Partition Magic has an option to hide and un-hide partitions. Never used that option, but it might help.
The drive doesn't show in explorer? There may be a 3rd party program running in the background that prevents you from seeing/accessing it. Dell...
AceH Suggest you buy an ATA rather than a SATA (Serial ATA) disk unless your motherboard is less than 3 yeas old and came with a CD holding the...
Hi fellas! Been following this thread with interest. Your and my experiences are similar; it requires lots of time and experimenting to install...
Aslo check the fans, and have a close look at the motherboard, especially the capacitors ('cans'). Good chance that's damaged. What caused...
Even another tool to consider. :D
another view on Windows XP Professional Edition: 1. Make sure "Auto-insert notification" is disabled by using the following steps to modify...
Have you tried the msconfig startup tab or the search for autoplay.ini in your path? You can also call up taskmanager while the window's running...
Suspect you got an infection download with the notron's download. That's been a problem. If you think so also, download hijackthis from this...
welcome Link Depends. That's the quick way to get back in business, but you should run fdisk in dos (from a win98 startup disk) first to delete...
For a quick summary, type chkdsk /? in the cmd window and use the mouse on the scroll bar at the right side.
Try this
Graphics work up to a point, but machine won't boot and gives a spurious message. Mine said BIOS was damaged. Graphics card worked in another...
That in my experience means the mobo is kaput. The video goes through the northbridge and if it's fan died the chip melted in a milisecond like...
Rt-click any blank screen area (not an icon) and choose properties. Go to the 'Themes' tab and save your desktop as a theme. the pull-down memu...
If Jay's suggestions don't solve the problem, to further pinpoint the problem, you might purchase an inexpensive PCI or AGP video card to try...
Suggest we try substuting the video and/or the monitor to see if either make any difference. Think that's the only thing that one can adjust, off...
Not yet. What browser? What site? And what version of windows? How long has it happened? What security do you have? E.g., firewall,...
Seems to be searching for a program to handle what's on a CD; is there a CD in the drive?
Sounds like a hardware problem, possibly with your monitor. Are you sending your post from that computer?
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