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Thank you very much for that. I really do appreciate your help. I was just frustrated earlier and like I said I didn't mean to offend. Anyway, my main concern in formatting was the chance I could lose my data. But I suppose since the recovery console could recognize the new install of XP that...

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. But you said to set it to boot from the sata first in the bios, and there was no option to do so. There was an option to set hard disk boot priority, but I had already put the new harddrive at the top of the list. The new hard drive is also set as a...

Okay, I just tried following those steps. It detects the windows on drive C: (the new harddrive with xp pro). Typing bootcfg /list shows no boot entries. When I use bootcfg /rebuild it shows this (bold is what I typed): Total Identified Windows Installs: 1 [1] C:\Windows Add installation to...

Sorry, I still can't get it to work. And your advice doesn't make a whole pile of sense. I looked for an option to boot from an sata first in the bios, but there was none. Plus I don't know how I'm supposed to copy the old files to the new HD if I deleted the old partition. In the windows XP...

How do I do that? If it means anything... the IDE (old) drive was set to the master on channel 0 The sata was master on channel 2 the dvd drive was slave on channel 2 PS: Is the data on the deleted partition still intact?

Well... I obviously made a big mistake somewhere. Here's how it happened: I built a new computer for a relative, and wanted to keep their old hard drive (IDE), and give them a new one also (Sata). I proceeded and installed windows XP pro on the new harddrive (partition D: ). This led me to...

Whenever I start up a game I get this buzzing noise coming from my computer. It is quite audible and seemed to be coming from the graphics card area; it typically gets louder when the system load is higher. However I don't think it's a graphics card problem anymore as I recently stepped up to a...

Thanks ptech, but I guess I should have mentioned I'm shopping in CDN. @Vaanish, which dvd drive? The samsung or the lg? How about that mobo/processor, anyone?

Well my friend's old computer just died, so he asked me to build a new one as cheap as possible. Can anyone tell me if the following would work fine? He only needs to use it for word processing, webcam, burning and internet browsing. Maybe watching DVD's. CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core...

I can say for sure now that it isn't my video card's fan. Even when the fan is stopped, the sound doesn't cease. Should I RMA? Ugh.

Thanks for your suggestion sPlAtOid. Unfortunately I can say pretty confidently that it's not the fan that is causing the noise; I used RivaTuner to set the fan speed at 50%, 75%, and 100%, and at all three levels the chirping was still there and at the same volume. Edit: Forgot to mention my...

I recently built my new computer: Q6600 8800 GTS 640 Gigabyte DS3R motherboard and Creative Xtreme Gamer (not fatal1ty) Anyways, when I'm playing oblivion, whenever something graphically intense is on the screen (gpu being stressed), which in oblivion is often, there's this chirping noise...

When I installed AVG earlier I accidentally chose to install the MS Outlook plugin for the e-mail extension. Since I use Outlook Express, I meant to install the personal e-mail scanner. So, I ran the original install file and went to add/remove components. Checked the personal e-mail scanner...

Sorry, as far as I knew from reading around and researching, ATI was trying to clear stock of their old R600 architecture and that's why they were releasing all these 2900 pros at low cost. In any case, read around and you will quickly learn these 2900 pros are in high demand and in very limited...