Mark Collins

Just an update I would like to thank all the hmvf members who attended we have just totaled up the amount for Help 4 Heroes an we raised (a massive £1100) thanks to everyone again. I am extremly pleased how the day went and we had decent weather again a massive thankyou and watch this space about next years show. Thanks Mark

At the moment its going to be a line up at the Martell's carpark about 10am (and hopefully Nicholas Soames and the mayor) will be in some vehilces and then its a short run down round the one way system and back up the london road and then back to the Martell's car park where then the show will be opened by them, its also being done to publisis the event. We do have a motorcycle escort so everthing is above board. Hope this helps.

(Latest and last update) Just to keep those of you informed who are attending we have 28 vehilces booked in, Nicholas Soames MP is opening the event and possibly the town mayor, their is going to be a short road run thought the town for those who wish to take part. H4H , SSAFA, and other military charities will be there a Magician for the kids, Military Face painting, a band playing 1940s music between 12-2. Britians (Toy soldier) manufacturer will be their showiing pre-production samples of forthcoming releases and also (depending on the weather) they will have a vickers on display and a couple of re-enactors in WWI & WWII uniforms answering questions and lots more. Tea & coffee available all day for exhibitors, the local Air cadets will also be in attendence collecting for H4H, The UK Tank Club will also be displating their 1/8 & 1/16 scale tanks, also a field kitchen will be in attendence. To give you an idea of some of the vehicles attending we have a Mowag Ambulance (from Sittingbourne) a Land Rover Gunship (coming all the way from Suffolk) a Dingo, a couple of ferrets (griff66's) and a Mk1 a Humber pig a couple of reo's a couple of jeeps and several other landrovers and several other vehicles.

Paul I have had the same problem on my Series 3 (at present being worked on) the guy who is working on it has sorted this problem as we were trying to work out the same for my landy, he had some old window frames from a caravan which is bigger enough to take civvie plates and military plates in the same channel, and will be painting them black or green depending on the pattern on the vehicle and is mounting/riviting them to the bodywork so I have to do is slide the military plates in and out when needed and helps keeps the civvie plates in situ as well. When I can get up there I can take some pics and post if its any help. Mark

Welcome Chris From another Sussex member, the rest of the Sussex bunch will be along soon, if you are in East Grinstead on thew 24th April fill free to pop along to Martell's as we have a military show happening on that date, I expect I will meet you on the show curcuit at some stage as I have booked into most of the Sussex area shows (Ardingly , Cuckoo, Amberley, Ringmer (I suppose I must do this one as i'm the military Marshal). Mark

Welcome Matt From another Sussex Member if interested I am holding a military event on the 24th April in East Grinstead if you wish to attend the please fill free to click the link an return the form to me asap (closing date 27th March) http://www.sussexmvt.co.uk/Martellsentryform.pdf and you will then be able to put names to faces of some of the other HMVF members on here and also some of the other events thats happening. Mark

Thanks for that will have a look at their website Mark

Thanks for that i will PM him

Chevpol Thanks for that where can i get one as I have seen several people with these and have noticed they are not on here (shop etc, unless i am looking in the wrong place) or do i need to send Jack a PM and order one from him. Mark

2 Questions 1) Wheres the best place on the internet preferably to get flags and or pennants for the ariels/antennas for my landy 2) As the vehicle is ex RA i was thinking of a RA flag/pennant a union jack and one other (as 3 ariels/antennas) suggestions please Thanks Mark

Thanks for that will send you a PM once recieved

(UPDATE) Just been told we now have the SSAFA and H4H Charitys confirmed also the the show is going to be opened by Nicholas Soames MP and we are trying to see if Dame Vera Lynn will open it as well 18 vehicles already booked in and still room for more.

Clive I am pleased you got a replacement and it works the identity of the pc is on the motherboard because if for instance you reinstall some software after a period of time on the machine you should not have to don't have to activate it as the machine remembers the product code from the last time it was installed (in theory) unless its a operating system then you need to type in the product key. Good luck with the back up (what you might want to do is in some of this software you actually have to tell it what folders (my Documents, Pictures etc) that you want to back up and not just by the drive. Hope this helps Mark

Welcome Mike Don't worry I how have a Landrover series 3 FFR and i have found the indicators have Packed up and found it to be the wiring (not a mechanic or use to vehicle electrics) but i expect with the rest of the series 3 owners on here they will be able to help you out if you get stuck, we are a freindly bunch and someone will be along soon i'm shaw. Mark

Clive I apologise i didn't know you would have to pay for it i would just uninstall the software unfortunatley like anything with pcs with out me being actually sitting in front of the machine and see whats appearing its arkward to say what else to do as you can possibly imagine. i would give the other one a go and see what happens. Sorry i can't help you further at the moment. Mark

