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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!! PC Keeps locking
i have been having the same problem for several months - it started happening around the same time i installed a modem, so i thought it was modem-related, but later found it wasn't. then thought it was a bad hard drive, bad memory, corrupted system files, etc. but none of these, when replaced...- fabrik
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Switching hard drives
thanks for the replies. wolluf, the only hidden system file i found on the C: root was BOOT (DOS file) - ntldr and ntdetect.com are on both drives, but not in folders created from a Windows Service Pack. i couldn't find a boot.ini file anywhere on either drive. i opened up the BOOT file with...- fabrik
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- Forum: PC hardware - General discussion
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Switching hard drives
I just installed a new hard drive into my computer - i put it on the secondary IDE cable as master with a cdrom as slave, while the first IDE cable has the old hard drive as master and another cdrom as slave. now that i have installed win2k and all my files to the new drive, i want to take the...- fabrik
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