Recent content by rszanti

The 450Gb/450Mb .... my mental slip :-) I too prefer multiple drives as a solution but are an expense I can't hack at this time. My reason for the partitions - I defrag regularly to minimize hunt time and since the data usually is the biggest offender I like to keep it separate to reduce defrag...

I haven't solved this yet. Using a Cisco RE4000W extender seemed to help only slightly. Of interest is the comment about antenna as the EA6500 antenna are internal so it's nothing I can change. Would a router with external antennas provide a significant improvement ?

I have a 1Tb hard drive running on a Windows 10, 64bit machine. I want to partition the Drive. I clicked through "File Explorer" to get to "Disk Management". At the "Disk Management" window, a "Disk 0 Basic" is displayed showing 931Gb (with partitions of 300Mb recovery, 99Mb EFI system, 930Gb...

I've talked to several sales people in stores such as Best Buy, Micro Center, etc. and they claim most routers have a similar output wattage. The big difference is in the speeds, more money .... more speed. Yet the extender vendors claim they have a higher output wattage than the routers, maybe...

I live in a home with matal lath supporting the plaster walls. My Cisco EA6500 just won't communicate more than 20ft thru these walls. I have a room with my router and desktop but my laptop and Xbox are in another room. What router will provide the signal strength I need ?

Thank everyone for the information. I have a pretty good idea of what is what now.

Thank you ArtPog, All good info. When finished I'll post results.

ArtPog - The external use of the HDD as external storage is a good idea, I hadn't thought that far ahead. I assume a HDD enclosure would connect via a USB cord ? Two items maybe relative to the operation - one, my 250Gb HDD is 70% full so it might take a while for the transfer. Two, I do have...

I should have mentioned I'm running Vista. I don't like the ides of a re-install of the operating system because I have so many other programs that would then also require a re-install, my reason for preferring an image, if it works as I asked.

I just purchased a Samsung EVO 850 500GB SSD (with Magician software) I plan on installing in a Dell Studio 1737 laptop. I want to replace the 250GB HDD presently in the Dell. From what I've read it appears the Samsung Magician will create an image of the HDD on the SSD and after completing the...

I see another user asked this question back in 2011. I also see he didn't get an answer. I have the same concerns, does a hard drive "image" include the programs (executables) because a MS backup does not. I created a total backup of my hard drive and when the drive failed I was surprised to...