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i have Micro-Net Framwork 2.0 service pk 2-----3.0 3.5sp1 and windows service pk 2 LISTED under control panel add and remove--do i need all these?Quote from: fred56 on September 28, 2009, 01:57:55 PM

i have Micro-Net Framwork 2.0 service pk 2-----3.0 3.5sp1 and windows service pk 2 listed under control panel add and remove--do i need all these?

Quote from: bigbass on September 23, 2009, 02:27:52 PM

This is a old PC, P11 450 MHZ Memory 640MB HD 13.5GB, I tried to use xp by it's self to see if it would boot, no good...

Objective... To install an OS system, I have Win98 disk witch is oem, I have a win98se witch I used before and also have winXP Pro corp..witch I had on this
pc...

This only happened once immediately after reboot FOLLOWING removal of Comodo FIREWALL 3.5.
This event has never repeated after many reboots.
I have not seen any subsequent errors of any sort.

Does the absence of repetition indicate that Windows succeeded on the next reboot,
or that Windows has given up trying to mend a fatal wound ? ? ?

There were 4 off such error events within 1 second, designating these *.MOF FILES
C:\WINDOWS\MICROSOFT.NET\FRAMEWORK\V1.1.4322\ASPNET.MOF
C:\AC30D119A40F2C8C8708A20576\I386\LICWMI.MOF
C:\WINDOWS\MICROSOFT.NET\FRAMEWORK\V3.0\WINDOWSCOMMUNICATIONFOUNDATION\SERVICEMODEL.MOF
C:\WINDOWS\MICROSOFT.NET\FRAMEWORK\V2.0.50727\ASPNET.MOF

I later found that starting a few seconds before that, and finishing a few seconds after,
there were 51 *.MOF updated time stamps in C:\WINDOWS\System32\wbem\AutoRecover.
Comparing Acronis images of C:\ taken before and after removal/replacement of the Firewall I see :-
4 ORIGINAL *.MOF files that retained timestamps of last year and before
7 original *.MOF files that were halved in size as they were modified
44 brand new *.MOF files I have not seen before.

Do all these extra *.MOF files in ...\wbem\AutoRecover indicate a major disaster ?
Does the absence of further WinMgmt event 4 errors show recovery without failure on the next reboot ?
Does the continued presence of all these *.MOF files show that after recovery Windows was too lazy to delete redundant files ?
Or has it left it all for me to try and recompile or something ?

I am hoping to be assured that all is well,
or to have a QUICK fix that is sure to work,
otherwise I could play safe and restore the system via Acronis image with the old Firewall,
and then try to be more gentle as I replace the Firewall,
and then repeat all the other updates and adjustment done in the last 7 weeks.
I do not want to repeat the last 7 weeks, but I would rather do that than wait until I discover what is badly broken,
and then have to repeat everything I might be doing next year ! !

I am using XP Home with SP3

Regards
Alan
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I have two QUESTION one i have setool SETUP have install on my computer i use to unlock the PHONE but its broken by virus whole the time wat can i do?

secondly have unlock(blackberry MOBILE) SOFTWARE i have alreaday installed but a don want to update automatic so wat can i do?We cannot assist in methods compromising copyright protection...

Sorry.

Why is Windows UPDATE recomending to me to install Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.1 if I already have Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 INSTALLED?? Should I have both installed?Yes.

programs written to USE .NET framework 1.1 REQUIRE the 1.1 version installed to run. the .NET versions are not "backward compatible" so to SPEAK.

I have problem with pc at my work. It alway show (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services) when I click BUTTON close, pc START stuck can not do anythings until manual restart. I try to update to sp3, use hot fix, update some security and use RegCure, remove some program but still the same.
Please guide me if have any things to do on it

This Event view Log:
Faulting application svchost.exe, version 5.1.2600.2180, faulting module AcGenral.dll, version 5.1.2600.2558, fault address 0x000116e2.
Are you using Kapersky AV?me use symantec In chat you said AVG....which is it ? ?AVG for my pc and symantec for my work. I not YET to solved for them about this

Try here: http://www.troublefixers.com/fixed-generic-host-process-for-win32-services-encountered-a-problem-and-needs-to-close-svchostexe-error/Are you saying you get the same error on BOTH your home and office pc's?

hi all, ive got a toshiba laptop with a broken screen, when i link it up to my tv and turn the laptop on it will load up but then the tv will go blank (no signal to tv) but i can get onto windows in safe mode does anyone know whats wrong??
cheers lee1. Enable VGA Mode. See if the TV will display when you boot using "Enable VGA mode" from the Windows Advanced Options menu. This will boot Windows into normal mode using current driver for video (in a reduced VGA mode). If Windows comes up, then you need to "set" the display properties to values the TV monitor supports (or GUESS what - no display!).

Three display properties to be concerned with are "refresh rate", "color depth", and "resolution". Not sure what a TV monitor supports. Perhaps others could opine... Or you could research on internet....

Maybe start with refresh rate of "60 Hz", color depth of "16", and resolution of "800 x 600". Be especially careful with the refresh rate (I think that's the only thing that would damage the hardware). If successful, you could crank up the color depth and resolution changing one item between REBOOTS until the system fails to display (then back off the last PARAMETER set).

2. Windows Advanced Options Menu. Use the F8 function key during system startup to access the menu. Tap the F8 key once or twice per second as you startup the computer (or immediately after POST completes and screen flashes black prior to displaying Windows XP logo with its processing bar display).

When the menu comes up, use the up/down arrow keys to select the LINE item you want.

3. Safe Mode. If you're in a hurry, you could "reset" display properties to conservative values TV monitor might support from Safe Mode and reboot.

4. But Then... Since I've never connected a TV monitor to a laptop, I don't know what video signals and/or display properties it needs.

How does the laptop interface to the TV? Which laptop port do you use, what type of cable, and where did you get it?

5. Broken Screen. Broken how? Physically? Or just doesn't display anything?

Hello all,

I am hoping someone can help. I have a Dell laptop that will not boot up. This is the message that I get.

