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19-03-2007, 04:48 PM
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hard drives
gents im running two seperate hard drives on my comp
packard bell 2.8ghz pentium 4 with 2gig ram
my main operating system is xp pro running on the smaller 40gig(internal) hard drive
i also have a larger 160 gig(internal) which is used for storage and movies and the like
i recently have been having trouble accessing the drive or getting information to transfer without the comp hanging or going really slow
i have now just acquired an EXTERNAL 320GIG
which im attempting to transfer the files onto
when ive got everything off which i want how do i re-format the drive
so its basically a blank again ???
cheers
nath
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19-03-2007, 04:49 PM
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You can format it in Windows - go to Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management and there's a section in there called Disk Management. Right-click on the correct drive (you don't want to choose the wrong one  ) and you can format it.
HTH,
HB
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19-03-2007, 04:53 PM
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Couldn't have put it better myself 
(and no smart comments in response to that please  )
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I need the extra HDD just for my pictures of Mallett.
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19-03-2007, 05:08 PM
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chris is there anything else i should be doing when running drives like this ???
i only had the drive 1/3rd full and it was complaining like mad even after being de-fragged
is there some special program i need to help the comp access things better or stop it hanging
it seems to run the explorer.exe program really really hard and just makes things impossible to work with
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19-03-2007, 05:11 PM
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"Complaining" in what way?
If you're getting slowdown on folders with lots of video files or images, it's a known bug in Explorer - turning thumbnails off normally does the trick.
HB
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19-03-2007, 05:26 PM
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yep thats it
thank you very much i didnt know that
thats probably whats been happening
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19-03-2007, 07:26 PM
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cheers chris
you wouldnt believe how much quicker it is now ive done that
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