Posts Tagged ‘New Hard Drive’
How to install a hard drive
January 18th, 2010 | 
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How to install a hard drive
In college, as the burgeoning P2P world opened up before me, I spent four years moving, burning, and ultimately sacrificing the free and ambiguously legal media I had been downloading on my 20GB laptop.
Since that time PVR functionality has replaced my P2P addiction (sort of), and my used hard drive space is still bumping up against its limits. Now that I’m out of college and enjoying the luxury of a desktop computer, I need worry ..read more
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Tags: Advanced Technology Attachment, Ata, Bad Boy, Computer Computer, Computer Hardware, Desktop Computer, Discerning Buyer, Drive Space, Electrical Device, External Hard Drive, Hard Drives, How To Install A Hard Drive, Integrated Drive Electronics, New Hard Drive, Optical Drives, P2p, Personal Computing, Sata, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment, Storage Space | 
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Master/Slave Settings vs. Cable Select
Although I covered most of the ways to speed up Windows boot time in another article, I encountered a unique roadblock recently that made me write this article.
During the last week I was asked by a customer to upgrade one of their office computers from Windows 98SE to Windows XP. Normally this is pretty standard, however because their current hard drive was only a 20GB with a gig or so remaining I wanted to upgrade their hard drive as well.
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Tags: Bios, Boot Time, Drive Connections, Ghost, Gig, Hard Drives, Jumpers, Logo Screen, Master Slave, New Hard Drive, Office Computers, Power Connector, Refresher Course, Roadblock, Secondary Slave, Windows 98, Windows Boot, Windows Logo, Windows Xp, Windows Xp Logo |
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