Comments | filkertom: Close... Too Close

filkertom

Close... Too Close

Oct 05, 2007 18:59

I've been having more and more problems with my main external hard drive lately. Today, it took about ten minutes for my computer to recognize it. So I hied off to Best Buy, which has a Seagate 500 GB external drive on sale for $119.99, and I'm copying like crazy. There have been a few hosed and corrupted files, but nothing at all vital. I've ( Read more... )

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moquif October 5 2007, 23:22:58 UTC

I'm thinking of expanding my RAM but I can't find the same brand/type that I have now. I understand that mixing brands of RAM is a bad thing so I may be stuck with what I have now.

madamruppy October 5 2007, 23:23:15 UTC

I have a vista (unclean!) laptop that I want to turn into an XP machine as well. I'll be anxious to see how that goes for you.

archiver_tim October 5 2007, 23:24:17 UTC

I bought a couple of external drives recently that my Windows ME recognize, but won't assign them a drive letter. I think it is becasue they are formated NTFS, while the Windows ME wants to see FAT or FAT32 drives.

One is portable enough that hopefully someone at ConClave can help me.

-Ryan

sethb October 5 2007, 23:46:31 UTC

Reformat them FAT32.

hms42 October 6 2007, 02:59:22 UTC

If they are formated as NTFS, you will have to refdisk the drives to FAT32. Only problem is that you will have to make partitions of about 120gb (I know the number is actually higher). Windows 9x (which include ME) only can read FAT and FAT32 partitions.

Harold S.

barkman October 5 2007, 23:34:21 UTC

I built a new pc from scratch this week and discovered i'm allergic to the thermal compound on my heat sink.

raven_ap_morgan October 6 2007, 00:18:00 UTC

I dunno - I've heard that there's a version of OS X that can be installed on a PC, and I've got a spare that I'm itching to try it on...

Raven