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Hi, I have an odd problem...well an annoying problem. My internal hard drive is read only which is O.K. unless you need to write to it or say boot it. So what happened? I really don't know, I sent my computer to get some maintenance done on it because it …

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Hello, My hard drive is clinking all the time even when idle..Is there anything I could do to it? I am running Windows xp home ,1 gig memory,400 gig main harddrive. Thank you for your help. Ernie

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hi all i am looking to buy new external HDD of 500GB or 1TB So anybody in india have idea in mumbai netwok so please let me know the price i am not able to search on net becouse almost whole day i spend into office and external WebSites Are …

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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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Was hoping would be as simple as plugging it in and then setting as a slave on the BIOS... seems I was a little too optimistic. I have a new hard drive in on a clean install of Windows 7. I would like to add my old hard drive, transfer …

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I use windows XP.The configaration of my processor is 2 GB RAM,Intel core 2 due , 2.40 GHz. But in c Drive it shows 24.4 GM capacity.The RAM is 2 GB , then how the capacity is 24.4 GB?

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I recently found that my hard drive has bad sectors in the neighborhood of 5000 per day. ordinarily I would consider this to be a bad hard drive. Except that this hard drive is a 6 month old Western Digital 250 gb hard drive, that replaced a one year old …

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hi I have a dell t7400. during boot it says "your battery is either charging, bad or missing, and you have VDs configured for write-back mode. Because the batteryis not currently usable, these VDs wil actually run in write-through mode untilthe battery is fully charged or replaced if it is …

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One of the frustrations of using the Apple iPad is that there is no conventional file system on it. What's more, there's no SD card slot or USB port to connect some sort of external storage, making it difficult to get files from one device to another without connecting the …

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I have recently purchased the 'Iriver ihp-120'. After putting music onto it I try to eject the device by clicking on the 'Safly Remove Hardware' icon in the system tray and click on stop and it says "Device 'generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again …

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Yesterday my Toshiba laptop crashed, i pulled out the HD and plugged it into my desktop in an attempt to retrieve some data. To make space for the laptop HD I accidently removed the Desktop C: drive HD (mistaking it for another), when I plugged it back in I found …

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hi guys ! mine is a sim prb . my old 40 gb sammsng drive shows in bios bt not in drive manager. lookiing for help. some imp data in there.thnks

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Hi there, I just bought Dell XPS 15, with 500 GB HDD I have habit of using 3 partitions. One for System, 120 GB 2nd 190 GB 3rd 190 GB But now, there is hidden recovery partition of 13.4 GB, C of almost 200+ GB & Another of again 200+ …

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[ATTACH=right]21490[/ATTACH]Imagine lining up 57.5 billion Apple iPads to build a wall measuring about 4000 miles long and 60 feet high. To put that into perspective, think of the Great Wall of China cloned and stacked on one top of the other, that's how big we are talking here folks. Now …

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Due to some reason, my computer was not able to start up and it ends up with Safe mode Safe mode with networking Safe mode with command prompt Last known good config Start windows normally which none of the option works above. attempt format with the Operating System Disk(For installation …

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how can i alter the INITIAL and NEXT value of a table. I tried something and ended up with the following code. [code]ALTER TABLE TABLENAME ADD ( PRIMARY KEY (ORDER_ID) USING INDEX TABLESPACE TALLYDATA PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 STORAGE ( INITIAL 64K NEXT 64K MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED …

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I have a computer and when i turn it on the monitor does not come on i know that the monitor is working because it is the same monitor im using. so i wnat to know ir it is the video card is the problem and if or how to …

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This may be a PC 101 question, but I'm in the process of adding a second internal hard drive to my new XPS 8300, WIN 7 Pro x-64 pc. I have an external 2 TB HD that I use for backups. I do a lot of digital photography with Photoshop …

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I guess it depends on who you ask Really, though I do have a question about SSD and size. It has been asked over and over but I have not seen any threads that really answer my question. What size SSD would be the best option for me? I do …

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Hello, I got a hard drive from someone and it had a Recovery Partition on it that I couldn't get rid of. I was Messing aroung with Hirens Boot CD V10.0 under the hard drive tools and went to HDDERASE. Gave me a password (idrive) then started and said app. …

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while i am working in software i can hear some sound from my harddisk...what sound is that.if it continues it will harm my computer.??

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Alright, so I've spent nearly a week trying to solve this problem with almost no success. I need some third party input before I continue with my plans for this drive. So here's the story. I have a Seagate FreeAgent 2TB external hard drive, I filled it about halfway with …

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Anyone out there know how to remove/reset a password from a Hard Drive? I have a 60 Gig Fujitsu Laptop Drive that has an unknown password on it. Thanks, tdc

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]21685[/ATTACH]It doesn't take long to fill up a 16GB or 32GB iPad with stuff, but what do you do when that data storage capacity is reached? Apple has not opted for an upgradeable storage option with the iPad, for reasons which escape me to be honest, so if you find …

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I have a 500GB sata hard drive whose , a plastic 'L' shaped support of the sata data pin is broken(the plastic support behind the pins circled in the attachment). now i'm unable to plug the data cable to the drive. is there any way i can access my hdd …

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I am trying to do several things. 1. Intialize - engage a user in a series of questions to assign values to the class variables, no args, no return value, called from constructor. 2. Display - displays all the class values, each in an sentence, no args, no return value. …

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I have a WD hard drive. that when go to delete files or folders they just come back. any recommendations.