A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent DAMAGE to your computer. UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME

If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer. If this screen appears again, follow these steps:

Check to make sure any new hardware or software is PROPERLY installed. If this is a new installation, ask your hardware or software mfg. for any windows updates you might need.

If problems continue, disable or remove any newly installed hardware or software. Disable BIOS memory options such as caching or shadowing. If you need to use safe mode to remove or disable components, restart your computer, press f8 to select advanced STARTUP options, and then select safe mode.

Technical information:

STOP: oxooooooED (ox89B19658,0x00000000,0x0000000)


I am not able to start in safe mode. It keeps coming back to the message above.

I am running Windows XP

Anybody have any ideas?

are you sure you have everything plugged in correctly you can have some things in backwards


I never heard of anything like this before i don't see why they wouldn't let you bypass this at your own risk
maybe it's a virus

i never seen my computer tell me so much before on how to fix a problem

it will just show me the problem error when i start itGo into BIOS and load the fail safe or default settings. If that doesn't work then you will need a windows cd.

Do you have your windows CD? If so boot to recovery console. If not download the recovery console here: http://www.thecomputerparamedic.com/files/rc.iso

Download, and install free Imgburn: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=download

Using Imgburn, burn rc.iso to a CD.

Boot to the CD...let it finish loading.

When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.

Then follow the steps from here: http://icrontic.com/articles/repair_windows_xp
starting below this picture:

Hello JJ,

Thanks for your response. I do have the Windows XP installation CD that came with the laptop, however; nothing happens when I insert the disk. It takes me to the same error page. Am I doing something wrong? Change Boot Order to CDROM-1st.Sorry, but how do I do that? Start the computer back up and tap F2 while it is starting. This will take you into BIOS. In BIOS you want to look for BOOT ORDER or BOOT SEQUENCE or maybe even just BOOT. You want to set your CD drive as the first boot device. You usually press the plus and minus keys to move your devices up and down in the boot order. Once you have your CD drive set as the first boot device you want to insert your XP disk into the CD drive. The Dell disk will probably say "Operating System" on it. Now exit setup and SAVE CHANGES (F10).

The computer will reboot. You may see a message that says: "Press any key to boot to CD". If you do just keep tapping a key as the computer STARTS. You should hear the disk start spinning in the drive and then see a blue screen with the words XP setup near the top. It will load a bunch of files and then you should see this screen:



Press R to load the recovery console. Then follow the steps from here:
http://icrontic.com/articles/repair_windows_xpJJ,

I was following the INSTRUCTIONS to the letter, when all of the sudden my laptop just shut off!! Now it won't even power up Is it time to start planning the funeral??

Jim Remove hard drive and see if you can enter BIOS. If you can, get a new hard drive. If you can't, computer is probably dead and not worth repairing.How far did you get before the computer powered off?

Try taking the battery out and running it with the power cord plugged in.

I haven't booted from a CD because I haven't had a burner available to me but I do now. Going to try ES-Tool again.I suspect the onboard diagnostic tool you ran before is ES-Tool, but go ahead and run it from the CD, anyway. It will probably give the same result:
Drive 0: SAMSUNG SP2504C - Fail. Return Code: 7
Look for a new hard drive, 250GB SATA HDD is about $50.Roger that.. if this HDD is unrepairable, I need to find a way to pull my data from it.Hard Drives are not repairable.
May not be possible to retrieve data if it's DEAD unless you have $1000 to spend on a Recovery Service (businesses that do this for money). It's a very labor intensive procedure and there is no guarantee. They actually remove the "hard" from the hard drive and install into a different hard drive and then try to retrieve all the data they can find.

Lessons Learned: you can't have too many backups of data.

What you do next:
Install new hard drive on SATA 1 (Master)
Install Windows and PROGRAMS on new hard drive
Boot, reboot and insure all is working.

Install old hard drive on SATA 3 (Slave)
Hope BIOS RECOGNIZES old drive and insure Boot Order is SATA 1, 1st
Hope Windows recognizes old drive and assigns drive letter.
Copy your data from old drive to new drive.
Make backups of your data.
Sounds like a plan. I appreciate the ASSISTANCE, y'all! If I'm looking at your Dell XPS710 correctly, you may not have extra SATA power connectors, so you might need 1 extra SATA data cable and 1 SATA power adapter for connecting the old hard drive. Buy them when you get the new SATA hard drive, they're cheap. You've got 6 SATA data ports and 1 IDE data port.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps710/en/SM_EN/techov1.htm#wp1052309Quote from: Computer_Commando on September 27, 2009, 07:14:53 PM

If I'm looking at your Dell XPS710 correctly, you may not have extra SATA power connectors, so you might need 1 extra SATA data cable and 1 SATA power adapter for connecting the old hard drive. Buy them when you get the new SATA hard drive, they're cheap. You've got 6 SATA data ports and 1 IDE data port.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xps710/en/SM_EN/techov1.htm#wp1052309

I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop.

I can turn it on and get online okay but after 15 to 30 minutes I'm unable to type anything, either as a a web address, on a webpage or even in a word document. If I'm on Internet explorer the system BEEPS for every keystroke made but nothing is entered. If I hit the "f" key the File menu dropsdown, the "a" key the Favourites menu dropsdown, the "h" key the Help menu etc.

I can continue to navigate online but only using the mouse, not the keyboard. I've used Firefox and the same issue occurs.

If I reboot this fixes the issue for another 15 to 30 minutes and the cycle continues.

Another issue is that a lot of icons won't open by double clicking. I have to right click and open. I've checked the double click speed in my mouse setting and they're fine.

And sometimes when I click on dropdown menus, eg File, Favourites, start the drop down box only appears for a micro second then disappears.

I use the Windows firewall and AVG free anti virus.

Two days ago I ran Dell PC Restore by Symantec. This reverts the system to it's factories SETTINGS. After running Dell PC Restore I uninstalled McAfee security suite (preinstalled but out of date) and immediately downloaded AVG anti virus. It hasn't corrected the issue.

