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Hi basically i have a program that gets a handle on a USB device lusing '\\\\?\\e:' but i want to be able to get a handle on it using its device instance id 'STORAGE\REMOVABLEMEDIA\7&324ACC50&0&RM:' How do i impliment this, i have tried the following below and it just doesnt work …

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Is there a special way to create a new programs folder in my d drive? or do i just open it up and file new folder and name it?

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Greetings, friends. I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed. After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to …

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My little niece dropped my sister's laptop which just our luck is out of warranty. Now I am getting the dreaded PXE errors and the Bios said none for HDD. This is a Toshiba A215 model. I opened the HDD slot and removed and re-inserted the drive firmly. I then …

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I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable about computers and as far as I know, rundll32.exe should only be open when it's opening a .dll file. I have run adaware and AVG to no avail. I have also run HJT but I can't interpret the results, which is where I was hoping …

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I'm designing a db for a project which has tables: mainAccount, id int(11) auto_inc primary key username, password, country, email, verification users, id int(11) auto_inc primary key `type` tinyint (3) -fk userType.id description nvarchar interests nvarchar website nvarchar (many other columns..) userIndex, user int(11) primary key - fk users.id `type` …

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Hello, I have just bought new HP Proliant ML150 Generation 3 Server without any OS. I have decided to install Win XP professional so I have inserted Win xp prof. CD and Windows installation started successful until I didnt recieve next message: ******************************************************************************************************************************* Setup did not find any hard disk …

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My motherboard stopped working on my dell & I have lots of important pictures on my Hard drive so I got a USB thingy to make it an external hard drive. I have no problems with the computer recognizing the drive or accessing parts of what is on it. But …

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I have a few locked laptop Harddrives all of them are good but they just have a password . Ive tried using ATAPWD wich is the only program i found that deals with HDD password but it dosent unlock them with out having the password it self. It has nothing …

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// David Barkman // CSIS 123 - Murtha // Program 13 // #include <string> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> using namespace std; void displayMenu(); void addRecord(); void searchRecords(); string userName; int main() { // Prompt fior the user name cout << "Please enter your name to begin: "; // Input the …

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I have an IBM "Desk Star" 20g hardrive. It died. My tech has looked at it and the verdict is that the problem lay in the actual casing of the drive. His system (or mine)does not recognise it. He tells me that it is a fault within the hardware itself. …

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I have an external usb drive. I am not sure what file format it was and I was forced to use it for a boot up drive. I had stored about 80 gigs out of a 120 gig drive. I went to set a partition it said there were 45 …

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Hello, I need some information as to why my friends DVD burner no longer works, in device manager it has that dreaded Exclamation mark next to it, I have done everthing from re-installing the drivers to changing the DVD Burner with one that works on another computer(I did this with …

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Hi, I went to... [url]http://www.mv.com/webtools/forms-info/form-submit-ex-em.html#em[/url] ...and I copied the text for each file, saved them as: em.html em.submit em.template em-done.html I then changed the e-mail address in "em.submit" to mine. And the address in em.html from "/cgi-bin/form-submit/ipusers/jruser/forms/em" to "[B]/cgi-bin/form-submit[/B]/mnt/storage/users/m/a/r/martinkorner/form test[B]/em[/B]" The bold is what I think I was told to …

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Hi, Just bought a Western digital 10,000 rpm sata Hard drive that I'd like to use for boot. Motherboard has 6 ata ports + an IDE. Have an old IDE HDD as master w/ an IDE cd-rom. When I plug in the sata hard drive it isn't recognised by computer …

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whenever i try to eject my cd drive i find that my systems get hanged off or restart again.....may i know why this happens??? by ramu

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I have a customer that wants to know if I will help him set something so he can write multiple DVDs at a time, possibly by networking a tower with several writers, but I wasn't sure if the software would support that. Maybe this post is in the wrong place; …

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When i switch on the computer(this error appears occasionally), it says: Pri Master S.m.a.r.t. Command Failed. Press F4 to resume I press f4 and it boots as per normal after that. I replaced my motherboard about 2 to 2.5 months ago and the HD problem started about 1 month ago. …

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I got a list of items to program in Visual C++. I could write a linked list from scratch but I want to do something special and best. I am thinking about a hash table. What is best, linked lists or hash tables? I am not too experienced with the …

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IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK IRQ 10 MPU-401 …

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Hi folks, I need your help. A few days ago my system died. I had to reinstall WinXP. Previous to this I had installed a second (IDE) hard drive. Since the reinstall it's not showing up as a drive in explorer. If I go into Device Manager is shows the …

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Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, …

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Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os hdd or as my video, pics etc. hard drives? Please …

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Was hoping to get some help with my cd burner. It will let me read what is on a cd but when I go to burn a cd it says there is either something on a blank disk or does not see the blank disk in the burner at all …

