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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.
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    Can't See Drive in "Computer"

    It's just a single NTFS data disk from an XP install. No RAID or spanned array. The little icon of a little yellow shield with an explanation point has me puzzled...I've not seen it before. Oh, BTW the disk does show up with the other SATA drives in the BIOS at start up.
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    Can't See Drive in "Computer"

    This is a data disk...no OS present. In disk management it shows a space for the disk (with the name in paren. as shown above). If I rt-click on the left-most portion of the row, the only options are to "import" and "convert to basic...disk" which warns will result in data loss. The type of...
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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

    tell me about it! I'm just glad I didn't fry anything!:P
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    System Won't Boot

    Switching the RAM didn't help. So I dissasembled everything and started over. Lo and behold! It now works!!
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    System Won't Boot

    I saw the RAM switching thing...tried swapping both sticks slot by slot together and individually....no change. The only thing I can switch right now is the videocard....swapped in an ASUS EAH 4850....no difference. I am going to swap out the RAM from my daughters PC (gotta wait until she...
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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?

    THANKS TCSENTER!!! The driver link you sent me corrected the problem! You're awesome. Thanks again!
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    Pixelated Toolbars After Windows 7 Upgrade?

    it is a GM45 Chip (thanks VirtualLarry !) . After chasing the driver down on the Intel site it appears that the newest driver is from 2009?? I have tried running the classic desktop and am running at native resolution. I don't know what to do next....
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    Pixelated Toolbars After Windows 7 Upgrade?

    I assume that the PC has an integrated graphics chip. How best to identify the make/model of the chip? I know how to identify a discrete graphics card in a desktop but I'm having trouble finding the specifics through contral panel...any help would be appreciated.
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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?

    on a related note, does Vista compatability mean that 7 will be compatable?
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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 looked under every option in the BIOS. Anything related to the Boot order or Boot priority lists the hard drive as first and every USB is disabled. Thanks.
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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

    OK, I tried without success to do as directed above (logged into the router and was able to get the IP address) but couldn't find in the NAS software to set it. I also dont know how to map a share drive. Am I really this dense or is this not the best NAS for the less-than-network-savy to take...
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    Trouble Setting Up a WD MyBook Live 1 TB Drive on my Network

    The KB article I found regarding UPnP; says to make sure UPnP is enabled under the exceptions tab under the firewall. It is already checked.:\
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    Trouble Setting Up a WD MyBook Live 1 TB Drive on my Network

    OK. So I tried installing the software on another PC on my network, one of the machines running Windows 7. It recognized the drive immediately!! Which points to XP as the problem. Are there any other places I should look in XP to see what might be blocking the software install?
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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

    Thanks so much for the product selection! As it loks right now I will build this system for my daughter and I will get her hand-me-down system (dual core wolfdale with 8 GB RAM) to replace my dinosaur system (AMD XP 3000, ATI Radeon 8500, 4 GB of RAM)...hate to see it go :( HA HA!!!
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    Mid-Range Card for Photoshop

    Thanks. It helps to have a frame of reference when looking at the possibilities. Will check out the Radeon offerings as well as the nvidia.
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    Board/CPU combo for heavy photoshop

    For the CPU, mobo, RAM, and Video I would estimate $600 to spend on these items.
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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...