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Hey! On my laptop(runs winxp, Acer laptop) I installed nokia pcsuite and tried to start computer again, I was forced to select which way I boot windows because it didn't shutdown correctly it said. I pressed normal then it stucks on the black screen. I tried safe also, stucks on …

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I have a problem with a Sony Vaio laptop that will no longer boot up. Last time it was used, we got the blue screen of death and a message about "dumping physical memory". Now when we try to power-up the machine nothing much happens. The hard drive indicator light …

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Hello all, I am trying to read value from a XML message fragment using C# and I am unable to load and read the document mainly because I don't enough experience working with xml data. I don't have the raw xml document on hard drive, so it is generated from …

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Hello, I need anyone's help. I have been having my computer to freeze up on me during McAfee virus scan lately. I tried to uninstall and re-install it and it still freezes at same location: C:\drivers\audio\R186858\stacgui.cpl. When it freezes I have to do a hard shut down, and when it …

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Hi there, im a novice, im having trouble with a laptop, the hd went and so i got a Fujitsu 60gb SATA replacement but it says it cant find hd. It doesnt have a floppy drive either please help! Thanks Dan

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I needed to get a file off my computer before I left for six months. It is a license file that must be moved using an application. Well the computer came up with an error saying it wouldn't boot to the hard drive. I think it may have said that …

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I'm having some trouble with my girlfriends laptop. It's a dell Latitude D505. the issue is when you turn it on, the hard drive makes this kind of grinding sound and will get to the windows boot screen and will remain there. and when it doesn't do that it sounds …

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how can i determine what type of hard drive to install on a 2001 gateway with intel pentium 4. what manufacturer is recomended

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This is a tough one, when I plug a CORDED device into the front or back of my tower, I get a ding ding sound..The computer DOES recognize the device somewhat, however, the icon does not display. Anything Un Corded works. This occurred with a cord for a cell phone …

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I know this question has been posed before, but I haven't seen a solution yet. I have a home network connected via a 2Wire wireless router. I have a desktop PC running XP Home, a laptop runing XP Home and a laptop running Vista Home Premium. I have a Western …

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Hi, I recently came across something on my hard drive that I have never seen before. Rather than talk myself in circles trying to explain the issue, I will just show you the output from fciv. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C:\Windows\system32>dir *spool* Volume in drive C is Okra Pod1 Volume Serial Number is …

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Hello, I am new here and I have a bit of a problem. It's probably solvable and some of you with more experience will probably be able to help me, and I'd appreciate it! So, I'd like to learn how to make a little tool that I'm making be able …

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This machine connects to the network but cannot access the web at all. I am pretty sure that the issue stems from the recent uninstallation of Cisco VPN and subsequently McAfee. Even before terminating McAfee, the machine would not connect. I have tried all the uninstall tools available for McAfee …

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I have a bios that is a "bad bios" it won't stay where I put it. It changes the boot drive. It changes the video back from pci to the on board graphics. I gave it a new motherboard battery but it didn't care. It's an old E 2100 that …

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Hello, I don't know exactly why, but all of a sudden, my computer shows at the bottom right of the screen that it is not connected to the internet. However, it is connected to the network and the internet. This is odd and I would like it to be fixed. …

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I just got a new CPU, installed drive from old CPU into the machine and it shows up on disk management, but not in 'MY COMPUTER'. I have no access to all my old information there. Old drive is FAT32, new drive is NTFS, both are already formated. Any suggestions?

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Hi Everyone, I am on normal mode at the moment, but usually when this problem first started, I could only go on Safe mode with networking. Right now, I am unable to access my computer and all desktop shortcuts, and several otehr programs. Every time I start my computer up, …

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LSI, three letters that are probably etched on nearly every hard drive controller you've ever owned, as of yesterday emblazon 10 more controllers of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI]SAS[/url], [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA]SATA[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive]SSD[/url] storage devices. On Jan. 19, [url=http://lsi.com/]the company[/url] unveiled a series of new RAID controllers and host bus adapters that double the bandwidth …

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I have a laptop that has been through hell and back recently. Long story short, my HDD crashed last month and I bought a brand new one to replace the now dead one. I lost everything and was unable to recover anything. I had a bit of trouble installing the …

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Ok, i snapped of little usb port on the hard drive so now, i can't attach a usb cable to it. I tried opening up the hard drive and thought i could connect it to my computer using SATA cables, but however it doesn't seem to have any place i …

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I have a sony vgn s-260 that i replaced the hard drive. It will power up, the cd drive turns but then everything stops. I get no start up of the screen. For a while it seemed if i pressed f8 while it was starting i could get it going …

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Hello All, I have a huge problem. For no apparent reason my PC crashed with the dreaded BSOD. My problem is i cannot get into windows to at least back up my files before restoring my PC. Any suggestions?. Retrieving some data from the hard drive is vital as i …

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My SmartDisk FireLite 60 GB Hard drive works with my mac laptop but is read-only on other mac computers. Is there any way to change to allow all computers to read/write?

