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post #281 of 1272
7/5/04 at 2:54am
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Originally Posted by Ferrari3200
The drivers are still accessible on the CD's, just use the explore function instead of running the CD.

You can delete the ACERDATA partition and make whatever partitions you want. It's not needed. What I did was use another copy of Windows to make the partitions then restored from the CD's. It doesn't change the partitions, they stay the way they were before the restore.
hm, i also restored once, however, before i restore i converted the driver to NTFS but after i restored, it became FAT32 again...so you are saying if we use another copy of windows to make the NTFS partition, it will remain NTFS after using the recovery cds, and it will be ntfs 4k cluster by default?
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post #282 of 1272
7/5/04 at 6:54am
Okay, I'm gonna buy the Acer Ferrari 3200, with some upgrades.
80GB 4200rpm -> 80GB 5400rpm or 60GB 7200rpm (€ 59)
2x 256MB DDR -> 1x 512MB DDR (€ 49)

Should I take the 60GB drive or the 80GB drive?
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post #283 of 1272
7/5/04 at 7:05am
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Originally Posted by sylvesterrr
Okay, I'm gonna buy the Acer Ferrari 3200, with some upgrades.
80GB 4200rpm -> 80GB 5400rpm or 60GB 7200rpm (€ 59)
2x 256MB DDR -> 1x 512MB DDR (€ 49)

Should I take the 60GB drive or the 80GB drive?
Depends on what you like better. De you like some more speed or some more space?
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post #284 of 1272
7/5/04 at 7:22am
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Originally Posted by greenlizzard
Depends on what you like better. De you like some more speed or some more space?
I'm going to use this PC as a "download-pc", my laptop will be a game/office-computer. So, I can use some speed. :P
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post #285 of 1272
7/5/04 at 9:11am
80gb definitely
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post #286 of 1272
7/5/04 at 10:10am
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Originally Posted by skyc280
hm, i also restored once, however, before i restore i converted the driver to NTFS but after i restored, it became FAT32 again...so you are saying if we use another copy of windows to make the NTFS partition, it will remain NTFS after using the recovery cds, and it will be ntfs 4k cluster by default?
No, I'm saying the partitions remain intact, but you still need to convert to NTFS again. Why do you want 4k? AFAIK you only gain a little more space but lose performance.
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post #287 of 1272
7/5/04 at 10:12am
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Originally Posted by sylvesterrr
Okay, I'm gonna buy the Acer Ferrari 3200, with some upgrades.
80GB 4200rpm -> 80GB 5400rpm or 60GB 7200rpm (€ 59)
2x 256MB DDR -> 1x 512MB DDR (€ 49)

Should I take the 60GB drive or the 80GB drive?
7200 rpm definitely.

No difference in battery life and a big performance gain. All you lose is space, but with DVD-R, you don't need it.
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post #288 of 1272
7/5/04 at 10:41am
That's true, but look at how huge install files are getting for games and stuff. For that reason alone i would recommend the 80gb (which is why that's what i'm doing ), but the 7200rpm 60gb drive does have the speed bonus. I wouldn't think that that makes a giant difference over 5400rpm though, and therefore i'm going with the 5400rpm 80gb drive.
P.S. the 80gb is cheaper.
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post #289 of 1272
7/5/04 at 11:34am
A 5400 rpm 80GB drive is a great compromise. I'm just sticking with the stock drive until 100GB 7200 rpm drives are reasonable in price.

I should also add that I'm mostly an arcade and handheld EMU gamer, so my biggest games are only about 40MB. I could easily put my entire PC gaming collection on one DVD.

The biggest items I ever have are ripped DVD's, but I can still get a lot of those even on a 40GB HD.

Off topic - Any good platforming games out for PC now along the lines of Klonoa, Mischief Makers or Mario? I could go for something like that.
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post #290 of 1272
7/5/04 at 12:05pm
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Originally Posted by Ferrari3200
No, I'm saying the partitions remain intact, but you still need to convert to NTFS again. Why do you want 4k? AFAIK you only gain a little more space but lose performance.
right, a misunderstanding

you mentioned about being able to use another xp and to use the drivers from the recoveries cd, would that still work though? i mean will the drivers be installed and be able to function properly? as you know our xp versions are home versions...i want to upgrade to xp pro so if drivers can be installed and function properly, how do we do that? or is it not possible?
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post #291 of 1272
7/5/04 at 12:11pm
I don't see why it wouldn't work. All the drivers and programs are in well organized folders. If you go through and install them all I doubt there would be much difference. My question is, why do you want Pro so much? Will you really use the additional networking/server features? Other than that they are identical. I have a small wireless network set-up with all my home PC's and PPC's. I can't see what else I'd ever need for networking.
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post #292 of 1272
7/5/04 at 3:43pm
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Originally Posted by Okle
That's true, but look at how huge install files are getting for games and stuff.
Do you mean you've installed more than 5-6 games at this moment? :P

