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I installed my new HD, inserted my Windows XP CD and started the computer. My BIOS reognized the new HD correctly, the CD started working fine... I chose to make a partition. It was about 49% done and I realized I did not chose the right size for the partition. …

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I have just bought a new 80Gb ide hard drive to go in my computer at work as the old one was getting full (only 9Gb!). Iv put the hard drive in and connected it all up and its not working. The pc can detect its there but when I …

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I am getting pitifully poor transfer speeds from an XP box to 2003 box. Ive tried using ftp, as well as other copy programs, even cmd line. Task manager indicates that with any single connection I top out at about 5% of the 100MB capacity. I can open several connections …

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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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So I have a main drive which is a SATAA or ATA drive. Im not sure! Im installing a new IDE drive which is just a replacement I got for my old drive that died. When I attatch my new drive, I get a message on startup to choose the …

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Hi I have a 40GB hard drive set up as a spare HDD master on my secondary IDE. All I want to do is set aside an active partition of just 1GB on this drive. I have tried to do it following the help menu by using 'disk management' and …

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Hi, I recently purchased a computer. I just replaced the stock heatsink with a thermaltake big typhoon from newegg, and I installed new motherboard mounting screws as well. I had to remove the motherboard in order to do this. Now, when I press the power button, the fans go on, …

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Hello, I recently bought a new power supply box(400 watt), I am using a radeon 9700 pro and i plugged in all my IDE cables and power cables to my drives(with the new power supply) and the power connector to the radeon, but when i turn on my computer my …

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OK, I have a Compaq Presario 1255 laptop that had a loose power connector. I soldered in a new connector (I'm experienced at doing this). It now powers up and passes the Compaq diagnostics utility. But, it doesn't recognize the hard drive. It sees and reads from the CD-ROM so …

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The computer detects the DVD rom and reads the installation disk (I assume it reads it because the disk spins) The problem is the installation will not autoplay. The only thing I have thought of is to take out the hard drive of my old computer and install it on …

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Hi, Im new here. Im having a bit of trouble with a homebuilt computer which was previously working, but is not anymore for no reason that I can see: gigabyte k8triton nsc -939 amd 64 3000+ 1g ram sata2 wd hd nvdea 5200 (ill add more if needed) Anyway, Im …

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I put in a new motherboard and hard drive in my computer. I had some data on my old hard drive that I wanted to try and copy to my new hard drive before formatting it. So I conected my old hard drive with a USB to IDE cable to …

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I have a similar but unrelated problem. The "R-Driver" make USB 2.0 'USB-to-IDE' cable does not let my laptop (HP-Compaq nx9005, which has a USB 1.1 controller) recognize a 3.5" SAMSUNG 20 GB HDD. The HDD just keeps making ticking noise as if it is "hunting" for the boot sector. …

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Hey folks, just curious on your take on this perplexing issue I am having! I have the money to buy a new system. PC or iMac. Now I have never given Apple computers much credit, as I have always been a dabbler in pc programming, and more so a gamer. …

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I'm using Visual Studio .NET. The gui I'm implementing will be used on a wide screen. In the design view of the IDE, the form size is limited to the screen resolution. How can I stretch it to be the size of the wide screen so I can add controls …

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Hi there! :cool: Im new to this forum, and I was wondering if u guys could help me with this. Im building a new CPU. This is my first time building a CPU system. So, Ive done some research and here is my final complete configuration. Im building a budget …

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I'm interested in the answer to the "not support IDE" question as well, ...any I've seen with SATA had both, ...re the original question of external HDD cases, mine are called "enclosers" and the one for 5.25" HDDs was about 1/4 the cost of a HDD, very cheap and handy …

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I have 4 hard drives that I want to connect together and either make them run as one large drive or individually. For each of the drives I have a device that connects the the IDE and power slot and outputs them both to a single parallel female parallel port. …

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The other day it was storming out with lots of lightning, so I decided to turn off my computer. First let me say that the side panel on the tower was removed because earlier in the day I was dust cleaning and just hadn't put it back on. So I …

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Just finished building my first computer employing an MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum mobo and two sata hdd's [not to be used in RAID, just one working and the other for storage] Hdd's are OEM's so no info came with them, but I have two floppy's that came with the mobo. …

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I am trying to get mono up and running on SuSE 10.1 and it wont work. I think all the compiler stuff installed (I think it came with the distro) but I can't get the IDE to work, when I try to install the RPM it says something like the …

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Hi! As a beginner in Borland C++ Builder I'm facing a Linker Error message which I have no idea of how to deal with. Concretely, my console project called as "my_proj" is calling the function my_func() whose code definition is included in the source file source.cpp (this source file is …

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hi, i am using elcipse in suse linux, but cant connect to mysql. if anyone uses eclipse ide in linux can you please help me to get it connected. thanks

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easy all having a bit of trouble with my laptop - the power socket has failed so i'm unable to either charge the battery or run it from the mains. it's still under warranty so fixing it isn't a problem, but there's some data on the laptop's hard drive that …

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I am currently trying to repair a PC for a school computer lab. This Dell Optiplex will not recognize any hard drives or boot from any CD's. The only device on the boot sequence list is the floppy drive, it is acting as though it does not recognize anything else. …

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I want some one understand me well I have a NetyBean 5.0 IDE Mobile Application tool But i can not read from file i have not FileReader or BufferedReader classes i want a help usama

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I am going to be buying a new machine and the hard drive will be SATA. I want to transfer my storage drive from my previous machine which is IDE. (I want to run a SATA and IDE together, the SATA being the operating system drive). Would somebody be able …

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First let me point out that this is not homework, it's just something I'm doing because I'm bored ;-) I'm trying to get my little hobby operating system to read from the hard disk. So far all I can get is the byte FF (255). I've tested this in both …

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i have this question which some had asked before...but i'm still confuse i bought a new H/D and want to connect it to the PC so i get 2 H/D... so i have an old IBM 40 GB H/D a new Western Digital ATA100 200GB so now i have them …

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I'm writing an IDE for java and already got the compiler linked into it, but I can't figure out how to read the data on the System.err or System.out streams.

