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    New computer, old hard drive, no reformat

    I have a brand new, recently assembled pc. (pc1) I have a hard drive that has recently been used on a different pc (pc2). Pc2 is no longer functional, and I was unable to backup the hard drive (which works fine). Is it possible to take the hard drive, which has a windows installation...
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    Perplexing CD Drive malfunction

    Starting today any disc drive found by the computer has been inoperable. It does not show up in windows explorer as a drive. The computer was setup with a main HD partition with the drive letter C. The built in dvd/cdrw drive was assigned D. There was a small HD partition called E...
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    My computer is trying to die...but I refuse to let it!

    For reference here are my relevant system specs: Pentium 4C 2.8 running stock speed 1GB Ram Geil Brand 2.5 4 4 8 timings -- 2 512 sticks running in dual channel Chaintech Motherboard 875 Chipset - 2 SATA I ports 4 Ram slots Main HD is a Maxtor, first generation SATA or so New HD is also...
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    Windows XP Pro Repair Installation Problem

    Hello All, I recenty corrupted an installation of Windows XP Professional by trying to backup some data to the drive through a linux live cd. The data on the drive seems to be fine, except certain windows files are corrupt and I cannot boot windows. I began a repair installation so as...
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    SATA HD not located by windows?

    I recently purchases a maxtor 300gb HD with the 16meg buffer. I plugged it right in to my last SATA connector and upon load the drive was there, formatted it, and it worked perfectly. Then after a reboot, the drive disapeared from windows. Not in device manager, not in disk management...
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    Icon Pictures Disapearing

    This weekend i was on my computer, and everything is fine. I had to leave town for a couple of days, but was downloading a few large files so i left the computer on and the files downloading. At that point everything was running perfectly. However, this afternoon when i come back, all the...
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    TV-out problems

    Hello I have a Radeon 9800 pro with s-video tv out. I have gotten this function to work previously simply by enabling the second monitor and checking expand desktop. I want to use this feature to watch movies from my computer on to my tv. However, I am in a different situation with a...
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    Using SecureCRT to post to livejournal

    Hello, recently, I have begun playing around with secureCRT to write emails and read newsgroups on my college campus server. However, I frequently post on a livejournal account and wondered if it were possible to update my site from within some functionality in SecureCRT. Does anyone know if...