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Hi, I was having a problem with my new Dell computer making clicking noises so I called Dell Tec support. He took controll of my computer and ran some checks then told me I had Spyware that had to be removed. Wanted to charge me a high price to do …

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I have 3 hard drives on my computer. One hard drive named C is only used for my Win XP Pro SP3 operating system and nothing else. A second hard drive I use for all my data, video, files, folders etc. The third hard drive is used for the backup …

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This is what happens when I try to reinstall winxp on another used computer (dell 8400 with a SATA drive) The windows setup screen appears and loads files. The next screen says welcome to setup and offers three options . 1-to setup XP press enter. 2 To repair XP press …

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I turned my laptop and all the lights come on but the screen is blank. I dont hear hard drive or fan sound just a click at the dvd rom. Ive reset the memory, took out the battery and pressed power button, but still the same. I have to hold …

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I recently installed the updated Dell Support Center (DSC) onto my Inspiron 1520 with Win XP(SP3) and ran the included PC Checkup (PCC) powered by PC-Doctor. Everything went smoothly; however, a little later, I started to notice a random .wav sound (a click followed by a "bubbling" sound like someone …

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I tried using the windows experience rating app today and got an interesting result. I received an error: 'Could not measure storage performance. Failed to properly assess the disk. The parameter is incorrect.' I checked winsat log for the errors and there was only one 'winsat\processwinsaterror.cpp:0095: ERROR: tried to read …

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Hi All - I'm Brent from New Zealand. Recently I had to get a new hard drive because of a fault. Im running windows xp Prof with 80GB Hard Drive and 512 meg Ram. My supplier who sold me puter is not that helpful and he left when Windows disk …

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Hello. I have a FileUpload control in my app, and a user chooses a file that sits on mapped network drives. now i don't want the files to actully download i only want the path to it for a link. my question is how do i get the real path …

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Hi! I've searched Google for hours, but I can't find the answer anywhere. I have an 8GB flash drive, and I want to install Chromium OS on it. However, I would only need about 4GB of storage for Chromium OS. Allocating the other 4GB of space for Chromium OS seems …

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The program that uses this function is receiving files of multiple types and sizes from another PC. It has been working well but when the files' size exceeds about 100MB I run out of memory. I need to modify the receiving code so that it saves the incomplete file to …

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Had to buy a new hard drive for my laptop 2 months ago, lots of problems since. Tried to uninstall IE7, unsuccessful, did a system restore and now I can't open internet options in tools or the control panel. I am running WinXP Pro on a Dell Inspiron 9100. Any …

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what is the difference bw these numbers? my hard disk is Momentus 7200.4 .. and ive seen some 500 and much more.. does it matter if i get anything besides 7200.4? for instance can I get this? Samsung Spinpoint M5 HM160HC - Hard drive - 160 GB - internal - …

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I am a Mac 10.6 user. One of my friends suggested me to defrag my drive in order to optimize mac performance. My friend who is at Mac 9.2 suggested me from his own experience. But when I went through Mac support , it says that there is no need …

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I've seen earlier posts for this problem, but the solutions don't apply to me, and the earlier posts are a couple of years old. I was hit on 6/5/11 with malware from a legitimate website that I had accessed just the day before with no problems. Malwarebytes (MBAM) identified the …

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I had to reinstall windows on a HP Pavilion a820n and had to download an audio driver. I downloaded one but it was not the correct one, so then I downloaded Realtec AC'97 Audio. I can't remember what the first one I downloaded was, but I was trying to free …

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I''ve got a struct like this: struct Node { int n; Node *left; Node *right; } I build up a binary tree from this struct. Now, how can i save the binary tree onto the hard disk, and how can i rebuild it from the hard disk ?

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Hey guys, I have a problem: My USB flash drive is not seen on windows 7 ultimate. i have just reinstalled the windows 7, it still won't fix. Was working about a month ago and it just stopped working 3 days ago. Please help, thanks!

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I have a computer that I built, it has two hard drives in it, one with Windows 7 and one with Vista. I plugged my girlfriend's hard drive into my computer to back up her data and reformat it since her's was having some issues(XP Home). However, once the reformat …

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I have a couple of computers here, a friend wanted me to make an image of an old XP hard drive with all her work files, emails, etc, and put them on a hard drive in a newer computer. The newer computer runs Windows 7 and I feel like that …

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I'm having an issue where a computer that was seemingly working fine a couple days ago is now freezing whenever I try to click on anything on the desktop. This happens right after startup. I can sometimes get the start menu to open, but once I try to click on …

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My computer out of nowhere gives me a message telling me my hard drive is corrupt and I need to restart my pc. I ignored it of course, after I ignored it some unknown Windows 7 recovery program started running various scans on my pc which I knew weren't legit. …

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Dear Sir/Madam, Recently, i got a problem on loading OS XP professional SP-II. I have installed the OS bringing my Hard Disk into another computer where with my Hard Disk's OS is running smoothly. But when i installing the same Hard Disk into my computer it is not loading the …

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I'll start out by saying this is the first time I've seen this error message. Shortly after installating WIN XP Media Center ver. 2005 onto my comps master hard drive I started recieving this error message. Thinking the error message was a fluke and to rule out the OS as …

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Hi I am new on this web and I bought a Seagate freeAgent go External hard drive I found it helpful so I Purchased another one Now after a few months the Second HD stopped being shown in my computer It was working fine plugged it in my laptop copied …

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I am going to try and explain this issue as best as i can. operating system windows 7 64bit issue = I have an Western Digital 500GB external Hard drive, that has over 700 AVI files on the drive. i used to be able to play the files perfectly fine …