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Well, I've spent the last couple nights trying to install my a new 300 GB SATA on my ASUS MOBO without resolution. I've looked high and low on this forum for help, but none seems to hit my problem just right. Here's my system: MOBO: ASUS A8V Deluxe 200 GB …

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Yesterday I went to a LAN party with my rig and for some unknown reason it wouldn't boot up. Just wouldn't. The monitor would show "no signal" sign when system was powered on. Weird thing, when IDE cables from hard drives and CD-Drives were UNPLUGGED from motherboard, I could actually …

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Ok I am confused. I just started python and when I save my program that I edited in the IDE editor as for example helloworld.py I cannot run it when I click it. All it does it come up with a black box, like cmd, and dissappears. Also do you …

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Having read several partitioning [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]strategies[/URL] I keep seeing different opinions on the matter of location of the [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]program[/URL] files folder and or swap files. The need and essence of proper and smart partitioning of drives is clear to me. However I can't figure out where to place the more demanding …

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I've seen a few of these threads regarding dvd drives and the pin soldering technique. I have a new 'cable select' hard drive (used to be my secondary) that I need to use to replace a dead drive in my Toshiba laptop (Satellite 5205-S705). It seems that this type of …

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I can't start from a CD (OS XP, nor NT). It just restarts over and over. I managed to stop it from restarting after the usual flash of blue-screen that --until that time I could not read it--gives me the C000021a Stop Error Message. Before it restarts it does say, …

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hi i have recently just built a new computer.the specs are Gigabyte K8N-sli motherboard amd athon 64 3200 skt939 venice 2 sticks of 512mb ddr 400 40gb and 160gb ide hard drives cheapo 500watt omni power supply msi radeon x1300pro vid card pioneer dvd burner so wat happened was that …

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I have an issue where a recently purchased Maxtor 160GB IDE hard drive is not allowing a [B][I]specific PC[/I][/B] to start. When the power wire is plugged into the Maxtor drive and the PC is started, the tower starts to power up for about 1 to 3 seconds, then the …

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I'm using a JEditorPane and StyledDocument, which automatically wraps text to the window. I cannot have this, I need the window to allow horizontal scrolling of the text. I've been all over yahoo and google and cannot find an answer on how to disable word wrapping. And before anyone tells …

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Hello everyone, One of my friend got the mini project in college.She is expected to do the project in VB.net. She want to be sure that what are all the software required. Is these software enough to learn the VB.net as a starter 1. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable. 2. …

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Hello, I got a french version of VB 6.0 installed on my pc. Is there a English language patch I can download? Not talking about the msdn but about the IDE. thanx in advance, Eld0

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hEY GuYs I tried overclocking my system but it hangs even for a 10 mhz increment increase. my config is below... [COLOR=Red]Intel Pentium 4 Processor (Willamette) (478 Pin) 1700 Mhz 256 KB L2 Cache 128 KB L1 Cache Mercury KOB P4M266A NDFSMx (Prescott Ready)(533 Mhz) SupportsAGP 8X (Sideband Addressing) (Fast …

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I got a freebie ISA card with adapters for what I thought were floppy drives, but it appears an IDE cable fit on it. There are 3 adapter sockets, one appearing for Floppy labeled SONY. The others; Mitsumi and Panasonic. It has silk-screen for SMC (chip IDs as SunMoonStar)- 31083 …

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If anyone would look through what I have and point out any issues that arise in how it will work with some of the stuff I'm getting to upgrade/replace, I'd be forever greatful :eek: This is what I have as of now: *[URL=http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16811164004]Case[/URL] *KINGMAX SuperRAM 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin …

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Hi, My computer recently overheated and after I rebooted it, it wouldn't load properly. So I first checked the BIOS and noticed that the Primary IDE Master, which is my Hard drive, and my Primary IDE Slave, which is my second hard drive, which is my second harddrive, is not …

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Sorry for the crummy subject, but I have a serious problem here. I'm trying to check myself as I code and I keep having issues with seeing "old" code. I'm putting together an applet for a class assignment, and I have been periodically trying to view my code (what it's …

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I got a cheap mobo from fry's and it has two pci slots and an agp slot. mr problem is taht it only has two ide ports. I want two hardrives but I don't want a hardrive to ahve to share an ide cable with anything. I want to put …

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[B]I recently formatted my hard drive and re-installed an old version of win 98se as I did not have win me which was on there. Since doing this I have managed to find some of the drivers for the hardware (graphics amongst others) but have been unable to get the …

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Just like everyone else on this board I have a HD (IDE) issue. The drive is recognized in the BIOS. But I noticed that it "sees" it as a gig more than it actually is. When Windows comes up the drive does not show up. I have tried using WinHex …

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