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  1. CCCarson

    Windows Cannot Find

    I am posting this here so it just might help a few people searching for an answer to a common glitch in Vista's Windows Explorer. This might work for this particular problem: —The user keys in a partition or drive, intending, for example, to look into his Drive (X). Drive (X) does indeed...
  2. CCCarson

    BIOS ~ Most Basic Question Possible

    I have a sweet-running system with an old BIOS, too old to update, and I keep it working pretty well. No problem. But recently I began toying with some very old, "alleyway" computers—P1s and P2s—just to teach myself a few new tricks and have some fun. No matter what shape I put these oldies...
  3. CCCarson

    When Everything is Right, but Runs Slow Anyway

    I hesitate to place this question here, because I know I'm asking for trouble. So, caution to well-meaning advisors: this really IS a system that SEEMS to have all the tweaks in place. Plus, when I say slow, I mean it takes a second or maybe three seconds to bring up a new window--it is not...
  4. CCCarson

    Challenge: Renaming Boot Drive Letter in Dual-Boot System

    OK, I know it's not the done thing. But I DO have the time to change lots of file paths, and I'd really like to solve this. I have 2 IDE Drives, 0 and 1. I can boot up to either IDE 0 or 1 and do a dual boot from either; plus I can press "delete," go into the BIOS, and trade IDE 0...
  5. CCCarson

    XP Boot Partition Lost; Now "Unallocated"

    Oh man! Today I did a really DUMB thing and tried to reset my XP Boot Manager with a floppy I'd just made from a downloaded program I hadn't studied properly. The program was no doubt OK; I was the stupid one. Anyway, I've unallocated my boot drive! I'm wondering if that's the end of the story...
  6. CCCarson

    Dual NTFS/FAT32 Inconsistency Drive Failure

    My apologies for the crummy title - this one is hard to describe. I have what looks like a HD hardware problem but which seems to be software-induced.The HD will make a little click, the red light will be on; and I'll lose recognition of that drive. BUT, when we gave the drive a real test by...

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