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Hey everyone. Recently one of my friend's computer gave up on her. P III 677 MHz , 128MB ram, 30GB maxtor drive. I know its ancient, but if all you do is type documents and listen to music and ocasionally watch a movie or 2 its good. It was a …

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I have read the sticky's but it did not help my problem so here goes. okay, so i will start from the beginning. I have a fairly old computer and I bought a graphics card for it (ati hd4730 to be exact). I did not know that this video card …

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Help I have been given a friends pc to look at and windows will not start on the boot screen there are 5 options (see attached) but you cannot choose. I can boot from a windows cd and get recovery console. I have run CHKDSK, FIXMBR & FIXBOOT all withot …

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mobo: Asus p5vd2-vmse ram: 2gb ddr2 cpu: core 2 duo processor video card: old one-onboard new one-ati hd4730 PSU: OCZ 520W powerstream hey guys, my computer just got built and im having a problem. The card shows a black screen when I connected it, hard drive is spinning and the …

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I got me a new used computer from a neighbor in trade, I formatted and put win xp home on it. After getting all my basic setup done, I went in to bios and set all my security like I always do with any of my CPU's. After doing the …

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i have netbook with 4gb ssd for windows installation. i need to reinstall it so the documents and settings is on main hard drive (100gb) and program files are also on main drive. got my xp installation, and I extracted iso into actual folder with winrar, searched for WINNT.sif i …

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Hello, My project is: 2 Panels with images, where one moves inside the other. I get the position of the second panel and make an image in the hard drive with them overlapping. If I use a simple Web Form there is no problem, all works just fine. MY PROBLEM …

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Straightforward question. If I run Hac-inT0sh on one partion with W7 on another can these partions be separated onto separate hard drives (when I get two hard drives). Any certain programs? Thanks!

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greetings to all and thanks for taking the time to read this... ill get down to the point - whenever i go into my documents or any folder non-internet related, it immediately stops working and needs to shut down... i have a problem report up right now on Vista which …

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Hey, Ever since doing a windows update daily i have been getting a BSOD sometimes up to 6 times per day. I have searched the internet and used dell diagnostics on boot too fix this problem. However so far today i have not had a bsod i think this is …

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hello guys, i bought a dell optiplex gx280 refurbished recently and like to use it to play games, watch movies..etc. i already bought an ati radeon hd 4550 graphics card, worked perfect. i have about 1gb of ram but id like to upgrade it to 2gb or if possible 4gb. …

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Hi everyone, OS : Windows XP Professional (Srevice pack2). In my system , there are [COLOR="red"]three user accounts[/COLOR]. All the three user account [COLOR="red"]doesn't have passwords[/COLOR]. Like, one is limited account , one is guest account and other acccount, i don't knpw whether it is limited or administrator account. I …

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Hello I got a system restore virus. Went to restart computer in safemode so i can scan but my computer does not boot and goes continiously around in circles. There is no system restore points and sytem repair doesnt work. I used knoppix and can find my files. i arranged …

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when i start my hp pc p6040in with windows vista home basic, it shows me a blank screen with message Err1Err2 and after pressing enter it shows me message DISK BOOT FAILURE.INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER........also i am unable to start system recovery option. i have tried replugging the …

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I had to do a new installation of my os on a different hard drive and installed MV2010 but now there is no intellisense. How do I make it appear? On the other hard drive I had intellisense was already there but this time around it wasn't.

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[CODE]// erase.cpp - Script 4.1 // We need the iostream file in order // to use cout and cin. #include <iostream> // Start the main function. int main() { // Declare a variable for the user input. // Single character to store yes (Y) or (N) char answer; // Prompt …

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Have an old MAXTOR D740X-6L IDE drive. On the drive is jumper information not fully clear to me. An image of the drive information is uploaded to: [B][url]http://cid-63220807a7f4accb.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/MAXTOR[/url][/B] I am familiar with cable select but not the others. Just want to set it for master but hopefully I can learn …

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Hi: I have a computer that started out with a internet antivirus 2011 installation. I worked with the computer to remove it through Super AntiSpyware and through Avast virus software. Now with time the computer has lost icons and now will not start up. I have removed the hard drives. …

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I am trying to fix a computer for a friend. I have gotten different stories either it was hit by lightening or virus. I am pretty computer savvy but I have no clue on this one. When you turn it on everything appears to be right. The Compaq comes across …

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Hello all, I am currently a student doing an end-of-year software project - and I need some help. I am currently trying to return a 2D array from a function contained in a header file. The function is called from the main() and asks the user to input the location …

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It's a Dell Dimension 8400, and, without any hardware, software, or any other changes all of a sudden, like overnight, it will not go beyond the choices available using F8 to get into the start up choices menu, it also will not boot using a bootable cd such as acronis …

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\Windows\System32\spool\drivers\x64\3\EKIJ5000MUI.exe Keeps showing up when I run C Cleaner registery cleaner. Is this something I need? It's suppose to be in start menue I think. It shows everytime. Also every video I go to constantly buffers. I have 6G Ram, running 64 bit 7, 500G hard Drive. I have the …

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when i start my hp pc p6040in with windows vista home basic, it shows me a blank screen with message Err1Err2 and after pressing enter it shows me message DISK BOOT FAILURE.INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER........also i am unable to start system recovery option. i have tried replugging the …

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i have a maxtor basics 1TB hard drive with about 700gb of data that seems to have gone walkabout. worked well and showed no signs that a problem was forthcomming, tried to access it recently computer says unrecognised device it still shows up as a F drive but when you …

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I have a 2TB external hard drive that I'm trying to format, however, although the computer recognizes the hard drive it isn't allowing me to name or format the drive. I'm running Windows XP. The hard drive was previously formatted on a Windows 98 PC. Any suggestions would be helpful. …

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