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Subject: Re:Hard Drive Repartition - by: tcadmin

Yes 512MB is really the minimum nowadays for Windows XP - they tried to make everybody think 256 would work, but then people actually started using the computer and they found that was dead wrong. You would be better off getting a single 512MB stick rather than try and match 2 256MB sticks with speed. What happens is your motherboard will take the lesser of the two speeds and turn them both to that speed. Not efficient. Your page file is definately suffereing, but your hard drive is so big now that's not...

Subject: Re:Hard Drive Repartition - by: balljcb

I received the hard drive, the PCI card and the mounting brackets. I sat down yesterday to get started and the only thing that slowed me down was the screws sent with the brackets - 4 fit and 4 did NOT. I scrounged some up and from there all went pretty well. I now have a 500 Gig hard drive horribly under utilized running at 1.5 Gps access rate and my system is doing much better. I still see 90 to 100% on CPU when activities are starting and when audio or vidio is playing. The XP performance window say...

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Subject: Hard Drive Repartition - by: Jerry

When I got my 30 Gig hard drive I partitioned it into two partitions, C and D, and made them equal. Now I see that wasn�t a good split because my C is full of software loads and D is almost empty. I think that is giving me some performance problems, slow start primarily. Can you advise me on re-partitioning my hard drive? Like, how to do it without loosing everything and having to reload? Thanks....

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: matt

True. I don�t and I�m not sure if radio shack would have them (probably not). I would try CompUs�oh that�s right they went belly up!! HA HA HA HA! --- >< >< MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR COMPUSA! --- >< >< Thank you... Give best buy a call and they should be able to tell you if they have any in stock, the one at Alabaster probably does. Do yourself a favor and look it up on http://www.newegg.com before you call so you�ll know the exact name of what you need. They�ll have it. If not there�s a plac...

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: Jerry

You didn�t say whether you have 3.5 to 5.5 brackets. :-O...

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: matt

Awesome. You�re in good shape. Order that card. Got any powder that way? We had probably an inch of snow in Calera. Mostly the sloshy kind that's really cold and hurts when it hits you in the face!...

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: Jerry

I don�t think I have a problem with the power because the power cable that came with it will connect to the drive and the other end is male so it plugs in to the power cable that comes from the power supply and I have two of those that are unused. As long as this other cable will connect to the PCI card, I�m OK. The instructions say to connect the data cable to either the motherboard or the add-in SATA card....

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: matt

Gosh I hope I didn�t tell you to get a 3.5 inch drive did I!?!?!?!?! Not only will you have trouble with the mounting, the cabling will be tricky too. Typically a laptop hard drive is powered by the same cable that the data transfer comes through�crap I need to look some things up and get back to you. Is there any chance of exchanging that for a 5.5 inch drive? Or was that the gift from work? (no wonder, what are you gonna do with a laptop drive outside of a laptop, paste some cd's to it and call it an i...

Subject: Re: Hard Drive Repartition - by: Jerry

Do you have a set of brackets to put a 3.5 inch device (commonly referred to as a hard drive) in a 5.5 inch bay? The drive is 3.5 inch laptop drive and that area is crowded in my PC but I have 3 open slots for 5.5 inch drives. I could squeeze it in but the directions suggest placing it by a fan which I don�t have but more air space I do have in the 5.5 inch area. The PCI card is to be delivered Tuesday. If you don�t have brackets, do you think I can get them at Radio Shack?...