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| | Hi, I recently had my hard drive replaced on my gateway desktop computer, and now instead of being drive C: it is now the I: drive. I was just curious if it possible to rename the I drive back to C, it is the only hard drive and partition on …  |
| | I recently installed a new hard drive into my G5. I copied all the files from my old drive onto the new one. The system file is on the old drive which is almost full. Can I move the system file from the old drive to the new one by …  |
| | Hi. I have a powerbook g4 with Tiger on it. I was using file vault and I made a new password, but I lost the paper that i wrote the password on. Now I am locked out of my main account because both my administrator password and filevault password is … |
| | I have a pocket hard drive I got in school. It's formatted for Mac, but I have a PC and no where to use it now. It still has photos and info I need access to. I heard that items formatted for Mac will work with PC, but not the …  |
 | Hi, I wanted to format a hard drive and re-install the operating system ( Windows 98). It only had a primary partition, in which I deleted and I went to format it and... I get Not Ready Format Terminated It does this when it reaches around 9%. It is a … |
| | Hey I've posted in the past looking for a better AGP ATI card but I've got some funding now and want to make the switch to PCI-E. So the question at heart is: Whats the best nVidia card out there? I remember sometime around november people where drooling over the …  |
| | Installed new western digital hard Drive, 160 Gig.HD is not detected in manufacturers setup disk, and also not in BIOS. chanel 1 cabel has no hard drives displayed, chanel 2 ribbon cabel(secodary), shows both my CD-RW'S. Cofused, can you help? The origina HD has WIN XP on it.I got a … |
| | hi everyone, great forum you got here. not sure if ive posted this in the right section, but please help me out if you can. on my other desktop pc, i have got a 200gb hard drive, its about 180 gb full of my own music recordings that i have … |
| | I have a Seagate Model ST340015A hard drive that came out of a NEO Car Jukebox ([url]www.ssiamerica.com)[/url]. I have tried installing this hard drive in two different computers with no luck. I have tried installing the drive as a master, slave, CS in combination with the other drives on these … |
| | When i click on a program in add/remove on Win XP the add/remove screen closes. we have ran and remove a number of programmes to rid spyware and am fairly confident it has gone but not 100% sure. It just seems that somewhere along the way i may have disabled …  |
| | With great search hits from google, the internet has led me here to your great web site. As scary as it must be for you, I am now a member here. I am a mac fan in process of changing over from an older power computing mac clone with memory …  |
| | Yet another problem from my computer :mad: ! Heres what happend this time. about three days ago....I shut of my computer. And I got this blue screen saying "Diver_icql_not_less_or_equal beguining to dump phisical memory" Or something like that. But anyway...I've like goten that a ton of times before...I always thought …  |
| | Hi everyone, Recently my primary hard drive started dying (it isn't dead yet but runs slow and crashes frequently). I already had a second hard drive in my computer so I transferred all of my important data to that, and then made a new installation of windows on that drive. …  |
| | Ok I have a computer I put together my self and my main hard drive had Windows XP and my other hard drive had a beta version of Windows Vista, I tried to set up a dual boot thing but it never really worked. I took out the second hard … |
| | i scrubbed my laptop's hard drive with acronis drive scrubber now i cant install new o s getting mbr error messages?? what do i do??? |
| | Every time I insert a blank CD-R, a message pops up that reads: [B]Burning the disk cannot proceed because the startup disk does not have enough empty space.[/B] To burn the disc FInder needs space on the startup disk equal to the size of the disc. (Error code -34) I … |
| | originally i have a windows ME with 16mb ATI Rage Ultra video card. now i upgraded the sys with an upgrade cd of windows xp cd, now i had a problem with the sys because its running slow. now i tried to reformat the hard drive by installing the windows … |
