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My friend bought back one of these from work...

 

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Someone form his work was gonna throw it out cos it stopped working.

It's only a couple of months old but doesn't appear when you connect it to a computer.

 

The little light comes on and it does some whirring sounds when you connect the USB but nothing else happens. Anything I can try to revive it?

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DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU PLAN TO KEEP IT. IF YOU ARE GOING TO THROW AWAY, MIGHT AS WELL DO IT.

 

Someone gave me their toshiba external hardrive. He said if i can make it to work that i can keep it. If you connect it to the PC, it says it cant find the drivers and such.

 

It comes in a case, so i opened it and it looks like this....

 

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Now, Rubbing alcohol, so stupid, but I used a QTip and alcohol and pretty much clean anything metal I can see on this part....

 

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Surely enough, it works, but i have to "clean" it every time i hook it up to the comp. I need to buy a New External Hardrive and take all the files out of that one, before i completely lose them.

 

Edit* Its not a Universal fix, simply mine happens to work when i clean it. so fucking stupid.

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So I have this Black OS that I want to shoot to my friend touring in Ireland right now. Her laptop went to shit and I think she was running Vista anyway.

In any event, I want to email it to her. I tried yousendit but they only let me upload something 100 gigs or less. Any suggestions?

 

I figured it out, so nm. For those that want to ship big stuff, here's an article on lifehacker that might be useful.

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^^^^^^Last page

 

ugh, i hate it when i get a new comp or have to restore a comp and re-download all the things i need.

 

You are pretty much set, you just need to update everything.

 

Run Windows Update.

Update Flash.

Update Adobe Script.

Update Windows Media Player

Update Windows Live

 

Things To Download:

Anything other than Internet Explorer (Firefox, your Choice)

CCleaner

Peer Block

 

 

Thats all I can think of right now. I dont know what you normally run, like Itunes and such. Other than that, your are pretty much set.

 

Some more to add to things you're downloading:

 

VLC player

http://www.videolan.org

 

Defraggler

http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

 

Comodo Firewall free

http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/free-download.html

 

 

Spybot S&D

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/download/index.html

 

These are the programs you need - just 1 download and it will install everything for you

 

 

http://ninite.com/dria/Ninite_Installer.exe?k=ead362317d9f9b7ab4187f66a2b561bd6d534762

 

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computer was chirping at me for the last few weeks. Sounded like a bird or some mice

or some shit. I thought it was the fan. I opened up the box to discover its my hard drive. I'm going solid state.

go baby go

 

I know what ccleaner does but why bother? someone explain it to me? Are loose files in the registry easily exploited?

Is this an easy way into a system?

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Open a new tab/browser and type this in....

 

192.168.1.1

 

if it ask for a password, user name should be admin and pass is either blank or admin.

 

Somewhere it should say security settings. On there you can set up the type of password you want to set up.

 

Also, you can name your network.

 

I cant find you a screen pic to see what to look for.

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Computer problems, way to start the new year :lol:

 

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I turn on the computer and I get that screen right away, i dont even get the HP with the Key Commands to go to Setup, Recover, Etc.

 

Ive never seen this screen before. Running Under Windows 7.

 

Does Anybody Know what to do?

 

*Edit. I know option 1 is the internal hardrive.

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Computer problems, way to start the new year :lol:

 

imag0057aj.jpg

 

I turn on the computer and I get that screen right away, i dont even get the HP with the Key Commands to go to Setup, Recover, Etc.

 

Ive never seen this screen before. Running Under Windows 7.

 

Does Anybody Know what to do?

 

*Edit. I know option 1 is the internal hardrive.

 

 

 

 

Do you have RAID setup

 

do you need it set

 

( was RAID set up by HP

 

take out all USB/ESATA/ or Any other internal/external Harddrives you may have installed

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reset the bios to defaut

 

 

 

best way to do this is by using jumpers ( or take the little CMOS battery Silver bout the size of a nickel)

 

cmos-battery.gif take it out and flip it over and just lay the battery on the leads of the connector

 

cmos_battery1.jpg and power on the computer for 5 seconds and pull the power flip the battery back over like it suppose to be and power up the computer ( this should get you back to normal)

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I tried google to no avail. Anyone tell me what a range rip is? I've downloaded a box set and it seems to fall in that category and was just wondering what it means. is it inferior quality (not that it matters to me. just some headphone music)?

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now i got a fake "microsoft security essentials alert" window on one of my accounts that wont come off. I tried that malwarebytes anti virus and didnt work, looked online , found "pc doctor" but im not trying to pay.

 

suggestions?

 

thanks in advanced

 

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/antimalware/

 

free version.

 

 

For tv shows: http://www.couchtuner.com/

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I tried google to no avail. Anyone tell me what a range rip is? I've downloaded a box set and it seems to fall in that category and was just wondering what it means. is it inferior quality (not that it matters to me. just some headphone music)?

 

 

probably the group that ripped it.

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