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Hey ALL ! I have a Thinkpad 600. I bought a new hard drive and RAM. I went to install Windows XP Pro on the hard drive and it won't do it. I have installed this disc on desk tops before and had no problems. While it is " Installing …

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Hi viewers, I was trying to delete a file from my hard drive and I don't really have a good place to start. I googled it and came up with a code derived from multiple sources. I was wondering if anyone could help me out with the code to delete …

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Okay, to start off my system is kind of an experiment on how well a dual hard-drive system performs differently from a single hard drive system. I have a 35 Gb drive that i placed windows vista 64bit on. Now the drive runs at 10k. Opposite that hd i have …

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Hi everyone I have a tough problem, and it seems that I can not resolve this one at all. The speaker icon that is situated near the clock on the task bar, disappeared from there. It is only gone from the task bar, and I can do what ever I …

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On a Dell, after a system crash, I rebooted in safe mode and the starting windows screen hangs and nothing happens, it just keeps saying starting. I restarted in all modes. I rebooted from the windows xp cd-rom and the recovery console does not allow me to type more than …

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I have some questions about virus, Can a virus cause damage to a Hard Drive or Motherboard physically or it only damages a perticular file like system file running in an OPERATING SYSTEM? I hope my question is clear

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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem. Over last couple of days, when I start up computer, it gets to the windows screen, and the blue bar thing just goes round and round, and it never gets into windows. I eventually get it to start up, if …

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Hello...I have a Western Digital 750GB External Hard Drive which has worked for months... Than Ive tried to make a partition and install linux on it...but than after about 5% of formatting i realized i made a mistake and it was deleting my data off of it...i canceled it at …

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I would just like to know.. Refurbished units that .. possibly say have an Intel Quad Core processor, 3GB ram, 300+GB hard drive and costs around 500+.. Would it be better than buying a DELL system unit that has an Intel Core 2 Duo processor about 2.0ghz, 3GB ram, 320GB …

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Hi, If this observation is correct: If two drives (preferably of equal size are set up as a RAID 1 configuration all data is mirrored between the two drives. If an error is detected on one drive the system keeps going with data from the mirrored good sector and the …

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Hi folks, I have a concern about the network icon in my hard drive window. When I open my Hard drive it shows all of my external hard drives but it also shows my Idisc, and a Network icon, I can click on network and get to everything. Is this …

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Hi. Recently I accidentally clicked on a website in google search that locked my Internet Explorer up to a point where it wouldnt close but it kept on executing whatever process it does to infect my computer. The File was called DelSelf.bat I believe. I tried to google it but …

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hello, i am having some major computer issues and I am hoping I can get some assistance. Beware I am not a whiz, but can get around a computer pretty good, so be easy if I am not making an sense or trying to do the unthinkable. I have an …

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I have a HP Pavilion a1510n with a 200GB hard drive and 1024MB of memory and added a 500GB hard drive and have a question. where are songs stored and how many MB equal GB?

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I reformatted my old Maxtor Hard drive (53073U6 - 30gb) with XP following some issues. All of the important data I needed was backed up to a Seagate Barracuda 7200 (120gb). Previously both hard drives were accessible - the Maxtor jumpers set to Master, the Seagate with no jumpers set …

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Hi, Here's the buzz: I've just reinstalled Win Xp Pro sp3, as it'd take longer to fix than to reinstall... Anyways, I can plug any usb stick to any Usb ports, and it's gonna work. But, I can't plug my external hard drive, which worked fine before the reinstallation. Windows …

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Hi, So I got one of these facebook virus's that is going around and now I cant seem to run AVG anymore. The malware I can tell of is Virus Trigger and Security Toolbar 7.1. If anyone can help me get rid of this stuff so I can get a …

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Last night I bought a 160-gig Toshiba external hard drive at Circuit City for backing up my current files and for storage of future downloads. When I plug it in, I get a message that says something to the effect of "this device has exceeded the power limits of its …

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Hi Experts I am using Dell Desktop PC. I Removed my HardDisk and Formatted in some other PC and installed the OS succesfully. But when i am attaching this formatted hard disk to my Dell PC it is saying Hard Drive Not Found. It is working fine in some other …

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Hello Beautiful People of DaniWeb! Recently I re-installed on my PCVRZ54G Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro. I had to change my hard drive and avoid buying new computer. Everything is fine and works well, except, my speakers, I know they work, I've tested them with my DiskMan, my sound card …

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Need help, I had vista running on this samsung hard drive, wanted to add a partition to install ubunto so I could have two operating systems on it, ran norton partition magic on it, and now it is locked, cannot format or partition- or boot. it shows as filled up …

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Hi to my great family at Daniweb ! I bought a cheap laptop to add to a network in my home. It is a Thinkpad 600. When I bought it, it had Windows 98 on it and it ran fine. But, me being a little experimental is the real problem …

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[COLOR="Red"][/COLOR] Yes I have a problem with IE7 and Internet Tools, I run Windows XP PRO and Spybot and AVG. My problem is since installing Spybot after my Hard-Drive was repaired it has blocked my Tools on toolbar and Internet Options on Control Panel, when I click tools it comes …

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When I turn this Laptop on it lights up and you can hear various noises inside coming from the area where the hard drive is situated along with the fan trying but does not actually start, and the CD rom spinning aswell. After these noises the unit switches off and …

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hi Some how I cannot login to my Notebook ThinkPad T42[B][TEX] , I am getting error lsass. exe when I power it on I cannot access to windows to make rescue and recovery CDs , which is in one partiOn of hard drive..... My Q is how Can I make …

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I have a acer laptop, which opperating system is vista home. It was running well for a while, but then would not shut down. I brought the laptop of a friend which was brand new when i got it still in it's packaging. I have had t for 6 weeks …

