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Wiping Hard Drive (merged)
A friend has just bought a new computer and before getting rid of the old one wants to delete all the personal info. What's the best way to do this? Reformat the hard drive or is there a better way? Thanks Debbie
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SATA HDD on IDE MOBO problem.
Having been given a SATA drive a number of weeks ago, I'm having no luck installing it. I bought a PCI controller which shows as being connected and working in the device list. On connecting the drive and starting the PC, the drive is spinning up. BIOS doesn't detect it though, so I can't format and partition the HDD using…
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external harddrive problem
Chaps please help me before I chuck my ne wexternal hard drive across the room. I bought a seagate 250gb hard drive from pc world yesterday and I just cant get my computer to be friends with it. It appears on my list of hard disk drives in my computer, however when you right click and select properties you get:…
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Mp3 Player not recognised!
I have just reinstalled windows and i installed connect player again so i can send songs to mp3, but the mp3 player is not recognised and it jus thinks its a external storage device....
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Speaker problem :(
Hi, I have a Dell computer with speakers, they used to work fine and play music and sounds and everything, but since my daughter was on my computer the green light has gone off and no sound comes out, not even the lalalalalalala bit when I turn it on :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
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bt broadband question
i have just installed my home hub for bt and would like to know a couple of things.. i didnt realise the damn disc that comes with it installs yahoo browser which i dont want ...can i just delete it from add and remove? also it told me to connect with usb and i have heard that ethernet connection is better can i just…
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Inserted RAM the wrong way round!!!
Hi all, I've done a very silly thing! As I'm building my new system I thought I'd transfer some of my old RAM into my brother's PC. Unfortunately, I forgot that the RAM module only goes in one way round and the forced it in the other way (despite the notch in the module that normaly prevents this.) When I switched the PC…
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One Way Network!
Hi, I am having trouble getting my two wired PCs to network. A. has XP Home B. has XP Pro A. can see mapped drives and shared folders on B. But B. cannot see anything on A. I have done all the usual, turning off firewall, virus checkers etc. If I use; \\A.'s IP address I get; \\A.'s IP address is not accessible. You might…
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Firewall making my broadband crawl?
Hi, My PC came back from being mendedon Friday and has been cleaned up. The PC is working fine and my broadband connection was fine on Friday but I couldn't connect at all on Saturday. I spoke to AOL and they went through uninstalling bits and pieces and got me back online. But it is absolutely crawling - taking minutes to…
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lost mini disc software
I have a mini disc recorder, have had it for a few years, now getting around to using it. Only problem is the software cd is now missing, does anyone know what i can do?? It is an aiwa AM-NX9, do i need to buy one from somewhere???:mad:
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Can't get my PC microphone to work
I can hear audio through the speakers on my flat screen/my PC. I have installed Skype and I can hear the test message but it can't hear me in return. I've bought a cheap Skype headset and again, I can hear perfectly through it, but it can't hear me when I record. It is plugged in to the correct sockets (I guess! coloured…
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Using USA iTunes from UK
What free software would allow the use of the US version of iTunes from the UK? I guess if you can hide your IP address then you'd be ok? Thanks
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netgear wireless router and lexmark x1100 printer all in one
Hi there, I have just setup the netgear dg934g router to run my main pc (router+2 lexmark x1100 printers all in one scanner attached) with wireless laptop. Any pointers on how to get laptop to recognise printers as I have tried going into network setup wizard on main pc, but at step 3 it tells me that other computers cant…
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Probably dumb broadband questions
We have 8 meg broadband through a BT socket to our P.C on an adsl modem, We are now in the psoition of having to rent out our spare room, and would like to offer it as 'broadband connected' But I am unsure how we go about this. The room has a BT socket, can we simply plug another modem in there, or will we need a router…
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Free Fonts?
im looking to download if possible different fonts for free, especially for the Thia language do you know anywhere i can do this? many thanks in advance
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Where can I get some more ogg files for electonic grooves?
Where can I get some more electonic grooves for use in .ogg files and possible a stream where you can listen to them?. For example this web site rather nice http://www.kahvi.org/118.php some nice tunes like this page. Big thanks if any. ;)
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Help - docs etc stuck on a broken pc
My old desktop seems to have given up the ghost as it crashes whenever I try logging on. Thing is I've got loads of stuff including emails, photos of my daughter, music etc saved on it. Is there anything I can do to get it off the machine and onto CD? I'm not very techie, so it will need to be fairly idiot proof - although…
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Spam mail
In the last week or so my ISP (wanadoo/orange) email account has been getting deluged with spam mail, and it's all the same just from different people wanting to sell me cheap viagra or something, I'm now sick of deleting the rubbish. I've never had the problem before so not sure why it has just started I have the Mcafee…
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Making a DVD from Camcorder...
I use Sonic as it came with the PC and i found easy to use.... Except it dont work now....hmmm! I tried several times and it just wont transfer any film onto the pc. Would anyone else suggest another one that is perhaps free? Or should i pay and get a better one...
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Why does my printer do this?
Hi people, Little printer problem. When I go to print a web page, I only get half of it, that is to say, half of the web page is missing down the right hand side of the printed page. I am printing to a HP 1215psc printer. I presume there is a setting wrong but I am not sure what it is? Please help because its all very…