After all, I'll take the 60GB 7200rpm.
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post #293 of 1272
7/5/04 at 5:17pm
yes i do have more than 6 games installed at the moment, and they're all fxcking huge! America's army (1.62gb), morrowind (1gb), simpsons hit and run (1.5gb), vice city, GTAIII, and GTAI (2.5gb total), a bunch of half life stuff (~1.4gb), a crapton of demos and a couple of ISOs (~2-3gb), a gigabyte of music (128kbps mp3), Medal of Honor (allied assault and breakthrough, 2gb), Encarta reference library 2002 copied to disk (~2.5gb), and a bunch of system apps, files, drivers, etc. (~15gb), which makes up most of the full space on my 40gb hard drive. phew that was a mouthful!
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post #294 of 1272
7/6/04 at 3:16am
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Originally Posted by Ferrari3200
You can delete the ACERDATA partition and make whatever partitions you want. It's not needed. What I did was use another copy of Windows to make the partitions then restored from the CD's. It doesn't change the partitions, they stay the way they were before the restore.
ah okay, thanks, I moved all the Acer pre-defined folders from C: to D: and will probably resize the partition down to 1Gb or so when I ghost the 80gb to the new 60gb later this week.
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post #295 of 1272
7/6/04 at 3:44am
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Originally Posted by Okle
yes i do have more than 6 games installed at the moment, and they're all fxcking huge! America's army (1.62gb), morrowind (1gb), simpsons hit and run (1.5gb), vice city, GTAIII, and GTAI (2.5gb total), a bunch of half life stuff (~1.4gb), a crapton of demos and a couple of ISOs (~2-3gb), a gigabyte of music (128kbps mp3), Medal of Honor (allied assault and breakthrough, 2gb), Encarta reference library 2002 copied to disk (~2.5gb), and a bunch of system apps, files, drivers, etc. (~15gb), which makes up most of the full space on my 40gb hard drive. phew that was a mouthful!
I never have more than 3 games installed at the same moment. :P Also, I've got a Apple iPod (20GB) for my music-collection.
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post #296 of 1272
7/6/04 at 10:21am
Well, I installed XP Pro and the drivers off the CD without trouble. I also now have my HD in five equal partitions formatted with NTFS. Just remember to let Windows search your system disk for the LAN driver. It doesn't have an install, but everything else does. Very painless and quick.
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post #297 of 1272
7/6/04 at 11:44am
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Originally Posted by sylvesterrr
I never have more than 3 games installed at the same moment. :P Also, I've got a Apple iPod (20GB) for my music-collection.
well aren't you lucky. speaking of iPods, i think i'm gonna try Freeipods.com. seems like it's worth a try.
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post #298 of 1272
7/6/04 at 4:33pm
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Originally Posted by sylvesterrr
Okay, I'm gonna buy the Acer Ferrari 3200, with some upgrades.
80GB 4200rpm -> 80GB 5400rpm or 60GB 7200rpm (€ 59)
2x 256MB DDR -> 1x 512MB DDR (€ 49)

Should I take the 60GB drive or the 80GB drive?
Which shop are these upgrade prices from?
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post #299 of 1272
7/6/04 at 5:19pm
i think he might be talking about ebaying the old stuff and then subtracting those proceeds from the cost of the item.
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post #300 of 1272
7/6/04 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by greenlizzard
Which shop are these upgrade prices from?
http://www.de-laptopper.nl/index.php?file_id=2570 (Dutch E-Shop)
The Upgrade options are not listed, but I've called and sent them an e-mail, they've said those upgrades are possible for these prices.
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Goedemorgen,

Het klopt dat de Acer standaard wordt geleverd met een 80Gb 4200Rpm
harddisk. Het is alleen mogelijk om hier een 80Gb 5400Rpm schijf in te
plaatsen (dit is namelijk de grootste en snelste harddisk momenteel) De
meerprijs hiervoor is € 49,-- voor het uitbreiden van het geheugen naar 1 x
512Mb komt ook een meerprijs van € 49,--. Deze bedragen zijn beide excl.
BTW.

Mochten er nog vragen zijn dan verneem ik het graag van u.

Menend u hiermee voldoende te hebben geïnformeerd.

Met Vriendelijke Groet,

Willem Jan de Bruijn
The prices are without taxes (19%).

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Originally Posted by Okle
i think he might be talking about ebaying the old stuff and then subtracting those proceeds from the cost of the item.
No.
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