about DVDs, everywhere in the world, they can store 4.7Gb if they have one side and one layer. The two sides and/or two layers versions of DVDs can store more info (up to about 11 Gb). About the prize, a 4.7 Gb DVD-R is about 1.80 € in Spain, I think. (1 € = aprox $ 1.20 USA)
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Originally posted by Guido
the software crashed (after rebooting, but before entering into windows (xp))
That's why I suggested to use the recovery disks, not doing it from Windows
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Originally posted by Guido
Luckily, a friend of mine had read about a (then freeware) program which helped me recover some of the files lost (by searching the records in the hard drive, because I had to format it to make it work again).
That seems to be a very good program.
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Originally posted by Guido
I wouldn't really reccommend PM unless it's strictly necessary
Me neither.
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Originally posted by Guido
Why do you need to format? Why not just delete the windows and program files folders (the root, docs and settings, etc.) from a DOS boot disk (or elsewhere since you have NTFS) and reinstall again?
I also like to format instead of doing that. Formating checks for bad clusters and if you install a system from scratch you avoid fragmention (<- i don't know very well how to explain this)
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