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there is some software i can use to put password in my portable hard drive? because if lost the HD, they can see all my personal documentation... any idea??

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please help need a code tht calculates number of hits and misses in the cache from a adddress file with addresses stored as hexadecimals stored on th hard drive.these hexadecimals should first be changed into binary.. ive read some psuedo codes buh i seriosly dont know were to begin the …

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Solid State Disks are ideally suited to laptop use, being small and thin but rugged as well. The lack of moving parts is pretty much a win-win for mobile usage, making these units much less prone to the knocks and drops of daily life than your average mechanical hard drive. …

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I just put together a new EVGA H55 motherboard with a Intel Dual-Core 655K processor, 2 x 2MB DDR3, 550W power supply, Seagate 1TB SATA HD, 24x SATA DVD. The motherboard boots up to get to the BIOS and I can see the hard drive and the DVD drives. No …

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I have a HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop,512MB RAM. 160GBHDD with a Windows Vista operating system installed. I want to format it using windows XP but the setup couldn't find harddisk on my computer......while I try to format using Windows 7, it find the harddisk.....Please, anybody with solution should kindly come …

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I have a Toshiba Tecra 8100 that freezes up. It freezes up at random, on any web page or web site, with no apparent reason. I have re-installed the OS(XP Pro), including reformatting the hard drive, so I know it is not software. The only thing I can do is …

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Hello, I installed operating system in my new custom built computer, installed all the drivers, entered the product key and installed all necessary software I needed. Could anybody please tell me how I can clone my hard drive at this point so that in case of hard drive crash or …

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i thought if it was possible to serialize a List into a file on your hard drive and then send it over net with streaming?

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Can somebody tell me if this video card (PNY Nvidia GeForce 7600GS 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card) can support 1440x900 resolution? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks My System: Sempron 2800+ 1.6ghz(overclocked to 1.76) ECS K8M800-M2 (version 1.0) Via/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP(version 6.14.10.333) 250gb Hard Drive 400watt …

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Alright a year or so ago my girlfriends got mad at this laptop and squeezed the screen till it broke. then out of rage she punched the screen. Her parents gave me this laptop and said I could have it if I can fix it so I've been working on …

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Hello I'm having problems with my laptop running XP SP3. I get blue screens of death with the message "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" and reference to tosdvdnt.sys. Now, I've searched for this file on my hard drive and online cannot find anything for it. I took a picture of my screen when this …

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Hey Just thought I might post some code I've Been refining its not really useful but it shows (sort of) how to print formatted text if you have any suggestions please I've almost got the kinks out weird numbers will cause it to output weird. But if you throw 9 …

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I recently bought a second-hand Vaio VGN-TX5XN laptop from which the original hard drive had been removed. I have several other identical models which have served me well and whose components I have freely swapped around. On first acquiring the latest TX5XN, I put in a hard drive from another …

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Although I have received some advice and code snippets, I think that I should present a broader view of what I am trying to do and the trouble I am having. I have built a test fixture that has an internal microcontroller which directs traffic in and out of the …

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There's a thread here called "Hands-on with the world's first portable USB3 SSD Flash drive". It says this product costs $229. I heard on the radio that there are now SD cards that are like $25 for 4 Gig. Are these basically the same thing, except that they're internal, rather …

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I have been reading for the last month to try to solve my issues with my new hard drive. I liked the challenge for awhile but I just plain sick of it now so I am asking for your help. The multiple topics I have read and tried are close …

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Alright, I concede that I need some expert help with this one. I've spent hours on Google just to find suggestions that don't work or make the problem worse. Here's the scoop. I filmed a movie for a drama class I was teaching, and then used the Windows movie maker …

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why is that my T3104 emachines desktop only recognizes IDE drives connected to the IDE2 chennel on the motherboard. Currently there is a 100g hard drive, and a dvdrw drive connected and I cant add anything else. Tech support is no help

