Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

HelpMySpaceBarFellOutAndICantGetItBackIn.
 
What do you expect us to do? It's a local hardware issue. Buy a new keyboard, or use the virtual one. Or copy a space and paste it in between words.
 
How do you put a spacebar in? It kept popping back out
 
mom managed to superglue my space bar and now its stuck unless i remove it and copy and paste space. suggestions?
 
Buy a new keyboard, and super glue your mom to the fridge.
 
I tracked down a plain white keyboard for now.

I put superglue on the fridge handle but it dried before my mom went to open the fridge. That didnt work.
 
Superglue hardens in under 10s usually. I suggest you actively superglue her to the fridge. Better yet, to the inside of the fridge.
 
is a small External hard drive (120 Gigabytes) suitable for windows backups or just manual backups of your personal files?
 
Depends on the size of your hard drive. I read somewhere to get one bigger than the total size of the drive.
 
If you want a backup of windows, you'll want to backup the whole partition. For a file backup, you can use pretty much any size drive.

So, if your windows partition is <120Gb, then you can back that up, otherwise id stick with file backup. Reinstalling windows isnt that painful anyways, its a couple hours at worst.
 
my hard drive size is 300 gigabytes, but im using only 17. personally i never use mroe than 30 or 40, because i fear it will degrade faster. its one partition.

by the way... are external hard drives supposed to interfere with the boot process? if i have it plugged in when i turn it off, the system is unbootable.
 
It depends on your BIOS settings and such. Some computers can boot from externals and others cant AFAIK. But I thought there had to be a boot sector (I think thats the wrong term) on it.
 
Yeah, my ipod does that too. If I leave it plugged in, the system tries to find a boot sector on it, and cannot. I havent found a BIOS setting that changes that though. Unplugging the drive as you boot should allow the booting to continue if its like what I experience.
 
On my old computer if you left a game CD in while rebooting you would get a blank screen cos it was trying to boot from it. My new one will check for a sector and if there is none will just continue on.
 
In Gmail I got an email in the last hour. It says I received it 5 hours ago. Is that based on the time it was sent? And why would an email take 4-5 hours?
 
Is there anyway to run an old computer game that runs fine on windows XP but refuses to run on windows vista or 7?

(I am using windows vista)
 
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