Recent content by Payt

I will look into the Ubuntu. Hopefully I will be able to rescue my wife's photos. Thanks!

I am assuming that you mean when you use F12. It shows it, I can set it as the second start up disk but, It won't actually work. All I want to do is retrieve some photo's off the drive for my wife. Even when I do get a second hard drive shown in the "My Computer" dialog box it will not allow...

It is a desktop computer that I am trying to install a second hard drive (Internal) using the same type of cables that the first hard drive is hooked up with. There are two plug ins for both the cables.

Help! I am still trying to install a second hard drive on my computer but it won't allow me to get anything off of it. Any solutions?

I keep forgetting things. I am about as computer illiterate as you can get and still be able to turn the computer on. I do not know what the terminology for the plugs, wires and most other items on the computer.

OK, I know I took too long to answer but, I had issues with this computer. I still need help with the 2nd hard drive. My computer has two plugs that allow two hard drives to be installed so, in answer, the same as my first hard drive.

Oh, and the name is Pat not Payt as my fat fingers typed. How do I change this?

I have a computer using XP, my wife had an older computer that had some hardware problems and we replaced it. The problem is, when I installed the drive into my computer, the icon shows it there but when I go to transfer files from my wife's drive it says the drive is not formatted. How do I...