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Win7 File Copy Problem
I have a couple of external hard disks connected, 2Tb & 500Gb. The 2Tb disk has a folder called Music on it with over 4000 folders within it, each folder is a cd/album. I just spent 6+ hours copying the folder to the freshly formatted 500Gb ...
Message posted on the June 3rd, 2012 - 3:25 AM ET
From Win7 to Win8 and back in 5 days
Microsoft must have a fair number of employees - some of them very high-ranking - unwilling to speak their minds, because after some days of use it's clear to me that releasing Windows 8 into a world of 1 billion+ Windows desktop/laptop users is a ...
Message posted on the December 17th, 2012 - 09:43 am ET
Copy/Clone Windows system
I posted earlier about the problem of using linux to clone/copy from one Windows disk to another. Thanks to Grant I did: apropos ntfs and found,among others: mkntfs [] (8) - create an NTFS file system ntfs [] (8) - 3g - ...
Message posted on the November 28th, 2012 - 09:51 am ET
Frustrating problem trying to copy files from Win7 to XP
I've had a Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit) computer for over a year now. SP1 has been applied. I also have an XP Home SP3 32 bit machine that I've had for years with both wired to a Netgear router. The problem I'm having is an inability to copy ...
Message posted on the July 31st, 2011 - 01:08 pm ET
Batch File Question
Dear Win7ers: I have a problem with a batch file that I am developing. What I want it to do is print out the drive that the batch file is on. I am not getting that. I have a copy in c:tmp with that the current directory and another copy in ...
Message posted on the October 31st, 2012 - 09:52 pm ET
I have completely screwed up my Permissions...HELP...posted to file management newsgroup as well...I am desperate!
Hi two separate, but inter-related stories. 1. A few months ago we had a visitor stay from Europe (I am in Perth, Australia) so I decided to 'hide' my files (kept on a separate D drive) so that IF he wanted to use my PC he wouldn't see them. 2. ...
Message posted on the June 06th, 2009 - 11:15 am ET
help with network file copying from W2K to W7 error ?
I have a W2K Pro system and a Win7 HPre system . I want to copy contents of several IDE/ATA-100 80,160,250 Gb Hard drives from the W2K (only IDE/ATA ) to a new 1Tb SATA HD on the Win7 system (only SATA). When i try to copy across the network ...
Message posted on the November 29th, 2010 - 11:20 am ET
copying from WinXP to Win7 slow while copying from Win7 to WinXP very fast
I tied to copy a large file from WinXP PC to Win7 PC (read from WinXP share on Win7 PC), it's very slow, running at 10% of 100Mbps network (as shown in task manager), while copying from Win7 PC to WinXP (the same two PC) is very fast (write to WinXP ...
Message posted on the April 10th, 2011 - 09:52 pm ET
Access denied on various Win7 files
I boot to XP, which is located on my e: partition, and I navigate to G: Program FilesWindows Sidebar (Win7 is on my g: partition). I attempt to rename sidebar.exe. I get "access denied". How can I get access denied? I'm logged into XP as ...
Message posted on the January 22nd, 2010 - 12:41 pm ET
IF/How can Linux access Win7-box via USB?
I had to buy [the cheapest possible] Win-device to access my wireless-telephone/modem; which was also another disappointment. This HP ??? is magnificently cost-effective technology, used to wrap the crap of Win7: which is continually pushing ...
Message posted on the January 24th, 2011 - 07:47 am ET
Win7 (7100) error RegCreateKeyEx returns 714 (ERROR_PREDEFINED_HAN
I have a performance dll that is based on an MSJ article from way back in 1998, I believe. Looking to get it to run on 64-bit Windows, and I figured that if I was going to do some 64-bit development, it might as well be on Windows 7. Not ...
Message posted on the May 18th, 2009 - 07:07 am ET
XP to Win7 Network Problem
I'm looking for some help. I have 2 PCs networked at home. Main PC is running Win7 64bit second is Running XP MCE 32bit. The problem is if I want to transfer files or folders from Win7 to shared folder on XP machine it will start and run for ...
Message posted on the May 09th, 2010 - 02:12 pm ET
Win7 to XP network problem
I'm looking for some help. I have 2 PCs networked at home. Main PC is running Win7 64bit second is Running XP MCE 32bit. The problem is if I want to transfer files or folders from Win7 to shared folder on XP machine it will start then run for ...
Message posted on the April 11th, 2010 - 10:07 am ET
Unable to copy my important files prior to installing Win7
To ensure the availabiltiy of my files should win7 present problems, I attempted to copy all important files but was denied and informed: "Cannot delete ntuser.log. It is being used by another person of program." This Error is repeated ...
Message posted on the October 29th, 2009 - 10:32 pm ET
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