About a month ago my DVD/CD-RW Drive D would not open after a while if you pushed the button twice it will open.now my DVD-RW drive C won't open at all and there is a CD in it I run windows XP Pro
View 8 RepliesI slap one together then install windows without a hitch.then I toss in the mobo driver disk and the system hard locks can't even get to the task manager. A few disks and reboots later, the same stuff is happening.I check the device manager and not only is the drive not showing up as a problem, but it's recognizing it as the proper model. So then I go and set the region code (because I had an issue before with a drive not reading before I set a region).still same problem.Like I said above, I'm building 2 of the same systems.so I took the other drive and plopped it in. SAME FRIKEN THING.I'm kind of stuck because I can't update stuff without the cd rom drive (I guess I could use a small usb thumbdrive)and the drivers on that disk enable the onboard lan, so I can't even check windows update.so I use my thumbdrive and install the latest forceware, including the ide drivers.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI don't know what happen I can't open my c: drive or other hard drives happen the same thing so i tried right click and choose open option that didn't work as well error message just say that can't find application program to open and i only can view the file by right click on the start button and select explore to view file on my hard drive.
View 4 Replies View Relatedif i click(double click ) on my hard drive (for open it )i receive an error cause by removing of trojan fun.xls.exe the error is this how can i fix the error plz help me
View 4 Replies View Relatedi installed nod32 antivirus and scanned and cleaned torjan frommy computer and now when i go to my computer. i can not open the hard drives because it always give list to choose programme to open the drive. but when i brows from windows explorer.exe. it opens the drive but i cant select expolorer to be default programme.
View 1 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know whether Microsoft will ever make a Windows operating system so that when a person pushes in the power button on the computer the desktop appears instantly without having to wait over a minute for the computer to "load
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a Dell computer where one of the loading .dll files came up 'missing' one day, so it won't boot. I want to get all the photos and other docs off the hard drive. I had downloaded one version of linux and was able to see the files on the internal hard drive, but was unable to copy them to a memory stick or external hard drive. Now I've downloaded ubuntu and booted off a memory stick... this time, it's telling me that the internal hard drive has all kinds of bad sectors and won't let me access any of the files on there.
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy laptop died and I removed the hard drive.i hooked the hard drive up to my new laptop via a SATA/IDE cable.
I can see the old hard drive in the E drive and it appears that all the contents are there by the size of the hard drive (same as when I had it in the old laptop) but I can only see, actually view, a very small percentage of the drive.
My goal: I want to transfer all old music, word documents and photos from old laptop into new laptop.
current HD going bad, have second HD installed and using as back but now i need to make the second HD my primary, can i do this without having to reformat in order to add booting files.
View 2 Replies View Relatedusing XP. am having wild swings in my hard drive space go from 46.1 to 44.1 and sometimes in between. have not installed any new programs recently. what could be causing it and how do i correct also am noticing my laptop as slowed appreciablydo know whether the two problems are correlated
View 3 Replies View Relatedi have a Compaq nx 7400 .i was hahving a lot of problems with the computer so i decided to put a new hard drive in and reinstall XP .
well i have the new hard drive in and started up the machine and changed the bott options to run from the dvd and all went fine until i should press the ENTER ( return ) button to install XP now . as soon as i did that the next window said no hard drive found . this was also happening on the old hard drive that was in the machine .
So after attempting and repair-install (xp pro sp2) I ended up having to RE-install and was able to recover ALL of my data (this was largely thanks to the helpful people here, and their friendly advice) but that's also kind of the problem too. I now have a dozen versions of Owner, Guest, etc. My programs and downloads are all over the place and are missing pieces necessary for functioning. Thousands of empty files (that I'm reticent to delete because of their possible value/necessity) and paths that lead to nowhere.What I want to know is: Is there a way to consolidate/trim down the registry (this is the area that I'm least familiar with), to eliminate some of these loose/dead-ends & file paths? Also, I am the ONLY user on this machine. What (if anything) can be done to trim away some/any of the fat? For you see, I have gigs of it.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi installed an usb device,and all the drivers for it,it worked for two days, it was recognized.Now it will not recognize the device.I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the device drivers, all the software that used the device. and even tried to install the driver by locating with 'have disk' browse. i have tried all the directories that the drivers were installed to, and then some. and also the install disk. Device manager says that its an unknown device, and theres no problem with it. but will not update to the proper drivers. How can i alleviate this problem short of reformatting my computer.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just wanted to know if there is anyway I can find out how long a computer has been on for in total. I tried the systeminfo comand in CMD and that dosnt work. What I really need is the entire time kinda like the KM on a car, so I just wanted to know if there is anyway to find that out.
View 2 Replies View Relatedit would not do anything whilst on the windows loading screen (progress bar etc worked but it got stuck on that screen and wouldn't advance), the HDD light would blink for a while and then it would just sit there. Usually i would restart until quite a while later I discovered that if i left it for long enough (about 5-10 minutes) it would eventually load. I have also performed several reformats in this time and the problem would disappear for a while then show its ugly face again. It wouldn't do this every time but a large majority of the time it would.
