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Installing dual boot Windows 98. Need advice.Hi all. I have a Win XP PC with two hard drives. Drive 1 is partitioned to C drive and F drive, with plenty space in each. Drive 2 is D drive, als…
... drive and F drive, with plenty space in each. Drive 2 is D drive ... of drive 1 (F drive), OR install it onto drive 2 (D drive) - ... able to select the boot drive from the BIOS / boot options on start ... / re-install XP from C drive)?
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A athlon 3000 32 bit system or a athlon 3000 64 bit systemThey will cost about the same which i was suprised to learn, but which system would you recommend, if i build the 64 bit one, can I still play my 32 …
... will need a floppy drive as well ) because ... have the sata drive as the boot drive, or do you ... mean a SATA drive cannot ... be used as a boot drive ?
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ZXSpin 0.62 Available nowAs promised (and only a [i]little[/i] past the deadline) here is the latest version of ZXSpin. Many bugs have been fixed, and a few new features add…
... card drivers. I lost my boot drive Saturday evening so had to ... go back to an old drive. Re-installed XP and it ... -
SCL files...Eh? 1) Where in buggery have these come from? and 2) What do they want? supplementary: 3) Why? As far as I can gather, they're files for the Russi…
... why is it that the Beta128 Disk Interface can only be ... with a new romset and Beta128 Disk drive built in, but its ... -
how is real spectrum used?I have just downloaded real spectrum for use on my win XP. I have read the info but still have got problems. 1) If I remove the 128k rom there is a…
... soft and virtual machine disk drive size).
Then, simply ... and put them on the boot drive.
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how is real spectrum used?I have just downloaded real spectrum for use on my win XP. I have read the info but still have got problems. 1) If I remove the 128k rom there is a…
... soft and virtual machine disk drive size).
Then, simply ... and put them on the boot drive.
Just a thought ... -
Help!! Newly installed 500gig hard drive installs as drive H ?Like i say in the title, windows installs fine but when windows boots up, the 500 gig hard drive is shown as drive H and when i try to install a prog…
... first letters leaving your master boot drive (normally "C") as something ... will allocate the card readers drive letters before "real" drives. ... actually getting the windows master boot drive in an unused state ... be normally allocated at boot up, i.e. C drive). -
Help!! Newly installed 500gig hard drive installs as drive H ?Like i say in the title, windows installs fine but when windows boots up, the 500 gig hard drive is shown as drive H and when i try to install a prog…
... ;214197]I ask as the drive letters (o and p) ... to far for the C: drive (how many partitions would you ... :
c: (FAT32 on drive 0) 15.70 GB 8 ... :
o: (FAT32 on drive 1) 82.32 GB 81 ... you could then partition your boot drive for 137GB, but a limitation ... -
Asus Eee PC thoughtsBasics: UMPC with 7" screen. underclocked 900MHz Celeron M processor. Price: ?220. Connectivity: Wifi, 3xUSB2.0, MMC/SDRAM card-reader, 0.3mp webca…
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Can the "hard drive" be compressed, as Win XP ... to partition the drive first so that the boot "drive" (partition) was ... of space on the hard drive (x - memory space + misc ... state (not a conventional hard drive) storage?
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Vista compatible emulators?Got upgraded to vista. Is there any reliable emulators that work with the damned os ???
... protect. In my case, a drive other than the System / Boot drive. -
SSD's and Windows 7Any one using SSD's ? Any tips?
a few folks who make music use them...
only for the os / boot drive, so it doesn't have to be big..
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Hard Drive QuestionI've recently re-installed windows on a new hard drive. I've kept the old hard drive and have been going through it deleting everything, as I check t…
... use it to analyse your drive and it will show you ... /> Offhand, I'd say your drive is probably taken up with ... manually go through your Windows boot drive looking for waste files. -
Hard Drive QuestionI've recently re-installed windows on a new hard drive. I've kept the old hard drive and have been going through it deleting everything, as I check t…
... B], Right click the drive ([B]C:[/B], if ... perform the operation on the boot drive, of course), select [ ... image of your C: drive. I use Acronis True ... if (when! :sad:) your drive needs reformating then instead of ... just overwrite your C: drive with the contents of ... -
Any Mac users?I'm thinking about buying one of the new Macbook Airs (to be used as my primary PC) and was wondering how Spectrum emulation (and other emulation) is…
... muso purpose good for a boot drive, but not good for other ... -
Any Mac users?I'm thinking about buying one of the new Macbook Airs (to be used as my primary PC) and was wondering how Spectrum emulation (and other emulation) is…
... muso purpose good for a boot drive, but not good for other ... -
Problems with LA NoireI got the PC version of LA Noire yesterday but i've yet to get it to run. I installed the game, i was also told to install a patch to make the game r…
... a default path on the boot drive.