| | the power supply to my old G4 cube gave out. I'm hoping to recover data from the hard drive (Maxtor/Altair/92049U3) by adding it within my G4 tower. any precautions/hints for doing this. thanks in advance for any help. Vince |
| | hi I want to buy a pc, it says 80GB MAXTOR Hard Drive ATA133, 7200 RPM & 2MB Cache, I was wondering is that the same as l2 cache or it is better. I am newbie to cache.........or pcs :mrgreen: |
 | Hi everyone, I have this HP Pavillion a1030n desktop computer. It was working earlier today. I restarted it, and now it won't boot. The power light should turn blue on startup, but now it just stays yellow. I have tried replacing the power supply and that did nothing. I now … |
| | I thought this would be a simple matter, but the answer is eluding me. Found this forum site--if there's an answer out there, it should be found here! I want to be able to send a sound file (stored on my hard drive) directly through the phone line to a … |
 | Is it possible to reformat a hard drive and install Windows XP using a windows startup disk (floppy)? And if so, how? Note: I cannot get the PC to boot from CD and thats why I was wondering if this is possible. Ive been trying to reforamt a troublesome PC …  |
| | What program/utility/etc to use to AUTOMATICALY recognize what file types are files rescued and saved as CHK files? --------------------------------------------- I'm looking for a solution that offers automatical recognition of "what's actually there". (My hard-drive crashed and there are four folders with CHK files (there's 10000 files in each* (FILE0000.CHK - … |
| | I have just swapped out my mobo for a foxconn NF4K8AC with Athlon64 3000+ cpu and geforce 6600GT 128MB PCI-E graphics card. The graphics card, cpu and mainboard fans spin up as do the CD/DVD drives and harddrive but the system simply emits a series of single prolonged beeps :sad: …  |
| | I have two IBM indenticle 425C PS/NOTE laptops. I know these are as old as time in the fast paced computer world, but was hoping they may handle JPG files for viewing on floppies. I had wanted to use Windows 95, but have only DOS 6.2 install disks right now. … |
| | Hey, I hope someone can help me cos otherwise my next step is formatting my hard drive :cry: Right, my problem is: when i start up windows it comes up to the screen where my windows hard drive gets checked for errors and after the drive has been checked there … |
| | Hi everyone, I just replaced mobo and cpu in my girlfriends dead computer. It has xp office on hard drive. When I powered up it runs bios and then beeps and stops asking if I want to start windows norm, safe mode, safe mode with prompts and network. No matter … |
| | My Dell died yesterday. I have tried everything I could think of, but no luck. A few days ago, when it was running, I received a system message saying there was no space left on the hard drive. I thought this funny because a couple days before I had checked … |
| | I have recently formatted my hard drive as i was having problems with windows system files. But now, when i try to re-install windows, i can not create a partition larger then 129GB when my hard drive is 250GB. I triede to install windows once just on this 129GB partition … |
| | Hi folks. Back with a problem. It was freezing more than it should. So I cleaned out the hard drive.I installed from a CD 8.06 system which was an older system than I had been using. No G3.It seems to boot up ok but I notice there is no program … |
| | I have a g4 400 running os9.04 that i would like to update to tiger 10.4 without loosing 9. I have many older apps that i would prefer not to update. Should i , can i install a second internal hard drive with os 10 and go back and forth … |
| | Not to long ago i built my custom pc. AMD 3500+ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard GeForce 6800 200 GB SATA Seagate Hard Drive Corsair (TWINX1024-3200C2PT) (2 x 512MB Matched Pair) 1024MB DDR RAM (Ebuyer Code 52471) My problem is with my RAM, i was testing some new stuff out on … |
| | I need a bigger hard drive but I only have 1 bay. Can anyone tell me how I can copy the data across? I read here [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33915.html[/url] that HD's come with disks for this. I bought my desktop from dell years ago - would it still come with a disk? … |
| | I have an iMac G3 (white) OS 9 - OS X 10.3.9 600MHz POWERPC 256 MB SDRAM with Panther Last night I tried to install Microsoft Office for Mac, all I did was click on the 'install' icon................ - it seemed like nothing was happening, it didn't install..... - then … |
