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I have a floppy. It was storing names in 8.3 form I renamed one of the files to 20.3 on Windows xp and opened it on linux both acknoledge that name .Please tell me what is the file system. I thought it had to be FAT 12 even the boot …

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I'm not a tech wizard like most of you on DaniWeb, so bear with me. I added a second hard drive to my Dell Windows XP computer. Is it possible to take that hard drive out of the computer and convert it to an external drive that would have a …

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I am trying to retrieve data from my old c: drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter. If I connect the drive in windows xp it loops before the drive is recognized. If I run uneraser from a bootable floppy the drive is found correctly - serial number and …

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Hey all, I am new to C/C++ and this week we just started object oriented C++. Before I dive into it I want to have a good understanding of simulating object oriented programming with C. Anyway, I believe I have doctored the code to where the queue and the Stack …

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My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but …

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Hi all. I know there are posts like this but thought I would quote my sys spec and see if somebody can help. Seagate 40gb on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro 2010 notebook(18 months old). OEM XP Pro. No floppy drive. Notebook ran perfectly until now. I installed PC Tools free …

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I hope this is the right forum...my apologies if it isn't. Every once in a while (maybe every other day, at most) when I reboot my computer, I get the "Disk read error occurred. Press ctl-alt-del" Now, there's a new mother board (ECS 945GZT-M) and processor Intel Core Duo. I …

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Hi I am having problems using Vista with Sony NEC Optiarc SuperMulti (AD-7170A) OEM DVD Burner.([url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3110653&sku=O451-1000&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1474C)[/url]. I have built a Intel Core Due desktop as below. I have my HD0 (IDE) with slave jumper setting connected to the slave side of the IDE cable and the DVD burner with Master …

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I ran a Sandra analysis of my home pc. About my Maxtor 2F040J0 it is saying "Current mode not opimal. Check settings." I don't know which settings it is referring to. Has anyone seen this?

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Hope someone here can help me with this... My troubles started this morning when programs on my laptop had frozen. I rebooted, and after that I can't access my files, iexplorer and some other apps won't start. I see them among the running processes but something is blocking them from …

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Ok, well i have a 2000 XP media center edition, and a few years ago it got a virus and the internet just stopped working alltogether. well i put it into storage and now i am working on it again, and i have cleaned it up totally, no virus, no …

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hi i have partitioned my hard disk of capacity 40GB, but after the installation of operating system i was shocked to see that only 20 GB is being accessed.. plz help me to get rid of this problem

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[COLOR=#000000]I recently purchased a new Biostar P4M80/M7a Version 7 with Intel Pentium D 840 and 1 gig of memory.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]On first boot entered BIOS settings, reboot, lock at POST screen, and cannot enter BIOS[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Could not enter BIOS again[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Cleared BIOS picked default settings, reboot lock at POST screen, and …

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Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-SD279 with both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it. I bought a DVD-RW burner combo (P000366780) and as soon as I tried it, the computer gave me the Error #1 message and my only option with windows was to reboot. I could enter into …

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Hello, i have an ACER Travelmate 292LMi. The original Dvd-Rom that was with my acer broke down and i switched it with a NEC 7550A. Now i want to format my pc and i noticed that primary dvd is still the one i changed(the one broken). First boot device is …

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i insert my usb pendrive into the socket but nothing seems to detect it even with windows xp service pack 2.

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Hi, I'm Eric. Just checking in here. I'm a systems administrator working mainly with Linux and Solaris, along with a focus on storage--I've deployed and currently manage the SANs and some NAS units at my work. Special skills include shell scripting (ok I am no true 'expert' but I can …

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I have a question related to placement new. When dealing with objects, in order to destroy an object created with placement new it has to be called the destructor of the object explicity; that is: [code] #include <new> using namespace std; //The following command really allocates the splace char * …

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I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen …

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I have a Compaq model 5835 w/celeron processor running Win98. The hard drive crashed, something came loose inside the drive. I replaced the drive with a good one from another computer, with Windows ME o/s. When I boot the computer, I get the 1782 Disk Controller Failure message, and I'm …

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i think it should go here i have not got a cd re-writer but i want to install ubuntu so is there anyway i can install it from and iso seperetly

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To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb …

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I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns …

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I installed a second SATA drive on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R board and am curious if anyone knows if it matters, performance wise, whether the second drive is on a different channel. I have tried switching it around, but to be honest I don't see any real difference, although it may …

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Hey ive just got a new 80Gb IDE hitachi HDD. Now installing would be simple enough but, My primary HDD is a SATA HDD. I've read there should be no problem but i cant get my bios to pick up the new HDD. i've got a double IDE with DVD …

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Hello new friends A somewhat long story, but I am loosing sleep over this one. I have this very weird problem after purchasing a second, identical sata drive. Mobo= MSI Neo FSR v2 / IDE = NEC DVD rewriter / Sata = 2 Samsungs 2504C, BIOS = latest AwardPhoenix. Everything …

