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 | Ever pine away for a car for months, or even years, then when you finally get it—you have buyer’s remorse? You should have taken a test drive. Sure, you say, testing a car with a chatty salesperson next to you isn’t ownership but it does give you an idea of … |
| | I've had a web site for six or seven years now and everything was fine until this morning when I tried to access the site and got an "Unable to connect" error message. I tried accessing my site's files with my ws_ftp program, but I receive two error messages: "Can't … |
| | Hi all, I have a dell inspiron 8100. I was having troubles with it starting. It would boot up and get a screen that said it could not locate a boot device. It would not find the cd rom drive or locate the hard drive. This is after an extended … |
| | help please someone, my laptop acer 2410 first started flickering but when i pushed the screen or moved it, it stopped flickering and worked but it coming back an i repeated the process and sometimes turned it off an it would work. now its gone black screen an nothing i … |
| | Hi I bought a new laptop which came with windows 7 pre-installed. I am supposed to have a 500GB HDD space, but when i view "Computer" which also displays the available size, it says i have 11GB of 40 GB left! but i have a 500GB hard drive. when i … |
| | Hello i am having a problem with my friends computer. When I boot the computer everything seems OK and the windows loading screen comes up, but then it says "Setup is being restarted" then it goes to a blue screen and says "STOP: c00002la fatal system error". There's no valuable …  |
| | mb is getting power...hdd , battery, and power connectewd lights are on and hard drive spins up but no beep code and screen is black.... i've tried new ram but still no boot... removed hdd and used usb cable and accessed hdd on another computer, and it works good....what to … |
| | Hi, a friend of mine is having a weird problem with the icon of his recovery partition (D: drive). The problem is the icon shows up looking like the wireless network setup wizard icon ( in the control panel with the green waves coming from a usb key) instead of … |
| | hi, I use a software called HD-speed to test the speed of my USB hard dirve. when I test the write speed, it destroy the data in my hard dirve. can I restore my data back? I find that the method used by HD_Speed to read/write is the following Win32 … |
 | Hello all, Herein lies a mystery surrounded by mismatched partition sizes, reoccurring chkdsk errors, and a host if suspects (hey, I am trying to add some intrigue so someone will read this!). Anyway, here it is: 2 Physical Hard Drives: Drive 0: Western Digital wd1200jb-75cra0: NTFS, XP SP3 Drive 1: … |
| | I have an HP pavillion and my D:recovery drive is almost full less than 1G available, while my C: Drive still has plenty of space available. I have an external hard drive and copied the entire D: drive to it. My D: is FAT32 and External drive is NTFS will …  |
| | I am running Windows Vista home edition. Recently I think a virus or something has ruined my computer. I can no longer download any program from the web and many of the programs that reside on my hard drive will not function. I am led to believe their is a …  |
| | I purchased a USB to IDE/SATA adapter, successfully removed a corrupt hard drive from a Dell Dimension 2400 running XP Home SP3, connected it to my Laptop via USB, (WinXP Pro) recognized the drive but could not run anything on the drive without the message that the drive could not … |
| | I've tried to find another post with this problem, and can't find one, so here's what I'm dealing with. When I go to c: documents and settings, I have a number of users listed - all the ones you'd expect - plus another one - let's call it "extra" - … |
 | This program uses the Python win32 extension module to get information on disk or flash drives for Windows machines. Specify the drive with its letter. If no drive letter is specified, the current drive is applied.  |
| | I am stumped, I searched everywhere and tried a bunch of things to no avail, so I'm hoping someone would know the answer. I have a pretty old PC with an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard that I’m trying to give a second life to. There are a total of … |
| | I am trying to upgrade my 80GB hard drive in my Dell Inspiron 710M to a 320Gb drive. I used Acronis to clone my old drive to my new drive, but when i install the new drive, it cannot find the drive. I tried different setting when I do the … |
| | I just installed a new motherboard onto my case, got the cpu in, and all the connectors connected (I think?), but the computer won't turn on. hard drive, ram etc, are all installed, I really don't know what to do. please help me. thanks. later then. |
| | Hello all. I was wondering if someone would be able to help me. I have a Maxtor 100 gig external harddrive which isn't being read by windows. Basically, I'll turn it on, I hear it start up and all...but it is just not showing up in My Computer. At first, … |
| | computer started screen was fuzzy , came up to a gray screen wouldn;t boot any further  |
| | I'v done some reading on this site already about similar problems to my own but decided it was best to make my own thread considering i have some different problems from the other users. - My computer shut down by itself the other day and I was thrown into the … |
| | When I boot up, the screen gets stuck on: We apologize for the inconvience, but Windows did not start sucessfully. A recent hardware or software change might have caused this. If your computer stopped responding, restarted unexpectally or was shut down choose last known configuration: choices are: safe mode safe … |
| | Hi All, I hope someone can help me . I run win xp . I have an external hard drive that contains all my I tunes. Recently I recived a code access is denied on that external drive . The drive is working no problmes but I cant acess the …  |
| | An earlier thread asked for an answer on this one, but got an unrelated response. Here is the question, pure and simple: I have a Windows XP operating system. The system was attacked by a ransomware program, and had to be restored. In the process of using a program called … |
| | HELP PLEASE My roommate's laptop stated: Primary hard disk drive 0 not found No bootable devices--strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup utility This problem was so immediate, we don't know what happened. It sounds as if the hard drive may be crashing but I have a rare circumstance. … |
