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| | Here is my problem. I have two computers both running Windows XP. Just the other day one of the computers stops loading Windows XP. I think the partitions got messed up. I've attempted to connect that hard drive to the other computer that is working but it is not recognizing … |
| | Okay this one has me stumped. I just reformatted my hard drive, installed windows and the updates, and now it takes about 3 to 4 minutes to boot up. It hangs between the windows start and the welcome screen for about 2 minutes. I have not changed anything, all devices … |
| | I experience major lag for atleast 1 min or less whenever i make the computer runs hard, like playing game, watch DVDs or even burning a CD. I tried formatting it and still didnt work. Just bought a new hard drive and problem still exist. I am thinking about trying … |
| | Can someone please help me with how I can locate the graphic files that are on my hard drive? I am using a Dell 8300 with Windows XP Home Edition.:cry: :sad: :rolleyes: |
| | window 98sec freeze up on about anything i do on my web server,media player takes about 2 min and its froze up haft to restart.all the time.search the net it will freeze up to but not as bad have a S2390B Trinity KT-A MOTHER BOARD 1.2 G PROSESSOR 15gb hard …  |
| | Hi all, This is probably just me being dozy, but hopefully someone can help. I've had loads of problems with my copy of Windows XP Pro (eg the system crashing when I try to access the properties of my LAN!), mostly involving it crashing, so I've decided to try and … |
| | hey all, my dad has a Dell Dimension 8200 computer and he runs Windows XP pro. he's had it for almost a year and up until recently it was working just fine. Almost a month ago, he tried opening his picture file and he got this error message: "[color=red]The instruction … |
| | We have a ton of users on our network with laptops who use offline folders. Our issue revolves around sync'ing these folders and/or trying to remove them. For example, we had a server go down and I rebuilt it. Afterwards, everyone was complaining of sync problems because I had changed … |
| | I installed windows xp onto a second hard drive that I had, but i removed it. When I start my computer, it would ask which windows to start. Even though i removed the hard drive with the other windows installed, the option to start the other windows appears. How would …  |
| | Hey all, Unfortunatly its my first post, so that means I have a problem. I just built this new system. Details: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP CPU: 2.8 HT P4 800FSB Hard Drive: Western Digital SATA 36GB Raptor 10K Video: 9800 Pro OS: Windows XP Pro CD: LiteOn CD-RW/DVD+RW Well ever since … |
| | Hello My first post here. My problem is with the Explorer window in Windows 98SE on an new, custom 1800 Celeron system with dual hard drives and 512 RAM. It's a problem I've not seen before on three of my own systems and two of my wife all running the … |
| | My apologies for the length but am unsure of specific diagnostic data needed for trouble shooting responses. From perusing the threads, there are a lot of competent people who are really sharp in these matters. If additional info/diagnostics are needed, let me know. I've researched a lot of Liteon/Microsoft/Intel et … |
| | Greetings, Whenever I attempt to save Jpegs from the web onto my hard drive it use to save them as Jpegs but all of a sudden it will only save them as .bmp files. Unfortunately when I attempt to open them, they cannot be viewed, as all of my Graphic … |
| | have just managed to erase the hard drive of my Mac PB 1400 so that when I try to re-install Mac os 8 from original system disk I get message 'there is no destination disk'. HELP ANY IDEAS FOLKS ? |
| | I installed Mac OS 10 Panter.....and had never used the version of 10 which came with the imac....but decided i needed to start to play with it. I was distracted while i was doing it and assumed when the message came to erase the old and continue, it meant the … |
| | I have 19 gigs used on a 20 gig hard drive. I can only find about 11 gigs being used. Could it be the millenium files from installing xp (choosing to keep them for a system restore back to ME)? If possible, where are they? I want to delete them. … |
