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I had to set my alienware m17x to its orginal factory setting.I read installed all three disc's. I then installed divx when I noticed it wouldn't play youtube videos,My picture view was also not working as well. NOW,it plays Cd's but when I put a dvd in or a game …

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I got extremely confused. I asked in many places, I got extremely random and contradicting answers. I even tried HP customer service. I got two contradicting answers from two different agents. My questions are: 1) Do I need drive caddies for HP dv7tqe? 2) The most important: Do the caddies …

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Hello, good morning. :) I got some questions about the RAID 2, 3, and 4: 1. In RAID 2 and 3, if the parity disk is damage can I still recover the files? 2. In RAID 4, if the ECC disk is damage can I still recover the files?

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the drive d partition of my hard disk all of a sudden takes a long time to open. im using windows vista home premium.i have defragmented it but to no avail. the problem still remains.please help. i fear that the hard disk is about to crash. any help is greatly …

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I just bought a Maxtor Maxline III 250 GB SATA-II 300 HD to put in my Sapphire PURE Crossfire motherboard, and even though BIOS detects it, the operating system when I try to install Windows, does not. Now I've tried several things: Frist I ran Maxtor's diagnostics program powerMax, which …

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[B]Modern types of writable RAM generally store a bit of data in either the state of a flip-flop, as in SRAM (static RAM), or as a charge in a capacitor (or transistor gate), as in DRAM (dynamic RAM), EPROM, EEPROM and Flash. Some types have circuitry to detect and/or correct …

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I have an IBM Laptop circa 2004. I have moved to a mountain climate in Linden,Arizona. The temperature can be from 0 degrees at night to 30-35 in the day time. The inside temperature in the mornings is maybe 50 degrees. When I turn the laptop on it spins with …

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This is my FIRST day here... I am working with a Dell computer about 5 years old... The computer will NOT recognize the cdrom/dvd combo drive after an update from Microsoft screwed things up.. The drive letter doesn't even show.. Under Device Manager it shows it as NOT installed.. Since …

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Hi, I am about to set up a dual boot configuration on my machine. I plan to install osx on my pc, with windows 7 being the most used partition on the machine. I would like for windows to be out the outside of the hard disk so I may …

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ok im trying to use my old laptop hdd as a external hdd whit an enclosure (2.5 sata and ide to usb2.0 imicro)so when i conect the hdd via usb my hpmini recognize the hdd but i cant see him in my computer or disk management, i had window xp …

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I have an approx 5 year old Western Digital Scorpio 80GB hard drive (model WD800VE-75HDT1) that came in a laptop that I no longer have. One day the drive stopped working. I took it out of the lappy and slapped it into a USB enclosure. When I connect it to …

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I'm sure threads don't have to be all about problems so, I was wondering when I delete my files, where does it go? How does the hard drive regain its space? I read somewhere that the OS just ignores it but I wanted to make sure and if we used …

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Does anyone know of a solution to support PCI sata on systems where BIOS cannot boot from add-in cards? PC is Dell dimension 2400 P4. Disappointed no PCI boot support, since similar model 2350 does apparently have this option. I am looking for a bootloader workaround which can boot from …

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the other day i was checking my email and running a musicjukebox when all of a sudden my computer froze. i thought this was normal so i just ctrl alt del but the computer wouldn't restart. so i powered down my computer. when i tried to boot it up again, …

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I have data in c:/ (vista installed) Documents, Downloads etc, and also I have data to D:/ second hdd, well is dangerous after update to SP2[AND FAILURE) lost data in D:/, so backup data of it, along c:/ disc's DATA, OR NO DANGER AND BACKUP ONLY C:/ data, well? I …

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Hi Guys, I have a toshiba L300D laptop, and a couple of days ago the harddrive just gave up, i knew it had a large amount of bad sectors so luckily had all the necessary data backed up. However, i have decided that having to replace the harddrive gives me …

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Hello all, I have a problem with my external harddisk. It is a 320GB SATA Seagate Harddisk. I have used it for a year or less. Now it cannot be detected by my computer anymore. The harddisk itself is on but it makes a little 'electrical' sound inside. Is there …

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hello can you help me please, my dvd-rom in my computer disappeared...when i look at in the device manager my dvd-rom is in yellow color.and my audio also was yellow..i am just uninstalling one program called cyberlink youcam when i restarted my pc my dvd-rom was gone in my computer …

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HiGuys My harddisk is detected when am in BIOS.But when I start loading Windows XP sp2, the disk is not seen as I get a message "your pc does not have a hard disk" Any help will be appreciated. thanx

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Someone asked me to remedy a problem on a laptop running XP Media Center SP3...has a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, but Seagate Manager isn't recognizing the drive. When I plug the drive in, Windows recognizes and reads from the drive. I cannot uninstall the Seagate utility to reinstall it …

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I have a 20 GB Quantum Fireball HD that I tested not to long ago(a month?). I told my friend he could have it for a bit of extra space, and that I would put a couple of things on it for him. So, I plugged it into my free …

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My desktop computer will not detect the harddrive that inside. I do not hear any annoying clicking noise from it. When I try to install the windows operation system it tells me it does not detect the hard drive. I checked all the connections. They were intact. Any thoughtful suggestions?

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The raid 1 on my friends machine does not appear to be working correctly. When it starts up it looks for the raid and then when it finds it there is a message that says degraded on one and error on another. What does a person do to get this …

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My ENTER key came off from my keyboard and the one on the left sidee its not broken, i tired to put it back on and its still really loose. Any1 know how to put it on correctly?

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I was hoping someone could guide me in the right direction. I need to image 1000 notebooks but I'm not sure how I should go by doing so(fastest and most efficient way). How much should I charge per image? What kind equipment will I need to use and so on. …

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Hey guys, I am having some issues with my PC. My main drive with my OS is SATA, as well as my DVD-RW. As of this morning, I received a "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" message when trying to turn on my computer. I checked my …

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I'm interested in selling quality memory stick brand. Anybody here could tell me some brands. Thank you

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I'll start by saying I haven't had to work with SCSI in a good 15 years... But, I'm trying to set up a new-ish server for a non-profit client. Hardware is a HP DL-140 (G1) server with an ATTO UL4D SCSI adapter attached to a Rorke Data RS-0800 LVD JBOD. …

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