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| | Hi there, I have some kind of virus/spyware/adware, and some problem winlogin.exe, and I can't seem to get rid of it, so I was thinking about formatting my hard drive. I was wondering how many times can you format a hard drive, and does it wear it down? Some people … |
| | Every now and then when I log onto the computer I will log on with an error of "Generic Host Process WIN32 has encountered a problem and had to end" 3 Options, Debug, Send and Dont Send This has only happened recently, and I thought back to anything i have …  |
| | I want a good external hd for my brother in law. I know I could make one for him but I want one that has good software with it and is user friendly for someone without any computer knowledge for backups. I want a good brand and one with good … |
| | hello hrmm i have these nasties on my comp =/ could u tell me what to do with these and which 1 i should delete Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 10:50:21 PM, on 20/12/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5450.0004) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe … |
| | I have a friend that has a laptop without firewire inputs just usb 2. His video camera has firewire outputs. How will he connect this to his laptop? Can he get an external hard drive that has usb and firewire and kind of daisy chain it? Hook the ex.hd to … |
| | I run Windows XP, Home Edition for about 4 years now. When I observe my 'C' directory using Windows Explorer I have the following directory and sub directories showing (please, see attachment, below). I assume that the directories referred to as All Users, Default Use, Local Service and Network Service … |
| | i read a long list of posts on combining sata & ide drives and think i can set them up, but wonder which one to put the o/s on.building a new machine with an asus mb & i have a new wd 160 gig sata & an old wd 16gig … |
| | Hi everyone :), I have a problem with my dvd drive.I have an HP Pavillion with Win.XP Home. Recently the drive just stoppped working. I cant play CDs, DVDs, CDROMs or anything. When I try and use the Drive I get the messages (depending on which of two media players … |
 | :) hi! everone. i'm going to install a 100gb maxtor h.d. in my emachine w3080 model w/ a 2.167 ghz athlon processor. it has a 512 mb mem. chip in it now & i am planning on getting another 512 to put it along side of the other. the reason … |
| | I hope that someone may have a quick answer for me. In the bios for my IBM desktop computer, you can go to the startup sequence menu. From there, it indicates that by hitting <shift - 1>, you can enable or disable a device. For some reason, hitting <shift - … |
| | I'm almost sure this has to do with one of my 2 Western Digital hard drives. It happens periodically and I'm almost sure its a sound coming from a drive. I'll hear a sound from my case like something is powering down, then a second later power up again, like … |
 | My sons computer came up with a NTLDR error, because he had a relativily small harddrive I decided to install another one. Brought his computer in to the office, power supply was dead, replaced powersupply, point that I am at now If I keep the "bad" harddrive in it shows … |
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| | [I]Hi all:[/I] [I]Can someone please help with the 2 different error messages I am receiving when I insert a disc into my cdrom drive?[/I] [I]The first one is "windows cannot read from the disc because it is corrupted or dirty, or formatted incorrectly"[/I] [I]the second is "please insert a disc …  |
| | Hi everyone! First off, I'd like to say thank you to anyone in advance who can help me with my crucial situation. I'm having a problem with my BIOS. See, I thought I knew about computers more than I do and was trying to fix the problem on my own, … |
| | Ihave 3 scsi hds and i just bought another computer that was runnin scsi.Never hooked them up before if someone could take the time to explain to me how to go about gettin them to read in the bootup ie: boot 0 boot 1 boot 2 etc.. And where the … |
| | Hello all... hope every one had a nice x-mas :) Can any one tell me of a good HDD that does not fail as quickly as the Maxtor's ... this is my 2nd HDD from them (120GB DM9 SATA), and again it just stops the entire system to a holt. … |
 | Ok heres my problem, and I intend to explain it in great detail so you can presume that this problem is a lengthy one. I hope someone has the courage to read through all of it and help me out. I'd rather not have to buy a new computer but …  |
