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| | I bought a used gateway mt6840 laptop for dirt cheap off of Craiglist. And low and behold 3 weeks later the hard drive crashes. I'm in the process of getting a new hard drive, but, have some questions about the SATA connections. Can I install a hard drive with a … |
| | I just got done building a computer for the first time and every thing went smooth untill i plugged in every thing connected the moniter and then turned it on. the one quite significant mishap that i managed to have is, nothing will respond onn my moniter.The screeen will light … |
| | hello everybody , i wish i am on the right thread : here is my problem . i recentlty purchased an 80 GB second hand drive seagate model:ST380021A . when i first instlled it, it was recognized on the black screen as having 80 gb .i clicked on F1 to … |
| | Hi there, this is my first python project. I'm new to python but I have experience in a few other languages. I'm trying to export (to mysql) a list of files and subdirectories from several directories on my hard drive. Basically just so I can have an online database of … |
| | Hello, I'm still fairly new at shell scripting, can someone please show me how I would go about accomplishing a script to tackle these tasks? I've got a server setup. I want to find duplicate files that are taking up all the space on the hard drive. I want to … |
| | Hi, I am trying to log information from my application to memory. I have achieved this using the MemoryHandler Object. However, upon command I need to be able to write this to a log file on the hard drive. I would like the file to be 10 MB, so that … |
| | Hello Family ! I have a Dell Dimension E310, with an 80GB Samsung hard drive in it. It had/has Windows Media Center on it. The hard drive went bad and gave me the error that said.... Loading PBR for descriptor 2.....Done Bad PBR. I replaced the hard drive with an …  |
| | Hello everyone. I've looked at posts that had a similar problem with booting their computer, but I think my problem is a bit different. Please bear with me as I try to describe my issue in a caveman manner. I was in the middle of watching a movie online, and … |
| | Hello, I got my friends laptop which is running Windows XP Home (Edition) not very good specs but that ain't what I'm here to talk about... When you boot up the laptop, it boots up normally no boot errors whatsoever though the problem starts as soon as you see the … |
| | I am trying to fix a HP Pavillion 521N computer. It was working fine until one day the computer said that there was no boot device. Fine, I removed the hard drive and put it on USB controller and ran check disk on another computer. It found several problems and … |
| | please i need ur help. i have a dell laptop with vista os. but i want to load server 2003 on it, so i can use it for practical purposes. i have an installaation cd for the vista which i can always use back to load when am through. please …  |
| | I just switched out my old hard drive and ram from my laptop for an upgrade but now my screen is black. When I power it up the power light comes on and you can hear the drive starting to spin but that as far as it goes. When I … |
| | Hi, I'm actually new to this site and haven't posted here before, so I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right area, but I have a problem that I have been trying to fix for awhile. I have an 500GB SimpleTech PininFarina external hard drive and whenever I try … |
| | So my girlfriends dell is falling apart. First her screen is dead (figuring that one out) Then she had this screaming noise going on (figuring that one out) But while trying to figure that out I took her harddrive out and put it into an external casing to isolate it … |
| | I bought this laptop from a friend of a friend about six month ago, it was runnig good, but some how got corrupted and I thought that by formating the hard drive would help. My friend gave me the system password and the hard drive password but forgot to give … |
| | Hello, After it was repaired my SONY VAIO laptop has no sound at all. I updated the driver, downloaded the Service pack, adjusted the volume levels and still no luck. Please help. Here is my Belarc profile: Computer Profile Summary Computer Name: 934ec0b9d0ff49a (in WORKGROUP) Profile Date: 16 Юли 2009 …  |
| | Hello Daniweb, long time no posting. I recently assembled the computer, and installed Windows 7, and after restarting it hangs at the "Verifying Data Pool..." and with an OS CD, it hangs at the "cd/dvd boot" screen. Gigabyte EX58-UD3R, Rev 1.6 Intel i7 920, 2.67Ghz, D0 Stepping OCZ Gold 6Gbs … |
