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I have a Powerbook G3 (WallStreet version) running OS 9.2 and am trying to burn some Photoshop files to CD. I have Toast Lite installed and a Lacie d2 CD-RW Drive. Whenver I connect my laptop to the CD-RW Drive and Launch Toast Lite I get that annoying little revolving …

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Hello, First, what is TDM? Targeted Disk Mode. Back in the day of the first Mac laptops, and I think it was System 7, you could take a Mac laptop that had a special SCSI Cable (it was missing a pin) and using a control panel setting, turn that laptop …

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[color=Purple][size=4][font=Georgia][i][b]im new to this site...so hi everyone..i need some assistance..my computer has been running slow lately...i have windows xp home edition..i use all my anti virus programs..and trojan programs i clean out and optomize weekly...i am model and i have alot of pictures.. i remove them and put them on …

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:( First of all i will start out by letting you know the pc is a HP Pavilion a445c with a AMD Athlon XP 3000+ cpu, 512 of pc2700, 160gb hard drive. Here's my problem. Lately every time i try and run a particular process (online search)in a particular program …

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NOW what !!?? I recently hard a second hard drive crash which I managed to rescue with Disk Warrior. Since than, every time I insert, say. a compact flash card or SD card or external disk my G4 insists it cannot recognise the disk and wants to initialize it. If …

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Okay, I'm attempting to set up a slave hard drive on my computer. Can't get it quite right. Can anyone help?

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Ok, I have narrowed it down to these builds for my upcomining computer. Before I list them, however, I have a couple of questions. I know very little about RAM and how it works, sadly. Right now I have some inexpensive Rosewill pc3200 RAM picked out. It looks fine and …

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Hey i was just wondering if you could wipe a hard drive clean without clearing the OS and the other essentials. I could manually remove everything but im not well versed in what I should keep and what i shouldnt keep in the program files and such.

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Installed new hard drive running xp, and keep getting "ntldr" message? Hard drive is 80 GB Maxtor 7200rpm t/m ultra ata/133 8mb cache. Old one crashed, Can anyone help i tried microsofts solution but will not work? What am i doing wrong? I followed instruction and ran cd provided.

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Hi Any advice welcome........ I fitted a second hard drive (80GB Western Digital) to my G4 (400Mhz) few months back, running on O.S 9.2.2 I've been using it to store my albums of digi pix on. and recently my son started creating imovies on it. It has now crashed completely …

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I have a 1-Gighz Athlon Processor with 256Mb of SDRAM and a 58GB main HD and a 9.5GB secondary HD. Both are LBA, the main at 5 and the 2nd at 4. The main is set at "Master" and the 2nd is set as "slave". I loaded Win98SE on the …

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I wondered if you guys could give me some helpful advice. I'm trying to copy a few images from my old pc to my new one, using a floppy disk as I can't be bothered with burning to a cd. Here are the pc specs: NEW PC -------- 2.4Ghz Celeron …

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Hi there, everyone! I have an old HP Pavilion 6635 that I got in 99 (I think). It's got a whopping 533mhz Celeron chip with 100mhz FSB. I've got 192MB RAM installed (it came with 64, I added 128), and a whopping 10.2GB hard drive (although it's more like 9.8 …

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Ok, I am planning on buying a new 160GB hard drive to add to my computer which has a 40GB hard drive. 1) does a slave drive mean secondary drive? 2) If I install the hard drive has a slave drive can I run programs like Word, Adobe Programs, or …

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Since September, my computer has been having problems. After numerous failed repair attempts, my friend fixed it for me. It worked for about a week, and then two days ago, I decided to try and get the whole thing working. When I got the computer up and running again, I …

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I am trying to install some new components on a used PIII computer for a friend and my dilemma is that after I installed the new hard drive and moved the existing old drive to the slave, when I boot the machine, the monitor, the mouse, and the keyboard do …

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I have a 7 gig hard drive. I have only 3 gigs of files but for some reason it shows that I only have 755 mb left. What has happened to the other 4 gigs?