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Hello All, Below is an issue I am having. I have a large home that I have now run cat5 to a second wireless router downstairs in an attempt to get my living room pc to be able to access the internet and files on my home pc. The home …

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I can not start my desktop. It is a 2-3 year old Dell with XP home on it5. For the last week or so, I was getting a message about my page file not being found or big enough. zLast night when I tried to start my desktop, all I …

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hey i got a second hand computer with windows xp on it but and no recovery disk :(.....i think there something wrong with the hard drive because everytime i boot it up it come up with error message ..a disk read error occured press ctrl+alt+delete to restart so i thought …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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I have a dell ins 1501 recently upgraded to 320 gb hard drive. used the old hard drive to load windows xp on so I can use some older programs that I have. Problem is that my laptop won't boot the xp system. Tells me I have a fatal error. …

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Imation Apollo 320 gb hard disk was fine..suddenly, the system reads it..shows occupied space but no file is accesible USBCP[æ . THIS NAME APPEARS alongwith a shortcut icon to D drive..PLEASE HELP..!!!!

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as i look inside me eeepc i notice something different. this is the first one i have opened and the hard drive is in between the motherboard and another circuit board that the HDD is attached to and connected by a zif ribbob (or cable. whatever). what i cant figure …

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I have a Dell Dimension 2400 and I installed the hard drive put the pin in the master slot and everything. But when I go to setup it says the master drive isn't recognized. What can I do to fix it, or can I fix it at all

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I have a Compaq Armada M700 laptop (Windows XP) with one usb port in the back of the computer. If I plug my external HDD (Toshiba 160 gig) into it directly, it will work perfectly fine, no problems. However, I also have a Wacom tablet which I'd like to be …

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Hey, so at my high school, they just got a lot of new windows 7 machines with 8GB of ram and Intel 2.6GHz quad core processors and 1TB hard drives, but they keep randomly crashing. A few of them, some kids hit the power cables and now they won't start …

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hi i disabled my display properties disabled on my computer it the monitor screen an now the screen is black an it not a virus at all i really need help with this one i can see the the mouse at all so how can i get back to the …

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I put my computer into a closed cabinet with holes and it heated up during operation for a few minutes but when i went to restart computer the monitor did nothing. The light stayed orange. I turned monitor off and back on and the light turned green for a few …

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I'm having trouble getting the program to loop back to the menu once I have created a new computer/customer. Once I figure it out I can do it for all the functions in the menu. This program is not yet complete but any guidance as to why my program won't …

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Hi to All i have a datagrid and i want to bind it with array i will bind it but how to store data in to array means i want to write code to get the file name which is in specific folder in hard drive and i want to …

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Hi, I have an old dell 500m with an intel 855 graphics card that still works very well..at least until a few days. .. some days ago I had to erase the hard drive and install the winxp again and after that I update several drivers to have the lasted …

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Hi, I'm sort of new here. I'm not really laptop smart but I know a little about computers. However, This is my question. Can I remove the hard drive from my laptop, then format it, reinstall my windows then reconnect my hard drive? Is this even possible or does the …

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Get black screen which reads Internal HDD HARD error,press F1 ands reads,No bootable devices,,Bad motherboard? Has new hard drive,thanks for any info

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Can I install a 64 bit Windows 7 on a computer that currently has a 32 bit version of Vista? I think that my hardware can handle a 64 bit Operating System. I tried to install a 64 bit version of Windows 7 but the installation program checked my current …

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I got a warning alert from my AVG anti virus software the other day. It listed some cookies that were in a directory that doesn't exist on my hard drive. None of the AVG option took care of the warnings and every time I boot my computer I get the …

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1. My adult daughter’s Toshiba Satellite computer started acting strangely lately. At first only rarely, but finally almost every time it was used, it kept popping up a dialog box purporting to show “search results” even though none had been asked for. Closing the box merely brought up another one, …

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hey all, i have a project that is like a server and a terminal interface. the server is the one that can only make changes in the database and the terminal is more of storing what is in the database. here is the problem, i have stored a PDF file …

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My HP Pavilion Desktop started acting weird. The screen started distorting ( like bad tv reception). And then started to freeze up and completely crash down. Upon reboot an error message popped up saying "hard-drive failure is imminent, please back up blah blah blah...." Later, the hard-drive just didn't boot …

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Hi, I have installed XP Pro onto drive C and intend to use drive D for data. Is there a way to hide drive C from users in order to ensure that anything saved is saved to D. Thanks

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Hello, I'm new. I came across this site while searching for solutions to my problem. You guys seem to know your stuff so I'm hoping you can help me as no one else can. I bought a Fujitsu Siemens L7320 from eBay. It had a smashed screen and no hard …

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Hi there, Specs: Athlon 2400+, 256DDR, mobo MSI KT4AV, WDC 60gb hard drive I was recently infected by a program that put an icon called sexdial on my desktop. This seemed to cause an advert for a casino to pop up every 20 minutes or so (and still tried, but …

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My explorer.exe crashes a couple of times and hour. I have no idea how to fix it. This is my Hijack This report. Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 8:46:56 PM, on 1/5/2010 Platform: Windows Vista SP2 (WinNT 6.00.1906) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18865) Boot mode: Normal …

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Hi ra, Recently I downloaded Windows Server 2003 Ent. Edition from the microsoft website, and during installation it is giving me errors like bootvid.dll, kdcom.dll, c_1252.nls.... files are missing and couldn't install the operating system, could you please guide us what could have been the problem. I am trying to …

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