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Primo
@programmerprimo (174)
• United States
19 May 25
A company I used to work for had financial issues and ended up going under about a year ago. I still had the work laptop that I now had no way to give back, so I decided to do a reset on it to use it for my personal use. I first...
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Primo
@programmerprimo (174)
• United States
16 May 25
Last March my friend accidentally dropped her laptop off of the bed causing it to land on books and thus rendering the screen useless. She wanted to just toss it but I told her to keep it so I can use it for parts. I eventually...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Apr 25
I wrote about how my external hard drive got dropped and for a time we thought I’d lost all my photos. It was an accident but Vince caught his foot in a cord and pulled the laptop and drive off my lap. Today he bought me these...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
6 Apr 25
At our house-sit, I’ve been working with my computer on my knee with a power cord running back to the wall. Tonight, Vince walked between me and the wall, caught the cord in his foot and pulled the computer off my lap.
It’s...
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Stacey
@xstitcher (39034)
• Petaluma, California
20 Sep 20
When I got my new computer, I was told I would be given back my old computer's hard drive, but--
What on earth am I supposed to do with it??
Has anyone out there got a clue what I should do with this? I would sure...
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Alfredo Rossi
@amadeo (111937)
• United States
28 Nov 18
well finally got my computer back.My man putting a new hard drive in.
Transfer my files as this take forever.But the job is not done.
Need to work on my photo shop here.It was very interesting watching him putting a new hard drive...
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peachpurple
@peachpurple (13961)
• Malaysia
6 Sep 17
I needed to delete some photos and videos taken with my smartphone. There isn't much space left in the storage.
Where do you transfer them to ?
External hard drive?
Flash drive?
Burn to Dvd?
I was planning to transfer them to...
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Arthur Chappell
@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
10 May 16
Two of my previous computers broke down badly – one was my main desk top where the wiring actually caught fire and the other is an old tablet that just frazzled its sealed in battery pack. Though the computers are kaput I hope...
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Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
12 Mar 16
I bought a 3TB drive in the fall to back up all my files but the process was long and tedious so I was a little slow at getting to it. I started the process but got sidetracked by other things. That was the first mistake.
The...
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AnjaP
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
31 Dec 15
As I wrote previously, my computer declined to power up several days ago. Having considered the situation, I determined it was most likely the power supply and went scavenging amongst my collection of old PC towers for something...
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Jeff Moffitt
@moffittjc (128835)
• Gainesville, Florida
11 Oct 15
This morning was not a good start for me. Just as I poured my first cup of coffee, I sat down with my Mac and decided to upgrade to the El Capitan operating system, the latest OS for Macs. Halfway through the upgrade, my hard...
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coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
6 Apr 13
I post pictures here, I have them on a blog and Facebook and a few other places...I pull them from my C: drive with the "Browse" button option. Is there any cause for alarm in doing this in that a hacker/decipher person being able...
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MissBlack
@MissBlack (356)
• United States
1 Feb 13
So here's the situation, I had a desktop computer for a few years (the black Dell Dimension 4200) I got my money's worth out of that thing..I am not sure what happened really..one day it went to blue screen and it seemed like it...
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NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
12 Mar 12
Well, I have been using a computer for several or so years and I still can't so things like clean the inside of one myself or change the motherboard, put a new HD in, and/or add a new OS. Are you that way or at ease with trying to...
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