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It "did" but gave me an error at the very end. however its recognized as a drive & showing at 93GB so if its "ok" or not idk. Its only showing as 1 drive tho' instead of the 4 partitions I (thought) I created! ugh

In any event, I did this but still no go. I'm not sure whats going on. * edit: actually the partitions hadn't been created. I swear they appeared before but not when I chacked again now. So, I tried to create again in FreeFDISK & they "appeared" to be created IN the FreeDISK DOS Prompt (but still assigning the 1st & 2nd partitions the already taken optical drive's letters), it said required restart which I did but then it says "no partitions defined". ** 2nd edit: Ok, I finally got it assigned a drive letter and recognized by the OS. Went into Device Manager & under options there were 4 boxes to be checked - 3 were but the one by "Removable" wasn't, so I checked it, which made the "Reserve Drive letters" box not grayed out so I was able to manually assign it the next avail letter, then restarted & voila. IF it was like that before I'm not sure but I think I would've tried it before now. Anyway, after going in so many circles doing this I have to re-figure out the proper way to format it!

If it makes any difference - when my other ext HDD is plugged in it is correctly assigned the next available drive letter after the 2 optical drives.

In case this makes a difference on how to proceed, I should've been more specific about the "already assigned drives" - they are a dvd burner & a cd-rom - each assigned a drive letter (the last ones). So, for whatever reason the 1st 2 partitions were "assigned" those same letters? Instead of starting from the next unused letter available.

Used FreeDISK from DOS box inside Win ME. Didn't partition in "true DOS". As to BIOS & "unassisted" - idk. I have a diff ext HD that requires a disk w/ special drivers on it to be recognized by Norton Ghost for example. Replaced original with the one you posted. Did this but didn't work. Something is still amiss.

Unfortunately I have disconnected & rebooted several times but still not working. In FreeFDISK it shows, when I choose "display drive information" (or something similar to that), the 4 partitions created but the 1st 2 partitions were "assigned" drive letters that are already "taken" by other drives already on the system. Unsure if that is involved in the not being recognized issue.

I have cross referenced the various threads but that just tends to confuse the matter! Anyway, FreeFDISK seems to have created partitions (correctly? - I'm not sure) however the OS hasn't assigned letters to the unformatted partitions. Perhaps after formatting

FreeFDISK looks/acts the same as FDISK - is there any reason to think it would work when FDISk didn't?

the system was not made for such capacity and obviously cannot display all digits in the columns. Due to the rounding (1024 vs 1k), 943.977 seems correct. Yes, you're right about that. Makes sense now. Tried partitioning w/ FDISK but none of the partitions "took" - idk why not. I have access to a Windows 7 machine soon & maybe it will work there.

I think I may be able to get access to a Windows XP machine so based on denarco's experience (in another thread) - it will necessary or preferable to keep partitions no larger than 250GB each?

Prior to trying RPM I tried "seeing" the 1TB ext HDD at the MS DOS prompt (see attached screenshot) which seems to show a 3rd HDD which I assume would be it - however - the corresponding numbers don't make sense & can't be right?? the system is configured: Disk 1 is internal HDD #1 = 80GB partitioned C: to J: Disk 2 is internal HDD #2 = 80GB not partitioned, system labeled it D: Disk 3 is ?? the 1TB ext HDD? the numbers 43977 & 94397 seem incorrect (1,024GB should be higher, no??)

Replaced with file in usbstor110dp.zip but unfortunately still not recognizing it. Strange that it is "seen" in Device Manager. I don't think it's preformatted since it was a bare drive I put into an ext enclosure. I don't have Ranish Partition Manager nor access to a Windows XP (or 2k) machine.

