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Hello, I'm having a problem with a line of code that doesn't seem to be working right. I have no idea why it keeps telling me I have a missing ';' before '-'. Any help would be appreciated. Here's the error in Visual Studio: [color=RED] : error C2143: syntax error …

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Those proliant 1600 hdd drive at 2.1 gig each - can you buy them anywhere still as it wont take a standard IDE one and other SCSI drives dont fit into the rails.

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Hi, My friend has a Sony combo drive, the CRX 320 EE. Supposedly, this drive, as a CD writer is a 52x32x52x drive. Trouble is, when I put in a 52x CD-R disc (Moser Baer 52x CD-R), nero detects it as a 40x disc. The CD is a 52x CD-R. …

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Hi all...last night I had 51 disk errors in the event viewer, I think it's time to get another hdd, my question is which one and how big? I have a Maxtor 40GB now and still have 80% free, so I'm guessing that I could get by with a 80GB …

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Hi guys I'm trying to install windows xp on my toshiba tecra 8100. I have an external floppy drive which I've connected. I rebooted the laptop, and pressed 'a'. It read the floppy, and I created a brand new partiton using fdisk. That was fine. Then it asked me to …

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i have winxp,service pack2 . CD WRITER .HL-DTST CDRW GCE-8400B when trying to drag files,folders from c;drive to e:drive..and ready to write to cd..i got a message "please use a writable cd or r-w" and i use all blank cd's. i used to have roxio,with this program i can write …

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I have a Sony 530A dvd burner and have only had it for a year now. This week I discovered that it would not write to a dvd anymore however it will still write to a cd-r. I have tried 3 dvd-r's that were 2 different brand names and 1 …

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I am building a new computer and have never made more than the one partition. I would like to partition into two partitions. One strictly for the os and the other for all else. Does that seem like the correct thing to do? Where is the best place to go …

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i have a plextor 121032A which used to work fine, but a few weeks ago the computer had a nervous breakdown and when i got it running again i could no longer write to a cd from windows explorer, it can still write cds it's just windows itself that can't …

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Is this the right sub-forum for this? I'm wondering, is there a definitive answer these days about whether the x-rays at airport screenings damage floppy disks? Last time I flew, I just asked for them to be hand-searched instead, but you never know if those guys will give you a …

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Hi everyone. I don't know if any one is familiar with this device, the Mitsumi FA402A. What it is is a floppy drive with built in card reader slots, such as SD, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, etc. I thought it would be a great addon to my desktop...... however I …

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OK i am new to this so bear with a newbie. I have 2 hard drives with diffrent OS XP of the master ans Lindows on the slave. For some reason it the BIOS will not see the two HDS's and then after a restart it will and it will …

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I recently bought an Sata 250gig harddrive and a IDE dvd burner. I am new to sata and was wonder what jumper to set my dvd drive to. Thanks for your time. Miles

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Hi everyone, I am currently trying to serialize parts of a jtextpane using the java ObjectOutputStream to write it to disk and when i am reading the object back i am using the java ObjectInputStream. When i read the api about the streams here is what they say [QUOTE] Warning: …

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I have a Dell5150 and I'm running XP. I bought a IOGear 250GB hdd. I put all sorts of files on it. Then one day I try and use it, it tells me that the drive is not formatted and asks to reformat now. I've not yet reformatted it. Upon …

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I seem to have bad luck with multiple partitions on one drive. I have a 160 gb hdd that was partitoned with one approx 137gb partition with windows xp. It was working fine. I decided to partition the remaining space which was something like 25gb. I did it from windows …

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]I want to format my PC but I am curious to know if there is any difference between DOS formatting, Windows (while installing) formatting or quick format.. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Could someone give me an answer please..[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Thank you,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] …

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My computer will not get past detecting my hard drive for some reason. It just freezes. It says detecting primary master ... IDE Hard Drive then it freezes. I'm confused...

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Hi Guys I have a problem with my system and have tried all sorts of ways to sort it out but to no avail. Please help if you can. My problem started a few days ago when I installed XP Service Pack 2 on my system. It ran fine for …

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I am trying to install a 120G IDE hard disk in a computer that currently has an SCSI 10G drive with the o/s on (connected to the SCSI input on the motherboard) and also has a SCSI pci card with a 3 Hard disk RAID connected to it. The problem …

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Hello, I having a problem with my Flash drive. It is an LG 2.0 256MB flash drive. I noticed that it is no longer possible to write or read to it. I receive the message " the disk is not formatted". If I try to format it using windows XP …

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Hello, I'm having a problem with my 1GB USB flash drive. My PC will recognise the drive but when I try to access it I get "please insert a disk into drive G:". I've tried to format it but get the same message. It says 0 bytes are on the …

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Am new to inside computer works. know all there is to know about software, but hardware is another story. I recently purchased a Serial ATA hard drive, and went to install it, but the cable inside the computer had a different connector on it. From reading on different sites, I …

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Hi. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I just couldn't figure out where else to post it. Recently, my computer exploded. Well, not literally, but it was older than dirt and finally gave out. However, I have a pretty new DVD drive in it. I was …

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Did you know smoking near your hard drive will reduce your hard drives life by 25% no joke a proven fact. :-X :-/ :o :(

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:eek: I have a toshiba tecra 8100 600meg, 128MB Ram Recently installed a QSI-SBW242 dvd-CDRW drive. After having a lot of troubles with an IDE#1 error (which i solved with the help of this forum) the drive finally seemed to work properly. I can burn everything i want, read every …