Try uninstalling and then ... (Win7 64-bit) on the boot drive
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Windows 8 selling well...[Img]http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/downgradetowindows7.jpg[/Img] When suppliers start selling downgrades y…
... add it to the multi boot drive images. However, Vista has yet ... -
Moving Windows XPI'm reorganising the hard drives in my computer and want to move my windows XP partition to a new drive. This will mean the XP partition will no long…
... odd time.. from usb floppy drive.. no screen prompts , nothing. pretty ... put.. e.g. my SSD drive on my music pc.. I ... it's the C or Boot drive. -
Moving Windows XPI'm reorganising the hard drives in my computer and want to move my windows XP partition to a new drive. This will mean the XP partition will no long…
... put.. e.g. my SSD drive on my music pc.. I ... it's the C or Boot drive.[/QUOTE]
That's ... directory is on a different drive and it will happily default ... -
Migrating OS to SSDIve been thinking of getting a 120g SSD drive for my pc and migrating the OS (Win7 64bit) to it and just having the OS on it, nothing else (Got 1.5TB…
... I did).. or clone the drive as I use acronis, paragon ... on my music pc , the boot drive is the ssd and that ... ll point/put to another drive if possible and just leave ... the app on the C drive.
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SATA Solid State Hard Drive Help NeededHi. I have an old PC with an SATA hard drive in it, which I would like to replace with a solid state hard drive. I do not know much about them, so do…
... to use it as your boot drive and have a big platter ... some don't support the boot sequence IIRC. Check with the ... -
Acer Aspire 5920G Graphics card - Replace or have fixed?Wondered if you fellow Spec-chums might be able to help me with getting the most cost-effective fix for a Acer Aspire 5920G laptop I've got my mucky …
... on it's own hard drive to install.. 370gb or something ... only use that for a boot drive. -
What do I need to know about SSD HDDs?I've not been paying too much attention to the complexities of building a PC for about 10 years so I've got no idea what the standards are now. I'…
... 64 / 128 / 250 GB) as boot drive to install the OS on ... a new drive? More storage space? Have some backup? Faster boot times ... -
What do I need to know about SSD HDDs?I've not been paying too much attention to the complexities of building a PC for about 10 years so I've got no idea what the standards are now. I'…
... 64 / 128 / 250 GB) as boot drive to install the OS on ... need to increase the Win drive size either as everything installed ... a new drive? More storage space? Have some backup? Faster boot times ... with it for the root drive.
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Buying a new PCSo, here we go again, me posting for help about buying something. Shame you guys ain't on commission :)) Anyways. I've pretty much chosen everyt…
... isn't much for a boot drive either these days (assuming that ... -
Buying a new PCSo, here we go again, me posting for help about buying something. Shame you guys ain't on commission :)) Anyways. I've pretty much chosen everyt…
... isn't much for a boot drive either these days (assuming that ... using the 500GB as the boot drive.
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Keeping up to date with PC builds.I only do PC builds infrequently and I have stopped reading Micro-Mart so my abilities in the area can languish pretty quickly. But if it is new i…
... had an SSD as my boot drive since about 2015, and yes ... installed. I had a boot time of about 5 to ... still quick. However, I dual boot with Linux these days and ... the GRUB boot loader slows it down as ... I switch the main hard drive to an M2 SSD.
+3 floppy drive commands for drive b:Hi, I successfully rigged up a 3.5" floppy drive(a chinon fz 357 w/jumpers), a modified external dc power supply *thanks to Mr. J. King for the diagr…
... up a 3.5" floppy drive(a chinon fz 357 w ... .
Everything works and at boot up shows:
Drives A ... to save a program to drive B:
Using save "program ... go into detail about second drive commands) what I'm missing ...what is this? help! (may be a micro drive, im not sure, im confused).hey, i was at a car boot today and i found a tape drive that said "computer program data recorder" so i snapped it up thinking it could be of some u…
... a car boot today and i found a tape drive that said ...+3 Disk Drive "B:"Help me please! I've Googled 'till I can't Google no more. Is there an EASY way to fit a 3.5" FDD to the drive B: connector on the +3, and when it i…
... 3.5" FDD to the drive B: connector on the +3 ... that can manually write a boot sector and tracks/sectors but ... know what to do the boot sector etc.
I ...
