The great thing about ramdisk is if you set it up properly, when you turn of the computer, all the bad stuff goes away.  This is particurarly good if you are surfing the gutter of the net looking for viruses, to see if you can fix them, but do not always want to have to nuke your hard drive if you get in over your head, like I do, a lot lol are there any good ramdisk programs out their for free or that do not cost a arm and a leg that I can pick up and use?  Or is the samething out there under a new and improved name that does the same damn thing? Like, you do not have boot disks no more, nooooo, now it is a pre-installed Environment, see what I mean?
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Running on Windows, VMWare Player is free version of VMWare that hanldes exactly what you want.\n\nAnd you can have more than one virtual "machine" at a time.
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I don't have any experience with Seagate HDD's, but I have heard from people who have used them in heavy usage situations and they say that they are not all that good. They recommend Western Digital first and Maxtor a close second. I have built a couple of computers, and I buy most of my parts from newegg.com. I do trust the customer comments, especially the last two months, this may show a trend in quality issues.
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Look up your system model on the support section of the manufacturer's page.  There will be a lot of technical jargon in the RAM section that you will probably not understand.  Copy it down and take it to a store that sells computer accessories (Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, etc) and show it to the salesman.  If you want really good performance, tell him you want low-latency RAM instead of the budget high density crap.  Until then, increase the size of your paging file and hope for the best.  You can also disable unnecessary startup entries and background services.  Many people will tell you to use msconfig by going to Start - Run, typing "msconfig" then go to startup tab, this is not quite accurate.  To accurately disable the startup you should disable it from within the settings of the program itself.  This is to be sure that the registry entry is not recreated on the next reboot.  To disable background services that you don't need, go to Start - Run and type services.msc.  Disabling unnecessary services here will free up a lot of resources - probably more than anything else you could do to the system minus upgrade.  Also, you should optimize your caches.  If you can perform these tweaks effectively, you may not even need a RAM upgrade, but it's still recommended if you have less than 512MB RAM in XP.
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yah it's good. having paging file on other drives except windows installed is considered good, and also increase speed.
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It sounds like a boot write virus... EEK! That's horrible. It could also be a few other things. System bios settings. Bad hard drive. You know I would suggest the good old restore disk. I hate to say it, but if all else fails turn to a tech.
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can you tell us what you have tried so far to try and access it ? Also right click on my computer --> Manage and then go to disk management and tell us if you see it there.\n\nIf you need further help or w/e email me :)
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome RAM/ hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful\nYou can try to down load a suitable spyware remover also from the above site...!
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Clean the junk from your computer...run the disk cleanup program at least once a day!
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delete stuff you dont use. goto the control panel then add/remove programs and delete what you dont use. also try backing up pics and music on a dvd disc. also you can get another hard drive(turn it into a slave drive). goto newegg.com you can get a 200gb hdd for $100 or so
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its a waste of money to purchase more RAM if you don't have a need for it. also uninstall that freeware program you have, it is tasking your existing RAM, and i'm sure it being free, it came with some spyware/adware that is also take'n up your RAM. \n\npurchasing RAM to increase speed isn't always the solution, the BUS speed, CPU, harddrive, all play a role in your preformance.
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Try using your mother floppy...LOL only joking.  go to www.bootdisk.com then download the bootdisk maker and create bootable floppy's.  NOTE: This is only a boot disk and not the actual windows installation cd.
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there are many tools available in market......\n\n1.. partition magic\n2.. Norton Ghost\n3.. Disk Manager\n\nBut the at last all are directly or indirectly using only one tool....\n\ntake any bootable win Cd\n\nand put command "fdisk".\n\ndefinately u will find out your solution.
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incase this might cause you problems later....goto start>>programs>>accessories>>system tools>>backup...click on emergency repair disk (this will make a backup disk with boot files).\ncons: must have floppy disk, furthermore most pcs dont come with floppy drives no more.\nalternative: use windows xp cd and run repair program.
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1. Well, what you wanna do is save all the time. If you're working in a document, save every so often.\n\n2. Not ALL data, but most. Some computers (with Windows XP) have ways to recover data from the RAM. Any data on the harddrive will be recoverable though.\n\n3. A date recovery attempt will occur when data is lost.\n\n4. Couldn't tell you how much it would cost to recover data, but anywhere from $50 - $100 maybe.\n\n5. Try to repair the hardware, so it becomes functioning again.\n\n6. Not usually.\n\n7. Usually the best option is to recover from a CD, not the internet, but internet MAY work.
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How do you intend to boot without a floppy drive?  You want to make a bootable CD ROM?\n\nMaybe try: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/cdromsi/
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Yes, it is "safe" to delete these files. Many times, Disk Cleanup does not recover everything. The only problem that deleting these TEMPorary files is that--as was said before me--software puts files here to assist in un/installating of programs and such, and if you attempt to re-install these programs, they will take a bit longer. But the fact of the matter is that many times these files are useless and take up space unnecessarily after installation...\n\nShucks, even more common is the fact that these files aren't ever used again even if you do reinstall a program, for the script that is run when you click "Setup" or "Install" will extract all of these files again anyway. It would be nice if programmers gave you an option, which would make these temp files more useful, but hey, when I reinstall my programs, I like for all of the files to be fresh from the cabinet!\n\nGo for it, partner... \n\nHope this helps...
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I think you should start copying your files....!I too lost my hard drive and lost all the data...!I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.