What’s the link between Christmas and ghost stories? [more inside]
posted by paulg on Dec 8, 2009 - 6 answers

Please help me remember a book I read about a guy who saw ghosts! [more inside]
posted by internet!Hannah on Sep 6, 2009 - 3 answers

Do any of you l33t hax-sawz know a way to capture this Red Bull Music Academy player's stream? [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on Jul 16, 2009 - 10 answers

Any alternatives to Norton Ghost for fbf recovery? [more inside]
posted by Jezztek on Jul 11, 2009 - 6 answers

I want a book that I have to put into the freezer. I've read this question, which was looking for thrillers, and this post looking for short stories, but I can't seem to find a thread looking for scary, engrossing novels where supernatural is okay. [more inside]
posted by Addlepated on Mar 31, 2009 - 31 answers

Today I bought a Dell laptop with Vista Home Premium. I want to make a full disk image before I start changing partitions and other things. Booting to my Ghost 2003 cd seems to go well at first. The computer asks me to press any key to boot from the cd. I do. It brings up the menu for driver support. I select 4 for USB 2.0 support. It proceeds and comes to an a: prompt. Here I usually type "c:" (for some reason my other laptop sees the cd as c:), but when I do here it says "invalid drive specification". I tried all drive letters. A: and B: have boot files but no directories so I know they're not the cd. I need to get into cd's \Support directory so I can launch ghost.exe Thanks for your help.
posted by atm on Feb 18, 2009 - 12 answers

I tend to be forgotten between facetime sessions with friends. [more inside]
posted by @homer on Jan 23, 2009 - 14 answers

Corrupted Ghost 8.0 image! Is there a way to at least extract files off one of the img files? [more inside]
posted by Zeker on Nov 20, 2008 - 3 answers

Looking for good film depictions of the classic Victorian haunted house. [more inside]
posted by greenie2600 on Oct 20, 2008 - 10 answers

The apartment building I'm moving into might be haunted. I know it's not rational to believe in ghosts, but I'm kind of superstitious. [more inside]
posted by Metroid Baby on Jun 18, 2008 - 52 answers

Why does my radio play when it's turned off and there is no battery inserted? [more inside]
posted by theichibun on May 29, 2008 - 15 answers

My Computer detects a floppy drive when there isnt one installed ......... [more inside]
posted by sgt.serenity on Jan 4, 2008 - 8 answers

When and where did we associate dressing up in a white sheet and yelling 'boo!' with ghosts? [more inside]
posted by nathan_teske on Oct 27, 2007 - 7 answers

"Who's got a good ghost story?" [more inside]
posted by greytape on Sep 24, 2007 - 12 answers

I'm not sure I have the terms right, but how do I make a "hardware-independent deployable disk image"? [more inside]
posted by penciltopper on Jul 11, 2007 - 13 answers

How can I efficiently deploy dozens of computers (all different makes and models) with Windows XP and Office 2003? [more inside]
posted by coolin86 on Jun 11, 2007 - 8 answers

So it's come to this - I see no other option than to ask a "help me fix my PC" question. After some troubleshooting the STOP errors seem to have been resolved, XP now boots successfully but is excruciating slow to the point of being unusable. Details and specs below the fold. [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Mar 4, 2007 - 25 answers

Does Windows Vista have a built-in application to migrate or ghost a hard drive? [more inside]
posted by chaosscontrol on Feb 20, 2007 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a young adult collection of ghost/scary stories I read in middle school (1980s). It was illustrated by Edward Gorey and contained a story about a young girl who discovers a creature of some sort living in a quarry near her home. She becomes obsessed/infatuated with the thing and frequently visits it. I remember strong sexual undertones in this story. [more inside]
posted by anonymous78 on Dec 11, 2006 - 3 answers

Floppy disks? Are you kidding me? I haven't used Symantec Ghost in a long time, but am forced to at the moment. Even back then, floppies were on the way out, and now they're flat-out gone. But as far as I can tell, Ghost still absolutely flat-out requires you to use floppies (which can then be transferred on to CDs) in order to function. Am I right? And if I am, isn't this absolutely insane?
posted by Sinner on Nov 16, 2006 - 19 answers

Copied hard drive won't let me log on! [more inside]
posted by backseatpilot on Nov 14, 2006 - 17 answers

4 Bigshot users. Highly customized profiles. All getting new (different) hardware. How do I get the new machines "the way I had it before" for them without spending a week re-doing all the software customizing that they can't tell me how they did in the first place? [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Nov 6, 2006 - 11 answers

I want to buy a new computer but don't want to reinstall everything from my old one: how far can ghosting hard drives take me? [more inside]
posted by Silentgoldfish on Oct 1, 2006 - 13 answers

I seem to remember an American TV medical drama in which one of the subplots concerned a patient who had died... but didn't realize he was dead. His ghost wandered around seeking treatment and couldn't understand why nobody paid attention to him. The show may have been "ER" but I'm not sure. Any one else remember this?
posted by Kraftmatic Adjustable Cheese on Aug 11, 2006 - 8 answers

Can you help me identify this song? [more inside]
posted by 327.ca on Apr 19, 2006 - 8 answers

I just bought Norton Ghost 10.0. It is complete crap, as far as I can tell. What can I do, either to make it work the way I want, or to actually return it for a refund? [more inside]
posted by gregvr on Mar 24, 2006 - 9 answers

How come we never hear about nude ghosts? Clothes always seem to go into the spirit world in anecdote and popular culture. Is this a reflection of society's taboos, or do ghost believers have an explanation?
posted by shannymara on Mar 17, 2006 - 15 answers

Have you ever been visited by a (spirit, ghost, apparition, etc.) of a friend or loved one after they have passed on? [more inside]
posted by punkrockrat on Dec 1, 2005 - 49 answers

Can anyone explain why these wine glasses broke for what appeared to be no reason at all? [more inside]
posted by retro88 on Nov 12, 2005 - 16 answers

At work I have a fancy new big giant Apple cinema display. I like it. But I noticed that recently, since I changed my desktop picture to something near 50% grey, I get afterimages - for example, when I close illustrator after working on lineart, I see a ghost of the lineart on my desktop for 15-30 seconds. I thought it was my eyes but my cow-orkers see it too. Is this bad? Can I up the refresh rate on the screen or something? I don't like it.
posted by luriete on Nov 9, 2004 - 4 answers

What's a cherry ghost? I'm writing a review of the new Wilco album A Ghost is Born and I'm curious if a "cherry ghost" is anything significant or nothing at all. Google isn't turning up anything helpful.
posted by josephtate on Jul 5, 2004 - 9 answers