Help with drive problem and LAN problem.

Hi all,

I have an Acer 5102 notebook. I've had it for around 2 years. Never been a problem before. Now it's starting to act up.

First: I am trying to extract a 4.4gb file using winrar and it keeps saying ERROR drive too small use NTFS. I realize that I have to convert one of my two drives (it came partitioned as C: and D to NTFS. Could someone tell me the safest way to do so. And which one should I convert because I've read converting the one with the eRecovery program will mess it up. Which one has the eRecovery program on it?

Second: There is about 3 wireless networks I pick up at my home. For some reason every time my note book turns on it automatically connects to a neigbhors connection instead of mine which it used to connect to. It's no problem to swich it to mine but when I try to change the preferences of the networks so it connects to mine first I get a program error then a debugger program error. Then my laptop freezes completely.

One last thing: The task manger looks weird. There is no top part with the different tabs. only the part with tasks list. It's like it was just cut off. I always have to hit ESC to exit it.

Thanks for any and all guidance.

 

easy you hard disk fat32

go to run type cmd
hit enter
run convert C: /FS:ntfs

be sure do back up before you convert



for you wireless network just make sure it at top listed on preferded networks

doblue click on task mgr will put back

 

thanks for the task manger part but i dont think you read the first 2/3s.

 

exactly what program are you using to access your wireless settings?

The eRecovery should be your D:\ partition.

 

andy is right on how to convert C: to NTFS. It's also probably the safest (then again, it is Windows...), but it's a good idea to back up anything important. You usually won't have to back up, but hey, better safe than sorry.

 

I'm just using the windows software.

 

I heard something about clusters and 512kb being bad or something. How do I prevent getting bad clusters?

 

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