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 | hi guys, have a friend who's xbox 360 has a broken hard drive, is it just for storage, therefore i can stick a computer / laptop drive in there (blank) or does it boot from that drive or store its drivers there? :confused: darren |
| | I bought an I/O Magic USB 2.0 Enclosure for 3.5" Hard Drive to use with my new HP running Windows XP Pro. My old W2000 machine died last week and it was time for a proper burial. The old machine was IDE and the new is S-ATA. This enclosure worked … |
| | I was looking for a new CD-Key for one of my games yesterday, and since then all hell has broken loose. My computer has been running [I]much[/I] slower, and I've been getting all types of Pop-Up ads and whatnot. I haven't been able to play games and am about ready …  |
 | My Moms Computer is old, but it has been upgraded a couple times already.....and the hard drive needs to be upgraded soon as you can see below. So what i have is a Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 PC, with a 8.06 GB Hardrive, with a ASUS motherboard. … |
| | Hello, I am new to Linux, actually I really want to check it out to see if I like it, but I don't know how to install it. I downloaded Fedora Core 5 the DVD version and burned the image file, now what? Should i buy another hard drive to … |
| | Hey I'm quite new to Linux, in fact I haven't even installed the distribution that I own (Fedora Core 1), for the reason that I loaned the DVD to my friend, who has yet to return it. I was wondering if anyone can give me some pros/cons of Windows 98/XP …  |
| | I have an old Win 98 SE Dell computer that was my favorite computer for old games. It would play my old DOS favorites, so please please somebody help me get it going again. the problem started about 2 years ago and my daughter picked up a virus somewhere. She … |
| | I am really in a sort of hell here. I cannot get my 3 month old Toshiba notebook to shutdown/restart normally, and I have lost almost all functionality. It hung up on the process DLACTRLW.EXE which has to do with writing to the optical drive. I cannot get this "process" … |
| | Is it possible for an app to write to the hard drive? Instead of using normal memory? Then delete what was stored on exit.  |
| | [QUOTE=rcrevolution]can you run ata/133 and sata/150 at the same time in one system? the sata as a primary and the ata/133 as the secondary? I have a 200Gb sata HDD, but my life is so busy now with christmas coming up and all i cant install it[/QUOTE] Need Assistance! I …  |
| | hi there guys and girls, Just clearing some stuff off my hard drive and was checking how much free space I had. It was saying I used 20g as you can see from the pic. (first picture) However I couldn't think where this 20g had gone so I went in … |
 | Hi guys this is my problem and I would be gratefull for any advice you can give So far we have tried installing windows xp and when asked about partitions that we had already put in place, we tried to delete the d: partition, it went through the process but … |
| | okay, i have a copy of windows xp and a hard drive with windows already on it but because windows craps out after a while (and its being crap right now) i need to reinstall it. The last time i loaded it on it was easy, this time i cant …  |
 | All righty then... Dell Opti.GX1 (yep I know, a dinosaur), suppose to be W98, shows NT 4.1. Purch. on ebay for a steal. Assured it worked. Yeah, right. Well. I did only pay $5.50 . Sounds normal. No unusual beeps. Inside appears secure & proper. [B]1)[/B] F2 gets you into … |
| | Ok, so I wanted to help my friend out with her computer that was messing up... cleaned out spyware and all that, then was installing SP2 and it bluescreened... did a hard drive diagnostic and it found a bad sector.... it gave the option to fix the sector, so I … |
 | I've looked and looked. Changed hostname files, nodename, played with init.d/network, sys-unconfig etc... I'm using Solaris 9 on an x86 laptop. Here it goes: I had booted Knoppix with the laptop. I took the hard drive out and installed a new one to use for Solaris (the point being this: … |
| | Same machine issues [B]also posted[/B] in Dead Machines. [COLOR=#0000ff]Press spacebar NOW to invoke Hardware Profile/Last Known Good Menu Windows NT could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINNT\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray]Boot error message after Dell screen. [B]GX1[/B] machine, 'spose to be [B]running 98[/B], purch. ebay for dirt cheap, … |
| | My toshiba laptop has a black screen. It is on but nothing at all on the screen. It all started by trying to add a modem driver. The screen turned blue with a bad pool caller error and now nothing. I know it's probably not worth it to fix - … |
| | My Compaq desktop, which has served me well for six years or so, might be coming to its end. When I power it up, the Compaq logo comes on, then it takes me to the screen where I can choose between regular and safe mode. If I choose regular mode, … |
| | Hi A few days back I ran a cell-phone related applications and it installed 2-3 new drivers. I did not have to restart my system but windows created a restore point. The applications worked fine. Late that evening, I restarted my laptop and while it was shutting down, I happened … |
 | Earlier today, my PC slowed to a halt, forcing me to manually restart it... after which I heard some worrying noises that sounded like a CD or hard drive forcing a disc to keep spinning if it got stuck.. what's more is that I get the same effect when any … |
| | Perhaps I should have been concerned by the 1 year warranty or maybe it was the constant switching itself off or possibly it was the hard drive failing after 8 months but anyway to cut a long story short I have a rather expensive paperweight on my hands. Owing to … |
| | I've been browsing the forum for anything that could solve my problem, but nothing I tried so far helped, so maybe someone has an answer to my specific trouble. My old computer's power source died, and we decided to just start fresh with building a new one. When hooking up … |
| | Hello People, I recently built a system for myself to replace a very old Dell I was running. I went with a MSI PM8M 478-Socket MicroATX board (big mistake going 478. . .realized that two weeks later), Intel Pentium 4 2.8ghz, a Western Digital 80gb Caviar hard drive, 512mb Kingston …  |
| | Okay, so after a bevy of virus issues I decided it was high time for a reformatting. So, I reformatted my hard drive a couple days ago and I'm in the process of getting everything back together. Everything seems to be fine, but when I tried to run Civs4 it … |
