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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...

This is all because I had to try to go putting Ubuntu on my PC. X( Here's the order of events: I installed Ubuntu 12.10 as a dual boot, and everything was going swimmingly until I tried to install my video drivers, and I couldn't get into Ubuntu, so I go back to my Windows x64. In my infinite...

I have a terabyte HDD and a 64gb SSD. I have windows installed on both but I can't boot to the SSD. I plan on formatting it regardless but I want to find out when windows was installed on it last. I know I can do it using the cmd/systeminfo command but that only shows me the info for windows...

Hi everyone. This is somewhat difficult to explain, but I'll try. A few weeks ago, I noticed that fonts looked different in Office and using Chrome. My bank website's font is normally Times New Roman but randomly was using a more rounded, funny looking font. When I open a document in Word...

I have purchased secondhand laptop and previously its belong to some company member laptop he sold me. But due to lack of admin rights i am not able to install software its asking for admin username and password. The cd rom and pen drive are also blocked by admin I am not able to format it CAN...

Encountered this problem when trying to install windows: I couldnt install windows in C ,neither to format that partition because of this message [Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks]...