Recent content by trainspotting

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    GPT and Using my SSD?

    When attempting to start the installation process, Windows messages me unable to proceed. Drive Management does not display the drive. I have looked everywhere in my boards BIOS for "enable UHCI". It is an MSI 890FXA-GD70. Having this function seems to be the simplest solution?
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    GPT and Using my SSD?

    I bought an SSD to use as my boot drive in a fresh install of W7. When I first installed it as a secondary it asked me about formatting. I did NOT write down what it was asking me (stupid, stupid) but now I have an SSD in GPT format that I cannot convert to anything useful. I have tried...
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    Strange Happenings When Removing Hard Drive

    Tried the command suggested (bootrec.exe /fixmbr ) ; i did get a message " the operation completed successfuly" but when I rebooted I got the same error message as before. Not sure what to do now....
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    Strange Happenings When Removing Hard Drive

    I disconnected the second drive. I booted from the system disk and open a command prompt. changed to c: and typed fixmbr. received the following message: "fixmbr is not recognized as an internal or external command".:rolleyes:
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    Strange Happenings When Removing Hard Drive

    I am running Windows 7 Pro from a Western Digital Black Caviar 1 TB drive. I have another 1 TB Western Digital Black Caviar that I was using as a data drive. I moved all of my data off the drive such that it shows up as "empty" when you click on it in "my computer". The strangeness comes when...
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    How To Find Windows 7 Password??

    re-read your instructions especially the part about having to quit then answer y when it asks to to write/save the changes......YOU ARE AWSOME!! THANKS MUCH. it IS MUCH APPRECIATED!
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    How To Find Windows 7 Password??

    I'm using ophcrack,,,your comments relative to that program? I have trying to do this from a USB flash drive...better to do it from a burned CD?
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    How To Find Windows 7 Password??

    nothin' effing works..tried to set pass word to something other than blank. got confirmation that password was reset....still get incorrect signon....gaaahhhhh.
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    How To Find Windows 7 Password??

    I cannot get past the login screen.I tried the pogo and ophcrack. seemed to get through the pogo process, selected blank password, but still get incorrect password at the login screen. any other progs/suggestions? thanks.
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    How To Find Windows 7 Password??

    Like a dummy I changed my logon password and didn't write it down or commit it to memory. Is there any way to get in? The only option (besides the hint which referred to the old password of course) is a "recovery password" prompt which of course asks for a password recovery disk (which I did...
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    Photoshop CS5 Requires 64 bit W7?

    Where do I get this? Is it a full copy of W7 along with the full price? Thanks.
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    Photoshop CS5 Requires 64 bit W7?

    So I assume that I can do an upgrade from W7 Pro 32 bit to W7 pro 64 bit. Any leads vendor-wise on where I can get a 64 bit version at a reasonable price? Thanks.
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    Photoshop CS5 Requires 64 bit W7?

    My daughters PC has suddenly started to report "not enough RAM" messages when working with RAW files. The system has 8 GB of RAM but reports that only 3.7 GB are in use. Someone on one of her photo forums said it was because she was running 32 Windows 7 Home Premium and would require the 64 bit...
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    Can't See Drive in "Computer"

    Importing worked! Thanks for your help (and patience) :) I don't remember changing it to a dynamic disk (at least on purpose anyway). Thanks for your help (all who commented). I learned something today!.:)
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    Can't See Drive in "Computer"

    but won't that delete the data on the disk? I have a disk image among other things that I need to keep on the disk.