i’ve an external HDD with 250Gb. How do I reformat it? I’m using Vista. And, it doesn’t seem to allow me to reformat for WD External HDD to FAT32 250GB.

pls advice

Hi everyone

I bought a new system about two weeks ago.

CPU=Core2Duo E6550
CPU Cooler=Glacial Tech Igloo 5073 Silent 1700RPM Max. (nice and cheap 92mm fan)
MB=Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R
RAM=2×1GB Kingston DDR2-800MHz CL5
GPU=Gigabyte GeForce 8400GS

CPU temperatures:

Stock 2.33GHz:
Idle=29 degrees
Load (100%)=59-60

Overclocked 2.975GHz(7×425MHz@1.2V/1.3V):
Idle=39-41
Load (100%)=60-61

I’m particularly worried about the load temperatures.
Are they not too high?
And what about idle @ 40 - is that OK?

Can my CPU live a long and joyful life at these temperatures?

Thanks a lot,
Gant.

I just bought Vista Home Premium today and installed it. I have a Dell XPS system with appx 500gb across three different hdd’s. I installed Vista on HDD0. I keep game installs and various others on HDD1 and I have a linux distro on HDD2. After installing vista I cannoth find HDD1 and HDD2. Any of you who have delt with or run across this problem some help would be appriciated. Thanks!

I recorded my lectures into .mp3 format. Now, I want a software which can transcribe the lectures I recorded automatically into written text. So, I don’t have to type it out manually. Is this possible?

Anyone knows of a freeware which can perform transcription? Free ones please.

Ok i have successfully installed Virtual PC 07 (Window xp) my OS is Window Vista. My question is do i need to install driver?
cause in virtual pc i can’t find my wireless card, i can’t online…

i have never used virtual pc please help
cheers Kenny

I have XP and Vista setup for a dual boot right now on my HDD. I installed XP first, than Vista. I want to reinstall XP on the partition it is on now. If I do that, will I still be able to boot into Vista, or will I be screwed?

Thanks.

i’m planning on building a new computer shortly and was looking at different processors. At first i was thinking about the amd athlon 64 x2, but a friend of mine said that the i should go with the core 2 duo. which is better and why? i’m not sure which i should go for.

since installing Vista my hard drive seems to run forever. Is this normal??? I don’t like this.

I finally decided to set a Windows password on my new machine, never having used a password before but also never being at university before. So all is going well, and I set it to one of my most commonly used passwords so I won’t forget it. I lock the computer, then type in my password just to make sure it’s working. It says wrong password. OK, I might’ve mistyped it. I try again, with the same result.

End result, I try the actual password several times, various mistypings of it, some of my other common passwords, and no password whatsoever, and none of them work. I’ve tried rebooting, but to no avail. Safe mode also didn’t help. I only have one partition on the drive, so I can’t simply install Vista Home Premium again on a different partition and move all my files off the drive from there. All I can figure is I either mistyped my password twice in a row on the enter/confirm password dialogue for User Accounts, or Windows corrupted the password.

So does anyone have experience with recovering passwords in this situation? Google has turned up a couple possibilities, but until I buy a few CDs I can’t test them. Unless I can turn my USB drive into a boot USB - it’s a Kingston Data Traveler, USB 2.0 and 2 GB. I don’t necessarily need a quick recovery, but I don’t want to overwrite my files.

Hello,

I just reinstalled My vostro with Vista Home Premium. Everything worked perfectly until I pressed DellMedia Direct button. I get this message:

Dell MediaDirect Express cannot access your hard drive. This may be because you have enabled Microsoft BitLocker (Drive Encryption). MediaDirect Express is not accessfible when Microsoft Bitlocker is enabled.

Well, I never like Dell. But I can’t go back to Vista OS anymore!!! When I turn off from DellMedia Direct OS. Every time I press power button, dellMedia loads. Wow, I’m really pissed of at Dell because I can’t even get into my OS because of their stupid program that nobody uses.

Help Please!