| | hi everyone, My problem is big i think, and would appreciate any but all help i can get. My PC is a Acermate model 5120 pentium 120mhz. Its original operating sys was win95 then it was upgraded to win98 It was extremely slow on net and some applications I was …  |
| | I know this is a dumb question: Does the hard drive in Linux get fragmented like in Windows? If so does Linux have a defrag program or wilL I havve to donwload one. |
| | Hi there, I am going to help a friend soon upgrading their system to win2000 - and it currently has win98 on it. It probably has 1 hard drive, and they can't fdisk using tools like partition magic (the time period to purchase/get the software is too small). Anyway. My …  |
| | [color=black][font=Arial][size=3]I have had this pc for about 4 months and it has had nothing but problems, and has been back to the shop 4 times. The makers (A&D Computers) just won't help me anymore.[/size][/font][/color] [color=black][font=Arial][size=3]When ever I try making a VCD or copying a CD on to the computer or … |
| | Hello, I have had this problem occuring to me for the last week. I go to turn on my cpmputer like normal (hit power button, etc) and it will not boot. The hard drive light stays on, but it does not even get to the initial screen, the monitor stays … |
| | Do to some puter problems, I have had my computer hard drive completely redone. Upon reinstalling my windows 98 and then all the updates, I have been confronted with this update for .net framework. Being computer illiterate I have no idea whether or not I need this download and because …  |
| | I'm having problem trying to install win xp. After the format is done it said something about my hard drive is not turn on or connected. I know for sure it's connect but how do I turn it on.. also I'm getting this error DRFAT32.sys: could not find a drive … |
| | [font=Arial][size=2]I have a primary and secondary 80GB hard drives...I had issues on my secondary hard drive but was able to Ghost it and recover the data, which has been saved to the primary drive. I would now like to run dual OS's with XP on the primary and Linux on …  |
| | Hi there, I am new to this site and not sure if my questions will be appropriate. I am just learning about a variety of things to do with computers and am trying to fdisk my hard drive. My existing drive has Windows 2000 on it and I need to … |
 | I posted this as a reply to another post, but I figured I would make a new thread just in case it may be usefull to people who are having this issue. I modified it a bit to be generalized, please feel free to add comments/revisions to help those who … |
| | I just bought a new motherboard and processor, an intel P4 2.4 (500 FSB) and ECS LV4XA2. Problem is after I installed all my hardware and software, my computer starts freezing up. It'll start booting up and after the windows XP intro. goes away, it freezes. I've tried almost everything, … |
| | I am getting a new system and would like to sell what I have. The problem is, I'm completely computer illiterate and don't know all the specs of my current computer. For example, I know that I have an Athlon processor, but nothing else about it. Can I pull this … |
| | I just replace my secondary hard drive on my 1700 Mhz computer. I also added another 512 Mb of PC 2100 DDR SDRAM. I have spent the last 2 days trying to get things to work and now XP starts to load and hangs. After checking with the Microsoft Knowledge …  |
| | My computer is windoes xp, the Processor is AMD Athlon 2000+, 40GB Hard-drive, 512 memory, 40xCDRW and a DVD. I only use it for sufing the net and the odd file. do you think I need to update Thank-you Peter. |
| | I have a Compaq Bundle unit, 5103CL. Came with ME installed, no cd. Got the upgrade to XP cd from MS. Used it. Reformatted the 40 GIG hard drive to acquire the additional space. This eliminated all the FAT32 info....as in everything ME! Now I want to copy everything to … |
| | I own a maxtor 120gb 7200 ulta ata/133 hard drive. I have used it for the last 3 months without any problems. I am using it for video editing purposes and have large files on it. This morning, my computer would not recognize it. It comes back with E: not … |
| | I am not that tech/computer savvy------However, I have a Toshiba Tecra 510CDT, 133 mhz laptop. I want to know if the following hard drive is compatible. (I can get it free, if it is) TOSHIBA HARD DRIVE FOR LAPTOP...4 GIG....MK4313MAT....HDD2141. Very thin..measures about 3/8". Dan......... |
