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    Cd roms not disappeared

    In bios they are recognized, but dont show up in windows explorer, and in windows hardware profile, they are yellow with ! symbol. This Eeasy cd creator wasnt creating cds successfully, so I reinstalled it, now it says no compatible drives. What is the problem. This just happened out of blue. A...
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    Transfering hard drives..

    i guess ill add if it makes a difference, I am PC.. and one comp is 98, while the other is XP. will this make a difference. I might change the xp back 98, cause of compatability problems with pro tools. anyone else.. are these pretty much my options
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    Transfering hard drives..

    OK i'm a bit of a newb. here it is.. I have two computer's, one at home one at work, and I want to be able to transfer files between them so i can work on them at home. In case you're wondering, I'm running Pro Tools, software for digitally recording music. I'm working with sessions that can get...
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    Can anyone recommend a good, not too expensive LCD Flatscreen monitor?

    I have had a bad experience with the kds rad-5. I got it new and for some reason, when i turn on copmuter, it is just white. I have to turn it off and then back on, sometimes just once but sometimes like 20 times and finally it comes on. So i call cust. serv. they ship out another one, slightly...
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    Switching drive letters..

    I have two drives, and for whatever reason it made my system drive (primary master), the f drive. I use this comp for recording and my audio is drive c (primary slave) which is no prob.. but my software (pro tools) is on system drive and whenever i install plugins and such, it runs into problems...
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    Using IDE's

    Well i cant remeber the exact models of components. the 20 GB hardrive, scroll up, i posted the link to it. The 120 GB is an IBM. Anyway.. when i get home today, i'll try all this out and post my findings. thanks for the responses. tim
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    Unpartitoning hard drives.

    yeh.. thats acutally the process i used to partition it in the first place.. with a windows boot disk. But i guess i forgot to mention for some reason my system isnt reading my floppy, so i was wanting to know if there was another way to do this.. sorry about that. if not i guess i should figure...
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    Using IDE's

    Yeh good question, which configuration would be better. Also, the 20 GB hard drive (http://www.axiontech.com/cgi-local/prdtinfo.asp?prdt=HDMA6L020J1) was OEM, any idea on where I can find the jumper settings for this hard drive? Another thing about the master being at the end of cable.. how will...
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    Unpartitoning hard drives.

    Ok another question for my older computer that I am selling. thanks birdog for the IDE help, I'll get to it when i get home. I partitioned my hard drive (two 10GB sections) and had xp on one partition. Now I want to reformat and get it back to one big drive (one 20GB section). I came to a screen...
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    Using IDE's

    Ok, I'm having trouble hooking up my drives on my new comp. Here is the deal. I have two hard drives (20 & 120). the 20 will have the OS. Also in the mix is a DVD-rom and a CD/RW drive. Maybe someone should just explain to me from step 1 how to get this working.. I thought I knew for the most...