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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

    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??

    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?

    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"

    Doesn't show up under "my computer". When I look under Computer Mgmt -> Storage -> Disk Management I see it listed by drive name (ST31500541AS) but it has a yellow triangle with an explanation point in it. Right-clicking doesn't bring up the option to assign a drive letter like on the other...
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    System Won't Boot

    I'm putting this topic here since I can't get my new system to boot... At power up I have no video output at all and the troubleshooting LEDs on the board show a flashing "FF". Of course the mobo manual has no explanation what FF means. I've done some digging and have found that this is a...
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    Pixelated Toolbars After Windows 7 Upgrade?

    I upgraded my daughters Dell laptop from Vista to 7 Home Premium. All went just fine. The system is stable and none the worse for wear from the upgrade process. However I am now getting pixelation and horizontal banding on the borders of programs and jagged lines around desktop icons and...
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    AGP Card with Windows 7 Drivers?

    As the title says I am looking for an AGP card with driver support for Windows 7. This is for an older PC that has plugged along on XP. It runs pretty good on 7. I know, its old. But I'm hoping to get a little more life out of this before building a new machine.
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    How to Stop Mobo from trying to boot from a USB drive

    I have a problem with my PC trying to boot from a USB device (a flash drive and/or an external drive). This problem is happening on two somewhat older PC's (one is an A7N8X and the other is an Intel D845 series. I have looked in the BIOS for both boards for something that would would access the...
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    Trouble Setting Up a WD MyBook Live 1 TB Drive on my Network

    I am having no luck in getting my Western Digital 1 TB Network drive up and running. It was my understanding that this is like, if not actually, an NAS and it was "plug n' play", at least everything I've read on it says. I am running a 2wire router going into a 5 port gigabit ethernet switch...
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    Best Deal on MS Office Student?

    I saw the MS Office 2010 Pro Academic for $79.95 on Microsoft's website. Seems like a pretty good deal. It's a better deal than my daughter can get at school. Anything seen a better deal than this? Thanks. ---------------------- OT or FS/T are better places to post this rather than here...
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    External Drive or NAS Box?

    I have a network consisting of three desktop PCs (two running 7, another running XP) a laptop running 7, a wireless printer, and a hard-wired printer. All PC's have at least 1 TB of internal storage. One of the desktops have an internal drive for data back-up purposes. I have a Western Digital...
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    Board/CPU combo for heavy photoshop

    I've been trying to sort through the various CPU/mobo combinations to see what the best price/performance I can get that will support heavy Photoshopping. Being somewhat obsolescence proof, at least for a year or two would be good too. I'd be lying if I said I understand all the socket/CPU...
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    Mid-Range Card for Photoshop

    I am considering building a new PC for my daughter. Other than Sims she doesn't have any gaming requirements. She is an accomplished photographer. As such I am looking at what a $150-200 price will get. I don't think I need SLI. The PC will be a quad-core. I haven't decided on that...
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    Trying To Restore an Imaged Drive with Acronis

    So I made an Image of a Windows installation from the c: drive to an external USB hard drive (drive F). I am at my wits end trying to restore this image. Can I: restore this image using another USB Drive (call it H). Can I then boot from this restored image? Everything I've read says how easy it...
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    Serial Number Retrieval

    My boot drive (WD 750 GB) started making clicking noises so I made an image with Arconis on an external drive. When I went to install Adobe CS3 on my new drive I realized that I needed ther serial number to reload the program. Of course I can't locate the serial number. Is there a way I can...
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    RAM for an old System?

    Hello. I have fallen out of the mainstream of CPU/Mobo/Memory. I have some questions which will show how out of it I have become. I am still running an Athlon XP based processor on an ASUS A7N8X mobo. I am limping along with Vista and 500 MB of RAM. What size, speed and other specifics do I need...
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    PC Too Old For Windows 7 ??

    Don't laugh at me....I'm trying to install W7 on an old A7N8X motherboard with an Adaptec 39160 SCSI card with an IBM Ultra 320 hard drive. I have gotten to where the install goes through all of it's installation steps, and then at the end it restarts and kicks me right back to the beginning of...
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    Will Windows 7 Install on Drive?

    I have an old mobo (ASUS A7N8X) that I'm trying to install 7 on. I have a WD SATA 1TB drive connected to the PC through an add-in SATA card. The install software "sees" the drive, but also messages "partition table does not have a valid system partition" and "cannot be installed to this disk". I...
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    How To Overclock an Asus A7N8X - I Forgot

    It has been a while since I played around with overclocking and recently was given a PC with an A7N8X-C board with an Athlon XP 1100 CPU (11 X 100). In the BIOS it appears to be set at all default settings. I used to know what to change (multiplier, etc.) to overclock but I can't remember how to...