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    WinXP Media Center PC virus recovery problems

    I have posted this in the "Computer Help" section, but maybe it goes here better? Any help appreciated.. System info here:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=3223657 Lanyap...still at it...no joy, yet. Wrote zeroes to both drives..I'm using "IDE" option in BIOS as opposed to...
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    Hp Media Center ... need a utility to diagnose

    Thanks in advance for any and all responses! My mom in law got a nasty virus on her HP Media Center PC..M7567C..model no. There was originally a raid configuration with 6 partitions. The only ultimate "fix" for the virus was to write zeroes to both hdd and attempt to reinstall windows xp. The...
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    Win XP Pro crash during setup @20%..new hd not responding

    I hope I posted this in the right spot.... Installing Win xp pro on new Seagate 500gb 7200.12 sata drive...at 20 percent during the formatting process it hung up...for 30 minutes. I had selected Quick Format. The progress bar ran up to 20% and then hung up. After that it would not access...
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    Win 7 64bit for Sys Buildr

    I have contacted Gigabyte who no longer upgrades the BIOS and states that my motherboard is not going to be made Win7 compliant. Model is GA-K8U. Yet, when I ran the Win7 upgrade advisor, it only suggested 64 bit drivers for the video card. I assume, therefore, that the upgrade advisor doesn't...
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    SSD as drive1 with SATA drive 2...how?

    I'm running a music production program which is very resource dependent for functionality....so I'm upgrading to a faster system. I've heard folks describe their systems with a SSD 40- 80 gig and a 500-1TB "backup drive". My question is how is this set up? It will be a fresh install of Win 7...
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    Win 7 64bit for Sys Buildr

    Installing a new Sata hard drive, and Win7 won't begin install, hangs up at Boot to cd/dvd after it selects it and cursor line drops below the sentence. I have already 1. gotten most recent BIOS 2. selected "Boot to cd/dvd" in Boot Order in Bios 3. confirmed on the old HD that cd/dvd is...
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    Need Easy Way to swap two seperately bootable hard drives on the same system

    Thanks in advance for replies! I need to have my music production software and the related files on its own hard drive on the same system that my wife uses for her purposes. Is there an easy way to select between the two as far as which one boots? I don't want to partition because the Music...