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ice grillin you · October 19, 2012, 08:26:15 AM

so it has a hard drive where you could put word or excel onto it but not a hard drive to save word or excel documents...and it def wouldnt come with any word processors right?

is a cloud service user friendly

SunMo · October 19, 2012, 08:31:50 AM

there are better people than me to answer that question about the hard drive.

cloud seems fairly simple though. it's called google drive, it used to be their google docs but they changed it.

Seabiscuit36 · October 19, 2012, 08:32:06 AM

Cloud services are no different than having an external HD.

Sgt PSN · October 19, 2012, 08:34:31 AM

Except you don't physically carry it with you.

Seabiscuit36 · October 19, 2012, 08:37:33 AM

Quote from: Sgt PSN on October 19, 2012, 08:34:31 AM
Except you don't physically carry it with you.

Thanks for clarifying that Genius.

ice grillin you · October 19, 2012, 08:38:39 AM

i knew that but i easily might not have

SunMo · October 19, 2012, 08:39:23 AM

yeah, take nothing for granted with dis guy

Sgt PSN · October 19, 2012, 08:42:34 AM

Exactly why I mentioned it.

hbionic · November 28, 2012, 06:09:17 PM

Is seagate a good company for external hard drives? I'm looking into buying one, probably 1 TB capacity. I think big brother had mentioned Western Digital before. I basically want to save all of my digital pictures on my cpu before it craps out.

Any good suggestions? I was reading that the toshiba external drives would die too quick.

Help.

ice grillin you · November 28, 2012, 07:42:32 PM

i got a fantom drive like four years ago and havent had a single problem

Sgt PSN · November 28, 2012, 08:13:15 PM

Use Google Picasa for pics and Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) for your documents. It's free.

Susquehanna Birder · November 28, 2012, 09:52:33 PM

If you plan on using an external, buy two. Use one to put your files on, and then copy everything from that one onto the second drive. Then put the second one someplace safe when you're not doing a backup.

hbionic · November 28, 2012, 11:26:00 PM

That's a good idea sus. Thanks.

SunMo · November 29, 2012, 01:43:45 PM

i just upgraded computers at work and everything has been going fine until today when Firefox tried to update and it said it could not completely update and recommended to uninstall and download a brand new install file.

i did that and when i click the install file the status box shows the installation files being extracted and when it hits 100% it disappears and nothing happens. i tried restarting my computer and it's still happening. i tried Mozilla support forums but i can't find anything that applies to my issue. anybody have any ideas? I'm using Windows 7

ice grillin you · January 26, 2013, 05:27:15 PM

i got a laptop but the hard drive has been wiped....what do i need to do to get it up and running

as of now when i boot it up i get this: no boot sector on internal hard drive - no bootable devices - strike F1 to retry boot, F2 for setup ability - press F5 to run onboard diagnostics