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« on: October 18, 2004, 10:47:21 PM »

Ok i got some weird spyware stuff accidently, but i got rid of it, but it seems to have messed with some regional settings or something

Whenever its an AM time, it displays it as 0:XX for something. For example, in the picture its really 12:36 AM, but its displaying 0:36. Also, the dates are showing up all weird: 2004Äê10ÔÂ11ÈÕ

whats happening!?!??!?!
i would so love to reofrmat right now, but dont wanna loose all my anime Sad

must...resist...temptation...to...reformat....must...wait...for...another...harddrive...for....backup....before...reformatting...this one...

Well, if anyone does know wats going on, i would greatly appreciate it if you told me how to get it back to normal, U.S. time and date

Also, speaking of harddrives, i just wanted to make sure if it is possible to have a 200GB(or maybe 160...) HD with an 80GB hd. I plan on using the 80GB hd as the primary one with windows and everything, and the 160/200GB one to store anime, music, video files, etc on. I want it so that the 80GB one is a master, and the 200GB one is the slave. This is possible right? Or do both of the HD's need to be same size? Or does the master one have to be the bigger one? Thx in advance:)


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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2004, 10:55:51 PM »

Your first problem is its showing you military time,if you have restore on try that .....go back to a time before this started,the reason I am suggesting this way is you may have some other things going on besides this....so try restore and let me know if it doesn't work I will tell you how to set manually:)

You may be able to go to controlp panel and fix under date and time.......
Change your Regional Settings (shown with US values month/day/year)
Short date: mm/dd/yyyy
will show 10/18/2004
Long date: mmmm dd, yyyy
will show October,18,2004
note this will change all of MS Office.... and use lower case when typing!!

You should also be able to go to cmd prompt and type date and enter it correctly and same with time but then change to 12 hour format:)

Also there is no reason to lose things when you format,save to a cd or whatever medium you have, I have even emailed files to my self and then formated............

Cool

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« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2004, 05:53:07 AM »

You can have different hard drive sizes, manufacturers, buffers, etc, so long as you are not going to RAID them (doable but not recomendable with different drives).

What I would do though, is put your main system drive as primary master, your data drive as secondary master, and your CD/DVD drive as secondary slave. This will provide the most performace, especially when you are copying drive to drive, as it is impossible for two drives on the same chain (primary or secondary) to read/write at the same time. This means that it will just be slow to copy, it does still work.

If you have multiple CD drives, you could either put the other on primary slave, or both on the secondary chain.

Also, remember that since you cannot read/write to two devices on the same chain, you don't put a CD-RW/DVD-RW drive on the same chain as what you would be copying off of. This could cause buffer under-run errors (especially on older, slower machines) which could leave you with many coasters.


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« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2004, 06:23:08 AM »

good point about the drive setup.. if you truly think that your system is screwed.. roll your system back before the problem began to occure... I am not sure what you will lose..


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« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2004, 03:49:19 PM »

thats the problem...i turned of system restore cause it never seemed to help...and its microsoft

EDIT:

Thanks Swimmer!!!!! i went to the regional and time thing, and changed it, so now it doenst display those wierd symbol thingys for date/time

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« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2004, 04:04:12 PM »

Quote from: luwigie

whoa...im confused...
Ok heres my system right now:
I have one 80GB harddrive (im assuming this is on master)
Then i have a DVD drive as the first drive(the drive on the top), and a CD-RW Drive as the drive on the bottom(drive on bottom).

I was thinking of just getting like a 200 GB Harddrive and putting it in as a slave or something, since the 80 is probably a master.
Is that wat im supposed to do? lol i havent opened my comp ever...just getting into the computer hardware-ness

Heres how i think it is now:
DVD drive on top(probably master?)
CD-RW on bottom(slave?)
HD somewhere in the case(master?)
and then here in 4th slot or w/e, i want to put in the other hd(slave?)

this stuff just got a whole lot more confusing :whaa:


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« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2004, 04:30:22 PM »

Probably more like:

Hard drive: Primary Master
DVD drive: Secondary Master
CD-RW drive: Secondary Slave

The simplest thing to do would be to add another hard drvie to Primary Slave.


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« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2004, 06:39:44 PM »

i c, i'll print this out for reference

also, say i accidently install them incorrectly or something and accidently set it to seconodary wen it was supposed to be primary; will that mess up my comp and/or is it fixable?


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« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2004, 08:02:07 AM »

nothing would be wrong.. it just wouldnt proform at max speed...


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« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2004, 03:36:27 PM »

ok thx for the advice to all u guys taht helped


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« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2005, 03:47:40 PM »

one other thing, you would probably want to move your boot partition to the new drive, since it being newer than existing drive it should also be faster than existing drive. this isn't necessarily so, but probable. also what interface is the 80 gig running at? unless i am wrong, the channel you hook up the 2 hdds to will run at the dpeed of the slower drive. say the older drive is an ata100 then the newer one would be forced to run that even though it is an ata133. this is why it is not necessarily advisable to mix cd-roms or dvd's with hdds on the same controller channel. it shouldn't affect continuous transfer to run a 133 at 100 or even 66, but the burst speed does go down, and with many of the newer drives having large caches this is a semi-issue, if you are like everyone else and want the last few tenths of a percentile point in performance.

post the existing and future drive models, board type etc, and i'm sure we can figure something out.

also, have you made plans for partitioning all that space to keep it a little organized, easier to backup etc?

problems, problems problems....


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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2005, 06:53:33 PM »

what about my HDD setup?

30GB Maxtor HDD running windows only. Master
120GB Seagate Barracuda running programs/storing files. Slave

Then I have
52xCDR/RW Samsung Master
52x ATAPI Standard CD-ROM Slave

Runs fine.


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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2005, 07:04:05 PM »

ok, justin, like i said, its an option, not a must.

probably your 120 gig drive is faster than your 30 gig, so you /can/ probably gain some speed on your system by moving your windoze to the 120.

take into account that doing so will probably necessitate a repartition, reinstall of all 'ware, etc.

if spending a week massaging your sytem sounds like a good investment go for it, if you're happy with what you have, more power to ya.

i do wish you well, guy.


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