Computer help needed

[Ronin]

Boot the the recovery console off the Windows 7 DVD, and try something like:

fixmbr

Sounds like the boot info is damaged. This will re-write it.

Your on the right track. Win 7 is a bit more complex than that though. fixmbr works a treat on grub errors in XP.

Also be aware... You may lose your linux boot.

Fun aye?

A Mac looking good yet? lol

[motor_mayhem]

Sorry I don't have time to help.

I'm too busy looking at my Mac.

Fixed - Everyone knows you don't buy a Mac to do work, they're just a nerd fashion accessory.

[jonbuoy]

Sorry I don't have time to help.

I'm too busy doing productive work on my Mac.

Rendering 3D graphics with an SLI interface??

[Suntoucher]

Rendering 3D graphics with an SLI interface??

Sitting at Starbucks with it propped on the table pretending to type.

Next to his iPhone.

[Gremlin]

I have a 2TB WD Green Power HD with 64MB cache, and a 500GB Seagate 7200RPM drive, now I've heard these new 'green drives' are a fair bit slower than the old 7200RPM drives, has anyone here noticed any difference in performance between them?

WD doesn't say what the green drives performance are, but we all pretty much know they run at 5400rpm.

Since you have brought up Seagate, it depends on whether that 500GB drive is a (now) infamous seagate 11. On top of that, any new drive is going to perform better than an old one.

[SMOKEU]

WD doesn't say what the green drives performance are, but we all pretty much know they run at 5400rpm.

Since you have brought up Seagate, it depends on whether that 500GB drive is a (now) infamous seagate 11. On top of that, any new drive is going to perform better than an old one.

I've used the Ubuntu disk performance benchmark, and HDTach, and I have found that the WD drive is only slightly slower in the read/write department than the 500GB Seagate, but the seek time is around 20ms with the WD and around 13ms with the Seagate. My guess is that since the WD isn't always operating at its full speed, it's slow when it comes down to day to day running, but quick when reading or writing large amounts of data.

My 320GB SATA Seagate 7200RPM drive is very slow, it has a read rate of around 67MB/s, compared with around 92MB/s for the 500GB model. However, the write speed is around the same for both the Seagate drives. My guess is that the 320GB drive is on its last legs.

Has anyone here got a solid state SATA drive that they have benchmarked, just so I can see the performance difference between a SSD and a disk drive?

[bane]

Has anyone here got a solid state SATA drive that they have benchmarked, just so I can see the performance difference between a SSD and a disk drive?

This link seems to have a few benchmarks:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/s...od-hybrid-hdd/