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I have a western digital external hard drive, brand new, 1TB I have one desktop with a windows 7 64bit OS, and a laptop with a windows 7 32bit OS when i plug the external hard drive into either device, an icon pops up in the task bar that says …

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my laptop's Hard disk crashed. So is there any way to install windows xp in a memory card. Have a nice day! :)

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Hi All. I have a compaq evo n600c notebook in which I recently installed a new 149 GB hard drive; the new hard drive required a bios with 48-bit lba capability and since this became available in 2003 and my bios dates to 31/12/2003 I believed my bios would handle …

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I have trawled for answers but no problem is quite the same as mine so I need to ask for help. My Sony Vaio needs to be switched on and off several times before it will boot up to the Vaio screen, then it asks to launch repair or start …

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hi i started coding battle ship when i was done i noticed that the user and computer always misses, even if they hit, i dont know what i did wrong [CODE]import java.util.Scanner; public class Battleship { public final static String USER = "user"; public final static String COMPUTER ="computer"; public …

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Hi Fellows. I have a confusing problem of Samsung laptop which uses Toshiba MK2555GSX internal hard drive. I have encountered a problem when i tried to start the machine and it respond with a message "cannot find hard-disk, press ctrl,Alt & delete to restart". i thought it could probably be …

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I have an unusual situation where I had a hard drive with some bad sectors and moved the data to a new drive. I did the move with cp -Rfp and >& logfile. I moved the data (~285GB) with about 20 copy commands. The >& should have given me information …

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All I would like to know is that if all parts are compatible with each other and will not conflict with each other: CPU Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge $220 [url=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115072]Newegg.com - Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache LGA …

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Hello everyone. I've been googling for a while but couldn't find any complete reference for the next question. So the question is, what do i need(cables, cards, etc) to connect a Fibre Channel Hard Drive on a normal desktop computer, by that i mostly think about the pci-e slots. Please …

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So I sent off my netbook to be repaired, and because of the crappy warrenty Asus offers it too 6 months to get back, my this time I've forgotten my HDD password. I changed the master and the user password in the BIOS when I was using it before it …

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I bought a little over 20 d51s's and I am trying to get the most money out of them, but am not sure where the current market is for these kinds of computers. Background: They all are P4 2.4GHz,1 CD-ROM,1 Floppy drives, most do not have ram, none of them …

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Hi, long story short I traded in an old xbox for a new one. But to move all my contents from one to the other, I had to use a 16GB USB flash drive. I formatted it to FAT32 on the PC, plugged it into the old xbox and transferred …

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Weighing in at a mere 7 lbs and standing only 9.9” by 2.6” and only 10” deep this super small tower can be easily underestimated. But, in both form and function this Elite PC holds up to its name in many ways. On top of the great performance it offers …

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I just got a 500GB 7200RPM G-Drive mini external hard drive, to use with Time Machine on my home iMac. I was wondering if I should keep the drive on at all times or should only start it up when I am going to manually backup my data. What are …

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Dani, I need help. I really do not want to reset my computer to zero, but I caught something icky. I got hit with a multi virus, and at first it hid all of my files, and gave me many popups that said my hard drive was failing. I ran …

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I was using an acer laptop and it had had some fan problems with parts getting stuck in it but everything was working fine. I had droped it a couple of time accidetnly and nothing happened. Then today, I dropped it and everything was working except I heard a ticking …

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This computer belongs to a friend from church. It is an HP ZE 4145 laptop computer. There are problems with the off- on button and, when pushed, the power led on the front only winked a few times. I found out on the web that the buttons along the top …

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The basics: I am in looking to put a new hard drive in my computer and am looking for advice/tips. I have purchased (2) WD Caviar Black 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/32MB/SATA-6G drives. Because of some proprietary software that I need to run I will be installing the 32 bit …

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Hi All, Having just gone through the painfully long process of hard drive format and re-install, I am looking for a system maintenance software package that will actually do what it's meant to do and not cause more problems than it fixes. There are so many available that I was …

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Okay I need help I don't have a lot of money and this is killing me... I barely bought this android phone... the motorola backflip I was trying to root it tp get cyanogenMOD7 and well it told me to down load.. file after file and I think my computer …

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Can I transfer my operating system and files from one hard drive to another hard drive? I want to wipe the other hard drive clean.

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Does anyone have any views about the best file synchronization software (preferably free, but if you have to pay to get accurate and reliable results, I'd like to hear about that too.) I want to select particular files and folders to backup to an external hard drive. I don't need …

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hi can anyone help i am having problems with a laptop that i was given the laptop was running slow it's a fujitsu siemens amilo pi 1505 on xp pro i tried to backup the previous owners files on to disc but every time i c+p in to cd drive …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite m55-s3293 laptop that came loaded with XP home Edition. I pretty sure that I upgraded to XP Pro. It will not load and gives me the following message: “We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A recent hardware or software change …

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The computer is a toshiba tecra 8100, with windows xp installed. it has been running fine until one time when i tried to turn it on, it completely stopped working, and i got a blinking orange pattern on an led near the power button. after doing numerous troubleshooting tests, like …

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For the Past Four Weeks , i have been researching alot of Errors caused by Windows XP Operating System especially in obsolete Computers where the Setup Hangs alot when the User tries to Proceed to the Next Stage of Windows XP Installation. There are Several Issues to be considered when …

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Hi, I have an odd problem...well an annoying problem. My internal hard drive is read only which is O.K. unless you need to write to it or say boot it. So what happened? I really don't know, I sent my computer to get some maintenance done on it because it …

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Is the CMOS battery on a Toshiba Tecra S1 readily accessible from the bottom of the machine ? I've taken apart many desktops but taking apart a laptop is new to me. I'm guessing it's about the size of a quarter but don't know if I have to completely remove …

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WoW is a pretty good game. I downloaded the free trail but the trail's over and i have no space on my hard drive to download a game. please help me find a game.

