Great news!

[bm]

Great news!!!!!

It Should be coming tomorrow!!!!!



Question is - what do I do when it arrives? (apart from plug it in...... I think someones going to do that for me though.....)

Some serious questions though....

Should I make a backup to DVD before I put a partition in or after?? (I havent ever made a partition before)

With 2 120Gb Disks how should I split it up?
I was thinking Disk 1:
20Gb P't for OS
Rest for stored music and Video editing files

Disk 2:
40Gb P't for games
40Gb P't for downloads and files
40Gb P't for Misc programs utilities

Does that sound alright? Or is that too many partitions?

And possibly the most important...
Do I install FS:ACOF or CFS3 first?

[BFMF]

With 2 120Gb Disks how should I split it up?

Since 120Gb should be enough, send me the other one

Personally, I wouldn't partition it at all. Too much of a hassle, and I don't think you can remove the partitions and create one big one without reformatting

I would install FS2004 first, but that's just me

[Fozzer]

Hi Birdy...
With those mega-enormous hard drives, have you calculated how long it will take you to de-frag/format them... ::).!
1: Press "DEFRAG"...
2: Go on a round the world cruise... ...!

LOL...!

Cheers mate... ...!
Paul.

I think my 20 Gig main hard drive needs replacing now. My hard drive light keeps running most of the time, probably indicating "read errors"...and it slows everything else down... ...!
...more flippin' expense... ...!
LOL...!

[bm]

I don't think you can remove the partitions and create one big one without reformatting

I have Partition Magic 8 to do this (it said on the tin it was easy ) as I had heard that a partition can increase performance or at least prevent deteriation of performance.  It says "Create, resize, copy, move, convert, split and merge partitions safely" we shall see!

With those mega-enormous hard drives, have you calculated how long it will take you to de-frag/format them...

Ah! I have the answer! If I partition it into segments as I plan to I can defrag each partition at a time! At least thats what I think I can do If a partition is what  I thought a partition is!

Time to change my sig!

[Hagar]

[quote]Ah! I have the answer! If I partition it into segments as I plan to I can defrag each partition at a time! At least thats what I think I can do If a partition is what

[bm]

Well its come (sort of!)

It looks pretty impressive and doesn't make a noise! Unfortunately the forgot to put in my second hard drive They are going to send an engineer to put it in though! (Too right you are!!)

So my Parition operation is on hold! Everything except that looks to be excellent so its a shame they messed up on that - as long as they sort it promptly I wont be too angry!

I think ill put one partition temporarilly in the single Drive for now so I can put programs and Flightsim on in a partition....

I've also got to figure out the ATi Driver install system - can anybody talk me through it? The system has come with 3.8 catalyst drivers.

I think for now I shall just sit back and watch the screensaver......

[bm]

I've also got to figure out this dang XP! I can't even find shutdown!!!!

I also paid for an engineer powerup which I am so glad I did! All these wires everywhere with my Creative Inspire speakers etc. When we realised some things were missing he straight away rang up the people which would have been difficult for me at the moment and sorted it all out! So thank-you Derek if by an extremely small chance you read this!!!!

[congo]

You can easily tweak Win XP to look and behave just like Win'98 etc. But.... you have to figure out where the settings are, quite a daunting task the first time.

Backing up before partitioning is a wise move, I've had data corruption during partitioning operations.

Partitioning is a great idea. You can load Win'98 or ME on the C: partition and XP on D: until you get the hang of XP. (dual boot with 2 operating systems)

I partition my 80 gig drives into 6 partitions, makes defragging a fast job, so you tend to do it more.

I use the partitions as folders basically, I use an entire partition for CFS2, another for FS2002 and FS9,

[bm]

I finally bit the bullet and ran Partition magic! Im glad to say it worked without a problem so I now have 3 40Gb sections. 1 for programs and games, 1 for data and the other for the OS. When they install the second drive I shall have to think what to do with that then! (Ill probably keep it just for backups for the time being)

I can definitely say that if you haven't a clue what your doing and want a partion then Partition Magic 8 is the way to go!        

One huge problem! My joystick wont go into the motherboard! Its a Saitek ST110 (the

[congo]

I'm glad you got your partitions sorted.

The joystick has a serial connection?? Sure it's not a gameport connector? At any rate, I think your up for a new joystick, unless you install a soundcard that has a gameport connector, which is easy enough to do.

On the XP machine, run the network setup wizard, consider the XP machine to be the main PC on the network, and it needs to be the one with the internet connection if your using ICS.

Run the network connection wizard on ME on the other pc.

There is detailed info on networking in Help, but I found it difficult to use.

You will need to find out why you dont have a windows disk and get one. period.

I suppose it's another prepack system with a system restore disk..........  :P