Any help please?Your system might be infected. download malewarebytes and do a full scan, and see if it finds anything, it will also tell you if certain settings are hijacked. http://www.malwarebytes.org/ Try an external keyboard to see if it exhibits similiar behavior.I've downloaded malwarebytes and have performed a full scan on all drives. the result I've pasted below.

unfortunately the issue is still occurring. any other advice please?


Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.41
Database version: 2864
Windows 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2

27/09/2009 5:07:32 PM
mbam-log-2009-09-27 (17-07-32).txt

Scan type: Full Scan (C:\|D:\|E:\|)
Objects scanned: 120419
Time elapsed: 15 minute(s), 19 second(s)

MEMORY Processes Infected: 0
Memory Modules Infected: 0
Registry Keys Infected: 1
Registry Values Infected: 1
Registry Data ITEMS Infected: 0
Folders Infected: 2
Files Infected: 1

Memory Processes Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Memory Modules Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Registry Keys Infected:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{4d25f926-b9fe-4682-bf72-8ab8210d6d75} (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Registry Values Infected:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\sunjavaupdatesched (Trojan.Agent) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Registry Data Items Infected:
(No malicious items detected)

Folders Infected:
C:\Program Files\MyWaySA (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.
C:\Program Files\MyWaySA\SrchAsDe (Adware.MyWebSearch) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully.

Files Infected:
C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_03\bin\jusched.exe (Trojan.Agent) -> Delete on reboot.
I've had this issue before try these ideas:

1) Try to take it out (Keyboard & mouse) and put it back in.
2) Try another keyboard & mouse on the computer to see if it's a computer related issue, or it's just that your mouse and keyboard are screwed up.
3) If in step #2, the other keyboard & mouse are working, then go buy a new keyboard and mouse for yourself.


I had to do Step #3.

Also, how OLD is your keyboard and mouse, I had to replace my 6-5-year-old Keyboard and 8-year-old ball mouse.


Good luck.

there are computers that are PARTS of the clients on my local area network, these COMPUTER have only ordinary user ACCOUNTS without any administrative accounts.
i am the new network administrator for this LAN, and i want to install new programs on these clients but i am unable because i do not have administrative rights.
my problem is how to get the administrative rights? i REALLY need help now Quote

i am the new network administrator for this LAN

I have Dell Optiplex GX270 and i wanted to INSTALL Nvida 81.89 so that i could play fifa 09. but each time i tried to install Nvidia a message saying nvidia setup program could not locate any drivers that are COMPATIBLE with your current hardware appears. what shall i do? Please help.Grab a driver from here??? or from another WEBSITE?What vid CARD do you have in there ? ?

I am aware of MSINFO32, but I'm wondering if there is a MS DOS command similar to ipconfig in order to get system specifications?

I would LIKE for the system specifications to be displayed in the MS DOS prompt.

I would like to see at least:
CPU
RAM
BUS speed

Thanks for any insights. msd ? ?Is something that must be installed or something that is present by default on Windows XP and Windows Vista?

Thanks again for all your help.

Jason msdiagnostics as it's commonly known...
XP does not contain DOS per se so i don't know if it's still included.
It was included in DOS though.

What you are working in is known as the command prompt function...not DOS.

P.S. I just ran it in Vista...no dice.
Sorry.Whoops. I guess I did not appreciate the difference.


I guess I should have asked the following:

I am aware of MSINFO32, but I'm wondering if there is a command I can run from the XP and Vista "command line" similar to ipconfig in order to get system specifications?

I would like for the system specifications to be displayed in the "command prompt" window.

I would like to see at least:
CPU
RAM
BUS speed

Also, I would like to be able to run the command without installing anything.

Thanks for any insights. Why do you need it done this way when there are so many good utilities out there that will give you more info than you need to know ? ?
Just curious...Code: [Select]
C:\>systeminfo

Host Name: PUPP-C92F25ED23
OS Name: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Version: 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation
OS Configuration: Standalone Workstation
OS Build Type: Multiprocessor Free
Registered Owner: Mad Pupp
Registered Organization: Pupp Skool
Product ID: 55274-648-8637434-23367
Original Install Date: 07/12/2004, 16:18:53
System Up Time: 0 Days, 8 Hours, 33 Minutes, 35 Seconds
System Manufacturer: Shuttle Inc
System Model: ST62V10
System type: X86-based PC
Processor(s): 1 Processor(s) Installed.
[01]: x86 Family 15 Model 3 Stepping 4 GenuineIntel ~2993 Mhz
BIOS Version: XPC - 42302e31
Windows Directory: C:\WINDOWS
System Directory: C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device: \Device\HarddiskVolume1
System Locale: en-gb;English (United KINGDOM)
Input Locale: en-gb;English (United Kingdom)
Time Zone: (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London
Total Physical Memory: 1,014 MB
Available Physical Memory: 286 MB
Virtual Memory: Max Size: 2,048 MB
Virtual Memory: Available: 1,996 MB
Virtual Memory: In Use: 52 MB
Page File Location(s): C:\pagefile.sys
Z:\pagefile.sys
Domain: WORKGROUP
Logon Server: \\PUPP-C92F25ED23
Hotfix(s): 27 Hotfix(s) Installed.
[01]: File 1
[02]: File 1
[03]: File 1
[04]: File 1
[05]: File 1
[06]: File 1
[07]: Q147222
[08]: M928366 - Update
[09]: S867460 - Update
[10]: Q927978
[11]: Q936181
[12]: KB952069_WM9
[13]: KB911565
[14]: KB917734_WMP10
[15]: KB936782_WMP10
[16]: KB925398_WMP64
[17]: KB926139 - Update
[18]: KB923689
[19]: KB941569
[20]: KB936929 - Service Pack
[21]: KB938464 - Update
[22]: KB951978 - Update
[23]: KB956802 - Update
[24]: KB957579 - Update
[25]: KB958644 - Update
[26]: KB958687 - Update
[27]: XpsEPSC
NetWork Card(s): 3 NIC(s) Installed.
[01]: Realtek RTL8139/810x Family FAST Ethernet NIC
Connection Name: Local Area Connection 2
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: 62.30.64.114
IP address(es)
[01]: 94.169.92.83
[02]: 1394 Net Adapter
Connection Name: 1394 Connection
DHCP Enabled: Yes
DHCP Server: N/A
IP address(es)
[03]: VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter
Connection Name: VirtualBox Host-Only Network
DHCP Enabled: No
IP address(es)
[01]: 192.168.56.1
also type wmic /? and spend half a day trying out all the options (there are a LOT.)

