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I have been turning my USB thumb drives into fully encrypted data containers for years now, but readily admit that the prospect of rolling up your sleeves and getting down and dirty with encryption software is not as exciting to everyone as it is to me. However, with removable USB …

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I had to map a network drive with specific credentials in my PHP script and it kept falling over because I'd already navigated to the drive in windows explorer. This snippet will unmap a network drive using COM regardless of whether or not there is a drive letter associated with …

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I'm using Windows XP, and I have a Hitachi 2TB drive that I disconnected earlier today. When I reconnected the USB cable I heard it come on, but the prompt asking how I want to open the drive did not. When I checked My Computer it was no longer named …

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Hello all, can someone please help me, a year and a couple hundred Euro later still have my problem. Internet explorer keeps opening by itself - up to a hundred pages, all to the home page. I have had people look at re-formatted the harddrive several times and nothing. Have …

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I bought a new 3TB Seagate Desktop internal hard drive and wanted to add it to my hard drive that's already installed but my computer won't recognize it. Please help!

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Hi. My Mac's hard drive recently crashed and everything is wiped out. I have a new hard disk now. My question is: How do I transfer data from my iPhone... back to my Mac? I would like to transfer data from my iCal, iTunes, iPhotos, SMS and contacts. Would appreciate …

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Please help me I think I am going crazy. I am building a comuter, I have everything setup and when I try to boot windows from a CD, I keep getting the same error PXE-E61: Media test failure, Check cable. PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE-ROM Boot failure: System Halted I have …

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I wanna align my partition, but I am a computer fresh man.My friend helped me download one software called Partition Star. I don't know which step make in alignment failed in the process of operation.

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Hey, just somehow trashed some reallly important files and the emptied trash. From what I understand, these files are still on my hard drive but I don't know how to recover or restore them. I really need some help, gotta get these files back...

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hi, Is there any way that one can access the contents in a usb pen drive via command prompt on Windows XP? Any commands for that? I have my usb 2 gb pen drive named F and hard drive as C. Please reply and thanks..

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I have no knowladge of partition managment but I download a software named partition star to help me. Does anyone have any other suggestion for me? I mean , another software

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Hello everyone I am facing a problem that I have never encountered before and googling around just isn't helping. I was assigned to migrate a pmWiki server to a new MediaWiki server which was supposed to run as a virtual machine on a Red Hat Cluster Suite. My coworker and …

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My laptop won't boot, doesn't POST and am trying to see if it's terminal or prohibitively repairable. When powering up, it whirs, the fan starts and a few seconds later ( between 3 & 10) it shuts down never reaching the onscreen COMPAQ logo. Happened after a restart when I …

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I have a very simple question. Can you run games off of an external hard drive. I play World of Warcraft and many other games. My computer, which is a laptop, only has 40gb of space. I don't have anymore room for patches or anything else. So I was wondering …

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Hi all, a friend of mine had some problems with her laptop and she asked me to look at it. I have formatted the hard drive and I am in the process of reinstall windows xp on it - I don't know the specs of the laptop because I dont' …

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I dropped my inspiron 1150 (windows xp home, pentium 4), and after much fiddling with it and a $40 call to Dell, ended up needing a new hard drive. Before I installed the new drive, on boot up it would go to the Dell logo, and even let me reinstall …

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I had purchased a Netgear Stora for back up and after a year the fan went out so now the device won't start. I took out the HDD (Seagate 1TB 3") and purchased a Dynex enclosure so that I am able to access the disk. Win7 installs the driver and …

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Hi, I am planning to build a budget gaming PC with the price limit of roughly ÂŁ400. I have found a group of components that add up to make roughly ÂŁ350 and I was wondering whether these components are worth there money, if it will be good enough to play …

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my hard disk is crashed by some resone and i want to recover a folder from it how can i recover it plz help me that folder is very imp for me

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for the past few days i have been unable to make my optical drive read discs or do anything other than cause the computer to freeze. i have tried the drive with multiple different sata cables and in another computer, the drive works fine on the other computer but is …

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Hi I'm wanting to replace the hdd in this laptop with a much larger 750gb-1tb drive. The only dimensions I can find for the Vaio hdd is that it's 2.5" 6.35cm sata 1 8mb buffer 5400rpm. Am I ok to replace it with pretty much any other 2.5 form factor …

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Heya. I brought a desktop almost two weeks ago sortof for entertainment purposes and have loaded FS2004, The Sims 2 inc. expansion packs Apartment Life + Bon Voyage and also Simcity4, and everytime I try to play the games, within the first few minutes, it crashes. i.e screeching noise followed …

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Hello. I have just purchased a Lexar JumpDrive S50 32 gigs and I am having trouble accessing the USB. The USB shows up in the my computer window with a grayed out icon and when I double click it it states "Please insert a drive". The same statement is displayed …

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im using suse linux wen im erasing tape contents it takes nearly one day to complete... i think tape s empty always... but wen i use this command, im getting msg wat i showed below ncp:~ # mt -f /dev/st0 status drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape drive status = …

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I have about 700-800 gb of data and i seem to acquire more every day. I currently use a solution of 2 external hard drives which each hold a complete copy of my data. I use one, regularly accessing the data (playing mp3s and videos mostly) and the other sits …

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Guys and Gals, I am going to replace a 40GB hard Drive with a 160GB. I want to allocate certain amounts of space (Partitions) for different things, I:E Windows XP, Data, Pictures, Documents etc. Can anyone that has done this shed any light as what to avoid or what to …

