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| | My hard drive is very small. I got it a while ago in an old computer. Its a DELL computer. My drive has 37.2 Gigs. Yes,yes, I know its tiny! A shrimp! Thats why Im trying to boot it to the curb. I have some questions though, thats why I … |
| | Hi all, first post here. Im in real need of some help for my computer. Just lately its started running slower than normal, especially when i go to open IE there is a delay in the page opening (set to blank page) and then IE actually freezes up for about …  |
 | [quote=Telecorder]I physically swapped the drives in the PC case to facilitate installing the CD-RW at the end of the 40-pin/80-conductor cable as the jumpered Master and the DVD-ROM at mid-cable as jumpered Slave. 72+ hours without any timeout errors and counting.:cheesy: :) :cool: Many thanks to all who responded and … |
 | Hi guys When searching the internet for info on how to install windows 98 on to a newly built pc, I saw some articles saying that windows 98 can only deal with hard drives of up to 130gb is this true and if so how can I install windows 98 …  |
| | We booted from a system cd and formated the 250GB sata hard drive, partitioning it. I am trying to get my newly built computer to recognise my satas cd drive (a SH-W163A BEBN) so that I can load Windows 98. I have copied the dos_drive directory from the cd onto … |
| | I have an older Dell Dimension 550L and it has a single Maxtor 10 gb hard drive. Well the drive is pretty much full the system is working fine, and i am running Windows XP SP2 with no problems. I had a friend give me a Western Digital 100gb HD … |
| | Computer turns on fine Windows XP loads and does its thing Desktop comes up and not all of the icons display correctly: My Docs, My Computer, Outlook and IE don't show as they should If I try to open any one of them, the cursor changes to show that its … |
| | We have a small peer-to-peer LAN running Windows XP. In the last week the same problem has cropped up on 3 separate PCs (all under a year old). Floppy drives won't read, sometimes an error message saying the disc is not formatted, sometimes "No ID address mark was found on … |
| | I am starting out my computer service business in the part time, and have had some calls come my way. I have been able to solve them all, except for the ones which relate to hard drive failures. So, now I am looking to invest some money into some hardware-software … |
| | My DVD drive reads normal CDs but not DVDs i tried reinstalling but still dont work can someone please help me with this o and when i oepn Roxio dvd recording program thing, it says i dont have the dvd recorder...  |
| | A week ago my dvd/cd rw drive worked perfectly, but now when i try to put dvd rw, dvd r disks in my computer it doesnt read them and tells me its a blank CD. When i put any cd in my computer it reads it and it works fine. … |
| | hi, i am having an odd problem with my cd tray. its a pc.. and it was working perfect, but all of a sudden i pusht the button it wont ope... i tried restarting the computer but no luck. i know for sure that there is no damage to it … |
| | Hello, I am having the task of moving a 1.9 gb file over from a Mac to a PC. What do ya think would be the best method of doing this? Lastly, I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. ;) |
| | I have a Dell Dimension XPS 1500 (pretty old) with a maxtor 20gb hard drive. This computer got pretty messed up so i decided to do some fixin. I bought a samsung 80gb hard drive. I installed the hard drive (i added it along with the maxtor, i didnt replace … |
| | I run XP Home on my pc. I did a restore point and later tried to go back. this is when the issues started. after trying to restore the HD wouldn't reboot. So in stead of screwing around I bought a new HD and installed it making the old 80 … |
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| | I have an IDE drive (200 GB) connected to my motherboard, set to master, with an SATA drive (320 GB) as well. I am trying to install Windows XP on the IDE drive so that can be my primary drive and my secondary drive (SATA) can be used to store … |
| | Hello Everyone Recently, my comp was having problems with spyware and other stuffs which caused me to re-install Window Xp home Edition yesterday / spent 2 hours with the Dell Technician.. Everything seemed fine after the succesful re-installation. Had installed back some Network/Video/Sound Drivers successfully. Which pleased me. After a … |
| | Firstly, I don't know any of the lingo, so bear with me. I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop that worked great for years--it is an older one. I came to the conclusion somehow that my hard drive needed to be partitioned(that may be misspelled), so I thought I knew … |
 | Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when … |
| | Hi there everyone. One of my older computers which for some reason i use more then the other computers so i decide that i should fix it up. Here is the specs of this computer right now (This is a oldie but it works fine) Computer: Operating System: Microsoft Windows …  |
| | Is it possible to put an OS on a external hard drive:?: :?: :?: |
| | 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. … |
| | I installed a 300 GB Samsung internal hard drive as a slave, and it doesn't show up normally under 'my computer'. I can find it if I right click on 'my computer' - 'manage' - 'device manager'. It shows up under 'disc drives' - 'samsung 300'. When I click on … |
| | 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 … |
| | hi every1~! I am in need of an external HD as I want to keep an archive of my old data. So I was wondering if you could recommend me to the one that is not very expensive but relieable. I think about 40-60 GB of space would be great, … |
| | hi guyz, I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & … |
| | I have just purchased a Western Digital SATA drive to accompany my Seagate SATA drive and my ATA drives. The system (XP) will not recognise it. I plugged it in place of the Seagate drive to ensure the cables and controller were OK and if I have both connected, neither … |