Can someone please HELP me with the following problem. I have recently purchased the wnr2000 and for the life of me cannot install it. The problem i have is that when i run the setup CD it informs me that my computer hasn't got an ethernet adapter installed. What does this mean???1. Is this what you have?


2. Do you have a LAPTOP or DESKTOP?

3. Are you trying to connect by wire or wireless?

4. What Operating System (Windows version) are you using?

i bought a used computer and the previous owners did not remove their information.i would like to know how to GET rid of their infoBoot to whatever OS CD you plan on installing...
In the setup options have it remove the existing PARTITION.
Then have it re-create the partition and run the setup to install Windows.

NOTE: you will have to travel to the manuf. SITE and DLoad and install all the DRIVERS for that machine.

hi all still trying to rebuild an old computer installing new xp pro hard drive has been formatted it GOES thru to the install SCREEN to install on new partition and wont go any further getting error

PFN_LIST_CORRUPT

STOP 0x0000004e(0x0000008F,0x0000AB56,0x0000AB4F,)x00000000

Have reformatted still no good have tried different disk still the same RESULT

ThanksFrom MSDN:

Quote

This indicates that the memory management Page File Number list is corrupted. Can be caused by corrupt physical RAM, or by drivers passing bad memory DESCRIPTOR lists.

hi, i have reformatted and installed XP Pro SP 2 from disk.

but the boot up only got until the loading screen where i can see that progress bar thingie.

but it does not go into Windows.

wat should i do?Most likely cause is a bad Hard DRIVE.
Second most likely is a dirty CD, or dirty lens in CD-Drive.
Or failing CD-drive.
Sick RAM can cause that.
Overheating CPU, DUE to improper mounting of fan.
Failing Power supply.

Easy quick test is to boot up a small version of Linux off just the CD-Drive.
It can run even with a bad hard drive. If it has a hard time mounting the Hard drive and reading the directory, it becomes obvious it is the hard drive.

Here is an article dated 2003 from IBM:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopp.html
The author says that Knoppix Linux on CD is a good tool to have.


Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 25, 2009, 10:06:49 PM

Most likely cause is a bad Hard Drive.
Second most likely is a dirty CD, or dirty lens in CD-Drive.
Or failing CD-drive.
Sick RAM can cause that.
Overheating CPU, due to improper mounting of fan.
Failing Power supply.

Easy quick test is to boot up a small version of Linux off just the CD-Drive.
It can run even with a bad hard drive. If it has a hard time mounting the Hard drive and reading the directory, it becomes obvious it is the hard drive.

Here is an article dated 2003 from IBM:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopp.html
The author says that Knoppix Linux on CD is a good tool to have.

ok... but when i install XP Home, it starts up ok. so i guess the CD for the XP Pro SP2 is faulty?

I have dsl MODEM wire I reconnected to the bell south services, I double click IE xp and my home page GOGGLE flashes up on the screen for less than two seconds. Can you pleases suggest a setting or some reason this problem is happening?

Also I NOTICED I can not type into a window. I tried going to recovery to reset and the dates and calender does not show up nor lets me type in a DATE, when I reboot I have GOTTEN home page to pop up only to lock up when I try to type in the address bar.
Thank you in advance

I've never heard a dfinitive answer to this question, but I'm sure this is t he place to find one.

I'm helping a friend with her computer and it will need formatted and a XP installation. Her computer is a Gateway with an XP Pro SP1 key on the COA label. She no longer has the restore disks for the computer.

Can I install XP with my Retail XP Pro disk and use her Key Code from her computer? I've never quite understood how Miscrosoft tracks the Keys or what the do's and dont's are regarding installation.

Thank you for any insight.

JimYes.
If it is a clean install there's no need to worry about the SERVICE Packs matching...
Only the version NEEDS to match.
This is perfectly legal.

Travel to Gateway as you will need to re-install all the drivers...MBoard chipset drivers go first.That's exactly what I was hoping to hear.

My friend and I thank you for your help and also the quick response.

JimMy Pleasure...GOOD Luck...and Welcome Aboard !You will have to call Micro$oft to activate the installation. You have 30 days to do it. It's pretty simple. Call them up and TELL them that the hard DRIVE crashed and you had to do a clean install. They will issue you a activation code over the phone.

Hi,

In DEVICE Manager I have a yellow question mark beside "Other Devices".
Opening this gives me "Unknown Device". In the "Unknown Device Properties"
window under the "Details" tab, there is a single entry showing an AVAST Anti-Virus thread.

Considering that I have previously used Avast Anti-Virus on my computer but no LONGER do so, can I assume that it is safe to DISABLE or UNINSTALL this "device"!?


ThanksYes.

Hi guys I've been having this problem for a long time and haven't been able to find a solution to it. The problem is like this:
Whenever I'm playing FROZEN Throne for about an hour or so. Suddenly the Blue Screen Of Death will appear saying that it has shut down my computer to prevent further damage. So I have no choice but to shut down the PC and turn it on again. And it repeats till today.
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?When was the LAST time you blew the dust out of the computer with a can of compressed air?Well I never removed the CPU casing at all. And I clean only the monitor screen of the monitorWhat is the brand and model of your computer? How long have you had it?
Does this happen with other games?
Nope it happens only when I'm playing Frozen Throne. It has been like this for quite some time.what is the STOP code
post evreything right after it says the word STOP
Quote from: smeezekitty on August 27, 2009, 01:58:41 AM

what is the STOP code
post evreything right after it says the word STOP

i am tring to install a new OS xp home on a dell computer. it starts fine and when its about to install windows it stops and tells me that if you see this MESSAGE again the computer will shut down to PROTECT it. it doesn't get me to the point to delete partions and so on. gettting error before.


