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Change a drive letter in Windows XP?
This can be done using the Windows Disk Management tool. Simplest way to get to this is to right click on my computer and click manage. On the left pane, Disk Management is at your disposal. At the bottom of that window, right click on the disk partition you wish to change (or CD Drive for that matter) and click "Change Drive Letter and Path"
What should be done if a system cannot boot from the hard drive?
Boot from the Windows setup DVD
Is it possible to write from many threads into same disk drive. How the writing of disk drive is done. is there any difference in RAID?
Everything depends on which classes you are trying to use. If use Windows API, yes you can write to the same drive from different threads. Writing is done by Windows. There is no difference for RAID because windows takes care of it. As far as you have RAID drivers installed you should not have any problems. If you are using something different than Windows API, then the answers are not as straight forward. You will have to specify what you are planning to use.
How do you downgrade from windows 8 to windows 7 with only a factory reset disk and still keep your files?
Put everything on to another disk then when you are done put everything back on.
Can ubuntu be replaced by windows?
Yes, it can be done from the windows installation disk, but it's cleaner if you remove ubuntu with the ubuntu live cd and then install windows.
How do you flash xbox360 hitachi drive?
Flashing the Xbox 360 disk drive is illegal and therefore should not be done.
How do you reformat a netbook using usb flash drive?
It is possible to reformat a netbook with a flash drive if you use the program unetbootin. Unetbootin requires you to have a working operating system and an .iso file (a disk image of the new operating system you will be replacing the old one with. If ran from your desktop computer, unetbootin will give you the option to download a disk image, in this case, linux disk images. Linux is an open source operating system available for free. Or if you prefer to have Windows on your netbook, you will need to find the original Windows disk that came with your netbook, if any, or buy a Windows disk, and extract the .iso from the disk using .iso extraction software on a desktop computer with a disk drive. If you don't have a desktop computer or don't know anyone with one who would let you borrow it to extract the Windows .iso, visit your local library and request to use their computer for that. Extracting an .iso file is time consuming. Alternate: acquire a Windows disk image from the Internet by download. It is up to you how you accomplish that. You must then complete the form on unetbootin to prepare the disk image on your thumb drive. This is as easy as locating the disk image you wish to write to the thumb drive on your computer, then clicking next. When the procedure is complete, restart your computer with the thumb drive plugged in a USB port in your computer. When the computer boots, you should see a prompt on the screen to "press the * key to enter BIOS setup" or "press the * key to change boot options". Popular keys that manufacturers use are or . Look through your BIOS options, which are unique, and move the thumb drive up in "boot order" so your netbook boots from the thumb drive. After the BIOS option is set, reboot your computer once more, and if you are successful, your prepared thumb drive will boot whatever disk image you put on your thumb drive. Follow the disk's instructions to reformat your netbook.To put it simply, step by step:Acquire a flash drive (recommended 2gb+ for Windows XP, Linux, 4gb+ Windows Vista, windows 7).Use a working PC to download a USB boot preparation software such as unetbootin to prepare an operating system disk image to be written to the thumb drive.Write the disk image to the thumb drive using the unetbootin software. It will prepare the USB drive for boot, which may take at least 10-30 minutes. System BIOS is unique to the computer, the process will vary, but the phrase you want to locate is "boot order"Change your system BIOS options to boot from the thumb drive first.Restart your computer and follow the instructions from your disk imageIf all goes well, you have reformatted and reinstalled an operating system on your netbook without the use of a CD drive (assuming you didn't need to extract the disk image with disk image extraction software). Brute force approach is to buy a USB disk drive and install a disk that way, but the way I described will get it done for free, assuming you have a recovery disk. Good luck!
How can you upgrade from Windows ME to Windows 2000 for free without a CD?
Switching from Windows ME to Windows 2000 cannot be done free of charge legally.
How do you clean up the hard disk drive on the computer?
The easiest way to clean up your Drive is using Disk Cleanup. For that, you need to- Go to search bar type Disk Cleanup, select the best match. When the Disk Cleanup: Drive Selection window pops up, select the C: drive and click OK. When the C drive Disk Cleanup window pops up, click Clean up system files. Select all the files you want to delete, and click OK to continue.
Can you format a disk in Disk Defragmenter?
No diskdefragmenter cannot be used to format a partion. It is used to make all the files to get fragmented. Formatting of partition can be done by using disk management option in the computer management
What is the advantage of using a disk controller to control the hard disk?
The use of a separate disk controller frees the CPU to perform other tasks. In particular, the disk controller can manage DMA transfers, which otherwise would have to be done by the CPU. The disk controller also manages the movement of the disk head and reading or writing of the data on the disk. Again, without the disk controller, the CPU would be forced to perform these operations.
Could Head crash on hard disk can repair?
Repair? No. The disk is done. However, there are some companies that can often pull a lot of the data off the drive for you. It's expensive though.