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Hello all. I am running Windows XP SP2. I got a new Seagate HDD 160GB and was doing a fresh install of XP. Everything was going well during formatting the new hard drive but at around 6% my power went out!!! Now I tried to do the fresh XP install …

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Hi, How do i define the hard drive in [inlinecode]header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=......[/inlinecode] Something like this [inlinecode]header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=C:\MyFolder\file.jpeg); [/inlinecode] Thanks

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my medion w/ windows xp media edition had hard drive failure, we thought, so we took it out and plugged into another pc, we were able to recover everything. and then it failed on that pc . so i thought i just needed a new sata hard drive but was …

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Outlook 2003 is crashing on start up. I am getting the error..."has encountered a problem...". I also cannot start up Internet Explorer and am unable to use a search through the start button to look for files on the hard drive. I get an error right after clicking the search …

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I have conected hard drive from my broken notebook to my new pc. Just want to transfere some folders. Problem : I can not open or copy any folder to my new pc, new hard drive. Folders are locked because i was computers administrator. Please help me somehow

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I'm a PC Repair Tech working for the second time on this Dell Inspiron 6000 Laptop with this problem that never ends. I really hope someone has encountered this problem. I've tried several attempts to repair this problem with no success. So here it is. Help & Support pops up …

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Hello Hope someone can help - I'm new here and having some difficulties with my home network. I have two PCs and want to link them, so both can access an external hard-drive to share music files etc. Machine 1 - Dell Desktop PC, running Windows XP Home Ver 2002 …

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I have been having connection issues with my newly built system. I was able to activate windows and connect to internet but things were running extremely slow (I still have dial-up which made it even worse). Now I can connect but can't open a web page. Modem diagnostics says I …

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I've just migrated from XP to Vista and one issue I can't resolve is why right clicking on large files ( around 20gb - typically hard drive image files ) takes forever - along with a subsequent delete command which then comes up with a dialog box saying it's preparing …

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Good Morning All .. I accidentally spilled some coffe on the keyboard of my HP Pavillion zv6000. The laptop will still boot to the XP login screen but I get alot of beeping like keys have already been pressed. I can't login because the keys won't register. So I know …

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Hi there to my family at DaniWeb !!!! I have a Compaq Presario 5190, Windows XP Home, SP3. When I try to shut the computer down, it just keeps going and going and going ! When I go to START, hit SHUT DOWN, and then OK, it plays the goodbye …

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Hello All! I am having the weirdest problem EVER. The first time i boot my computer every day it freezes. No cntl/alt/dlt, no nothing. just insta freeze. Computer is still running i just cant access it. I am no wiz but I did build this computer a while ago and …

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I was given a Dell Inspiron 1150. It worked for a day and then I updated all Windows security stuff. The friend that gave it to me explained that I needed to fully charge and then fully discharge the battery to get it to last longer. After updating, I rebooted …

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Hi again, I have purchased a new MOBO, An Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus. I have rebuilt system only putting one hard drive, one ram stick, and 1 graphics card in, it posts and reads hardware but, will shut down within a 30-45 seconds.... any ideas Pentium 4 dual core 1gig …

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- I opened the box and cleaned out the fans and inspected motherboard all is good - I checked ACPI power management and on never - I swaped cable for HArd drive - I tried to boot up with diagnostic start up - I swaped the ram - Installed and …

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Hi there to my family at DaniWeb !!!!! I have 2 Dell Optiplex, Windows XP, machines. They are identicle, stand-up desktop machines. #1 I got working by just putting a hard drive in it, woks fine now. #2 needed a hard drive and a processor. I bought a 2.6 MGz …

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i'v been reading over the forum threads and this is almost like hairdrier issue... but from Mal_Patch-3 and Possible_Virut-3 worms... login screen comes up (installed a game with starforce on it, uninstalled game, thats when the worms showed up... stupid russian garbage software) and since i dont have an access …

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hi. Am on my Dad's computer and i can't believe the sluggish nature of this setup. I have the following specs; Windows Vista Dell inspiron 1501 laptop running on wireless application. half a gig RAM mobile amd semprom 1.8 processor it has just taken me 20 mins to go to …

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Ok, so i was a dumbass and decided to do a system recovery. i backed it all up, saved important files to an external disk, and did the recovery. After the recovery, it restarted a couple of times as software was being installed, then it hung for 1 hour. I …

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hi guys!!! am only new here, so I hope I'm in the right spot. :) mods, apologies if this thread is in the wrong forum! I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop and it keeps freezing. so I have to turn the power off then back on (which prompts me …

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I recently built a new computer with the following components: Asus P5Q SE/R LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz LGA 775 processor Crucial 4GB Kit (2GBx2) 240-pin PC2-8500 DDR2-1066 memory 2 Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (Setup with …

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I recently upgraded the RAM on my emachines T2984 to 2 - 1GB sticks of G.Skill DDR PC3200 [URL="http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view.php?id=g_ddr&no=34"]http://newgskill.web-bi.net/bbs/view.php?id=g_ddr&no=34[/URL]. I also recently added a 500GB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135"]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135[/URL] I've noticed a significant decrease in performance even though I doubled the memory I previously had. When I load my …

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About a week ago I made a thread on this forum regarding some virus stuff. It may ormay not be related. Google suggests that I may have possibly gotten a HaxDoor virus, but if I did I don't really have a way of getting rid of it without being able …

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Thanks again for your suggestions, they work. Someone may have access to a Top Secret hard drive via the web. 1-I would like to erase the "XP Startup" line from a Top Secret hard drive. OK, no problem. 2-Then install a new hard drive and put XP on the new …

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