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 | Can somebody please fill me in on what "Bad Clusters" are? I have an external hard drive that has bad clusters on it. I have tried about everything I could think of to recover them, ran programs, re-formated the drive pulled the partition out and re-loaded everything and it still … |
| | hi guys, please help me out with my SATA hard drive, i accidentally removed the case covering the pins on the hard drive and they are now exposed, am scared of forcing them back on the cover because they are so tiny and fragile. is it even possible to replace …  |
 | If I upgrade to Windows 7, on my home desktop running Vista, will I lose all of my information that is currently on my hard drive? |
| | I have a Sony VAIO PCG-8P1L laptop that only says "OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND" on boot. BIOS still tells the correct time so I don't think its the CMOS battery. I tried to boot to CD (Windows, Ubuntu and diagnostics cd), but I don't get an option for boot order … |
| | Hey, I really hope you can help me on this. Recently I bought a cheap Laptop Toshiba Tecra A4 at Ebay. It was said there is a hard drive defect only...it's not. When I try to switch the laptop on the lamps go on and the DVD drive starts to … |
| | [B]How to format external hard drive to FAT32 in Windows?[/B] <snip> |
| | Ok I am a basic entry level pc tech with no actual schooling so its all self taught. I say this so yall can teach me as we go on th best first steps to take. Lady said she was getting a 2009 antivirus popping up all the time so … |
| | after deleting oem partition on Dell computer,using Diskpart and "delete partition override handle".The space on the hard drive has now diappeared,it can't be seen by or is not seen by Diskpart,Bios or windows management consul.Any ideas how I can access this space and use it  |
| | Using Sonic..My system is Windows XP....It seems to take forever, I am wondering if there is anything I can do to improve the preformance of this? Also at times my fan on the machine runs and the weather is not hot yet.. I am just looking for input on this... … |
| | i am running windows xp media centre sp3 on a p4 machine, this had been working fine up until malware infected it. Took the decision to format the hard drive and install from fresh. I am unable to do the 30 day registration a network connections not allowing a LAN. … |
| | This machine started locking up randomly and even during boot up - then quit booting at all. When powering on, I hear the hard drive activate and a fan like sound running, but nothing else including a blank screen. I noticed the cpu fan not running so I replaced that. … |
| | I recently wiped out my hard drive so I could reinstall everything to start fresh. I was having problems with the RAM running at 100% only when I was online doing simple games. I replaced the video card, I've added memory and even set up page file to try to … |
| | today i received an Intel D865GLC socet 478 with a celeron D processor. I hooked everything up, had it up and running with 1 gig of ram, hard drive, and keyboard. Booted up just fine, I shut it down to install a CDROM, when i went to turn it back … |
| | Hi everyone, Very frustrating for me since I use Norton, I keep my system updated from Microsoft, and I have both AdAware and Malwarebytes on my system, I don't fileshare or go to gaming sites. My IE is now unusable. It immediately gives me popups or shuts it down without …  |
 | I have files and data backed up on a Maxtor external drive from my Windows XP computer. Can I copy this data straight onto a new PC running Windows 7? |
| | I have a G4, dual processor 533 desktop computer. My internal hard drive is experiencing a fatal error therefore I bought a new one (not yet installed). I have the OS disk and my CS3 disk but I don't have the disc for my microsoft office suite. I copied everything … |
| | My MacBook Pro 4,1 doesn't want to load OS (can't find it) and displays the blinking folder with a question mark. I have tried everything I found on the forums. Mac does recognise hdd. I could copy all file from my hdd to remote hdd using terminal. However still every … |
| | so, im working on a friends computer for him... he thought the hard drive was dead... it's fine... anyways, i tried to run a clean XP pro install for him, and during the beginning of the installation, the BSOD (blue screen of death) pops up saying there's a problem with …  |
| | I believe I have got 'bad' virus on my toshiba portege m400, (i.e. not easy to get rid off) from a download. After which my scanning facilities in my antivirus software, Norman were disabled. I have changed virus software to Kaspersky Antivirus but now it will not update properly, the … |
 | Hi, we all know we would love to have more ram or more graphics but if you could decide the specs even if such specs don't exist yet what would they be. So for example, I think my computer with 4GB of ram is terribly slow so below are the …  |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite A135 that will not boot up. This started intermittantly and removing the battery and AC power cord and activating power switch, I could get it going again, but now it won't come on at all. I have all the power lights and the switch light …  |
| | I can't safely remove my External Hard drive: Maxtor OneTouch Mini 4. This has happened a few times, and I used unlocker but i've heard that unlocker now has a secret virus. I also tried downloading it again last week and McAfee said it was a Trojan, and deleted it …  |
| | I would like to find all the "About" files of all programs stored on my hard drive. If you open a program, click on help and select "About". It provides the name, version and date written etc. I would like to extract and store in DB. The store in DB …  |
| | Sony Vaio PCV-7762 desktop My computer died. Kept trying to boot kept going in a circle. Tried the System Recovery CD #1 which was shipped with the computer. I got a blue screen with white letters. "This program could not find a CD-ROM drive or a DVD-ROM drive for your … |
 | Hi everyone. I am trying to write a program that controls access to my hard drive.i.e when this program is running, the specified directory can not be accessed. But first, s there any way one can create a folder using c++? |
| | If you are looking to host hundreds of small websites out of which most of them are static, then which would u consider as your server Intel Xeon 3040 (Dual Core) 1 GB DDR Memory 250 GB Hard Drive 1,500 GB Bandwidth or Intel Xeon 3110 (Dual Core) 4 GB … |
