-=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:13:22 -0400
They told me at comp usa that they have great deals all the time on the 1
terbyte drives and the salesman told me to come see them for one when i'm
ready to put another drive in the available spot. My hubby even tells me i
should stop messing with this external and just save up and get that
bigggggg ole drive installed. I'm getting very close to agreeing with him as
i'm spending so much time trying to get this working and/or googling
everything i can think of that i've been neglecting some things around the
house and the things i do get done are being done as such a feverish rate to
hurry and get back onthe pc, lolololol.............goodness how we get
addicted to these dang things ;-) And i'm one of those people that tend to
get stressed over pc problems too easily i'm afraid.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 6:20 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
> All indications....... you are now Sandy Guru!
> I think you are good to go Sandy. It's now obvious what can be done with
> Indomnitable Courage, Natural Ability, and a hellva lot of luck!
> Congratulations!
> It might be interesting to take a look at that parainfo.txt file.
> Is it too large to post?
> The mouse problem........ you must be using a USB mouse.
> I plug in an old 99 cent PS2 mouse and just stow it behind the machine in
> the ball of wires when it's not needed.
>
> Now that you're a Guru do you have your toolbar in Windows Explorer
> customized so you can easily Move or Copy files to or from that drive?
> Judith, with a new grosso HDD would do well to customize her toolbar also.
> With Move and Copy on the toolbar it becomes real simple to move large
> quantities of files, hither and you, effortlessly.
> If you haven't already, right click on a blank spot on your toolbar and
> click on customize..........
> There's a whole passel of goodies there that you can add or remove, change
> the order, etc.
> It's a hard feature to sell for some reason, maybe because nobody looks,
> but
> it's well worth the effort to set it up to your liking.
>
> ------------
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 2:36 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>
>
>> yep a big HP shows............well i managed somehow to hit the space bar
>> ok, cause i finally got in there..............yah! ok, the format itself
>> was extremely quick, then it asked if I wanted to scan the surface for
>> errors and i chose yes, but after seeing that this was probably going to
>> take like a day or 2, i realized i could use my "enter" key to choose
>> cancel. I seemed to have lost the use of my mouse and didn't know what
>> to
>> do for a minute or two. i went under the "general" menu item and chose
>> "reports" and it made a file named c:\parainfo.txt and it saved to the
>> external.
>>
>> Oh another big thing! I was just Re booting with the FDisk in
>> there............not Booting.................and that seems to make a
>> difference ;-)
>>
>> Ok, went into explorer to see what that external has on it now and it
>> only
>> showed the c:\parainfo.txt file so I moved it to my desktop and tried
>> deleting it from the external and it deleted no problem, then suddenly
>> appeared the trash can and now a folder called System Volume Information
>> and
>> if you click on it you get to another folder callsed _restore{and a
>> hugeeee
>> number}, click on that folder and get another folder called RP29, click
>> on
>> that folder and you get something called change.log with some stuff in it
>> about the restore and recycle that makes no sense (to me anyway).
>>
>> I'm not able to delete either the trash bin or the new folder System
>> Volume
>> Information,but maybe that's correct?
>>
>> So at this point I don't know how to know if the external's ok or needs
>> more
>> work??
>>
>> When I was exiting the FDisk program I got an error that I don't know if
>> it's something to be worried about or what. Ok, first off, my pc came
>> with
>> #1 a C Drive and #2 a D partition that is something called "HP
>> Recovery".............so the error I got was: error: partition 2 on
>> harddisk 1 CHS start sector is 2570400. The right start sector is
>> 955771110. Do you want to correct the error? I chose no and then
>> another
>> similar error with different numbers came up and I forgot to write it
>> down,
>> but i also chose no.
>>
>> Then got the c:\ prompt and removed the CD and turned off pc, waited and
>> turned back on.
>>
>> Whew.............my shoulders are burning from being at the pc so long
>> the
>> last few days!!!!!
>>
>> Sandy in hot and humid Fla. I'm ready for winter!
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 4:40 PM
>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>
>>
>>> My newly amended guess would be that your system normally shows a big
>>> logo
>>> of whomever built the beast when you first boot or reboot it instead of
>>> providing you with useful information like custom built systems do. If
>>> that's the case, that darned logo is hiding the line from you until the
>>> last
>>> second.
>>>
>>> To get around it, try pressing the "Any Key" repeatedly before it gets
>>> to
>>> that point. Hopefully, it'll bring up the stuff you need sooner without
>>> requiring you to break a finger at lightning fast speed.
>>>
>>> Some BIOS' have a setting for turning off those ugly logos. If you'd
>>> like,
>>> I can later try to walk you through the steps to get in there and look
>>> for
>>> it. Just let me know.
>>>
>>> Peace,
>>> Gman
>>>
>>> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2008 4:21 PM
>>> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: External HDD format-- Roger
>>>
>>>
>>>> oh my goodness...............that's what's been flashing across my
>>>> screen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>>> lololololol.....................gman..........for days i've been trying
>>>> my
>>>> best to read it, but it's so fast i can't and on my machine it's at the
>>>> bottom of that black screen. it's been bugging me to death trying to
>>>> read
>>>> it!
>>>>
>>>> ok, here goes nothing! lol
>>>>
>>>> Sandy
>>>
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