ok i just bought this computer and it is used…. and when i turn it on it says something like disk failure and it takes 4 or 5 times turning it on and off before it reads my hard drive. is my hard drive going bad in it or is it the motherboard? here are some specs on my computer

AMD Athelon xp 3000+ processor (2.16GHz)
512 MB Ram (upgradeable to 2 G)
160GB (7200 rpm) Ultra DMA HD
SATA hookups
DVD+RW/CD-RWcombo drive
DVD/CD Rom Drive
Floppy drive

2 front USB 2.0 and 1 front firewire port
additional 4 USB 2.0s in the back and additional single firewire port also in the back.
modem and ethernet

thanks
yea the hard drive is hooked up correctly
it is not loose and i have format it and i have formatted it like 15 times and stuff and it still does the same thing

It must:
- have a hard disk drive that would allow me to record up to 6 hrs continuously in HD
- record in High Definition
- have a mic input terminal
- have a USB and/or Firewire terminal
- accept memory cards
- cost under 0 (Canadian)

Please provide a make and model. Thank you.

Hiya,

I’m quickly running out of space on my main laptop harddisk so I was considering buying an external drive (as no space to install a secondary drive in the laptop)

I would keep work on the laptop so I can carry it round with me then for when I’m at home I would have games (including Flight Simulator X) on the external drive.

My worry is would having the external drive connected via USB/Firewire (both available) be really slow in terms of data transfer particularly with games like flightsim which require a huge amount of data to be transferred from the HD to the ram? If it would be slower how noticable would it be?

If the games are installed via my Laptop, could I take the Harddisk to another computer and play the games on that or are the registry entries stored on the Laptop disk (where the OS is) and therefore the games wouldnt work on another PC.

Assuming it would work can anyone recommend a good (preferably less than £100) 250/500GB disk?
Thanks
Alistair