| | Last night I got a new LAN card and installed it. Booted up and Windows ran plug-and-play. I installed the drivers for the LAN from the floppy and rebooted when prompted as I've done with every other peripheral upgrade I've ever done. On reboot though, before it posted, the PC … |
| | Which is the best (read fastest) type of hard drive for a new gaming PC? Are the Serial ATA's the best? TIA  |
| | We have a HP Pavillion computer with a non pavillion hard drive (our first hard drive burned and crashed). We have WinMe on it and tons of other stuff we have acquired. I want to know how to erase the hard drive and start fresh. |
| | Using windows XP pro. on a 2 computer home network. Was using simple file sharing and everything was working fine for awhile. Then started getting file accesss denied with different files. clicked off simple file sharing and tried to change owner but would not let me and could not find … |
| | Whoo! I've never been so happy to see my computer again.. 4 days ago my hard drive died / crashed with no backup since last year. needless to say I thought I lost 7gb of workd and data. I was going crazy so I looked online for some datarecovery services … |
| | Wow it seems every post I read starts out with "Hey I am a newbie to this, I need some help" then it is continued by a long long long paragraph without any commas, periods, and so on. Well here I go, but i'll try to keep it short and … |
| | [COLOR=Navy] I am having problems with my compaq presario 2100 and please i know ....not a great machine.. :) Anyway the computer just crashed the other day so i did some looking around at it. I have found that if you pull one of the sdram chips out the machine … |
| | Hello, I just recently installed Windows XP on my computer, completely wiping my harddrive and starting from scratch. I'm running an AMD Athalon 2100 (1.7 ghz), 512mb Ram, ASUS A7N66 - VM/LAN/AA Motherboard and 120 gig hard drive w/ 8 meg cache. Since installing Windows XP, my Internet Explorer experience … |
| | I am considering moving my hardware to another case. I have a Compaq and a HP desktop. Are the instructions provided with new cases sufficient for an inexperienced person too safely relocate the motherboard to another case? I have no trouble with hard drives and small stuff like that, however … |
| | Make -ASUS P2B-B motherboard with the latest Bios update installed. CPU - Pentium II 400 mz Ram- 2 X 128 mb Sdram Hard Drive - Maxtor 20 g 7200 rpm (free space 18 + gb) Windows Version - Clean full Install of Win 98SE Internet Connection - none Not connected … |
| | Anyone have an idea of what I missed here? I have Pentium 2 - 233MMX system 512RAM, Asus P2L97 Motherboard. It had a 2.1 GB Maxtor HD with Windows 95 on it, but I have replaced it with a fujitsu 8.1 GB HD (from my Server System - so it … |
| | I am a computer dummy with a question! If you install a new hard drive, is the size automatically detected or does it have to be entered manually? :confused: |
 | ok well i have a duel boot, and i decided to get rid of one of the boots and use that hard drive (2 hard drives too) for file storage. I put in the XP cd and tell it to delete the partition. It does it. I restart my comp … |
| | Ok, I just got this peculiar problem about this "Maxtor 40Gig Hard drive". I have 2 pc's. Let's just call this PC1 and PC2. My Maxtor hard drive can not detect by BIOS in the PC1 but can detect in the PC2. I also transferred my Excelstor hard drive from … |
| | hi everybody i was looking for a new hard drive at western digital and i found a raptor 10,000 rpm scsi hard drive and i was wondering if it will work for with my motherboard here is a link to the spec's of my motherboard let me know if it … |
| | A quick rundown of my computer....it is on loan from my Internet school that I go to...and it is also a dell... Now...I have a problem with it. Last night...we had a really bad wind storm. The power flickered on and off for a few seconds. While that was happening … |
| | well it would take a while to tell you wtf happened, so ill cut to the chase I have two hard drives running XP becuase of some crazy shit that forced me to install to my 2nd hard drive. However now my computer automatically boots up onto this new install … |
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