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  1. dark_angel

    Can I use a windows 7 hard drive on a windows 8 machine

    as mentioned by voyager, you won't run into any problems. I recently installed a new ssd for a friend. He had a harddrive with windows 7 on it and i just unplugged it, installed ssd and widnows 7 then plugged in harddrive which had windows 7 on it and copied any files over then formatted...
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    Windows 8.1, Start Menu return

    i honestly never missed the start button. I have my desktop with windows 7 and I've never used the start menu on it. I have a few icons for main programs i use (firefox, lightroom and photoshop. Rest i just win+r and run. I do the same in 8 on my ultrabook.
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    Win8 reboots by itself and updates

    Also, check for a asus driver updater installed. My asus laptop has win 8 on it and a progrm installed that checks for any new drivers and when it finds them it will download and install. You can change it to let you choose but it restarted on me once but i was working on machine so saw it and...
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    Does windows 8 has file menu on the explore?

    if you go to view tab which you see example in lucas pic, you will see the tick boxes for file name extensions, hidden files. Just put a tick in hidden files and they will show up.
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    how hard is ssd os install

    Thanks for the help everyone. It went smoothly. Didn't have any problems. Now know how to do ssds.
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    how hard is ssd os install

    That's what I thought. So basically the same. Do you need to worry about doing firmware updates etc with ssd's or just use how it is out of box?
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    how hard is ssd os install

    Hi, Just got a friend who's asked me to install a new ssd for him and wipe his hard drive. then install windows 7 on the ssd and have hdd as data. I haven't installed an os onto an ssd as of yet so this will be my first one. I've read through the guide. It seems fairly easily. It is...
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    After others opions on laptop errors

    hard drive passed tests i throw at it. It a Fujitsu drive. so looks like harddrive might be ok. might be something else in laptop then.
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    After others opions on laptop errors

    Didn't do that when i had it out. Will give that a go. If it passes, would it be possible to work out what could be causing the problems then.
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    After others opions on laptop errors

    Just after others opinions on a laptop i'm working on. Working on a friends laptop. Its a hp pavilion dv6-1207ax. It would boot up then say boot device not found or bsod with 0x000000007b error before it got tot he splash screen. I have taking the hard drive out and plugged into mine...
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    Is Windows 8 an improvement over Windows 7 - Update

    I use it on my ultrabook and I thought it would be pathetic before I started using it. Once I had used it for a few weeks I mast say I like it. I do believe the way it is it is made for tablets/touchscreen. They need to make the desktop version slightly different. 1) Get rid of the start menu...
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    10x DOTA 2 Gift Giveaways.

    I''ll take one if still available - steam id nkbswe9
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    sd card just stopped working

    Its a tablet, not phone but that doesn't matter. I've tried looking at that. Under storage it has mount sd card but it is greyed out. Its normally greyed out if no sd card is inserted. I've put the sd card into 2 computers and nothing happens. As if no device has been detected. Was working fine...
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    sd card just stopped working

    Hi I have a Samsung galaxy note 10.1 tablet that is probably about 4 months old now. I got a dicksmith 32gb micro sd card class 10 that i put in it at the time of purchase. This has been working fine. Today I was using the tablet and all was fine, Put tablet down, picked it up 20minutes later...
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    Repair tracking program

    Hi all, I work as an IT Technician in 2 schools. I have an excel spreadsheet setup where staff access it from a shared drive and can put in errors and then i'll fix and update sheet. I also have printed out forms there can fill in. I'm wondering if anyone might know of a free program where...
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    Flickr

    I have flickr but don't always update it but this year I'm going to plan to do more with my photography so will have more up
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    Windows 8 on logical drive

    I imagine this will work but just after others thoughts I currently have a gigabyte netbook that is touchscreen. It come with windows 7 installed but the hardrive was partitioned so it had 32bit win 7 and 64bit win 7 installed. Was odd but i just left it. I want to try win 8 to see how...
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    New pc for getting most out of Adobe Premier Cs6

    Thanks for suggestions. I'll drop GPU to 650 I can drop PSU but i was thinking with the internal hdd docking station i would need more if i'm powing 2 ssd and harddrives that i mount in that. Not so good on working out the watts etc but that was my thinking for higher psu
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    New pc for getting most out of Adobe Premier Cs6

    yeh just for adobe premier cs6 only. Don't need hard-drives as we have heaps already and going to get case that has hot swap mountable for hard-drives so can just swap them around as need. At moment have external hard-drive docking bay so if we get case with built in bay can get rid of...
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