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Enumerate your CD-ROM drives
Move hpMove the hp advert, cannot read the complete top linesInteresting, but...1. You have coded a discrepency between the name of the function and its value assignment: Function GetCDROMs ListCDROMs = bufI'm surprised your code even compiles. Always use Option Explicit in your General Declarations...
Tags: CD-ROM, CD-ROM drive, CDROM, goldies@..., invalid drive type returned, New FileSystemObject, programming, String
Discussion threads 2005-08-05

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Disc Drive Invalid Action Error
I have a desktop with a DVD/CDRW drive labeled drive D. I'm running XP. If I put a 'manufactured' disk in the drive - like a game or software application, etc. everything works fine. If I put a blank, writable disk into the drive I get the...
Tags: disc, tennis15@..., disk
Discussion threads 2007-08-09
Invalid Data
An attorney reports that when she boots up her laptop (Dell Latitude D600) it only shows Invalid DATA in the upper left corner of the screen.I have tried reseating the hard drive. I go into BIOS, it sees that she has a 40 Gig hard drive, so the Invalid...
Tags: Notebooks, ceastwoods@..., Invalid DATA
Discussion threads 2007-05-26
Perlib
Does anyone know how to resolve the following appearing repeatedly in the event log on a Win2k Sp4 server. The source is Perflib and eventid 1010. Thanks,"The Collect Procedure for the "PerfOS" service in DLL "C:WINNTsystem32perfos.dll" generated an exception or returned an invalid status. Performance data returned by...
Tags: sysupgrd
Discussion threads 2005-09-26
invalid code
I am reformatting a computer from win95 to 98. I have the start up floppy which works, but when I put in the cd and type startup, it says it's an invalid code. Now what do I do? I have tried win startup, win98startup,etc. every combination I can think of....
Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, admin@...
Discussion threads 2007-09-20
Disk Drive Invalid Action Error
I have a desktop with a DVD/CDRW drive labeled drive D. I'm running XP. If I put a 'manufactured' disk in the drive - like a game or software application, etc. everything works fine. If I put a blank, writable disk into the drive I get the...
Tags: disk drive, tennis15@..., disk
Discussion threads 2007-08-09
Invalid Partition Tables
I had a WinXP system running on a Promise Fast Track 2000 RAID card. System now boots through the bios and RAID bios, the array is functional and bootable, but when the system gets through all of the this, it reports "Invalid Partition Table" and hangs.I'd like to retrieve...
Tags: RAID, BIOS
Q&A 2005-04-16
Windows XP Pro Invalid Key
My 34MB drive crashed and couldn't be repaired. I need the extra room anyway so I started to start fresh with a SATA 250MB. My OEM disk only has SP1 so it only sees part of the drive. I borrowed a SP2 disk, but it won't accept my key "invalid...
Tags: Serial ATA, tacpro@..., Microsoft Windows XP Professional, OEM, BIOS, disk, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP
Discussion threads 2007-11-21
"invalid system disk..." wut do i do?
hi there guys and grls im trying to help out a friend he's only 10 and every time he turns on his pc 2 messages appear on his screen. the first one is something about "searching for boot record from IDEO o.k" and then that is followed by: "invalid system...
Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, disk, boot-disk, invalid system disk
Q&A 2005-01-02
'No Fault Found' Returns Cost the Mobile Industry $4.5 Billion Per Year
One in seven mobile phones are returned within the first year of purchase by subscribers as faulty. Alone this statistic will doubtless raise eye brows and drive speculation over product design flaws and standards in build performance. However further analysis into the nature of these returns reveals the even more...
Tags: Product Design, Mobile, Statistic, Product Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
White papers 2006-07-01
urgent... invalid system disk !
hi. i'm having a problem with my laptop. whenever i turn it on it says:invalid system diskreplace the disk, and then press any keythe laptop has two users and is running on windows xp pro. i really need to solve this... i think the only solution right now is to...
Tags: computerilliterate, floppy disk, CD, laptop computer, invalid system disk, system disk, floppy drive, computer, Microsoft Windows XP
Discussion threads 2007-11-02
invalid drive specification!!!!!!
I recently received two hhds from a friend that had his master hhd crash on him. He hooked up a 20 gb quanta bigfoot hhd with XP home loaded same os as the problem hhd and transferred all his data to the big foot.I tried to load xp pro on...
Tags: BIOS, drive-I, egypt2fla, invalid, Microsoft Windows XP, Recovery Console, windows
Discussion threads 2005-06-15
California upholds ruling that noncompetes are invalid
At least in the state of California, noncompete contracts are invalid. The long-standing law was challenged in a recent lawsuit but it stands. by Toni Bowers
Tags: law, california, taxes, free trade, financial planning, finance, toni bowers
Blog posts 2008-08-08
XP Key is invalid
I recently bought a computer from a company that was going out of business. They wiped the hard drive so there was no information left on it. They said that the xp key on the label on the side of the case was valid and all I had to do...
Tags: CD, computer, joseph.j.schneider@..., Microsoft Windows XP, volume-license
Q&A 2006-01-11
invalid system disk error
I have installed windows 98. but oneday I switched on my pc and got a error "invalid system disk error" .Blank floppy disk in drive?The first thing that I would check would be to see if there is a floppy disk in the floppy disk drive. If there is a...
Tags: disk, floppy disk, shiva_mishra85@...
Discussion threads 2007-01-29
formatting c drive
i want to clean up my c drive, i have a boot disk and at the A: i type cd C: and it comes back saying "invalid drive specified". i can still access my c drive with no problems i just want to clean it up. i am using windows...
Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, Microsoft Windows XP, babyal28@..., C-drive, C
Discussion threads 2006-09-12
Imaged Drive Problem
I have a new drive with an image of another drive I just installed onto it; but now I cannot seem to get this new drive with the image on it to boot in any other computer. This is honestly my first time trying to image a drive and I...
Tags: davebaxter@..., image
Discussion threads 2006-12-08
Cannot read D drive and F drive
I have win 98 on C drive and win 2000 on D drive. The problem started when my brother installed win WP on F drive. The installation was successful.When I log in Win XP, I can read C drive and D drive from the command prompt. When I log in...
Tags: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, D Drive
Q&A 2005-06-04
RegiGuard (zip)
RegiGuard repairs invalid registry entries that are a common cause of Windows crashes and error messages. Increase system speed and stability by removing orphaned references. Scan your hard drive for invalid and incorrect program shortcuts. Set a variety of registry cleaning preferences. Log file option for advanced users. Manage start-up...
Tags: Internet, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
Software downloads 2005-03-26
Invalid Drive Specification
I'm trying to get into my Hard Drive through the floppy boot disk but everytim I type C: it says invalid drive specification. Now the drive is not corrupted nor non-partitioned. What could be the problem?non partitioned is the problem. You will need to partition it so that...
Tags: NTFS, Cogida09@..., floppy disk, NTFS Partition
Q&A 2006-06-27
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