jonnyss

its a seagate drive, i will download the diagnostics for it, can i just run the iso from a virtual drive? thing is chkdsk was only supposed to check vol c and didnt do d, but befor the event there was only 1 partition on the disk and after there are 2, now i didnt create that, and thats because i dont know how to i have to say that something similer happened before after i replaced the ide cable and the drive wouldnt show up, and when it did it said it wasnt formatted, stupidly i formatted it and lost quite a bit, i used eurasus or somthing which did get the photos back ok and a few music tracks but the rest was corrupt so i started again

i have 2 hdd drives c+d in my pc running xp media center, both 160gb one of them is for the operating system and programs and to download stuff to then move it to the other etc and the other had music, film and photos on it. i decided to defrag drive c but it said chkdsk is scheduled to run so i restarted the pc and let chkdsk run, however it would just run, complete, reboot and run again and again and again, i stopped it and got the screen with safe mode, safe with networking, start with last known good configuration that worked or start normally. i first started normaly but it went into the chkdsk again and again it continued to loop again so i then used the last known working one and it booted to windows ok, however when it did i notice it had found new hardware namely my d drive, so i go to that and it says the drive is not formatted which is odd cos it had about 100 gb of stuff on it. in disk management it now shows the d drive with 2 partitions, one of which is 16gb unallocated and the other as 149gb healthy but no file system (it was ntfs) and 100% free space. has chkdsk done this ? alot of the stuff on there is irreplasible any ideas on this cos i really have lost the plot with it

well im stuck with a pci card as it has no pci-e or agp slots, but which one ? im looking at a GeForce 6200 512Mb PCI graphics video card DVI DDR2 on ebay and also a geforce fx5200 256mb but havent got a clue really

in my infinate wisdom when my missus wanted a pc, i stupidly got a bottom of the range dell namely a dimension 1100, and so to now upgrade it is proving to be a little problematic regarding graphics, so what i need to know is what are my options for better graphics capabilities so as i can use adobe photoshop and illustrator to full potential and maybe windows 7 at some point this it what i have now otc666 mainboard with pentium 4 2.8ghz socket 478 1mb l2 i also have a pentium 4 ht 3ghz 1mb l2 ready to go in onboard intel 82865g graphics 2x 512mb ram 2 ata hard drives i know ill have the hassle of phoning microsoft if i change the board but if im gonna pay say £55 for a pci graphics card it could be better spent on a board with more scope for future upgrades i dont really know what im looking for to be honest so any pointers and suggestions would be nice

hi im jonny and no doubt will need plenty of help:D