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my hdd works fine but does not show up in device manager or in computer managements. Shows up in explorer. The led also blinks ocassionally. Asus motherboard, Seagate 1T hdd. Windows XP sp3. Indexing is turned off. Partitioning and formatting was done with Partition Wizard v7. Could someone...

Hey Guys, It's only been two days since I got windows 8 Pro on my alienware. Recently I force shut down because it was not shutting down. And when I open it today it gives an error message saying that Automatic repair could not fix the problem. The error code is...

i have drive with two partition, C working fine, D is system reserve E put following problem chkdsk report is attatched after chkdsk E drive show no label and ask to format when try to open what to do Chkdsk was executed in read/write mode. Checking file system on E: The type of the...

Hello, I am using HP laptop. I was using windows 7 operating system. But for some kind of problems i thought to run a set up in my laptop. As i heard from some people that Windows 8 is better than windows 7, so tried to install windows 8. During installation i did format to my installation drive...

I had working w8 on a 1TB HDD and a working w7 on 40 GB HDD I had to format hdd and reinstall w8 due to some problems. It got installed without a hitch and is working correctly on 1 TB. However, the dual boot option is gone, and now it is working only on w8 on 1TB. There is an intact w7 on 40...

As of a few days an external drive connected via USB has generated this error message: Link Removed popping up every few minutes, despite the disk being recently wiped, repartitioned and fomatted and working well. Why is this? It stopped being fun a long time ago...what can I do? (Windows 7...

Hi, i have a Fujitsu mhv2060ah 60GB with a S.M.A.R.T problem and it says the imminent something doesn't work or something like that. The way im guessing this happened was that i plugged this hard drive into another laptop and then plugged it into the original laptop and just saying it i did...

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hey all! I've been having some troubles with my PC and wondering if someone on here could help me out!? So lately my google chrome has been opening randomly, multiple times, and its really annoying! It will even do it when I am in games and it would minimize my game every time it did it. So I...

Hello everyone, it's nice to find a forum where people are taking their personal time to help others. You have my appreciation and thanks. I have recently formatted a old PC. Everything seemed to have gone as planned... until I was bombarded by random BSODs. They seem to happen at random; load...

Hi I have tried to seek a solution without success so I am hoping that someone can help. Since installing Windows 7 I cannot see my External USB Hard Drive as external device. It is a PRO 1TB External Hard Drive . In Control Panel / Devices and Printers I can see it under Devices USB to...

I am using Word to write reports and I have been struggling to successfully format the documents using the features provided by Word. Can anyone recommend a document creation program that is less sophisticated and easier to use than Word? John

When reinstalling Windows 7, does all of the system drive get erased/formatted in the process (I think so) or only the C:\Windows folder and subfolders (which would have been ideal)? I forget since last time. Thank you.

First of all, sorry if my english is broken. Since arround a month ago, almost once a week my PC crashes and shows a Memory_Management BSOD error. Usually happens when web browsing or watching a youtube video or a stream. I thought it was some bad drivers or a problem with certain programs, but...

So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...

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Can someone please tell me how to turn off - that line of small black square dots across the page in Word doc - that separates the pages. Must be something I click on or? How can I stop it happeneing - ever!! I have normal page separation and then suddenly it changes to this hard line. I try...

Due to some reason my memory card formatted. In my Memory Card i have a back up of my contacts. I try to recover data from memory card for this i just try with the following utilities: 1.photorec 2.Recuva 3.Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery - Professional and 4. iCare Data...

I recently installed a HD (WD25EZRX). it's been operating normally for about 2 days. i was using my comp when i saw an alert that said something about a hard drive error and that my PC needed to be reset to fix it. so i reset the PC and saw another message saying something about restoring to...

HI ! Yesterday I opened my computer and cleaned the inside because it was full of dust. After I started it I have gotten a Blue Screen Error quite alot (every 15-30 mins) This is not the first time I've cleaned the inside of this computer and have cleaned a few others too but nothing like that...