blindfolds aside

I just installed a new 1TB drive and my BIOS sees it, even the bootable flash drive I made for windows sees it ok, and would let me install the OS if I so wished. Once I installed Windows 8 on my SSD and booted into it, however, the drive is not showing up. I'm throwing this up while I reboot and try to format it from the windows boot media but any suggestions would be great in case that does not work.

I have been playing guitar off and on for about the last 6 years and still consider myself an amateur. I now have free time again in order to practice and was thinking about picking up a new guitar. Last year, I bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio and love it, however I've notice a bit of an issue. When I am fretting I feel as though the neck is too wide to play without raising the guitar a consider amount and I had a couple of questions.

1. Do I need to just get used to it and do finger exercises or does this guitar really have a thick neck

2. Where would I find out how to properly tune the guitar, string height, neck tightening and the like. I like to play mostly Alt rock and Heavily distorted guitar (Coheed and Cambria)

3. What is the best combination of strings to use as far as thickness goes if I am often downtuning a 1/2 step or so?

These are all things I never quite got the hang of and I feel I am missing out. First and foremost I want to make sure I have the right guitar. I am open to suggestions however I had my eye on the Gibson SG. Thank you in advance.

This is the code I have so far

Public Class Form1

Private Sub Button1_Click(...) Handles Button1.Click

Dim srGrade As IO.StreamReader = IO.File.OpenText("grades.txt")

Dim counter As Double

Do While srGrade.Peek <> -1

counter += 1

ListBox1.Items.Add(counter)

Loop

srGrade.Close()

End Sub

End Class

im just testing the counter to make sure its comming up with the right number and this is only a tiny piece of my program. When I run the program it freezes and stops responding and the listbox slide bar becomes very small as if it is never reaching the end of my document. I know i can't attach the doc but trust me its only 20 items long starting on the very first line with only one item per line. What am i doing wrong that i can not get it to stop ?

I tried turning page filing off as suggested by windows but it didn't change anything. I have roughly 60 gigs free on my disk and it will only let me partition a maxium of 4gigs and im looking to do 16-19g partition. Any suggestions?

Someone gave me great help earlier now i need one more step. How do i use indexOf to search for a certain instance of a character IE: Southpark, Colorado, 14049 and index the second comma ?

in visual basic, how do you select a word from a string that is entered in a textbox in this way : program reads in box 1 ... Smith, John I want to be able to read any name entered up to but not including the comma and also be able to read after the comma so that I could have the names entered to any length and read them. Is this some sort of index command?

I have never had to replace the power supply in a computer i did not build myself and now im trying to fix my parents computer with a new GC which requires a 300w PSU. I have a 450W PSU because it was the lowest we had at work and the thing is huge. It looks like it will house in the computer fine but the fan on it is pointing toward the side of the case. I hate to admit its a dell so not only is the PSU like frikin lodged in the case in the first place, but i have to move like everything off the board to situate this new PSU and the fan on the old one points out the back of the machine. I don't want to dissasemble my board until i know if its worth it. Is this ok or will i end up heating up my computer ? Thanx

I am planning on using virtual pc to dual boot windows 7 and vista business 64bit. Windows 7 is installed already and I want to add vista as the virtual machine. My question is... when it asks me to allocate RAM to different virtual machines, will that mean that that RAM can only be accessed by that OS because that seems kind of ridiculous if i am not running the other OS with one on it should be able to use all of my ram? Also let me know if there is an easier/more efficient way to dual boot OS's. Thanks In Advance

Also if it is possible please also let me know if there is a way to treat each instance of that variable as separate for use in a formula? Basically i want to be able to have the variable change on each entry and then add it up for a running total.

I have this code currently

Public Class Form1

Dim commission As String

Private Sub Button1_Click(...) Handles Button1.Click

Dim str1, str2, item As String

Dim price As Double

str1 = ":"

item = TextBox1.Text

price = TextBox2.Text

ListBox1.Items.Clear()

ListBox1.Items.Add(item & str1 & price)

End Sub

End Class

I would like to make it so that every time i click my button i get a new entry in the listbox without deleting the other one(s). What do i do to accomplish this. I was told it may have something to do with class variable but im not sure how to accomplish this either.

Has this been announced or does anyone know why the black audio jack is on the rock band 2 drums for xbox? I have been wondering this since they first came out and so far I have only found 2 articles on the wii set that say its been unannounced. Originally I had hoped for a headphone jack so i could listen the music on ear buds instead of the crazy rig i have set up with my tv right now but no such luck. Thanks a heap Harmonix!!

I was just wondering if anyone has come across some good benchmark tests comparing the AMD Phenom II (any of them) with the Core 2 from Intel. I really don't need core i7 benchmarks because that is like oranges and apples. I'm trying to get a feel for it it will be a good competitor in the mid level bracket.

I am new to yahoo answers and so far i have loved answering all the computer problems i can but i am getting EXTREMELY upset at the fact that it keeps telling me that it is unavailable. So far all of yesterday it would not let me answer anything and it just started again now. I keep seeing these problems i want to jump in and answer, i type a huge paragraph answer and then i get denied. Worst of all i see the bad answers that are on there and I feel bad. Anyone know whats going on?

I am seeing that many times I get either the only answer to a question OR the best answer to the question compared to other answers but obviously there are many people who get their answer and never vote at all. How do I vote for myself in these questions. And no, I will not vote for myself if someone else has best answer i vote for them but normally i dont even answer a question i dont feel i know :-D

Just so everyone knows yahoo is being ridiculous right now and you can not post an answer just questions so i would not ask any right now as you will all be bumped way far down the list and most likely it wont get answered for some time if at all so just try later and make sure the answers are working again.