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| | I disassembled an entire PC, motherboard,RAM,Hard Drive, etc, all taken out but the processor. I used an air compressor to take the dust off. After I was sure it was off, I used an electronic contact cleaner while holding the motherboard in a vertical position, spraying on it and waiting …  |
| | My old laptop broke a while back and the hard drive was somewhat intact but just wouldn't boot. I now have a new desktop and bought a 2.5 IDE Hard Drive Enclosure so I could get all my info. However my old laptop user account was password protected, so now … |
 | Hi, I have created a small appication to run a number of self extracting archives depending on the option selected. I have the program working and all is going to plan. At the moment my program calls the slef extracting zip by pointing to the location on the hard drive … |
| | I have an old computer that I am trying to install Ubuntu to. It is 10 years old and my dad made it for my older brother. It used to reboot sometimes when I did certain tasks, for example when I was trying to play video game.. etc., but I … |
| | I put together a custom built PC this week and had it working and booting up with no problems. However when I switched on my PSU yesterday, the motherboard would not power up and there were no lights on it and no fans/drives were spinning. Trying to solve the problem … |
| | After turning on I don't see the POST. The screen stays black and the only sound I hear is ventilator noise. The small display just near the main switch with dvd-rom symbol on it lights red. I've pull out the dvd-rom module, replaced the hard drive, battery module and memory … |
| | I was recently given a 80GB SATA drive to use on my system at home. After I hooked it up and rebooted the drive comes up stating it is a network drive with the letter Z as a drive letter. I also have a network printer that is using the … |
| | My hard drive crashed and I had to install a new hard drive. I installed every disk that came with my computer but I don't have any sound and I get error messages from itunes saying "ituns detected a problem with audio configuration. Audio/Video playback may not operate properly. Not … |
| | This was an error I found on my computer that I did a search on the web for a quick and easy fix for. I found this forum that had my error and symptoms, but found no one had a solution. The thread was closed because the original poster had … |
| | Hi everyone, I have on original xbox v1.6 but the hard drive is broken , the program HDDRegenerator says the complete disk has bad sectors. I have an new harddisk, but how can I read the eeprom without eeprom reader. I have no materials for it, and I have no …  |
| | I have a secondhand Intel motherboard DQ965GF that I am trying to install it has a 3g CPU and 2 g RAM with a serial DVD drive and an 80g hard drive. If I try to boot install Windows 7 I get “can not read from CD code 5” When … |
| | Yesterday my Toshiba laptop crashed, i pulled out the HD and plugged it into my desktop in an attempt to retrieve some data. To make space for the laptop HD I accidently removed the Desktop C: drive HD (mistaking it for another), when I plugged it back in I found … |
 | One of my Christmas presents to myself this year (2009) was a new laptop. It's an [URL="http://www.acer.com"]Acer[/URL] Aspire 7535-5020 with 4GB RAM, 320GB Hard Drive, Wireless LAN, Built-in Camera, GigaBit LAN, Modem (Does anyone use a Modem any more?), a huge 16:9, 17" screen and a full-size keyboard. It has …  |
| | I'm working on a C# windows program with Visual Studio 2008. Usually, I work from school, directly on my usb drive. But when I copy the folder on my hard drive at home, and I run it from my hard drive at home, an sql exception is unhandled whenever I …  |
 | I have an ATI 3D rage II+dvd video/tv tuner card. I think it's and older card but its ok for what I need it for does any one know where I can get the program to view TV through it. I don't need the driver windows 2000 pro finds it. … |
 | I'm looking for suggestions on the best, and easiest way to install a Windows OS (in this case, XP, Vista and 7) on a hard drive, install my app., test it, make changes and then reinstall my app with a clean copy of the OS? Instead of sitting around going … |
| | Hi there, I just bought Dell XPS 15, with 500 GB HDD I have habit of using 3 partitions. One for System, 120 GB 2nd 190 GB 3rd 190 GB But now, there is hidden recovery partition of 13.4 GB, C of almost 200+ GB & Another of again 200+ … |
