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| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
| Pen drive | 2/6/2011 | Dinesh |
| Q: Sir, i'm having problem with my 4GB pen drive. I have kept in it data amounting upto 1GB but while i ... A: try the following, 1. Start -> Run -> Type "Cmd" and Ok. (Now command prompt will be open) ... | ||
| Pen drive | 2/5/2011 | Dinesh |
| Q: Sir, i'm having problem with my 4GB pen drive. I have kept in it data amounting upto 1GB but while i ... A: I would like to let you know a basic fact first. In 4 GB pen drive you will get almost 3.7 GB to ... | ||
| Floppy disk drive. | 3/4/2010 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have connected an external floppy disk drive to my new computer using a usb port. Unfortunately I ... A: you are getting these error messages as the floppy drive can't read your floppy's file system(FAT12) ... | ||
| usb drive infected | 12/22/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have a usb 2.0 drive on which I keep several install files for spyware, registry cleaner and other ... A: It won't affect if you disabled autorun, in recent windows operating systems this problem is fixed. ... | ||
| External Floppy Drive | 10/16/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: I own a typing business and I'm doing a project for a client that's from the stone age. He has ... A: Fine, the answer i gave early is based on the error messaged you got like "Do you want to format ... | ||
| External Floppy Drive | 10/16/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: I own a typing business and I'm doing a project for a client that's from the stone age. He has ... A: It's because of the floppy's poor quality. Some floppy drives are not good at reading such floppies ... | ||
| floppy stops computer | 10/16/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: have a Compaq Presario with Windows XP.I try to access my floppy to upload pics and the computer ... A: If this problem problem occurs only with a particular floppy, it should be damaged and your floppy ... | ||
| Interrupting Virus Infection While in Progress | 6/12/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: If a user notices that his floppy disk is being written on by a virus, how does he interrupt the ... A: You are right. Killing such processes which are infecting during the operations (copy,paste..) is ... | ||
| Interrupting Virus Infection While in Progress | 6/10/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: If a user notices that his floppy disk is being written on by a virus, how does he interrupt the ... A: I have two ways to make it. First one is to kill the process which is suspected of infecting by ... | ||
| Virus Infections | 6/7/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: If a floppy is write protected there is no possibility of virus infection. However, since infection ... A: It can infect in both ways you told. Virus programs need not wait for any operations to occur. When ... | ||
| Back up on ext. usb drive. | 6/7/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: I realized that this question may not be on the correct area but I could not find any appropriate ... A: Ensure that external USB drive is working. Whenever you connect it and its working, you will see ... | ||
| Virus Infections | 6/5/2009 | Dinesh |
| Q: If a floppy is write protected there is no possibility of virus infection. However, since infection ... A: I hope I understood your question. There is no way to infect when there is no write opertion ... | ||
| How to destroy floppy & zip disks | 12/29/2008 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have what feels like a million used floppy & zip disks. I no longer have a PC (switched to Mac) or ... A: If you feel having important data on the disk, you can use softwares to destroy data in the disk ... | ||
| Backing up files with zip drive | 10/10/2008 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have never backed up any files. What is the best way to do this? Would an external zip drive be ... A: The best device you need for backup depends on the volume of data. Zip disks too can be used if you ... | ||
| WinXP/USB Zip 250 Drive | 1/23/2008 | Dinesh |
| Q: WinXP locates a USB 250 Zip Drive fine, but can't read the zip floppies...I know there is data on ... A: You are sure about the data in it. Ok.. But when FAT fails in your case, if you have stored files in ... | ||
| Floppy Disk Help | 9/6/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: can i capture my information from a floppy disk before formatting it. the floppy disk won't open it ... A: Lydia, You are right.. You will lose file system when you format it. Practically formatting will ... | ||
| Problem with a Floppy Disc | 9/3/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: I put some important info on a floppy disc and then deleted it from my hard drive! Now, when I put ... A: Try these, 1. Accessing the floppy from different windows families (like DOS,NT Based and Win ... | ||
| XP Upgrade: | 7/9/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: Good Day, Dinesh! I recently upgraded from Office 97 to XP, on a Dell P2 400. When I try to open a ... A: This seem like a problem with the floppy drive only as the same error comes for all disks. Have ... | ||
| XP Upgrade: "Selected Drive Not In Use" | 7/7/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: Good Day, Dinesh! I recently upgraded from Office 97 to XP, on a Dell P2 400. When I try to open a ... A: Is this problem particularly occuring with word file alone ? If so means, the floppy have no problem ... | ||
| 1.44 floppy usb | 3/22/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: I purchased a 1.44 HP D353FUE USB floppy drive, the drive loads up fine and when I go to my computer ... A: Usually when there is a problem with floppy disk, it won't ask you to go for web. I guess this may ... | ||