Instead, it would go through the loading screen, finish that, and the screen would go blank (no signal detected etc) and then it wouldn't do anything at all, I have left it sitting there for about an hour once to see if eventually would work but it didn't. So to fix this I have to restart the computer and it would come up with the screen asking me if i want to use safe mode and usually i would either choose the Last known good configuration or start up windows normally, occasionally i would go in safe mode and restart from there and it would usually work but not always.
I was connected to a domain (work - was an office computer no longer used and sold to me) .. and removed that and when I restarted the computer for it to take effect and when the system came back on my user name and password no longer worked for me to sign into windows. Prior to removing the domain .. user name and password worked fine.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a compaq armada 1500c laptop running win 2000. My computer was running fine on the battery, when it started to run down I plugged in my power cord, the computer turned off now it will not run at all on the battery, but it seems to charge the bat.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen I'm in "my computer", then select a hard disk (C: or D: ), it comes up with "open with", every time.At first I thought i might have changed some thing with the folder setting, so reset that but still it asks open with.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI had this idea, see if anybody has an opinion about this. My wife has an old XP computer I want to buy her a new one but she doesn't like the vista and she wants to keep the old xp operating system. What I want to do is take the old hard drive and put it in the new computer as the master and take the new hard drive and put it in as the slave erasing the vista off it. Then using the master slave way can I transfer the xp operating system and all her files and data from the old hard drive to the new one.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWe have Windows XP Home Edition 80 GBCan we copy entire hard drive to an external hard drive?
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View 2 Replies View Related"Open With" dialog box with IE.When I click in my short-cut icon(s) on the desktop to launch my web site(s) I get the dialog box which reads "Choose the program you want to use to open this file". When I then select Internet Explorer and tick the "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and click OK I get to my destination.But when I repeat the process of clicking the icon(s) for my site(s) I go through the same process again and again.It all happened when trying out Safari browser now uninstalled. The icon clicking worked properly with Safari but would not go back to working OK with IE.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently helped someone save the documents off of their computer after it crashed (it was missing a Windows file. I tried the repair command and it wouldn't work, so I decided to save the files and reformat the hard drive).I plugged the hard drive into a working computer and pulled all the documents off of it (VERY slowly) onto an external hard drive.
Every once in awhile I wouldn't be able to pull a picture or document off because of a cyclic redundancy check error. I just moved on and saved what I could. I assumed it was because the hard drive was already bad so I just moved what I could.
I am cloning my existing hard drive in my laptop (sata) to an external hard drive (pata) in preparation for installing a new larger hard drive (sata)in the laptop. Can I, or how do I transfer the cloned data from the external (pata) to the new internal hard drive (sata)? Thanks in advance and I apoligize if this is a rudimentary question as this is my first time attempting something like this.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI can not access hard disk properties because Windows Explorer hangs whenever I Right click on a hard drive icon. I am running WXP pro SP2 completely up to date with updates.
View 1 Replies View RelatedA problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again follow these steps.Check for viruses on your computer. Remove any newly installed hard disks or hard drive controllers.Check your hard drive to make sure it is properly configured and terminated. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.
View 4 Replies View RelatedXPpro with two HDs, CDr/w and DVDr/w.(D AND (E are (were?) a 20G drive which I partitioned over a year ago. This morning I came across a 4G drive in an old box. (really). Being a curious type I pulled the power and ribbon leads from the DVD and plugged them into the 4G HD, after setting the jumper to slave.Then switched on. A dos line appeared saying 'automatically configuring an F: drive' After which Windows appeared to boot up normally. Except that 'My Computer' showed no (D The 4G (F drive showed as not formated. So... I removed the 4G and replaced the leads back to the DVD. My Computer' shows 3.5 floppy Local Disk(C FRSTHAFOLD(D 9G abt Notice NO (E
Not only that but my D drive is missing lots of files and folders wont open. It seems that the partitioning has been forgotten! I have checked what bios settings there are (not many on Compaq 5000) And the bios sees my main Crive and only one 20G disk I have a bad feeling about this Is there any way to get things back to normal?
I am facing two problems with my lap top hp campac presario 2100.
1.The loptops battery to be changed. I dont know how many batteries are there. Any cmos battery there like any other pc. Pl advice. What would be the cost. and the model number . The hard disk requires replacement. I want to know the model numberor exact type of hard disk would be fit in. and the cost thereof.3. Windows xp home edition has been preloaded in the laptop. How to take a copy of the os and copy in the new hard disk. I have the serial number etc for the OS.
how do you see how much hard drive, C: space you have and how much you have available
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen installing a larger main drive, how do I get the drivers copied onto the slave before I take out the main one I wonder is there a simple way of doing this, I am using Windows XP home edition, the PC is an oldish one and isn't any specific make, so I can't get any clever programs from the manufacturers site
View 3 Replies View RelatedI use Cobian Backup to produce a zip-file containing all files and folders, except for temporary-folders (I added an exclude-filter), of my system.Before I can rely on this method, I need to find a way of restoring the 27 gb zip-file, which I store on a networked drive, easily. how booting up a laptop with a formatted harddrive, be able to access a network-drive and extract all the contents of the networked zip-file to the hard drive?
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