Recent content by ckes101

Yes all drives are the same. I never thought of the manufacturers tools. That's a great idea..Thank you so much

Hi OP again. I just wanted to format them to make sure they were ok to sell. I thought if they formatted ok then they would be good to go.

Sorry guys I do not think I made myself clear. The drives have already been data destroyed by the asset management team. All I want to do is format them to make sure there ok for me to sell on.

Hi friends and thanks for looking at my thread. I have just upgraded 50 dell computers to 500 gig drives and i have been given the 50 old sata 40 gig drives. There is no data on them that needs proper data destruction so i just want to format them all before i move them on. My question is what...

Hi everyone and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a real simple question to ask about legal software. i was asked this question by a friend of mine and realized i could not give an answer. So here goes...when a new PC is purchased that has an operating system installed...

Hi Thanks for the reply. I have spent this afternoon investigating this S3 issue. And it would appear that it is the motherboard BIOS that enables S3 sleep. The reason my XP machine did not do it was because the mobo did not support S3 sleep. but when i upgraded a few machines to W7 i also...

Hi every one and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have installed Windows 7 on a few machines now and have noticed something strange(at least to me). If i put the machines in sleep mode (or the machine goes into sleep mode by itself) it looks like the machine has switched...

Hi Guys Thanks for all the info. The image for windows sounds just the ticked and is a fair price to. Thank again for the great advise. This really is the place to come with a problem. just one more thing....can i have next weeks lottery numbers (now that would really impress me)

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. A really simple one this(i hope). I have tried to make a recovery image(both on an external hdd and a dvdrw) for various vista machines(mostly premium 64 bit). I use acronis true image (not sure what version but its not a...

Hi Yes i have been setting the SATA controller to auto however every thing still shows as unknown device. But....I have just tried loading a dell GX 270 image via acronis. Acronis can see the SATA hard drive and loaded the image OK. Once the image is installed on the hard drive all future...

Hello friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I am a little embarrassed to admit that a dell GX270 has got the better of me. I have a number of units that i have been trying to upgrade. A dell GX 270 has 1 unused SATA connection on the motherboard. I have been trying to...

OK guys. Thanks very much for the advice. I'm off to connect the other 4 pin socket

Hello Friends and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have just built a PC with an AMD phenom CPU on a biostar MCP6P M2 motherboard. The board has both 24 pin power socket and a 4 pin power socket. My psu(700 watt) also has a 24 pin power connector and a 4 pin connector. The PC...

Thats excellent advice. Thank you.I will try both options

Hello everyone and thank you for taking the time to look at my thread. I have a speed issue when ghosting!! Painful some might say!! Anyways...i have 50 dell GX 260's i look after. I was recently given the task of re installing all the machines xp pro o/s's(using an acronis image). Each machine...