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[font=VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF][size=1][font=VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF][size=1][font=VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF][size=1]Having bugs in your code may be unavoidable, but crashing [i]*is*[/i] avoidable. Barring cosmic rays playing yahtzee with your memory there is no reason why your program should ever crash. Crashing is totally avoidable![/size][/font] [font=VERDANA, ARIAL, HELVETICA, SANS-SERIF][size=1]What do I mean …

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I still havn't decided between these 3 mobos, any advice would be great! Vid Card - 6800GT CPU - AMD 64 3400+ slot 754 RAM - 1 gig (one stick) 3200 DDR PSU - 500 watts Case - Antec Super Lanboy Hard drive - 160 gig 7200 rpm IDE DVD/CD …

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One day in the distant past (2 days ago) I turned off my computer. All was fine. When I went to turn it back on, and after seeing "verifying dmi addresses....." I get the message "Error loading OS" . I have important data on the hard drive and hope there …

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One day in the distant past (2 days ago) I turned off my computer. All was fine. When I went to turn it back on, and after seeing "verifying dmi addresses....." I get the message "Error loading OS" . I have important data on the hard drive and hope there …

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We have a system with Windows 2000 Professional, and we are trying to hook up a JEMS external hard drive to the computer. It is all hooked up through a PCI card, and the hard drive is on, and the fans are running. The computer recognized that hardware had been …

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specs: Maxtor diamond maxplus 16gb hd ASUS A8V Deluxe SATA bios wonte detect hard drive thus i cant format my disk as windows cannot find a hard drive. I have looked inside the comp and there are 4 SATA conection ports on the mobo, 2 two say above them sata …

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I recently reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Pro SP1. Prior to formatting my HD, my PC was having boot problems. I received “We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully

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I use GAIM and have no use for Windows Messenger. I have managed to make it hidden so that it at least does not clutter up my system tray, but it still runs in the background, which annoys me to no end. Is there anyway I can completly remove it? …

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Hi I recently installed a 160GB Hitachi ata hard drive in my HP. The master drive is a maxtor 80GB. I have already moved a lot of my pictures, videos, and other miscellaneous files to my 160GB slave drive. However, I would like to move all of my installed programs …

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Did a clean install yesterday of XP as computer kept freezing. After the install my slave drive (F:) is not showing. Instead it is showing on my computer as removable disk. How do I get it back as my slave hard drive?

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Ah. I reformatted my hard drive and now whenever i start my computer in normal mode the monitor display is 100% blurry lines and fuzz. I'm typing this in safe mode. PLZ help me. I am running Windows XP if that helps

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ANTEC ALUMINUM SERIES SUPER LAN BOY MINI TOWER CASE with Clear Side Acrylic Window and FREE Case Carrying Strap -RETAIL $79.50 CD drive Optorite Black IDE/ATAPI 52X32X52 CD-RW Drive, Model CW5201, Retail $21.99 Hard Drive Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, MODEL 6Y080M0, OEM Drive Only $69.00 Memory (System Memory) …

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My hard disc is slowing a little bit ... I reinstalled windows on an ntfs file system ... but it didnt matter .. now if I format all my hard drive ... will it restore its speed or there are other factors that affect the speed of the hard drive …

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Ok When I type a query in my IE search box it wont search I get a: " The page cannot be displayed The page you are looking for might have been removed or had its name changed. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please try the following: Open the home page, and then look …

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Hi i'm new to this stuff. i have a HP pervilen that takes forever to start up. i have refomatted it to original settings and it still runs slow. i was told that it was my hard drive that is bad. is this true? every thing still works on it …

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Hi, I’m thinking I’m having some Major problems with my systems tower but I’ll just start with the problems I diagnosed from the beginning Incredibly high PF usage: Initially this wasn’t a problem, now it’s sky rocketing to the 300’s when I have slightly more applications open then I generally …

