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  1. ndbdesign

    Missing printers after hard drive swap

    hi everyone, Hope you all can help me out.I just got done with a hard drive swap(just cloned old drive to new).and now the printers are missing.Error says cannot communicate with printer.Also there are no printers listed in the printers folder.there just gone.tried to re-install the drivers...
  2. ndbdesign

    hard drive swap gone bad

    Thanks Nightowl for the info. But i got it on my own. After about 6 hrs. of messing with stuff BIOS,Pri IDE,Sec IDE ,etc.. Those HP's definately are a tricky comp..Plus it my first experience with one as well as with WinME.So it was a good learning experience. And i don't think i lost to much...
  3. ndbdesign

    hard drive swap gone bad

    This is the adventure,customer calls says "i need to swap out a hard drive for a bigger one",i say no prob..Get there nice it's a Maxtor drive so i'm thinking no big deal a couple of hrs. Boy was i wrong!!! Nothing but probs. from the start first the MaxBlast won't run right.Then i...
  4. ndbdesign

    Quiet ways to cool a computer

    Goldfinger, I live in Vermont(northern)right now it's 66F with 78%humidity. My temps are 81F processor and 79F system or 27C and 26C right now as i'm writing.But i'm only pulling 40% of memory and 15% of my system right now. Bye, ndb
  5. ndbdesign

    Quiet ways to cool a computer

    HaHA 486 yeah right!!! No i'm running a 2.0a GHZ P4<512MB DDR><GF4 Ti-4600> As far as that temp that was the max i've seen my sys. get to. Yesterday during 3DMark she was running at 34C max immediately after.Also i'm in the coolest room in the house with 7 fans running in my tower. bye for...
  6. ndbdesign

    Quiet ways to cool a computer

    Are these just stock cooling fans? If so you might want to upgrade to some better heat sink/fan combo's to get better cooling. But some of those might be a bit louder,but with them you might be able to at least keep the side on. You could also get yourself some Artic Silver thermal grease to...
  7. ndbdesign

    defraging

    I've got a general question concerning defragmenting.I'm in the process of swapping out a hard drive.As i'm doing this i realized that the pc hasn't been defraged in almost 2 years.(very bad i thought)I mean i do mine like every month if it needs it(which it usually doesn't). So i tell the...
  8. ndbdesign

    Swapping out hard drives in Windows ME

    Thanks everyone i've started copying the files over,but i'm havin a little problem with some programs that r still running. Would starting in safe mode prevent this? If so i can't seem to get the right command or key(ctrl,del,F1,etc..)at start-up to access it? Is there some trick in ME to get...
  9. ndbdesign

    help need a dos boot disk

    Thanks everyone i'm all set.I just went and d/l the boot disk from bootdisk.com. Thanks again for the quick response.
  10. ndbdesign

    help need a dos boot disk

    I don't think that's exactly what i want to do.I have a diagnostics program that is DOS. I need to make copies of the master disk.They told me to get a WIN 98 boot disk to get to DOS to make the copies.But i don't have any dos boot disks.So i need to find or download something that will boot my...
  11. ndbdesign

    help need a dos boot disk

    Good Morning, I need to find a Win98 boot disk or any dos boot disk to make copies of a dos program. Does anyone know where i can download something like this. That I can make a boot disk from. I'm running XP so as you know there is no true DOS command prompt to make copies(or at least mine...
  12. ndbdesign

    Swapping out hard drives in Windows ME

    Hey everyone hope you can help me out. I need to swap out a hard drive in Windows ME,from a 6 GB to a 60 GB.My plan was to install the new drive as the slave and copy over the complete old drive to the new one.Then take out the old and make the new the master.Does anyone know of any known...

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