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Can you web dev with Express? That's his favorite topic?
Gona investigate that! Thanks!
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Yup. Visual Web Developer... oh sorry, renamed as Express for Web[^]. You'd be hard pressed (IMO) to tell it apart from the full beast.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: tell it apart from the full beast
They usually come in pairs... oh, never mind.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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WebDev will do the trick for him! 
Also, here at work, they somehow get a version of VS which doesn't require login?!
(it's a government facility, NOT the one known as Area 51 though!  )
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You can get the free Express editions here[^].
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Cool! WebDev is what he wants!
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My thanks. I could have found it myself but now I'm motivated.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Super Lloyd wrote: MSDN is a bit prohibitively priced for hobbby purpose...
And pointless regardless.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Well.. VS is the best for WPF editing!
But.. one need MSDN to have an edition of VS editing WPF... 
Might have to try SharpDevelop again.. (just for fun, I have VS 2013 )
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Pro doesn't support WPF?
(VS 2010 Express is still good enough for what I use VS for.)
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Of course Pro supports WPF!
I wonder how hobbyist who don't have MSDN do!
Hey, Express C# might have it, doesn't it? M...
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Super Lloyd wrote: Express C# might have it, doesn't it?
I have no idea; I don't use WPF.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I volunteered to help a friend of the wife's last week with computer problems. The workstation belongs to a local church and contains years of business information. The workstation refuses to boot. Plugging the drive in as a slave starts chkdisk which reports that the master file table is corrupt, and aborts. The drive is not accessible through explorer, which reports the same error. I was able to recover all files on the disk using photorec however, it meant losing filenames and directory information. I am about to dig out the old XP CD's and try a repair. Has anybody had any luck fixing a corrupted master file table? Google results on this one look pretty grim. The sad thing is, this is a pro-bono job, and I already have a few hours in it. (not counting the 16 hours it took to recover the files to another disk) Here goes nothing....
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Did you do the fdisk /fixmbr
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Tried it. I finally dug out the XP Home CD and have given up hope on anything but a re-install so that I can at least give them the computer back running with their recovered data on DVDs. Formatting now,... I suppose I am past the point of no return. With any luck all they really need are the quickbooks files and office documents.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Formatting now,...
Either the disk failed, or they turned off the computer without shutting it down. If you even suspect the disk failed, replace it. Microsoft is so poor at dealing with failed disks that it can't ever be reliable on anything but a fully functioning one (XP let me install it to a drive where the heads were glued to the platter and never once squawked about any kind of problem.. it didn't even take longer to install). Oh, and make sure you format it for NTFS
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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mbr and mft are different things, at different levels.
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Yes, I know, I brain farted....
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Hi, there's MFT mirror afaik (on the disk itself - $MFTMirr). It should contain few backup records from MFT. Mainly the MFT itself. It might be, that corrupted is only the information about MFT (volume information which contains MFT location). If I can recommend you a software I would use GetDataBack for NTFS. Anything else would require more detailed analysis of this disk contents. To see what's there and what's not. Which entries are corrupted or if structure is corrupted itself. I'm off to bed now.
regards,
Kate
P.S.: If you want to dig deeper, try this program.
Disk Editor[^]
modified 23-Jun-14 19:44pm.
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I love GetDataBack as it has saved my ass a couple of times.
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kmoorevs wrote: I volunteered to help a friend of the wife's last week with computer problems
Words of Wisdom: Don't ever do that again
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Do you fix computers?
Not if I can avoid it!!
*actual conversation last week*
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kmoorevs wrote: I volunteered to help a friend of the wife's last week with computer problems. The workstation belongs to a local church and contains years of business information. The workstation refuses to boot. Plugging the drive in as a slave starts chkdisk which reports that the master file table is corrupt, and aborts. The drive is not accessible through explorer, which reports the same error. I was able to recover all files on the disk using photorec however, it meant losing filenames and directory information. I am about to dig out the old XP CD's and try a repair. Has anybody had any luck fixing a corrupted master file table? Google results on this one look pretty grim. The sad thing is, this is a pro-bono job, and I already have a few hours in it. (not counting the 16 hours it took to recover the files to another disk) Here goes nothing....
Download Parted Magic[^] (will cost you USD$4.99) and burn it to a USB with YUMI[^].
Then boot from the USB and run through this tutorial[^].
If the repair of the MFT doesn't work you can at least copy off the files with folder structure from within the TestDisk command line.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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If part of MFT is corrupted, you should be able to read something. This message is probably due to corruption in MBR where is the data to find and validate MFT. If system is FAT, there is probably a chance to look at the table manually and see if anything survived (the records of FAT are fixed size - easy to read). If it is NTFS, you should try some tools, but if it didn't work - sorry.
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