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I have unfortunately dropped my sony vaio from about a foot and a half and now it won't start. When I press the power button the LEDs go on, something clunks around a bit (as you can tell I dont know what I'm talking about), but that’s it. No fan, …

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I'm having a problem with the backup for Windows 7. I get an error message "The backup application could not start due to an internal error. Class not registered (0x80040154)" I recently installed Windows 7 on a new hard drive, I'm backing up to a new external hard drive.(both 1TB) …

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One of my systems here in the house is playing up. It has run like it is for a couple of years, I've not added anything new, hardware or software. It has an MSI mobo with a Core 2 processor, 2GB RAM. a regular hard drive - usual stuff, running …

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So I am wondering if it is possible to use 1 Solid State Drive for just the Windows Operating System and another 7200 RPM hard drive for programs like Microsoft Office, Steam, or even Firefox. Basically any application and document. Like make the 7200RPM hard drive the "Program Files" while …

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I am adding a secondary hard drive to my dell tower. I am wanting to duel boot Windows XP and Slackware Linux. I currently have only Windows XP on my computer, but I am not sure what formating it has on it. My question is: what format should I use …

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My Samsung R159 won't startup. It was working perfectly this morning before I left my house - before I left I put the laptop to sleep and wasn't in the charger. When I came home I turned it on, during the loading screen just before the login screen, it went …

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can anyone help me please? On start up, my comp. screen goes black with message CD-ROM BOOT PRIORITY..NO MEDIUM REBBOT AND SELECT PROPER BOOT DEVICE OR INSERT BOOT MEDIA IN SELECTED BOOT DEVICE AND PRESS A KEY. I have recently had a new hard drive fitted, and had windows 7 …

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Hi, My Sony Vaio VGN-FZ38M wont boot up, it just freezes on the logo and then says no operating system found, it was dropped yesterday and that is when the prioblems began, from searching google i read that my hard drive might be shot but BIOS recognises that the HDD …

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Ok so a friend of mine came up with this code to create a highscores list for a game when i run it, it works perfect you can see everything fine. the problem comes when it tries to reopen the file again. The file has abunch of gibberish inside and …

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Recently, I was given 2 unit of Dell PowerEdge computer with Intel Pentium 4 processor running at 2,4GHz, 256MB RAM and a 40GB hard disk. It was install with a Linux OS but I don't know what Distro it is. When power on it show bunch of text and it …

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I think that I have captured the file name from a file on my hard drive and I think I have loaded the contents of the file into an array. The code I used is: public void openFileDialog1FileOk(object sender, System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs e) { string fullPathname1 = openFileDialog1.FileName; FileInfo src = new …

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I have two related problems that I really need help with: Problem 1 Somehow my registry in Windows XP Pro SP2 got corrupted - it's giving me the following message: "Windows XP could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM" So I've gone and done the …

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I have an HP dv6837cl laptop. The original hard drive is a Samsung HM250JI which crashed and needs to be replaced. This hard drive is now more difficult to find and I've seen instances of others on the web who have also encountered issues with this HD so I'm even …

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Hello, I am trying to learn real-time programming in Java RTS. I was wondering if it was possible to install Solaris 10 in my Windows 7 laptop, such that I can dual boot both of these operating systems. If it is possble, could you recommend setup instructions? Thank you.

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Hi My dell inspiron laptop has gone loopy,keeps restarting and no access to safe mode(f8) I wanted to test the hard drive of the dell laptop using an old tecra 8100 wont recongnise hard drive from dell laptop but does recongnise old wd external hard disk. The hard drive is …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]19662[/ATTACH]In an [URL="http://www.wdc.com/en/company/pressroom/releases.aspx?release=ba433e4b-bff8-4d99-b60f-7f02aa42f444"]announcement made today, Western Digital (WD) agreed to acquire Hitachi[/URL]’s Global Storage Technologies division for roughly $4.3 billion. With this acquisition, WD, an industry leader in consumer and entertainment-class storage solutions that recently ventured into the solid-state drive market, no-doubt aims to become a major player in the …

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I'm currently using Dreamweaver to rework my site. This includes a mix of HTML for most of the content, and a JavaScript menu bar on every page. When I preview the page in my browser, the menu bar is aligned left. Below is the code for my entire page. [CODE]<!DOCTYPE …

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Gateway Laptop M675 doesn't boot. the light at on button comes on I can hear the fan and the hard drive. screen just black.

