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| | Hey, I have a toshiba laptop which has a dead motherboard. I bought a little caddy and took the hard drive out of it and connected it via USB to my new laptop. (Both laptops ran XP) It worked fine yesterday and I was able to access my old files … |
 | HI there. im doing a home study course in pc repair and upgrading and i am stuck on one particular part of my course, entitled 'hard drive theory and practice. :sad: i have looked in the text book and i cant find the answers in there. i've even tried looking … |
| | I have replaced my old hard drive (HD-O) with a new hard drive (HD-N) because the operating system was corrupt and could not be repaired without erasing HD-O according to Dell. HD-N now is working fine with MS XP. However I can’t get the computer to recognize HD-O (tested and … |
| | I am running Windows XP Home on this computer, and using the default CD burning software that came with it (I think it's Roxio?) I wanted to back up some files from the 'F' drive; about 900 MB, so I was going to use two CD's. Before I started, there … |
| | Ok, I've been having some trouble with my browsers lately, and did the whole gamut of fixes (spyware, virus scans, HJT logs, you name it). I even formatted my hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP. But I was still having trouble with what seemed to be "timeout" issues. Some pages … |
| | I have an iBook G3. Two days ago, I upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.3.4. The first time the computer started up, my main concern was getting on the internet [my dorm now has wireless; before the upgrade, I couldn't access the network] so I opened up my web browser [Firefox] …  |
| | Hi Im new here and I have a problem. Last week my old hard drive sorta crashed on me. So now I have a new hard drive. But all my files are on my old hard drive and I want to transfer them so I have my old hard drive … |
 | Hi there, I am very very sick by having to fight this little bugger. I just cant get rid of this spam, spybot, trojan, hacktool, virus, whatever. I really need some professional help because if I can't fix this I will :cry: all day. I am going through some real …  |
| | I have a Jetway motherboard with a Celeron 1.7 gig chip and onboard video card. We had problems a while ago with the display freezing up. Eventually the screen would not display during the boot process. Right now we are trying to install a new hard drive and install Windows … |
| | Scan disk restarts 10 times, due to some program writing to the hard drive, i have ran scan disk with tool bar turned off and with only exploror and systray running. and i still get this error message, i ran many virus scans and no viruses, then i ran scan … |
| | Hello forum ppl, Im in the process of upgrading a computer. Heres the new specs: Athlon64 cpu asrock k8upgrade 1689 motherboard maxtor 80gig SATA hard drive. (along with other things that arent really related to the problem) when i tried to install windows xp with the third party SATA driver …  |
 | i have a machine built for windows 95 it has about 500mb or so hard drive space I have a better computer but it is used by my entire family and i've already screwed it up enough and dont need someone yelling at me. So i was wondering if this … |
| | Have 2 HDD's in my computer One is 100GB with all data. other is 30 gGB with NO data. It is a formatted but empty drive. When I attempt to remove the drive my computer will not go thru the Drive detection stage in the BIOS. If it does get …  |
| | I just put in a hard drive,set it up as a slave,bios and device manager recognize it but can't access it thru MY COMPUTER. my cd rom. has become my E drive,still have C: no D: My jumper settings are correct. I don't get it. |
| | HI! I've had a friend ask for my help, but not sure what's wrong; *OH bought an external hardrive, he formatted it, the pc is recognising it ok but the thing is it's supposed to have 160GB on it and it's only showing up as 1.99GB, anyone know what the … |
| | I want to make my older 1999-era hard drive a slave to a newer 2003-era hard drive, as a secondary drive. The older hard drive has 8 jumper pins, while the newer hard drive has 10 jumper pins. If I follow the instructions to make the older hard drive a … |
| | I have recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed windows XP home edition because i felt that i had slowed my notebook down with too many programs. However it seems that it has been slower since i did this! Whenever i drag a window round the desktop or scroll down …  |
| | hi i just recently bought a new motherboard and and took all the components from my old motherboard and put them in place on the new ne. ok so thats all working great i start the pc up sort out all the bios settings. this is all still ok. my … |
| | Lost old hard drive, installed new and installed Panther from original disks. Now it says it can't launch any of my application that need system 9. Having a very bad week. |
| | I have 3 external Lacie 500gb harddrives. One, (drive "K") recently quit being recognized by Windows. I was not alarmed, this was the third time this had happened, usually a reboot fixed the problem. This time, however, even after 7 reboots, the problem persisted. A call to tech support yielded … |
| | hi there. I have just recently built a computer for my younger brother. it is running on 256Mb DDR ram, amd sempron processor and motherboard and 40Gb hard drive. I have installed Windows xp professional edition on it. the problem is that whenever my brother installs and plays a game … |
| | I bought the parts myself for the PC I'm using now and had someone install everything (XP Pro). After about a month I had problems with slow scatching sound when playing music (ALC 850, Included in motherboard.) Then I formated the HD and installed a fresh XP Media Center Edition …  |
| | Windows XP SP1. I just got an .iso file, (CD image), from a friend who owed me a copy of 'x' program, and I finally got it on a CD, great. I put the CD in, nothing happens. OK, probably no autorun system. I go to the disc, and it's … |
| | I have windows 98, on startup it takes forever to load. Same when I click on aol. When I go to web sites my hard drive runs for about a minute or so befor it settles down. Same when I click on something to view. I also get about blank … |
