thank you to everyone who responded to my hdd question. i changed the swap file and the DMA settings... my computer is definately a lot quicker now. you're suggestions have really helped me out and i really appreciate it.
i dont know how the drive is formatted because i believe it was already formatted before i installed it. i havent removed the drive yet. where do i go to and how do i change the swap file settings like you described?
i am running windows xp. i installed the drive as a slave. i checked the IDE drives in device manager. each ide cable showed pull down choices for two things: drive 0 and drive 1. under the secondary ide cable (for the new hdd), drive 0 was DMA and drive 1 was PIO. i set the PIO to DMA. i...
my dad had a 15gb hdd sent to him from gateway when he thought his computer was "broken." since he had no use for it, i took it and installed it in my pc recently. before doing so, i read up on partitioning with fdisk and formatting and such, but when i booted up after installing it, my...
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