| | Hi Guys, I am running a virgin installation of XP with SP2 with an Athlon 750 & 512Mb RAM. Everything has been running fine after my installation a couple of weeks ago, until today. Upon reboot I am seeing "a disk read error has occurred, press ctrl-alt-del". This is an … |
| | Every time I try and install windows xp, it freezes during the installation. I've formatted the hard drive over 10 times now and I've tried to use both FAT32 and NTSF file systems, and neither one gives me any results. The problem occurs after the computer restarts when it finished … |
| | My laptop died after a virus infection deleted the wininet.dll file and I couldn't start Windows. I was restarting from the command prompt safe mode in WinXP and the laptop locked up at the "F2 Bios Setup" Prompt at startup. It wouldn't respond to any keys and the Press/Hold power … |
| | Hi, I have just bought a new motherboard (PCChips: M863 series). I installed everything onto it (same processor as before; AMD xp 1700+, same graphics card etc) exactly as it said in the manual. However, when i switch it on the monitor wont come on. I tried connecting the monitor … |
| | Can anyone tell me anything about the Seagate pocket hard drive . I'm looking to buy the 2.5 GB hard drive the Seagate offers. I know Seagate is a reputable business but is there another type of pocket hard drive that you feel is better for the money. Right now …  |
| | I have a compaq presario with a Turion 64 chip and 1+GB ram in a 1024 stick and a 256 stick. The laptop is only about 5 months old and I've never had any problems until now. I recently got a blue screen (which I didn't read the error code … |
| | Hello I recently had a problem of my computer booting over and over again and again Guess what I found out At sometime microsoft decided to make a change in windows XP And this change has a very dramatic effect on how your processor reads and writes to the hard … |
| | Hi there, you may have seen me much more in the Windows side of these boards, I had a series of computer ills that ultimately crashed two hard drives, not the least of which was data corruption... Anyway, on the main one, I had a copy of Windows 98 SE … |
| | i have no idea whats going on...i've un/reinstalled wmp w/ no luck. it use to just play what i had on the hard drive, but thats over now too. also it used to just play music and not video sound. what to do??? please help |
| | I recently ran an ad-aware scan and it topped my memory, this has happened before, I shut the computer off and the next time I turned it on, it got stuck on the Windows Is Loading screen Here's my computers details Computer: Laptop Presario 2100 Ram: 750 MB Hard Drive: … |
| | I've searched all over the internet attemting to find a solution, but nothing has worked for me so far. Basically, on my main desktop computer, i have been running xp home, but i was able to purchase windows xp pro and xp pro 64 bit for $11.95 for both through … |
| | Hey there, I was wondering if anyone can help me with this problem. Before I state the problem I'll list my system setup. I'm running an 80GB IDE HDD as my main drive (C:\) with Windows XP installed and a second 200GB SATA drive (D:\) setup as a storage drive. … |
| | I now have two hard drives in my pc after a recent catastrophy - details here! [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread17368.html[/url] So, I now have a 160gb western digital and a 80 gb maxtor. The 160gb is my main hard drive - the 80gb drive is now empty. I have quite a lot of … |
| | hi i have just finished building my first pc it has asus a7n8xe deluxe mobo athlon 3200 xp 160gb maxtor hard drive and 512 memory, my problem is every thing powered up ok but it told me it dident recognise my keyboard so i borrowed a usb type it now … |
| | Hi ,everybody. New to this site.Looking for answers. Kind of a basic pc user. I am using my laptop now but my desktop is weirding out. I tried booting it up and all it would do is make a whirring sound and my cd drives light steady flashes. The moniter …  |
| | Hi, I am just a computer user (don't know much about what's inside it). My Satellite Pro 6100 (notebook) came with Windows XP and IDE 30GB hard drive. Recently, the hard drive packed up. After a brief consultation (now I know I should have consulted more) I bought a Toshiba … |
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