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Hey all, I've noticed for the past 6 months that my external drive randomly gets files put onto its root, with very ambiguous names. They're all empty (as in 0 bytes), but it's really weird. Today I noticed a huge accumulation. I have a high technical knowledge, but I was …

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Hi Guys, I am about to build a new PC from scratch, BUT want to use my SATA II Harddrive (which is 1.5TB) Looking at the latest tech - SSD's seem to be the way to go, and my thinking is to buy one of those for the OS and …

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I have 3 hard drives on my computer. One hard drive named C is only used for my Win XP Pro SP3 operating system and nothing else. A second hard drive I use for all my data, video, files, folders etc. The third hard drive is used for the backup …

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This is what happens when I try to reinstall winxp on another used computer (dell 8400 with a SATA drive) The windows setup screen appears and loads files. The next screen says welcome to setup and offers three options . 1-to setup XP press enter. 2 To repair XP press …

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Hello. I have a FileUpload control in my app, and a user chooses a file that sits on mapped network drives. now i don't want the files to actully download i only want the path to it for a link. my question is how do i get the real path …

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Hi everyone, My name is Jeramy and I am new to the forums. I did a search and tried to find a similar post and one came up with certain search terms - however I forgot which it was =( I'm an independent contractor and I setup HDTVs, PCs, networks, …

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I was curious about how to fix an SDHC card that has started telling the camera the memory card has an error and that it is locked. Then when you went to put it in the computer the computer won't recognize it at all either. I did a Google on …

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Hello, As a Mac user and minor maintenance man on XP machines for friends and family, pardon my ignorance on this Windows 7 issue. I bought my father an Iomega portable 320GB HDD for Father's Day For his new HP machine with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. He wants …

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I found this amazingly useful for setting PCs with SSD as boot drive and a large storage drive. [url]http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/124198-user-profiles-create-move-during-windows-7-installation.html[/url] Kudos to "Kari"

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see i've brought a new HCL laptop with having 250gb hard disk.......it was provided with ubunto os.......i later installed a fresh windows xp my deleting ubuntu from that partition and installed a fresh windows xp........but right now in my "my computer" only i can find c drive on which i've …

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I've had an idea for a class that, instead of storing a number as a single floating-point value, stores the exact value as two or more integers (in cases such as division, fractional exponents, or irrational numbers such as pi or e). The class would have it's own mathematical functions …

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Hi I am new on this web and I bought a Seagate freeAgent go External hard drive I found it helpful so I Purchased another one Now after a few months the Second HD stopped being shown in my computer It was working fine plugged it in my laptop copied …

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I have WDC WD1600AAJS-60PSA0 ATA HDD. I can use it as a second (storage) drive, but I have [B]problem to install any OS[/B]. I have tested it with Ashampoo HDD Control 2 and this is log: [Harddisk 1 ; Modell=WDC WD1600AAJS-60PSA0 ATA Device ; Size=160 GB ; SN=WD-WMAP95554491] Physical Drive …

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Hi, I had a catastrophic RAID failure and was hoping for some advice on next steps. A couple of years ago, I purchased an Addonics mini-tower with a built-in hardware raid controller and filled it with hard drives and set it up as a RAID 1 array. I used this …

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Sony has confirmed that it will stop manufacturing and supporting floppy disks from next year. That's it, there will be no more. This tells the technology community a number of things. First, if anyone actually cares about this then the end user community, and particulary the home worker, are further …

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Hello All, My external hard disk(WD) of 1TB was fell down from the desk. Now the thing is, when I tried to connect it, I asked for formatting, So, I denied it. Afterward again when I tried to connect it, its getting detected, the white light on HD was blinking, …

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I just got an external enclosure so i can get info off two of my old hard drives. It is working great, but i can't access my old documents (Documents and Settings\Owner). I think I might have had a password required at login on my old computer. is there a …

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Hi to all I have a flash drive of 64 mb Samsung. Last month i formated it using the format utility of its manfacturer CD. And that's it........ its size decreased to 32 mb. I tried my best to recover its size but all in vain.... I tried the format …

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I have XP My DVD driver will not open. Do i have to upgrade a driver for this? Is it free? Where do I get the driver from? is it something I can fix it myself? Is it something on my computer & can I fix it myself? I am …

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Hi Everyone I am having a problem with a server that is running windows server 2008. I just started working at a company and we were having a vpn connection issue, however before I even got a chance to look at it one of the guys went in and restarted …

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Straightforward question. If I run Hac-inT0sh on one partion with W7 on another can these partions be separated onto separate hard drives (when I get two hard drives). Any certain programs? Thanks!

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what will happen to the CD if i format it? will it be no more useful???please help

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