Clive if it any help click on this link http://dotwhat.net/msf/227/ to help you find the files for you emails through thunderbird. and it will tell you where to look

Clive best of luck with that, if i can be any more help please let me know. Mark

Clive Thanks about the lead, the email programme has to stay where it is as the registery and other files are all links and if you drag and drop it will cease working (if its outlook express you can backup your emails and address book seperatly) and then put them onto the partition section of the hard drive. other that that when you install any software if you want it on the partition it will ask you where you want to install the software choose the partition drivve letter (d:\ etc) and then the software will install to that partition and then the rgister entries and that will work properly. Mark

Clive I can understand with the ebay item as we sell ebay items all the time as one solution if you want to i can PM you with my address as i would be happy to try just the USB device for you as i have the rest of the leads and return it to you once tested just to eliminate if it is the device or not as i have 3 diffrent machines i can try it on. that way you can then get a second opinon. Bear in mind you might have to by this software

CLive Thanks for the update I would give the hard drive a go with the xp disc I know it could take a couple of hours if not less but its worth a shot, we get some people who install the operatiing system on another drive and install it into a pc with xp already on so that if the Master drive packs up they then just swap the Jumpers/lead to the other drive and they then can still use the pc, alternatively you could just install the hard drive into the pc you have at the moment and use that drive as data only (making sure you change the jumpers on the other drive/s to indicate that you have a spare/ or put the jump of the data one to cable select and the pc should detect it as a spare (you should not lose data doing this), if it doesn't work then its because its got bad sectors on the drive and then the drive is no good (even retreiving data can be difficult if damaged with bad sectors) and theres no way round this (least you then have a spare working drive, just in case) the sata drive does indicate that its a serious error and the only way you would get the data off it (with out opening the drive itself is to send it off to a data receovery company (at £300 a time to start and then a cost per gigabyte) it would work out expensive, I would would keep hold of the pc world one and send/take the other two back, hopefully you have not left feedback from the ebay one and i would email him and say that you have had problems with this device and ask for a refund. Wish you luck in retreiving the data off the SATA drive. Mark

Clive With dissecting the discs it is something I have never done (and possibly don't intend to do) as i am not good with electronics, personally I would dissect a drive that does not have any data on first (as a test) because if one of the drives do work and you start to dissect it you might lose the data anyway (if you do decide to dissect i would do it in a dust free and magnetic free enviroment if you can as this is possibly another way to lose data. All drives should all be compatible with each over as all hard drives are the same size (Diameter etc) i think its just the amount of discs in the drive that differs (again unknown as never done this) one working the reading procedure should be the same, again if you manage to dissect the drive its then working out which disc has all the data. Hope this helps Mark

Clive If you have not had any sound then i would think the device is defective but what I would do is take the device with you and one of your hardrives and get them to try it to see if it works on their system if it works with their system, then we have eliminated is your end also with taking the device they will know what you are talking about as I get coustomers coming to me and ask for certain thing and give me so many diffrent names (which are usually wrongfor the device) and I than have to get them to explain what they want to do in order to get the right item. If the device or hardrives are working you should get something as in my computer it would be displayed and then it would say if the drive is readable by being able to go into folders or you would get the (THIS DRIVE NEEDS FORMATTING) warning if the drive is defective even if there are files on the drive. The other thing you could try is unplug the hardrive that is permanently connected as when you are plugging in the device it might think is the one thats their permanently and is trying to access it, also the channel that the permanent drive is plugged into might be the same one the other device is trying to use so you will get a device conflict. Please keep me informed how you get on. Mark

Griff66 Great looking ferret been up your neck of the woods today been to Martell's to sort out for April if interested in attending the military event then please PM me your address and i will put entry from in the post. It would look nice as we have a MK1 attending so we could have your parked by it and then the public can see the diffrence. Mark

Clive With this device it doesn't matter if the drive (old type drives) is a master, cable select , or slave (where the little link plugs are) as once its plugged into the computer it should instantly recognise the drive and then should be able to get to the files. With SATA it will try and boot from the SATA drive on startup, once and if you get it working then plug in the device with the sata hard drive attached then it will recognise the driveand then you should be able to retreive the files. Not trying to tell you how to suck eggs but the computer that you plugged the device into did you have the hardrive attached and power to the device and the sound on, normally you would get a sound to indicate that the device is recognised. and after a couple of minutes it should then work if no noise a balloon should appear in the lower right hand corner near the clock to say its found a device and you should get an icon like the graphic. If not then i would say that the device is faulty. Hope this helps. Mark

Simon Thanks for that.