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  1. Does this then mean that the Macrium rescue disk...

    Does this then mean that the Macrium rescue disk has the equivalent of a live CD to start it's action because something like that is needed to boot into the netbook; it is the same as a totally...
  2. Curiously enough, I just got off the phone with...

    Curiously enough, I just got off the phone with Avanquest (Soft City does their technical inquiries) about this problem and it is one that they have never heard of. We eventually came to the...
  3. Macrium Reflect: will it do a proper drive clone?

    I have an Acer netbook model Aspire One D-150 in which I had used Perfect Image 12 to clone the HDD to another drive using a USB-bridge cable to the outboard SATA drive. The process gave me a proper...
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    The external drive I have is bootable as I had...

    The external drive I have is bootable as I had used it to reinstall the XP after I had installed the Ubuntu in a dual-boot and found that the XP had disappeared. once I did that, I had a proper...
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    Restoring Acer Aspire One from scratch

    I have an Acer Aspire One netbook that I am trying to restore the original XP from scratch on a new HDD due to misadventures with a dual-boot system using Ubuntu. I used an external optical drive and...
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    FUBAR dual-boot netbook XP and Ubuntu

    Such a tale of woe have I-an Acer Aspire 1 with XP home that I dual-booted with Ubuntu 10.04. It did well up until a few weeks ago when I tried to update the Ubuntu to 12.04. Not good; something...
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    I learned this trick when my Secunia v.2 popped...

    I learned this trick when my Secunia v.2 popped up with the blaster alert: go into safe mode then run search for blastcln in all system folders and subfolders. I got 3 instances of its location,...
  8. So far, I've not had any difficulty with the...

    So far, I've not had any difficulty with the .NETs on my Win 7 laptop, but I have several XP units that each have beaucoup hidden .NET updates that are constantly reoffered. I used to cure this...
  9. Okay, just tried the bootable Windows 7 disc and...

    Okay, just tried the bootable Windows 7 disc and it came back negative-twice. Yes, indeed, the gods have fun.
  10. My machine is a Gateway laptop that is fully...

    My machine is a Gateway laptop that is fully patched. The Windows disc I was using was downloaded from Digital River Home Premium SP 1.iso burned to disc. For the hibernation problem, I tried Reimage...
  11. same old, same old. Just for grins, I tried doing...

    same old, same old. Just for grins, I tried doing the Langa non-destructive reinstall for this and a missing hibernate problem and got an error window with no reason shown. The gods like messing with...
  12. Can't open flash drive by clicking on shortcut or in MY COMPUTER

    A most strange thing: all of a sudden, when I insert a flash drive, I cannot open it by clicking on the shortcut I had made or on the drive shown in MY COMPUTER window. I get a window/error ms....
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    As far as the patches went, you were right in...

    As far as the patches went, you were right in regards the .NET updates; they messed with all my XP machines. I found that I could simply use ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS to remove all the .NETs save for v1.1...
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    An alternative backup

    I use Perfect Image 11 to back up my netbook which is dual-booted XP and Ubuntu Linux on the same drive plus the Vista boot loader partition. It has no problems with the different file systems. :^_^:
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    I was afraid of that. This seems to mean I would...

    I was afraid of that. This seems to mean I would have to re-install the drivers for the machine and quite probably SP3 inasmuch as the disc that I have is an SP2 version. At least I did download SP3...
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    In the Windows Secrets of 11-11-10, Mr. Langa...

    In the Windows Secrets of 11-11-10, Mr. Langa waxed nostalgic about XP. In his column, there was an article about a non-destructive repair for XP. I read through it with much interest inasmuch as it...
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