| FLOPPY DRIVE REMOVAL. | 3/21/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have removed the floppy drive from my computer as it was faulty, and I never used it. However, ... A: Well John. You've successfully removed it from windows. You've to remove the floppy drive from ... | ||
| External hard disk drive | 3/15/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: I recently purchased a big capacity external disk (usb connection) for the purpose of backing up ... A: What problem you are actually facing.. How many partitions are in your disk ? Why not you "select ... | ||
| DriveSpace compressed disk | 2/14/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: Though WinXP cannot see the file, using WinRar (a compression utility) on drive B (the LS120 drive) ... A: David, I found some utilities in this link for win 95 or 98, just check out ... | ||
| DriveSpace compressed disk | 2/14/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: DriveSpace3 created a single compressed file. That file is NOT recognized by WinXP, but to the best ... A: Ok. Now you type "DECMPRSS" and press enter. See what it shows. If you can means proceed further. ... | ||
| DriveSpace compressed disk | 2/12/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: but alas I am no where near proficient even had I access to m_DOS. I did locate an executable file ... A: Ok David. First I'll tell you how to run that file. Extract those files to some directory like ... | ||
| DriveSpace compressed disk | 2/9/2007 | Dinesh |
| Q: I am sorry. I didn't make it clear that this floppy was compressed using DriveSpace that was part of ... A: Have you tried any recovery tools already ? There is a Drivespace recovery tool available at ... | ||
| Floppy Disk Drive | 12/20/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: my error message says, Winodws cannot format.I run Windows xp, and when i tried to save data on my ... A: When windows cannot format a floppy, you cannot use it to save files in windows anymore. You have to ... | ||
| Floppy Disk Drive | 12/19/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: I run Windows xp, and when i tried to save data on my floppy disk it didn't do, it makes my computer ... A: I think the floppy may be bad. Are you able to format the floppy ? Did you get any errors while ... | ||
| 5.25 floopy drive installation | 11/18/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: I am not sure if I asked this question before, but was having a problem from my work e-mail, and ... A: I received your question already and answered. You can view that in the past answers section of my ... | ||
| hard drive partititioned | 11/16/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: the question is :does it make any difference to the running of my computer tht my hard drive is ... A: Having more partitions is good because seeking time would reduce considerably. You can reach the ... | ||
| 5.25 floppy drive | 11/16/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have some old 5.25 floppy disks that I want to copy onto my hard drive or to a 3.5 [1.44] drive. ... A: Make sure that correct type(3.5 for A, 5.25 for B like that) is assigned to floppy drives. Are the ... | ||
| USB versus USB 2.0 | 11/11/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: My laptop has only USB. Can I use a USB 2.0 memory stick or a card, instead od 3 1/2 floppies to ... A: You are right. Floppies are not suitable for storing image file which are usually larger in size. ... | ||
| filing copying | 11/9/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: How do I know if someone has copied my files from my computer? I suspect all my autocad file was ... A: There is no way to find the lastly copied date in windows. So you dont let such things happen in ... | ||
| Using with camcorder | 11/4/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: Travel for months. Goal: sending still pix home. In the old days I used a trusty TRV900 sony with ... A: Floppy drives won't be suitable for you. USB slots are commonly available in all systems. Windows XP ... | ||
| data recovery from sata hdd | 10/12/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: my new system HP with Win Xp prof. has crashed and it hangs after opening the windows xp windows. i ... A: This is not my area of expertise actually. Even then, some tips for you to recover data upto my ... | ||
| Floppy Drive nNot recognized by Win 98se | 9/24/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: Suddenly, when I try to read a formated 3 1/2 floppy, I get the response disk is not formattee, etc. ... A: This wont be a problem with Drive or windows because you are getting the Disk not formatted ... | ||
| floppy disks | 9/3/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have some floppies i made at my computer at work.-i no longer work there. I have tried to open ... A: If you are asked to format the floppy, the File System in floppy is damaged or the some sectors in ... | ||
| HARDRIVE AS IMAGING STORAGE. | 9/1/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: I have heard that data (pictures, videos, etc) stored in a "regular" 700 MB CD, can be lost within 5 ... A: Data in the CDs won't be lost unless the CD is damaged by physical factors. Similarly if hard disks ... | ||
| I just have a problem with floppy disk. Can you help me please? | 7/23/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: i have a problem with this floppy A: i installed my new floppy but my computer may be doesn't ... A: Have you incurred this error for all floppies or only one floppy ? Try some other floppies. Test ... | ||
| Computer Peripherals | 7/21/2006 | Dinesh |
| Q: Why we can't send any data to CD by right clicking the mouse but which is possible in FDD and Pen ... A: Usually files in CD are written as sessions. That is file system wont be in a particular location ... | ||
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