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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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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Get hardware information from old HDD with Windows installed on it
Recently, I had store cleaning at my work and I found a quite old 40gb IBM HDD.
I was wondering what hardware was installed with it, i.e what CPU, mobo, PCI/ISA cards.
It has Windows XP installed on ...
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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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New operating system for a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 2
Neighbor was running Windows XP Home till last week, but when the computer became too sluggish, he backed up his data and formatted it. He tried installing
Windows 7 Home 32 bit(he got a retail copy),...
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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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Booting an old XP HDD into a new computer
I am building a new PC and want to have my old PCs HDD in it as a second unit and boot to it whenever needed. I've heard that the odds of it actually booting are very low. But some say it can be ...
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Moving Hard Drive between PCs
I know there are duplicate threads with similar questions, but none hit the mark I needed, including the answers on them.
My question is as follows;
I have an oldish laptop that ran Windows XP. The ...
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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 ...
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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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My hard disc makes a clicking noise while I'm working, I sent it to a service which found nothing
He said that there was no problem with the hdd. He checked it out with crystalnfo and it worked. But before I took it there,the pc wasn't turning on. He said that there was a problem with the system ...
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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. ...