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If anyone knows any tricks to getting a toshiba portable drive recognized by PC running win 7 64 bit, I'd appreciate any help. I've got important data that I assumed I'd be able to retrieve, Toshiba-a company I had heretofore respected-offers no help through official channels

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Hello. I have a dard disk seagate 320 gb. It showing in device manager under the disk drives and it says that the drivers are all ok. But when i click on disk managment it is not showing. Also it is not detected my bios. I have tried some softwares …

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Hello guys, I need to find out what is my drive's serial number under win XP. I know that there are one serial number from manufacturer (real hard drive) and serial numbers generated by windows. I know that if disk is partitioned into more partitions that each partition will have …

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Hello everyone, I would like to use HP's system recovery (F11 on boot menu, not the windows application) to revert my laptop to its factory state. The thing is that i have created a disk partition to keep my data which wasn't present by default. Will the recovery delete my …

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Hey guys i really want to start playing wow and we are getting internet again soon. I already bought the game and expansions but my computer doesn't have enoughspace so im going to download the game on a usb or external hard drive and idk what to get...does anyone know …

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I currently have a harddrive for my PC with runs windows 7. I am going to buy a whole new system though, including mobo, cpu, gpu, ssd, and everything but a case, Hard Drive, and DVD Drive. I was wondering... Is it possible for me to instal windows 7 on …

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I have an Acer 1ghz computer. I installed a new 160 gig hard drive and the computer says that there is no hard drive in system. Please help

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Hello. I have a app designed to organize dir’s on on the C drive where it was created. XML is extensively used in the business logic and house cleaning etc. public static final String USERHOMEDIR = System.getProperty("user.home", "."); <linkPath> C:\Users\Steves\Documents\.targetGuide\admin_\admin\Note Folder\test\c drive test tab\index </linkPath> public static final String USERHOMEDIR …

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So, I was trying to do two things at once and it went badly: I was just setting up a new HDD with Window7 on it, next to an old HDD with windows xp on it. I decided to shrink the XP drive and split it into tooto give both …

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hello , i have facility to connect map drive in windows in my collage . but now when switched to linux(FEDORA) i can not found the option for map network drive ? can yo pls tell me how to connect map drive in linux(fedor and ubantu - specifically).?

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Hello all, I have important files on my flash drive, and now i have discovered it is broken. I dont know what has caused it, and on none of the machines i've tested, did it show up at all. I'm guessing this means that the usb part of the device …

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Greetings! 1) What is the switchboard PCA for? (Please?) 2) How do I tell the difference between a keyboard problem and a screen problem? Compaq 2570US. Original everything (as far as I know). Troubleshooting: When powered up, I hear the fan for a few. If I press lots of keys, …

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Hi everyone, I'm in the middle of a project, and I've been asked to partition the letter where Oracle is going to be installed. This is my first time doing any kind of partition, can someone help me. Thanks

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hey i'm using windows 7..since last 2 days my D: drive has been filling up space itself..i deleted some files and created 2GB free space..but again that space is automatically filled up..my D: drive has total 90GB allocated to it..but all the files stored in it make only 87GB..so i'm …

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Hi All Just wondering if you can pls help with a problem with my PC. I have Windows XP and I turned on my computer this morning and receieved the following messages: Load in ASUS Express Gate P50 Motherboard Reboot - Select Proper Boot Device However when I reboot I …

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hello I don't get where my linux space is gone. when i run df -h, it shows used 15 GB of total 20 GB when I run ncdu program, to find what takes, I do sudo ncdu in my root directory. And I see sorted by size directories: 4.7GB home …

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Chaps, just bought a Hard drive docking station for my 3.5" Hard Drive. This can be used for all sort of things, 3.5, 2.5, SD, USB etc etc, you can see it in the first picture ![6d7dc6ccb7cbf1014d447a842a474237](/attachments/large/2/6d7dc6ccb7cbf1014d447a842a474237.jpg "6d7dc6ccb7cbf1014d447a842a474237") At the bottom there is a button that has allegedly something to …

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Hi I meet a problem I bought a **WD HDD** (WD2500AAKX) with **SATA3** connection but my **motherboard chipset** only supports **SATA1**. The question is: how to set **jumpers** and to slow down speed at 1.5 Gbps? On the HDD is saying that Jumper on Pin 5-6 slow down to 3 …

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I still don't know how this happened (even after I fixed it). Maybe someone else can enlighten me. I have a multi-partition setup with grub2 as my bootloader. I restart my computer and it fails to POST ?!?!?!?! (black screen and freeze with NO feedback) I remove the battery for …

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My programs objective is to mkdir and ope dir. if I ever get it jarred up I would like to run it from a jump drive. [code] public static final String USERHOMEDIR = System.getProperty("user.home", "."); [/code] clearly this code will not be valid any more. Could this USERHOMEDIR be replaced …

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The Internationale Funkausstellung is not a jazz-fusion music event. Nope, the [URL="http:// www.ifa-berlin.com"]IFA[/URL] is apparently the world’s largest consumer electronics show these days, and it runs until 6th September in Berlin. Once over the disappointment that the only music was Muzak-alike piped hell, the race was on to discover the …

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I have not turned on my laptop for about 2 months because I didnt have a charger, i charged it last night and it wouldnt turn on, even the fan wasnt running just the power light and the hard drive light blinking rapidly I thougth it was because the battery …

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