what can i do next?Provide all details. Why are you installing the OS (was there some problem)? HOW are you trying to install it (exact steps)? Are you using an original retail XP CD? Anything else that might help.dell-xps400 64bit intel dual core processor ATI 256 2GB ram

put in XP hit F12 goes to windows setup gets to setup is STARTING windows it stops.

blue screen with a long code:

problem has been detected windows has been shut down....

on and on

last code i got was setupdd.sys

etc.

it tells me to disable bios cashing... how and where...not in my bios section...
million dollar question..Is it an old CD? Have you tried cleaning it?Are you using a SATA hard drive?Quote from: Allan on September 24, 2009, 08:36:40 AM

Provide all details. Why are you installing the OS (was there some problem)? HOW are you trying to install it (exact steps)? Are you using an original retail XP CD? Anything else that might help.

no im not using a new retail CD. burnt CD

This *censored* computer. I can see it's gonna get a good kickin' if it doesn't stop playing me up!
Used it this morning and all was ok. Powered it off and then BACK on again 2hrs later. Whoa, all the desktop shortcut icons were blimmin' enormous as well as their descriptions and were in rows across the screen.
Thought l'd sorted it via RIGHT CLICKING on properties/appearance/advanced and properties/appearance/settings. Then took ages to move then all around into the order they were before.
Powered off and restarted. The desktop has come back with all the icons and descriptions so small l literally NEED a magnifying glass to read them.
They are also in 4 columns to the far left of the screen, in no order whatsoever!
Any ideas as to what's happening as it seems my alterations aren't getting saved/retained?
Thanks
PS I've done the obvious (ie MBAM,SAS,Spybot,HJT etc. and all run clean)Try 1024X768....as a resolution.Hi there Patio,
Yep, that's what l set them to (which seems to be what they looked like
before all this started).
Have just rebooted prior to writing this and fingers crossed, it seems to be holding its own at the moment, with all icons staying where they should be.
Doesn't really explain why it was doing this in the first place, just another of lifes mysteries l suppose! Grrrr, blimmin machines!
Thanks for replying
WTC

Yesterday while playing music from a manufactured CD, the sound, via my two speakers, seemed suddenly to slow, not unlike the effect of hampering a turntable upon which a vinly RECORD is playing. Im SHORT, the voice of the singer appeared to deepen and slowed down. The same problem exists whether the SOURCE is a CD, a music download., spoken commentary from a sorts event, and so on.

I would be grateful if you might offer some tests/checks that I, a complete novice, might readily follow, or even a REMEDY or two!

Thanking you in anticipation.

Tom O'ConnorWhat are you using to play these sources? Windows Media Player, WinAmp, Creative MediaSource, something else? And what version of the program are you using?

A lot of more recent versions of these programs have time SCALING, which affects playback speed, which might be the issue here.Thanks for the advice/guidance. As if miraculously, the 'fault' remedied itself and at the moment all is well. For your information though, I use Windows Media Player 10, as I also use iTunes, and Creative MediaSource Player as well.

Thanks for your time. I hope the problem here has been cured.

Hello to everyone. Does ANYONE has an idea whats the problem with my shared partitions? I don't know from when they are shared but they are without my permissions. Below you have an screen shot. And the Help and Support from start MENU doesn't open, you have the error to in screen shot.

I have scanned all the partitions - avast! anti VIRUS and there aren't any.

thanks before



[attachment DELETED by admin]I maybe wrong but I don't see a problem with the shares.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314984

They are set to be administrative shares.

Your screens should look like those in the LINK I posted. Did you see & select an option to repair the current Windows installation?

Repair Install of XP

Step by step info...
Done properly all your data and apps will remain intact...
Done improperly all your stuff will be gone but you will have a fresh install of XP...

You said there is nothing critical on the partition. If that's the case, just format and reinstall.

I sorted it last night. I "found" a re-installation disk and used that to follow your and About's instructions.

Thanks, guys!

I am slightly worried.

The PC he has was normally bundled with XP and there are sites that sell the OEM restore disk for that model. If the PC has a COA it is perfectly legal.

Hi,

I'm USING outlook 2003 and have recently installed the connector so I can USE outlook for HOTMAIL.

How do I get hotmail and outlook to synchronize my folders in hotmail? Right now it is synchronizing my inbox from hotmail, but it has only synchronized 1/4 of the emails in my folders. I keep pressing F9 but it doesn't SEEM to be helping.

Thanks

I have tried to open a FILE in WORDPAD and it opens with lines of square BOXES and symbols how can i fix it to its original readable format THANKS tedWhich PROGRAM created the file?... and what is its extension?

can you teach me how to put password in a folder??
because my DOCUMENT in school are always lost. or they deleting my doc.so that i want to put a password..thanx for your help...Windows can't nativity password protect a folder. You WOULD have to use a 3rd party program to do that. (Give me time to find one)

I want to point something out though. How are people deleting stuff at your school? I ask, because a LOT of schools re-image computers often to clean them of junk. This means they totally NUKE the data on the drive and reinstall a clean image of windows over it. Protecting a folder wont do anything for you.

You can use a service like Microsoft SkyDrive (free) to store your stuff, and grab as you need.in our school the teacher will not erase the files because it is important to all student and if they erase it they will get permission to the owner..some student erase the files in no aparent reason..they are bad..hmp..i get a low grade because of this..i hope you understand..tnx for your help..

i am trying to get voice recognition on my COMPUTER but the help files tell me to GO and instil it from a option that does not eist what do i need to do to make srue i can put it on my computer.
P.s i have win xp and a microphone (duh)Why not use something like this?

http://www.amazon.com/Nuance-Communications-Inc-A309A-G01-10-0-NaturallySpeaking/dp/B001B5J7T8

I am using that now. My problem now is that it blue screens on me. I cannot remember EXACTLY what it said, but it was along the LINES of some think about driversWrite down the entire message including the gibberish and post it here....this might TAKE a while. As I do not know how I made it go blue screen. I'll post back when does it again.We'll be here...

