I have 2 Hd's on a master/slave config. One has Xp Pro (master) and the other Win 2003(slave). I have no use for 2003 any more. Do I need to do anything special before I format the slave HD and just use it for space? I just don't want the boot menu to come back up after I format the slave.
View 8 RepliesI have recently gotten a DVD Dual format and Dual Layer drive. I have been able to burn a DVD movie and a data disk, but since then I have not been able to do any more movies.Im using the Sony DVD RW DW-G120AFirmware is MYR5Driver is 5.1.2535.0 from Microsoft (windows xp pro drivers)Using Nero Vision 4.50.24It will transcode the movie and then go to burn but then it will tell me there isnt enough room on the media. Im using Memorex DVD rated for 16X speeds. I have tried using the default settings which auto sizes the video for the media size and it fails (the size meter says is just fits). I have tried using the "standard play" setting, which drops the size down to 300 megs less then the total DVD size and still nothing.
View 12 Replies View RelatedThe "Safely Remove Hardware" function running in my eMachine XP Home Edition includes USB flash drives in its warning list. While I recognize that mechanical storage devices such as CD/DVD drives, etc., should be addressed, is there any kind of subtle danger to any system functions if I ignore the "safely remove" process when connecting and/or disconnecting USB flash drives?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to get my HDD reformatted with the help of a paid technician.Couple of weeks ago he used the quick format method & asked him if that would make any difference & he said really not.I have the doubts though. I kind of wonder why would Windows then give a choice if there really wasn’t any difference?
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I'm trying to dual boot 2 different installs of xp pro from 2 drives using the Windows boot loader. I've edited the boot.ini every possible way I can think of, but nothing works. I've done this plenty of times using a linux boot loader or dual booting from a single drive but I cant figure this out. I haven't been able to find any reference to this subject anywhere, but I think it would work. Anybody have a clue as to how to do this? I know I can use a different boot manager to accomplish this, I just wanted to make the Win boot.ini work. Or, does anybody know of a good boot manager if I cant make this work?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have dual booting on my PC with Vista home premium on a 500 Gb SATA disk and XP Pro on a 250Gb SATA, both internal. Vista no longer holds terrors for me and I'd like to get rid of XP and regain better use of the 250Gb HD. Can I just remove XP from the control panel in the XP boot or is it a lot more complicated?I don't really want to re format the XP drive as I'd have to transfer a lot of data and files
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have Win XP home installed as OEM software on the C drive of my PC.
I also have this OS as a Norton Ghost file supplied with the PC as a
"Recovery CD".
I have installed a second hard drive designated "D"
This all works fine.
I wish to install Win 2000 (which I have on a Microsoft cd) on the second HD.
I would then hope at boot - up to be given the choice of which OS to load.
Can anyone tell me what is the simplest way to do this?
I am running Windows XP and would really like to share the hard drive with another OS "Linux" and dual boot.
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View 2 Replies View Relatedmy pc died and was fixed by a friend, there are two partitions on the hard drive, what were the C & D drives, the C drive is 29.9gig and has remained unaffected. however, what was the D partition (which is now the H) is in RAW format and windows will not let me format it. i'm not worried about losing anything that may still be on it, but it's 427gig and me little C drive's getting full up fast
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View 2 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of a list of best practices or third party tool(s) for safely installing and completely uninstalling applications in Windows XP? I want to be able to install applications into Windows XP so that if the app were to corrupt my Windows installation, I can remove it completely and restore my Windows XP back to a ?good? state. I've installed hundreds, maybe thousands of apps on Windows XP platforms. I've tried all sorts of methods for installing apps. These methods include:
? Running Windows in a ?clean boot? configuration: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353
? Creating a system restore before each installation
? Using tools that monitor installs and supposedly provide a way to uninstall apps like Advanced Uninstaller Pro: http://www.innovative-sol.com/uninstaller/index.htm? Etc., etc............
I cannot SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE (an LG external hard drive).
View 8 Replies View RelatedWhen I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safely remove hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just yank it out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and "Stop" the device? Is it safe to just yank it out? Obviously, I am not doing any copying when I am yanking it out.
View 7 Replies View RelatedWhen I hit the Safely Remove Hardware icon, a bar pops up that says something like "mass storage device". Am I supposed to hit on that bar before removing the hardware? When I hit on it it disappears. That makes me think I shouldn't hit on it, but need to know.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI got a pc in this the USB SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE ICON keep appearing in the task bar. I want to unload it! When I boot up the pc it tells me it is not compatable with this system anyway - so WHY IS IT LOADING? I didn't choose for it to be there? THought you could hot swap anyway with XP usbs. Anyway In Win2K you could choose to not load this. Can't find in XP how to get rid of this! any help?
