Good Morning MOT

Good catch there dkt. Too big of a hurry yesterday morning I guess. Anyway...not so bad this morning. Belated Congratulations to parmesian!

I jumped on the CFSW in an unabashed badge hunting move. On a good day I can apply something approaching 80 cores to a problem but there are all sorts of mitigating circumstances. I should be able to get to Sapphire in about 10 days. Of course, with all the issues that come up with computers, that could go astray. And then there are some folks that have huge queues and slower machines and that tends to clog up the validations so perhaps 2 weeks is a more realistic expectation.

I still cannot seem to get a HCC GPU Beta.

I agree with Keith. Where are you Dr. Mike??

Everyone have a great day; no real reason not to.

As I recall, your machines are Lenovos. Check if this message is from the Lenovo Thinkvantage Toolbox (aka PC Doctor). If you open the toolbox, find the specific error and look that up on their website, I believe it's just some bad sectors that can be fixed/addressed with a chkdsk at bootup.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 04/20 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
RT                                1          0     177,010,851         250,501
GeraldRube                        2          0     107,342,486         134,358
judson Somerville MD              3          0      97,356,854         136,725
Coingames                         4          0      73,593,064         107,700
parmesian                         5          0      38,083,606          31,117
NiceMedTexMD                      6          0      35,201,358               0
xroule                            7          0      32,624,114          54,365
brown chris                       8          0      25,921,870          20,719
David Autumns                     9          0      23,949,699          58,351
keithhenry                       10          0      21,509,416          12,685
finman                           11          0      18,919,513          30,997
Vuj                              12          0      17,451,068          16,685
nl59056                          13          0      16,224,661           4,937
dkt                              14          0      14,732,573          28,157
Esteban69                        15          0      14,078,775           2,616
Blueprint                        16          0      14,006,143          16,732
darth_vader                      17          0      12,110,935          16,011
Fanie                            18          0      12,082,515          15,126
Daeloan                          19          0      11,941,665          36,551
PohSoon                          20          0       9,193,413           7,670
lawrencehardin                   21          0       8,189,889           7,712
frans6nl                         22          0       7,565,803           2,335
smcclarigan                      23          0       4,583,287          10,760
pramodp                          24          0       4,372,426          10,298
Tomwp                            25          0       4,355,506               0
Bon Kuhlman                      26          0       3,253,350           2,833
Jonathon Wright                  27         +1       3,204,491          26,293
johng                            28         -1       3,187,452               0
Wunderwuzzi                      29          0       2,636,921               0
YellowAV                         30          0       2,514,926           1,629
dubhain                          31          0       2,100,366           9,136
Mechanical                       32          0       1,915,114           4,566
elpe                             33          0       1,606,669             674
Lanscader                        34          0       1,319,376               0
newtod                           35          0       1,097,267             529
hne12359                         36          0         867,067               0
CCH                              37          0         743,859           2,619
cknotty                          38          0         313,317               0
jan.fratric                      39          0         285,227               0
imdioxin                         40          0         229,622               0
sz2000                           41          0         143,852           3,854
Jean-Guy Germain                 42          0         118,328           2,438
sm217144                         43          0          37,570               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 250,501 points
02: judson Somerville MD - 136,725 points
03: GeraldRube - 134,358 points
04: Coingames - 107,700 points
05: David Autumns - 58,351 points
06: xroule - 54,365 points
07: Daeloan - 36,551 points
08: parmesian - 31,117 points
09: finman - 30,997 points
10: dkt - 28,157 points
11: Jonathon Wright - 26,293 points
12: brown chris - 20,719 points
13: Blueprint - 16,732 points
14: Vuj - 16,685 points
15: darth_vader - 16,011 points
16: Fanie - 15,126 points
17: keithhenry - 12,685 points
18: smcclarigan - 10,760 points
19: pramodp - 10,298 points
20: dubhain - 9,136 points

Total points returned today: 1,067,679
Active members returning points today: 33
Average points per member active today: 32,353.9091

Good Saturday Morning MOT

Congratulations Blueprint!



Keith's comment is likely quite relevant. Now as to your question. The way to format an external drive is to bring up "my computer" then right-click on the external drive in question (that you have previously attached to the computer) and choose format. IIRC it lets you choose which format you want and you can choose NTFS. Then you might be able to do your backup. Keith is likely right that a few sectors may have gone bad and that chkdsk can fix that. On the other hand, if this is the start of a continuing series of sectors going bad, it would be best to have the backup in the event you need to replace the drive. Of course, if you have the original operating system CDs and CDs for all installed programs, you would be able to recover the system in the event of a total meltdown. Now as to your data, you would of course have to have it backed up to some source. I back my data up across my LAN to a backup hard drive on another machine but you can do yours in many different ways including backing up your data files onto CD/DVD. Roxio and many other vendors often provide the software to do this or you can simply copy the directories directly using drag n drop or command line commands.

Everyone have a great Saturday!

Running CHKDSK X: /F /R would perform a full scan (including bad sectors) and attempt to fix them. (substitute the drive letter you want to check for the X). It will probably take a reboot for it to start.