I have installed the PROGRAM "TRAILER Life Campground Navigator" 2005.

I would like to uninstall this program. When I TRY to uninstall the program is ask me to INSERT the CD that it was installed from. I no longer have this CD. How can I uninstall this from my COMPUTER without the CD?Try Revo Uninstaller.

Nothing but black on screen.
It beeps 4 times then pauses and beeps again twice. It is a dell 3000 on xp. Is it the MOTHER board or HARD drive.
I reseated the ram, to no avail.can you boot into safemode ? You don't even see the Dell splash screen anymore, do you? Try removing the RAM and turning it on WITHOUT it and see if the beep code changes. Remove any other EXPANSION cards as well. (video card, audio, modem, etc) if the computer has one. If the beep code doesn't change at all, then most probably its the Motherboard. Quote from: bobgar34 on September 22, 2009, 10:07:40 PM

can you boot into safemode ?

You don't even see the Dell splash screen anymore, do you? Try removing the RAM and turning it on without it and see if the beep code changes. Remove any other expansion cards as well. (video card, audio, modem, etc) if the computer has one. If the beep code doesn't change at all, then most probably its the Motherboard.

I use MSN as my ISP and for email. In MSN Mail, I have emails stored in "folders on your COMPUTER." Now I WANT to locate these emails on my computer so I can copy them into a NEW user's MSN mail account. Any suggestions?

I have windows XP professional. Hewlett Packard. I GIG hard drive. I have about 15 ten PAGE business docs on it, plus about 20 photos. Each time I try to free up disk space then defragment my main drive space is reduced. I now have 23% of free space left. I would appreciate it if someone could tell me what is filling up my computer. I disk cleanup and delete browsing history.
MA few details would be of benefit. Please read this and include your hdd specs and what you've tried to do to reduce usage.



The usual suspects are: System Restore, Temporary Internet Files, Recycle Bin, Malware

To rule out the last, do a FULL SCAN with BOTH your anti virus UTILITY and EITHER (or both) MalwareBytes or Super AntispywareHey. I followed the advice re antivirus and malwarebytes. As soon as I downloaded Malware my computer went berzerk. The screen seized. For some reason Roxia MEDIA kept coming up. I ended up restarting and deleting Malware. What could this be? When you downloaded it or when you installed it? Boot to safe mode and run the scan from there.

i cant start up my computer, i tried STARTING up like more than 5 times and i always get this error "Services.exe - APPLICATION Error: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application" i click okay and it just goes black and takes like 30mins to load to the desktop and just takes a very long time to load anything. i tried starting up with safemode and the last configuration but were still the same, GAVE me the black SCREEN. could it be my HARDDRIVE or memory is dying? what is wrong??

it is a compac laptop
windows xp
service pack 3 if you have your windows installation cd go here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341Run the hard drive manufacturer's "free" diagnostic software.

See Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities.

Hi All,
I downgraded from Vista and recently encountered this error message:
1." cannot install this hardware : standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard with HP QLB. An error occurred during installation of the device.Fatal error during installation.
Now HP QLB is not found on a fresh installation, i did an update on HP site sometime ago.

2. I felt i should reinstall XP but during the installation, my keyboard is not responding; believe it has to do with problem 1 above.

Please, can somebody help?
THANKS for your effort.I have a dv 6335ca Pavillion and I installed XP, and it says the same thing about not being ABLE to install the driver and error occured. It was working before even THOUGH it couldn't install the driver, and then I installed Microsoft Explorer 8. Once installed, my keyboard STOPPED working

Any ideas?

As a maintenance procedure, how often should this be done?

I do need a help on restarting an application using batch file for example I can stop an application but it WONT START again. I am using this kind of COMMANDS:
Code: [Select]@echo

taskkill /F /IM name of program.exe

START "D:\Program Files\name of program\name of program.exe"

end
Can any one help or tell me where I'm wrong on writting of this file.

P.S. If I do write at the line START "D:\Program Files\name of program\name of program.exe" without quotation marks it gives me an ERROR message.
Cheers. Try

Start "" "D:\program files etc....."

Or....

"D:\program files etc........" i.e. without the Start command.






Thank you Dusty for the reply I fixed the problem and it works with first procedure.
It has worked with:
Code: [Select]Start "" "D:\program files etc....."

@administrators
You can close or delete this Topic.

Cheers.Good news, thanks for coming back to report your success.

TL : DR My computer BSOD's on Opening or emptying Recycle bin, and BSOD's on External Hard Drive Delete Attempts


My system specs are

Windows XP Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 3

Dual Core T2600 @ 2.16GHz
2 GB RAM

GPU ATI Mobility Radeon X1600
And I run two monitors The main one at 1920*1200 and the secondary at 1024*768

That's most of my information if anything else is needed to help just let me know and ill try to post it. Now onto the problem.

As the title states I am getting BSOD's. However I only get these BSOD's when I try to access my recycle bin or try to delete something that is on my external hard drive (which is a Western Digital 500GB My Book). I can however delete files from my C:/ drive and send them to the recycle bin, but when i try to empty my recycle bin either directly or indirectly through a third party program I get BSOD.

So at first i suspected maybe some maleware so i ran SpyBot S&D, A2 Free, Mc Crappy, and a few other Anti Malware Programs. They all came up clean no traces of anything. So then I thought might as well run a Registry Check and clean it, This did nothing either. Next I ran a Disk Check through the command prompt and rebooted so it could check my disk for errors. After waiting for it to finish it came up with nothing. Finally i suspected that maybe Terra Copy (a third party file transferring program that i replaced the windows default with) may be causing the problem so I took it to my college campuses tech desk where they wiped and reinstall a free copy of windows XP and the other school RELATED software that I use. I thought that this must fix it. The end all solution to fix most problems is a HD wipe. Wrong I get home boot up and try to open my still shown as full recycle bin and BSOD.

