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Thanks for the quick response guys. So the answer is basically no. I didn't realise prior to purchase that this would be an issue, but lesson learned. I think I'll keep the HDD, as it's WD Red for general backup, and get a cheap 2tb external drive just to get stuff on the TV and to act as...

I just bought a new 3tb hdd to be used in an external caddy and I am able to access all 3tb (or rather 2.7tb) over USB by converting it to GPT (although not through my ESATA port). The problem is that the primary purpose of this external drive is to be plugged into the USB port of a...

I'm sure you'll all be thrilled to know that my new part arrived, and I managed to install it successfully and put the laptop back together without any screws left over! The laptop is humming along nice and quiet, thanks to the dust I removed for the inside of the beast. All's well that ends...

The problem is that the end of the ribbon that connects to the power board had about 8 thin electric strips or "fingers" (that flow through the inside of the plastic ribbon) that made contact with the power board. In my haste to try and reconnect everything, and rough handling of the ribbon...

Cheers. Will have a go.

I have a Toshiba Satellite L505-144 that I bought three years ago. A very decent laptop, that's worked well. Unfortunately, it's recently gotten to the point where any kind of slightly strenuous task has the laptop overheating and actually powering down after 30-60min. I thought, being...

Thanks for the tips guys. I tried testdisk. It took an age for the hdd screen to come up, it hanged on the initial "please wait" for a long time. It eventually saw my hdd, with the correct name etc and I went through the process to write it back, rebooted, but no luck, still the same issue with...

Hopefully someone can help after my fruitless google search. I have a 2TB Samsung SATA hard drive in an external enclosure that has obviously developed some bad sectors after being dropped at one point in time in the past. The issue is that I was trying to access a file on the hard drive...

The point being that if you don't have sky or virgin, and just have freeview that's built in to your tv, this whole thing is utterly pointless for you.

"It's always listening".....:eek: Even when in standby mode, the console will always be listening to everything going on...

Seeing as I don't have Virgin or Sky TV, and have no intention of ever paying the stupid money they charge for TV, the main feature that MS are touting with XB1 is entirely pointless for me, even ignoring the fact that it's not launching with that capability in the UK. Graphics in the games...

60FPS at 1080p? Sounds good to me.

What on earth do you still you an original xbox for?

You got me, I phrased that wrong. To rephrase: "I am in the vastly outnumbered minority".

XBL Gold is a massive cash cow for MS. They would have to be mad to give it up! I personally don't play online games anymore, and in my three and a half years of owning a 360 have never used Gold, but I am in the vast minority. I would be very surprised if Sony don't incorporate some kind...

If the nextbox does run on some form of windows 8 (hence the 3gb ram for OS rumours), do you guys see this as a good thing or bad?

I don't see how on earth a 360 SOC would improve the performance of the Nextbox. Surely you would have to have some crazy complex coding and system configuration for an x64 based cpu to work in tandem with a 360 based architecture? Why bother?

Are you guys not put off by the copious amounts of QTE's and fairly linear game play?

Batman Arkham Asylum - got it on the xbox sale for £2.69. Solid story and gameplay. Enjoyable, but not quite the amazing game it was made out to be. Will probably pick up Arkham City eventually too. 7/10

There is no way in hell that the nextbox will be able to play windows 8 PC games. The whole business model of a console is that the console maker charges the developer/publisher a licence to sell games on the console. This is the main way in which a console maker makes money. Conversely...