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Hard drive issues when installing Windows XP or 7 on HP m1150.uk
I have received a HP Pavilion m1150.uk (part of the m1000 series), which was wiped with Boot and Nuke before being given to me (ex-work machine). I've tried installing both Windows XP and Windows 7, ...
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Migrate HDD XP to SSD Win7
I have 32-bit Windows XP installed on two HDDs in Raid 1. My end goal is to install 64-bit Windows 7 (to increase RAM to 8GB) on a single SSD drive and use the 2 HDDs (maintaining Raid 1) for user ...
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Advanced Format Drive?
Bought a Samsung HD204UI today and downloaded/installed the Samsung Align Software as recommended by them for use with my XP. But the tools don't recognize my HDD as advanced format. Do I have to ...
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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
WD 4 ...
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Trying to read an old hard drive: "One of the USB devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned"
I have an old external hard drive that was formatted NTFS (If I recall correctly) using a Windows XP machine. The drive stayed in storage for years, and I'm trying to read files off of it with a ...
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Dell XPS8100 Wont boot windows 7 - Error 0x0000007b & error code 0142
The computer froze and when restarted would not boot to windows 7. Several of the files start to load but when it gets to the AVG virus software it freezes. When I turn on the machine, the 'windows ...
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How to read contents of a (previosuly Win-XP system) HDD when plugged as simple additional drive under Win-7,
Getting a new PC in 2010, I kept the HDD of my previous PC, in case...
And today it's the case: I'm looking for some old code I worked on in the past, then threw meantime because I thought it was ...
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formating old windows xp primary partition after windows 7 installation
I had an old Windows XP (Dual booted with Ubuntu) running on my computer and then I decided to move on and installed Windows 7 in another logical drive. Now the Windows XP is corrupted and I want to ...
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Windows 7 cannot access shared folder
Recently a Windows XP system's hardware got failed, so I put its harddisk to a new system which was working fine.
I have the windows 7 system from which I want to access that Windows XP's shared ...
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Hidden Folders on Windows XP partition
I have a 11 year old hard drive from where I want to rescue documents. The hard drive is connected to my Windows 7 machine over USB on D: . If I look into the Recent folder on:
D:\Dokumente und ...
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Reading an old XP Drive on a Windows 7 unit
I have my mom's old PC and I cannot get her old HD to show up when I connect my SATA read cables up to her hard drive externally. I am wondering if her HD died over night or if I am missing something. ...
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How to install Windows XP on acer
I have an Acer laptop core i3. When I try to install Windows XP on my computer, the installation does not complete and a blue screen is displayed with the follwing statement:
Check for viruses on ...
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Why does my drive show as 180GB used, but copies only 40GB?
My computer crashed, so I removed the drive (with Windows XP Professional 32-Bit) and put this drive in another computer running Windows 7 64-bit.
Booting with Windows 7, when going to My Computer ...
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Swapping hard disks of systems with different configurations
I swapped hard disks of two systems, Windows 7 installed on both. Here are the configurations:
(1) Intel 845 chipset, Celeron processor 1.60 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard disk
(2) Intel 945G chipset, Core ...
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Instead of Disk, may just BURN my computer [closed]
I have an old HP Compaq 6710B laptop which ran XP-PRO-SP3 32bit (x86) as sole OS. It has an un-bootable 160gb HDD and a HP (2008) Model No.UJ-861 HHC-A DVD=RW Drive.
I also have a Dell Latitude E6430 ...
