the new caps leads..
making sure its not to tall sticking out the back of the board..
so it dont touch the case like ground on the case..

yeah i had electronics in high school..
i've solder stuff before..
just a lil pratice anyone could do it .
anyone with a steady hand...

yeah i replaced them all about 40 or so caps....

yeah i know about CAPS holding a charge..
and they can even re-charge just sitting on a shelf..
CRT's are the worst..lol...
you know what a CRT is??..

anyways...yeah no need for a 100 dollar soldering station..

hey Bufflo...you ever resolder a SMD?..
i made this cool ass hot air soldering gun..
with a Radio shack DE-soldering iron..and a fish tank lil air pump..and a
POT..
lol...yeah i like tinkering..i wana be able to fix everything..lol..

anyways...i wana fix my hard drive that Comapq messed up..
yeah my hard drive was fine..it was that stupid mother board..
nothing was wrong with it in the first palce..
when i thought there was...
it had something to do with the mother board not seeing it right threw
Windows 98
i dont know why the Compaq didnt see it in windows 98..

anyways...hey jeff..or PC...where you cool dudes at...lol..im lost..
i've fallen and i cant get up...lol..

hey bufflo..lol...i wana talk to jeff!! or PC..lol..
about my hard drive...

but to answer your question about what i did...
i replaced all the caps...
about 40 or so of them..

you gota get the right kinds of caps to replace them..
not just the right ""microfarad..and the volts...and the heat range""
they gota be the same CLASS TYPES..""OR BETTER""
like THE RIPPLE CURRENT..rating..higher is better
theres a special class type of caps for computers...

ha ha...what type of tools did i use...

i just used a NEW ""30 watt "" radio shack soldering iron..
you gota tin the tip...and keep it clean...
a lil sponge to clean the tip..
you ever solder anything before?..

and a roll of radio shack 60/40 .032 thick solder..
and my big magnafying glass stand that has a light on it..
a lil pair of wire snips..
and the all important NEEDLE..sewing needle...
the needles to poke the hole threw after removing that caps...

first i'd put a real little extra drop of solder on both ends of the cap..
just a lil bit..real little
it makes it easier to heat..adding a lil extra bit of solder to remove them..
then i heated one end..gave it a lil easy pull..pulling it out a lil..
then the other end..
back and forth..
lil heat pull easy..lil heat lil easy pull...back and forth..
like rocking it out...
it takes like 2 times...maybe 3 per side of the cap..
not pulling it hard..nice easy
cause if you pull it and force it..you can pull up the copper foil on the PC
board...
nice and easy...back and forth..one side then the other...

then after i had the cap out...
there would still be solder still in the whole...
so..
i'd put the needle in the whole on one side of the board..
then heat the other side of the hole on the other side of the board..
while i'd push the needle threw...
((might even put a lil bit of solder on it again so it would heat easy))

push threw the lil bit of solder left behind with the needle..
the solder doesnt really stick to the stainless steel of a needle..
and there you go...you'd have a nice clean hole...

(i put the needle into a lil square peice of plastic like a knob)..
the plastic knob on the end..to have something i could push on

like make a lil tool..
your lil needle tool..lol...

then after having a nice lil clean hole..
put your new cap in the right way...
gota make sure its in the right way...
negative...positive...

then solder it up...
real little bit of solder...takes like 2-3 seconds
have a nice lil shiney solder joint..
then clip off the extra bit of the new caps leads..
making sure its not to tall sticking out the back of the board..
so it dont touch the case like ground on the case..

yeah i had electronics in high school..
i've solder stuff before..
just a lil pratice anyone could do it .
anyone with a steady hand...

yeah i replaced them all about 40 or so caps....

yeah i know about CAPS holding a charge..
and they can even re-charge just sitting on a shelf..
CRT's are the worst..lol...
you know what a CRT is??..

anyways...yeah no need for a 100 dollar soldering station..

hey Bufflo...you ever resolder a SMD?..
i made this cool ass hot air soldering gun..
with a Radio shack DE-soldering iron..and a fish tank lil air pump..and a
POT..
lol...yeah i like tinkering..i wana be able to fix everything..lol..

anyways...i wana fix my hard drive that Comapq messed up..
yeah my hard drive was fine..it was that stupid mother board..
nothing was wrong with it in the first palce..
when i thought there was...
it had something to do with the mother board not seeing it right threw
Windows 98
i dont know why the Compaq didnt see it in windows 98..

anyways...hey jeff..or PC...where you cool dudes at...lol..im lost..
i've fallen and i cant get up...lol..

