Sandisk cards come / used to come with a CD containing "rescuepro" which was free to use - might be worth trying to download that from somewhere / blag a physical copy?
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Sandisk cards come / used to come with a CD containing "rescuepro" which was free to use - might be worth trying to download that from somewhere / blag a physical copy?
Each to their own. I used to build gaming PCs 2 decades ago when all PCs were beige boxes. I always wanted my money to have gone on the processing power and reliability not the look of the thing. I want to look at the images it throws on the screen not the box. A box as small and unobtrusive as possible, hiding away under the desk or behind the screen, and preferably silent. The last one I specced (but someone else built) had a Coolermaster quiet tower case with quiet fans and a load of sound deadening padding. Ideally a tiny form factor case, but of course there are compromises in accommodating the power, graphics cards and managing airflow.
I remember the case modding scene getting big and thinking that looks cool... for about 5 seconds, then thinking it would be really distracting, especially given I also did work on it, or next to it. No stranger to WFH; I was doing it in the early 2000s (though just occasional days). Quite annoying on a dial up modem when you realise you needed a 5Mb file off the shared drive!
I remember the case modding scene getting big and thinking that looks cool... for about 5 seconds, then thinking it would be really distracting, especially given I also did work on it, or next to it. No stranger to WFH; I was doing it in the early 2000s (though just occasional days). Quite annoying on a dial up modem when you realise you needed a 5Mb file off the shared drive!
fossyant
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You and me both grandad. My last PC was like that, quiet, hidden, boring but a decent processor, memory and graphics card. But that was last century !
Jody
Stubborn git
I never blew that much! Most I spent on a GPU was £230 in 2000, which to be fair was the best card available at the time and inflation-adjusted would be north of £420 today. After a bit of googling I think it was a Geforce 256 DDR card, an Asus V6800 Deluxe complete with 3D glasses! 
They were shutter glasses that would alternate frames for left and right eyes. I think I played 1 game of Unreal Tournament (at 640x480 as the card needed to do double the framerate to render alternate views) and gave up with a splitting headache! Back to 2d in 1024x768 at a blistering 75 fps!
They were shutter glasses that would alternate frames for left and right eyes. I think I played 1 game of Unreal Tournament (at 640x480 as the card needed to do double the framerate to render alternate views) and gave up with a splitting headache! Back to 2d in 1024x768 at a blistering 75 fps!Mine has flashy fans for my Zwift PC
Ridiculous demand. It was bitcoin mining, now it's that and AI model training
fossyant
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I think my daughter paid over £450 for her 3070TI used. She needed it for rendering her animation for her degree as the 970 wasn't quick enough.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
Blimmin windows updates. My Lenovo Yoga's camera has just stopped working - face recognition on login just stopped. Googled it, and suggestion of rolling back an update. Guess what, it fixed it.
lazybloke
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You should volunteer as a tester. If more people like you (with a Yoga) did this, the bug would have been detected before it went into general circulation!
bobzmyunkle
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Lot's of stuff out there detailing how to install windows 11 on non compliant PCs so I thought I'd give it a go.
Plus side - very easy.
Negative - it ran painfully slow on windows 11.
Plus side - even easier to roll back to 10.
Plus side - after experiencing 11 for a couple of days, 10 seems lightening fast.
Looks like I'll have shell out for an upgrade though.
Plus side - very easy.
Negative - it ran painfully slow on windows 11.
Plus side - even easier to roll back to 10.
Plus side - after experiencing 11 for a couple of days, 10 seems lightening fast.
Looks like I'll have shell out for an upgrade though.
fossyant
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I think you'll be safe enough on 10 though. I updated my laptop in the summer because the old laptop was falling to bits - bought a used/recycled Lenovo Yoga with Win 11 for about £350, and it more than does the job. Only used for web browsing and if camping, the occasional movie. Despite Lenovo's agricultural looks, they are tough. I miss my works Lenovo - I've now got a flimsy HP Elite Book.
Bristolian
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I can recommend Lexar Recovery Tool, which is a free download from Lexar's web site. It's my go-to recovery tool for those (fortunately) rare occasions that I delete stuff off my memory cards accidentally. There are versions for Mac and Windoze. I used it to recover this image from an SD card which had been formatted in-camera earlier today. You do lose the original file number, which can be a drag, but at least you get the image back. Hope that helps
Marchrider
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I can recommend Lexar Recovery Tool, which is a free download from Lexar's web site. It's my go-to recovery tool for those (fortunately) rare occasions that I delete stuff off my memory cards accidentally. There are versions for Mac and Windoze. I used it to recover this image from an SD card which had been formatted in-camera earlier today. You do lose the original file number, which can be a drag, but at least you get the image back. Hope that helps
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Many many thanks for this - used Lexar and everything very easily recovered, and free!
still curious as to what happened for the card to loose its file system - I have two canon cameras, a small one and a medium one, I accidentally used the card that eventually failed in the wrong camera, and when I plugged it back into its original camera it wasn't recognised
any way with your help, I got the half dozen pictures I wanted, so thanks again
And I do like that picture of Mr Kingfisher
