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Hi Thanks for the massive reply!! The mobo's DMA channels are all used up on two other HDs and a DVD writer and CD writer, so I'm using an Aralion Multi RAID-100 PCI card to provide another two DMA channels for the other HDs. There is no array setup though. I have just used the evaluation...

This happens a lot for me too - it could be anything untoward that makes the OS stop and ponder for a moment: memory leakage, IRQ conflict... Someone suggested it has something to do with pipelining on the motherboard. Not too sure about all that stuff tho. It might even be something to do with...

When you start your computer it will say "Press F1 to enter setup" or something similar. That is how you enter the BIOS. Is that the bootup menu you mean? (In the BIOS there will be a page listing the IDE devices - which will typically include a hard disk and your DVD drive. If the DVD isn't...

Check the RAM's compatible, and installed correctly. Also check the onboard battery, and check all the cables are connected to power/reset buttons and to IDE and floppy controllers.

Check the new mobo and processor are fully compatible with your RAM, there's no USB devices plugged in at startup, BIOS correctly auto-detects everything (esp. processor settings). Did you do a clean install of Windows, etc, after the new mobo/cpu? "I have to press f1 to boot into the os every...

I had a Dell system for a while and couldn't get any RAM to work in it... except the RAM Dell sell on their website.... Hmmm conspiracy anyone?

Installing a second drive can be a bit tricky, but it really is the quickest way to copy data from another hard drive. This tutorial for Windows 98 will work fine in Windows Me... http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php/id/73 Without knowing a lot more about your system, it's...

(and then you can take out the old one again) The only way to copy data from one drive to the other is to have both drives installed at the same time. Unless of course you can backup the data onto something like CD-R or DVD-R first, then copy it from there.

The best order to do it would be as follows: (1) take out the old hard disk completely (2) install the new hard disk and install Windows, etc, onto it. (3) once you've completely set up the new hard disk, put back the old hard disk as well. Make sure you have the jumper settings right though...

If you install the new hard drive as well as the old hard drive, then just copy across the information in Windows Explorer. After that, you can remove the old hard drive completely, and just leave the new one.

That doesn't answer the question... New replacement drive? Or new additional drive? If you want to put an additional drive in, you will need a spare IDE connector in your computer. Just follow the instruction on that page I linked to above.

OK... Is this to replace the existing hard drive, or to add another one? This page tells you how to physically remove or install a hard drive... http://www.helpwithpcs.com/upgrading/install-hard-drive.htm

Which version of Windows are you using? It's a lot easier in some versions than others....

Hey all My PC started playing up this afternoon - just freezing every ten seconds or so, then coming back for a second (like it was tripping on a bad sector...?) - so I rebooted. After Win2K restarted, one of my data drives disappeared from Explorer. In Disk Management the entire disk was...