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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 8:50 am
Mictay, you could download something on the working computer, and transfer it via flash drive to the non-working one.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 9:15 am
Peeking in to ask... what's a flash drive?
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 9:39 am
The little USB drives that are about the size of your thumb (hence they are also called thumb drives). They've taken the place of 3-1/2" diskettes (since most systems no longer have disk drives) and people don't want to waste a CD to copy data from one system to another. They started out fairly small (a 1MB drive was big!) but now they easily hold many GBs of data. Price has come down significantly, too. I bought an 8GB flash drive for less than $20 right before the holidays. And it was pink! 
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 10:47 am
I tried to download IE7 and then save file so I could copy it onto a disc but that was a no go,and I think i've just made things worse.I'm trying not to do to much on this computer because I don't want to screw this one up,but my other pc was what I did all my bills,banking etc. on. So I got internet properties to come up but there is no place for home page,or browsing history,its the first tab that is missing,I have no idea what happen,we were having a certificate problem so we were in the middle of downloading IE8 and from there I have no idea what happen,tried system restore and it did not do anything and now I can only restore it back to yesterday.Anyways I gave up for the day cause its giving me a headache and i'm out of ideas. Thanks for the help
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 12:14 pm
Mictay can you dl Firefox instead? Maybe you will have better luck.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 12:15 pm
Thx Costa! DO you mean the little port at the front of my computer that I use for uploading photos with the cord thingie?
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Jimmer
Moderator
08-30-2000
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 12:58 pm
That would be it Mame.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 1:11 pm
nope can't download anything cause I can't get an internet connection on my other pc
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 1:22 pm
I backed up my files on this pc could I use it for my other one??Not really even sure what a back up is,alls i know is eveytime i do a tune up on this computer i have to always put in my disc that i did the back up on.Does that make any sense. BTW I don't have any type of disc for my other pc because it was given to me,so would i have to buy a windows xp disc to redo evreything??I'm clueless at this point.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 2:31 pm
That would be the USB port, Mame. The little drive that you can get to plug into that port is called a flash drive.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 2:58 pm
Thx Jimmer. Aha, thanks Costa! I love this place... I'm always learning new stuff. Just wish we could help Mictay with her prob.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 4:15 pm
LOL thanks Mame,but I think I tend to make things worse cause I couldn't leave it alone until I really knew what was wrong!!!I have a habit of that.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 6:50 pm
Any suggestions on a good virus program? Also, are there any that can be downloaded for free or do you have to buy them? Like Mictay, my computer got totally messed up a couple of months ago while trying to download a virus program. I had Norton on (but it needed to be renewed--how does that happen anyway?!?) and whatever happened, the computer crashed and I had a terrible time getting it to reboot. Finally I got it into 'safe mode' but thereafter had nothing but problems. Anyway, I've started using my laptop most of the time and now love it. I hated the keyboard on it before but I'm used to it now, (PLUS I love being able to take it into bed with me )so will probably just leave the desktop computer alone for now. But I thought I'd try a virus program to see if there's a virus in the desktop. Any thoughts on which program to use and (preferably download)? TIA
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Debra
Member
11-20-2003
| Monday, January 19, 2009 - 8:31 pm
When that happened to us I did a system restore to a date before the download. It fixed me right up. Just a little something that worked for me. Also if you look at the top of this thread there is a link to some free programs.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 8:19 am
I've tried downloading a software program from filehippo.com some kind of recovey program anyways I download the file and instead of running it I try and save it so that I can burn it on to a disc but no such luck,I have no idea how to do it,i've tried a few different things but I do not want to mess this computer up. I've tried system restore and it did nothing and now it will only let me go back to Jan. 18th when this all started,i've had the computer since I think August but it won't let me go back that far. Oh well I think were just going to have to find someone to fix it but we could prob just buy another pc for the amount of money they charge for it or buy the windows xp disc.
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Mictay
Member
09-29-2006
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 8:19 am
BTW thanks for all the help and suggestions!!
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 5:39 pm
I use Avira Antivi program - it was a free download. The only "negative" is that when it runs each night, there's a pop-up trying to get you to buy the full version, but I haven't had nearly the problems w/updating that I did with AVG. The latest version of AVG wouldn't update automatically and was starting to drive me nuts. Until then, I'd used it and like it to - and never had a virus. We also run Spyware Blaster in the background and Ad Aware as backups for spyware.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 5:45 pm
Thanks Debra and Teach 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 5:58 pm
that is annoying teach..drives me crazy!!!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 8:47 pm
I am using Avira now too after using AVG for years and then AVG went to a version that had all sorts of problems.
