The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Heh, say what you like about Bill Gates. Where's your 54 billion dollars eh?

 

I've worked the helpdesk part time at a software development company and we had the same issue cropping up as well. But AFAIK it was their fault pulling before the dialog closed because it said 100%. The transition to 7 was not smooth. If you want more tales of horror I can ask the friend who got me the part time position. Basically run CCleaner and add some RAM and everyone thinks you're magical XD

 

The only trouble I have with some removable media, is the transfer window. And it's only with select drives. My kingston 16Gb for instance seems to have a High burst rate, so windows 7 thinks it's doing 100Mb/s, where it's only doing ~8MB/s. So at the end of the transfer, it'll hang on 99% for 30seconds or so. I believe my brothers XP SP3 did something highly similar at one time. What it amounts to is the transfer calculator I believe. YOu don't wanna remove the media before this windows closes LOL! Anybody else have this problem?

 

If it's an OS you're installing, I often leave the other drives unplugged while I do it, just in case.

 

Yeah same here I almost always do. Sadly its a bit of a pain on the HAF as the drives mount connector-side in. Also turning my SATA ports from Native IDE to AHCI gave a really nice speed boost. Drive detection itself is quicker, enabling a much faster boot, among other things.

 

I asked Sammy about pulling sticks for a reason, I always do and did it the safe way, I wanted more info because when I said sometime doing it safely can be a pain e.g.whatever I download something on a stick or an external drive I always make sure whatever I was using I shut down, but often you get the message can't unplug because something is running or other, that's the frustrating part, I have nothing running, go to the taskmanager and 90% of the time you can't make out here nor there what all that means anyway, than I have no other alternative but to shut off the PC, that's when it becomes a pain in the ass, I though maybe he had some secret. But because I'm cautious and after reading other people's opinions I will continue doing it safely, as was said, it only takes one time out of several hundred to ruin a stick or worse an external drive with a lot of important data.

 

Oman7,
Actually you don't. If you accidentally shut one off, just unplug and re-plug in the drive you turned off. It will make the same sound as plugging in a usb device and it should be back to running again, because it has to re-address and un-park the heads!

Russ

 

LOL russ. That would also work, but restarting would be easier, depending on tasks going on at the time That's why I say it's tedious. I'm pretty good at noting things though, and would probably not make the mistake of ejecting a primary drive. But...sometimes in a hurry, I do silly stuff LOL! My tower/area is not the easiest to simply open up, and do things in a hurry...

 

Talking like that brings me back to the late 70's, early 80's, and RLL/MFM drives which I still have a working half height and quarter height drive. Remember when we had to park the heads on our drives before shutting down our PC's. Good old memories...

Of course you may not remember the good old day’s theonejrs as you are still a young man.

 

I'm not sure about that. Russ has been dabbling with PCs for a long long time, since way before I was born at least.

 

Early 80's at least. He's spoken of things I've never seen We had a commodore 64 in the early 80's. That's the earliest computer I remember. As well as some apples/macintosh's in school

 

I never knew that creak, I'll give that a try next time it happens, thanks.

 

Interesting article on upgrading

http://www.pcworld.com/article/220956/article.html#tk.nl_bex_h_topstories

 

lol He's definitely been into PCs longer than most of us younger members have been alive.

I have a few MFM HDDs myself. Remember being fascinated when I realized what they were XD

 

Creaky,

It could be any running program, even something that is seeding. You can transfer a torrent while it is seeding, but the copy will add to the seeding and won't release any drive until the seeding is stopped at the Torrent Client! You would have to shut it down first, by exiting the client program.

Russ

 

Ever try "Unlocker", http://download.cnet.com/Unlocker/3000-2248_4-10493998.html?tag=mncol;2

I never had a problem accessing a file with this program, in fact, it will automatically pop up asking if you want to unlock the file, almost all of the time.