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I got my laptop in April 08 and since then it has gotten rediculously slow and really needs a reboot! I've done disc fragments ect, but its getting worse, i've backed up everything on my hard drive, so other than not really understanding what'll happen to my Itunes and music, …

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I have a hp pavilion dv2225nr that gets power but no boot just solid leds. I have reseated the memory, tested the hard drive on another system, but still the solid leds. I disassembled the laptop and noticed that there was no thermal compound on the cpu. I applied some …

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I have a question about Silverlight on the Client Side. Silverlight is designed differently where it is not possible for a silverlight program running inside a browser can have access to a user's hard drive. This is a good thing and is important for security. But there are times when …

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Hello, My hard drive is clinking all the time even when idle..Is there anything I could do to it? I am running Windows xp home ,1 gig memory,400 gig main harddrive. Thank you for your help. Ernie

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Hi I was wondering if anyone could help me. I've got a dual boot system with Windows XP which is my primary operating system and Windows 7. My computer is fairly old so it has a small hard drive so I want the space that is allocated to 7 to …

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I am trying to install XP on an old computer I'm putting back together. I have tried four different HDD, but none of them work. The only one that is in some way being detected displays a blank line at the "IDE Channel 1 Master" slot instead of displaying "None" …

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Ok so I have a client with a very high traffic adult site that needs some load balancing help. He just purchased a dedicated server with the following specs: Linux Server: Intel Xeon 3450 (Quad Core) 2 GB DDR3 Memory 2 x 250 GB Hard Drive 10 TB Bandwidth 5 …

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Hi, just started today with trying to implement a Thread in my application and have come across a problem that I can't seem to figure out. The application asks the user to enter their userid into a TextBox on the main form which is used to download a specific XML …

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Ok, so my computer was running completely fine (with the exception of random freezes) for the past month or so. So I ran driver cleaner and all that and reinstalled a new graphics driver. While the computer was shut down, I installed a PCI wifi adapter card and removed an …

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I tried to craete a dual booting(Xp/Fedora) Pc with xp already installed and 60gb of free hard drive.Now I tried to install fedora 15 from usb(using the dvd iso in Unetbootin).I tried using a custom partition layout and allocated 2048 Mb for swap space and 100 Mb for boot partition.nextly, …

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Hy all, i'm trying to make an addon for windows explorer. So here is that i want to do: Create in my computer a virtual hard drive which is actually a connection to a FTP server with a user and a password. User can copy with drag & drop, or …

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Hi there, I got a problem with my external hard disk. I formatted it in an ubuntu os then suddenly windows 7 doesn't recognize it any more.. Is there any possible solution to my problem??

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Hi Friends, PC running XP, version 3, 2GB Drive but gradually running out of space and 1TB external drive! I see my iTunes library is almost 41 GB and wonder if I could move this to my external hard drive to gain some space? Would iTunes find it okay? Total …

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[COLOR=#000000]I have a Seagate 80gb Hard Drive that is a IDE. I just bought a new DELL Dimension E310. It has a 80gb SATA 2 Hard Drive. The mother board does not have anyplace where I can connect my older IDE Hard Drive . Is there anyway that the older …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]21290[/ATTACH]The HP ProBook 6560b at first glance is not distinguishable from other laptops. However, this business rugged machine was designed for the modern day businessman. It’s sleek, charcoal black aluminum case is smooth to the touch. Weighing in at a little less than six pounds, this laptop was made to …

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Was hoping would be as simple as plugging it in and then setting as a slave on the BIOS... seems I was a little too optimistic. I have a new hard drive in on a clean install of Windows 7. I would like to add my old hard drive, transfer …

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I recently found that my hard drive has bad sectors in the neighborhood of 5000 per day. ordinarily I would consider this to be a bad hard drive. Except that this hard drive is a 6 month old Western Digital 250 gb hard drive, that replaced a one year old …

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Hello everybody, Today i assembled my first computer. I followed an online tutorial and followed the manuals provided with the parts. However, when i finished and plugged it in, it didn't turn on. There was no beep, or even any sign that the computer was on. Can anybody help me …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]21862[/ATTACH]I was rather excited when the iTwin came across my desk. It came in a very small package, but you know what they say, “good things come in small packages.” To my delight, this device happened to be a very good thing. I found this device to be perfect for …

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These are few of the best methods to generate traffic to your blog, if you learn a bit more in detail and implement it effectively your sure to gain success. 1. Pay-Per-Click 2. Banner Advertising 3. Ezine Advertising 4. Text Links 5. Leads (co-registration) 6. Offline Marketing 7. TV, Radio …

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Hi guys, Using my desktop pc (Windows XP Professional), I copied songs from my cds to the computer thru Windows Media Player and then moved all the songs to my portable hard drive. I connected my hard drive to my laptop (Vista Home Premium) and tried to play the files …

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