Vista newbie

asininity

OK should be easy enough, basically its asking for the drive letter and the name of the external drive. When its plugged in go to My Computer and you should see it.

For example my external hard drive is "My Book (K: )" so the drive letter is K and the volume name/label is "My Book".

MrsE_2

asininity wrote: »

OK should be easy enough, basically its asking for the drive letter and the name of the external drive. When its plugged in go to My Computer and you should see it.

For example my external hard drive is "My Book (K:)" so the drive letter is K and the volume name/label is "My Book".

I thought volume was the size:o

Mine is HD-PHSU2 (J:)

So is that what I enter?
Do I use the brackets too?

By right clicking, mine says I can rename, should I try that?
I could call it EHD- for external hard drive?

asininity

You can rename it if you want but as long as you put that in when it asks its alright, so yes HD-PHSU2 is what you enter and you shouldn't need brackets.

MrsE_2

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Another error message

It says

The drive is dirty and cannot be converted. You will need to clear the dirty bit on this drive by running CHKDSK /F or allowing AUTOCHK to run on it the next time you reboot.
The conversion failed.

J: was not converted to NTFS

Now thats double dutch to me:o

asininity

You can do this via the command line or this was which I think you'll find easier.

Go to My Computer and right click on the external hard drive and go to Properties. When the dialog box comes up go to the Tools tab and you have three options:

Error Checking
Disk Defragmentation
Back Up

Do the first two which will take a long time if you've never done them before and once they are done try again.

MrsE_2

Asininity

:T :T :T :A :A :A :beer: :beer: :beer:

Thank you, you have the patience of a saint!:o

asininity

No worries glad I could help.

MrsE_2

MrsE wrote: »

ALSO I had trouble getting onto AOL & one of their tech help people made me change a setting which displayed things normally hidden.

I have these little icons all over the place with little blue cogs on them, are they normally hidden?
How can I rehide them?

Can anyone help with this bit?
Thank you

iviv

I'm in XP, so can't be certain, but this should be it:

Open up My Computer, tools>options. The middle of the three tabs at the top, and there should be a long list of changeable options here. Scroll down until you find 'show hidden files & folders' and uncheck it.

[Deleted User]

asininity wrote: »

Those popups were the first thing I turned off, they're not that important and after a while they get very very annoying, "yes I want to install that program I wouldn't have tried to if I didn't want to!"

The popups are for really stupid people who click on the exe file in random emails.

Count me in that group then eh..

It's pretty irresponsible to recommend that UAC be turned off just because it is annoying. On a brand new install you are going to have a lot of prompts to deal with because you are making system wide changes etc, but after a week or so they really do reduce and become second nature to deal with and it allows you to be more aware of what is actually happening on your machine, especially for the home users.