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    Setting up a 3-5TB RAID Fileserver

    I've been ripping my DVD collection to my PC, so that I have an easy movies-on-demand interface for my home theater setup. So far I have it on multiple 500gb drives, however these are begining to fill up and also there is no redundancy in the event of a disk failure. Backups have been limited to...
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    New build turns on for 5 seconds then turns off

    New PC build: I turn it on and it powers up for about 5 seconds, fans spin up and everything looks fine, and then it turns off automatically. Pressing the reset or power button have zero effect. Only flipping the switch off and then on on the power supply will restart the PC (which will still...
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    Upon making Wifi connection, making certain homepage load

    Is this possible to do at all, or atleast for Windows based PCs: Upon a client computer making an internet connection to my WiFi access point, can it be set so that a webpage will load displaying a certain homepage? This would occur only when the initial connection is made.
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    Hard Drive Problem -> HD died in new PC

    I am helping a friend troubleshoot a PC he recently built. The PC worked fine for about 2 weeks, then it refused it boot up giving the no boot disk found error. The HD is still recognized in the BIOS, yet when attempting to reinstall Windows I get all sorts of write errors. Strangely, it appears...
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    Hard Drive Reporting Incorrect Free Space

    I have two SATA Hard drives in my system. One of them was a bit low on space, so I moved a rather large directory (About 10 gigs) with Cut, then Pasted it to my drive C:. My Computer still reports the 2nd hard drive as having about 400 megs free, whereas it should now report 10.4gigs. The...
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    Scanning large amount of 3 x 5 photographs

    I have tons of old photo albums in my closet, each with dozens of photographs that I've collected over the years. In all there are probably a thousand photographs total. Is there any easy way to get them all scanned into the computer? I'd like them to be stored digitally, this way they can...