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I just purchased a new emachine and tried to put my old hard drive in the new machine as a slave. I left the jumper setting alone on the new drive and eliminated the jumpers on the slave. When the pc finished boot up I did not see a new …

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i have an asus a8v deluxe motherboard, my problem is that when i enter bios my hard disk is not shown thus i cannot format windows any help would be greatly appreciated

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I recently bought a G4 Powerbook with the newest version of X (Panther). I wanted to install Bryce 5 and some games on my notebook and can't. I went to the Bryce 5 support faq and it told me: QUESTION: How Do I Install Bryce® 3D on a Macintosh? ANSWER: …

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:confused: please help me i can not boot my friends system ,even if i use the windows Xp disk it gives an error "disk boot failure,insert system disk and press enter" to get here i,had a hdd with xp & red hat on 2 partitions,i couldnt remove the linux so …

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Well, I'm new to this forum, mainly because i haven't ran into any problems so far with my mac and now that it's giving me a headache i figured this might be a way to solve my problems........ without knowing what i was really doing to myself i created a …

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I have a Dell Optiplex GX250 desktop with 20GB hard drive space, Pentium III processor, with 246MB of RAM. The operating system is Windows 2000 Professional and Symantec is 8.1 Corporate Edition. When I install Symantec on this computer I get the following error message: The ordinal 1109 could not …

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Hi, my window XP is running out of space in my old hard drive (9GB Maxter), I want to migrate the OS to the new drive (WD 80GB). I used the WD tools to copy the drive. It took two hours but everything went fine. Then I reboot to the …

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Can someone look over this "Highjackthis" log and give me some advice. On the verge of formatting hard drive and starting over. Logfile of HijackThis v1.98.2 Scan saved at 10:23:22 PM, on 10/19/2004 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe …

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[i]OS: Windows XP home edition[/i] [i]2.6 GHz[/i] [i]256 MB ram[/i] [i]40GB hard drive[/i] [i]Celeron processor[/i] [i]McAfee security, Norton antivirus 2005, Spybot, and Spyware Blaster running.[/i] Whenever I re-boot my computer, it will freeze on the screen that says "HP Invent" (the blue and white screen). None of the keys will …

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The G.W. Bush Virus – Causes your computer to keep looking for viruses of mass destruction. The John Kerry Virus – Stores data on both sides of the disk and causes little purple hearts to appear on screen. The Ronald Reagan Virus – Saves your data, but forgets where it …

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Ok, after a week of trying to install Linux I gave up. Now, after the millions of times I've partitioned the hard disk, the hard drive doesnt boot automaticly at startup because, technicly, there isnt really anything there. Anyway I got my hands on a friend's XP install disk and …

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OS 9.2 and OSX.O - Somehow I have an icon on my desk that says .DS_store -I have no idea where it came from but it has multiplied into everything on my desktop and in the hard drive. When I try to send it to the Trash, I get a …

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Hi, HELP. An automatic update put Internet Explorer 6 on my hard drive/WinXP. This new version of IE6 has a new security feature that blocks EVERYTHING from being downloaded from a website. Including java applets. To turn this off you have to go into control panels/internet options and add EACH …

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I am trying to do a fdisk and format on IBM thinkpad 600. I think the hard drive is going (computer has crashed 3 times in less than a month) but thought possibly we could reformat one more time...I have performed this procedure twice without any problems but now this …

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Hi- I am running Windows xp pro on a 2.0gig processor and recently bought a computer from a 'friend'. The computer he sold me has some serious issues with the video. Is not the cable or the video card-is somewhere in the motherboard. I am trying to put the hard …

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I am having a problem with a SeaGate Barracuda 200 MB drive that was installed to replace a failing IBM Deskstar. The drive was installed using the SeaGate software that ghosted the old drive when the new was connected as a slave. I successfully got the new drive running with …

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:o I can't seem to remember where to find the files, and Outlook Express shows where they are, but I've been looking and don't see them. I've opened every menu I can think of. Also, I need to find Favorites and Links. I'm about to migrate to a new hard …

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