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Re: How do i know which of my hdd partitions hold the OS?
Go to My Computer (or Computer) and the partition on which is the OS installed has the Windows logo over it (Windows Vista and newer). In most cases the OS is installed on the C: partition.
you might want to not tapit alot fi you want to take that key off you keyboard under it is a soft flexible rubber material that might be stuck or something sticky might be on it if you cant get your key of you can get it off with a screw driver
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Click the "Start" button, type "diskmgmt.msc" and look at the Disk list from 0~x and find "G Drive (E: )". Check the disk on the right side with a blue long bar on top which is partitioned disk. It will be one blue partition indicating that the HDD capacity is near 732GB. If the G Drive has more than one partition on it, then u need to delete all and merge it to one partition. Go to partition and just click right button of your mouse, choose "Volume Delete(D)" and proceed to delete. If all partitions are deleted then right click to make a new volume "New Simple Volume" and follow the wizard's steps to create and format(NTFS) your new volume. This will solve your problem and if not, it might have a HW error or any problem with the disk itself. You'll need to check it at the Apple store where you bought it.
BTY, PC NTFS formated HDD might need a utility for the MAC os to read the HDD properly. You can use NTFS-3G or Paragon NTFS, but "Mounty for NTFS" will be the easiest one for you.
There are actually a few things you can do for a dinosaur laptop (other
than waiting for the asteroid to appear in the sky). Here are my top
three suggestions:
Squeeze in as much RAM as possible. If you have a spare SIMM slot,
put in the largest-capacity module you can find. You may have to throw
away what's already in there--likely a 16MB module--and replace it with
a 32MB or 64MB one. Memory was so expensive five years ago that vendors
often skimped on it, but now that prices have plummeted, you should
pack in as much as possible. (You may also look around for a chip doubler--a SIMM two-for that lets you put a pair of chips where there's only room for a single.)
Get a huge, honking hard drive.
You should be able to dig up a compatible 10GB or 20GB drive. What's
great is that it'll run at 4,200rpm (compared to the 3,600rpm drive you
currently have), which will result in better performance. Save all your
precious data, swap the old drive out for the new, and fire it up
(crossing your fingers that the OS sees the new drive). Take note:
You'll have to preload an operating system onto the new drive or load
it on the fly.
Accelerate. You'll want to configure Windows to run your hard disk and graphics card at their maximum speeds.
Hard
drive: Go to the device manager, select the drive letter, and pick the
Settings tab. Check DMA for best performance. For Windows 2000, go into
the hard drive's properties, open Disk Properties, and check Write
Cache Enabled.
Graphics card: On your desktop,
right-click and select Properties. Select the Advanced tab, then click
the Performance tab. Push the slider all the way to the right.
It sounds like you formatted the Utility Partition of the HDD and loaded the OS to that partition. Check disk Management, see if you have both a C: and D: listed for hard drives. If you do, that is the likely answer.
If disk management shows only 1 HDD and a lot of unpartitioned space, then you made a disk partitioning error and will need to remove and repartition the drive then reinstall
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Personally i would recommend to upgrade ram then install win 7 Regards Uttam Windows 7 requirement If you want to run Windows 7 on your
PC, here's what it takes:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster
32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit)
or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space
(32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device
with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
160gb - but ensure the bios is up to date and check the motherboard manual as that will or should explain about maximum capacity of hard drives but am sure it should be fine.
If it is not and does not detect all of it you can partition the partitions into smaller amounts ie 80 gb partitions each ?
I notice that in all of your ramblings that you do not mention the BIos settings
AS everything is decided in the bios it is important that you start there
those settings decide ( after the pc does the POST checking process that checks all the hardware of the pc)) which area the system uses to boot from
so you select --boot from hdd 1 as first option, next boot cd next option etc so that the pc knows where to look for the os (win7) system
if you are not aware of how
to get to bios --- shut the pc down
restart and hold down del button and the bios screen will come up moving around the bios menu is by the arrows and enter button
in there you will find a password section
for your benefit , ignore and move on
Yes it will. Mostly it is the operating system that will allow the drive to be see at its full size. Suggest you use Win XP home with at least SP1 but Win XP Pro with SP2 is faster & very stable. Also suggest you set the drive up with the Mfg's disk utilites. Bootable floppy or bootable CD. If using plain XP home you can still install the OS & than download a free trial of Partition magic which will allow you to combine any smaller partitions to get you up to you 250GB size. (only if you have a problem though.
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