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I overheard a conversation in a class the other day about someone being able to "look" into various classes and data storage types and see what is being stored as you run the program. I understand this can be done using the traditional ways of adding breakpoints and such, but …

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Hello, I am facing some problem with my HDD that I am using as external Harddisk. I have been using this since a few months. Everything was working fine till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly, one of the logical drives is not available. It shows the drive letter, but there is nothing …

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Alright, so I'm new to this forum, and I do apologize if this is the incorrect forum, or if this question has been answered many times before, but here goes. I have a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external hd and I've owned it for approximately 4 months. I've never had …

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I'm trying to sort a list of names alphabetically, by isolating the first element of the string and compare, which I think should work, but there's an error, SISEGV with something about an invalid access to storage... I don't know, but my group mates and I can't figure this out. …

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I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to reset a maxtor internal ata I can no longer boot up my machine with it plugged into my computer. It used to boot but i couldn't access the drive (The drive is no longer allowing me to access it, Its …

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HI People, Am new to programming basic, and have been working on a calc. to work out the storage requirements of a bitmap graphic in MB using the inputs Height, Breadth, Resolution and Colour depth has been driving me mad as when i run the programme nothing happens, even the …

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Hi there. For some reason lately when I boot up my computer, a window stating "On click, Line 1: Unexpected symbol near ' <'" appears. I ran CHKDSK to try and fix this problem, but it freezes at stage 4 of 5 at 57%. Not only that, but Disk Defragmenter …

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I bought an 80 gig maxtor hard drive, for a family computer, we had to erase it and put windows xp 5 times already, but now when we check its properties it says it only has 31.48 gigs. is there a way to get it to be an 80 g …

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I am having an interesting dilemma with writing to CR-RW discs. I am using a program made by SONIC called DigitalMedia LE v7, my DVD player is a TSST corp DVD +-RW TS-L532B firmware DE03. I am able to write to CD-R and DVD-RW without any problems, but when I …

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Hi, My project is related to Hand Held device. We are using emulator. The total code is written in C#. There is some data of 83,000 records, I have to upload the data into the emulator. After uploading some 50,000 records it is showing some error like "Storage memory is …

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Once you full out a CD-R with files these file cannot be overwritten, correct? Where as you can overwrite the files on CD-RW, correct? Also I am right now copying imagage to CDR, when they are on CDR, I will be able to copy them from the CDR to another …

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I Think my hardrive /mp3 player caught a virus or something and i am lost. I'm learning and quit new in this techy stuff. I just inserted it into this dude's pc and it never came on after that. Any idea what I could do, I mean it is 20gb.

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Hi there, I have a P4 3.2 mhz computer with USB 1.0 ports and WIN XP 2000. I have been using my external usb storage drive for about 6 months and it's always worked fine. However, earlier, the storage drive started acting up with the following problems: 1. Whenever the …

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I have USB (Thumb Drive) drive which i broke the cover(glass cover). Now it is not working. i mean computer dosent recognized that usb. How do i retrive data from there? help me please Thank you very much in advance yasha

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just did a fresh install of XP ,and the dvd writer shows up in the bios, but when you look in device manager its not there,it is correct in the bios, you cannot goto start-run and type the drive letter to access it, when you push the button on the …

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Hi, guys, Upon being through with using my flashdisk, I tried to eject it just as usual. But, unfortunately, I forgot to remove it from the USB port. I went about doing some other business in my office, and after sometime, I got back to my PC. Unknowingly, I launched …

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hi all, not real experienced with computers, mostly just learning through trial and error, have done this a few times before with the computer i made out of bits and peices for my daughter. haven't seen this before though and would greatly appreciate any help! the problem is this : …

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hello all, i noticed today the cd drive on my pc is gone without a trace i've searched the web and found several solutions, but none worked things i've tried are: - running regedit and deleting upperfilter and lowerfilter (actually, they were not present, so nothing to delete - downloaded …

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HDD only post in BIOS as slave, jumpers were set to CS and I set them up for master then I put the HDD in another machine and it still only post as a slave. Any ideas?

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Hi!! I'm currently running windows 98 (first edition) and need to locate the appropriate drivers for the PCI ethernet controller which is in device manager under "other devices" with a yellow question mark with an yellow exclamation mark over it, I'm including the following information about my computer hoping it …

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I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6177 laptop that we bought late March/early April. Since getting it, I have used the drive MAYBE 5 times, the last time being 3 months ago easy. With that, I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to get some documents of a disc …

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I am trying to use GHOST on an old laptop. I have a 40 GB HD and a 6 GB HD in a USB enclosure. The problem is the USB is not recognized in DOS. The USB A:\ is just fine. Any ideas?

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I have a Dell Dimension 4600. My drive was an sata WD360GD. It was the main one and the computer just stopped finding it. It clicks too. 1)I got a serial ata card (connects sata drives to motherboards without them). And tried plugging it in to 2 other comps, still …

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