| | I bought a Maxtor One Touch II USB External HDD, installed it. I used the *duplicate* option in its software to copy all my personal files. Then, because I thought the files were stored on the external HDD, I did a rebuild on my internal HDD and erased everything and … |
| | I just installed a slave drive, seagate 120gb, into my system. I have a 40gb as my primary. The slave drive does not show up in "my computer". I went into the CMOS and it is there, I also went into computer management > disk management, it is not on … |
| | Hi there Can anyone assist me please, Every time I plug a device into my USB port i get a message that there has been a power surge and windows has shut the divice down. some times I can get into my mass storage device but then suddenly windows decides … |
| | I'm having a problem, my drive been using 100% of the CPU lately, for simple task as transfering a picture or application installation. It never done this before and it's a headache because now i can't even listen to music from the drive or play music while working with the … |
| | hi felllas and ladies, got a asus a7n8x deluxe motherb board.was trying to install my hitachi deskstar 80gb times 2 drives.was fine up till point after formatting.then for some reason files were missing.i figure i didnt copy all needed files to floppy as floppy was too small.i tried to skip … |
| | :cry: I have an external Lacie hard disk of 160 GB with a firewire connection, unfortunately I got a virus on my PC, after having to format both disks my internal one works OK but my Lacie is having tandrums, one day I can read/write it, another nearly all my … |
| | Hi the seagate momentus 5400.2 hard drive is not allowing me to access the data as it has been locked, does anyone know of any way to access the information from the disk. It stopped booting from my laptop and then i connected it to a usb bridge and it … |
| | I recently bought an IOGear 2.5" 80GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, installed it on my Dell inspiron laptop via one of the four USB ports on the laptop itself. It set up an E, F, G, and H drive automatically and all is fine with that. Works great. … |
| | I've got a samsung yp-u2jxb direct-insert usb mp3 player. The player works fine itself, the problem is has to do with the connection between it and my computer. I haven't been able to to add music to it for months because every time I insert it, it connects for about … |
| | Well I figured it was time to defreg the three of my drives today, my primary is a SATA 40GB, Sata 320GB, master DVD Burner/IDE, and slave 160GB IDE HDD, both SATA's were done defreging before I fell a sleep except for the IDE 160GB which still had 60% left. … |
| | Hi Apologies if this is in wrong section or has been covered before! I had a prob with my hard drive and had to reformat. The only way i could access my hard disk was to take it from my laptop and put it into pc as a slave. From … |
| | Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 8:04:49 PM, on 11/29/2006 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0011) Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\WINDOWS\ehome\ehtray.exe C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_09\bin\jusched.exe C:\WINDOWS\stsystra.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\iaanotif.exe C:\Program Files\Dell\Media Experience\DMXLauncher.exe C:\Program Files\Common … |
| | Hi All, I just ran into a problem with my Lacie Big Disk 500GB Firewire drive that I hope someone has seen. It contains 2 WD 250GB disks, and when one went south I lost tons of stuff that I really didn't want to lose, but that's a story for … |
| | dear friends after burning an iso image of a game on my NEC 3550A dvd burner, The drive itself can not read the content. the indication is that there is nothing in the drive. on the other hand, inserting it into an old dvd drive (not burner) brought it up … |
| | when i run chkdsk, it comes up saying more than one unrecoverable error, and wont do a chkdsk, does this mean my computers screwed? it crashes all the time and comes up with the blue screen, its a Dell Inspirion 1100 so its at least 4 years old,  |
| | Recently I bought a [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&Sku=TSD-320AS"]320gig SATA hard drive[/URL] from Tiger Direct. My computer, a Dell Dimension 4600 had a 40gig ATA, but anymore it just does not have enough space, and I'm having problems with it... So I figured it was time to upgrade. Knowing that my mobo does not … |
