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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    Wow! after trying several scenarios of swapping sata ports I found when I connected my blu ray drive to sata 1 then the 2tb hdd on 2 and the vista drive on 3 I finally got it to boot into win 7 disk and loaded it onto my drive and got what I needed.
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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    Sata has been in both and still can't get anywhere
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    Can't install win 7 64 bit on new drive

    I am currently running on a seagate 320 gb drive with vista 32bit and all is well. I wanted more storage and also wanted to move up to win 7 so I bought a seagate 2tb drive and a win 7 64bit (full version) disk to install on the new drive. I hooked up the new drive on sata 4 while my drive with...
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    Weird boot up after oc

    Hi I am a noob at oc and recently built a system with the following: p5be mb rev. 1.01G intel e6300 cpu bfg 7600gt oce vid card 2 - 1gb sticks of Corsair xms2 twin2x1024a-6400 memory According to reviews the components of this system are supposed to be great for overclocking. I was told one...
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    Help with usb pen drive

    Running win xp pro, wiring is all good, all drivers up to date
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    Help with usb pen drive

    This issue happens most of the time with my pc which is running win xp pro, P4 1.7ghz, 1gb ram. By most of the time I mean every once in a while it works fine. I'll plug the sandisk 512mb pen drive into the any usb port and I get the message "the disk in drive ? is not formatted would you like...
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    Any suggestions on knowledgable/reliable custom system builders?

    I guess if I was to build myself I would like to know what would be a reliable/fast and future upgradability mb. Of all the reviews on hardware I have read it gets very confusing when I'm just about to decide on a mb then read some negative comments. Would it be wise to purchase an SLI board if...
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    Any suggestions on knowledgable/reliable custom system builders?

    I am looking to have someone build a custom system. Any suggestions? Looking to spend about $1500 for system that is upgradeable for future, reliable and fast. Will run xp pro. Thanks
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    access to files and folders

    I know there is a way to allow access to all folders and files on my pc but have forgotten where to go to do it. I'm running Win xp pro. My virus scanner found a virus and I need to delete a file in C:\system volume information. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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    Backup file corrupted. Help!

    I was wondering if anyone has heard of a program that would "uncorrupt" a corrupted file on a floppy disk. Here's the problem, after reformating my hard drive and reloading all my apps I went to reload ms money 2003 and restore my backup file (about 4 years worth) from the floppy I had backed up...
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    Bad hard drive?

    I went into the bios again and just desperate to try anything I went to the IDE config and set a delay for the hdd. After it booted everything came back up. After a couple more reboots to make sure all data was there I went back into the bios and disabled the delay, booted and hdd came back up...
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    Bad hard drive?

    Just for the heck of it I tried a different power supply but same problem. Even though the os is win 2k and it won't let me boot from cd I tried booting from a win98 boot disk it wouldn't even try to access the floppy drive, but when I boot with my western digital lifeguard utility disk it will...
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    Bad hard drive?

    Okay here goes, I tried a different cable same results. I switched the cable to the secondary controller same results. I used my western digital utility on floppy and tested the hard drive the report indicated there were no errors on the drive and the drive was fine. I tried booting with the Win...