Recent content by Henry Wong

Oh, my bad. I read that as you were saying Defender was always a AV. That's my bad.

Update on this. After the Anniversary Update I can now run both monitors at full resolution and there are no issues at all. Guess it was just a little glitch they worked out or worked it self out with the update. Sorry it took me so long to post about this. I just remembered this thread today.

What would cause that to happen on random websites?

Remember that before Windows 8, Windows Defender was not an AV. Just throwing that out there.

I was working with Visual Studio, learning to work with .asp and .html, when I noticed that it was giving me weird font errors. I was reading a .txt file and out putting it to a text box. It would change some characters to a diamond ? looking thing. At first I thought it was something strange in...

I don't mind doing backups. I have a server with a 1TB drive devoted to back up data and a 500GB devoted to video/audio. Back up isn't a big deal to me. I have done some just for the fun of it. Its the installing Windows that it is having problems with. They tried to do it themselves and lost...

It's all good. I have done that before too. I wasn't going to say anything. Keep the embarrassment to a minimum. lOl :-P

Its a laptop. Its a Sony VAIO PCG-71511L.

That's exactly what I was hoping it wouldn't be. I wouldn't mind doing that if I was going to get paid well. Though that is a little more work than I want to do for a 6" sub and soda. Thank you for the help.

I am attempting to run a reinstall of Windows 7 for a friend. The system boots and gets into the Windows install, though when it gets to Expanding Files ... 75%, the system acts like it is rebooting and then shuts off. I have thought about that it could be bad RAM or HDD. Though the times that...

Hmmm. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look them up and see if they help.

I have had success with cloning like this before. Never hurts to try. Especially since it is being borrowed from someone else and I'm attempting to get my best-friend out of hot water over it lOl. Worse comes to worse, we will have to do a fresh install anyway. All it will do is waste some time.

I let it run for a few hours. I forgot to get a screenshot. I don't think it was necessary though. With the 488KK sections 200K came up bad. That wasn't even a full scan. So yea, I would say that the drive is going bad. That kinda sucks. I guess I will start by getting a new drive and trying a...

Okay, I just started VIVA. I will put an update on when it is done.

I remembered I have Hire's BootCD 15.2 with me. I booted with that and in the DOS Programs under Hard Disk Tools I found and used the program Hard Disk Sentinel 1.00.5 I have included a screenshot for your reference. What do you think, proof of a bad HDD?