iainc

Used to have a UK94 wagon myself. The ECU IIRC isn't mappable itself, but you used to be able to get add on boards for them, not sure if this is still possible. I put a full decat on mine, induction kit and a dawes device to screw the boost up a bit (you can only go as high as the fuel cut limit unless you put a dawes on it as well... I didn't). Mine made ~289bhp IIRC on Star Performances RR in Fife. The 94 had a TD05 turbo, so it's a bit all or nothing as far as being on boost

Cool... excellent news. It's worth persevering with it after all

Actually, I felt the other way... as long as a car was given a C02 rating, why should people after a certain point in 2006 be subjected to it when everyone else before it got away "scot free" IYKWIM. Other side of the coin is, why should someone with a 1972 Range Rover 3.5 V8 which does say 9 or 10mpg (I've a 91 V8i Disco and that's the mpg you get out of it) get free road tax and yet someone else with a car doing 20-30mpg+ get hammered for road tax. If it really was a "green" tax then they would have done something about the testing of cars at MOT time, whereby you actually pay what the car puts out. You reduce it at MOT time you pay less (obviously they hope you keep it running at those levels ). We all know however that it's got as much to do with being green as the easter bunny has to do with halloween

*cough* as of last night there are no "moggies" near my car... other than the two felines that we have Sounds a lot better and after a certain Mr. A.F has finished with it, shoudl go a h*ll of a lot better as well

Yeah, watched it and as usual it wasn't "news"... was all stuff most people would already know. I'd have been far more interested in a piece where they said that chucking another cat on the car would reduce the emissions by x amount and therefore allow you to drop into a certain group to save so much cash per year. Okay, most people would do it to get the lower rating and then immediately swap back onto the full decats but it'd save a few quid Have an 06STi so am already used to the £400 road tax, paid that earlier this year. Think it goes up to £440 or something next year.

Definitely... can't believe that no-one close isn't able to help you out at some point, even if it's a week or two later. I'd bet that the moment you wiped the drive you'd suddenly remember about something else that was on it that you would struggle to replace. I know that if you were anywhere near here I'd drop in, or you could drop in past me and I'd see what I could do. Am sure that there are people a lot closer to you thinking the same.

So why not let someone else have a go before you wipe the lot, am positive someone on here could help you get the remaining stuff back from it.

Was gonna say if you are getting access the way you are at the moment then you can definitely gain access to the other folder one way or another. Wouldn't chuck it without letting someone else have a go (unless it really is dodgy pron... in which case there'll be a long line of folk ready to help I'd bet ) Wait a min... Your first name is Paul... your surname isn't Gadd by any chance? Don't you know it's all that computer crap that got you in trouble in the first place

Yup, was gonna say worst comes to worst post the drive to me or someone else closer who can get the data off for you if it's just a security thing that's causing you bother (registered or recorded delivery though )

Only shows 0 bytes as you don't have permissions to see the 30gb or whatever. Doesn't mean there is nothing in the folder. It's often like that swapping a drive from one machine to another as the folder will have oldmachinename\PaulC555 as the owner of the files/folders and you are logged on as newmachinename\Paul or whatever so it doesn't match up, and even if you are logged on as Administrator, the machine names are different. If you are an admin though you should be able to take control of the files/folders on the drive as it's a local drive

As an admin on the new machine, you should be able to right click on the folder and go into the advanced tab/button and take ownership of the folder and if need be reset permissions on all files/folders within that folder to allow you full access.

He might need to take ownership of the folder before it will let him gain access to it though, that plus resetting the permissions on it to allow the "new" user access to it.

Doesn't work all the time though. Have even resorted to physically opening a HDD to see if I can sort it with limited success. It's really a do or die thing though, although I'm sure a proper recovery place would still get info from the platters, you are probably only going to make it worse if you cannot sort the problem (oh and obviously once you get the data from the drive it's only good for the skip afterwards, or an ornament )

Yeah, I've managed to get some data from a HDD that was like that by wrapping it very carefully and a sealed freezer bag and chucking it in the freezer for a couple of hours, then quickly getting it back online to get the data off before it warmed up too much Got to watch doing stuff like that though 'cos if you get moisture on the electrics you know what'll happen

As long as the HDD itself isn't fooked then hooking it up to any windows machine will work easily as well. Only time you want to be paying for it is if the HDD itself is kinda screwed, then you are needing someone who knows WTF they are doing to get the data off the drive without making it worse.

