Recent content by Rack_36

On one of my computers that I upgraded theres 37.2 GB on the hard drive total and after installing vista ultimate there's 10.3 GB. There are no programs on there and I haven't put back any of my folders yet. Windows folder says it's 15 GB and between program files and documents there about 2G in...

I did hit format during installation somehow it doesn't feel like it did that. I watched it erase the space till the hard drive went back to its free number of gigs in total. Is there any way to check before going through the trouble again to reinstall?

I did a clean install when upgrading to vista and cannot understand why so much space is being taken up on my hard drive. I have two computers and it happened to both. I really don't want to install it again since I had to do it twice now. I've deleted the windows.old folder and have checked all...

your right! I did it again and it allowed me to go through the set-up...was being impatient. Hopefully, I'll be fine from here on... Appreciate your help!!!!TY.

ok-now how do I do that because what I've tried to do so far is restart and hit F12 to boot from CD but for awhile it kept skipping that page where there's a list of setups to boot from. i.e. 1) normal 2) primary master drive 3) hard-disk drive 4) IDE CD-ROM Device etc etc...at one point i was...

I upgraded XP to Vista and it seems like there's way too much space being taken up and I haven't even done anything yet. This is my secondary computer and it has a 40G hard drive. Theres no partitions and it says 16 GB free of 37.2 GB. When installing Vista it told me that I couldn't upgrade and...

ok thanks for the advice. I was able to remove the battery and put it back in but I had to partially remove my graphics card to do it and now thats not registering when i turn the computer on. I popped it out completely and then inserted it back in but no go. This is a nightmare! Should i...

I don't think you understand. Aside from having problems installing the OS, my keyboard and mouse DONT work because the USB ports are disabled. I thought that would be able to use a ps2 usb converter for use but its not working.

Ok I did something REALLY stupid!!!! In the midst of trying to do too many things at once on 2 computers I messed up big time and really don't see a solution to this problem but here it goes. There's a series of things that I was trying to do to improve my computer. One of them being was to...