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also just how much of a difference does going from 5400-7200 make?

sorry to split these questions up I was dying to get to upgrade to a full fledged "member":D

and what about buffers?

Great, thanks.
Next question, USB or parrallel port? Does it make much of a difference?

Of course you're right i meant to say 60 gigs!

I'm building an new computer which will be used for video editing.
I am looking for a harddrive around the 60 meg mark and will get an additional one at a later date.

I will have a Tyan s2460...

OK i changed the master and slave over and can now access the back up harddrive the other is not being recognised though. I only started using it in August but after a few weeks it started makeing a...

i went into bios but couldn't find anything that resembled "standard cmos setup", i have tow hard drives listed in teh Main page both claim to be enabled and in auto mode.
what is the "ide Hdd auto...

ok i followed your advice and made a start up disk from my lap top. so far so good. i started the desk top with it in and it gives me a screen that says it is preparing to start up then to get help...

the computer is an HP pavillion 4540 (v old and difficult ) window 98, 128 ram (i think) . i hadn't installed anyhting new or doen anyhting odd before shutting down. i have 1 8 gig hard drive and one...

I went to boot up over the weekend and all i get is a message saying that no operating system can be found.
what can I do? This is proving to be quite a catastrophy!

Thanks scyth your advice makes a lot of sence, especially the bit about patience.
i hurtled into this thinking that I it would be quite straight forward and that there woudl be one right answer to...