| | Hi, I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard which supports SATA with RAID. I want to fit 2 drives as RAID striped, (motherboard manual briefly describes how). However, can I leave my IDE UDMA drive in place and use as a slave? If so will I have to change the … |
| | I installed a 250gig(reads as 232) IDE hard drive into my computer as a secondary drive... and it runs CONSIDERABLY slower than my other drive. There's a different hookup... the new one uses a regular ribbon(I don't know the technical term) while the other one uses something that looks more … |
| | I just installed a new 80GB SATA Drive alongside my old IDE drive which holds my Windows XP installation. I used Partition Magic to format the new drive and clone my IDE partition to the SATA drive. When windows booted up it asked me to select which OS to run … |
| | Hello I have wrote a peice of C code on Sun Solaris. When i have tried to compile the code on a linux machine i get the below messages the compiling options i am using are 'MAKEFILE_OS=Linux' \ 'LINK_OPTIONS=-std=c99' \ 'CFLAGS=-std=c99 -DVERSION=$(VERSION) -DID=$(ID) - D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DLinux' \ 'LINK=-Wl,+vnocompatwarnings' split_field.c:1807: … |
 | anyway to restore admin priviledges after changing something to deny? I made a mistake and system restore is failing consistently. It was removeable storage in computer managment that i changed to deny, now i can't get back in to change it back. any idea's. |
| | pls i hve a source code for a digital alarm clock bt its for pic16c54a and i want to desiogn a digital alarm clock using pic 16f84a so here is my source code, i need an assembly language guru to help me do this pls. below is the source code … |
| | hi, I decided to build a quick forum system for my site. nothing too advanced...heres the db setup i have. create table ForumsTopics ( id int auto_increment not null, topic_id varchar(7) not null, title char(100) not null, cat char(1) not null, views char(6) not null, date DATETIME not null, last_mod … |
 | I've been recently reading the forums a lot, seeing people throw around the phrase "pass-by-reference" in normal C. As far as I've been taught, C only provides pass-by-value. Now.....the developers of C came up with this genious idea of passing an address (which is still a value) through the parameters … |
| | :?: Looking for some help here. Is it possible to have 3 hard drives on a personal computer? If so, how would I go about putting in a 3rd one? Thanks for any help. D |
 | hi guys, sorry i havnt been on in ages - new job is pretty cool but long hours lol they sent to oxfordshire on thursday for a vista and office training day, i should think that most of it you guys know already, but i was genuinly impressed, things like … |
 | I recently downloaded the beta version of Windows Live Mail Desktop, and I've got a problem. Whenever I try to login, it appears, then exits without even a warning message. When I try to log into my messenger account, then a window pops up that reads, "MSN Passport Verification Failed … |
| | hey buddies... recently my hard disk .. samsung SV0411N [U]has started hanging evrytime i try to move data from it .. [/U] [U]to other hd or cd/dvd...[/U] I thut it mus coz of bad sectors... [U]so i tried scannin it .. but Hangs der too ....[/U] [U]i really wanna save … |
 | I came across this site while researching the "Windows\System 32 pop-up" problem, via Google, for a friend. Helping friends with computer problems is one of my hobbies. I took delivery of my first computer from the manufacturer at 2.30pm on February 13th, 1962. It wasn't a Friday, but that would …  |
| | Hasn't anyone noticed? Most retail computer hardware stores, are selling hard drives using the IDE Specification. It's extremly compatible, but many people have SATA and don't know it. I currenlty am using IDE, but I wish I had an SATA drive. A guy told me when he went to Staples, … |
| | [B]Drive specs:[/B] Type: Seagate Barracuda, 7200rpm Model: ST3200826AS Size: 200GB Interface: SATA [B]System specs:[/B] OS: Win2k SP4 RAM: 1GB CPU: P4 2.8e MOBO: Asus P4P800-e deluxe AV Software: NOD32, 30 day trial version. [B]Problem:[/B] In short, data corruption. Originally, I was using NTFS on the drive. I use it as … |
| | Hello, i am a complete noob so you guys have to explain it to me. I just recently bought a new samsung sp1614c hard drive but i didnt notice that it was SATA. i found an extra power cable and the other cable to connect it to my SATA1 slot … |
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