Recent content by NualaC

Well, enjoyed your list for a good laugh, Ubrales .... thanks be I'm a native speaker, and I take my hat off to those who aren't,but still manage to make any kind of sense. Including those clever MS Indians even when they hijack words for concepts in computerspeak. And hail too to our one year...

Ubrales, If James (brother) can't find the cloning device I will go for the Drivewire universal one that you mention, thank you. May I then please get back in touch if I run into problems with the process? This exchange has been most illuminating - thank you again for your helpful and...

Ubrales, my brother thinks he may have cloning equipment so am holding off on that for the moment. So I wonder how useful is cloning likely to be? I've tried several of the "cleanup" and registry-sorting-out apps that are available and although all busily delete redundant stuff like anything...

Ubrales, hello again and thank you for this further suggestion about PC Cleaner Plus, which I've downloaded, and for the advice on cloning equipment. I've ordered a WD 320GB HDD from your earlier list of drives. Btw I cannot back up the existing drive properly (it reports errors). That was...

Ubrales Thank you very much for your two useful and very full replies and for the welcome to the forum. I hope I'm replying in the correct bit. I seem to have lost sight of where I can select your answer as the best but hope to come upon it again and duly commend your post. I have an external...

Unlike Jiannn I've not been all that happy with my Dell L501X and am now getting "HD about to fail" messages. The 580GB Samsung HM640JJ is only 10% full and I'm reluctant to replace it with another the same when it's failing with so much space still on it. Will any SATA 2, 2.5" hard drive of...