Search results for query: *

group: wanted to give you an update. The seller of the disk (upgrade-solutions) told me the disk was bad - so I sent it back yesterday. I then purchased here in town a Western Digital 40 gig ata100 drive. Finding a 20gig is almost impossible anymore. I then followed your advice and booted...

john/others - thanks for reply. Do you (from your experience and knowledge) believe this is not a hard drive problem? I have also contacted the company who sold me the hard drive to ask their advice - send it back or try some additional formatting. It is such a pain to open the pc box, mess...

john - thanks for reply. I do have a question - If I use a w98 boot floppy let's say and the 20gig drive formats ok, I would then boot off the xp cd. xp would try to partition and format the new 20 gig disk. I would think I would be right back in the same spot - format errors? or since the...

I recently purchased a new 20 gig drive (ata-100) 7200 rpm. This will be my new system disk (C:) and I will re-install all programs on this disk. When I boot off the xp cd, the xp setup starts and then begins the formatting of c: The first thing that is wrong is that format only sees 15864 mb...

thanks to all who responded. I just heard from someone that pc speed is largely dependent upon hard disk speed - i.e. 133 ata drive 7200 rpm is preferred. your thoughts?

P3 cpu with 512mb memory - installed xp-home and systems runs slower - especially web access. I wonder if I should look into a cpu upgrade - perhaps to 1 ghz??