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| | Hey, This may belong elsewhere, but I thought that I would try it here. Two weeks ago I picked up a Smitfraud virus that I thought I took care of using norton and spybot. However, a day later my computer completely lost it, and ended up crashing. It got to … |
| | i recently bought a computer at a police auction it has win 2000 on it it also has a password that i cant crack i want to install win xp but the boot sequence cant be change or something can some one help me |
 | Last night i full scan my pc for a possible virus due to some reasons. Then I detected a trojan virus after a detection: the effected components was the explorer.exe and some systm file in windows. After prompting me the detection my screen for a while...a long time...so i decided … |
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| | I have a major problem. My sons computer keeps losing its hard drive. I have gone into the BIOs and reset it to Default but then it lost the Hard Drive completely. I had checked before i rebooted to see if it was reading and it was. I set the … |
 | Hi all, On (lucky me!) Friday the 13th, my [b]Maxtor 250GB SATA[/b] drive failed. Its connected to a Promise SATA PCI Card, and my computer specs are as follows: 2 existing SATA drives connected to mobo, 2GB ram, 3.2Ghz P4 HT. [b]The error:[/b] Windows loads very sluggishly, and when I … |
| | I have accidentally revoked my own access rights to a folder in my docs whilst messing around with cacls. I also am having trouble after reformatting, when booting on the new hard drive my docs gives my access denied errors, have tried using same user name.??? |
| | Hi guys im new here but im looking for an answer to a frustrating problem. I just built a computer and as soon as I power it on, it powers itself back off after 2 seconds. The HD\CD\fans all come on and spin, but it shuts down. Any help would … |
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| | When I boot up my Gateway 450sx laptop it will run for approx 3 - 5 minutes then the monitor will, for lack of a better term, appear to scramble and eventually lock-up. When I reboot after this happens it will take 5 minutes of the fan running or hard … |
 | Its amazing seeing one actually working! http://media1.break.com/dnet/media/2007/5/how-a-computer-hard-drive-works.wmv |
| | Sys. HP running XP\SP2 My computer program stops responding on certain programs, one being formatting a hard drive or when I put in a disc in the CD writer. Replaced the orginal cd writer with a cd\dvd writer and the darn thing would read a blank disc as being full … |
| | Hello, My problem is that my PC refuses to start. When I switch it on I can hear the fans working followed by 3 beeps. I can also confirm that the hard drive's both start to spin, I have 2 hard drives. However, I receive no information on my monitor. … |
| | I have a weird problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT. It sometime work good, but sometime it freeze (hang) when I work with it and can't do anything except I just reboot with slide the power. After I reboot, the leds indicator (the power, monitor and the battery indicator) … |
 | Hey, i want to put a new motherboard in my moms computer. Firstly, do I have to save any files on my hard drive?? Secondly, how do I discharge static from the motherboard? Lastly, is there anything I should know so that when I put it in I wont fry …  |
| | Recently, our emachines computer crashed (surprise, surprise). From what I can tell, the entire motherboard is no longer usable for whatever reason. There was some valuable information on the hard drive, so I installed it as a secondary hd in another computer. (From my previous experience, I have simply been … |
| | hello im having problems with rundll32.exe everytime i open it it takes my cpu to 100% making it impossible for me to perform any task so i tried runing hijackthis and this is what i got Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 9:54:34 PM, on 5/16/2007 Platform: Windows XP …  |
| | I recently had a hard-drive change because my old one was getting corrupted. Unfortunately enough, all my Favorites from Mozilla Firefox have disappeared. I've been able to retrieve the ones from IExplorer, but had stopped using that web browser some time ago, and instead have been saving everything on Mozilla … |
| | I have a Compaq 700 celeron the386mb ram and 15gb hard drirve. It originally came with Windows ME, but I upgraded to XP. I've had no problems until I tried to install the SP2. The first time I tried,it said I did not have enough hard drive space, so I …  |
| | when i got home from work, my computer was turned off and the light was glowing orange. (i have an old pentium 4 2ghz gateway. cant find specifics on the model etc...). i would try to boot up the computer and nothing, i mean nothing at all was happening. i … |
| | HI, I wonder if anyone is able to solve thhis problem. Running windows xp on startup I get error msg 'rundll error loading windows\system32\NvCpl.dll the specified module cannot be found. Lavasoft Adaware+ shows 2 registry entries modifiied each time I start the computer Value ATImode change, data ATI2MDxx.exe , new … |
| | Hi guys I am looking for some advice/suggestions. Just this week I bought a new comp and love it :) I do have an old PC its connect in my LAN however its is about 5-6 yrs old now and I am thinking of upgrading. OLD PC'S Specs: P3, 450 … |
| | I have a weird problem with my Toshiba Satellite 2100 CDT. It sometime work good, but sometime it freeze (hang) when I work with it and can't do anything except I just reboot with slide the power. After I reboot, the leds indicator (the power, monitor and the battery indicator) …  |
 | I had my hard drive removed because the mother board doesn't work anymore. It's now in an external housing case. I pluged it in to this computer and tried to access my files. All other folders and files are accessable, but when I go to Document and Settings - wizard …  |
| | hi all, i just reinstalled xp and sp2. my problem is xp wont recognize my second hard drive (300gb) which has 3 partitions and all my data. it does recognize the full drive but with 1 partition and keeps telling me i need to format to use. i have reinstalled … |
| | My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware … |
| | My 1150 Dell laptop will not start up. The DC powerjack on the motherboard broke off on it. It was a clean break and the laptop still worked perfectly but I could obviously not charge it. I used it for a few hours until the battery got weak. I very …  |