| | My "[URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story229382.html"]10 Best Linux Distributions of 2009[/URL]" list drew a bit of disdain from some of my readers, so I thought I'd make it up to them by posting a list of Linux distributions that [I]they[/I] like to use. Since I have no way of knowing which of these distributions … |
| | I was working on my Mac mini and was doing some modifications in Mac partitions using third party tool. Although I had the Apple's disk utility but it can't shift the partitions I went for third party tool. While resizing, it flashed a message to first create a backup of … |
| | Running Windows XP Hey, i'm new here and need some help with my computer.:) I setted my computer to start up automatically when I turn on the power switch in BIOS and now when I turn my switch on it wont start. It will only start when I turn the … |
| | Hi all, Ok, so here is the scenario, I have a hard drive that has Windows XP Embedded installed, and has various project files stored in a folder. I need to overwrite these files but I no longer have access to via Windows because of the way it has been …  |
| | PC - Dell Dimension 8200 - Pentium 4 - 2.8GHz - WinXP SP3 - "born" 2002 I have previously added an extra HDD from a Sky TV PVR. For several years I have had no problem with this 250GB drive. Maxtor DiamondMax 10 - 6L250RO 250GB - PATA133 Jumpered to … |
 | The other day we bought a used Compaq Presario with the following specs.: Celeron CPU 2.50GHz 2.49GHz 120 MB of RAM 32.2 GB hard drive with 21.8 GB free space The problem is that it runs so excruciatingly slow that it literally takes several minutes just to open a program. … |
| | Hi everyone. thanks in advance. I have a DELL Inspiron 8600 laptop, running windows xp. When I turn on my computer it tells me: [B]Primary Hard Disk drive 0 not found[/B]. It also makes the loudest clicking noise. (It ran some scan before all this happened.. i think it might … |
| | This may be a PC 101 question, but I'm in the process of adding a second internal hard drive to my new XPS 8300, WIN 7 Pro x-64 pc. I have an external 2 TB HD that I use for backups. I do a lot of digital photography with Photoshop … |
| | Our computer has a 6g hard drive and I just reformated it a couple of days ago. It had been running slow and saying that it had low disk space. So after I reinstalled Windows XP and as I was installing the various drivers I was watching to see how …  |
| | Hi I used to have a problem, where if i double clicked on any hard drive in My Computer, it would be opened inside the program ACDSee, rather than just opening up in explorer. there was no way to switch it off from within ACDSee so i went to Tools->Options->File … |
| | I have an HP dv6000 that will power up but not do anything else. It has xp pro w/sp2. There are two faint beeps after powering up. Nothing appears on the monitor. The cd/dvd drive spins up but the hard drive never engages. The system will then try to restart … |
| | Hi recenlty i bought N5010 laptop with 320 gb hd... i wanted to create more partition because there was only one which was Os.. i successfully made one partion of 70 gb with the disk management.. but when i created another partition so it just throw an error u cant … |
| | Hi, I wish to install Fedora 14 to my laptop as optional OS along with Win7. I've partitioned the hard drive as follows: 1. Recovery partition 2. C: NTFS (Windows 7 is running currently) 3. D: NTFS (My personal files mp3, pictures, videos .... here) 4. E: NTFS (Fedora 14 …  |
| | Hello, all. This morning, my PC won't boot. It just displayed the blue screen showing Intel's logo and the Esc, F9, F11 options for Boot Menu, Diagnostics, etc. I tried unplugging the powerchord and pressed the power button for 20 secs, then I plugged again the powerchord and now, the … |
| | Anybody ever repair a Compaq 1200 - XL106 laptop from a dead machine? I have done the usual: buy new battery, adapter and even the regulator board. I did discover the BIOS-Battery was bad. Replaced it but still no luck. I know the laptop is old and not really up …  |
 | Hello I have a goflex seagate network hard drive that only has LAN interface to the router but not usb to connnect to other computers. How can I set up read only permissions for a particular PC in my LAN? By default, all computers in the LAN have read and … |
| | Short and to the point. Computer on yesterday and shuts off. Does not turn on but power light on. Gateway says unplug everything and start 1 by 1 replugging and hold test switch of 5 seconds. PSU 160 watt test ok but fan running slow. Plug in each connection and … |
