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    Must An External Drive Remain Plugged In?

    I'm storing my necessary office files on a WD My Book External Hard Drive. Would like to know whether unplugging the External Drive will cause me to lose the files. If I can keep the drive unplugged, can it remain unplugged indefinitely and still hold its data?
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    Noob Needs Help

    I'm on my 2d MB from New Egg, Asus P5E. Computer Tech upstairs determined 1st that 3 of 8 functions dead, so RMA. Now, second board arrives, and I take extreme care. Put MB on its anti static sheet on cardboard box, installed memory, video card, and cpu, plugged on monitor and keyboard...
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    Old Hard Drives, New Build?

    Believe everything is plugged into the new system. But, before I power this up, need to clear up what to do with regards old hard drives. I'm using two 150 Gb Raptors from my old athlon system that were in Raid 0. Before disassembling, I erased most programs but left Windows XP (SP2)...
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    Senior Citizen Security and Utilities With Vista

    Just bought the 80 yr. old mother a Vista Machine 32 bit. Athlon x5000 with 2 gigs memory--Dell. Since I run Windows XP it's unknown to me what we should put on this Vista Machine. I'm taking it that we need an anti-virus program, but, I'd also like something on there that will...