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    Different Drive Geometries?

    I got a 40gig seagate from my friend recently and have it hooked up through a PCI IDE card. I got some of his data off of it and now I would like to reformat it and make it my own. It came from a compaq so the drive has two partitions, the system_sav partition and then everything else. I...
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    Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

    yep, boomerang got it right about the same time i found that same page. For some great intelligent reason microsoft only put dynamic disk reading into XP Pro and not XP Home. My computer at school is on pro but this current one is on home. Man i f'in love microsoft, so many great ideas coming...
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    Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

    right right i should've spelled it correctly the first time anyway. i've checked the cables and everything and swapped it around inside the case to different ide connections and everything else i can think of. I'd like to think that it can't be my hard drive being bad, but I think it might be...
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    Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

    nah no typos in the detection, i even took the huge amount of effort and fixed it for you *HUGE*
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    What To Do With Old Computer?

    i agree with this suggestion or overclock it and use it as a space heater
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    Hard Drive Won't Show Up In 'My Computer'

    I brought my hard drive with all my media on it back from school for break. First i tried to put it in an external case, but found out that since i formatted it as dynamic it won't work from an enclosure. So i threw it into my machine and now I still can't navigate to it; it shows up under the...
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    PCI Diagnostic Cards

    My dad does a lot of family computer tech stuff and I think for christmas I will get him a PCI Diagnostic card, unfourtunatly i have no idea about them. Anyone have any reccomendations or advice?
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    alright i think i've found the problem. I went into the disk management a la trowa's suggestion and it says that the hard drive is dynamic and also says foreign, i have no idea what these mean really, but next to it there is a 'yield sign with an error'. Anyone got any suggestions off of this...
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    usb, it is a 2.0 and i tried both 2.0 and 1.0
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    nah, no dice with slave or cable select. I can't remember how i have the drive formatted, NTFS or FAT, but would that matter at all?
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    yea, i have it set to master, the last hard drive in was also set to master. maybe i'll try slave just for kicks
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    External Drive Not Mounting

    I took my seagate 120gb hard drive out of one of my computers, which it was working normally in, and put it into an external hard drive case, which was working normally with the hard drive that was previously in it. I then hooked it up to my machine and it recognizes it, says found new hardware...
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    pay no mind

    YES! that picture is awesome
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    pay no mind

    haha you clever pricks. I've tried googling for a long time but it their homeless weirdo's department is out of stock i guess
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    pay no mind

    i'm a poor human being and realize now i operate google terribly. i'm punching out now
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    Creating a Personal Server Box

    I would like to make a server type rig to organize all my media more efficiently. I've never done this before or really looked into it and such so i got a couple questions. I want to have it store my music/movies and such and I want to be able to access it quickly to play them on my main...
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    Bootable Linux with Writing Capabilites

    Is there a CD-bootable version of linux that will allow writing to hard drives and what file format should the hard drives be in?
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    YART: This is a roommate REPOST

    i especially like how he relates all of his actions to video games. I can see his thought process, "this is just like level 6 stage 3 of Demons From Hell 8. I'll use crouching techniques and be sure to save often...oh wait, this is real life" Massivly nerdy
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    Who are the Chefs?

    haha that commercial was so long ago, but so good. I'd like to see it also
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    Jessica Alba

    she's sucking in movies since she was 12. correctin, also check the sig
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    Advanced Screensavers

    I want to have a my pictures slideshow thing as my screensaver, except i would like it to change pictures at random intervals, not a set amount of time. Is there a program which will allow me to do this?
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    Getting out of a traffic ticket!

    if it is your first offense, or your first offense in a while then plead not guilty and you will go to traffic court and it will probably be pleaded down to something like unsafe operation of a vehicle with no insurance points. In my experience 'the system' is suprisingly reasonable
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    How do you pronounce "Wisconsin"?

    whiz-kahn-sin
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    What kind of jobs does a Software Engineer get?

    so do you code stuff or do you tell other people to code stuff?
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    What kind of jobs does a Software Engineer get?

    My major is SE but i have absolutly no idea what a SE does now that i think about it. What types of jobs do they get?
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    My urine is brown/dark orange

    go pee on someone, it is like a super power. extra gross piss
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    I wish antec would build a case like this...

    this is some type of cruel joke where there really isn't anything on the page isn't it?
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    800x600 res games on a non native screen like 17" LCD

    add -w to the target path of a shortcut to D2. Right click on the shortcut and check the properties. It should look like this: "E:\Program Files\Diablo II\Diablo II.exe" -w there are other things you can add to it too but i haven't ever learned them. They are probably out on the interent...
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    The Dodge Magnum

    haha this thread is hillarious: fiasco - 1, anandtech - 0
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    DVD files to avi/mpeg

    thanks, that site helped alot. I downloaded DVDx which is encoding my dvd right now to an .avi. Very easy to use
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    DVD files to avi/mpeg

    I just ripped a dvd to my hard drive wtih DVD shrink, but i can't for the life of me find a program to convert the files into an .avi or .mpeg. I've heard Nero Recode and something like PDXE but i can't find these near me. Any other programs to do this, free would be a plus to the max
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    what's google's intention with gmail?

    damn, i missed my chance!
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    what's google's intention with gmail?

    i'm still waiting for be offered some dough for my 50 invites from some spammers
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    I like my Miata, but need something that can handle winter

    you should get something like a 90-97 ford taurus SHO. those cars are hhooot
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    WTF I found a large bone in my cereal UPDATE: They Called

    you've all got it backwards, our bones are being made out of sugar it turns out
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    If you caught your TEEN letting a friend drive there new car...

    Man you people don't like to trust your kids. I'm sure this angst filled graffitti spray painting window smashing 'teen' wouldn't give the keys to someone he didn't trust.
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    Awesome arcade case

    damn that's cool