| | Hello, I got a hard drive from someone and it had a Recovery Partition on it that I couldn't get rid of. I was Messing aroung with Hirens Boot CD V10.0 under the hard drive tools and went to HDDERASE. Gave me a password (idrive) then started and said app. … |
| | while i am working in software i can hear some sound from my harddisk...what sound is that.if it continues it will harm my computer.?? |
| | Alright, so I've spent nearly a week trying to solve this problem with almost no success. I need some third party input before I continue with my plans for this drive. So here's the story. I have a Seagate FreeAgent 2TB external hard drive, I filled it about halfway with … |
| | Anyone out there know how to remove/reset a password from a Hard Drive? I have a 60 Gig Fujitsu Laptop Drive that has an unknown password on it. Thanks, tdc |
| | Aloha! When I woke up this morning... Vista would not load. :icon_eek: 1. It automatically goes into the Startup Repair mode, and that has no effect. 2. The System restore does not restore back to a point earlier in time. 3. Within the System Recovery Options, there is no option … |
| | I have a 500GB sata hard drive whose , a plastic 'L' shaped support of the sata data pin is broken(the plastic support behind the pins circled in the attachment). now i'm unable to plug the data cable to the drive. is there any way i can access my hdd … |
 | I'm hoping for a second opinion on which of these two motherboards to buy (I hope this is the right place). [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128511&Tpk=Gigabyte%20A75M-UD2h[/url] [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138331&Tpk=Biostar%20TA75A%2b[/url] Obviously the Biostar has better advertising, which one would you pick, and why? (Space inside my case is not an issue at all, and the USB 3.0 … |
| | I have a WD hard drive. that when go to delete files or folders they just come back. any recommendations. |
| | My computer froze up while on the internet. I shut it down. When I turned it back on it will not go past the BIOS screen. I tried F2 set up and it just shows "Preparing to enter setup". Will not ever get there... So then I try F12, "Preparing … |
| | Hi friends.... I want to execute my first servlet but i am not able. I am going to explain what steps I did. 1-First I copy "Servlet-api.jar" from lib folder in tomcat and paste it in ext folder of java. 2- Create HelloWorld.java in somewhere in my hard drive [CODE]import … |
| | When booting one our laptops, it boots up to C drive which turned out to be the recovery partition. Running ERD found the windows partition. Does anyone know how the active partition could of been changed inadvertantly? Anyone seen this before? System was running XP SP3. |
| | Hello, I am new to C++ programming. Till now I have done some toy programs and classroom exercises. I want to develop a Virtual Drive software like PowerISO/Magic ISO. I searched Daniweb but couldn't get a thread where such problem was discussed. So from where should I start to develop …  |
| | I am at my wits end not being able to get past the Windows XP loading bar, which suddenly freezes after a few seconds. I tried Booting in Safe Mode but received a message that read STOP: c000021a {FATAL} System Error: I ran a Hard Drive Diagnostic and that showed …  |
| | Hello All: It appeared that I had downloaded a virus this morning while working on my PC. I have been having intermittent issues with RAM, I believe...PC would freeze on occassion or boot up to blue screen. However got some virus notices from NOD32 and the Windows XP Repair kicked …  |
| | I think I must be blind ;) [CODE]$Title = $_POST['title']; $Category = $_POST['category']; $Content = $_POST['article']; $Tags = $_POST['tags']; $Description = $_POST['description']; //error below... $Title = addslashes($Title); //error above... $Category = addslashes($Category); $Content = addslashes($Content); $Tags = addslashes($Tags); $Description = addslashes($Description);[/CODE] I declared title the first time... $Title = $_POST['title']; … |
 | On the 11th September a customer of the [URL="http://www.pcworld.co.uk"]PC World[/URL] computer superstore in Colliers Wood, London took his laptop back for an under warranty repair. The computer was only a few months old, and a crack had appeared near the left hinge which is indicative of an internal joint failing. … |
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