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2 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

The sector dying was the cause of the issue, something else in the chain might have caused the effect.

That doesn't make any sense. It's irrelevant what caused a sector to become bad and unreadable -- it's still  a bad sector.

2 minutes ago, leclod said:

I believe your HDDs aren't handled properly (including unsafe shutdowns, power downs) or are old if this happens regularly.

I never said anything about it happening regularly. 30 years is a long time and during that time I've handled hundreds of HDDs -- there's plenty of chances in such a long time to come across drives with bad sectors.

Just now, Master Disaster said:

Conversely, you having lost data on a drive that happened to have bad sectors doesn't automatically mean the bad sectors caused the data loss.

What the fuck are you talking about? Data was on unreadable, bad sectors -- how does it NOT mean that I lost data on those sectors?

Just now, Master Disaster said:

https://www.petervis.com/gallery/hard/Hard Drive Basics/Hard Disk System Area.html

 

Its called the system area, its a reserved part of the platter used solely for storing health information so the drive can look after itself.

Yes, I know. I am fully aware what it is and I have been fully aware of it for the last two decades. Does not change what I said, nor does it somehow magically mean I have not lost data due to bad sectors.

1 minute ago, Master Disaster said:

These days bad sectors on a HDD should never result in data loss, you might get some linking issues between Windows and the drives controller but your data should never be actually lost.

Tell that to all the drives on which I have had data lost due to bad sectors.

Just now, leclod said:

Ok, for example if you shock an hdd it might die too fast on you. But overwise its SMART features might warn you while booting (not sure how good that is but SMART was made for a reason). I use  HD Sentinel to monitor my HDDs and it should warn when bad sectors are appearing.

It can only report about bad sectors once they already exist. Also, SMART isn't some sort of infallible magic -- there are plenty of cases where it fails to notify of issues before it's too late. I have been messing around with computers for soon 30 years; I am not exactly new to any of this.

3 minutes ago, MrConcrete04 said:

Could I utilise this second GPU simultaneously with my gtx 1050ti (which would be gaming) while the 660 would be encoding?

You could, but you'd get worse performance, not better, and you'd also get worse quality. This is to say, it'd be pointless.

1 minute ago, leclod said:

A dying HDD often lets you salvage all the data (if you do it in time).

Not in my experience. A dying HDD typically has already developed broken sectors, which are unreadable or corrupted, ergo you can't recover data from them. If you can't recover data from some sectors, then you obviously cannot salvage all data.

3 minutes ago, leclod said:

A dead HDD often lets salvage most of the data if your willing to spend

OP's question was about doing it at home.

5 minutes ago, dens22 said:

I would like to know from which drive (SSD or HDD) it is easier to pull the data yourself when it is dying or is dead, without sending it to a data recovery company.

With SSDs there isn't really a "dying" at all -- they're either working, or they're dead, and you can't pull anything from a dead drive. With HDDs, there is a "dying" state and yes, you might be able to salvage some of the data, but a dead drive is still a dead drive.

That said, SSDs are far more reliable than HDDs, so planning what you buy based on what you might or might not be able to recover something from is just plain idiotic. It's better to go with reliability from the get-go, instead of going for a "might be able to recover something."

7 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

unless you wanna sail the 7 community standards violations.

29 minutes ago, Liargoff said:

Is there a way to know this spec for consumer level SSDs? For example I am using Samsung 970 Evo NVMe right now - how can I get the info for it?

What I want to know is, why do you care about that metric? It's such an arbitrary thing, since it's still an "up to" - value.

7 minutes ago, Drewbee42 said:

Is this normal

It's perfectly normal, you can continue your build.

Google sure seems to say that that's a R7 265 2GB - model, but that VGA - port looks like it doesn't belong there. Maybe it's some sort of an OEM - model or something? I have no idea how OEM - models of old Radeons look like since I use NVIDIA - cards.

4 minutes ago, paulyron said:

And if i were to have someone put in a new battery, what are the odds it would power on after charging?

There isn't really any reason why it would've stopped working, unless the ballooned-up battery bent the motherboard enough to loosen solder-joints on it. That is to say, there's a pretty good chance it's still perfectly functional and just needs a new battery.

2 minutes ago, NewwGuyy123 said:

can overclocking squeeze some more life out of them?

You can't really get that much performance out of overclocking. A small bump, sure, but it's not any sort of a panacea. Besides which, it'd be idiotic to buy overclockable hardware and then wait with overclocking until the system isn't fast enough anymore -- either overclock from the get-go, or don't bother.

4 minutes ago, NewwGuyy123 said:

Will it reduce longevity?

Only, if you push voltages to unsafe levels and you're constantly riding on the red line with thermals.

2 minutes ago, dragonwagon said:

is there anyway i could fix the cap?, cause i think its no longer in production.

No, you can't fix the cap, but you can replace it with another one. Find one with the same specs, desolder the broken leg, pop the new one in.

1 minute ago, NewwGuyy123 said:

Do they matter for gaming?

No.

1 minute ago, NewwGuyy123 said:

Are they something you have to activate / deactivate manually on your PC, will it affect performance?

Yes, a RAID is something one has to go out of their way to set up and yes, RAID can affect performance, depending on what one does and how it's set up. That said, it won't give you any better performance in games and, since you're a newbie, RAID isn't something you should even be thinking about anyways.

Just now, YesimethanYT said:

Can I extend my SSD space by using some unallocated space on my HDD?

No.

27 minutes ago, Stentorian said:

The assignment specified RAW HTML

Does that also include no CSS? I mean, CSS is not HTML, but any even remotely modern website is bound to make use of at least some CSS, so that part kind of needs clarification.

Just now, Wictorian said:

Do you know how I can stop the program when I want without doing that?

You could e.g. just simply define the hotkey for ESC outside any functions with:

ESC::ExitApp

Or you check inside your loop whether a key is pressed:

ESC::loopFunction()

loopFunction()
{
	MsgBox % "Begin loop!"
	while(1){
		if(GetKeyState("ESC", "P"))
			break
	}
	MsgBox % "ESC pressed, exiting!"
	ExitApp
}

Or instead of a hard loop, you use timer-events or plenty of other ways.

19 minutes ago, therobo6789 said:

yeah but how do input in an existing html code that i have made?

With an HTML-editor.

23 minutes ago, Wictorian said:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 It gives the attached error.

Read the error better: it says you can't put a function inside a function, NOT that you can't call a function from another function. You are defining a hotkey for ESC inside a function, but that's not how hotkeys work.

8 minutes ago, mate the dumb said:

can anyone help me get to 500 pounds in a buget while having parts close to this with i7 and 32gb of ram and a board with wifi and Bluetooth built in

You want to shave £300 off that while still getting something close to those specs? Not doable. Either increase your budget or make do with lesser specs.

2 minutes ago, Panda6sic6 said:

Stores can only get so many and this store can sell in the lot of 100’s??!!!!!! And FOUNDERS EDITIONS nonetheless?!

Don't believe every scam you see on the Internet.

14 minutes ago, Stellarisk said:

Is it normal to constantly jump up like this?

Depends on what you have installed and running, but mostly yes. Windows tends to do all sorts of things in the background.