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| | i have a hard drive that was in another computer and i put it in a case to use as an external hard drive. my windows me will only recognize it in the device panel and not in my computer. i know the hard drive is good because i formatted … |
| | Hello sorry, I'm not very computer smart but...I plat this game called Lineage 2and a few mins into the game my screen goes black, I can still hear sound but i can not exit the game, minamize the screen, or use ctrl alt del. I have to manualy turn off …  |
| | Some one put a password on the setup and I cant get in to check the settings. I installed Win XP and after the post it doesnt do anything. The hard drive light runs for a few secs, but the screen stays black. I cant get the screen to come … |
| | I recently purchased a second hand IBM Think Pad. When loading my DSL onto this computer something went haywire...I am now getting a stop message Inaccessible Boot Device. It is telling me to check for viruses, remove any newly installed hard drive controllers and to check to see if my … |
| | ok i am missing or the file is corrupted \windows\system32\config\system now i know the easiest way to deal with this is well to wipe it and start fresh but... in my foolishness i have forgotten to back up every thing (ya ya i know stupid mistake) and being a writer …  |
| | I have some mac g4 mirrowed doors that crashes in many languages 3 or 4 times a day without no reason, somtemies after wakeup, doing something esay with illustrato or photoshop. i decide to change the hard drive for a new one and made no result. then i used a … |
| | Hi all, I'm new here, and I hope you can help me out.... When starting up my pc (win 2000), it seems to go through the starting up process alright, but once the windows 2000 progress bar is completed, the screen suddenly blacks out and tells me "input signal out … |
| | Hi, I'm running Windows Xp on my system. I currently have a 200 Gb hard drive installed. When I got this computer, I also added my 80 GB hard drive off my old computer. It worked fine for over a year until recently when I did a system restore. Now, … |
| | I recently installed a 200gb maxtor Ultra ATA/133 hard drive. I wanted extra storage space so I connected it as a slave to my existing 120 GB hard drive. After connecting all the cables I restarted the machine. I got as far as the windows loading logo, and then the …  |
| | [size=3][font=Times New Roman]For the past couple of years my computer has been randomly freezing up on me. I know freezing something that happens to everybody’s computer every now and then, but lately my computer will freeze up on me at least 2 or 3 times a day. Also, it does … |
| | When I turn my computer on the computer beeps and the monitor turns on for a second then the monitor turns off. I checked the video card on a different computer and it works fine. The monitor also works. I also noticed that none of the keyboard lights go on. … |
| | Hi I have a 40GB hard drive set up as a spare HDD master on my secondary IDE. All I want to do is set aside an active partition of just 1GB on this drive. I have tried to do it following the help menu by using 'disk management' and … |
| | Hi there Over the past couple of days my pc boots up much slower than it used to and I'm not sure why? I haven't added any new programs and I have 167GB free space on my hard drive. Also, my computer reacts slowly when I click to open programs … |
| | I've just had something go really wrong with word today. I have an ibook G4 and I'm running office for mac vX. Basically I've gone something to the page formatting I think. Every time I insert a table, into a page in portrait page view, if i set it to … |
| | I am trying to free up space on my hard drive. when I go into add/remove programs I see seemingly redundant entries. are they redundant or are they individually necessary. they are: J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 2 J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 4 Java 2 Runtime Environment SE v1.4.2_04 …  |
| | So I've reformatted my Hard Drive, and re-installed Windows XP Professional, and well now I don't have any sound ! My sound card is a "C-Media AC97 Audio Device" It's say this in the "Sounds and Audio Devices Manager" : This device cannot start. [Code 10] Location: PCI bus 0, … |
| | I just wanted to get a few opinions from people before I spend monery on a new external hard drive. I love to test new beta products. I am downloading windows vista beta 2, along with the new office 2007 suite. I had installed the office beta on my good …  |
| | I have an Acer TabletPC, and recently the hinge broke. I ordered a new hinge from Acer and replaced it. There were 5 wires running through the center of the swivel hinge. I have everything reconnected (I've gone in a couple of times to chek), but when I turn it … |
| | I'm sorta new at this thing. so here goes I recently upgraded an old comp of mine to a 3.2 gig processor,150 gig hard drive, 512 memory stick. It has 2 cdroms on it (one burner and one reader). I installed xp on it and it ran well for about … |
| | A computer at work just came up with the error message: "The hard drive was not found. Consult the troubleshooting section of your user's manual." It tries to give me the option to enter setup but won't allow me to actually access setup. Secondly, I cannot enter the BIOS or … |
| | [COLOR=#000080]I last used my computer on Sunday without any problems. Tuesday I tried to turn the system on, but it would not work. I tried for a few more "pushes " on the ON button and finally I heard it start up. But the ON light did not come on, … |
| | Hi, I recently purchased a computer. I just replaced the stock heatsink with a thermaltake big typhoon from newegg, and I installed new motherboard mounting screws as well. I had to remove the motherboard in order to do this. Now, when I press the power button, the fans go on, … |
| | I have been a visitor here for a while and impressed with your assistance to everyone and the wealth of info here. I am sorry that I am now needing assistance myself. I hope someone can find the time to help me. I am need of assistance on a blue …  |
| | This Pavillion 7955 was given to me by a friend who told me the hard drive died. When trying to boot it shows a message that the boot disk is bad. I put in a new hard drive and got the same message. I tried a new connecter ribbon with …  |
| | A two part question. 1) I have 2 folders on my G4, one under the hard drive the other on the desktop. If i perform an Archive and Install will these folders be backed up?? 2)Can i use a live CD like knoppix to boot off so i can copy … |