| | My dad has been having some issues installing winxp and having it work correctly. His motherboard is a p4p800 asus and when his ide drive went kaput he switched to a SATA. Ever since then its been reinstall after reinstall. Some things ive learned through research id like to get … |
| | Hello! I need alot of help with cleaning up this hard drive, Its a friend that said he needed some help with cleaning up his computer so i brought it over to my house and to my suprise it barely even starts up. (at first it did not) so i … |
| | A friend of mine has a HP pavillion 700 that just won't boot. When I turn it on, it won't post and the monitor isn't getting any type of signal. [I]The system is an Athlon XP, ASUS A7N8X-LA MB with 256 MB PC2700 RAM, built in audio, video & LAN.[/I] … |
| | I accidentally left my Emac 1.25GHz on for a few days and when I returned, I couldn't get it to return from sleep mode. So I powered it down with the power button and when I turned it on again, the front power light came on, I heard the familiar … |
| | I'd be grateful if anyone could help. I have a 3yr old dell inspiron 8000. Couple of days ago, internet explorer froze, so switch laptop off by pressing power off button, This usually works, but this time scan diskdidn't work. Ran Dell diagnostics which reported a few ?disk areas were … |
| | My laptop is Gateway MX8716B PA6A. After pressing power button blue led blinks and nothing happen. Ive tried to take out the battery and start on ac adapter and it wont start too. Ive tried also to take out battery and wait few hours, taking out the hard drive.. What … |
| | Hi there, my Acer Aspire 6920 running on Vista has definately been the victim of a virus & for the life of me, without reinstalling & wiping my hard drive, can I figure a way around it. It keeps crashing & pausing. When I restart it occasionally goes to Acer … |
| | I'm formatting and setting up the partitions in a 500GB harddrive. Its not really going to be partitioned but I believe I need to leave a certain amount for the logical part of the harddrive? what sizes are best to use in this case? i'll be running windows xp pro … |
| | I have a HP Presario desktop with Vista. I have replaced the hard drive and get the following message after completion on the software: PXE-E61 Media Tet failure check cables Any suggestions? |
| | Dear All, (Firstly, allow me to apologise for being yet another ignorant "Average Joe" who has never contributed anything to a tech forum in my life, yet comes here crying for help when something goes badly wrong - I have sworn that I will donate to this forum if somebody … |
| | I’m trying to recover .jpg and mvi files that were deleted from my hard drive a while ago. They were created from about November 2006 to November 2007. They will be in sub-folders within a specific folder in the root drive. The hard drive is a Samsung SP1644N - capacity … |
| | Hi, I wonder if anyone can shed a little light on the problem I'm having. Came to start up the laptop this morning and was presented with a very strange display of lines and an attempt at the HP start up logo. The whole screen was a mess of lines … |
| | I had a hard drive crash and stupid me haven't made backups for at least a year. I had several projects for which I used Delphi 5 and have lost all the code. Is there any way of getting the code back by un compiling the exe file?  |
| | The moment I thought that Windows update's going to keep my system running smooth, I made my decision to run Windows update. The problem is when I found out that some of windows updates have failed, i let it off, since there was not much space......believe it or not...it ate … |
| | source: [URL="http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Repair-Broken-LCD-Laptop-Monitors&id=2395996"]http://ezinearticles.com/?How-to-Repair-Broken-LCD-Laptop-Monitors&id=2395996[/URL] [QUOTE]Whether you need computer repair in Ithaca, or anywhere around the world, if you own a laptop or an external flatpanel monitor, then you have probably run into some problems with the liquid crystal display. If you haven't yet, then you probably will. LCD problems are definitely the … |
| | Crap, I spelled "advice" wrong. Won't be my first, nor last, error today. First, apologies for breaking the rules right off the bat. I don't have my notes or the dead Shiba at this house - I'm moving. I searched through the threads, and found some promising leads for download … |
