Recent content by rghollenbeck

Now I'm thinking that the blown capacitors may have fried the original hard drive. I may never recover that data, but I will have more than double my hard disk capacity--from 0.75 TB to 1.75 TB! The kit to make that terabyte hard drive into an external HD is more expensive than the drive...

You were very right! I wasn't supposed to open the case because it is under warranty and they have security tape on it. But when I went in to Best Buy, I mentioned your post and the Geek Squad guy opened it up and said, "Yep, blown caps. We're gonna have to send it in." I still have to pay...

"\windows\system32\boot\winload.exe", etc. I wonder why a 64 bit OS would have and use a subdirectory under "\windows\" called "system32"? Why not, "system64" or simply, "system"? Odd, don't you think?

Yes, I thought about swapping the drive into another machine, but all my other machines and their drives are IDE and this drive is SATA. I don't know how to convert an IDE machine into one compatible with SATA drives.

Thank you. I'm covered under "black tie protection" at Best Buy, but that doesn't cover a $100 back-up of the hard drive. If I can prove it's a motherboard problem, such as a faulty capacitor, I'll be able to restore my system for free. I'll open the case and check it out. I really hope...

I understand it is poor netiquette to cross-post. What if I am unsure about in which forum I should post? For example, I have a boot-up problem which produces the Blue Screen of Death, so I posted it in the BSOD forum. but there might be (I haven't yet found it), for example, a "Boot-up...

My ASUS (quad core) Windows 7 (64 bit) machine just won't boot. It has 1.75 TB hard disk space: one 1 TB Western Digital HD, and a defective (stock) Seagate 750 GB HD (unplugged and disconnected because of defect). My first guesses about the possible cause(s): 1. Bad hard drive: No, because...