marlinspike <marlinspike@erols.nospam.com> wrote: : I believe the M 1.7 compares with a P4 M 3.06 (either way the P4 is better : P4m for performance stuff, and the P4m doesn't give you much in the...

Anymore for most of my computer accessories and larger ticket items, I shop either Sam's Club or Costco. If they have what you want, you can bet they have the best price on it in the local retail...

"Ellen Brown" <lucy@tbpi.com> wrote in message news:56e2835b.0308171201.2631a7da@posting.google.com... In the properties for this drive, disable "write caching", also, make sure it is not...

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Was the HD formatted with FAT32? Maybe reformat withan old DOS disk and FAT16??

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