Not sure If I can post to a 'Resolved' thread ? Shirley, everyone is using PicPick these days.
OOPs, I had two threads open, and I am old.
I agree with ephemarial Get the optical drive out of the equation for the moment. What brand are your hard drives ? My PCs are all 2004 or older....
We have been trying to get you to turn off as much as possible. Who scheduled those Tasks ? You or MS ? If it was you - don't do it again. If it...
I always have Task Manger running in the Sys Tray. Anytime my PC is ignoring me, I cast an eye down there to see if the image is green (busy CPU)....
This forum is a bit difficult to read (the way the posts are shown), so forgive me if you have tried these - When the drive is making busy noise -...
VBS or VBE After reading your tip, I did some Googling. Every other 'hit' was telling us to use Ram.vbe not Ram.vbs Which extension should...
PS If you have IDE drive, don't slash your wrists, if it does not boot the first time you try it. Some experimenting to get the little jumper...
I always physically disconnect it. My PCs are old, so I only have IDE drives (My external Docking thingy takes Sata drives for my images). Don't...
Is your 'E' drive a separate hard drive, or just a partition on the drive you were first talking about ? If it is a separate hard drive, then...
Get a Docking thingy (like upside down ashtray, or breakfast bowl). Get an internal 3.5" Sata Seagate drive, and shove it vertically into the...
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