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 | :sad: how do i save a variable to a file on the hard drive of the computer running it |
| | I have what are probably some basic burning questions. I am a semi-technical ditz and am going bonkers. I work with Panther, have a Lacie F.A. Porsche CD-RW 52x32-x52xFirewire. When I burn data and photos on to Imation CD-R's, all is fine. But I have spent hours burning on to … |
| | I have a wired home network that works well running machines using Windows XP and ME. We were given a a Windows NT machine that I tried to network;however, it does not run the same protocols and I was unable to install them. I have an extra Window ME license … |
| | recently been given a second hand Latitude CP that does not work. The orignal thought was a dodgy switch. I have stripped and freed this. The PC powers up then switches off after 30 secs or so and the BIOS does not even run. No noise from fan, hard or … |
| | not to sure if this is exactly whre i post...but I am having trouble finding updates for the ATI Raedion 9200 card....I went to the ATI website and searched but couldnt find anything....so I googled it. And of course I found tons of sites offering updates. But just getting my … |
| | I just installed a new hard drive in my mac, and i installed the OS, and when ever i turn the computer on all i see is the folder with the flashing "?" in it. How do I install mac OS 9 properly so the hard drive will mount. Also … |
| | ok guys, i have a pimped out HP 753n computer, and i mean pimped out. I changed the mobo, vid card, added ram. Now my current pc is 2.53 Ghz P4 Gig of PC-2100 RAM 80GB Hard Drive Radeon 9600 SE 200 watt PSU (Im worried about this) i want …  |
| | I have 2 user profiles on my XP machine. One is my own account, the other is a guest account. I bought an external hard drive to back up my files. After I backed them up, I can now view ALL of my files on the external hard drive from … |
| | Hi guys, I am hoping somebody out here can help me. I think I downloaded some sort of virus and it has corrupted my windows. I can't boot up into windows anymore and I can't access my documents. :sad: I am going to reinstall windows, but I want to back … |
| | I’m a pharmaceutical rep who just got a new IBM laptop from my company. I trashed my laptop (I wont even get into how stupid the accident was.) in the hotel parking lot while at a meeting. Our pc support staff had gone home 3 hours before and my hard … |
| | Greetings, I need help! I have an IBM THinkpad T-22. It was working fine until one day I went to turn it on, and when I press the button it just makes a little mechanical sounding click, and the battery light stays on, and disk drive light flashes for a …  |
| | I have no idea why, but after I leave my computer for about 15 or 20 minutes, the screen freezes. The screen goes black with 3 groups of skinny, close-together vertical white lines. The lights on my computer are still green and not orange, so it hasn't shut itself down. …  |
| | It all started with that damned download.Trojan that infected files in the windows folder, I beated it with a stick out of my computer (( Norton, AVG )) and then did some scans with Ad-Aware and Spybot. So far everything was fine, but then my computer got a little slower, … |
| | Hello, I was trying to set up different users on my Imac. In doing this I mistakenly deleted my mail app. How do I reinstall this without erasing the rest of my hard drive. Thanks  |
| | Okay I just went and spent about 1400$ on all these computer parts and when I put them togather I got nothing. My fans would run and my LED lights and CD drive light would blink on for about a second then everything would turn off. I fiddled around with … |
| | Hey, I have a Seagate 250GB 7200.8rpm hard drive, and the computer is only reading 127GB's of that space. I have SP1 and 2 installed and im pretty sure the motherboard (MSI Neo4 Platinum) drivers are up to date. Any ideas? Thanks |
| | Hello i wondered if i could pick your brains , i am looking to install another h/drive for extra storage i currently have an 80gb SATA as my main drive , running on an Abit BH7 mobo , (which has only one sata plug) , on ide 1 i have … |
 | this might seem as if im beating about the bush a little bit but i'll try to keep it as short as i can:D i have just brought a copy of windows xp professional (OEM) today and have taken it home to install on a machine of which i have … |
| | Dear members: I just would like to know should i put a failed/failing hard drive (30gb ibm internal hd) in external enclosure as slave so i can get the data off (its been a month since it has failed) |
| | First of all, please forgive this long post. I want to give details of my dilema, in hopes of getting an accurate response from someone who might be able to help. I posted this originally in the Win XP forum, with little or no input on the problem. I am … |
| | Hi, first post, pardon me if I sound ignorant. I've just purchased a second hard drive (Hitachi 160GB parallel ATA). I am currently using a 60GB Hitachi parallel ATA hard drive as my primary drive, Windows 2000 OS. I can't get the new hard drive detected. I have tried several … |
| | I am facing an interesting situation. My web server is a very nifty P4 machine that works fine most times. It works as a web application portal, a shoutcast station server, and a file server. When running under Linux it seems to be pretty functional, but when using it as … |
| | Hi all, I am putting together a list of "Most Important Windows Maintenance Tasks" that hopefully the average home computer-user could use. I've got a partial list, but I would appreciate some input and discussion concerning the order and any that I missed that should be included near the top. … |
| | First of all, please forgive this long post. I want to give details of my dilema, in hopes of getting an accurate response from someone who might be able to help. I use normal and fairly decent surfing habbits, using Firefox as my browser, along with AdAware and Spybot for … |
| | My Compaq Presario 5716 is out of warranty and I tried fixing a hard drive problem but I erased both partitions and now I can't get the System Recovery/Restore CDs to work. I get a 'runtime error 6300' after hitting ENTER once. So the computer has absolutely no Operating System … |
| | :sad: [COLOR=Magenta]Hello everyone!! Im new here and Im having a problem with my computer. Im running off of Windows XP home edition and my computer keeps freezing up. Ill be searching the web or listing to music or even around my computer then all of a sudden it freezez up … |
