Paul_D

Very good post that Newt. Told it as it is!

It happened to my mate the other day. He happens to live next door to the local steam railway so can get busy at weekends and folk often just park in front of his drive. Anyhow, he came home the other day to find he couldn't get into his property. Trouble for old Mr. Tourist is that my mate drives a V8 Range Rover....dead good for pulling family cars fifty yards down the road, handbrake applied or not.

Thanks Jimpy0 and Melpen. I'm at work at present so will try later at home.....if I get there tonight (Im on-call )

According to that document they do indeed Chesters1. Trouble is, both my original and new drives both have only one link fitted, and one of them works just fine. Plus as I said, BIOS recognises the other as a slave. I'm going to 'borrow' a couple of links today here at work and try some more permutations tonight if I get the chance.

Chesters, that's the same document I've come across but the hard drive supplied only came with one link. Slap, I'm assuming that because my main drive is a 120Gb Samsung unit BIOS should be able to handle it......Just trying to suss out how to post a screen shot on here now. I've got it onto a word document so far... Cheers

I've just had a look at 'My Computer' at the properties of my newly formatted second drive. Apparently, it has a capacity of 31.4Gb and available space of 31.4Gb but it has used capacity of 65.4Gb. Hmmmm!

That's what is really confusing me Chesters1. BIOS checks out fine with regards to Master and Slave drives. Ribbon cables are clearly marked so that even a numpty like me can't get it wrong. As I say, as a stand alone master format with Windows XP CD-ROM controlling stuff it all works (strangely it allocated the drive as D: even though it was the only HDD connected up mind). Once finished and all apparently well as a 80Gb drive when I come to connect it up in a master and slave configuration and it all goes to pot. I've had a look at the Samsung website, even downloaded a utility and created a disk manager floppy disk from there, but get an error message something along the lines of 'DLL files cannot handle this'(It's a DOS program). It's all getting too complicated for me.

Thanks for that Chesters1, I had a go. Initially, I formatted in NFTS but once again could only format a 32Gb partition. I then deleted the partition and attempted various configurations i.e. extended or single partition, but the blessed thing would only allow me a maximum of approx. 32Gb.......I'm starting to wonder if it's a physical thing i.e. the link settings (currently set to what I though was the slave setting) not allowing the system to see the whole drive....???

Hi all, I've been trying to install a second internal hard drive on my XP Pro running PC. I needed to re-format my PC anyhow, so decided to uprgrade to a second drive at the same time. All seemed to go well but on completion 'My Computer' only saw a 32 Gbyte HDD (It is a new 80 Gbyte Samsung drive). Then, somehow, I did something and 'My Computer' couldn't see or recognise it at all - although Device Manager told me it was working correctly, albeit a 32 Gb unit. Tonight, I disconnected my main (120Gb drive which is working correctly), changed the link on the 80Gb drive to 'master' and re-formatted it with my Windows XP Pro drive running. All seemed to go well and an 80Gb drive was shown as being formatted in the FAT system. Once finished, I reconnected my main drive, changed the links on the 80Gb drive back to slave and re-started the PC.......'My Computer' now, once again, sees a 32 Gb second drive but tells me it's not formatted and would I want to format it......What's going on? How do I get the machine to see the second drive at 80Gb, anyone any ideas? Cheers

Cheers for that guys. I'm quite chuffed on winning as it's my first entry to one of the comps. I've PM'd Wiggly with a new challenge so I'll let him post details of it.

Very nice once again HB. From the same place you took your comp. entries too I notice, your back garden? Out for a walk today...cold but enjoyable and took a picture of two of the pups together.

Thanks for the replies fellas and sorry for not acknowledging them sooner. I haven't checked this forum after the first few days post posting. I did manage to locate the .pst files and import them but the only thing I haven't sussed yet is that I cannot create a new default contact list. I have to select my old contacts/groups from what Outlook now thinks is an additional list.....

Title: Nearly Caught a Mackerel Photographer (I wish): Paul_D

That's a very poignant picture Snatcher...I'm sure many a good and bad tale were told in there in years gone bye.

Taken on Sunday afternoon. One of Antony Gormley's 'Another World' pieces on Crosby Beach.....

I'm also no electrician but if there's anything I can do mate, just ask.

I had to re-install Office XP the other day and have subsequently lost my emails from the current inbox. I have found the stored offline file but cannot seem to open it; if I associate it with outlook it just opens a new email with the 50 Mbit file as an attachment. Does anyone know how I would go about exporting the old mails into my new inbox so that I can view them again? Cheers.

Nice pics Cameraman, but I wouldn't be too worried about the fires. There are plenty of small fires around at the moment as part of moorland management at this time of year I'd guess. Walking on Ilkley Moor on Sunday I could see several over towards Blubberhouses.

And just wait until you decide to try tying your own flies...

Unless the Sentient is a vast improvement on my Preston's Carbonactive 15/17' then I would say don't bother and go for a quality 15' instead. At 17' the Carbonactive is far too heavy to use effectively.

Clicky

Congratulations Steve and I hope all goes well for the little 'un in the future. 50 hours though, ouch!

Or this one.....It works very well. Babelfish

Yes, and I'd be very suprised if you hadn't too at some point since it was taken in 1979 (I believe). It's regularly shown on mainstream TV.

How about the footage taken on the very day he took power when he asked his politcal opponents to identify themselves in the room and who were then taken outside and executed. End of argument.