Understanding The DVD Drive

Written by Otis F. Cooper


When Windows fails to boot it is normally caused by you installing a program or device and it has caused a conflict with one or more other programs.

This will no doubt give you plenty of heartaches if you're not certain which program caused Windows to not boot up.

If you recently installed a program or application and know where it was installed,you may be in much better shape as for as correctingrepparttar error.

Here are common ways to correctrepparttar 107719 problem of your computer not completely booting up or not booting up at all.

If your computer will not boot-up at all,hopefully you have made a good emergency boot disk. You can always make a windows startup disk by creating one from another computer running Windows 98 or Me.Performrepparttar 107720 following if your computer won't Boot-Up At All.

FIRST......Put your boot floppy disk inrepparttar 107721 floppy drive and turn onrepparttar 107722 PC.On some computers, you may have to accessrepparttar 107723 bios and selectrepparttar 107724 Boot priority to your A: drive.

Save any changes and select "Start Computer without CDROM support" and press Enter.Once you are atrepparttar 107725 A prompt,type dir c: and press enter.

If your programs and other files are present,try restoring your system Registry by followingrepparttar 107726 steps below.This may repair Windows,the Config. Sys and autoexec.bat files to whererepparttar 107727 PC may boot up normally.Whenrepparttar 107728 files are present,its a good indication of a good hard drive.

SECOND......To correctrepparttar 107729 problem of your computer not booting up,type in "fdisk /mbr" and press Enter to restore your master boot record.Type "Scandisk C:" to checkrepparttar 107730 hard drive for errors that have occurred. You can also type "Sys C:" to hopefully restore files needed to boot up your computer.

THIRD......Ifrepparttar 107731 above procedures fail to repair your computer,you can repeatrepparttar 107732 first part of step one above and select "Start Computer With CDROM Support" re-install Windows.

Making A Windows XP Bootable Floppy

Windows XP users should create a boot disk now by placing a formatted blank diskette inrepparttar 107733 A: drive, open Windows Explorer torepparttar 107734 C:,select Tools,Folder Options ,show Hidden files and and folders,then View Tab.

Now you uncheck "Hide Protected Operating System Files (recommended).You will see a warning and click Yes and click OK.Copyrepparttar 107735 files ntldr,ntdetect.com and boot.ini ontorepparttar 107736 disk.Removerepparttar 107737 disk and label itrepparttar 107738 Windows XP Boot Disk.

How to Buy the Right Digital Camera

Written by Kathleen Wade


How to Buyrepparttar Right Digital Camera

When buying a digital camera there are many things you should consider. First you should understand how a digital camera works. What you are using your digital camera for will help you decide what features to consider and how much you should spend. I am here to educate you and help you decide.

Let’s start with understanding how a digital camera works. A digital camera uses semiconductor chips instead of conventional film. It’s usually a Charged Coupled Device (CCD). When your shutter opens, light strikesrepparttar 107718 CCD, temporary electronic changes torepparttar 107719 CCD and converted into computer language and recorded on either internal or removable memory. After whichrepparttar 107720 images can be viewed on a small screen located onrepparttar 107721 back ofrepparttar 107722 camera. Later, then of course downloaded to a computer. Did that make sense? It probably didn’t if this is your first time buying a digital camera. Let’s move on.

Today there are endless cameras to choose from. You obviously have a price range in mind. If you are mainly using it to exchange snapshots overrepparttar 107723 internet or for creating quick and simple advertising, don’t expect to spend more than $500.00. If you want some control over creation and images, expect to spend between $600 and $2000, especially if you want to make prints on a printer capable of “photo quality” reproductions. If onlyrepparttar 107724 ‘best will do’ for you than don’t expect to spend anything less than $5000.

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