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I have Asus motherboard P4s8x, and one hard drive.This is what happens when I try to reinstall winxp .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 R 3 …

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Hi ya all. I've been asking around about this for months all sorts of different place and no one seems to have a good answer, I really hope you can help. Is there a way to connect a laptop hard drive while still in the laptop to be used by …

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Hello all :p I was working on this simple program with a formula for calculating parallel resistance. I was getting all kinds of errors at first but I am still getting these few. Compiling... ResistancePar.cpp G:\VC++60\ResistancePar\ResistancePar.cpp(5) : warning C4518: 'float ' : storage-class or type specifier(s) unexpected here; ignored G:\VC++60\ResistancePar\ResistancePar.cpp(5) …

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Hello, I have a Dell 4400 with a Maxtor 80G HD that I use as my system/boot drive. Last night I installed a Maxtor 200G HD to be used as storage for video (master/slave configuration). Now, the computer does not recognize either HD in BIOS (I had to boot up …

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Im new here im not sure if i post this in the right place but o wellz. Neway my problem is my mp3 player wont turn on it will onli play wen it is connnectied via the usb. does ne1 else have this problem or no how to fix it …

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I recently installed Windows 2000 and now my Hard Drive light stays on all the time and the system does not recognize my second hard drive. No physical changes were made to the computer only installed Windows 2000. Whats up? Thanks

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BEST affordable DVD writer available...!!! Hi everyone, I am currently having SAMSUNG combo drive (dont know what combo means) which is i believe cd rom + cd writer + dvd reader (NOT dvd writer) SO I am planning to purchase DVD writer....??? Q. Which is the best DVD writer cum …

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[FONT=Arial]I have a relatively new (1 month) laCie 500 gb external harddrive that for some reason today has disappeared from my desktop. Nothing seems to find it. Any ideas on how I can locate it? I don't want to think I have lost 200 gb of data this month. sigh.....[/FONT] …

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SWITCHING between TWO separate physical HDD drives… Well… Situation: TWO separate HDD in one CPU: (Say): a. One HDD of 80 GB used for general work and internet etc…(having its own windows xp prof OS) b. Second HDD of 160 GB containing utmost critical and sensitive applications and data…(having its …

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[font=Times New Roman][size=3]Could anyone tell me, is it always possible to buy bigger HDD and get smaller storage? like I’ve bought a Samsung HDD 120GB installed and everything and now I only have 111GB storage what could be the problem???[/size][/font] [size=3][/size] [font=Times New Roman]Can someone tell me is that normal …

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I recantly had some problems and wound up reformating, and afterwards the POST would stop and give me the following message: Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and replace. I'm using the computer now, and haven't had a hickup since I reformated, does this message mean that I …

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I have 2 user profiles on my XP machine. One is my own account, the other is a guest account. I bought an external hard drive to back up my files. After I backed them up, I can now view ALL of my files on the external hard drive from …

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Hi, this is an emergency. my cousin had an old computer. his harddrive storages is only 8000mb. he had windows98 when he first got it. now he wants to install windows xp on that pc. but it got lots errors. finally i got to the point where its installin. but …

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Do you always have to put file access in the view? I think it would be more appropriate in the document, and it works fine to implement a CFileDialog object from the document file. Considering all the parsing and data storage I've got to do, that makes sense to me. …

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Hey, I have a Seagate 250GB 7200.8rpm hard drive, and the computer is only reading 127GB's of that space. I have SP1 and 2 installed and im pretty sure the motherboard (MSI Neo4 Platinum) drivers are up to date. Any ideas? Thanks

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Hello i wondered if i could pick your brains , i am looking to install another h/drive for extra storage i currently have an 80gb SATA as my main drive , running on an Abit BH7 mobo , (which has only one sata plug) , on ide 1 i have …

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Hello, this is my first posting to this site and i was just wondering if anyone out there could help me figure out some code for an assignment that i have to do. I've just started learning Assembler and this assignment has stumped me. I have attached a copy of …

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Dear members: I just would like to know should i put a failed/failing hard drive (30gb ibm internal hd) in external enclosure as slave so i can get the data off (its been a month since it has failed)

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Hi, and welcome to the world of Linux. Linux offers, so many, new and exciting possibilities, to both experienced and novice alike, that it is oftentimes difficult to get started. One solution to such a problem is to familiarize yourself with the feel of Linux before you go any further …

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Hi, first post, pardon me if I sound ignorant. I've just purchased a second hard drive (Hitachi 160GB parallel ATA). I am currently using a 60GB Hitachi parallel ATA hard drive as my primary drive, Windows 2000 OS. I can't get the new hard drive detected. I have tried several …

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Any ideas on this one chaps, trying to get pics from friends hard drive onto mine. Fujitsu hard drive, set as slave, connected to my PC after disconnecting my slave drive. My PC will not boot when attached,but when pressing f8 I can start windows normally.PC will not recognizedrive as …

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are there any cd's i could buy that can storage a few albums worth of information on them? i tried getting cd rw's but they only held 700 mb. i'm trying to get a couple albums worth of songs off of my hardrive. thanks chris

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PEN DRIVE - ultimate value for money Respected advanced super ultimate techies, Well...!!! OBJECTIVE: Purchase of a Pen Drive of 1 GB in India BUDGET: Rs 4000-5000 (a bit flexible if getting value for money) equivalent to USD 80 to 100 $ REQUIREMENTS: a. Company should be best in class …

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Hello Everyone, My mother bought a used pc the other day and asked me to look at it and possably advise her what she needed to update it and get her ready to go online hassel free. I looked her pc over and had her buy a hard drive as …

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