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PC HDD help required please

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Klinsmania

Bobby Zamora
Please could one of the techies on here help out a fellow yid. I have bought a new HDD for my PC, it's a 2TB drive and I have checked that my motherboard will support it, which it does. I have hooked it up and although when I go in to Manage Devices the HDD shows up in my list of drives, hence the machine clearly recognises that it exists, when I double click on My Computer it does not display the drive as an available drive. Is there anything else I need to do to 'activate' it?

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Yeah, so I haven't used XP in a while but you need to basically go into Disk Management (in Computer Management, there's a tab on the left called Storage).

Open that **** up, right click the drive and create a new simple volume/partition. In fact, you can create as many partitions (aka drives, like E, F, G) on that one hard drive as you want.

Let me know if you have trouble finding that program, it comes with Windows and it's probably found in the administrative tools of control panel or something like that.
 
Hi all, got an issue. My sound from the internet etc arent working eg youtube vids. However sound when playing music or videos (that arent on the internet but held on files) are working fine. So its not a speaker issue, perhaps a google chrome issue?

Any help?
 
If the same files play fine in IE then I would say something in Chrome messed up.

Quickest way, imo, save your bookmarks from Chrome - uninstall, reboot, install again.
 
Trixster said:
If the same files play fine in IE then I would say something in Chrome messed up.

Quickest way, imo, save your bookmarks from Chrome - uninstall, reboot, install again.
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I reinstalled Chrome and flash adobe - its working now.

Thanks mate
 
I've got quite a lot of videos and photos saved on my laptop, about 20GB. I've got the best ones saved online on Flickr. Also lots of them are on iCloud. Also I've saved them to small USB Flash drives but I've noticed a lot of these Flash drives are old and corrupt now which isn't good.

My laptop is pretty old so I think I will buy an external storage device to save all the photos to one place.

Seems like Flash drives go up to 64GB and stuff so that would do... but they are so small I could just lose it one day.
So I'm tempted to get an external hard drive such as this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Ex...8&qid=1389733789&sr=1-1&keywords=data+storage

I don't need 2TB but I probably will as file formats change / data quality increases over the next few years, once I save more videos in particular...

I see above that I might need to make my PC recognise it and perhaps Format it to NTFS... seems easy enough. I assume I can then save stuff to it and unplug it and forget about it?



Also, my laptop is 4 or 5 years old now, I could do with cleaning out all the old crap and get it running faster again. I've done a defragment and Scan Disk but it's still pretty slow. Is there a good tool that cleans things up without wiping data, photos, installed software, bookmarks etc?
 
No idea(!) but I will say that I replaced the spinning rust in my computer with an SDD recently and it is like I bought a new computer. I can't believe I didn't do it earlier. Might this be a possibility in your case?
 
Nezza said:
No idea(!) but I will say that I replaced the spinning rust in my computer with an SDD recently and it is like I bought a new computer. I can't believe I didn't do it earlier. Might this be a possibility in your case?
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Don't ask me mate! I'm not sure why it runs slow... it is mostly just Chrome, waiting for pages to load, or the Flash plugin failing... I don't use it for much, it is just photos and Chrome really.
 
Bullet said:
I've got quite a lot of videos and photos saved on my laptop, about 20GB. I've got the best ones saved online on Flickr. Also lots of them are on iCloud. Also I've saved them to small USB Flash drives but I've noticed a lot of these Flash drives are old and corrupt now which isn't good.

My laptop is pretty old so I think I will buy an external storage device to save all the photos to one place.

Seems like Flash drives go up to 64GB and stuff so that would do... but they are so small I could just lose it one day.
So I'm tempted to get an external hard drive such as this one
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Elements-Ex...8&qid=1389733789&sr=1-1&keywords=data+storage

I don't need 2TB but I probably will as file formats change / data quality increases over the next few years, once I save more videos in particular...

I see above that I might need to make my PC recognise it and perhaps Format it to NTFS... seems easy enough. I assume I can then save stuff to it and unplug it and forget about it?



Also, my laptop is 4 or 5 years old now, I could do with cleaning out all the old crap and get it running faster again. I've done a defragment and Scan Disk but it's still pretty slow. Is there a good tool that cleans things up without wiping data, photos, installed software, bookmarks etc?
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Anyone able to help me out please?
 
Bullet said:
Anyone able to help me out please?
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As a daily requirement I would use CCleaner.

As a weekly requirement I would use Malwarebytes

Both are free to download. http://download.cnet.com/windows/

As you an see both reside in the top downloads

IMO the only thing that really speeds up a computer is a windows reinstall. That or using the CCleaner to go through your startup programmes and switch off the ones you don't need. To know which each is just put the programme name showing into google and it will tell you what it is. Obviouly if not sure, then leave it as running on startup
 
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There is a great article in MaximumPC - Feb. Regarding changing from the usual Hraddrive to an SSD. Something I will be changing over too in the near future I think. Everytime I play Rome against my Nephew we have our facetimes on the Ipads whilst playing, some of you may remember I put in an SSD in his computer that I built,anyway his load up speed on games is amazing, I often can go get a drink before Rome loads on mine and we can start playing. I have ringing in my ear.. Is it ready yet! from my Nephew. It may have been the fresh install of windows that makes it fast, but damn.. it certainly is a difference IMO. Anyone wanting a link to said pdf mag click
 
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Superhudd said:
There is a great article in MaximumPC - Feb. Regarding changing from the usual Hraddrive to an SSD. Something I will be changing over too in the near future I think. Everytime I play Rome against my Nephew we have our facetimes on the Ipads whilst playing, some of you may remember I put in an SSD in his computer that I built,anyway his load up speed on games is amazing, I often can go get a drink before Rome loads on mine and we can start playing. I have ringing in my ear.. Is it ready yet! from my Nephew. It may have been the fresh install of windows that makes it fast, but damn.. it certainly is a difference IMO. Anyone wanting a link to said pdf mag click
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How did the build go in the end buddy? Was he pleased with it?
 
CCleaner will help a bit.
Malwarebytes, yes, if you have some nasty shizzle on the laptop.

As your laptop is 4/5 years old I am guessing there is a chance it is still XP, if so then ssd is a deffo no go imo.
Again, if XP, then the only true way really to get it back to normal would be a fresh install really. If Vista then fire and magnets tbh.

Personally, a fresh install and if possible avoiding all the bloatware would be best.
 
Trix, My SSD post wasn't aimed at Bullet tbh. Just an observation that I wanted to share on a PC HDD thread.
 
scotty220 said:
How did the build go in the end buddy? Was he pleased with it?
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Yeah he is pleased. Need to sort out some lights though as the one in the box moved to the top to facilitate the radiator. The shine is therefore not bright.

Easy problem to fix though, just have to get around doing it.. probably in the summer when I have a whole day over there.

I don't know if you noticed on the picture I put up of everything but I added a little on the graphics card... got him the GTX760 in the end.

I think on the previous thread I put up a 3D Mark test result on mine and his and he came out streets ahead.

Didn't stop him wanting a PS4 or Xbox for christmas though... lol..I keep telling him the spec he has wipes the feet of them both, anyway he starts senior school this coming September so its just not gaming he needs it for.

On a personal level.. I bloody enjoyed the whole process and now will not blink an eye if I ever have to open up a PC or build another.
 
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