HEY JEFF!!!..
HEY PC!!!!

omg..im not use to using this fourm...
i didn't see the blue MORE THING down at the bottom of the page...

i posted a reply to bufflos thing..
and didnt see my post i was like what the heck!!..
wheres my post...

and i messed up and posted it 2 times....
lol..i almost posted it 3 times..lol..

yeah i didn't see your guys replys either..

i didnt know there was another page..
and had to click the lil blue MORE thing in the lower right hand corner...
im use to seeing numbers..

i didnt see it cause i didnt scroll over...
i kinda look silly posting the same thing 2 times....
sorry...

yeah i have ADD...and am hyper active...

lol..im like all happy you guys are still here..

OMG!!..i didnt see your post and thought you guys left me cause i type long
post...

lol..one time this guy..CLSID...for mega codec pack
his fourm..
said i gave him a head ache..lol..

and he said he couldent read all my babble...
and told me to just throw away my computer..
and find something else to do with my free time..lol..

im sorry i dont type like a major geek...
and say stuff like...

yeah my OS is not doing a DL right..i think my TCP/ICP..isent connecting to
my ISP right...and i have changed my INF...and switched DLL's..

you know how hard it is reading stuff like that..
when you have no idea what thier talking about..

yeah im not a geek and dont know everything..
yeah im dyslexic...ha ha i googled that..
its hard typing..

thats why i type paragraphs and make spaces between them..
because i get lost if i don't....

reading is hard too..
im happy you guys..JEFF...AND PC..
are still here..im gona try and figure what i did with
testdisk..
that guy who owns testdisk...the developer guy..
im not sure he talks good english..

cause i'd write alot...and he'd just say stuff like..

Go in Advanced, choose Boot, RebuildBS, List, Quit
and send me the new log file..

i have the e-mails...and the log files..
should i post them?..
any of you two ever use TESTDISK..
i used it in DOS.....
it is used as a boot type thing..
you know..it runs in DOS..

anyways..lol..im like all happy your both still here..
i didn't know there was the MORE thing in the lower right corner..

yeah should i post all the e-mails and logs?..
or like personally e-mail and foward them to both you?...

like copy and paste them all..i think theres like 4-5-6 of them..

my eyes are hurting typing so much..
i'll talk to you guys tomarrow...

thanks so much jeff and pc..you guys are wicked cool...lol..
ha ha even if we dont fix this..it is cool you guys just trying to help..
thanks guys

mikesmith wrote:
hey bufflo..lol...i wana talk to jeff!! or PC..lol..
about my hard drive...

but to answer your question about what i did...
i replaced all the caps...
about 40 or so of them..

you gota get the right kinds of caps to replace them..
not just the right ""microfarad..and the volts...and the heat range""
they gota be the same CLASS TYPES..""OR BETTER""
like THE RIPPLE CURRENT..rating..higher is better
theres a special class type of caps for computers...

[snip]

Thanks for the tip on the stainless steel needle and the steps needed.
I've done some soldering and I do know what a CRT is.
Thanks again.
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hey jeff!!..
how you doing buddy..
i really dont know how to use this fourm..
i kinda got lost not knowing there was a MORE thing.
i wrote a lil about that to you and PC..
im hoping i hear from you again..
yeah im not really use to this forum..i didnt see your guys replys...
i wrote a little about that Test disk guy..
anyways..i hope you can read my bable..
i thought maybe i should reply to this message you wrote..
and see if your still gona try and help me out here..
i have e-mails from that Test disk developer guy..
and the log things when i ran it..
i wrote a lil bit about it in a post here..
anyways..
i putting this post to see if your still here and wanting to try and help me
out here..
im gona reply to one of PC's post too..
talk to you later buddy...

hey PC whats up buddy..
im not use to using this fourm..
and i didnt know there was a more button..
to see the rest of the post..
i wrote a lil bit about that in another post..
anways i don't wana type alot and keep babbling..
hope to hear from you so i can know your still gona try and help me out
here...
yeah im not use to this fourm at all...
talk to you later buddy...