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| | Dear friends. I have been using an external hard drive for over several months now to back up my files, till one day i discovered the stored files could not be accessed, for reasons only known to the computer. It does store still, it seems to me; but i could … |
 | Hello. I have a Macbook with OS 10.5 . I Have an external drive that holds all my music over 47,000 songs. And I just recently had to put them all back into my library because I needed to clean up my Itunes (Duplicates started to form and things had … |
| | PLEASE HELP!! I put a memory stick into my ScanDisk 14 in 1 reader. iPhoto was already open but crashed when the card was inserted, before choosing to import the photos. I force-quit iPhoto, and removed the card from the drive. And now there are no longer photos on the … |
| | when I try to enter the C: root, it goes to C: \ Users \ PC1> so I've tried pressing E: so it goes to E:> when I saw press C: so it goes to C: \ Users \ PC1> again, it has worked until today, but now it does …  |
| | Hi guys and gals,I just want to know if all these parts are Compatible Parts and will fit in the case.Here are the specs: Case:Rosewill CHALLENGER-U3 ATX Mid Tower computer case. Motherboard:Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard CPU:AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 Black Edition … |
| | I have recently lost my hard drive with all my music on it, but still have music on my iPhone. Im wanting to know how to transfer the iPhone music back onto my PC. Any ideas would be helpfull......... |
| | Recently while watching a show online in bed my laptop decided that it had enough of this world and threw itself off the nightstand. Upon trying to turn the laptop back on after a few minutes I get the error of either some wires came unblocked or faulty hardware and … |
 | I am configuring two laptops for family members. I have been doing this for so many years (work and home) that perhaps I do it a certain way more out of inertia than any other reason. I'm going to describe my config system and if anyone has any opinions (for … |
 | good day guys. I would like to ask if it is possible to repair a computer with an existing XP with sp2 installed with an XP sp3 installation disk? i have trouble with my laptop this past days and i just want to repair it without formatting the hard drive …  |
| | I'm having a problem with transfering an .rar file containing an .iso from my School's laptop to my USB. I try to move it and it says either "You do not have the appropiate permissions" or "Your divice dosen't have enough storage" . Now, before you answer, I can't: *Right …  |
| | I have an odd problem with a Java-based Internet program that I would like to use on a regular basis on my Windows XP computer. I have not done Java programming, so I would be interested to know if anyone has ideas about what might be happening. The program runs … |
| | Sorry for the non-specific title. I'll try and elaborate more here. I went over the 'MY PC Won't Start' sticky, and did a search for other titles, but my problem seems to fall in-between troubleshooting steps that I see. By that I mean, when I hit the power button on … |
| | Was on my lap top when smoke started to come out of it.It turns on just for a second.. I am worrried it is the hard drive.i have a hp Pavilion Entertainment pc dv5. |
 | Hi everyone, I had an issue today with my hard disk(internal hard drive). I was trying to partition the C drive.Eventually, I successfully paritioned it then I was asked a question then I pressed yes. Here is the problem. Everything changed from primary partition to simple volume. I was not …  |
| | Yesterday I received a blue screen while working. After a reboot, it now freezes each time on the Windows logo, and then throws a "Unexpected I/O" error. As a last resort, I boot from the Windows 7 DVD, and it froze on the "Loading Windows Files" progress bar, and promptly … |
| | I need some major help with recovered files. Quite a while ago my son connected my external hard drive to his xBox and at the advice of my father (lol) he hit the "configure" button and everything was lost. (All this because my son did not want to disconnect the … |
| | Okay, so I'm working on this system for a friend of the family. There were ALOT of things wrong with this... but that's besides the point. Basically, I'm trying to figure out why it's running so slow. I've completely disassebled everything in the system, cleaned, dusted, reapplied thermal compound to … |
| | I'm running a refurbished Gateway PC, Windows 7, KDS flatscreen LCD monitor, graphics adapter is an Intel G45/43 Express chipset. My problem is quite simple. At random intervals ranging from a few seconds to nearly twenty minutes, regardless of what I'm doing or if I'm doing nothing at all, my … |
| | i have an external hard drive which i have partitioned. since then i have done virus scan and defragmentation on it. recently i have found part of the f drive (160gb) the write or read is stuck on part of it. so what do i do? do i `have` to …  |
| | I have a compaq CQ60 104TU laptop, my previous harddrive crashed and i has an external 500GB hardrive lying around. So, I opened it up and took the Harddrive out and inserted into my laptop. When I am trying to load windows into it I get the error **Windows cannot … |
| | Hi Everyone, I would really appreciate some help on this. I'm a web project manager - and the machine mgmt gave me has pretty much given up completely. It only works in Safe Mode - luckily Safe Mode with networking so I am able to get online. I have backed … |
| | I'm having problems with a Toshiba Satellite A305-S. The AC converter that is 19v/3.95A doesn't even bring the charging light on. I have tried a Toshiba 19v/3.42A converter. It brings on the charging light, momentarily tries to bring the hard drive on and runs the fan. The monitor stays black … |
 | Acer Aspire, wearing Win7, everythings' current, etc. factory hardware - nothing remarkable. 250GB hard drive. 68 % free space still. I have a heap (more than 35,000) photos spread all over this thing in such nasty order. Some are work related, most are one grandchild or another or family set, … |
| | I saved my files and settings from a previous installation of windows 7 to an external hard drive using windows easy transfer. Now when I try to transfer those files and setting to my new installation I get the following message: Windows Easy Transfer can't transfer your files and settings. … |
| | I've been using the HxD hex editor by Mael Horz and recently learned about its ability to display the contents of my entire hard drive(about 1 terabyte). My assumption is that all this data retrieved from the hard drive must be kept in RAM first, and then it can be … |
