Recent content by davnel019

Pauli: That might be true, but I've found that, if you copy the entire game disk to the data drive, then install the game from the copy, that it runs fine from where it is, WITHOUT needing to have the disk in a drive. Most disks can be copied to a folder, but I found one that needed to be in the...

This is a good article, but turn your sound volume down before you click on it. An ad comes on automatically, at full volume (I HATE THAT!). The instructions given are excellent. Belarc will also provide the product key for the installed Windows, and will identify the edition. MS Office 2007 can...

If you bring up Disk Management [right-click My Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management] it should show at least two partitions for the boot drive. They will be "System Reserved" (100MB) and the Windows partition. If a hidden partition is there it may show also. If so it will be at least...

Has anyone considered the possibility of a hidden partition with the recovery DVDs in it? Many mfrs provide that now instead of physical disks. The BIOS should have a method of accessing them if present. If they are there, then the product key isn't necessary. Just make new disks and load them...