I recently decided to try out running OSX on my PC. This post isn't about that, so don't worry about any legal issues. Anyway, I was planning on just using Windows' disk manager to create a new partition, but the guide gave the following instructions using the command line-based 'diskpart'. I figured maybe it would work slightly different than the usual method, so I followed the instructions listed
View 3 RepliesI was wondering if it makes any sense to buy and install a SATA 300 controller to work with two WD SATA 300 drives. I kind of doubt I will achieve 300mb buffer to host transfers with only SATA 150 motherboard.
View 6 Replies View Related"A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer. If this is the first time you have seen this error screen restart your computer. If the screen appears again follow these steps. Run a system diagnostic utility supplied by your hardware manufacturer. In particular run a memory check, and check for faulty or mismatched memory. Try changing video adapters. Disable or remove any newly installed hardware. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable componenents restart your computer, press F8 to select advanced startup options, then select safe mode. Technical information: 0x0000007" The blue screen almost always occurs when I am in Quickbooks.
anybody have any idea what this message is all about?
After I enter a series of keystrokes and stop, I get the chimes sound. This
is quite annoying but I can't find a setting to turn it off. The only way to
make it stop is to select "No Sounds" in the Sounds and Audio Devices section
of Control Panel
Does anyone know what this sound artifact is and where it is coming from? It has been in windows for as long as I can remember in XP on 3+ computers and may also have occurred in previous versions.It occurs at random times and it is not very loud (though the first one is louder than the second, each lasting for maybe a 1/4 of a second with maybe a 1.5 sec silent interval in between) but it is somewhat annoying and makes me wonder what the h3ll it is.If anyone knows anything about it please post here. Also if anyone else has heard it, please post to this thread too. I would like to know how many other users out there are aware of this problem.
View 16 Replies View Relatedi dont know why my IE hangs up frequently, when i used to open a link or try to work on same page for more than 15mins. Error: C:WINDOWSeg_auth_1045.dll occurs on RUNDLL bar.. Pls give me solution to solve this problem.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have been experiencing intermittent bootup problems with Windows XP. When this happens, the XP splash screen appears(blue line scrolling) and then monitor loses signal and reboot occurs. This can cycle several times, even if I choose the option of starting Windows with last known configuration that worked.
View 1 Replies View RelatedThese symptons and problem have started within the past week, without warning: My laptop is now particularly slow, the mouse lags, as does the internet - especially videos and music starts. Also, there is a "service.exe" application error that occurs a split second before the computer turns off, so on the "windows is shutting down" screen. Consequently I'm an unable to read the error code. I presume the services.exe error and the slowing down are related.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to implement some energy saving configuration on our Windows XP computers. I use Task Scheduler to put PCs into hibernate mode with psshutdown.exe : Quote :schtasks /create /tn ecoenergie /tr "c:WINDOWSpsshutdown.exe -h -accepteula" /sc ONIDLE /i 60 /ru "System"
View 1 Replies View RelatedOn my Windows Media Player and error occurs after about 2-3 minutes of play that says this program cannot continue. i have no idea why this is happening.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI need to reformat the 60Gb drive on my laptop and I would like to partition my hard drive to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. I wanted to put XP Home in one partition and my docs on another.
1. Would 10Gb for the 1st / XP partition and the remainder for the second partition seem reasonable?
2. I will put the MyDocuments folder on the 2nd partition - do I try and install all programs on the 2nd partition, right? The 'Documents and Settings' folder sits on the 2nd partition also, right? I think I want to keep Windows away from everything, to keep it 'pure'.
3. Will any programs try to deposit temporary files application data in the 1st partition - and do I then shift this data over to the 2nd partition?
I'm running Home oem and would like to partition my hd. For some reason I didn't seem to be able to when I installed Windows. Do I need to use Partition Magic or can I do it within Windows? I wanna run a dual boot system.
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs this something I should try through Fdisc or should I buy Partition Commander? I am learning a lot but don't understand all the ins and outs of the articles I have read concerning partitioning, yet.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI have been reading past messages regarding partitioning a drive.I understand why it's done and am interested in doing this myself. The question I have is my computer came with xp already installed so I have no disc to work with.The computer was of course set with the c drive being large, do I just partition the rest of the available space? If so what is the best way to go about this?I have seen programs recommended and also talk of first needing to make the c drive smaller to start with, but have no idea how I can do this since I am starting after the fact.If someone could explain to me how I might best go about this it might help me put all I've read into perspective. I definitely don't want to mess anything up.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe question frequently comes up about how to format and install XP from scratch. Following are the steps I take when I get a new system. I mention the "brand names" of software I use not as an endorsement or recommendation, but just for the sake of example.After unpacking and connecting all hardware, here's what I do:1Partition the HD according to my preference, thus deleting everything on the drive (the number and size of partitions is entirely up to the individual user – I prefer several, keeping the OS on c: and various programs, cache folders, swap file and data on other partitions).
View 9 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to partition a hard drive in two without having to reinstall the OS? Do I have to buy a seperate program to do it? Or does Windows include some sort of utility that does it?
View 15 Replies View RelatedWhen I check the properties of the C: drive (4 Gb), it shows only about 270 Mb free space, but when I look through the files, to clear out some space on the drive, I seem only to have about 2 Gb used. I have my settings set to view hidden files and the like, but it seems like I'm using twice the amount of space
View 6 Replies View RelatedA case of other files in other paritions "spilling over" into the system partition, or does partitioning itself use space that's basically invisible to Windows?
Mike, your setup sounds pretty close to mine. I know I can change the partition sizes, and that's my next plan, but it seems like I've lost 2Gb into the abyss.