So this is where i am left now I have run out of all but one idea which is to take my Laptop back to the tech desk tommorrow and have them replace all the hardware in it. But I figured I would ask around on the internet before doing so to see if i could get some ideas as to what it might be. Thanks in advance to anyone that offers any thing usefull.What is the blue screen error?I can click on the recycle bin and find out for you real quick BRBHere's the read out



A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
If this is the first time you've seen this stop error screen, restart your computer, if this screen appears again follow these steps:

Disable or uninstall any anti virus, disk defragmentation, or back up utilities. Check you hard drive configuration, and check for any updated drivers. Run CHKDSK /F to check for hard drive corruption, and then restart your computer.

*** STOP: 0x00000023 (0x000E01000, 0xA9699B7c, 0xA9699878, 0x8052BED2)

Beginning Dump of Physical Memory
Physical Memory dump Complete
Contact you system administrator or tech support group for further assistance.Okay, that's almost always a hd problem. Take the following steps:

1) Backup all critical data to an off disk medium.
2) Boot to the Recovery Console and run chkdsk /rI've run the CHKDSK /r and here is the log file of the results taken from the event viewer winlogin from the reboot after the CHKDSK

CHECKING file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.
Cleaning up minor inconsistencies on the drive.
Cleaning up 159 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 159 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 159 unused security descriptors.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
Free space verification is complete.
The upcase file content is incorrect.
Correcting errors in the uppercase file.
Windows has made corrections to the file system.

97683455 KB total disk space.
21048592 KB in 50051 files.
14928 KB in 7047 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
127131 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
76492804 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
24420863 total allocation units on disk.
19123201 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
f0 e2 00 00 15 df 00 00 1d 2d 01 00 00 00 00 00 .........-......
15 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 d2 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
f6 cd 3c 04 00 00 00 00 1a 4f 52 1c 00 00 00 00 ..<......OR.....
10 12 24 05 00 00 00 00 96 d1 c9 4f 01 00 00 00 ..$........O....
00 33 5d 9d 04 00 00 00 04 b4 54 1a 06 00 00 00 .3].......T.....
99 9e 36 00 00 00 00 00 a0 38 07 00 83 c3 00 00 ..6......8......
00 00 00 00 00 40 b4 04 05 00 00 00 87 1b 00 00 [emailprotected]

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.


For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.I said to run chkdsk /r from the Recovery Console.Well here lays the problem I don't have a windows CD since my windows license as well as this laptop and all the other software was provided by my college as part of the tuition. So if I want to run the recovery console I will have to bring it to the school's tech desk where they have a copy of the windows disk.

I was planning on going to the tech desk again tommorrow anyways since it doesn't look like i will be able to fix my problem and the hard drive wipe didn't work. Plus since I will be there I will just ask them to give me a brand new hard disk instead of trying to repair the old one, they don't charge me anything for it anyways.

But thanks for all your suggestions and time its really appreciated.Update:

As of 5 minutes ago i have just fixed this problem. For WHATEVER reason there was a file in the recycle bin that had characters that windows was unable to read or the file type was causing problems. Whatever the case this is how i fixed it.

Step 1: Locate the location of the recycle bin which for most XP users C:/RECYCLER

Step 2: Open the command line prompt type "cd C:"

Step 3: type "rmdir RECYCLER"

Step 4: Do not try to open the recycle bin yet as it will still crash

Step 5: Restart Computer

Step 6: Create a new test file called test.txt

Step 7: Delete this file and send it to the recycle bin, since the folder is missing and has no where to go Windows will recreate the folder and place the text file in it.

Step 8: Empty the recycle bin by right clicking on it and clicking Empty

Step 9: The recycle bin should now be safe to use and problem solved

Hope this helps anyone in the future that has the same problem.

Alternatively you can download a program called "unlocker" google it. This program allow you to delete programs that are currently in use. Make it so you can view hidden system files and navigate to C:\RECYCLER through My Computer and delete it and tell unlocker you want it to be removed. You still have to make the test .txt to reform the folder.

I recently uninstalled IE 8 because it wouldn't work with certain websites. I'm left with IE 7. With it I hoped the layout or skin would go AWAY. When I mean layout, it's the one where the big red x is right of the address field. I like the older style skin or classical skin. No setting in IE7 would allow me to back to the classical skin.

I launched IE7 directly from C:\WINDOWS\ie7\iexplore.exe and it used the classical skin. Great. But if I launch IE7 from SAY the command prompt, the new skin is used.

How can I permanently get rid of the new skin? I only noticed the new skin after I installed IE8. I didn't install any skins from other websites. I'm USING Win XP Pro.Are you sure IE8 is COMPOETELY uninstalled?It's not in Add/Remove PROGRAMS now, but it wasn't before. I followed the directions at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957700, Alternative STEPS, for Windows XP.

C:\WINDOWS\ie8 was empty, then I deleted the folder.

Quote from: Boozu on September 22, 2009, 04:00:38 PM

How can you install an OS onto a drive without erasing whatever is on it? and without making a partition?

Reinstalling an OS simply overwrites the system folder - it does not format anything or touch anything other than the system folder.

I think that answers your question to the poster. All Mssbrt2 really needs to do is make shortcuts to things and that's that. All he is asking is how to get all of his icons back on the desktop.

you probably did a parallel install and now have TWO OS's installed. Open Windows Explorer. Do you see a folder named WINDOWS and another one named WINDOWS OLD?

Can you please give us the file name of the fonts you added.
Also can you give me the exact file location of fonts e.g c:\desktop\blahblah
Thanks we will endeavour to help..
The fonts I added were:

STJEDISE.TTF, Starjout.ttf, Starjedi.ttf, Stjldbl2.ttf, Starjhol.ttf, Strjmono.ttf, Strjmono.ttf

The location? Um...the first folder on the list after searching for "Fonts" (the one I assumed was the correct one) just SAYS, In Folder= Control Panel. The folder right below it that says Fonts, is in folder C:\WINNT. I can open that one and it has fonts in it, some TT but a lot that have an "A" on it with a .FON extension. I don't know if this is the one I am supposed to be looking at. The properties say, 75.0 MB (78,722,423 bytes) 60.2 MB (63,134,524 bytes) (I tried compressing the files to see if that was the problem) Contains: 274 files, 0 folders.

