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Hi, I have a problem maybe someone can help. I have two maxtor hard drives. I had them both on a machine and it was working good. I upgraded motherboard and cpu. Installed one with the op. system and had to install win again. Now I try to plug in the other one, cause I have a lot of data on it, in the Bios it finds it o.k. but in windows it is not there what do I need to do. I have win xp pro. Thank you

Hi there, when I try to defrag the following error appears: The snap-in has not been created, it could not have been installed correctly. CLSID: 43668E21-2636-11D1-A1CE-0080C88593A5. It has worked before, I don't know what happened. Any advice would be very much appreciated.

I am hoping that my son's HD isn't going south. Windows Home Ed. gives an error message ---blue screen hangs during scan @ 72%. Windows asks if to opt on sending report or not...either way...error continues to pop up. I have been able to get Windows to work by dragging pop-uip out of way. He is not connected to the Net. The error code is the following: BCCOde : d1 BCP1: 00000014 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3 : 00000000 BCP4: F99800F8 C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini032006 -01.dmp C:\Docume~1\Justin~1\Temp\Wer17.tmp.dir00\sysdata.xm\ Any help woould be greatly appreciated...I am hoping to not have to reformat

Help, I have a pop up from Falonspyware that keeps poping up. It shows up as a Yoda Trojan but I can't get rid of it. They want to extort mony from you to remove the trojan they gave you. Any ideas? Thanks, BB

:( I guess I will have to send it in, it was working until recently and for some this computer does not recognize it and neither did the two other ones.. the 2nd light does not come on at all, I even bought a new usb 2.0 cord..and its just not working..any suggestions?Or..is..it just dead?

To the internet on a computer using win98... I uninstalled a virus scan last night (EZ something) and replaced it with AVG. Since then I have been unable to connect to the internet using a browser... However I've tried to ping know ipaddresses (not localhost or router) with succes, but if I do it with name.com or sth it doesnt come up. It's a speedtouch 580 router. Can anyone help me?

Hope someone can help. A friend of mine rebuilt a computer for me that crashed about 6 months ago. Before the crash I had sound. I installed a new HD and everything works fine except for sound. I never bothered to doing anything about the sound 6 months ago but now I want to be able to hear music and can't and would like to fix the proble. I don't have any drivers. I cant seem to get a hold of the person who built the computer to see if he has a driver for the soundcard. Can anyone tell me what else I can do. Should I go out and buy another soundcard? I really dont think there is anything wrong with this one. Thanks.

My computer crashed, shortly after i had installed a new USB peg. Ever since then i cannot get into windows - i have tried starting in safe mode, the desk top flashed VERY briefly before crashing. I then triend to restore my registery - which it said it had done but when it rebooted it crashed just before loading again. Please help - how can i solve this? I have a master CD ROM, but it doesn't read this at start up - is there any way i can get into DOS and fix this? Having read through other similar problems, i think that maybe there is something wrong with my RAM drive, if so how can i fix this myself?

I have 2 old Dell Dimension XPS R400 desktops of which I am trying to make 1 out of the 2, when I boot up 1 of them [i will call this one pc 2], I don't get anything on the monitor and there aren't any beeps present. Any ideas what I should do from here please? Thanks. p.s. I switched the graphics cards from both pcs, still no screen on pc 2 and pc 2's card works on pc 1,is the motherboard fried on pc 2?

I just installed an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro heatsink/fan on my socket 939 Opteron 165 which is in an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard, but the heatsink seems to be resting on the core just slightly off center, maybe by 2 or 3 millimeters. Basically, one side of the copper on the heat sink is a millimeter from the edge of the the core (the video card side), while the opposite side (near the top of the case) has quite a bit more space not covered by the copper of the heat sink. Is this normal? Are heatsinks supposed to rest on the core dead center or is a slight off center position not a big deal? If it is off center will it not perform as well, or worse, damage …

I had to re-install Windows XP. All went well after what I was told to have was a MBR virus. I reinstalled all the drivers (provided by Dell) except for the Intel Graphics 845 driver. My computer detected the hardware, and when I installled it, completely slowed down my system. It wouldnt even let me in Device Managaer to uninstall it. I went into Safe Mode to uninstall it, did that and when I booted back enter normal mode the driver was still there. I barely could use my mouse for anything. What do you suppose could be the problem? and do I really need it? Should I re-install the OS again and just not reinstall the graphics driver (Display Adapter)?

I am running WinXP on a 2 year old Toshiba laptop, and, as of about 2 weeks ago, when I launch a program, ANY program, it may start right up or it may take as long as 30 minutes to start. I have noted that Internet Explorer, Music Match, and most any game I attempt to run take an especially long time to load, while Opera, most any video file, and a few other programs start right up, although, Opera is prone to hang for extended periods. I have tried running Ad-Aware, Spy-Bot, Zone Alarm Pro and the system restore feature within Windows itself. I am just about at my wits' end with this problem, so any help anyone might be able to offer will be greatly appreciated.

Hope someone can help. I was told that my MBR was infected by a virus and that I needed to Debug it. I have reinstalled Win XP (Home Ed) and the problem is still there. I can't goto any websites. I had Norton and the virus disable that so I cant even goto the website to reinstall it. How do I fix my boot sectors or MBR?