get a hold of MHDD, its in UBCD. run it by selecting the # of the HDD then hit F4 a bounch of times untill it starts the scan. a bad harddrive will slow the system down.
run memtest86+ to check your ram. it should be on the UBCD. iirc
Open the case and look at the tops of the capacitors...
its for absolute security. something bad could get by one AV so you can have like 5 AV's scan your harddrive.
Also im thinking about doing it just to test out differnt AV's and >.>
I have one install of windows activated as the Host OS using the Key that came with the cd from MS. I installed windows using the same CD and key in virutal box. I get the ususal activate popup. My question is will MS let me run both copies of windows at the same time, one has host the other as...
Typically running more than one antivirus at the same time on a windows computer will cause problems and result. But I thought up a way you could run more than one.
What you do is install a virutal machine like virutalbox. Install multiple copies of windows. On each windows install an...
I have this fear that installing an bunch of programs because it will make windows dirty: slow, take up a bunch of space, etc, et al. So even if i uninstall them, run cclearner and check what is starting up am i still get a dirty windows?
Windows was downloading updates and installing them and I stupudily played a game. Well game over man; the update failed and now the computer boots to
I did a repair install a couple of days ago so I do not have restore point data files laying around. That seems to be a common fix. Is there...
You ever go searching the Internet for those allusive drivers? And you find a site that has a bunch of drivers and it turns out they have the one you need. So you install it and all is good...right? NO! you just installed a rootkit! Yes, kids, malicious drivers are a good way to install rootkits...
where do i click to download the driver? http://www.driversplanet.com/device.php?id=74236&show_devs=a
can you even download drivers from here http://www.motherboard.cz/driver/
I am having great trouble find drivers for this laptop, TOSHIBA dynabook SS MX/395LS. This model is japanese only so i cannot access the drivers though the US website. I found the japanese site http://dynabook.com/pc/catalog/ss_c/060412mx/index_j.htm and http://dynabook.com/assistpc/download/. I...
I put the harddrive into a desktop coputer with SATA so i could run MHDD. Seagate tools found no errors but MHDD found hundereds of slow sectors and other warnings.
leason learned is just put the drive into an older computer that testing software will support.
I am trying to run hard drive tests on a HP pavilion dv9000. I have tried the following programs and they cannot detected hard drives but they can see the dvd drive: MHDD 4.6, SeagatTools for DOS 1.08, Test Hard disk drive 1.0.
I can boot partially into vista so i know the drive is some what...
http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931
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I found about this today at work. I bought two 500Gb drives and they are both half full now. I havent tried the firmware upgrade yet.