The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that you want to use.

Check question number 6 about startup disks; most people need these because of hard disk problems. Apple provides an "erase disk" option on their main menu which will re-initialize some but not all hard drives. Apple also has a "disk test" utility to test formatted disks. There is also a popular control panel add on for "SCSI probe" which is helpful, check various Mac shareware sites for it.

Most external drives you purchase are formatted for PCs. If you are only going to use it with your Mac then you should reformat the drive by using "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". If you are gong to use it with your Mac and a PC then use "MS-DOS file system" format. To format or reformat a drive you will have to erase it. So before you erase the drive, copy your files to another drive.

Right-click on My Computer and select Manage. Click Disk Management in the left menu under Storage. The new drive will appear as Unallocated in the display window on the right. Right-click the Unallocated drive and select 'New Partition' to start the New Partition Wizard. If the drive is already formatted, you will first need to click on 'Delete Parition.

With Boot Camp Beta 1.1 or later, yes, but you can install only one Windows partition on any of your computer volumes. The Setup Assistant will allow you to partition drives, or to install Microsoft Windows on an entire drive if it does not contain Mac OS X. Note: You cannot install Microsoft Windows on an external hard drive.

Formatting your hard drive is a method of cleaning the system of all the old files and bugs that may be active. Furthermore it is a requirement prior to installingto a new hard drive. It was thought previously that formatting hard drives could be damaging to the hardware and it would affect its performance so much that it could lead to the loss of data. Formatting a hard drive can help eliminate file corruption, correct slow running systems and get rid of error messages that keep popping up.

Connect the drive to your computer as explained in the user guide. The hard drive icon will appear on the desktop. From the list that appears clear the check box next to the File Exchange control panel. Click Restart. After restart, a message appears asking you to initialize the drive. Enter a name for the drive and select MAC OS Extended * from the drop-down list and click Initialize. Note: OS 9 cannot recognize a volume larger than about 200GB.

Reader: Do you know where I can find written procedures on how to properly format a hard drive and reload 95 using a CD ROM? I must be doing something wrong because I always have had to reload it by disks. Computer Doctor: That should be in the Windows documentation, or in some of the Windows books on the market. I do see the need for this information and will be including such instructions in the next edition of my book.

Windows: By default, the preferences are stored in HKCU/Software/BitWise Chat/BitWise. Optionally, you may store the preferences in BitWise.ini in your home folder by pressing "Setup" prior to logging in and specifying you wish to store your preferences in that file rather than the registry. Detached mode allows you to use basic client features even when your computer cannot maintain communication with the BitWise server.

Both Netscape and Microsoft have measures in place that limit the number of cookies that will be saved on your hard drive at one time. Both Internet Explorer and Netscape conform to the RFC 2109 limitations on your total cookie count to 300 (this includes a limit of 20 cookies per individual domain). If you exceed this, the browser will discard your least-used cookies to make room for the new ones.

After a cookie is transmitted through an HTTP header, it is stored in the memory of your browser. This way the information is quickly and readily available without re-transmission. As we have seen, however, it is possible for the lifetime of a cookie to greatly exceed the amount of time the browser will be open. In such cases, the browser must have a way of saving the cookie when you are not browsing, or when your computer is shut off.

Each person who has logged into the computer will have his or her files and settings stored in a folder named with his or her user name. Only the person who is logged in (or an Administrator) can access his or her personal folder. To find these user folders: The My Documents folder is located within this user folder (Note: The My Documents icon on your desktop is a shortcut to this folder). Files that were saved to the desktop are located in the Desktop folder.

Ans: The problem here is that the drive has not been "initialized" or formatted yet. When you install a brand new HD into WinXP/Win2K, it gets detected in your system by the installation wizard and its drivers are installed. Normally you know this because it will inform you that a new drive has been installed and will ask you to reboot. However, upon rebooting you might not see a new drive show up in Windows Explorer.