Opening usbstor110c.7z it asks to add it to archive which I don't understand so probably didn't get that part right. Instead I tried downloading usbstor110c.zip & replaced my existing USBSTOR.INF file w/ that one but HDD still isn't recognized. USBVIEW.EXE provided -> Device Descriptor: bcdUSB: 0x0200 bDeviceClass: 0x00 bDeviceSubClass: 0x00 bDeviceProtocol: 0x00 bMaxPacketSize0: 0x40 (64) idVendor: 0x152D idProduct: 0x2329 bcdDevice: 0x0100 iManufacturer: 0x01 iProduct: 0x02 iSerialNumber: 0x05 bNumConfigurations: 0x01 ConnectionStatus: DeviceConnected Current Config Value: 0x01 Device Bus Speed: High Device Address: 0x01 Open Pipes: 2 Endpoint Descriptor: bEndpointAddress: 0x81 IN Transfer Type: Bulk wMaxPacketSize: 0x0200 (512) bInterval: 0x00 Endpoint Descriptor: bEndpointAddress: 0x02 OUT Transfer Type: Bulk wMaxPacketSize: 0x0200 (512) bInterval: 0x00 Just add this to the bottom of USBSTOR.INF? (BTW - it shows that a USB device is attached AND shows under Device Manager under Disk Drives - by its serial # I'm guessing(?) but not being assigned a drive letter).

So, after reading through 2 separate threads regarding this topic (& admittedly thoroughly confusing myself by the end) - I proceed to download the NUSB 3.3 & it says its not compatible with my OS ?? I already use an 80GB ext HDD via USB 2.0 with no issues but a new WD 1TB ext HDD is not being recognized by the system (i.e, assigned the next available drive letter as is the 80GB one is). It will need formatting once it is & partitioned (unfortunately) in 250GB (or less) segments as stated in one of the threads about that.

I made the change but I don't see any improvement. It is still being slow in general & internet speeds are slower - 1/3 to 2/3's of what they should be. There could be other causes for that but it has just been since adding RAM. RAM is recognized but I swear it doesn't seem to be "being used". Idk of any way to check it's utilization or not.....

I've been experiencing (seemingly) a "memory leak" since running 1GB of RAM. Sometimes it occurs over time, other times it can happen within a few minutes. Has anyone else experienced this?

I beg to disagree. There may be some issues when using huge files < 2GB, or files between 2-4GB with the 4GB file-size patch.Under Win98SE on my desktop, which has 2GB RAM installed, I have set the swap file to 3888 MB fixed (Minimum=Maximum), just to be on the safe side when handling huge files. Thanks for everyone's 2 cents on this. Using FAT32 the file size over 2GB won't be an issue. I have Swap file set at 3200 (2.5X amt of RAM) now. Which should be adequate in either case. I was hoping for a speed increase but stability was also needed so it was worthwhile upping the RAM.

I've seen many recommendations on "the best settings" for Swap file but they're ALL different!! Anyone have any ideas based on experience w/ Windows ME? Recently added RAM (1,280MB total) & not seeing any vast improvement in speed or otherwise. Trying to do everything possible to optimize my system. Perhaps 1.4Ghz processor is inadequate - I don't know.

ok, finally got move over with & was able to add the 512's & make changes as instructed & am up & running again! 1280 MB of RAM now! Thanks to all!!

Thanks for the great instructions....I will get some 512's & give it a shot asap! (& post the results)

Well I am quite a novice so I doubt I could write much of a "How to"......I'm having enough trouble figuring out my motherboard. Its a Dell 8100 but I have no idea if the manufacturer was dell or someone else. I have no specific RAM amount. I just want to increase my PC's speed cuz it's seems god awful slow to me. Only using 384mb of RAM (4 slots = 2 128MB sticks & 2 64MB sticks) currently & would've added more long ago except I was told 512 was the limit so it wouldn't do any good. 1GB should be plenty to have things moving a little faster! Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation Model Dimension 8100 North Bridge Intel i850 Revision A2 South Bridge Intel 82801BA (ICH2) Revision A2 CPU Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 1400MHz Cpu Socket Socket 423 mPGA System Slots 5 PCI, 1 AGP Maximum Capacity 1024 MBytes Memory Slots 4 Error Correction Single-bit ECC *** btw - I'm going to be moving so won't have access to my machine for a bit....will have to return to this project when this happens.

Having stumbled upon this forum & specifically this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/day-day-running-...e-1.html&s= Is there a "How-to" guide to doing this somewhere? I've searched & cannot find one. And is this something a semi-novice can do (safely!) ? I've been crawling along w/ 384MB of RAM & it's driving me nuts lately. Thanks