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Installing a solid-state drive is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation to a small drive can be tricky, because your data won't necessarily all fit on the drive. that is what i have come across recendtly. and find an answer on lifehacker...

basic disk can be converted to dynamic disk in the disk management tool in Windows. However, dynamic disk is more risky in data safety.

The upgrade disk allows you to reformat the disk before you try to install the system. If you want to reformat the partition, here is a free tool which can help you to format partition and even resize partition: http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Dell is ramping up performance with the Studio XPS 435. Over the last several years, Dell has diversified its computer offerings in an attempt to better meet the needs of its customers. What started with Inspiron and XPS desktops is now Inspiron, Vostro, Studio, XPS, Studio XPS, and Alienware...

When you replaced the hard drive. Did you remove the adapter on pins from the old hard drive and put it on the new drive when you installed it. Or is that the adapter that you bought new.

Partition Magic doesn't support RAID. I have used Acronis and it works fine. Anyhow, if it fails on your RAID 5, I would like to recommend another one named Easeus and here is a detailed step-by-step guide: http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/resize-raid-5.htm By the way, backup first is...

Windows XP Minimum Specifications OS: Windows XP with SP3 CPU: Intel Core 2 (or equivalent) running at 1.4Ghz or greater AMD X2 (or equivalent) running at 1.8Ghz or greater RAM: 1GB or more Video: ATI Radeon X850 128MB or greater NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT 128MB or greater DVD ROM (Physical...

Since you just deleted the partition without doing any other operations, there is a detailed guide for you to recover your deleted partition in a few seconds. http://www.ptdd.com/recoverdeletedpartition.htm By the way, it can also solve the problem that you cannot entrance the partition or any...

If you fail in chkdsking, you may try to use some tool to help you. A corrupt or missing boot sector will cause such kind of problem. To fix the boot sector, you may refer to How to Fix the Boot Sector Problem? If it still cannot be solved, you have to recover all the data out and then format...

Although Windows Vista has been approved in its disk management to allow users to extend or shrink partition. You may find that Windows Vista doesn’t allow you to extend the partition with the following conditions: 1. there isn’t any unallocated space next to the C drive 2. the C drive is FAT...

dynamic disk is at a high risk of data loss

Window server and Vista allows you to extend the system if there is some free space next the system partition that you want to enlarge. If there isn’t any free space besides the system partition, you may delete the partition to spare out some unallocated space for the partition that you want to...

http://www.nodevice.com/driver/company/Philips/PC_Camera.html you may download one driver here

ATI 4770 is the king of value for money I've read this.. I am a bit concerned about the heat and the noise they generate though. I would be very interested in a quiet bang for buck card if one exists.

hmm.. Right now the only thing we own (it's not even mine, it's my wife's) is a '95 Oldsmobile 88 Royal.. It's a boat.. and it's ours. But there's other stuff we can drive around here: - '97 Dodge Caravan - '00 Chevy Malibu - '98 Mazda B4000 - '06 Ford F150 (Company truck) And to play around...