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Anyone have a Presario S5400NX?
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Subject says it all....anyone else have one? What do you think of it? I added a second hard disk...replaced the HP DVD-writer with my Pioneer A06...replaced the CD reader with my Plextor CD-writer, added my Audigy 2 soundcard, and a Geforce 3 Ti200. I am disappointed that the 120 Gig drive is 5400 RPM, but that too is replacable is need be (and I noticed the difference copying a CD....Nero reported 26 buffer under-runs which would have killed my copying a CD if not for Plextor's Burn-proof...NEVER had that problem with my P3-800 MHz with my 7200 RPM hard-disk...and I DO defrag with Diskkeeper). Has anyone reformatted the hard disk and gotten rid of that "D" partition with the recovery stuff on it? I have a licensed copy of Windows XP...can I simply reformat, reclaim the entire 120G, and install my Windows XP? I really don't care about most of the Compaq software except for Microsoft Works....wish they would have given me a CD for that. Al -- Remove "AT" and "DOT" in email address to reply. |
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Al-
How hot are your HD's running? It's a tight squeeze in there! I've been thinking of adding a 2nd HD to my Evo D310 (same basic case layout as yours) but I'm worried that they will run too hot. My 160GB 7200rpm drive runs about 34 degrees C by itself in the bottom bay. -David BTW I think there should be a utility on your Presario that will create a set of recovery CDs. "Alan" wrote in message news Hi. Subject says it all....anyone else have one? What do you think of it? I added a second hard disk...replaced the HP DVD-writer with my Pioneer A06...replaced the CD reader with my Plextor CD-writer, added my Audigy 2 soundcard, and a Geforce 3 Ti200. I am disappointed that the 120 Gig drive is 5400 RPM, but that too is replacable is need be (and I noticed the difference copying a CD....Nero reported 26 buffer under-runs which would have killed my copying a CD if not for Plextor's Burn-proof...NEVER had that problem with my P3-800 MHz with my 7200 RPM hard-disk...and I DO defrag with Diskkeeper). Has anyone reformatted the hard disk and gotten rid of that "D" partition with the recovery stuff on it? I have a licensed copy of Windows XP...can I simply reformat, reclaim the entire 120G, and install my Windows XP? I really don't care about most of the Compaq software except for Microsoft Works....wish they would have given me a CD for that. Al -- Remove "AT" and "DOT" in email address to reply. |
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Alan wrote:
Hi. Subject says it all....anyone else have one? What do you think of it? I added a second hard disk...replaced the HP DVD-writer with my Pioneer A06...replaced the CD reader with my Plextor CD-writer, added my Audigy 2 soundcard, and a Geforce 3 Ti200. I am disappointed that the 120 Gig drive is 5400 RPM, but that too is replacable is need be (and I noticed the difference copying a CD....Nero reported 26 buffer under-runs which would have killed my copying a CD if not for Plextor's Burn-proof...NEVER had that problem with my P3-800 MHz with my 7200 RPM hard-disk...and I DO defrag with Diskkeeper). Has anyone reformatted the hard disk and gotten rid of that "D" partition with the recovery stuff on it? I have a licensed copy of Windows XP...can I simply reformat, reclaim the entire 120G, and install my Windows XP? I really don't care about most of the Compaq software except for Microsoft Works....wish they would have given me a CD for that. Al -- Remove "AT" and "DOT" in email address to reply. Hi Al Your on your way to a nice machine once you get rid of the Compaq stuff that's left. grin First take the plextor and put it as the slave on the first hard drive and the other cd as the slave on the second hard drive and this should help reduce or stop the buffer underuns. Buffer help http://www.mp3-cdburner.com/MP3-Buffer-Underrun.shtml http://www.plextor.be/english/pdf/PlextorBurnproof.pdf http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/FAQ/List_Categories.asp Updates 4 your unit (the pc that is) http://h20015.www2.hp.com/en/softwar...etype=software Go to CompUSA and get partition magic it works well. http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/ I just took the partition off my brothers pc with no ill effect. Basically the only thing there is a copy of all the crud Compaq has installed and you have it on CD anyway. Trai' |
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