Just occured to me, you haven't recently added a new printer or external USB drive have you? Have seen cases where a printer with a memory card slot has been connected to a machine and the machine is actually trying to boot off the memory card slot on the printer rather than the local HDD, same goes with having an external HDD connected. Would definitely be worth removing anything external to the machine other than the monitor, keyboard and mouse (unless you've already done this). Iain.

It should allow you to see all the normal partitions on the drive, only possible issues might come from the drive if it's not been left as a BASIC drive, but I've never had any issues with multiple partitions on a caddy yet (maybe just lucky).

Hmmm, just had a quick look online about it. Have you added anything new to the machine recently? You could try disconnecting the floppy drive, CD/DVD and anything else connected to the machine to see if it makes any difference as well. You do get boot CD's that would get you to an OS which would allow you to get to the data but then if it's an issue with the BIOS of the machine you still won't go any further. You could try resetting the BIOS. To do it you need to open the machine up (make sure you are grounded before playing inside it though), and normally beside the small battery on the motherboard you will see a small jumper. These vary from machine to machine, some have three pins and with it on two of them it saves the BIOS info and on the middle one and the "empty" one it clears it, some of them will not boot with it on the "cleared" option but it will have cleared the BIOS, some do boot okay though, just any changes aren't saved until it's moved back. I know that one of my mates machines was goosed like that and I couldn't find any issues at all (didn't even get anything on the monitor at all) and resetting the BIOS was the only thing that worked, machine continues to work fine now as well. Maplins/PC World do the caddys that Welsho was talking about, should be able to get hold of one easily enough.

Aye that's what I meant... am nearly 10 years older so it was the previous generation of hot hatches. The 8v Golf GTi at the time only had 112bhp IIRC and it was seen as one of the hot hatches, think virtually every car made these days has more than that (probably most ride on mowers too ) I refuse to get a van (people carrier), if we have enough kids that we need 7 seats then either I'll try and get the discovery back on the road or we'll just need to drive two cars everywhere instead

Yup, IKWYM. I bought my first one when the wife finished college/training but we had a mortgage at that point (but it was a small one)... everyone thought I'd have to flog it when the first kid came along but other than the mpg, it was a fine family car. Ended up having to trade it in for a TDi in the end due to the mileage I was doing at the time, but now we have two kids I'm back in an STi Can't see past them for being a decent all round motor. Have never paid more than £650 for insurance on anything though and had always said that if my insurance had gone over £1k I'd have sold the car.

You must be a lot younger than me then... 309GTis that I had around then... having a motor with 130bhp+ was a big thing then (or at least I seem to remember it was until the Cosworths appeared on the scene but I couldn't afford one of them anyway). Used to think it was really fast until I went to overtake something and looked behind to see a small dot in my mirrors, when I pulled back in after completing the overtake I was passed like I was stood still by a scooby Was what I then swapped that GTi for a short while later

Well in one year, excluding the cost to buy the car, you will be ~£4k for insurance, £200-400 for road tax and if you do an average of 10k a year then you'll spend £2500-£3000 on fuel. That's before you spend anything on servicing or mods or any parts that your car may need. So you are going to spend somewhere in the region of £8k on top of the cost of the car in one year. I was 24 or 25 I think before I bought my first scoob and TBH I'm glad I was that old and couldn't afford one earlier, 'cos I know I would have been a right twunt in one when I was 19-21 (when I had Pug GTis I was bad enough in them ) End of the day it's your money though and if you can afford it and really want it, go for it. Just bear in mind though that at the moment it appears to be almost impossible to sell a performance car for anything like what you think it's worth, so if you do buy one and then realise it's too expensive to run then you are going to be seriously left out of pocket and possibly stuck with a car you are struggling to give away.

Yup, added to which although some people can get 270 miles or more out of a tank, most don't and if you are going to use all the performance you definitely wont. Budget for 200 miles out of a tank. If you were getting rough quotes of £3.5k-£4k for insurance on a std car, then expect £4k+ on a modded motor (if they'll even insure you at all). Like I say, at your age (regardless of how much money you are making) I'd maybe buy an older classic as a track car and get something cheaper to insure/run for normal running about (keep your beemer for example). That way you can spend all the money on tracking a car that you aren't using on the road so won't have to worry about having to declare mods, road tax, insurance, etc. All the fun and none of the hassle.

Pity you hadn't been closer to Aberdeen or I could have helped you out somehow. Got plenty of old machines that you could chuck the drive into to get the data from without having to buy anything. What exactly is the problem with booting, is it that it cannot see the HDD or that it tries to boot but fails part way thru' the windows boot up?