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Ok I've done an upgrade to my pc. I swapped out the motherboard and the harddrive. Before I did the swap I installed everything to the drive while it was in another case. Then I put it in my case that has two other harddrives. Now all of them were working when I did the change over. One of them...

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Win7-64 HP OEM on a new desktop at my home and used -only- by myself ... Win7 and I are new to each other. I've heard that it is a good idea to run a user account in my circumstance and avoid using the Admin account for the most part. That's what I've trying to do, and it is a sizable...

Hello everyone I am new to this forum and I want to share some issues I encounter during my Windows 7 64bit experience on my ASUS laptop. When I try to start Windows Media Center it always crashes however I can hear its sound but it displays a message saying Windows Media Center stopped working...

There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...

Hello people, I want to know something about the BitLocker protection system: If I use it to protect my USB pendrive, how can I use it on a Windows XP system for example? How it'll ask me the password? I want to lock my pendrive because I have important data on it and my school computer has...

I have spent days trying to solve this problem - so any suggestions will be most gratefully received! I run a group of Windows XP Professional (SP3, 32 bit) machines in a workgroup, all using the same id and password, the id being in the administrators group on each machine. One of the...

When I have the drive plugged in, Windows gets to the to the 'Starting Windows' page, hangs, and then restarts after about five minutes. Unplug it, and everything works normally. This drive has all of my movies, pictures, and of course: my entire life. Does anyone have any bright ideas on how I...

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Hey guys, I have a Link Removed due to 404 Error that I sent into RMA, and I was thinking when I got it back I'd replace it with my notebook's 80 GB Seagate HDD. My question is, can I simply use the enclosure (which connects via USB) and some cloning software (such as Link Removed software)...

Ok, So I put together a new HTPC and purchased 4 2TB drives which gave me a total of 6 TB after setting them up as RAID 5. I created two volumes from that RAID, one is 2 TB and the other is 4TB. Windows 7 is currently installed on the 2TB volume, though it only occupies about 17Gb. I...

Dell Studio XPS Laptop - Win 7 Home Premium - Intel i5 - 4 GB Ram At 97% completed, after 2:40 of back up time, Backup reported complete but a file skipped. "Backup encountered a problem while backing up file C:\Users\Paul\Desktop\2010_06_14. Error:(The system cannot find the file specified...

Computer went automatically to sleep, and never came back. Had to shutdown... profile got corrupted and logged as "temporary profile". So I created 2 new accounts, logged to one of them, copied all my old things to the other new account and logged to that account. The problem is that all my...

I have asked this question elsewhere with no solution. I had an electric outage and lost some open Calc OO files. Now every folder/file (PDF too) on my computer is hidden. I have a check mark next to "Show hidden files, folders or drives" in Folder options. All files are shown but grayed out. I...

I use a My Book Essential 250 GB external hdd to store system images made using Acronis True Image. I only attach the drive once the computers are up and running and then disconnect it once I've made a backup/image. When I plug the drive into a USB port it takes a long time (2 minutes or so)...

Hi, This is my first ever post here. I got Windows 7 last November, and the Windows backup program has never completed to this date. It did not work right out of the box. When I had Windows Vista it worked just great. I used a DVD for the backup, and still try to. My computer has a...

We handle confidential personal or business data almost every day. In order to to avoid being hacked, I am trying to figure out how to protect our data. Encryptng data is an easy answer but repeated encrytion and decryption of data everyday would be inconvenient chores. I am wondering how you...

I am having a problem accessing files. I was running vista til my had to do a fresh install of windows 7. I had been backing up with nt backup and still have those files. They were under an administrator account. When I attempt to restore them I see the files transfered but am unable to see them...

Once I restart my computer-Suddently The partition D was invisible. I gues it's because of bad sektors. There are many softs for XP to solve this like active partition recovery, partition disk doctor and so on, but I couldn't find any soft for win 7! Do I need to instal WINDOWS XP as secound...

I have four "upgrade stickers" for Windows 7 that I received when I bought Vista 64 Ultimate earlier this year. Unfortunately I did not install the stickers to Window 7 stickers to the various computers (or put them on the case sides and used the same case so they are all mixed up now that I...