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Ktbb
Member
08-10-2003
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 12:33 pm
Ok now we have 2 computers with problems. The laptop we gave Who now will not boot up windows. Its giving her the screen with the 5 options(last good config, etc.) but none work. We have a gateway windows xp media edition disk but not much else. When you research it on the internet it keeps mentioning floppy disks to fix. Does anyone know if we can fix with a cd drive? My daughters laptop was being restored, but now windows won't boot up either. It says her ntdlr is compressed so it says its restoring, but just goes back to the original black screen that sys the same thing. Please help us. We need all the help we can get.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 1:10 pm
Kttb, I Googled, "ntdlr is compressed" and found this fix on the first forum shown (along with the response from the orginal poster who said that this fix worked): An NTLDR is compressed error is pretty easy to fix(much better then NTLDR is missing errors!). First you need to boot to the recovery console. To boot to the recovery console follow these steps: 1. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer. Click(or press any key) to select any options that are required to start the computer from the CD-ROM drive if you are prompted. 2. When the "Welcome to Setup" screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console. 3. When prompted type "1" or if you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the installation that you must access from the Recovery Console. 4. When you are prompted, type the Administrator password. If the administrator password is blank, just press ENTER. 5. Now you should be at the comman prompt and ready to repair the ntldr file! Now all you need to do is enter the following commands(in order) and each command on a new line just like you see them here: cd \ attrib -c ntldr exit Your computer should now reboot, and everything "should" work!
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Ktbb
Member
08-10-2003
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 2:29 pm
I put the disk in and restarted and nothing different happened.
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Ktbb
Member
08-10-2003
| Wednesday, January 21, 2009 - 2:31 pm
I can't even get to a welcome to setup screen.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Thursday, January 22, 2009 - 5:22 pm
OK, more on the laptop KTBB/Grumpy gave me. I've tried to note every error, and everything I've already tried to fix it, so please bear with me if this gets lengthy.... Overview of system. It’s a Gateway notebook, running on Windows Media Center Version 2005. Additional info on the recovery disk is “with Update Rollup 2.” Original problem: I was playing a game (in case it matters, it was Dream Chronicles). Once before, as I completed a level and it tried to go to another level, the computer froze up, and I had to power it down manually as it wouldn’t respond to a regular restart. The screen went all huge and odd-colored, something to do with the 256 bit color setting vs whatever else. I really don’t know which setting I was in, and which setting the game had it in, but apparently the game was playing it in a different bit than my normal setting. I seem to remember something flash across the screen about the video driver, but it wasn’t there long enough to read and take note. And not sure it was talking about the video driver or something else. My memory ain’t exactly sharp these days. I re-booted, and everything was fine, until it did it again a day or two later. This time, upon re-boot, I had what seems to be a total system failure... The system tries to reboot, and I get a black/white DOS screen that says, "We apologize for the inconvenience, but Windows did not start successfully. A bunch of stuff follows, ending with the option to start in Safe Mode, Safe Mode With Networking, and Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Also two other options of Last Known Good Configuration, and Start Windows Normally. I tried Start Windows Normally, and it gets the the Windows XP “loading” page, then pops over to a “blue screen of death.” That screen is filled with a page load of text, but it doesn’t stay on long enough to read. It then pops off and tries to boot again. Left on its own, it would pop back and forth to the black/white DOS screen and the blue screen of death over and over till eternity. The only thing I can do is power it off manually again. I finally skimmed the blue screen enough times to try and get the text in my brain. Most of it is instructions on what to do if it’s the first time you see the screen, starting it in Safe Mode, etc. But I did manage to get an error message about Unmountable Boot Volume.” I’ll get to that in a bit. I tried every other option on the DOS screen. I did the "last known good configuration" and it booted up the same way. In all my Google research since this started, I understand I had one shot at that, and if it didn’t work it won't again, since now the "last known" is also corrupt. When I do any of the Safe Mode options, I get a long list of DOS prompts all starting with multi(0)disk(0),dist(0)partition(1)windows….and so on, each ending with a different set of letters. It sits there for a few minutes, and then pops on over to the blue screen of death, and the cycle starts all over again. I’m going to put my attempted fixes now in another post, since this is getting so long I don’t want to lose anyone who’s patient enough to read so far...
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