Who in our group will admit to being addicted to cell phones, or
better put, portable digital devices with telephony? How many folks
do you know who are addicted, and if so, what do you think of that?
Regarding this question, I believe that we are all adult enough to
know what is meant by
http://gizmodo.com/5434741/can-googles-chrome-banner-change-the-course-of-the-browser-wars
The article points out that with google's near monopoly on search, can a
simple banner for chrome on their homepage change the course of the browser
wars?
*Would Mozilla whine about this now, like they did
On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:51 AM, mike xha...@gmail.com wrote:
*Would Mozilla whine about this now, like they did about
Microsofthttp://gizmodo.com/5383382/mozilla-whines-about-apple-being-first-in-microsofts-web-browser-ballot-screen?
Whatever is listed first when there are but five listed
The last windows weekly they discussed this, apparently it was already
solved and the browsers will show up randomly with each time. The ironic
thing is that this was proposed years ago by MS and the EU refused. Years
later they are right back to one of the original plans. Opera remains the
I found a couple cool programs this weekend for media centers. XBMC is a
freeware app that provides a full 1080p interface to your media. The
provided skins are beautiful on a big full HD screen and allow you to easily
access your pics, videos...online information. XBMC is available on OS X,
HI again ...
My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the partitions. Can
you explain how to do that? How to delete the partitions that is. He's
running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot Disk be a good thing or even more
confusing for him now? As usual... Many thanks in
He must use it and run Fdisk to see and then remove the partitions.
Stewart
At 02:41 PM 12/27/2009, you wrote:
HI again ...
My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the
partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the
partitions that is. He's running Windows 7.
Gail,
It will be a little faster for you to google the answers to some of the
tech questions like how to delete partitions with Windows 7
http://www.google.com/#hl=ensource=hpq=how+to+delete+partitions+with+Windows+7aq=faqi=oq=fp=e8aec8f715611eed
and use us for the bigger picture stuff.
I
Yes, but you and a few others that think boot sector viruses are
common are either deluded or just ignorant. Did you even bother to try
to find a common Windows 7 boot sector virus before you posted this
statement?
The shame is that with so much noise in the thread she got totally
swamped and
The patient:
P4 Gateway.
Windows XP.
500GB hard drive.
On boot, the computer cannot locate the start up volume.
When the I ran the Windows XP Installer disk, it sees
the physical hard drive, but not the previously installed
system. It sees an un-partitioned space on the physical drive.
I am
I would just format the disk and either restore your last image or
install Windows clean. Then restore your documents from backup. At
some point, I'd check the drive's SMART status.
Drives sometimes go unformatted like that. Hard to say why; presumably
one important byte value might shift due to
He should be able to do that while re-installing Windows, although I haven't
installed Win7 yet. When you boot from the installation CD, read the
prompts/instructions carefully. They should give you an option to remove the
existing partitions, one or all.
Fred Holmes
At 03:41 PM 12/27/2009,
http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/
Search and Recover is a product I have found useful. I've used versions 3
4, don't recall using or even installing v.5. Haven't needed anything for a
long while (knock on wood).
They appear to have gone to an annual fee program, which they didn't have
with
Thanks, Fred.
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:58:51 -0500
From: Fred Holmes f...@his.com
Subject: Re: NTFS file system go poof.
http://www.iolo.com/sr/5/
Search and Recover is a product I have found
useful. I've used versions 3 4, don't recall
using or even installing v.5. Haven't
On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Tony B wrote:
WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover
than non-compressed; just the opposite, since it resides in a smaller
area and often contains recovery info.
You are dangerous.
On Dec 27, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Gail Miller wrote:
My son is STILL trying to reformat his HDD and delete the
partitions. Can you explain how to do that? How to delete the
partitions that is. He's running Windows 7. Would the Ultimate Boot
Disk be a good thing or even more confusing for him
Yes, but not completely ignorant, as some can lay claim to.
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:44 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote:
On Dec 26, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Tony B wrote:
WTF are you talking about? Compressed data isn't any harder to recover
than non-compressed; just the opposite, since it
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