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  1. ibdunn

    laptop hard drive replacement unrecogized

    The first drive was definitely bad--I bought a new one and was able to see and format it with my desktop-- so i'll be sending that other one back--thanks for your assistance BD
  2. ibdunn

    laptop hard drive replacement unrecogized

    I replaced my laptop hard drive which was a fujitsu 40gb with a hitachi 160gb - but the laptop doesn't see the hard drive--i went into the bios and tried to manually input cylinders, heads, sectors -but the bios wouldn't let me adjust the sectors as high as I needed to-- i'm assuming a...
  3. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    avtually...i tried a tonne of stuff...wound up partitioning my 250 into 2 drives ....so as much as i tried i was stuck with the partitioning routine and am still using that drive that way
  4. ibdunn

    wxp startup screen - - don't want a logon

    How can i get rid of the logon screen on XP pro??? i want my computer to start up and be ready to go w/out selecting a user!!
  5. ibdunn

    where can i find service pack files on my computer

    I've downloaded service pack files and fixes and now need to reinstall windows - -but don't want to have to re-download - -can i make a disk of service pack files and updates - - where do i find these files??? i know they are somewhere in the windows folder but don't know where...
  6. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    sorry--didn't mean to seem testy...this is an awesome forum which i've used mostly for software related stuff...but appreciate having a resource for troubleshooting such as this... i still don't get the part u referred to here... "when at 48bitLBA.com, he didn't punch in his IDE onboard...
  7. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    However, i "think" ibdunn may have overlooked two things possibly; -- when at 48bitLBA.com, he didn't punch in his IDE onboard controller, thinking it isn't used in his situation(USB interface,....the usb interface sees removeable drives as scsi devices, and the IDE controller is utilized to...
  8. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    fooled around w/partition magic long enough to get it to give me anpther harddrive--so hopefully my problems are solved---thanks everyone...still would love to figure out how to get the final 250--but will be satisfied at at least being able to use the whole thing!!
  9. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    i had forgotten to reboot - -i did that--still the same. as far as partition magic it shows the size to be 131,069.3 and then unallocated to be 107,403.3 how can i change that unallocated portion into something useable?? i would prefer to have one external 250gb drive but short of that i...
  10. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    i tried again - -there was an install option -- i installed it and tried to see the external 250 and still it only shows as 127gb.....i have partition magic - -it only sees it that way too -- is there any other options anyone?? deperate--- i thank you guys for all your help so far...
  11. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    I just saved it as 48bitLba.inf - - but still - -how do i install? right clicking on the file does not give me that option...
  12. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    ok...sorry if i seem dumb here - -i did copy and paste everything from above as suggested and saved it as a text file...i then found it in my documents and right-clicked on it as suggested - -but "install" was not an option -what do u mean by install from right clicking??
  13. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    What Brand/Model of new HDD??? western digital -- wd2500jb and the Brand/model IDE Case - USB Adapter??? the case is a micro-plus (mp-320U2) there is a caution inside the case that says "this external sub-system can operate with master ide drive only. Please set the ide drive to master mode...
  14. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    48bit walk-thru stops me with this part What IDE Controller is the hard drive connected to? i am connected via usb2 - -not an option from walk-thru
  15. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    from that article u suggest, http://www.adrc.net/articles/137gb.htm it says: "Use Ultra ATA/133 MHz PCI controller card for Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98 Second Edition, and NT4 " what is meant by that?? also, the article says the below "The Intel Application Accelerator v2.3 or above support...
  16. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    yes it does have sp1 installed - i ran partition magic and it only shows 131gb...what now??
  17. ibdunn

    How can i get my computer to recognise my 250GB external USB2 HD

    I just got a 250GB internal HD and a box for it that allows it to be run externally via USB. The problem is, the computer only sees 127GB of my 250GB drive. I am runnning WXP on a laptop, toshiba satellite 2435 computer--(no dick drive)I just bought this computer last year so should still be in...
  18. ibdunn

    true type font help - transferring between computers..

    I have 2 fonts on my desktop computer that I need to transfer to my laptop --I 've tried copying the fonts directly and i've tried running ATM - -i can see the fonts with ATM but I can't see how to copy them to like a disc or something - -what happens to them if I remove them with ATM??
  19. ibdunn

    usb not being true plug&play devices

    I just bought a new Toshiba Satellite laptop -it has 3 usb2 ports none of which will recognise any of my usb1 -- (I don't have any usb 2 devices) stuff ...when i initially plug it in - -. If I let the computer hybernate or restart it with the devices already plugged in then the usb stuff works...
  20. ibdunn

    How do you figure out which fonts are missing?

    I started a web page for someone sometime ago - he wasn't ready to give me content till now after i already had a header up on his site which he loves. The problem is this header contains fonts which I lost when i converted my syteme to Windows 2000 and I have no idea what fonts they are - if...

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