| | Hi All, I'm trying to call a parameterized stored procedure in C# using microsoft ODBC .NET. Could you please give me some help or hint? Thank you very much! C# code: ... //connection code odbcCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure; odbcCommand.CommandText = "BEGIN myProc(?, ?); END;"; odbcCommand.CommandTimeout = 0; OdbcParameter paramA = odbcCommand.Parameters.Add("@A_CNT", … |
| | To all you brave people who maybe are going to try and help me fix my problem. After some cleaning work I done on my computer I mentioned that I accidently removed the sound operating system. (or whatever you would like to call it). To get it back I tried … |
| | First, the problem started this way. The computer was brought to me because it would dial up but would not open websites. I investigated and found that it would not resolve a host name. The DNS servers were correct and are functioning fine so the problem was on the computer. … |
 | Hi, I had a ..um..cute friend drop off her HP Pavillion and I had to reinstall windows XP for her, alls working but the CD-RW. the device manager says its working fine, the drivers loaded successfully. I did the old unplug the drive reboot, then plug it in and let … |
| | Historically I have had about 18.5 gigs of space left on my hard drive, give or take. Curiously, last week, I noticed that the hard drive space was down to 17.6 gigs and today I have noticed that my hd space is down to 16.9 gigs. I say Holysmokes! I … |
| | Hello all, I have successfully installed samba 3.0.22 on my sol 9 e250 machine. I created my share but when i try to get to my share from my windows machine, it prompts me for my username and passwd, i enter it and it just comes back prompting me for … |
| | well i just got a new 40gb seagate hdd for extra storage since i have a 20gb as my master, i placed it as a slave. Now my issue is this. When i look in the bios, it shows up there, and in device manager is shows up, and when … |
 | I dropped my external hard drive while it was running; properties shows half of it being used, but if you open the drive no files or directories show. Is there anyway to pull that info out. anyone I could use the help, its work related. |
| | i have a hard drive that was in another computer and i put it in a case to use as an external hard drive. my windows me will only recognize it in the device panel and not in my computer. i know the hard drive is good because i formatted … |
| | Folks, How to format the drive on WinXP as msdos FS? I have 2 HDs mounted on mobile rack running WinME and WinXP respective. Both of them have 2 partitions, drive-C and drive-D. Drive-D is for storage. Now WinME fails to start anymore leaving WinXP working. I tried to copy … |
| | Help please?!!?!!?!?? I think my wife opened a contamintated email and since I have had rapid onset usb failure. Apart from banning my wife or at least training her not too open contaminated emails can anyone help? It all began with pop task bar messages that there was a power … |
| | First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. Please move if so :) I bought a second PC a week ago which I plan on using as my main PC. Now I want to play around with different OS's on the older one. I'd like to … |
| | I was wondering if when you tell IE to remember your password for a certain site if there is a way to search through cookies on your computer to the stored password in case you forgot it or wanted to do something else with it. Thanks! Tornadic |
| | Hi, I'm running Windows Xp on my system. I currently have a 200 Gb hard drive installed. When I got this computer, I also added my 80 GB hard drive off my old computer. It worked fine for over a year until recently when I did a system restore. Now, … |
| | I recently installed a 200gb maxtor Ultra ATA/133 hard drive. I wanted extra storage space so I connected it as a slave to my existing 120 GB hard drive. After connecting all the cables I restarted the machine. I got as far as the windows loading logo, and then the … |
 | I work for an engineering company as the ITT. We have to maintain backups incase of some sort of issue so that we can go back and recover files. A little while back, one of the employees burned DvDs consisting of files copied from CDs in order to reduce the … |
 | [B][Moderator's edit: Post split from [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showthread.php?t=12527&goto=newpost"]this thread[/URL]][/B] [B] DMR[/B], I did as you suggested with AdAware and SpyBot. All AdAware found were tracking cookies and SpyBot said I was clean. But I still have the same prob. So, as you suggested, here's my HijackThis Logfile... Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan … |
| | Any help would be greatly appreciated! Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 11:14:33 AM, on 7/2/2006 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 C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe C:\PROGRA~1\COMMON~1\AOL\ACS\AOLacsd.exe C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\iaantmon.exe c:\program files\mcafee.com\agent\mcdetect.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\vso\mcshield.exe c:\PROGRA~1\mcafee.com\agent\mctskshd.exe C:\PROGRA~1\McAfee.com\PERSON~1\MpfService.exe … |
| | I just wanted to get a few opinions from people before I spend monery on a new external hard drive. I love to test new beta products. I am downloading windows vista beta 2, along with the new office 2007 suite. I had installed the office beta on my good …  |
| | I put in a SATA drive in my computer to run a SATA2 HD 120 gig from Western Digital (the sata drive was recommended by a Geek Squad guy). The Sata drive works just fine but my problem is my HD isnt showing up to use in "my computer" area. … |
| | Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try … |
| | [B]how to create a arry that stores the first 100 multiples of a user-supplied integer, prints the values forward and backwarf rom storage (in an array); prints any values that are multiples of a second user-supplied integer or a message indication that there are no multiples of tha number if …  |
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