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| | Someone asked me to remedy a problem on a laptop running XP Media Center SP3...has a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, but Seagate Manager isn't recognizing the drive. When I plug the drive in, Windows recognizes and reads from the drive. I cannot uninstall the Seagate utility to reinstall it … |
| | I have a 20 GB Quantum Fireball HD that I tested not to long ago(a month?). I told my friend he could have it for a bit of extra space, and that I would put a couple of things on it for him. So, I plugged it into my free … |
| | Hello! It is my first time to post this thread, So I hope it is in the right place. My problem is that I am creating system tools for windows with a good gui and I don't know how to start with it. One of my difficulties is making code … |
| | My desktop computer will not detect the harddrive that inside. I do not hear any annoying clicking noise from it. When I try to install the windows operation system it tells me it does not detect the hard drive. I checked all the connections. They were intact. Any thoughtful suggestions?  |
| | Hi, i really need some help here. I am starting to work for sunlife financial tomorrow and need my laptop to run windows xp for their software. Currently i have windows 7 installed. I want to know if I can split my hard drive and when computer boots I can …  |
| | Hi Guys, I seem to be having no end of problems with Windows 7.The sound keeps switching on and off.It would come for a day or so then switch off for about a week, then switch back on again for another day or so. Whenever I try to play a … |
| | I encountered this message recently on my new Sony Vaio under warranty. The laptop was not recognizing the hard drive. Sony has shipped a new hard drive. A mobile tech company has represented that they can slave the old hard drive with a SATA cable and access the data because … |
| | This isn't the first time I've had this problem and the last time I had it, I didn't note down how I fixed it. I just spent the last hour or so looking for solutions to this online and to my surprise, nowhere actually has an answer. My external hard … |
| | I could use some help with uninstalling Vista on my HP laptop. I would prefer to have XP installed. How do I go about it. I've searched on the net for help, but nothing has worked. When I put the XP CD in to load, the computer doesn't recognize the … |
| | Hi everyone, I'm creating my own OS from scratch, and I'm first producing an installation CD so that I can easily install my kernel on a hard drive. So far, I've written a CD-based bootstrap loader in NASM that finds a program within the root directory of the CD, loads … |
| | Running windows XP using Belkin Wireless Network Utility. I show strong connetion on the wireless side and LAN. Chrome, IE7 and Firefox are all unable to connect. I've run multiple virus scans, winsockXP, registry scan and tried to reinstall the browsers. I've gone through multiple threads here and could not … |
| | Hello all, When you first open a professionally made application a dialog box appears with an "install wizard" that lets the user install the program to a specific destination on the hard drive and among other thing change some settings. How do you make one of these using visual basic …  |
| | installing windows 7 on a ssd (Solid state drive) hello all, i need help, i made a new computer, but anyway, i bought a solid state drive, so i could install my windows 7 on it, so i would have a faster boot up, but i have a problem, in … |
| | Hey guys, I am having some issues with my PC. My main drive with my OS is SATA, as well as my DVD-RW. As of this morning, I received a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message when trying to turn on my computer. I checked my … |
| | Hi, My friends computer is dead. It shows the error "Dumping physical memory" and after the restart the BIOS is now not detecting the hard drive. Please help! Thank you in advance. Love and Peace, JK  |
| | I recently partitioned my hard drive and decided to share through a ad hoc network. How do I request users to enter a username and password to access the files on the partition?  |
| | Can anyone tell me what this is error message refers to when attempting to load xp pro onto a new hard drive. Thanks Kevin |
| | Hi everybody! This is my very first post, so bear with me. Anyways, as the title says, I'm having problems formatting my slave hard drive. It's a 60-Gb Seagate U series 7 that my friend gave me. It shows up in BIOS and My computer and Disk Management just fine. … |
 | Rather than cover all the same ground again, may we take the liberty of referring you to [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/reviews/review280960.html"]our earlier review of System Mechanic 9.5[/URL] which provides all the basics of what the software is and what it does? In a nutshell though, System Mechanic is a collection of diagnostic, repair … |
| | Tonight, my wife turned on the computer and the screen has stayed black. The little light on the monitor glows, but no image is visible. We hear the hard drive whirling, think it's a new noise, never noticed before. We have tried the F12 and F8 routine to get the … |
| | It's probably obvious that I'm more familiar with Python than C++... I was wondering if there's a convenient way of storing objects / miscellaneous STL structures on the hard drive for later importing and use in C++ in the same manner that Python does with the Pickle module. I know … |
| | I have two computer with xp and one with vista. I want to connect all the drives together. I made the workgroup and it's all the same on all three computers, they're all connected. I can remote desktop each of them on each of them. On one XP I can … |
| | HI Im desperate. My dell laptop decided to get a blue screen. Ive had no problems with it either..never even froze. Anyway....I had an xp disc that came with my laptop that wasd suppose to be the solution...only when i opened it, it had a pretty nasty deep scratch. The … |
| | Hey, I'm making a password program for my programming class. If the user doesn't get the password correct in 10 tries, then it says "Your hard drive is erased". (Obviously, it isn't erased). I've been looking for a code to end all programs running and close down everything and can't … |
| | I am trying to install Windows7 Home Premium on a Dell XPS 400 desktop computer. I have installed a brand new hard drive which is recognized in BIOS. I get a message that says "No boot device detected". The DVD device is running with a blinking light and the boot …  |