| | Hi, I am not sure if this is the right place to post this (let me know where to post it if it's not) but I was wondering if this would be a good destop barebone+other parts and acessories to have in general for like non-editing things. [B]OS-[/B] Microsoft XP … |
| | hello, I read all the applicable threads for my question but I can't seem to solve it. My old drive is SATA from which my PC boots. I installed a new 80gb IDE drive and my troubles began. 1) I have Separate ribbon cables for IDE drive and DVD-ROM. At … |
| | Hello i was wondering if someone can help me i am using roxio easy media creator 8 to burn dvds to disc - i tried two times to burn a movie and both times failed. i have now lost around ten gigabytes of space on my hard drive and can … |
| | I'm helping someone with their 2 year old computer that they said died during a lightning storm. When you push the power button, absolutely nothing happens. I went ahead and advised them to buy a new power supply but that didn't help - still nothing. I disconnected everything I could … |
| | Hi folks, About live backup of complete hard drive including OS, data, etc. direct on CD/DVD Can I apply tar command plus bunzip creating a compressed tarball, pipe the output direct on mkisofs/growisofs creating ISO image and finally pipe to output to cdrecord/growisofs to burn CD/DVD. If possible please advise … |
| | newbie here.... I have a Dell dimension 2400. My old hard drive is IDE. I just bought a Western 250 gig SATA (stupid me....did not pay attention). Is there anyway I can use it on an IDE motherboard ? what is the best/cheapest way to convert ? :eek:  |
 | I have read a topic about this, but I am not having the same problems. I suppose it is not serious, but it did happen yesterday. When I booted up, it brought me to a screen saying that Fat32 needs to be checked for consistancy. This does not happen every … |
| | I'm planning on installing new RAM and another CDRW. I'm debating whether or not to re-format the hard drive and re-install XP. If I don't re-format, am I correct in assuming the XP re-activation will be painless as long as I'm connected to the internet? What about if I re-format? … |
 | I am trying to install visuall basic express edition on my Dell Latitude, it has all the tech specs nescary for the instalation and plenty of memory. the instalation apears to go fine until it finishes and then i am unable to find a run the files i now have … |
| | well i have two HDs, i took one out of my wifes dell when it died and added it to my dell 8200 1.7 Ghz, worked fine for months, then started saying it couldn't find one of HDs to pres F1 to continue. But in windows it shows. i actually … |
| | Someone just gave me a dell insperation 7500 and said that the screen did not light up. I pulged it in and the first time all I seen was like a color bar test pattern.(vet and hor.lines),Turned it on and off a few times and Once I did see "WINDOWS" … |
| | I have a Portege 4010 w/ dead hard drive. Purchased new drive, but not sure of procedure for install esp since there are some unusual issues -- 1. This laptop was given to me by my Fiance when her co. gave her a new one to use. 2. I don't … |
| | I am writing a forensic disk processing utility in which I cannot write to the disk at any cost. What is the best way to ensure that I am not writing to a hard drive when I am accesing all of its files? I have made sure that all of …  |
| | A friend's computer started having the STOP error about a month ago. She has 3 kids and a husband, and they all use the same comptuer. They download all kinds of stuff, and check email, and install many different programs on the computer. It is running Windows XP Pro and … |
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 | I'm an early adopter with software so I've been using Picasa since the early days. Unfortunately my first experiences with XP were sooooo bad that I've only just moved to it on my SOHO machines (but have used it extensively elsewhere). So, brand new hard drive, OEM install of XP, … |
| | HELP, tried to install LIMEWIRE form the limewire.com web on my dads machine running Windows 2000 Pro. On installation it stopped, did this twice in same place (something about active x). But now when I reboot the machine its running MEGA slow, will not connect to internet and the hard … |
| | I have a customer laptop that someone locked with a HDD password. Does anyone know where this password is stored? I can think of three places but dont know which if any is correct. CMOS. If its the cmos then removing the mobo battery should clear it. HDD Firmware. If … |
 | Hi there. Does anybody know how i can stop the Surfairy 16 bit MSDOS subsystem from popping up every time I open a web browser page. My brother tells me that its spyware often used by packard bell but i cant seem to get rid of it. i have tried … |
| | Alright, to make things easier, I'll just paste what I posted on another forum: *whew* Here we go. Step one: Backup all essentials and stick on secondary 250gb drive Step Two: Insert WinXP Pro SP2 edition in drive Step Three: Select fresh install - reboot, enter windows setup Step Four: … |
| | Does any body know how to access files on a hard drive that are pass word protected. The problem is I hooked my old hard drive into my new computer as a slave and it will not let me access user files. When I had my old hard drive in … |
| | My Grandmother's old Gateway computer is not working, when you turn it on, you get a message that says, "The Hard Drive was not found. Press Esc to prevent displaying this warning in the future, Press the Enter key to continue without a hard drive." No matter what you push, … |
| | Hello. I recently received a secondhand computer (P2 266 mHz) from a friend. It was a windows NT server in its previous life. When I tried to start it, it asks me for ADMINISTRATOR password of which I do not have. I physically removed the hard-drive of this unit and …  |
| | HI, Cant quite get the hang of my powerbook G4,Would love to be able to format the hard drive and start again,Could you please give me a quick guide Cheers :))  |
| | i'm using a dell notebook but i think the hard drive is locked with a password and it says "The system primary hard disk is protected by a password authentication system.You can not access data on this hard drive without the correct password." WHAT DO I DO? |
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