2 questions...1st is prolly unanswerable.

[beavereater]

Alright...I came home today, turned on the PC and it froze at the start, when it's counting the memory (I think that's what it's doing) SO I restart the PC...it runs fine, but my mouse is not work, and my external hardrive is not turning on (I set it to automatically turn on). I reset again...nothing. I pull things out, and plug them in...nothing. I turn the PC off and turn off the power supply...turn it back on and everything works now. Any ideas why!?

Question 2...

I was putting data from my harddrive to my external hardrive to bring to a friends house. In a rush, I accidentally ripped out the USB cord before finishing the data (I snagged the cord)...anyway, I still have all the data on my hardrive, but didn't get it all on the external (Which is fine, I can get the rest another day) Just wondering, because it was transfering data would parts of it still be left on the external drive taking up space that I can't see? If so, how do I erase it.

LONG...sorry!!

[HillJack]

Alright...I came home today, turned on the PC and it froze at the start, when it's counting the memory (I think that's what it's doing) SO I restart the PC...it runs fine, but my mouse is not work, and my external hardrive is not turning on (I set it to automatically turn on). I reset again...nothing. I pull things out, and plug them in...nothing. I turn the PC off and turn off the power supply...turn it back on and everything works now. Any ideas why!?

I find this problem with my boxes sometimes too - sometimes only half the RAM is detected by the BIOS, sometimes certain hard drives are not detected, other times, like you, nothing works, then it does. For me, if it's a hard drive not being detected (as an example), I found either a) unplugging the IDE cable and reconnecting it or b) replacing the cable, works. Other hardware issues, like RAM... sometimes just switching them around in the slots, and again, just popping them out and putting them back... who knows why that works, but it does for me

Question 2...

I was putting data from my harddrive to my external hardrive to bring to a friends house. In a rush, I accidentally ripped out the USB cord before finishing the data (I snagged the cord)...anyway, I still have all the data on my hardrive, but didn't get it all on the external (Which is fine, I can get the rest another day) Just wondering, because it was transfering data would parts of it still be left on the external drive taking up space that I can't see? If so, how do I erase it.

I don't know if its possible with an external drive, but run scandisk on it - scandisk will either detect incomplete file entries, and if it does, it'll fix them. If it does not detect any errors, then the partial files are probably sitting wherever you put them, so you can just delete them.

Just my 2 cents