| | Hello, I have wrote a program that reads in words from a text file stored on my hard drive and converts each word into a corresponding code depending on the combination of letters of each word. Now I have two text files that I want to code, one is the …  |
| | Up until recently Google Earth worked fine. Now I get an error when I try to start the program. "The application failed to initialize properly (oxc0000142). Click on OK to terminate the application." I uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. Google earth just will not run any more on this … |
| | I have a Presario V6000 laptop and after driving 600 miles it decided to not boot up. It would get hung up when I tried booting it in any mode. I tried to repair xp with the installation disk, but it said that there was no hard drive detected. I … |
| | Don't know exactly what happned but I'm starting to think my wife killed my pc... long story short... my wife plugged in a the audio cord from my gtx 285 to my clr_cmos pins. Upon booting up she said a screen came up asking which CMOS settings to use and … |
| | I bought a MacBook a while ago and with it came an OS 9 cd, and having lost the cd for the main computer (a G4 tower) i threw the cd into the drive... i couldn't open the OS 9 install program because it required me to open the classic …  |
| | Lately my computer has been getting slower by the day. Attached are images of the 'Processes' tab in the task mgr. Image 1: List of processes sorted by CPU Image 2: List sorted by Memory Usage If you look at image 1, the System Idle Process CPU Usage = 92%. … |
| | I have read the many posts on the site but most assume that you can get past the safe mode screen. I cannot start up in safe mode nor can I used the last known settings. I am running windows XP with SP2 on a Dell Dimension system. What are … |
| | Hi everybody, I'm looking for a way of getting a machine-specific string on windows, something like cpu or hard drive or bios serial #. It has to be implemented in c, not c++. I've already browsed the api quite a lot but I'm not sure (and I don't know windows … |
| | i have kind of the same problem. windows xp hangs randomly. the screen freezes but mouse pointer is still responsive. fan still runs but it seems like hard drive turns off. it is like when computer goes to standby mode but fan and screen are on. i booted windows in …  |
| | I have encountered a serious problem accessing my hard drive and booting up Windows XP. I am running windows XP on a Dell 8400 dimension workstation. I am getting the infamous blue screen of death with the error message 0x0000007B. I suspect that I am a victim of a virus … |
| | Hello. I have a dell latitude D531 series Laptop and it will not boot up at all. There is a blue screen of death with the message of 'unmountable boot volume'. When I boot into windows repair mode, the operating system is not shown. I cannot boot into safe mode. … |
| | I recently purchased a used portable 500gb Buffalo Metro HDD. I attempted to access it and found it had a password on it. I contacted the seller and they don't have it on record. I was wondering if there was any way to reset the password so that I can … |
| | emachine no signal on, turn on shows no sig and goes straight to sleep. computer type emachine T3304 desk top pc AMD sempron 3300+, optic drive DVD/cd-rw, Hard drive 100gb ata, 256mb ddr sdram modem 56k, video nVIDIA Geforce 6100 pci express slot available. this originaly had windows xp. upgraded …  |
 | Okay, here's the scoop. I have a Compaq Presario R3000. I have a virus that infected my UPnP drivers, so I can't regularly use UPnP. Everytime i do, there's a decent chance of getting the blue-screen of death and I don't appreciate that. So. I need to restore the factory … |
| | Hi I am using Vista Home Premium 32bit, last night I had to reformat my hard drive, I got a bad virus, that would not let me download any programs to erase it. I have two drives, 1 is a dvd rw, the other is a cdrom, the dvd says … |
| | [I]Disclaimer: I did post this in the Windows 7 forum, I hope it doesn't break the rules to post it in both since it falls under both topics. Thanks for your understanding.[/I] Hi, hopefully someone can help me with this, since there seems to be dozens of threads similar to … |
| | I'm trying to format my hard drive. I've created a boot disk and changed my bios to boot from a: (yes it's an old pc) when I type format c: /s I get an error "Cannot Format a Network Drive" how do I fix this? RJ |
 | I have a 200GB Hard Drive on my laptop. Recently, I've had lots of weird problems with BSODs (I never got them before), and restarts. Ever since then, I've been getting the "Your hard drive has a problem" dialog.So I cleaned my registry, reinstalled windows, ran chkdsk, but still the … |
| | My laptop will not turn on completely. It powers up but I keep getting this message. IDE #0 Error Intel UNDI, PXE-2.1 (build 082) Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation For Realtek RTL8139(X)/8130/810X PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.13(021015) PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, Check cable PXE-Mof : Exiting PXE Rom Insert System … |
| | I have a 360G ext hard drive which I formatted, partitioned and used to backup both my laptop and desktop aabout a week ago. Now when I plug it in to my same laptop or desktop, neither of them seem to see the drive--tho the laptop makes a sound when … |
| | My Secondary hard drive has disapeared. I can see the drive on Disk Management but it isnt listed under "My Computer" so i thought i would check to see if was showing up a under Disk Management and it shows but the drive states "UNALLOCATED" it also shows up in … |
| | My computer has crashed again!! (for the 3rd time!!) and it says "BOOT DISK ERROR PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK" which I have done...Windows XP....Now its sayin it cant set it up,as it cant find the drivers!!!...help me PLEASE! I'm gonna throw it thru the window soon ! If anyone can … |
| | Recently Decided To Upgrade My Mobo.bought Xfx Nf24 Alh Mobo,athlonxp 2600+ Cpu And 512 Mb Ddr Pc2700. Put Everything Together And .....nothing! The Board Powers Up Ok But I Dont Get Any Screen On My Monitor.the Monitor Is Fine(works With My Old System) The Graphic Cards Both Work (agp And … |
| | I'm trying to fix an ASUS M2N-MX SE Plus AMD2 Socket Board with a AMD Athlon 5200+ CPU. I have reloaded Windows XP Pro Service pack3 which runs all fine until I put a disk in the DVD Burner. (LG Super Multi) on a IDE cable. Orginally I set the … |
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