Recent content by Chowder Head

Appreciate the feedback, everyone! So I've decided on either the EVGA G3 550W or the Corsair RMX550W. Regarding noise, you bring up a good point Sith'ari. I'd like a quiet PSU that doesn't lack on performance and the RMX seems to be a good choice in that regard. I've been reading about the...

Follow-up question if you guys didn't mind. If I do decide to get this PSU, how serious of a rig would I have to be pushing for PSU to be insufficient? For example, if I wanted to upgrade to Ryzen in the next year or so, do you think this PSU could be used? Or maybe I should get something...

Thanks for the reply! I looked at Newegg and they have a sale going on for the EVGA G3 550W for $85, $70 after MIR. Does anyone think I can find a better deal than this or should I pull the trigger?

Hey guys, My trusty rig that I built years ago blew its PSU last night. I was watching TV, heard a loud POP! and smelt a faint burning smell. It appears the PSU (Seasonic X-series 750W, purchased in 2011) gave out. I just hope it didn't fry the other components. I was initially drawn to the...

No, the 2TB has always served as a storage drive. The SSD is the only drive that has ever contained an OS. I think I'm gonna research some more about using testdisk to restore the partition so I can access the drive. Has anyone here used testdisk for fixing a RAW drive? Hopefully it's pretty...

Correct, I wiped the SSD which is my primary drive and installed Windows on it. In the list of hard drives it lists the other two drives that I extracted data from but not the primary data hard drive I have, which is the 2TB. It is not accessible because it is still not formatted. And yes...

I thought so, thanks for confirming. I just have two more question at the moment. I'd like to try to secure erase one more time but before that I'd like to wipe the letter drive the 2TB hard drive has been assigned to. Since it is still unformatted, would erasing the letter drive through...

Yeah I only secure erased the primary ssd and not the 2TB one. So getdataback is supposed to be pretty good? Better than recuva? And it will work with a non formated drive as well? Is it similar to other data recovery tools in that it will send the files to another drive? Or since the data is...

Well I did the secure erase through diskpart and it's still not showing up. In fact it somehow assigned a drive letter to the disk but it still wants me to format. It says the drive is not accessible and for me to please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the...

Will do, thanks! Could you elaborate on the ssd's secure erase function though? I have a Crucial C300 and found programs such as HDDErase and Parted Magic but couldn't find one that was specific to my model. Would one of these work?

I formatted it because I thought that was the only way for it to be seen again in Windows. The main one I'm trying to preserve, the 2TB one, has not been formatted again so the data that is on there should be on there. I'm just not sure how I access the data WITHOUT formatting it again since...

Hey guys, here's the skinny. I have an SSD, a 2TB primary storage drive, and two other 500GB drives in my computer. I noticed Windows 7 was getting a little sluggish so I decided to wipe the primary drive which is my SSD. I used DBAN on it to wipe it clean but prior to doing that I unplugged all...

Just thought I'd bump this with a question rather than made a whole new thread. So I have everything I need and installed everything (currently hiding the wires as best I can) but the only piece I'd like to upgrade is my optic drive. My 3550A has been good to me in it's years of service but I...

LOL, did anyone else think the price was $124.25? I was about to order 40 of them haha.

Not gonna lie, I will be extremely jealous if these orders get shipped out...