This could mean that your PC has been shipped with a feature call FirstWare RecoverPro which is a disaster recovery solution offered with some SCENIC/ESPRIMO PC's. Please read our FirstWare RecoverPro Support Pages for more information on this feature.

The Metafile format, also referred to as Picture (one of two standard Windows graphics formats used in Clipboard and disk file representations of graphs; file name extension *.wmf) stores a picture as a set of descriptions or definitions of all components of the graph and their attributes (e.g., segments of lines, colors and patterns of those lines, specific fill patterns, text and text attributes, etc.).

Some files on the Mac contain supplemental information that is associated with the file. While the Mac can keep these associations intact, other operating systems (such as Windows) cannot since they are not built to understand such supplemental information.

It is possible to format a hard drive for use on both Mac and PC platforms. Full instructions are in the User's Guide.

When an unformatted hard drive or CF is inserted into the recorder the user is prompted to format media if it is not already a FAT32 volume. If a new Compact Flash or hard drive has audio or other data files present but the medium is not a FAT32 volume, the 7-Series will see the volume as unformatted and prompt for formatting. This will erase any data files on the drive. A volume already formatted as FAT32 installed into the machine will be ready to record immediately.

Disclaimer: A LLF will destroy all information on a hard drive and effectively render it in the same condition that it arrived from the manufacturer... blank with nothing on it. If you are not familiar with DOS and drive channels seek professional assistance from your local computer technician. Use these procedures and software at your own risk. Boot the computer into DOS mode or use a 98 boot disk. Use your favorite Low-Level Format utility to erase the first few sectors of the hard drive.

Removable hard disk drive cartridge formatting steps vary based on the operating system used. Links to formatting instructions based on OS are listed below.

Yes. The PRE-register code remains the same, unless you change your computer configuration. It doesn't matter if you format your computer. The PRE-register code is not software dependent. If you ever change your hardware configuration or your DSS DJ, the registered version, turns to demo version whatever the reason, you can generate another unlock code, free of charge.

Depending on the version of Windows 2000 you are installing (professional, server, advanced server, etc.,) you should expect a "fresh" installation to take up about 650-950Mb of hard drive space depending on how many options you have chosen, and what file system you are using. You will also need to leave room for your paging files, memory dumps, space for your registry to grow, service packs, anti-virus definitions, event logs, and enough free space to permit disk defragmentation.

Windows 98SE requires additional drivers if you are running the drive through the USB connection. Download the drivers from or alternatively you can find them on the CD supplied with the product: Microsoft has provided the "Storage Supplement Update" on "Windows Update" website, This patch file can let IEEE 1394 devices work more stable and can be removed safely from the Windows 98SE system.

Created KIT folder on local drive. Copy files from the KIT directory on the network, no subfolders. Re-install Paradox on PC. Explained if we stay on the line, there is a charge. Otherwise, he can have instructions and call if he needs help. There is a work around for NT install, larger than 2GBs, will provide info.

When I try to view the 1000k Windows Media Player videos, I get an error message that either says "Sorry your current membership level does not allow viewing premium content" or "Incorrect Username and Password."

Reader: I recently purchased a second-hand PC which came with no software. Before and after I installed my copy of Windows 95 from my previous PC onto this computer, the BIOS setup confirmed that the hard drive has a 3.1GB storage capacity. Computer Doctor: Windows 95 and Windows 95a have a 2.1GB limit per drive letter. If you want to use the rest of the drive's capacity, you need to run Fdisk and create an extended partition and set up a logical drive D: inside the extended partition.

Serial numbers and activation keys are tied to a particular computer during activation. If you have to do either of these, it is likely that eBahn will not recognize your computer as the 'same' computer. Before doing these types of things to your computer, please first deactivate your serial number through the eBahn License Manager. We currently allow up to 5 transfers per calendar year. Every January 1, the number of transfers you are able to do resets to 5.