There's a couple other folders that say Fonts on them, C:\Program Files\Common Files, C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox, C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_03\lib

We are talking about Windows XP here, I trust? Because the C:\WINNT folder is what you get with Windows 2000. I think if you are running XP your installation could be an upgrade from Windows 2000. (Clean installs of XP get C:\WINDOWS as a default) Dunno if this is relevant...

c:\winnt\fonts is where you should be putting them.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314960
I think you're right Salmon Trout, must be some sort of downgrade from W2K.That might be so. I GOT my computer from a friend who works at a COMMUNITY college after the motherboard on my old computer went dead.

So....where does that put us? I still can't get into the Fonts folder from Control Panel. There isn't anything in the File command to install new fonts. Does it work in safe mode?
Nope. *sigh* I'll probably have to have someone come out and look at it. Copy & paste your fonts into your C:\winnt\fonts directory.I did and they don't show up when I go into Word or Photoshop.I was afraid of that, try re-booting you never know your luck.
I suspect your OS is slightly crippled being from a community college, I've come across this type of thing before.
There's a lot to be said for having a genuine and complete OS disk from Microsoft.

Of course...she was a major contributor to WinME...Ah, yes they had to hire her so they could rush that out the door in a relatively functional but unpolished state.

Rumour has it she tried to correct the capitalizations on all the functions, changing for example "GetTextExtentPointEx" to "Extended_get_text_extent_point" which caused major headaches for developers and ultimately resulting in her not having permissions to change existing code, only add to it. This was also partially RESPONSIBLE for the NAMING, as she would often exclaim "what about me" at developer meetings, yelling "Me" quite loudly, and the marketing department often ate lunch right outside that particular meeting room, so it stands to reason that while they were throwing their cafeteria food at the pidgeons and otherwise goofing off they heard her exclaim "Me" over and over again. At some point one of them decided to do some work to earn their 20K a year job and lo-and-behold it consisted entirely of simply finding an appropriate acronym for ME.And thus was born the Beast that some never survived...56 was my lowest 72 was my highest after i take the like 5 times in a row my left hand pinky gets tired and i start making mistakes
i noticed i use it for q a z s and x and all the keys to the left of that like the cap lock shift and ctrl is that normal

last month when i took this test i was only like 45 to 50 i started this thread mainly because i wanted to improve my typing any programs are things i could try that you would reccomendOn second try, I got 50 with 10 errors. I believe typing tutor software can be helpful to anyone seriously dedicated to improving their speed. I can't vouch for any particular programs but might be something good at http://typingsoft.com/all_typing_tutors.htmMine was 39 WPM with 0 errors I type from 55 to 65 words per minute. In MS word, I typed this:
Quote

Hi this is a test DOCUMENT I want to see my Words per minute this is a test I am a real typer and I am fast and speedy and this is a document I want to see what is real because this is a test I don’t CARE about orange thomgoe

hi I have a Dell Inspiron 6000. The registry is corrupt and when windows loads I get "when trying to update a password, this RETURN status indicates that the value provided as the current password is incorrect" and it restarts on itself and continually does this. The recovery partion does not load when I press ctrl+F11 at the dell screen. I have a windows xp pro cd and can get into the SETUP. I can get into the recovery console but when it ASKS for a password and I type my password in it does not work, and when I leave the password field blank and press enter it doesn't work. so I can't really get in and fix the registry. There are no passwords set in the bios. I tried to do the repair by pressing enter at the xp cd setup and accepting the agreement and trying to repair it that way, no success.

My brother has the exact same laptop because we got it at the same time, his works fine and his recovery partion loads fine by pressing ctrl+F11. Is there any way I can use his recovery partion on his computer and copy it over to my HARD drive and do a clean install of my broken laptop as if it were the day I bought it by doing the recovery partion? I own a 2.5" to 3.5" Laptop IDE Hard DISK Drive HDD Adapter. So I can get into the hard drive and all its files.

So my question is can I copy the recovery partion files from the working laptop hard drive and put them into the hard drive that is corrupt? and where are the files on the good computer? where do I put them on the corrupt one? will this idea even work? should I go about fixing this in another way?

thanks for any help!Nope...
Won't work one machine to the next.does anyone have any ideas on how to fix the problem?For Dell systems, You can try to request whats called a Dell SRCD which is a batch of cds (or dvds) that would actually rebuild the recovery partition on the computer. Although your system would have to be in warranty if i remember it correctly for you to request them. If not ask if you can purchase it from them.

Guessing that its not, you'll have to reinstall the OS from scratch.

Howdy,
I want to be able to RIGHT click on a computer in a domain and have the option to connect as another user.

I am using XP Pro.

Thanks
I think I GOT what I WANTED....

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc300361.aspx

thanks!

computer does not start. when i turn on the computer the windows screens appears with the increasing bar on the screen, then it goes to a safe mode screen but no action can be taken as the keys don't work then a blue screen (can't see what it says too fast) then it loops back the the beginning with the windows screen again. What can i do to bet data from that is on hard disk?Reboot. As soon as you see the POST screen start tapping the F8 key. This will take you to a screen that offers you a number of boot options. Select "Disable Reboot on Error" (I believe that's the correct wording - if not, it's close) and reboot. You should now see the contents of that blue screen error. Post it here.Laptop or desktop ? ?

If Desktop:
Slave Drive Tutorial


If Laptop:


2.5" laptop to IDE converter...about 8 Bucks at any PC store.Sorry! it's a desk top and will do when I get home later.i tried f8 on the post but as i said before none of the keys work. before the post FINISHES it goes to the windows loading screen and then the blue screen the on signal on the monitor and back to the post screen.can i remove the hard disk from my desk top convert it to slave and install on another computer to back up the data?Quote from: Novice000 on September 19, 2009, 06:44:59 PM

i tried f8 on the post but as i said before none of the keys work.

can i remove the hard disk from my desk top convert it to slave and install on another computer to back up the data?