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    what software to transfer Vista to new HD

    The Acronis true image WD edition worked flawlessly. Thank you Very Much !!
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    what software to transfer Vista to new HD

    I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium on it, and I am trying to upgrade the hard drive. The old drive is a WD Scorpio 250 gig SATA, the new drive is a WD Scorpio 640 gig SATA. I have Ghost 10, which won't work with vista. I tried installing both drives in a desktop machine running XP...
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    DVI vs VGA

    I have a 22" LG LCD display. I have two desktop computers that have the same video card in them (EVGA Nvidea 7900 GS). They are both connected to the same monitor, one to the DVI input, the other to the VGA input with an adapter at the card connection. I don't use the second computer very...
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    External hard drive questions

    There are such good deals out there on 500 gig portables I have bought two lately and put older/smaller drives into them with no problems at all.
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    Which External Hard Drive should I choose?

    I recently bought the 500 gig version of that Maxtor One Touch III for $119 locally at an Office Depot. It is built with a sata 7200rpm drive with 16mb cache. My original intention when I found it for that price was to rob the drive out of it and use it as an internal drive and put a smaller...
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    SATA Jumper setting

    There are some older mother boards that won't see sata II drives without the jumper in place. Very few of them have this issue from my understanding, but enough of them that the jumper option is there.
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    Do LCD screens just die?

    Shine a flashlight on it and see if it is displaying an image (your desktop or whatever should be on the screen) and the lamp is simply out. This is fairly common for the cold cathode flourescent tube (what actually lights the display so you can see it) to go bad, or for the inverter which...
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    Do OEM HDDs include SATA cables?

    From Newegg, generally no, they don't include the cables. My mobo (Asus) included a full set of cables so during my last build it wasn't a problem. The OEM sata DVD RW drive didn't include them either, just the drive in a bag and a software disk.
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    Copy drive to drive

    If you have either a Seagate or Maxtor drive, Maxblast 5 or Seatools will work like a charm for this and are available for free download here http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/in...nVCM100000dd04090aRCRD As mentioned, this is based on the Acronis TrueImage program.
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    Problem setting up 160g drive for older laptop

    That helps a lot, thanks !
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    Problem setting up 160g drive for older laptop

    I have an older Dell laptop which had a 12 gig hard drive in it. I had a 160 gig Toshiba drive here and decided to install it. When I put the drive in and formatted it the Dell could only format it as an 80 gig which I assume is due to ald bios limitations. I am trying to delete this...
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    Is there a way to recover files after system restore?

    On XP anyways, when you go to system restore they give you the option to undo your last restore.
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    gas cap location logic?

    All european cars are on the passenger side except for the Jaguar models which have two tanks thus a filler on each side. Someone mentioned a truck with the engine mounted 3-4 inches off center. This is so the engine/drive line is aligned with the differential, the input of which is not centered.
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    More cars/trucks than drivers?

    I have 6 cars, one driver. When the insanity first began, I had a car with full coverage and bought a winter car with just liability. My total insurance cost for the two cars was cheaper than the one car alone. They figured any time I drove the beater was better than driving the fully insured...
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    Four supercars crash over the weekend

    Running out of luck, skill and real estate all at the same time. Bummer !