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Originally Posted by demyhr
I thank everyone for their responses. First, the hardware I am using is an HP Pavillion laptop with 2Gb Ram and a 2.8Ghz Pentium 4. I guess that could be considered old at this point. The other system is a desktop with an Intel MB, 1GB ram and 2.4GHz Pentium 4. Calibre installs and runs adequately on the desk top. I have been able to install Calibre on the laptop but as I said, other than adding a file any attempts to run the conversion operation seemingly locks up the system. I have waited up to 30 minutes with no response. I have tried versions from 6.x.x to 7.27/Qt with basically the same results. I imagine my laptop has some conflicting program running. I will give it a try in safe mode or without loading startup stuff and see if I can isolate the problem. If there are any known conflicts anyone knows about share the info with me.
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Go to Start/Settings, select Control Panel, and in Control Panel, click on Admin tools. Select Event Viewer. Look under the System and Application sections. There may be messages there that will give clues to what is going wrong. Look at entries with a white X in a red circle (Errors) and black exclamation point in a yellow triangle (Warnings).
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In the mean time using my desktop machine is my only recourse.
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Yes.
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As for searching the disk or running a disk check, this seems an unnecessary these days. Many of these e-reader and other programs do these searches for compatible files and on todays 500GB+ drive can take forever. Most users such as myself would prefer to point the software to the appropriate directories rather than waiting for the software to search the disk.
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Calibre can be told what directories to look at. It does not need to search the entire drive. So can the reader apps I'm aware of.
I have five physical drives in my desktop. One tool I like for keeping track is Locate32, an open source Windows port of the Linux Locate utility. Locate searches your drive(s) and produces a database of all files on your system and where they are located. You can have a database that indexes the entire system, or databases that index specified parts, and can select which to use when doing a search. Get it here:
http://www.locate32.net/
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Dennis