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Hi all I have a 60gb Hard drive (seagate barracuda IV which is only 5 mths old) which I loaded windows home XP onto in NTFS format with only one large partition only . Problem is I use norton ghost the other day and it had an error during the operation and put a corrupted virtual partitian on...

Anyone please

I have a friend who is looking at getting a good well priced 17" CRT Monitor. He does not want to pay top dollar for it (i.e. Sony) but is willing to pay a bit extra for it to get a bit better quality. He wants a flat screen. Could you all help him out and give some advice as to what to buy...

Thanks Schadenfroh looks a pretty good guide.

I am looking for a good guide for networking my two computers together. I have Win XP on my main machine and win 98 on another. I have fitted the ethernet cards and I will be using crossover cable to connect the computers. I need a good but simple guide or instructions to follow to set up the...

thanks all for your help regards

well thanks for your knowledge on this I now understand a little better

I have a computer that was given to me with no driver disc etc. All I have to do is repalce the faulty harddrive. It is an AMD K6-2/500 CPu on an BCM Mobo model VP1543 with Ali 1543C chipset. I will be installing win2000 or 98SE. I will be able to source the sound and vid card drivers. What...

Thanks diehard that looks like a bit of a nightmare to go that way me thinks that a reformat of the harddrive and reinstall of software may be the way to go..

I want to understand the reformat of my old IBM system- Just for knowledge purposes. If I have to format and renienstall my apitiva (Win 95) programs from my CD the reinstall IBM suggest I type 'fdisk /mbr' at the flashing a promt then 'format c: /u'. On all format/partitioning instructions I...

I want to swap a good harddrive out of my old computer-(it has Win 2K OS installed on it plus all my old software). My old machine is a Pentium 3 Dell machine. I want to put it into a AMD computer it is the K6-2/500 CPU. Can I swap the harddrive without to many probs i.e will it run without...

any help please??

Ok I found out the mobo fitted to this computer is a BCM VP1543 and has the ALi 1543c chipset in it. Ok on the mobo site it mentions these drivers: 1. Ali agp driver 2. Ali IDE driver win 95/98 /98se 3. USB host controller supplement here is html...

i have a friend who was given a computer it is a AMD k6-2/500 fitted on a socket 7 mobo with AGP. I am unable to tell what mobo is fitted to it all the markings on the mobo are CE and FC. It has a Asus V3800 magic 16mg graphic card fitted and a creative sound card. Unfortunately the harddrive...

I have a friend of mine who has a computer with a k6-2/500 CPU installed. He is looking at installing a graphics card that he can download his digital handy cam recordings onto his card drive. Firstly what would be the biggest AGP video card he could fit that wold not be inhibited by the CPU...