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy computer with Win XP does not always have the safely remove hardware icon that comes up in the taskbar. I put a USB flashdrive in, and the icon came up. When I was through it was gone. I had no idea how to find it so I just unplugged the flashdrive. Is there a way I can make that Icon stay. It is not because it is a hidden icon.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have this little icon (green) in the lower right corner of my screen next to norton. Cant seem to get rid of it, something about USB Mass Storage device???? When I check device manager all seems well. Have tried rebooting, removing mass storage device etc.
View 11 Replies View RelatedHow do I get rid of this? Keeps telling me that USB Mass Storage Device can safely be removed from my system?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently ran dupfinder 2.0 from windows xp pro on my lap top which runs windows xp media center 2005 sp2 My laptop is a Gateway mx6955 intel t1400@1.83ghz .99gb ram I have 9049
duplicate files on my C: using up 1,508,429 kb of space I am stuck on which duplicate files i can delete safely I have emailed Gatewy several times
I am getting lag in online games. I checked my running processes and it said that I have 43 running. How do I know which of these I can shut down for good safely? Does that number seem high? Or is that a normal amount?
View 6 Replies View RelatedUSB thumb drives and external HDD no longer show up in the "safely remove hardware" screen even tho they show up fine in 'my computer' and work fine with autoplay.there is nothing in the SRH screen. this happens with USB ports on the motherboard and on a USB card. The drives show in device manager. I can detect and remove the USB drives with 3rd party software like 'USB disk eject'. The drives are 'optimized for quick removal'.
I've got rid of all 'ghost' drives and hubs in device manager and related registry entries (with drivecleanup). 'plug and play' service is running. I can't think of any strange software and drivers recently installed. I've googled a lot with no results.
I have an external 2.5" 80GB external USB hard drive. Windows will not let me remove it because "A program is still accessing it". However, I have killed every process that windows will allow me to kill, and killed and started "explorer" process. I have to restart the computer in order to remove the HDD.Any way to force windows to give me back my HDD?
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy brother and I tried plugging in my mp3 player I've got this "safely remove hardware" icon in my system tray. I think we mite have plugged it into the 1394 port (what's a 1394 port for?). Anyway, it shows four external hard drives (I have 4 USB outlets on my computer. Right now I am using only one of the USB ports for my printer which works fine at bootup and after I use the "safely remove hardware" icon. So why is it there, how do I get rid of it so it doesn't come up every time WinXP starts?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI`ve got a little prob, whenever I plug a flashdisk into my pc the safely remove icon doesn`t show in the task bar... If i just plug the flashdisk out, it doesn`t want to work on another pc but if I plug it back in my pc it works. Is there a manual way to safely remove?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am going to re-install windows and I have a Compaq Presario computer that has a C and D drive. Is there any way I can make my computer one drive or is there a plus side to having two drives? Could I safely delete these files? Should I leave them and just reinstall to C drive? I thought I read somewhere that Compaq had portioned drives and it was a waste of space. I have reinstalled Windows before, have done backup of files I want to save and am doing the reinstall to get rid of a few things and fix some things that are going on?. My fault for messing with registry? probably?. Live and learn. C has total size of 32.9GB with 18.2GB free and D has 4.33GB with 2.44GB free. If you need any more info for suggestions please advise and I will respond as soon as possible. Once I finish back up of my photos? I will be ready to re install Windows.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI just re-installed Windows XP, and it keeps telling me that I can safely remove "USB Mass Storage device", despite there not being one plugged in right now, and that I can safely remove my hard drive, which is an internal hard drive. It says this everytime I restarted to my computer.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWell this issue is really simple, I have two operating systems: Windows XP Home Edition and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx installed on my computer, both systems are installed into a single HD, each on its own partition.
My HD is 120 GB and I have 60 GB for Win and 60 GB for Ubuntu, my question is: Is there any way to safely change this partition size WITHOUT uninstall any of my OS? I've been using my computer for about 6 months with this partitions, which means that my two systems have some applications and programs installed and I feel really lazy about reinstalling Ubuntu and all my programs just because I want to change my partition size; of course if there is no other solution I'll have to do it, I know this works because I partitioned my Win 120 GB partition to accomodate Ubuntu when I installed it, using the partition wizard that comes with the Ubuntu installation program.
Whenever I "safely disconnect" any USB device (mainly a memory stick or mp3) the icon in the taskbar just disappears, without the appearance of the notification that actually tells you that you can safely remove the device. How can I recover this notification?.
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