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Hello. I'm running on Snow Leopard 10.6.6 Would some one be able to answer a question please in detail. I'm interested in backing up my computer. Am i right in assuming I use the "Time Machine" in conjunction with a external hard drive. Am I right in thinking the Apple …

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I have a T23 IBM Thinkpad Laptop with 512mb RAM and a 1.13ghz processor. just today(11-5-07), this morning, it was working fine. The most recent things i had downloaded were a few music files(.mp3) and i had installed updates with THinkvantage's System Update. (I had yet to reboot my computer …

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hi, i just bought a new hard drive and install it in my pc. i then install windows xp in it. but in another hard drive i already have windows 7 installed. now i can boot into this hard drive but cant boot into the one with windows 7. there …

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Hey guys, How long is a file, such as a jpeg, in memory, after the file is closed? Let's say I open a jpeg file in Windows preview, or Previewer on Mac OS X, then I close the previewer program. How long is that jpeg in RAM? How can I …

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How do you determine what the main hard drive is? This is what I have: [CODE]filename="savefile2.txt";[/CODE] and this is pseudocode for what I want: [CODE]filename="MainDrive:/JavaProject/savefile2.txt";[/CODE] My problem with it is, what if C: isn't the name of a person's hard drive? F:\ for instance. And also, if the folder name …

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Hello,everyone!I am very new to posting so please bear with me. I had a notebook pc with all of our itunes music downloaded to it. No I did not back it up. My hard drive fried yesterday. How can I upload the music from my son's ipod and my ipad …

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i have been thinking about getting an portable hard drive for my laptop as it fulled of game and and stuff and is now running slow i wanted to know is there a portable hard drive you can put game on it like sims3 ond sims2 or is it not …

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Hello, I run chkdsk once in a while and some times I get this message Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 286. (The file record segment is random though) This only started to happen after a power outage-- my computer blue screened and wouldn't start. I …

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I have laptop Toshiba satelite L555 with MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit; AMD Turion II Dual-Core Mobile M520; 4.0GB RAM; AMD M880G with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 and it working reasonably good, however I think is not fast eneough what specifications would say. For that reason I make …

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Hello everyone i need some help! I have an Acer Aspire 5051, now when i try and turn it on, the power light comes on, fans kick in as normal but no screen just black, the hard drive light is constantly on though. It will turn on with the power …

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I have my girl friend's laptop which is a Acer travelmate 2420, and it's running Windows XP OS. She wants me to wipe out the hard drive and reinstall windows for her, but she doesn't have an OS install disk or a recovery disk. Is there a way for me …

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Hi I have a Mac Tower beige O/S Tiger 10.4.11. The hard drive has given up. Can I use an external drive or do I have to try and replace the old drive. I know this is an old Computer put I don’t want to junk it. Thanks Norm.

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[B][COLOR=red]HELP PLEASE[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=black]When I put my laptop on it stated:[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Primary hard disk drive 0 not found[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F1 Repeats the No bootable devices line again)[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000](F2 takes me to Dell Computer Corporation ([URL="http://www.dell.com"]www.dell.com[/URL]) [/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#000000]Page 1 of 7 Dell …

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Hello Crew, I currently am working on a Sony Vaio VGC-JS230J all in on machine. The hard drive is bad which is the root of our problems. I need to disassemble the machine to reach the hard drive but I have small experience working on the sony all in ones …

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