| | Hi. I'm new to this forum and to programming in general. This is my first programming class and it is in JAVA. I have been doing alright in the class, but am really struggling with this weeks program assignment. If you could help me out at all I would really …  |
| | Hello! I am learning how to program on my own in visual basic. I have made a program where the user selects a batch file from a datagridview that is populated with information from the hard drive. I have been able to get the selected item to show up as …  |
| | hey guys n girls, I have recently bought a 200gb seagate sata harddrive to go with my current 250gb harddrive and i think ive made a right mess of things. i installed it fine and everything computer read that is was there etc, only i tried to move my files … |
| | Hi, I have been advised by an HP chat technician that My laptop (Vista, 32 bit, < 1year old) a. will not access more than 320Gb via USB b. will not accommodate more than 320Gb internally Both he attributes to mother board limitations. Now (b) I'm willing to accept, althought … |
| | Hi, I have a Toshiba SP10-554 with German Windows XP and a European AC adapter. I have a problem in that something has happened to my laptop while I was moving apartments - it was safe in a backpack that wasn't dropped or anything, but now the LCD won't light … |
| | I tried to boot up my computer but it freezes and the screen goes blank. I tried safe mode but when i press safe mode option it loads a few seconds and hangs up again. I tried to boot from windows disc but it loads files for a minute then … |
| | A friend of mine had a computer go down and needed the info off the hard drive so he tried installing it as a slave in another computer. That would not take so he installed it as the master and the other one as the slave and it worked. He … |
| | I have a desktop and a laptop connected to a wireless router (netopia 3387WG). What I want to do is be able to share hard drives between the two. If I need a file while I am on the laptop from the desktop I just want to be able to … |
| | Hi I have been at my wits end to solve the problem but to no avail. I need to fix my laptop as soon as possible, need it for some official work, so please help fast! I recently formatted my PC and installed a fresh copy of Win7 in C: … |
| | I was checking on the web for different possible holiday gift ideas and came across this nice find. It’s a netbook that’s not only got some pretty impressive specs, but is also super cheap. It’s got a 10.2” Screen, 1GB of Ram, a 160GB hard-drive, a webcam, and runs on …  |
| | hi folks the program I am attempting to do here, even though its horrible so far, is one that reads in a file containing: [code] Johnson 85 83 77 91 76 Aniston 80 90 95 93 48 Cooper 78 81 11 90 73 Gupta 92 83 30 69 87 Blair … |
| | i have a lab top where the hard drive has been corupped and now the os is not loading up on it at all but there are very important files that i need to get off the hard drive, does anyone have any ideas of how i can do this, … |
| | I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a Pentium 3 750mhz processor (256mb RAM). The computer was working fine until I pulled the battery out to see what size the battery was. I was thinking about going ahead and getting a new battery since it was the original battery that … |
| | After using Dban on a hard drive I reinstalled a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro every thing went fine and works great except it made all the slot drives cdef dvd G and the hardrive H I changed the slot C to I and tried to re assign letter … |
| | When I try to start my computer in Safe mode using the F8 key, I don't get the "Windows Advanced Options Menu". Instead I get a window that says "Please Select Boot Device" with the following three options: Removable Device, Hard Drive, and ATAPI CD-ROM I using WinXP SP2. |
| | Please help. (NOVICE here...bear with me).... Installed SoundBlaster Video Card, (SB Audigy), some months ago. It has never worked. (Son's computer, recently had him bring it to me for help). Checked Audio Devices, (Device Manager) and found that Legacy Audio Drivers contain no information under "Properties." Searched further, (system devices) … |
 | I tried to switch on my HP pavillion dv6000, all the lights go on, bot nothing happens on the screen at all, it does not even go to BIOS. After several seconds the lights flash- it restarts and the story repeats over and over again. There is no beeps or … |
| | so, i inserted windows xp into the drive attempting to format, and re-install... everything was running smoothly, until about half way through, it asked for the SP2 disc (i have xp pro WITH sp2 on the disc)... so obviously i didnt have the disc. restarted, and tried again, but then, … |
| | Alright so here is what happened, my friend didnt have a anti-virus on her computer and she got some viruses, so I downloaded Avast on it because it has been reliable for me. But when I downloaded it the taskbar turned grey, and can not be switched back to the … |
| | Write a program that will ask for a password. If the password is entered correctly, a message should be displayed like “You may enter”; otherwise after 10 tries display a count down from 10 to 0 then a message that the hard drive is being wiped out should be displayed. …  |
 | Never thought this will happen to me, but, guess what, IT DID!!! I have accidentally let my drive slip from my hands yesterday with almost a terrabyte size of data on there. Obviously after re-inserting the drive into my hard drive dock, all the funny noises started and my system … |
 | Hello, I have just bought a new NAS ([url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-RND2110-ReadyNAS-Duo-1000GB/dp/B0016KVW96[/url]) and set up two drives in it in RAID1. I connected the NAS via a gigabit connection but the transfer rate won't seem to budge over 30mb/s when reading and tends to get stuck at around 15mb/s when writing. The primary … |
| | Hi, I installed a SATA PCI card (VIA VT 6421A) with a Maxtor DiamondMax 22 500 GB hard drive, and need a little help figuring out how to make my PC boot from this drive. I installed the drivers from the RAID card drivers CD to floppy, and when installing … |
| | hi... my hard drive.. is not working? how can i do?? beacause window... start... and come again in settings.... this posibillity a virs..??? |
| | Hi I recently bought a new hard drive and installed Windows XP ( SP2 ) for the 1st time ( I'd previously used W.98 ). Everything seemed fine until I started to load programs. Nothing starts up when I insert a disc into the DVD drive and when I go … |
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