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Thanks for the advice so far. The notebook had XP on a FAT32 drive and it did run OK except for a modem connection problem that could not be resolved, so I have reformatted the drive and just tried a fresh install of XP, but the modem problem continues. Basically the connection to the ISP is...

I have a notebook that I want to get up and running. Would either Win 2000 pro or XP Pro be more suited. It is as follows: P3 650meghtz 7gig HDD 256 ram CD drive TFT screen Also what format for this 7gig drive should I use fat32 or NTFS.

I have a PC and will be working soon in a place that has all Mac computers. Will the Mac's be able to read, edit all my Word, Excel files as well as view my jpg photos, etc. I have never used a Mac and have no idea of what problems may lay ahead.

I have Win 2000 pro installed on my machine and have a disk with XP pro, should I install it. The W2K works OK, though it freezes randomly in any program on occasions (about one in every 5 hrs use). I now have a digital video camera and hear that the Microsoft Video program is good but only...

Thanks for the info. The trick was to use the right click on the left pannel in the Management tools, something I had not done, I tried to use the right area of the drive indicator and that does not do it. It's now working well in basic mode !

I installed a second HDD (WD 80gig 7200 8mb cache IDE) and using the Win 2000Pro Disk management tool I formatted the drive and ended up with a "Dynamic" disk. That is not exactly what I wanted and how can I convert it back to a basic disk. I know that it may not be easy. I have tried to do it...

I have just got a new HDD 80gig to replace the old 40gig and want to copy everything from the old one to the new drive including the working Win2K system that has taken a lot of tweeking and patches to get running like it is. I don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing again. What is the...

Well done, that did the trick. I changed it to 15 and volia ! the shout down time was around 15 seconds. :D

Most of the time I try to close all the open programs, that has been a habbit for a long time. If for some reason I do not shut some down then the computer shut down takes even longer. I timed it last night with all programs closed and it took 68 seconds after the shut down was executed to when...

Since we upgraded numerous W2K and IE6 components last week the time required for the computer to shut down has gone from several seconds to around 1 min. We already had all the service packs installed and it was just a pile of seperate updates that we installed. Does anyone have any idea of...

This simple task of copying the HDD is looking decididely more complex. As I am using W2K and the HDD is NTFS formatted I can not use dos itself to copy the contents. The Ghost I have will not recognise my second HDD as a potential drive to deposit the image copy of the c:\ drive, it only sees...

OK So much for the Norton Ghost copy that I had. It came with the epox board but is version 6 and will make a image file of the original HDD but for some reason it will not allow me to copy the drive directly. I know that Ghost is able to do this but perhaps this copy is limited in some way.

It reduces drink coasters because I do not have to burn a lot of CD's to archive the files. My CD burner is OK but when I start doing a lot of backing up it spits the dummy and stops writing to the CD's half way through. That is where the drink coasters come from, what else do you do with all...

I want the removable drive to be a complete copy of the main hard drive that I will refresh every now and then. It is an attempt to avoid making so many drink coasters from blank CD's. I think I have a "Ghost" program on the Cd that came with the epox motherboard. I will see if that does the...

I have installed a slave HDD in a removable drawer. When I tried to copy all the files from the primary drive to the slave I got messages that some could not be copied as they were in use. No doubt it is because I am trying to copy the system files that sre currently operating. But how can you...