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I want to know, If my hard drive's MBR is corrupt (I think it might be because I can't install windoze xp, it says no Hdd detected, but in bios it picks up the hdd). I want to know if there is any recommended application to use, IE from hiren's boot disk for example?

Second question, Is it possible to tweak the Thunderbird application so that certain emails can be printed as soon as they come through? Without having to physically sit infront of my pc..

Cheers!
 
If windows is saying no hdd detected there's a number of possible reasons, the MBR being corrupt is unlikely to be the cause. More likely is that you need raid drivers to install xp. You have two options here, sometimes you can set your bios to detect the sata drives in IDE mode or worded something similar. If this option doesn't work, you most likely need the raid drivers (even if you're not using raid itself). Sometimes you get lucky and your motherboard comes with a stiffy with the drivers, other times it's on the driver cd and you have make the stiffy with the drivers. Then when installing windows just as it's starting the boot from cd, you'll see an option to press F6 for drivers. Press f6 and a short while later it'll ask for the stiffy disk.

With regards to the thunderbird and printing, I'm not aware of any software and I think it's unlikely there's any out there. I can also see tons of posibilities for abuse... Imagine if I knew your email address and decided to prank you by sending a 300-page email to you? ;)
 
hyarion said:
Imagine if I knew your email address and decided to prank you by sending a 300-page email to you? ;)
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Good plan but I am aware that the Thunderbird already has a feature to leave emails of a certain size on the server, how hard will it be to set up a limit for printing purposes?
OCR could also be a possibility to filter out spam faxes..

I am a South AfriCAN not a South African't ^^
 
I know M$ Office 2010 can do it (Just checked myself, using a trial version), not so sure about Thunderbird though. Will download and fiddle :D

EDIT: Couldn't find anything helpful except for autoPrint, which doesn't work with Thunderbird 3.1
 
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hyarion said:
If windows is saying no hdd detected there's a number of possible reasons, the MBR being corrupt is unlikely to be the cause. More likely is that you need raid drivers to install xp. You have two options here, sometimes you can set your bios to detect the sata drives in IDE mode or worded something similar. If this option doesn't work, you most likely need the raid drivers (even if you're not using raid itself). Sometimes you get lucky and your motherboard comes with a stiffy with the drivers, other times it's on the driver cd and you have make the stiffy with the drivers. Then when installing windows just as it's starting the boot from cd, you'll see an option to press F6 for drivers. Press f6 and a short while later it'll ask for the stiffy disk
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I agree with this post, but you can also try the following:
Right click on "My Computer" > choose Manage> under storage, choose Disk management.
If you see the hdd there you need to partition and format
 
Tweak said:
I want to know, If my hard drive's MBR is corrupt (I think it might be because I can't install windoze xp, it says no Hdd detected, but in bios it picks up the hdd). I want to know if there is any recommended application to use, IE from hiren's boot disk for example?

Second question, Is it possible to tweak the Thunderbird application so that certain emails can be printed as soon as they come through? Without having to physically sit infront of my pc..

Cheers!
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hyarion said:
If windows is saying no hdd detected there's a number of possible reasons, the MBR being corrupt is unlikely to be the cause. More likely is that you need raid drivers to install xp. You have two options here, sometimes you can set your bios to detect the sata drives in IDE mode or worded something similar. If this option doesn't work, you most likely need the raid drivers (even if you're not using raid itself). Sometimes you get lucky and your motherboard comes with a stiffy with the drivers, other times it's on the driver cd and you have make the stiffy with the drivers. Then when installing windows just as it's starting the boot from cd, you'll see an option to press F6 for drivers. Press f6 and a short while later it'll ask for the stiffy disk.
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I have had this last week on a laptop. Windows does not detect SATA drives always. go into BIOS and look for a setting to change the SATA to emulate legacy IDE.
A quote from google:

go in the bios.

system configuration-->SATA Native Support-->changed enabled to DISABLED

drive is now recognized.
 
stroebs said:
I know M$ Office 2010 can do it (Just checked myself, using a trial version), not so sure about Thunderbird though. Will download and fiddle :D

EDIT: Couldn't find anything helpful except for autoPrint, which doesn't work with Thunderbird 3.1
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autoprint

Good :D
Luckily I don't use the latest version of thunderfluff
 
Nope, couldn't actually find the actual plugin ._.
 
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