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True, I think I'll just take one out of my work PC when I go home tomorrow night (just have to remember to take it back on Friday!). ENIHL ice hockey at http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

OK, I'll start doing that. To be honest I tend to copy stuff over then forget I've even left the drive on, so it's usually ages after when I switch it off. Maybe that's why I've been lucky so far ;-) Cheers. ENIHL ice hockey at http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

I used Avast anti-virus which has an excellent reputation, at least it's been recommended in magazines. I do run AdAware and SpyBot, not just one or the other. I only disabled services that were not required for the way my PC is set up/the way I work. My problems have not been made worse at...

My external drive (Lacie) actually has an on/off switch and up to now I've just used that instead of the Eject procedure. Are you saying it's dodgy to be doing that? Luckily I've been doing everything else in the list, in the right order. ENIHL ice hockey at http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

Thanks everyone, I've learned a very valuable lesson :-( I have an external hard drive too and this experience has made me paranoid about connecting it when the PC is running but the drive's manual leads me to believe external USB2 devices are OK to do this? I checked the external hard drive...

Yesterday I plugged in my second hard drive while the PC still on (I'd previously unplugged it to see if doing so would affect my PC's start-up time). I assumed "plug & play" meant the drive would automatically be recognised when I plugged it back in, but it wasn't. I re-started the PC...

I can't get one 'til the weekend, that's why I thought I'd just try unplugging a different drive each time I restarted to see if one was the cause. I downloaded the bootvis.exe that was also suggested but I'm not tech-minded enough to understand the results. The computer takes way longer to...

OK, my problem has now gotten heaps worse. I unplugged the second hard drive before switching on the PC to see if it was the cause of the slow loading. The PC loaded as slowly as ever so I plugged the drive back in again and now XP will not recognise it whatsoever. The drive is visible in the...

Yes, I bought the PC from Fujitsu-Siemens, although I've added the second hard drive, changed the sound/video cards and power supply along the way. It was really only using my Mum's PC that made me realise how slow mine has been all this time. I do have CD/DVD drives - one of each. What is the...

No, I don't have one of those. One other thing I should maybe mention is that I install all the Windows updates including the malicious software tool each month, so that's another thing I've tried. Re-starting again I've noticed that it spends about 1 1/2 minutes displaying the Windows logo...

Ever since I got my PC it's taken ages to load to the desktop. My work PC is half the spec, yet it takes just seconds to load. My mother's PC is almost identical in spec to mine yet hers takes around 12 seconds to get to get to the desktop - mine takes about 3 1/2 minutes! Here's my spec...

Also, remember that the next cell only becomes smaller because it is empty. If you start typing in that cell it will resize - and correspondingly the first cell will also resize to accommodate. A cell will always expand to fit whatever has been put in it unless you set its width and/or include a...

Great, thanks for that. Ice hockey nostalgia at: http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

I installed SP1 at the time and have since installed SP2 (regrettably!). My Dad has bought an old laptop off eBay which has XP on it but neither service pack. Does he have to have the SP1 CD and install that prior to the SP2 or does the SP2 include all the SP1 stuff anyway? Many thanks. Ice...

Actually, I just had a go at recreating your page in Dreamweaver, by taking a screenshot, cropping it to include only your webpage, saving it and using it as a tracing image in Dreamweaver (via Modify - Page Properties). I'm not saying that this is the best code I could come up with (hey, it's...

Chris is right. While it's OK to use Photoshop to create your site design and even slice it up it's always better to create the site structure in Dreamweaver. That way you can use regular (searchable) HTML text for your content and use background colours for table cells instead of images. This...

I've changed my order back to the PC2700. I decided to try SiSoft Sandra and that has confirmed I have PC2700 installed. Just a shame that neither Fujitsu-Siemens, nor their website, nor their spares people nor the company that handles their online sales could give me this information! Ice...

Thanks everyone for your help. I've decided to play it safe and change my order to the PC2100 variety. Ice hockey nostalgia at: http://www.leevalleylions.co.uk

I currently have 512mb ram in my PC. I know from the motherboard manual that it's DDR SDRAM but the manual just says it supports PC2100 and PC2700 so I've no idea which is installed (From what I can remember it's PC2100). I want to buy another 512mb and have ordered the PC2700 variety as it's...

Thanks, everyone. I'm sending the drive back and have already bought a Seagate drive as a replacement. Result? Peace is restored! I did a bit of hunting around and came across a forum thread where lots of people were complaining about the unnerving noises from their Hitachi drives. Hitachi told...