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  1. cheerioboy

    2nd hard-drive turned up "Foreign" after formatting 1st drive

    Well i started to get the idea that i might want to reinstall XP pro on my system. Since i'd been thinking about it for a while i started to take the time to move important files over to my 2nd hard-drive. After formatting and reinstalling the 2nd hard-drive wouldn't show up and in the device...
  2. cheerioboy

    problem installing xp pro, but not win98

    ok so my friends computer just sort of collapsed. Apprently out of nowhere it starts doing this cycle of loading to the windows xp loading screen and then rebooting, and it just keeps doing this. Nothing was important on the system so i wiped it all out and attempted to install xp. I kept...
  3. cheerioboy

    fixing/editing size of resize bars

    Yeah... well it seems that I’ve found a way to screw up my OS again. While testing the install of some software for Windows 95 on XP it did the most bizarre thing to my OS. As soon as it finished installing and I opened the program, the resize bars on any window and the edge on the task bar...
  4. cheerioboy

    computer shuts down for odd reasons ^_^

    The first time the computer started to have problems it would shut down when large applications were run (so it seemed), and then from there it started to shut down during idle times, rebooting and getting stuck in boot with failure to find master drive. For some reason after this the idea...
  5. cheerioboy

    Random reboot + "PRIMARY MASTER DRIVE FAILED"

    I’m posting here as a last resort to find out what is going on this computer. My friend’s computer has started to shut itself off on some occasions, roughly once a day or once every 2 days. The computer is always running. When the computer randomly reboots, there's an error in the boot saying...

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