-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Formatting External HDD
- From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:07:29 -0400
thanks so much for the info on stats...........I'll have to put my C drive
back in this case and hunt up the stats on move them over to wherever the
heck it is stats go in xp. and i do have a friend to test them out
on.......poor girl.......she's my tester for a lot of stuff, lol.
now as far as the external...........1st off.....thanks so much for trying
to help me get this bugger in working order..............i know a while back
i emailed about it, but wasn't able to
follow up as my pc was starting to fall apart on me, plus was taking care of
hubby, etc, etc. who by the way is supposed to start another round of chemo
in the next 2 weeks.........poor man.....he's gonna try to talk the doc out
of some of it (keeping fingers crossed)
Ok, I turned the external back on..............it did an autorun thing and I
could see it showing stuff I put on it to test it out months ago. It's a 120
GIG HD......Western Digital
I went to "my computer" where it showed:
WD External (G:)
File System: FAT32
Free Space: 111 GB
Ttl size: 111 GB
I then tried deleting files from it and it let me delete one tube (.psp)
file right off, but then wouldn't let me delete another tube-the HDD ACC
Lite was flashing, but took a long time for the right click menu to come
up.......like 6-7 minutes, but I was able then to delete the other tube
(another .psp) file. There are other files.........folders of music, some
ok, some of the CDs had songs that somehow went missing still on it, but I
just decided to try to format. The music was just there as a test so can be
deleted no problem.
I right clicked on WD external (G:) and chose format and when the format
window came up it said:
capacity:
111 GB
file system:
NTFS
allocation unit size:
default allocation size
volume label:
WD External
Format options:
quick format
enable compression
I only chose "quick format" and got the warning about all info will be
erased and hit "OK" Result was "Windows was unable to complete the format"
and I clicked "OK"....went back to Format Options and clicked "enable
compression" only, got warning again about losing data, clicked "OK" and
after over an hr I clicked cancel.............it seemed like it was taking a
long time. I haven't tried choosing both "quick format" and "enable
compression" together at least today and I kind of think that's what I did
before when I got the error about it not being able to complete format
because the HD was FAT32.
If I should go back and choose "enable compression" and let it finish, no
matter whole long it takes, or both "quick format" and "enable compression"
together, let me know.
So that's where things stand. I've now turned it off once the icon said it
was ok to do so. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
Sandy in Fla
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gman" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:26 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: How 2 transfer Stationery from old to new
machine
> Hi Sandy,
> Congrats on the new addition to the family! Glad to hear you got
> through all that funky weather and it's good to know that you and hubby
> aren't skeeered of a little tech work, either. lol
>
> I used to run a stat group (I was a high level mod, but the owner was
> mostly absent), but I've been out of that scene since 2001. The good news
> is that you CAN just copy over your stationery to the new system. What's
> yet to be discovered is how well XP will render the stats once they're
> there. You'll want to try setting up an experiment with a friend to send
> them a couple and see how it looks on their end. I suspect all will be
> fine, but my suspect is sometimes suspect. lol
>
> The external 120 has me confused, though. Any operating system using
> NTFS (yes, you got it right) should have no problem seeing and using a
> drive
> formatted with FAT32, so I suspect something else is going on. Please try
> your format again and then tell me the exact wording of the error message
> you receive. As long as the drive is in decent shape, I'm sure there's an
> easy fix for what's ailing it.
>
> Peace,
> Gman
>
> "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sandy" <sandy.rick@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "PcTechTalk" <PcTechTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 11:11 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- How 2 transfer Stationery from old to new machine
>
>
>> oh man, my poor ole pc with Me on it went to pc heaven late last week at
>> the same time we were dealing with tropical storm fay.............make a
>> long story short we went to comp usa and ended up getting an xp machine
>> that is a professional model..................doesn't have a lot of
>> programs, not even an office program installed on it............so it's
>> my
>> first time having a machine that didn't have a bunch of crap on it.
>> and it has suprised the heck out of me and hubby but the saleman also
>> sold
>> us a harddrive enclosure so we could remove old harddives from ole Me
>> machine and transfer files over. I really thought I was gonna need my
>> geekette, but i'll be danged if I didn't start figuring out how to take
>> out my C drive and hubby is a mechanic anyway so he figured out the rest
>> and we even figured out how to put them into the enclosure and i've been
>> transferring files!!!!!!!!!!! woo hoo..................a big first for
>> us,
>> lololol. I told him we sure couldn't do anymore damage to the old pc
>> seeing as how it was dead anyway, lol.
>>
>> now to get to my actual question <g> Can I take stationery that was
>> installed in the windows shared folder on old pc and just do a drag/drop
>> "wherever" the heck it goes on this xp mahcine? I didn't know if just
>> copy/paste, or drag and drop would make stationery that had been
>> installed
>> work. I sure hope so cause i have just a couple in there that I made.
>> and where on an xp machine does it go.
>>
>> can i say how much i looooooooooooooooove this new computer :-)))))))
>> it's so quiet i barely know it's running and i'm fumbing my way around
>> xp,
>> but i have a ton of stuff to discover and figure out still.
>>
>> got all my old email folders and favorites.................whew!
>>
>> also i attached my 120gig external thinking it would probably work when i
>> couldn't get it to work on the Me machine, but it wouldn't let me put
>> files on it or take off or delete, so I decided to just format it, but
>> got
>> the error that it is FAT32 and my machine is NTFS (i think that's
>> it)................so it this something where you have to go into the
>> BIOS
>> to fix up or how do i make this external useable with my new machine.
>>
>> if you need any specifics about pc let me know.
>>
>> Sandy in Florida
>
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