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I have several IDE and SATA hard drives that have Master Boot Records on them. I would like to remove the MBR. If I connect them up to a PC as a slave the CMOS does not know what to do. I get a blank screen and the computer goes …

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hello can you help me please my DVD drive is not shown in my computer only the Drive c and dvrive D are shown but the DVD drive is not...and i want to watch DVD movie through my computer but how can i watch there is no dvddrive shown...can you …

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hi everyone , pls help me out , i have bought a new sata hard drive , WD 500gb . . Previosly i have 40gb on my computer . . . Now when i plug in the hard 500gb drive the cpu starts working , but shows a blank screen …

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:sad: I have a Dell Computer - probably around 4 years old. A week ago, when I came home from work, their was a screen telling me I had an error and had to reboot. I thought it was no big deal - so I proceeded to reboot. When it …

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Today, i was gonna install microsoft word to do my hw, but when i put in my cd, nothing happen. So, i open my computer, and i don't see D drive. Pz help and hurry, because i have to type my essay and is due soon. And i didn't delet …

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I have a problem when using SATA drive and IDE drive on a my system!!! i am using motherboard of intelD865, with 2 SATA plugs and a IDE ports also.. I was running 80Gb of IDE (seagate barracuda 7200.07) as primary for long time. Now I want to parallely use …

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I recieved a free Intel 40gb SSD HDD from NewEgg as part of a purchase deal and since I didnt need it in my system I decided to use it as an external portable HDD so I purchased a Rosewill 2.5" SATA to USB External Enclosure (RX81U-ES-25A). I popped the …

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ei guys I'm new here can you please help about my laptop its Hp Pavilion DV6000, I was Installing my new Os when suddenly when it asked to format it... it stopped and message said: cannot detect hd etc... can anyone knows how to resolve my problem... thank you in …

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K, so last week my laptop fell and damaged my harddrive and screen, replaced my screen but now my harddrive wont work! So i've accepted that i lost the data, but i was wondering which harddrive should i go with?? A. Plextor PX-64M1S 2.5" 64GB (SSD) Its on sale for …

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hi: i have been having problems latly with my cd/rom not burning music to a cd I use windows media player and it says there is music in the burn list and goes trough the process of burning but when it's done no music on the cd

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I removed the old hard drive from a HP 8380 and added a new 20 gig HD. I can get tto the BIOS but I think I need to format the HD to load the OS right? Can someone please give me a short walk through? Many thanks! Jag12341

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Hi, I purchased a dell 610 laptop from a prosecuting attorneys' auction with the hard drive missing. I figured "no problem" , bought a new hard drive and installed it in the 610. After many hair pulling sessions it still will not recognize the new hard drive... Please, anyone who …

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Hello, what is the exact range of L1 & L2 cache memory (Size)? I am having confusion in both of them.

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Can't find firmware or driver download anywhere cd-rw dvd combo drive in a Fujitsu Lifebook N6010

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my cd-r drive use to burn cd's but not now for some reson.files or music. it will play cd's, that's it. i get a window that says please insert a disc.

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I just got a Western Digital My Book Essential 500GB USB 2.0 external hard drive. It is pre-formatted to to FAT32, yet I keep reading that is should be reformatted to NTFS for Windows XP. As of now I'm still using my 10yr old IMB desktop with Windows XP It …

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Plz tell me that what is the best way to format pc's hard disk. And also tell me its method.

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I have two external hard-drives on my XP workstation. After starting the machine last week, neither of the drives showed up in the system. I discovered by clicking on <Safely Remove Hardware> that the system thinks that they are drives with removable storage. I did the following: 1) plugged them …

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I recently plugged in a Hard drive on an open port on one of my IDE cables to check it for a friend. It named the hard drive "G" I already had a hard drive named "G" so it messed up all my HDD drive names. When i uninstalled my …

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Hello everyone, Sorry if i'm asking this in the wrong section of the forum (That's because I am a newbie) but i was wondering, if I have a rack for hard drives (I mean the ones used in server rooms) how do I connect these hard drives? Do I need …

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Hey everyone, I have a Compaq DVD-ROM DVD-115 drive and its giving me horrible results. I am also using an HP Pavillion 7855 desktop, which originaly came with a DVD-ROM and worked fine for 2 1/2 years. That DVD-ROM is in peices, but I hope to get this one to …

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As of now I'm still using my 10yr old IMB desktop with Windows XP It has a 2.2Ghz Intel Celeron and 1.5GB of RAM The thing is getting old though and the original hard drive is only 72GB and pretty much full making everything run a bit slow. My hard …

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Hi Guys, I have a DELL OPTIPLEX 745 and I accidentally pulled out my Graphics card while my computer was on and it crashed. It wouldn't switch on, the HDD was just making a slight noise and then it stops. Eventually it was switching on but was giving an error …

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the problem i have replaced my knackered dvd/cd drive with identical model no,[uj-820b] which i purchased from ebay.when booted no ide error appears, then windows loads but no drive shown in my comp, nor in device manager.then i check bios there it is detected.if i put into standby mode drive …

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Isn't SATA-150 connector different? Fujitsu model # mhv2120bh to be exact. I can't seem to find a adapter for this SATA-150.

