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Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: Northern Red on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:00:40 My PC's suffered a metldown and won't start.
So I've whipped the Hard Drive out and put it in a working machine (removing the original hard drive). I've got it working and have now backed up the work/photos/music etc. 2 Problems: 1. Can I install the second drive as a slave drive (and use it purely for storage once I've deleted all the programs off it like Windows, Works etc.) 2. It's stuck on a really low resolution (600x480) and 16 colours, and won't allow me to change it higher - any ideas? Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: The_Plagiarist on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:05:37 Have you tried rebooting? :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: jonbd on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:07:09 1 - Yes
2 - If you've booted from that drive then it probably won't have the drivers installed for the working PCs graphics card, so you'll need to install them before you can a better resolution on the go Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:10:45 Borrow this
http://i109.photobucket.com/albums/n70/FredElliot_2006/hammer.gif Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: Samdy Gray on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:19:26 I take it you took the working HDD out of the second PC then? If you did, you need to put that back in as the master and there should be a secondary IDE connector on the cable that runs from the HDD to the mobo. Just plug your old HDD into that.
Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: Batch on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 12:43:37 And make sure the jumper settings are correct.
Title: PC Help - Hard Drives Post by: Fred Elliot on Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 13:49:40 Quote from: "Batch" And make sure the jumper settings are correct. yes...............its getting quite chiily out |