| | So this is how it started. I was working on my pc last week had music players and bearshare running at that time and suddenly pc just froze. i restarted it but it came up with different options like start normally blah blah blah start with last known good configuration. … |
| | When I go into control panel - sounds and audio devices - properties - it tells me that there is no audio device beside volume and beside audio there is no playback + no recording device I don't know whether the sound card is faulty ( It worked before I … |
| | My niece's Dell Inspiron 5100 has got a Hitachi 40 gig hd and it over heats. Got a laptop cooler and it still runs hot 125deg's and up. If i take a regular house fan and turn it pointing up and sit the laptop on top of the fan it … |
 | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Turn Off System Restore to Save Space [/color][/size][size=2]By default, Windows XP keeps a backup of system files in the System Volume Information folder. This can eat up valuable space on your hard drive. If you … |
| | This post isn't so much about a hard drive as it is about machine/system recognition. I have two identical systems made by the same manufacturer. One of the system's power supply failed. That was the system used most often. Therefore I swapped internal hard drives, thinking that it should run …  |
| | Hello I'm new here to this forum and like to post a question on a laptop. I got a laptop from a friend which does not work. I don't know the history of it either. It' a Toshiba Tecra A3 and the symtoms are as follows: Power's on but no …  |
| | :cool: [B][COLOR=blue]I have this c000021a {Fatal system error}The Session Manager Execute Initial command system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000034(0x00000000 0x00000000). The system has been shutdown.[/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#0000ff]They are not kidding they did a good job. All week I am trying to get in. I am tired now and …  |
| | I have a 4 year old Gateway computer, Intel P42.6 GHz P4 processor w/800FSB. I had the hard drive replaced last year and it now has 250 GB. When I am trying to access web pages, or files, I can hear a clicking noise coming from the tower. When the … |
| | Hi, I am new to this forum. Not sure if this is the correct place to post this, but it sounds like you guys are hard core techs and I figured someone here would know how to fix my problem.:icon_lol: Somehow, my hard drive name changed to the name of … |
| | My PC keeps shutting down. It will go into the blue screen sometimes even load windowsxp but shuts down (fully as if I turned it off) in seconds. Even if I try to go into safe mode, it shuts down while still on the black screen. When it shuts down, … |
| | Recently I purchased a new computer with Vista Pre-Loaded on it. So far, no major problems till I tried to connect the hard drive from my old computer to the new compuuters motherboard. I poped the restrictor that would make it a master out, so the new hard drive is … |
| | I have a computer that won't read any disks on startup. It was running before, but I decided to reformat the hard drive and start from scratch. I tried installing windows 2000 pro and it read it on startup, but encountered an error mid-installation. I guess the CD was scratched. … |
| | Hallo, 1 week ago I got an external USB Harddisk (MaxtorOne Touch III: 7200RPM 500GB) and I pluged it into USB port. Windows gave automatically drive letter G: . All was fine, and I could save my data on it. And today I restarted my PC and found that I … |
| | [COLOR=#444444][COLOR=#444444][COLOR=#444444][COLOR=#444444]Hey guys,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]I purchased an external hard drive a couple months ago. 160GB at a really good price I am happy with the purchase. I use it to back up all the files from computers on my network. The only problem is that I have to connect each computer individually … |
 | if i was to put a hard drive in a enclosure and set it up on my computer in my bedroom 1. format it 2. allocate drive letter would i be able to write files to it and take it to my other computer down stairs and use it without … |
| | Hi there, Computer specs Athlon XP 3200 1GB RAM consisting of (2x256 and 512) 2 Western Digital drives 40GB (OS), 200GB Windows XP I can't remember the motherboard of hand. Lately the computer has intermittedly had 100% usage occasionally. Sometimes the computer would crash on login as well. Then a … |
 | Not sure what causes it but sometimes the computer refuses to shut down. The only way out is to physically press the Off button. I have XP Pro with SP2, Norton Antivirus and Norton Firewall, AMDI 64-bit processor with about 1Gig RAM, 30 Gig hard drive (master) and a 235Gig … |
| | I have ran various spyware to clean my PC of the unwanted spware, pop-ups and more. Nothing has worked. I ran accross your forum and decided to try one more time before - formatting the hard drive. Anyway, below is my log after running SDFix: Help. Tired of the pop-ups.:scared: … |
| | All drives in the DiamondMax Plus 8 series are listed below: 6E020L0 (20Gb) 6E030L0 (30Gb) 6E040L0 (40Gb) Identification: A slimline IDE hard drive with a shiny metallic top and a white Maxtor label in the centre. The "DiamondMax Plus 8" label can be found a third of the way down … |
| | Could I run applications using just the Program Files from another computer, without actually installing the program with a formal installer? Thing is, I recently had to reinstall Windows and all my applications, and am wondering what disadvantages there are to not installing the program and just using the Program …  |
| | Hi When my friend was transporting her computer, she dropped it. The left side of the case and the front panel jarred loose. Everything looks okay inside, BUT...upon boot-up, the 'puter' beeps three times, the fan starts up as does the hard drive, seems to go thru their routine for … |
| | hellow to all how do i install a new hard drive on a tishiba satellite 2435-s255 i got it for free but without a hard drive so i will be installing a fresh install eny body have eny ideas thanks blackmagic |
| | Hi, just tried installing an external caddy hard drive, it wouldn't complete the installation so i went through the trouble-shoot. I restarted my puter, unplugged then plugged in the device, then got told to restart to complete installation. (Strange I thought for a caddy drive) Any way, won't restart, my … |
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