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Living Room / Re: how tall is Cody?
« Last post by Carol Haynes on February 01, 2018, 07:02 PM »I have a theory it is really Mouser in a costume all along 
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No worries, we're sticking with smf, just like you're sticking with the cello!-mouser (September 28, 2017, 07:42 PM)
Hey Carol!
Yeah, that's not a bad idea..
Though I think I have a pretty good solution in place with some custom extensions I've written (I've enjoyed writing joomla extensions).
With my approach the page content of parent pages is dynamically generated from the menu structure, to yield parent pages that look like those shown here.
Perhaps the nicest thing about this approach is that if pages are added and moved around, those parent pages are automatically always up to date.-mouser (September 27, 2017, 03:09 PM)
Not sure if it helps, but you could try to use a piece of software, called: PartitionGuru. It comes as feature limited freeware, but it might help you to access the data of the drive when you take it out of the laptop, into a dock connected to your computer.
As you say, the drive is correctly recognized by the Windows management software, but won't allow you access. Software, such as PartitionGuru, might give you that access as it can circumvent standard Windows controls. Perhaps it could be an idea to use a linux liveCD to access the data from that docked drive. If you can't beat Windows into submission with Windows based tools, liveCD's might provide the proper (read-only) stick. It all depends on how the data access is locked.
The advantage of this is that you won't have to open the laptop in ways you are not comfortable with. Still, if you are able to clone the disk first, do so. And use the tools and skills of your choice on the cloned copy.-Shades (June 24, 2017, 02:16 AM)
I did a Duckgo search of "Windows does not allow access to a USB hard drive", and came up with several hits. This one looked interesting (and reminded me of when I went and deleted some obscure settings about USB drives in the registry, when a single USB port on a laptop couldn't access a perfectly OK USB hard drive):Windows 7 - Notices but does not 'see' external usb hard drive
I upgraded from Vista Home Premium SP2 (32Bit) to Windows 7 Home Premium (32Bit) and after the upgrade my external usb hard drive can not be seen. The system notices it when it is plugged in and/or powered on but does not show it under My Computer or any other drive display option.
I have seen other posts about this all without a solution- could I have missed the solution - if so please forgive this posting and please point me in the right direction.
If there hasn't been a solution posted and you know how to solve this issue I am very interested.
The Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility indicates this drive is supported and the upgrade advisor did not object to it.
Thanks ...
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Resolved:
The resolution was to:Lionel B. Dyck
- Plug in and turn on the external USB hard drive
- Right mouse click on My Computer
- Left click on Manage
- Left click on Device Manager
- Expand the USB list
- Find the USB device for your USB Hard Drive (in my case it was the one that had no description)
- Right mouse click - Uninstall
- Turn off the external USB hard drive
- Turn on the external USB hard drive and let it find and install the driver
- It should work
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Not sure whether it will help.-IainB (June 24, 2017, 10:43 AM)
The path of least resistance would seem to be making a backup of the laptop drive using the laptop, using a cd-based backup tool at boot time, and a usb stick or an external usb dock/drive, and then telling client to replace the hard drive.
With the cost of hard drives, my advice would ALWAYS be, at the very first sign of trouble that has even a 1% chance of being hard drive related, is to backup the hard drive, then replace it and put the original on the shelf.-mouser (June 23, 2017, 01:26 PM)
I decided the best approach was to rip out the disk - plug it into another computer and backup the data before putting it back and doing a factory restore.
Seems like the right approach to me.. Or else plug in an external drive to the laptop and clone the internal hd -- which sounds like what you were trying to do next..OK I plugged numerous USB drives into the computer and none of them show up in the BIOS or in Paragon - reloading the disk tables doesn't find the USB drives either.
So are you saying that essentially -- your desktop couldn't read the laptop drive when plugged into a usb dock connected to the desktop, AND the laptop refused to see any external usb doc drives?-mouser (June 23, 2017, 10:14 AM)
Is there a CD/DVD player in the laptop using a SATA connector?
If so, you can use an external (and separately powered) USB dock that allows you to connect it with a standard SATA cable. I got one of those from an U.S. embassy auction sale (a bi-annual thing here in Paraguay) and it works well.
That way you can connect 2 drives on the laptop and start cloning to have a backup.
Disadvantage is that you will likely need to open the laptop. Depending on make and model, that could be a damaging operation. With that I mean too "plasticky" laptops don't close up nicely anymore after they have been opened.-Shades (June 23, 2017, 11:57 AM)
Vienal, welcome to the forum. I've used and highly recommended Malwarebytes for years. And I'm still very happy with version 2. In theory, version 3 sounds like it has a lot going for it, but the feedback on the Malwarebytes forum and elsewhere has made me wary of upgrading. Although some folks here and on the MBAM forum have said that the newest update seems to have cured the problems they'd been experiencing, others are apparently still having problems. I tend to be conservative in these matters. I'm usually in no hurry to install new software until I feel confident that I have more to gain than to lose. But I'm still very very happy with Malwarebytes version 2. I know of no similar program I like as well.-cyberdiva (February 15, 2017, 12:16 PM)
NSA does what National Security Agencies do - I'm appalled at how they're doing mass surveillance of honest citizens, but NSA doing offensive malware research is not a problem - the bugs were there, it's only a matter of time before somebody found and exploited them.-f0dder (May 14, 2017, 11:12 AM)
As for funding issue, that's both yes and no, up until very recently - and in some cases still - bank ATMs and commercial POS ran XP .... at multi million and sometimes billion companies. Not restricted to government entities.-rgdot (May 14, 2017, 10:17 AM)
