Vista Users BEWARE!

[spxdsn]

A company that specialises in storage devices... Quite good stuff too..

 

[Gabriel_du_Coudray]

Just letting you know...

do not compress your hard drive if using vista....

when you restart your computer it will be unable to boot because BOOTMGR.exe will have corrupted.

I did this the other day and had no choice but to reformat:bang:

cheers

Hi VYsam and all who read this,

Sorry his may sting a little but you didnt need to format your drive, just needed to change your boot sequence in your BIOS (hit delete when you pc starts up) so that you can boot from you Vista install dvd,
Boot from the Vista DVD.
Click 'Repair my Computer'
At the prompt to select your OS installation, click the button that says 'Load Drivers'. This should bring up a explorer-style drive browser.

Then just right-click on the drive you tried to compress, and deselect 'Compress this Drive', which should still be ticked on. Hit apply, and apply to subfolders/files.

Reboot.

Fixed it for me, hope this helps in future.

Gabriel

PS.Sorry if you know all this already, i wasnt sure.:thumbsup:

 

[BANKS]

The shop must have been on a hill cus they saw you coming!! I got a LaCie 500gb External for 65bucks from officeworks!

Was just saying what he could have got for his money who is LaCie? They wouldnt have their own brand HDD in the cradle, Would be Western digital or samsung

plus thats an external HDD which are all the rage atm, kinda cant compare it

 

[Joey_21]

The shop must have been on a hill cus they saw you coming!!

SeaGate 500 gig 7200rpm SATA-2 $ 102

Pays to have a look around mate :thumbsup:

lol i did buy it over a year ago though it was good value back then:thumbsup:

 

[Holdfast]

The shop must have been on a hill cus they saw you coming!! I got a LaCie 500gb External for 65bucks from officeworks!

Yeah but you probably got a 16Mb cache and not the 32Mb

Err, SATA or EIDE

 

[yZoH]

*looks at his 2tb NAS*

Compress what? LoL

 

[Flat_White]

Yeah but you probably got a 16Mb cache and not the 32Mb

Err, SATA or EIDE

SATA bro...

 

[Wagon_Wheel]

Depends what you do mate, I have not even had my new comp running for a week and I have filled half of a 250GB drive and 100GB of a 750GB one.

WHOA.... Thats a lot of porn dave...... how long til you have every clip off the internet?

 

[Holdfast]

SATA bro...

Well done then mate; LaCie make some pretty good products:thumbsup:

 

[AirStrike]

WHOA.... Thats a lot of porn dave...... how long til you have every clip off the internet?

It's hard to find those obscure Ukrainian ones with the shaved bears......