 | Can anyone tell me how to load all three of the PhotoDraw CDs on my hard drive? Do I just put them in another directory or something? It's a real pain to have to change the CDs every time I need a feature and I've got plenty of room. Using … |
| | I have recently formatted my hard drive because it was beyond rescue. i installed windows xp professional on it and now cannot seem to install the 'video controller' (vga compatble). I cannot identify the make of it and so am not abler to go direct to the manufacturers website and … |
| | I have or had (cause its dead now) a 1ghz Pentium 3 computer 256mb of RAM I consistently over clocked to 1.1ghz by raising the FSB for over 2 months and then it just decided to play up and wiped my hard drive: Scenario I had turning on this PC … |
| | Hello. My system will freeze when It hits windows right after I install the drivers for my Radeon 9600 Pro video card. I then have to enter safemode to remover the drivers and the system will run. I put a Nividia gforce 2 old card back in for now. I … |
| | Hi, I was hoping maybe someone can help me out. Without even knowing how, I think I disabled my secondary hard drive and can't seem to get it back. It doesn't appear in "My Computer" anymore. I attempted a system restore, but a notification popped up saying "changes made to …  |
| | As far as my internet connection goes, almost everying works fine. My only current problem is that when using any type of sharing program, it stays in the connecting phase and never connects. They've worked fine in the past with the same settings(as far as I know), but I've recently … |
| | I may have inadvertantly removed a shell file. now my computer woun't boot. I have to keep starting it over and over then if I'm lucky it will start in safe mode then evenually shut down before I can do anything with it. It was reading a some kind of … |
| | [COLOR=Blue]i have an ibm thinkpad T30 i got from my step dad and it hasnt ever been upgraded or anything. it has a pentium 4 moble cpu 1.60GHz and windows xp and 256 mb of ram and a 20 gig hard drive, i dont know much about computers and i … |
| | I have decided amd 939 board and a seagate w/ncq hard drive. How can I find a board that supports this? |
| | Help Please help. I have 2 hard drives installed one is a 80GB, and the other is a 250GB. My son built this computer. Here's the problem I am running out of space on the 80GB hard drive and I want to transfer all of the data from the 80 … |
| | Im looking for a script to go on my website so that a user can upload an image from their hard drive and have it displayed on the website, but i want it so that it can be displayed in a box, so that they can see what it is … |
| | Is my computer pretty decent? is it on the high-end or low-end? Windows XP Service Pack 2 450 Watt PSU AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Socket 754 Gigabyte GA-K8NS 1GB RAM DDR 400 PC 3200 256 MB ATI Radeon 9600 400 mhz core Samsun 80 GIG hard drive 7200 RPM Gigabyte … |
| | Hi folks I want to partition my hard drive in my Dell machine to get an ext3 partions - I want to dual boot in linux. I will be using partition magic to do this as I have used this previously. However the last time I undertook any partitioning was … |
| | Well this is a bit strange.I own my PC since 2002 and it operated correctly.The last months though I noticed a strange effect.When I use my CD/DVD drives a sound is heard through my speakers.The sound is caused by the optical reading of the cd/dvd and correspond to the RPM … |
 | Hey, im rallying all the hardware together for when I build my new computer, check out all this hardware and tell me what you think. Also tell me if there is a mismatch of hardware, or something im missing, here goes: Case =ASPIRE X-Infinity Black ATX Mid-Tower Case with 350W …  |
| | Sorry if this has been covered previously.... Have an Gateway Essential 500 with DVD, burner, zip drive. I have a 20 gig HD in it and have purchased a 120 gig HD. I would like to use thw 20 gig as a slave but there a no additional connections on … |
| | I recently thought that I had a hard drive problem because when I went in and did dskchk it said it had errors. I did a fix but the problem still existed. Many times when I would reboot it would take me to the safe mode, start normally page. Sometimes … |
| | hi my hard drive has stopped working! i think there was a powersurge and ther is serious data corruption. what can i do to get my work off my hard drive. Please reply Andy |
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 | Location: TX. History Rm OS: WinXP Problem: When the teacher turns off the conputer for the night, it shuts down like normal. When she goes in the next day to turn the computer on, nothing! The hard drive light will not come on, only the green power light. It's not … |
| | I have a WD 160 GB 7200 rpm hd on primary IDE channel set as master, its the only thing on that channel. an optical disk is on secondary ide channel. looking in device manager, under ide ata/atpi controllers under primary ide channel advanced properties the transfer mode for both … |
 | What types of programs and machine would I need to run a home webserver? This is the machine I've got: Maker: Acer Model: no clue Processor: AMD K6 300mhz RAM: 64 megs NIC card: Linksys 10/100 Hard Drive: maxtor 6.4 gig (master) Seagate 6.4 gig (extra) Operating System: Microsoft Windows …  |
| | I have a computer I built with a CD ROM, hard drive, and floppy drive and a 300MHz AMD processor. It was intended to be for playing a bunch of old DOS games I have, but when I try to boot it from the FreeDOS one disk installer(ODIN), it just … |
| | I am new to Linux so bear with me. I have installed Red Hat 9 and it won't boot up, what I get is: "kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno =2 VFS: Cannot open root device "sdb5" or 08:15 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel … |
| | I have an annoying problem with application hangs. I'm running xp sp2 AMD Duron 1.33 ghz.,km-266 8735 chipset, 40 gig hard drive and 512 DDR mem. The problem is most noticable on music and video playback but all programs stop momentarily and then restart from that point with no loss … |
| | My server started just started to give me the BSOD. I checked the dump file and got this Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.4.0007.2 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Loading Dump File [f:\mini030805-02.dmp] Mini Kernel Dump File: Only registers and stack trace are available Symbol search path is: … |
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