Quote Originally Posted by Ollie78 View Post
It looks like the hard drive is dead.
Not sure what PC to get at this point. Obviously I don`t want to spend loads of money.
I would rebuild the system on a new hard drive (That is because I have all the OS and software disks and several spare hard drives and no money)

I run Mach3 on a very old machine - a 32bit Pentium 4 2.4GHz with 896MB of RAM with Windows XP home installed. Mach3 doesn't need wizzy wizzy power. It is connected up to my home network, but the Internet Gateway is disabled as there is no virus protection. I regard Microsoft in the same category as malicious software. Apart from a couple of hard disk failures (crappy old drives !) The machine is stable and all my data and essential files (xml and licences etc) are copied on to the NAS drive.

As my new main machine, I have a 64bit Windows 10 installed on an Intel i3 3.6GHz processor, it runs Fusion better than my old machine, which limped through it like a pig on stilts. I have only been seriously using Win10 for a couple of weeks and I now seriously loathe Microsoft. My old machine is a Win7 machine which I intend to use by remote desktopping, but I need to set up a control panel to switch it on and reset it, when the machine is tucked away. All my files are on it at the moment and I am in the process of moving them onto the NAS drive.

If you are wanting to use Fusion in your workshop, you will need t'Interweb there. Maybe I am stating the bleeding obvious

That's the way I am set up and it works for me (apart from the process of change which is in progress).

Cheers,

Rob