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    WinXP Media Center PC virus recovery problems

    Bart1975 and Level_1...thank you for your replies...without internet for a week due to lightning strike..yippeee...anyway..turned out to be a dual cd/dvd setup and all I had to do (DUH) was unplug the power cord to DVD and use the 2nd cd drive...too simple for me to see in the moment...all the...
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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

    Lanyap...still at it...no joy, yet. Wrote zeroes to both drives..using "IDE" option in BIOS as opposed to ahci or raid...tried to load raid drivers..no floppy on the system but had drivers on cd...pressed F6...and install continued for another minute then hung up. Oh, and only using one drive...
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    Hp Media Center ... need a utility to diagnose

    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I did get the specs from the HP support page, but didn't have the raid driver info..thank you so very much...almost installed win98se again :)
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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 7 64bit for Sys Buildr

    Thanks, Virge. One reason I bought the full version of Win 7 64 bit was to eliminate having this very thing happen. I build systems for my family, inlaws, cousins, etc., and I went the upgrade path with them from previous OS versions and I started running into this very thing. I used to keep a...
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    help...extremely loud cpu fan but temps are ok!

    I would suspect the fan above all else...noticed in the newegg product review section that some stock fans do this (intolerable noise). I have always used a Zahlman solution, but there are plenty of inexpensive heatsink/fan combos. I would replace it at once.
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    SSD as drive1 with SATA drive 2...how?

    Venom20..great thread...thanks!
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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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    SSD as drive1 with SATA drive 2...how?

    Ok, that makes sense...I'll email the software manufacturer as they are excellent at providing feedback, too. I appreciate the thoughts very much!
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    Someone explain labor unions to me

    Labor Unions are on a pendulum swing now. Imagine the far left of the swing being the child labor..sweat shops, etc. The far right of the swing is where they have so much influence and political capitol that they ruin industry of the entire nation in a myopic demand for more more more more...
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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?

    Larry, since I'll be installing a bare bones of other programs: CD/DVD burning software and an anti-virus that will only be enabled when downloading program updates, new instruments, etc. but nothing else...music production exclusive system...would you suggest I install these other programs...
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    SSD as drive1 with SATA drive 2...how?

    Thanks VirtualLarry. Will do. Gheido27, (hope i remembered the spelling correctly) ... regarding the resources..I'm running a single core Sempron 3300 with 4 gig DDR 2 and a SATA 3 7200rpm hd...Once I get to 10 tracks and have multiple effects on each track..the system begins to bog down when I...
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    SSD as drive1 with SATA drive 2...how?

    I appreciate the feedback. I will check out your suggestion as well. I've slept a lot since my last system build and Win 7 has come out since then as well as multi-core processors..my age is showing...I started music software with the 486 running in "386 enhanced mode". The evolution of software...
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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

    CorkyG and Gunbuster, you guys rock! Thanks so much! Definitely a big easy fix!
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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...