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[Suvat]

How do you check if your comp has
1) USB 2.0 installed
2) A recovery partition

I tried going to device manager and all that but get lost every time...

 

[Amryllis]

For USB 2, if you look under the "Universal Serial Bus controllers" entry, and you see "Enhanced Host Controller" somewhere (or something similar, as long as it says "enhanced"), then you have USB 2.

 

[Grobus]

What do you mean by recovery partition? All computers with versions of Win after Windows 98 should have system restore if thats what you mean.

If you want a partitioned harddrive then you need a partioning program like WinPartition, though IMO you are better off buying a second harddrive since they are so cheap and having a back up on that since a virus wont spread across it like it can on a partioned HD if you are careful.

 

[loquasagacious]

The easiest way to check is to plug a USB2.0 thumbdrive in if you don't have usb2.0 then a bubble reading hi-speed devive plugged in low speed hole will pop up.

You could also search online for the specs of your motherboard, or rear its manual.

 

[AntiHyper]

How do you check if your comp has
1) USB 2.0 installed
2) A recovery partition

What do you mean by a recovery partition?
I have a hard drive partition where i can use for backup

 

[Suvat]

Tnx for your help guys

I confirmed that i had usb 2.0 by clocking the transfer rate of files to my usb stick, ended up to be 48 mpbs which is only 1/10th the theoretical speed of usb 2.0 but 4x the speed of usb 1.1. Dunno why it's so much lower than the theoretical though.

I also found out that my comp doesn't have a recovery partition, usually only laptops and pre ordered pcs (e.g. dell) have them...

 

[sunny]

Dunno why it's so much lower than the theoretical though.

Because its theoretical.

 

[Suvat]

Because its theoretical.

But 1/10th of the theoretical??? Come on, not even my internet connection goes that slow relative to its theoretical rate...

 

[sunny]

But 1/10th of the theoretical???

Blame your memory stick, the bottleneck is there, not at the interface. I'm assuming you know the difference between Hi Speed, Full Speed, MB and Mb here.

Even out of logic you should find it hard to believe that your memory stick can write at 60MB/s.

Come on, not even my internet connection goes that slow relative to its theoretical rate...

Your internet connection probably has far less factors affecting its speed.

While we're at it, your hard disk never sustains performance at the advertised ATA133/100, your 52x CD ROM probably never go faster than ~20x, and your 16x DVD ROM will be lucky to go past 10x.