| | Recently, I messed up my MBR on a dual-boot computer with Windows XP SP1 on the primary drive and Kubuntu Dapper Drake (v. 6.06) on the second drive. After some trouble, I eventually searched around and decided to use the GAG Boot Manager to get access to Windows XP. After … |
| | My friend spilled milk on my acer aspire and messed up my keyoard I got a new keyboard but now it starts up and runs great for a bit and then shuts down at random times. I tried changing the hard drive and it still shuts down. I think it … |
| | I've searched for other threads on this issue, but haven't been able to solve my problem. Not sure this belongs in monitors, displays but here goes anyway. A bit of history. I've been getting BSOD crash dump recently. I've had windows recovery start up and have been able to use … |
| | Well actually my friends 3yr old son dropped my external hard drive. Now it will power on and everything, but it makes this noise as it sits there and tries to get loaded by windows like a clicking noise, or if you put a scratched up CD in a drive …  |
| | Hi guys! I'm new to the forum and I was reading some threads and seems like a very useful community here. I am a graduate student and recently my computer has been very "laggy" and when I go to Windows Task Manager I see that CPU Usage is fluctuating from … |
| | Ok, I have an ASUS m4a7bt-e motherboard that had been working fine. One day it powered on but didn't boot. The configuration of my pc is as follows: 8 gb ram AMD six core cpu blue-ray burner/player 1 tb HD I'm using the onboard video All cables are connected properly, … |
| | Hi All I just acquired at Dell Dimension 8200 XP (2.0 Ghz, 256 RAM) from a friend who said it was broken. Turned it on noticed a clunking from his hard drive and the machine not booting up at all. Figured his drive was dead and I purchased a new … |
| | Hello DaniWeb, I have been working on a Maintenance Application. My company builds a specific type of system using specfic types of components. What I need to be able to do is keep track of which component is in which system given a certain event. ComponentType Table: Ident, Type ( … |
 | Hi all! I need to intercept GDI function to save painted screen to hard drive. I have tried Microsoft Detours. Everything is good, but I need 64-bit version (Detours Professional do support but it costs much). Is there any 64-bit alternatives to Detours Professional? |
 | i was planing to buy a lenovo laptop Processor Intel® Core™ i5-2410M Dual Core (2.3GHz) Screen 17.3" (Lenovo, LED Backlit, 1600 x 900 Resolution) Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium Edition 64-bit RAM 8GB (DDR3 1333MHZ) Hard Drive 750GB Optical Drive DVD Rewriter Graphics Dedicated (AMD Radeon HD 6650M with … |
 | About a month ago i had problems accessing my admin accounts. It all started when i was tinkering with the CMD commands involving both my admin accounts in them. The command i entered for both was the command to change the password of the accounts, that is: net user Admin …  |
| | Hi Im Crystal I just saw that ALL, EVERYTHING, on my external hard drive is gone! wiped out!! I am a photographer so, all my images were on there :( SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! CAN I FIX THIS?? CAN I GET THEM BACK? It is a Seagate - FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB …  |
| | how do you delete a hard drive completely so that no data can be obtained? ive heard of drilling holes in them, then starting it up.is it true and is there any other way to do it  |
 | i has 500gb hitachi external drive...i have divide to 4 partition...Whenever i plug in my external hard drive in computer, it detect but when i open "my computer", the window explorer just freezes and the green ribbon shows up, moves very slowly, and eventually stops at some point. i can … |
 | Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive … |
| | I want to share files between two mac osx computers, connected in the same network. These computers are password protected etc... so after I enable Personal File Sharing in the System Preferences I can browse to the network, find the computer I want to connect and connect to it, everything … |
| | I recently built my first computer from the ground up. Spent quite a bit of time on newegg picking all the parts i wanted and if they are compatible. After i got everything put together and booted it up, everything seems to power up = all the fans are turning … |
| | (My apologies if this is the wrong forum section) Hello everyone, I have recently been confronted by two problems with my computer, which I purchased two years ago. These are my specs Quadcore Intel i7 860 @ 2.80Ghz ATi Radeon HD 5770 1GB 4GB of DDR-3 RAM 500 GB SATA … |
| | I would like to silently print PDF files from the hard drive to a named printer, which may or may not be the default printer. In the [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=17156"]this thread[/URL], it shows how to silently print the PDF but it always goes to the default printer. Is there a command line … |
| | I've been having this problem for a while now. Basically what happens is at random times my computer will lock up for about 2 seconds and then just turn itself off. If I try to turn it back on it will start up for about 3 seconds and then just … |
 | I added a second Hard Drive to the extra bay in a HP Pavilion Notebook and it disappers after a few minutes. It then comes back if you reboot and fades out again. Sometimes it will come back and ask you if you want to do something to the new … |
| | I want to reformat my hard drive, but I can't find my Windows XP CD. I have the CD Key on a sticker attached to my computer, so all I need is the software. Does Windows allow you to download the software onto a CD? I checked the website and … |
 | I have recently been accepted to software engineering at the university of waterloo, and as such my parents have agreed to go 50/50 on a nice computer to bring to waterloo. At first I was looking at a laptop, but then some IT friends of mine suggested that I could … |
| | i have 2 hard disks in one hard disk i have windows xp and in other i have 2 drives D: and E: In my E: drive one of my folder which ic upto 100GB is not Detected Please give me the solution Soon.... |
| | Hi everyone and thanks in advance for your help! To begin I did have McAfee but deleted it and I am now using Avast. I fell victim to the idea that something free can’t be as good as something that you pay for. However, I have only had Avast on … |
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