I have a laptop with Vista home premium on it and a 80GB hard-drive, after quickly filling this i have bought an internal 120GB, i also have an external HDD enclosure (if needed). Could someone please tell me how to swap the HDDs so that i can keep my OS and settings etc.
View 5 RepliesI've just received a new computer from Dell. In it, is 1 1Tb HDD. My old Dell had 2 500Gb HDDs, which were mirrored across a RAID array. The idea being is that I had a copy of literally every piece of data I owned, so should something go wrong on one HDD, I wouldn't lose everything. In a bid not to lose everything, I rescued one of the 500Gb HDDs from my departing Dell PC (I got given a free upgrade due to ongoing technical issues involving my original computer) and have stuck it in my new PC.
It's connected via SATA cables, and has a power supply in to it as well, only windows doesn't seem to recognise this new drive. It's quite literally invisible. As one can imagine, this makes retreiving any data one may wish to recover exponentially more difficult. My old HDD was being run on a 32-bit Vista system, whereas my new system is 64-bit Vista.
I have a nit problem that has followed me from XP and maybe earlier. When I install an OS, I normally have the swap on a drive other than the OS. This seems to confuse the recycle bin in that if I delete something, it will not show until I reboot. When it then shows full, and I empty the bin, it still shows full. I deleted the cache (came back exact same size) and deleted the bins on the 2 raid sets and the sata drive. They reappeared but the desktop bin has the same behavior. More a pita than a major issue. BTW, 20GB memory, so deleted the swap, Ideas?
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occurred to me that putting the swap file on might be a better idea. It's
going to be mounted inside the case of the PC, so not easily removable.
today I ordered a ZT Affinity Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz 1GB Radeon 5450 Blu-Ray ROM Desktop w/ Windows Professional 64bit. This will be my first Win7 PC. What should I do before using the PC everyday?
I'm thinking drop the DVDBlu Ray player to a very low drive letter, setup a permanent swap file. and I'd like to partition the 2TB HDD. Do I need third party software to partition a Win7 HDD? What else would you do to set up this PC?
Excessive memory and cpu use when loading ‘heavy’ internetsites like runescape, stardoll, etc (my children are experiencing most of the problem…). Event viewer indicates ‘excessive page swapping’ and I tried to extend the swap memory size manually, this did not help either. It does not matter which browser is in use (tries IEXPL en FIREFOX). JAVA runs with the latest edition. No memory problems found with memory scan...,System is defragmented on a regular base,No malware found,Tried to start up without virusscan (sophos),Problem started a couple of weeks ago, system run normal before Memory use running heavy java appr 200MB ,Memory use homepage only 2 MB,PC performance index 3. MSINFO.exeinfo: 1G installed; 767 total phys mem; 116 available I wonder why there is only 116 MB physical memory available What causes the degradation: 1GB -> installed memory to 767MB total physical memory -> 116MB available memory? (and this is just after start up, no browsre loaded) Number and 'weight' and weight of boot programs is very low.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI heard is is possible under some circumstances to swap a Vista licence back to an XP licence and would like to investigate if it is possible for me to do this. My reasons are the poor networking performance of Vista cf XP and also the fact that none of the MS development systems I am using (VS6 and VS2003.NET) will run on Vista.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm running Vista Ultimate SP1. I have a non-encrypted C drive that is not on a raid. with very low space. I have a new larger drive that I want to turn into my C drive and get rid of the small one. Is there a way to transfer my C drive over to new drive then swap them, If so can someone point me in the direction to find/figure out how? I'm trying to avoid having to go through 20+ hours of reinstalling and upating all of my stuff.
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