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I have a 40 GB Samsung hard disk. Free quently booting I lost my hard disk data. It may be burn. It is dedected by mohter board but not windows xp. By seagate disk manager I dedect it . But it seens 18 Gb. I just Restore my data .doc …

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Hi I want to add one Baracuda HD and one Sony DVD RW in my computer which has already one Baracuda HD and Samsung DVD rom. How can I connect with the IDE 1 and IDE 2 and how should I arrange the jumper in all these IDEs Pl help …

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I set a partition up for my pc to run linux. This made me lose 130gb form my hard drive. i removed the partition but still no luck. i checked the partition again, i tried to deletd the partiton with windows installed in it but was unable to. anyway of …

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cd rewirter recgnizes cds but does not burn cd's please help i need to burn cd's if it means opening up the cd rewriter i will:(

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this is the final version of the priority queue i implemented {with some of your help!}... the problem is that when i profile the code with valgrind, it shows that i have a memory leak.... i can also see that, if in my code i make certain test_points{where i pause …

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Hi Guys. I'm having a problem with a SATA HDD and would appreciate some advice. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 and is SATA capable. I was running a couple of IDE drives with XP installed on the C:. A couple of days ago my C: developed a problem so …

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I bought a new SATA Hard Drive, and I want it to be secondary to my first hard drive. After I connected the device to my computer, how do I install it so I could see it in the "My Computer" folder? I'm also having problems setting it up on …

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So.. my old motherboard died on me after a couple of years of good service and I had to buy a new one. Old board was a MSI K7N2-Delta2-LSR([url=http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=596&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=]link[/url]) with a nvidia nforce 2 RAID MCP raid controller on it. I had two sata drives running in a bootable raid …

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Hello, I was using MS Outlook 2003 with my old laptop computer. Now It's gone :sad: but I have its HardDisk. Now, thanks to an IDE to USB converter, I have access to all those old documents from another computer. I will store important files to another computer and then …

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Could someone help me,after $400 and 2 techs later I still have the same problem.In simple terms(which is all I know)monitor always left on like I was told and I turn on the hardrive in the morning and only sometimes will it come on,I have to turn it off at …

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I have come into possession of a thinkpad t40 that was stuck away in a storage area of my nephews apartment. it seems to have been there longer than any of the roommates so no one knows anythin about it. Since I have the proper power supply for one of …

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Hello Everyone: I am using an Intel D845GNT board with 2x80GB SATA drives. I am trying to replace these with 2x320 GB SATA II drives. I have ghosted the RAID 1 array data to an IDE HD. Here is where my problem begins. I am totally unable to boot into …

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Hi, My motherboard is an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and my hard drive is 200GB Seagate Barracuda. Here goes, I had the hard drive up and running and all working fine. Then something happend and my best option was just to format the drive and start all over again. When I …

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my friends memory stick got corrupted yesterday i think the psp displays a message that tells us to format the stick but we get an error when we do.. we tried to do it in DOS but it says "invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable" can we …

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Hi, I have a IBM T41 Thinkpad. When I purchased it, it did not come with the recovery disc. And if I want to get it, it's $45. So I was thinking of formatting it without the recovery disc. But I am a computer newbie, and not sure where to …

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hi to each and everyone! last night i went to my friends house to fix his computer. the problem was IE keeps hanging up after browsing 4 different websites. i ask him if he's using a genuine he said no. so i had a newly bought winxp genuine went to …

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I am having major probs installing a 2nd SATA drive on my system. ASRock P4VM8 motherboard - supports 2 SATA drives. First (already running XP) drive is a Seagate 160GB SATA w/8MB cache. The new drive is a Western Digi 400G SATA2 7200RPM w/16MB cache. Plugged it in etc. Powdered …

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Hey guys, ive got aproblem with my cd and dvd drives. Ive had a look around in a few forums but cant find the same problem so I thought Id ask for a hand. On both my cd and dvd (seperate drives) I can play audio cds, burn cd and …

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Here's my problem: My PC eventually starts making optical drive related problems. Looks like ASPI layer issue, but it isn't. I have ASPI layer tools and utilities and they don't help. Nero has it's own ASPI layer, and reinstalling complete Nero (7.10) doesn't help. I am missing something here, and …

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I currently have one SATA drive in my system. I would like to add two SATA drives and set them up in raid0. I would also like to keep the other SATA drive in the system, but not in raid, as it already has data on it. Is this congiguration …

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i got a used laptop and i remooved vista from it, and the problem i got is that before i removed vista tere was 2gb ram and now it is about 340 mb left, what can i do to recover the missing ram?

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I'm new in using Visual C#. Can you give me bit of information as to how I can manage the data entered by a user using a form and store it in an access database? In the application I have created, I planned of using OleDbCommand to manage the storage …

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I am trying to install a new larger hard drive while keeping the smaller hard drive for backups. I ghosted the existing drive to the new drive and have them properly set with the new larger drive as master and the older drive as slave. All of my data is …

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