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I took my comp to get a new hard drive and it seems i have 2 but the problem is it only runs on the smallar on of 25.7 gb and it seems to run like crap the other one appears as a pen drive and has 48.8 gb on …

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I recently built a new system. Using a asus M4M78 Pro mobo. I installed everything fine, using a W/D 1TB sata HD with my operating system Vista 64bit. Thing is I had a second IDE HD with backed up software which I wished to use. I connected Via IDE cable …

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I have a Western Digitial 1TB 10eavs ext USB HDD. I am currently running Windows XP Sp1, (no I have hardware issues with SP2 and it gives the vaio mxs10 the BSOD with no OS... but that is a totally different issue... back to the point.) I have slow USB …

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hello . i'm in a serious trouble , all of my backup partiton is not accessable now . i have windows 7 64bit and the problem has shown when i formated my pc today, all of my pics and files and everything is lost ! :( please what can I …

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I have been trying to install a floppy drive to my HP PC. There is a FDD connector on the motherboard, and I've power the drive with 5V supply. In the BIOS, I have changed the floppy drive setting from NOT INSTALLED to 3.5" FLOPPY and saved the settings. On …

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Many, many years ago when a big hard drive was really big but only had 20 MB space, it was more or less mandatory never to fill more than 80% of the drive. As drives got smaller but with a lot more space, the rule did seem to hold. About …

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hi guys, does anyone can recommend a freeware or any tools to recover a raw hdd drive. The system was suddenly corrupted, hdd can still be detected and shown on my computer but upon clicking on the icon it's asking me to "Reformat my hdd".

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after insert pen drive its not work. when I open it, it show a massage, " please insert a disk." but it show in my computer. it was a name but now it show Removable Disk. is it damage? the signal light not on.

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Hi, I am new to Windows server 2003. I had add a new 72 GB 15K U320 SCSI HS HDD to my HP Proliant ML370 Server running Windows server 2003 O/S. Unfortunatly it won't recognize it. The server is configured with three 36 GB 15K U320 SCSI HS HDD with …

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I just installed a new master WD 500GB internal hard drive in an HP 8500 Pavillion. After recovering Windows 98 OS, hard drive is only 8GB. How do I format drive for 500GB?

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Hello, First post, and I'm not entirely certian it's in the correct place. It could be in mobos, I suppose. Here's the long version: I bought some new memory, bumping up my slow 1gb to better 2gb. This is all fine. Works well for a day, then one of the …

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I recently purchased a Seagate Expansion external drive, 1.5 TB. I wish to use it on a Debian system so I have reformatted the disk to ext3 rather than the ntfs that it came with. I can manually mount it and it works just fine. My question is how or …

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my ide hard drive not work. when I connect it other pc it not show. I don't know why? is it possible to recover data ? if yes then how? another thing is it possible to repair and what you are suggestion me (about repair).

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I have here a HP Pavilion dv6000... first and foremost from most of the research I have conducted I see that they are notorious for overheating and such. I came across a link to update the BIOS and I guess it is suppose to tell the fans to run more... …

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How connect ext. harddrive desktop computer.? --------------------

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I want to backup personal files on my computer. It is Gateway with Vista. I want to buy an external hard drive. Any suggestions?

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I running MySQL 5.1.30 on Solaris 10. As I have a table which I partition into 12 according to each month. The table structure as follow [CODE] mysql> desc my_events; +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+--------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | event_id | bigint(20) | …

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Hey all, I just bought an iomega external USB drive, Ive hooked it up to my mac but it's not recognising the drive. It's formatted in FAT32; is that not mac compatible? It's a 1TB drive, do I need to partition it into smaller sections? Which format should I use …

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I need to backup my computer. It is a Gateway running Windows Vista. Any suggestions?

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My friends computer just went. Nothing on the screen, won't boot etc. I have checked memory, vid card, etc. I know it must be the hdd because I put one of my hdd in and it started to boot. Different drivers so some things would not work but that showed …

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Hi! I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072. The CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive was replaced with the exact same model # SD2412. Toshiba's "useless" website suggests unplugging all devices (CD, battery, memory), which I did and this did NOT resolve the IDE #1 error. I'm reading in other forums about flash, BIOS, IDE …

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The other day I was writing a [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/reviews/review271593.html"]review of an online backup product[/URL], and I wrote about the advantages of backing up to the cloud. Even though I have two external backup drives, they are both tied to the same electrical system in my house as my computer. If the …

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