| | OK, I have a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop that had a loose power connector. I soldered in a new connector (I'm experienced at doing this). It now powers up and passes the Compaq diagnostics utility. But, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. It sees and reads from the CD-ROM so … |
| | I'm wondering if my system will support my music needs. The system is a 400Mhz Mac G4 Sawtooth AGP with 1 Gig of RAM. OS 10.3.7 is used for Garage Band and OS 9.2.2 for ProTools Free. I need larger chunks of space on my hard drive to record so … |
| | The computer detects the DVD rom and reads the installation disk (I assume it reads it because the disk spins) The problem is the installation will not autoplay. The only thing I have thought of is to take out the hard drive of my old computer and install it on … |
| | well my dell dimension l800r is about couple years old i never used to use it cause it gave problems until i tried to upgrade from me to xp on it while in the process it frooze so i uplugged it and restarted then i got a blue screen errorthen … |
| | can anyone assist,i was trying to repair my Tiny compute,it no longer would reboot,tried a small harddrive with windows 98 and it rebooted,when it asked for ram disk etc,i put the dvd drive back in,when i restarted i no longer have graphics and the monitor response light stays orange and … |
| | I was in the prosses of reformatting my dell coumputer when I started the coumputer up and now all I get is error loading operating system. what can i do to get it started. will my Dell recovery XP CD work and reinstall the OS? I don't any of the … |
| | I recently took apart an older HP Computer and took out a Maxtor Hard Drive (20 gig). I wanted to put it in my newer computer as a second drive. The hard drive has Linux installed on it and is set so Linux is the only partition. The newer computer … |
| | I have xp on one hard drive and i installed vista public beta on another drive in my computer. The install went fine and i was up and running on both os's. I wanted to access my my documents folder off of my windows xp installation and i was prompted … |
| | I put in a new motherboard and hard drive in my computer. I had some data on my old hard drive that I wanted to try and copy to my new hard drive before formatting it. So I conected my old hard drive with a USB to IDE cable to … |
| | I have a similar but unrelated problem. The "R-Driver" make USB 2.0 'USB-to-IDE' cable does not let my laptop (HP-Compaq nx9005, which has a USB 1.1 controller) recognize a 3.5" SAMSUNG 20 GB HDD. The HDD just keeps making ticking noise as if it is "hunting" for the boot sector. …  |
| | I have a dell dimension 8300, with 1.5 something memory and a 250 something hard drive. I'm retired and know nothing about computers. Computer was running poorly and Dell replaced the MB again, network on MB, power supply and CD-Rom. I used the Dell recovery discs to reload the computer …  |
 | Hey folks, just curious on your take on this perplexing issue I am having! I have the money to buy a new system. PC or iMac. Now I have never given Apple computers much credit, as I have always been a dabbler in pc programming, and more so a gamer. … |
| | I have been having problems performing a clean install of xp on a new hard drive. Every time it hangs up on 4min remaining while saving settings. However install fine on 3 other much smaller hard drives that i have when hooked to the same comp. Any ideas? |
| | My daughter has a Gateway Solo 2150 laptop. On a couple different occasions it wouldn't shut down. Being a little too hasty, I pulled out the battery. There never seemed to be any problem after that. but then, she had it packed away for 9 months, and now it won't … |
| | my previous computer died and i added my old hard drive to a new computer to recover files. i am being denied access to the my documents folder with my name on it. i'm assuming it's because it's not recognizing my logon from the old computer. is there a way … |
 | What's up? I'm 19 yrs old and most interested in computers. I'm having problems with my computer right now. If you've got time, here is the story: I have an old [B]GQ[/B] ("Great Quality") laptop (2003) [B]XP Home Edition[/B] with a [B]Intel[/B] [I][B]Celeron [/B][/I]CPU [B]2.4GHz. RAM [/B]256MB. So the cheap … |
 | I have three seperate SATA 150 hard drives on the same compter. I was wondering if three different users would be able to have their own hard drive. Login with a username and password, and not be able to see or interfere with the other two hard drives. Thanks. |
| | Right ill start from the beginning so you can get the whole story, Built a new computer but was short on cash so i scavenged two old hard drives out of other computers (1x20gb and 1x40gb). Soon ran out of space, they were running realy slow so after a while … |
 | I currently have two 80gb hard disks. The second hard drive is for Linux, which will remain the same for this, but the first hard drive is what I want to change. On the first hard drive, I currently have 3 partitions: A 2gb FAT16 partition with IBM DOS 5.0 … |
| | Dear Member of the forum; Here is my problem: I have been trying for the last week to re-partition my hard drive and to format it. Before doing, I have backed-up all my files. As a reminder, I have a Toshiba laptop with a Pentium 4 processor, 38.4GB. I have … |
| | HI...I am trying to format my pc but when i get to the part where you have to type in A:\>FORMAT c: /s it just goes to the A:\> not give me the choice to label the drive... am I typing it in wrong?? Please help..Thank you... |
| | First off let me say that I am not to computer savvy. However, I am not afraid to take apart then put it back together, run tests, add memory, etc. A about a month ago I moved in to my own place and with the help of my mother-in-law built … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 2195US with AMD Athlon XP-M 2500 processor. It has no power. I have a good AC adapter, new CMOS battery, good ram, new cpu. Laptop battery is dead from sitting for 6 months. When I plug in I get no lights at all. No fan, …  |
| | Hello......I am thinking of selling my computer to someone. It runs Win Me. I've never sold one before, and would like to know how to clear the hard drive. For example, if you're on Yahoo, which is my homepage, whenever you type a letter in the search box, all the … |
| | missing or corrupt : /WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CONFIG/SYSTEM I have the un bootable hard drive in a nother computer that does boot up. Is there a way to get this file back into the unbootable hd. Thanks Ed |
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