A system backup is very convenient if you have a total system crash. Back in the Windows 95 days, I started using PowerQuest’s Drive Image to do image backups of my hard drive partitions. Why? It made recovering from a hardware or software glitch much easier. I remember my son getting a tank warfare game, [...]
Another Way to Convert FAT32 External Drives to NTFS
Reader David Volente wrote in response to my email newsleter article last week about reformatting an external drive: Hi Terry. Ref. mail article about converting from FAT to NTFS. I have an identical drive to Ed’s and only found out by accident that it was pre-formatted to FAT (why?) when I realised that a search [...]
Adding a SATA Hard Drive to Your System, Part 2
Reader Rick Goodier wrote again to say: Hi, Terry. You were right. I finally had to download a driver, oddly called a Raid driver, from the soyo website, install it, and then the drive was recognized. But I made a bit of a mistake. In the xp pro disk management screen, I told the computer [...]
Adding a SATA Hard Drive to Your System
Reader Rick Goodier wrote me about the problems he was having adding a SATA hard drive to his new computer. Hi, Terry. I am a new subscriber just signed on. Perhaps I will have some suggestions for you as time goes on. I have been playing around with computers for more than a few years. [...]
Adding a Large SATA Drive to an Older Computer
A couple weeks ago, I bought a 1 TB SATA II hard drive to add to my home theater PC. I already had one SATA II drive (3.0 Gigabits/second) installed in the computer, on which I had the drive’s jumper set to SATA I (1.5 Gigabits/second). I "knew" the new drive wouldn’t be a problem [...]
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