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I must admit that I have this problem as well...it drives me mental!

yeah - for sure. go for it, i'll see what i can do for you.

haha - read the scathing write up about them on tomshardware!

most of the time I am able to save a copy of the passworded document...click on the save item and it should say "this document is read only" etc... and you can save an unpassworded copy the only security options i've really ever used in excel were "password to open" and "password to modify"...

no comments???? really???

This is sort of a work thing...but I thought i'd ask here anyway :) + I'm looking for some new software to sell through my company to end users. Stuff that isn't generally available in retailers like Walmart or Office Works...but programs that have a serious kick ass factor...whatever genre...

i've attempted to boot up just the OS drive as a primary slave and the motherboard detected it...and low and behold i was able to get into windows. I've just rebooted and am running scan disk... there was something about a corrupt boot disk attribute...anyway. Once this runs i'm going to fire up...

but surely if my motherboard wont detect the drives, booting up a good HDD as master and using one of the dead ones as a slave wont help me access them? I was not using a raid configuration with these drives. I still would have had at least 10GB...maybe even 18GB left of space on the windows...

i'll try reconnecting them one at a time...i just find it hard to believe that both drives would die at the same time. One drive was at least 12 months older than the other drive. anyone know the cheapest way to recover data from an HDD? i'm happy pulling the drives apart and using a soldering...

i checked the microchips under the HDDs and they both look absolutely normal. As I mentioned before i can hear some sort of activity happening "under the hood" of the drives...it's just that when the motherboard trys to detect the hard drives it just waits at primary master..... detects nothing...

one was the os drive running winXP professional. the other was just used for storing music and movies. both drives were NTFS.

Hey All, Can someone please help me out with a serious HD problem? I have two seagate harddrives in my computer 160gb - 7200 spin. They are getting close to capacity and today i was using my computer as usual. I clicked to shut the computer down, and it was taking ages to actually shut...

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/evaluation/sysreqs.mspx :) ahh..sorry for splitting hairs...you can see where i got my figure from...I was quoting recommended (128meg ram and 300mHz)..not bare minimum (which is 64 meg ram and 233mHz) ...!! Not that it makes much difference. Here's...

MS say that a 300mhz processor and 128 meg of ram is enough to run WinXP. I would recommend an absolute minimum of 256 meg of ram to run winXP...your processor is fast enough. service pack 2 shouldn't make a difference to the "speed" that winXP operates...

gotta love the belgians....i'm sorry I can't help more...