| | Any ideas on this one chaps, trying to get pics from friends hard drive onto mine. Fujitsu hard drive, set as slave, connected to my PC after disconnecting my slave drive. My PC will not boot when attached,but when pressing f8 I can start windows normally.PC will not recognizedrive as …  |
| | Hello all! PLEASE HELP ME!!! NOTE: Dell Inspiron 5150 (XP-Home Edition Service Pack1a) ~~~Problem #1 ([url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545/en-us[/url]) I performed the windows update. I restarted and got [B]"\windows\system32\config\system"[/B] is missing or corrupt. I searched on your site how to fix the problem by using the Recovery Console. PLEASE NOTE I ONLY DID …  |
| | hello, i have a dell latitude LS 400mhz pentium III with XP installed.. I was trying to power it up yesterday when i ended up getting a blue screen that said something along the lines about a hardware malfunction and that the system was halted. it gave a number to … |
| | I have 3 seperate computers I am building. All computers have the same basic equipment, the only difference is the periphials, IE. sound card and graphics card. All 3 have ASrock P4V88 MB, Intel 3.6 800 FSB Chip, and WD800JD HD. The hard drives are SATA 7200. The board supports … |
| | Ok I have a 40GB Hard drive and I'm trying to hook up a 120GB hard drive as a slave. I had to buy a cord for the 120GB hard drive that converts it from a serial hard drive to a usb connection because my motherboard doesn't have a serial … |
| | Unable to search from the address bar. I just installed a larger hard drive and reinstalled XP. Now when I try to search from the address bar I get the following message:"Service Unavailable - DNS failure. The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later." I … |
| | Hello Everyone, My mother bought a used pc the other day and asked me to look at it and possably advise her what she needed to update it and get her ready to go online hassel free. I looked her pc over and had her buy a hard drive as … |
| | My daughter has a Sony VAIO desktop with a Pentium 4 and Windows XP SP2. Friday night she used the computer until midnight, then left it on and went to bed. When she woke up she found that the computer had rebooted and was on the logon screen. She logged … |
| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Computers are getting cheaper - but so are computer parts. You can often save money by assembling one yourself to suit your own needs, and it doesn't have to look like Frankenstein's monster. It's also a great way to learn more about how computers actually work - although … |
| | [size=3][font=Times New Roman][b][i][u]Beginner's guide to computing[/u][/i][/b] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You can have too much of a good thing - have you seen the choice of computers on the shelves? Let us guide you to your perfect PC...[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]The main parts of computer "hardware" (the physical machine) are the … |
| | I need to know if a Serial ATA-150 hard drive works with a Serial ATA II motherboard. |
| | I'm having trouble getting my board to post. I have power to everything and believe all the drives are connected correctly, but it will not boot up. I've cleared the CMOS several times, but still nothing. Symptoms: The CD/DVD drives only have power when the IDE cables are not connected. … |
| | Hello there! As of yesterday, my computer's been giving me alot of trouble. I'm not quite sure where to start, because I have no idea what's wrong. I have a year-old MDG computer with Windows XP Home edition. Basically, my computer froze yesterday. I thought it was because I was … |
| | I have a software program on a cd. It must have a copyright, Nero won't copy it to my hard drive so I can make an extra copy of it. Is there any ripping programs out there I can use? I am running XP. This is for my personal use … |
| | hey i have a maxtor.., its now outta warranty whenever i boot it.. it works fine then after about 5-7 hours it just makes all these noises then like it freezes and freezes my computer is it a problem with the hard drive? what do i do? would formatting it … |
| | Im trying to get some old files off of a hard drive onto a different computer. The old Hard drive contains data that I need. The system im trying to attach it to is a Win2000 Pro machine. When I add the drive on and assign it a partition letter … |
| | Unfortuantly I am not to familier with this type of computor or where to find a replacment part. The computor itself is and old IBM that runs a Particle Analyzer from Malvern on DOS. My problem is in the IDE board (i hope) and with that I am having a …  |
| | I have an older G3 with OsX 10.0.4 on it. I am going to sell it and want to wipe out the hard drive. So... I did some research and found a good hard drive wiper. I download it. Then when I go to mount it DiskCopy displays Checksum:CRC32 $B9C2F4AD …  |
| | I've tried installing versions of Linux on livecds, I've tried Knoppix 3.8.2, Knoppix 3.9, and Slax Kill Bill version 5.0.5. The cds will start to boot Caldera DR DOS, it will find drivers for USB devices and search for hard drives and then freezes. All 3 cds freeze at this …  |
| | Hi advise neaded please I bought a cheap laptop for mrs to use and it was running win95 and i wanted at least 98se loading on it. I went through the procedure of reformatting the hard drive as ive done on numourous occasions with main pc. The problem is its … |
| | I used to use Windows ME, but recently refomatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro. I have already installed SP2 (and Norton Internet Security 2004). However I noticed that my primary hard drive, which is a 20 GB drive, is shown as only having a 7.82 GB capacity … |
| | I am wanting to put Fedora on my laptop that currently runs XP. I want to do a dual boot, thus I need to create a new partition. Here's the problem: In XP, when I go to computer management, it shows that the entire hard drive has only 1 partition. … |
| | Running WinXP on the machine, it's only about 2 years old, the video card work fine (tested it in my other computer), the hard drive sounds like it is booting up, ram is in the correct place and works in other computers, no beeps from the mobo when it's starting …  |
| | Hey guys, I do video editing on my laptop (see specs below), and I save the video clips to a Maxtor external hard drive (USB). So, when I render projects and burn DVDs on my computer, it uses the video files that are on the external hard drive. This Blue … |
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