I have just bought a new hard drive, partitioned it, and had some stuff copied to it.I then deleted the partitions, and set some new ones up (was changing the size of the partitions). I havent put anything on the disk yet.Then, i realise i want some of the stuff (new emails i just received using mozilla) that is on my new disk, prior to me changing the partitions.Is there any way of checking what is on the new disk? I assume windows hasnt actually written over the stuff that i just put on ther
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm an intermediate user just beginning to study for MS sys admin.Both my laptops run XP home, but I have 2000 Pro from when I had a desktop...which I unfortunately gave to a family member. I'd like to install this on one of my laptops because the Pro capabilities will allow me to "study" a little better than just home XP. At any rate, I'd like the experience of configuring everything. will I lose everything in XP if I set up a partition to install 2000 Pro? Is it even possible to install both of them without installing 2000 first? The XP came pre-loaded on my computer but I do have a disk.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy personal partitioning scheme is primarily to facilitate a backup routine that I can use easily and regularly. C: drive is 10 GB and holds only my OS; no program files, no data files, no personal settings. E: drive is 58 GB for program files, temporary internet files, downloads and such; no data files. f: drive is 10 GB for Documents and Settings. I: drive is 4 GB and is devoted to a 3 GB fixed pagefile. J: drive is 72 GB for wave files only. K: drive is 8 GB for image files only. L: drive is 30 GB for video editing only. I regularly make images of my C: drive and F: drive. These are my primary backups. Installed program files don't change often. I have my programs' preferences set to store data files on F:. I don't need to backup E: very often; only when I install a new program, or uninstall an old one. Of course, when I make a new image of E:, I also make an image of C: and F: My J: drive is just my CD library ripped to the computer. I still have all the original CD's, so I don't really need to backup this drive very often, either. (I don't care for MP3's). K: drive is the target for my digital camera. I make images of this drive regularly. L: is for temporary use for video editing, and I burn the final edit to DVD, so I don't make images of this drive at all. Defragmenting is quick and easy. Having a permanent pagefile on a dedicated partition keeps it from becoming fragmented. Making backups is simplified, so I actually do it regularly.
And these are backups that will get me up and running in minutes. And before someone says that it won't work properly, I'm sorry but it does. I've tested it extensively, even from one drive to another, and it just works. I used nLite to customize my installation, so programs default to E:, Documents and Settings default to F:. I used internet options in IE7 to relocate temporary internet files for all users on this machine to E: I run AVG Anti-Spyware, Windows Defender, and NOD32 as services for all users, and have nightly scans run automatically-I never turn this machine off. I dump temporary files, defragment, run manual malware scans and HJT before I make an image of any partition. And maybe the best benefit of all? I haven't done a reformat/reinstall since Windows 95.
I'm partitioning an external hard drive that's connected to my Win XP machine. I set an 80GB partition for XP (NTFS). When I tried to allocate the rest of the drive as a FAT32 partition (for my Win98 machines), FAT32 was not an option, until I reduced the partition size to 20 GB. I'm using XP's Disk Management. Is there a maximum limitation of FAT32 partition size?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHoping someone can help. Just reformated my hard drive and since then, everytime I boot up, it asks which OS I want to uses, Windows XP Media Centre or Windows 2003. Don't understand since I have only one system (Media Ctr). Aslo, there is only one HD in my computer and it is not partitioned.
View 8 Replies View RelatedUsing 2 seperate hard drives, I set up the system files on drive D: and the made a blank partition on drive C. I wanted to set up WinXP so that when I install programs they are saved to C: leaveing drive D: for only system files. The problem I am having is that when i install new programs they dont want to be installed to drive C. Instead programs want to be installed to the system drive D. I would just tell programs to install on drive C but some of them will only give me the choice to install to D. How do I set up the partition so that programs will install to drive C?
View 12 Replies View RelatedRecently I installed Ubuntu Linux on a partition on my secondary hard drive (it's a worthwhile education, I'll give it that). Since then, when in Windows, the remaining space, used for games, alternates between being accessible and being unaccessible. What's the go?For example, when I go in My Computer and try to open D: drive this is the message i receive:D: is not accessible The parameter is incorrect.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am having xp in my c partition in my hard drive,if i copy windows 2003 from another hard disk to another partition means the two partition will work fine or not? shall i use windows xp & windows 2003 server.may i able to boot from both xp & windows 2003
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I partition my hard drive and want to append a partion to the windows xp partition can this be done.Also If I am having problemsdefraging a partition (it say's something about a retore file on it) but this partition does not have an operation system. I just use it to keep web sites I develop on it. How can I defrag it.
View 10 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to partition the primary disk on a computer without reformatting?A computer that I inherited (HP Pavillion) has a 120Gb hard drive partitioned into two sections C drive 104Gb NTFS primary D drive 7Gb FAT32 recovery I would like to split the primary into two sections, if possible without reformatting
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have been getting the dreaded blue screen of death with STOP: c000021a (Fatal System Error)" Error Occurs when i log into my windows 2000 service pack 3 and my linksys wireless usb network adapter connects me to the internet. My computer will remain on and run fine if i do not connect to the internet. This also will happen if i connect to the internet using my backup 56k modem
View 6 Replies View Relatedi put fat32 on partition 1 and NTFS on partition 2 on the same hard drive can that be why my system isnt running good because i just installed windows xp on a formatted hard drive and it runs poorly. or can anybody tell me the best way to partition a 40 gig harddrive to get the most out of it....? I thought there was something wrong with my windows xp disk because out of all the times i have fdisk and reinstalled windows it never ran this bad...
View 14 Replies View RelatedEvery time i switch my system i get the following error "The exception unknown software exception (0xc0000024) occurred in the application at location 0x7c964ed1.Click on OK to terminate the program" and the title bar shows "setup.exe -Application Error"
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