| | hi. i have a hard drive that had been working. today i opened it up and only saw 3 nonsensical files and all my files are gone. the drive indicator still says that the files are in there because the "free space" left is quite small. is there anyway i … |
 | Hay Guys, I have some Vista Horror I’m trying to deal with and I wonder if you might be able to help. My friend has just got a new HP a6724c desktop computer with vista installed straight from the factory. He's had it literally for 2 days and then boot … |
| | I have a ECS RC410-M Rev 1.1 motherboard running a Pentium D 945 3.4 ghz processor, it has ran well for over six months, now everytime I connect a USB device that is 2.0 it connects at 2.0 high speed, but after a short time of use it reverts back … |
| | Anyone know of a automated (does not have to be easy) system to run various virus scans against an infected machine? I was thinking of virtualizing the infected disk and then running some virtualized systems with anti malware loaded on them against it. Just an Idea I am kicking around..... |
| | :) Hi all. I noticed today when I went to change my desktop picture that I was unable to open my display properties (either by right clicking on my desktop or through control panel). After doing some reading on the subject, I checked out my registry. None of the keys … |
| | I would appreciate anyone who can help me with my installation problem. Back in January 2001, I ordered a Dell desktop computer with XP Home on it. This was only a couple of months after XP was launched I believe. In any case, the installation CD had no service packs … |
| | ive purchased a laptop from a friend of a friend. he brought a newer and better one. the laptop, p4 2.8g 512RAM XP Home Ed 60g HD, i checked the manufacturer and believe that i got a pretty good deal. until i ran into this problem. once in awhile when … |
| | I have an (ancient) HP Pavilion 7840 with a Cognac Motherboard (200731). Windows Xp was installed by someone after market and has never run properly. I found where HP shows the bios should be 3.07 and what was installed was 4.06 so I set the bios to hp specs. Using … |
| | My Hp Media Center computer will not boot up. It will not go into setup,recover or reboot from the recovery discs. It just freezes up at the start screen. Does this mean my hard drive has died or I have another problem. I have considered getting another hard drive to … |
| | Hey guys ... posting here after replacing intel e6600 cpu and P5N32-E SLI motherboard in attempt to get this homebuilt rig to light up the monitor, keyboard and mouse. Was getting a message in BIOS "cpu has changed" ... this problem (the harddrive seems to fire up but now the … |
| | A friend's T3958 EMachine stopped working. Have tried replacing the battery. Tried replacing the hard drive (duh!). I see a green light on the motherboard and I hear a slight windy sound coming out of the case when I plug the system in. If it's the power supply, I am … |
| | I've been trying to delete some programs that i dont use i managed to delete almost all on em but i still had only 1/4 of my hard drive free so I found a folder in C:\Documents and Settings\.user-ZFG7ZFI280\My Documents and I found there same files that i had in … |
| | I have a Lacie external hard drive which I've used with my Compaq 1015v and XP home. This week I bought an HP G7000 latop for my wife and replaced Visa with XP though the process is ongoing. But the new laptop won't recognise the Lacie. |
| | Problem: Lost password for user logon to Windows Vista. Would like alternatives to try (already followed the standard procedures and they didn't work). Failing that, I would probably have to install (fresh) Windows Vista Home Premium. What must I do to prepare the hard drive? Reformat? If so, how? Thanks … |
| | Hellow Daniweb !! I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop that has given me fits when it comes to trying to install a Windows XP Home Edition on a new hard drive. I have the original installation disc that came with the computer. I have a new hard drive which …  |
 | Here's one for all you Windows Tweakers. :) 99% of the time when I open a IE window, I am going to some page other than my default homepage. I never just go to the same page ALL the time, so I always open the window, click on stop, and … |
| | Hi I'm an educated novice at computer problems. I'm having a problem booting to safe mode. Hard drive started not recognizing boot file-NTLDR- now I can't get safe mode to initialize. All help greatly welcome. Thanks D4100 |
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