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  1. Maxximo1

    Beeps

    Try this for POST beeps description http://www.pchell.com/hardware/beepcodes.shtml http://www.geocities.com/techcentralstation/BeepCodes.htm
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    email backup

    This is what I do every day just before shuttig the pc down. First of all I created a folder in my hard drive and named it guess what? Backups then just before shutting the pc down, browse to the relevant directories in your Primary drive the one where the OS is installed and copy all the...
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    Partitioning a hard drive

    Ok, here we go, you can rest assured that you can and in fact have the right idea on what to do, the problem is how to do it. If you itend to perform a CLEAN installation of Windows Xp Home then this is my suggestion step by step. Step 1, Using either your 40GB 0r 120GB hard drive, Fdisk the...
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    data recovery

    It is possible to recovery data even after Fdisk and Format. I personally use Easy Recovery Pro with great results. However if the hard disk was used extensively just before the formatting incident, then the recodered data could have some files corrupted, I still believe that 90% of it will be...
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    Playing MPEG files which are in secondary hard drive

    thanks cdogg, you are correct, I do have administartive privileges to the full system. As far as trying to play another file, yes I have indeed, same results as you said, and yes again, tested the primary drive as someone else suggested, amazing as it may seems the stupid mpeg did not play yet...
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    Playing MPEG files which are in secondary hard drive

    cdogg, again thanks for the prompt response, ok, you are absolutely right, I should have been more specific about my system, it has Windows XP, Pro installed, all patches and updates downloaded and installed ( even if sometimes doing this create more problems that fixing it. lol) Windows media...
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    Playing MPEG files which are in secondary hard drive

    To micker377, Yes I did run both scandisk and defrag without any resutls, was still unable to play the mpeg file. To jnightmare, the exact error believe it or not was " windows media player encountered an unknown error and cannot play this file" To cdogg, tried to transefr to a...
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    Playing MPEG files which are in secondary hard drive

    This is really a strange happening, I have few MPEG (mpeg1 and mpeg2) files in my harddrive, when I try to play any of them, windows media player gives me an unknown error. Tried to copy the fies onto a cd, then inserted the cd in drive, launched windows media player and it played correctly...

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