hard drive for this). Given a decent drive, having the swapfile on a separate drive on its own channel will make your system more responsive. 2. A hard drive should be partitioned so files are better organized on the drive and backups are simpler. What...

Rescuing files from a "dead" drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain () About a week ago my old hard drive crashed. It had been running XP home on the c: drive. Don't think it was an OS issue, cause I got that click-click-click...

worth the money. My work provided a new Dell "state of the art" computer and one month later the hard drive crashed. The problem with this "state of the art" computer and hard drive was that once the hard drive crashed it was not recoverable at all. Nice...

illness' there are out there right now. DO you know one thing that causes all of those. INSEST. I disspise, hate, and have empathy for anyone that thinks it ok to be so selfish in an act of lust to impose these hard ships and genetic FAULTS on there future...

so any other suggestions > thank you for your time p.s. i have made a startup boot disk ms-dos format > please help me here i am going nuts.I would really appreciate alot of differnt ideas.Hey does anyone think this could be that my hard drive crashed....

Inspiron 8200 Hard Drive. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () Since last evening, there is a most annoying/frightening noise coming from my machine. I think it is the hard drive and it is 'whirring' sort of noise. It goes on for a while...

I think your options are limited if your hard drive crashes. In most cases, the crashed drive is not accessible at all with any hardware and your only choice is to send to an expensive recovery service. Considering how often hard drives crash for no reason,...

a small program from the Western Digital web site that will low-level test Western Digital drives; definitely worth the time download and make the image floppy for future testing purposes in those "Arrrgghhhh......I think my hard drives crashing!!!"...

xp. My computer has just expired it's warrenty, and my hard drive is making noises. I have searched where I use to find scan disk in the old windows 98 but do not find it. Can anyone help me please? I really think my hard drive is about to crash if I...