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Fdisk worked like a charm. It found a whole bunch of sector errors on the drive and fixed them. I'm running the original WD 80GB drive off USB, and amusingly, the E310 seemingly can boot XP off of that. It crashed with a BSOD, so I booted into Dell Recovery, and it's restoring the original factory image as I type.
I still don't know if the drive itself is about to fail, but once I get the original image restored, I will see if there's a tool that creates a CD/DVD restore set and install that to the replacement 80GB disk.
CrystalDiskInfo showed warnings on the "Reallocated Sectors Count" attribute, so I proceeded to clone the old disk onto the replacement WD 80GB.
First boot was amusing to see. Bloatware on Windows 10 is nothing compared to XP-era bloat. Quite a lot of bloat this thing had on day one, such as a TrendMicro antivirus trial, Corel Photo Album, Google Desktop, Earthlink, AOL, NetZero, WordPerfect, and various casual game trials.
I love foxes, especially the one in my avatar.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find a motherboard with that form factor unless you mod the case to accept a conventional ATX layout. And good call on checking the SMART status as well.
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If anything, you could fetch one of those PCI-based GeForce cards from Zotac, though they appear to be quite rare and severely constrained by PCI's bandwidth. But given your use case with the Dell at least it seems like a far better option than whatever Intel GPU it's using.
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Yeah, doubt that you'd get even far with 3DMark on that configuration. If it was the 2001 edition it would've fared better, but even then, performance is still subpar due to how crap the GMA is.
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I thought you only got the first edition of AG Premiere.