| | Hi, The company I working for, fired its Graphic Designer and he remove all designs sources files and take a copy with himself to exchange them with money in future, Anyway His computer has 2 hard drive one his windows and personal files and the other one to store his … |
 | This has to be the most bizarre excuse for voiding a warranty ever, but according to [URL="http://consumerist.com/5408885/smoking-near-apple-computers-creates-biohazard-voids-warranty"]The Consumerist[/URL] at least two Mac owners have been told their Applecare warranties are no good because they smoke. In both cases, we are told, the Mac owner concerned took the matter up with … |
| | Hello, I am posting because my sony vaio screen is not working. i believe it is an SR and i ordered it about august of 2008. when i turn the computer on, the screen goes white, and then, slowly, vertical very skinny lines start to appear in different colors, but … |
| | Hello Experts! I think I'm finally going to need to reach out for some urgent help... I've been working on removing this malware/virus for a few days and thought I got it. Now I'm seeing my explorer.exe process crash quite frequently. I'm thinking there are still some lingering problems. Any …  |
| | I have gone out and downloaded the driver for The GCC Elite XL 20/1200, I did the download of Elite20Win2K file, unzipped and kept on hard drive, went to control panel to add new printer. all goes well except when it gets to the completeing of the add printer wizard … |
 | Just installed 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium. So far so good. I did a fresh install, reformatted the hard drive, and installed fresh. |
| | ...Even in safe mode. It starts to open and then I get a white screen and it is not responsive Running Outlook 10 on XP machine. I saved the PST to an external hard drive and am thinking of uninstalling Office XP pro and reinstalling. Advice? |
| | Been a little while since i formatted my pc figure i'd get it clean and polish it off during turkey weekend, no problem with the install but when i updated either sp2 or 2.5/3 it bugged out on me. Then i remembered this happened last time I'm using serial ATI … |
| | Hey guys, I got this creepy and freaking anoying freeze lag every minute. I dont have to do anything my computer just freeze once every minute for 1 or maybe 2 seconds each. It's pissing me off and I dont know what to do, help please :( Some system information: … |
| | I have a mini ACER Aspire one laptop. This morning it had a page that said windows did not load properly and start in safe mode, nothing worked. I went and called ACER and the guy told me to go buy an external Hard drive container so that I could …  |
| | Help please, At my wits end with my HP laptop and after it didn't work for the second time after having the motherboard replaced twice, (repair shop's advice), due to strange 'tartan' patterns on the screen, I accidentally deleted my recovery drive. Now, I just wanted to re-format the hard … |
| | Hi Guys I hope my query is a simple one to answer. I use Windows PCs, one runs Windows 7 and one runs Windows Vista. Like everyone with a computer the thought of losing any of my data is a horrible one. I am always doing my best to backup … |
| | Have got vista got told that I had a MBR 3 weeks ago got charged £45 to get rid of it and re-istall my OS last week avg found I had trojans and rootkits on so went back to shop he said comp full of them, only paid £15 and …  |
| | I've beren harassed because my answers don't suit another poster. From Bob_180_Bob #1 Idiot or actor? 1 Day Ago Are you a complete idiot or just acting. Either way you put on a good show. You come up with some of the silliest ideas in your posts and I believe …  |
| | This problem is intermittent to some degree. After booting to desktop, and clicking the Mozilla icon to log-on to home page it will say not found. Sometimes it will log on with no problem. The hard drive activity lite is flashing and the activity lite on the modem like something … |
| | Right, Got my new PC last week, and yesterday i got my copy of WindowsXP 64-bit Edition Upgrade (the trial one). I currently have WinXP Professional. Tried to install it, but the setup won't detect my hard drive. Which is impossible since my PC is working mighty fine as it … |
| | I can see my second hard drive in Device manager but not in 'My Computer' I have been facing this problem for quite sometime. I can see the drive on Disk Management but not on “Mycomputer”. On Disk management the drive States "UNALLOCATED". I've tried everything possible but to no … |
| | Hey guys, I have an idea to take my old 160GB internal HDD from an old desktop, and converting it into an external HDD. And then, I want to partition it into four parts, 40GB each, and install four different distros on it. The reason I want to do this … |
| | I've got to reinstall Windows XP Professional on an HP desktop computer with the original serial number label sticked on the back of the case. I had to reformat it because somebody had the lovely idea to install Windows XP on it with a FAT32 filesystem, so it was full … |
 | I have a Gateway system that has the OS in a protected partition on the hard drive and you use F11 to do a system restore. In the process of recovering from a system crash I lost the functionality of the F11 key during the boot process. Everything is there … |
 | I have a 1 year old dv9920us laptop that is refusing to boot into Windows Vista. The Vista "loading screen" appears, but the marquee doesn't and the laptop is perpetually stuck in this state. I was able to boot into live Linux and access my hard drive form there, so … |
| | I've got two hard drives on my computer and one of them is missing. It's the one where I keep all my music/videos/pictures etc. I can see the shortcut on the desktop but when I click it it says: The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Seagate (G).Ink' refers … |
| | That should be: "[B]Unable[/B] to modify shared files and folders." I am running Active Directory on a Windows Server 2003 Standard (SP2) machine. I added an external hard drive to hold shared files. I didn't have an problem moving the files from their original location on the server's internal HDD. … |
| | I have a tekram TR-621 and trying to get data off of my laptop hard drive. when I plug it up to the USB, I get the yellow light green light comes on for a short instant. no new hardware found comes up and when I go to my computer … |
| | long story short i cannot connect to microsoft or other antivirus/spyware sites. all other sites are ok it seems i visited a site that was under attack and opened a podcast and my computer locked up and after restart it would not work. pretty much just a black screen. i … |
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