Where's my Pc's D drive gone?

andy2004

actually a.penny.saved currently is the worst time to buy a new harddrive, i've been looking at the prices over the past month, give you an idea.
end of august you could pick up a 2tb drive for £65, 3 weeks later that had risen to £75, and if you look at novatech, ebuyer currently you'll see prices with 3 figures.
£130-£179 for the same drive, samung 2tb. not external but internal sata.

Due to these prices doubling up, i can see even 2nd hand prices going up with people looking to buy cheap drives.

A.Penny.Saved

andy2004 wrote: »

actually a.penny.saved currently is the worst time to buy a new harddrive, i've been looking at the prices over the past month, give you an idea.
end of august you could pick up a 2tb drive for £65, 3 weeks later that had risen to £75, and if you look at novatech, ebuyer currently you'll see prices with 3 figures.
£130-£179 for the same drive, samung 2tb. not external but internal sata.

Due to these prices doubling up, i can see even 2nd hand prices going up with people looking to buy cheap drives.

It's because of the floods in Thailand.

That doesn't change the prices on eBay now, where the OP could get a hard drive for around £5 - £10. However leave it too long and it might.

xxdeebeexx

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Sounds like you've got a partition on the drive but you haven't gone into disk management and told XP what to do with it. But as already mentioned; 8gig is far too small for a system partition, a partition for the page file yep..... but not system files.

I think you are right. My hdd is from my old pc and held hundreds of photos, music, videos and data. I know it's plenty big enough for what I need.... I have just got the partition wrong.

I will have to limp along until after the 'Ebay' Christmas season as I have been hoarding my old clutter for months so that I could sell it in the run up to Christmas.

Originally Posted by scheming_gypsy
she'd need to have a Dell PC for that to work

Yes, it is a Dell.

Windows needs to be installed to a primary partition, however a data partition can be a logical extended partition. It's better to use NTFS rather than Fat32. If you need Fat32 then make a small partition specifically for it after the data partition. Some things can only access Fat32, such as my Bios when saving settings.

Thank you I will book mark this page and refer back to your helpful comments when I do the reinstall

TakeThis I think you must know my PC as well as I do. I certainly couldn't have got this far without your help.

The good news is, my Ebay sales are doing well so best i wait a while to fix the problem

Thanks again

dx

TakeThis

xxdeebeexx wrote: »

I think you are right. My hdd is from my old pc and held hundreds of photos, music, videos and data. I know it's plenty big enough for what I need.... I have just got the partition wrong.

I will have to limp along until after the 'Ebay' Christmas season as I have been hoarding my old clutter for months so that I could sell it in the run up to Christmas.



Yes, it is a Dell.



Thank you I will book mark this page and refer back to your helpful comments when I do the reinstall

TakeThis I think you must know my PC as well as I do. I certainly couldn't have got this far without your help.

The good news is, my Ebay sales are doing well so best i wait a while to fix the problem

Thanks again

dx

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