help with hard drive and google search Pc question ahhh!

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hi guys! i was just given a new (to me) pc because a rich friend doesnt care about things! his trash is my treasure so im stoked. i hooked in my old harddrive from my broken comp and it didnt show up in "my computer" so i figured it was toast. when i installed Soulseek and configured my folders to share, BAM there was my old hard drive! but it still wont show up in any Explorer menu (my computer, etc) so the sick irony here is that you guys can download and listen to my kick ass mp3 collection but i cant. does anyone know how i can retrieve these files outside of Soulseek. its like windows just skips it. it goes from drive C: to E: when all i want is drive D:!!

also when i go to seach in google a menu of all the things rich dude searched for pops up!! this is horrible! i dont want to know why he has baker's cist! how do i get rid? ive tryed many things!

thanks everyone!

xoxox

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Is E: your CD drive?

― 57 7th (calstars), Sunday, 14 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

it is!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

First things first. What version of Windows are you running?

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Windows XP professional

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

If I were you, the next thing I would do is a boot up. During the boot I'd halt the BIOS (usually by pressing DEL during the BIOS startup screen) and poke about for a clue to see whether the BIOS found your old hard drive during boot. If it did not, I'd suspect either the power or ribbon connectors weren't snug, reconnect them and boot again.

If the BIOS finds your disk, but Windows XP doesn't recognize it, then it's a Windows problem - possibly a driver mismatch.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional PC troubleshooter - just a foolhardy amateur.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 14 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks man! im guna try that. but why would soulseek find it and now windows?

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Sunday, 14 March 2004 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(shrug) Since I don't know anything about soulseek, I can't make any useful assumptions about it. A slow, information-grubbing approach is often the best way forward when there isn't much else to go on.

If the BIOS finds the disk, the next place I would poke at is the Add Hardware folder of the Control Panel.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 15 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks aimless! i fixed the problem by renassigning the drive to letter D:! Hooray!!!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Monday, 15 March 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

also when i go to seach in google a menu of all the things rich dude searched for pops up!!

This sounds like the autocomplete function of Internet Explorer. The same thing will happen to any other field where you can type things into. I forget where, but you can turn off the feature some place ("Internet options"?).

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Monday, 15 March 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like the drive was set up to only appear as a drive letter that was already in use by one of the other drives on your system; that's weird that slsk would find it, but maybe it searches by the actual drive address instead of the logical name (ie c:, d: etc). Anyhow, joy that it works!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 15 March 2004 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

By the way, you can clear out the history of Internet Explorer by going to the Tools menu, choosing "Internet Options", and then "CLEAR HISTORY" from the third section. Probably also a good idea to delete cookies and clear temporary files, using the second section of that menu.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 15 March 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks crudders!
nah its not autocomplete. it seems like its an outside program. a dropdown list actually comes down from the google search field. so sucky.

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like time to download and run Ad-Aware. (If you haven't already.)

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:05 (twenty-one years ago)

chaki,

go to the google toolbar and pull the drop down menu next to the multicolor Google. the third option should be "clear search history".

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i hug you gygax

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

oh what this is on the actual google page. i dont have the google tool bar!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it is autocomplete doing the thing with Google. Go to Tools/Options/Content/Autocomplete and clear forms and probably turn them off.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 09:58 (twenty-one years ago)

ok thanks!

― Pablo Cruise (chaki), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Do what eyeball said. I had that problem too, turning off autocomplete worked.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Autocomplete can be really handy, though. Would deleting the Google cookie give you a clean slate?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

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