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950 gigabyte of my 1 terabyte external hard disk was full.next time i start my computer i see my external hard like this : total size 465 & free space 33 (GB).and it content is 1016 UNKNOWN files for windows that size of each one is almost 3-5 KB and …

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I have a small business server 2003 machine that I am trying to replace a raid 1 drive. I unplugged the drive I wanted to replace and put another empty drive in it's place. When I had done this previously with a new drive it just added it back into …

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I can see my second hard drive in Device manager but not in 'My Computer' I have been facing this problem for quite sometime. I can see the drive on Disk Management but not on “Mycomputer”. On Disk management the drive States "UNALLOCATED". I've tried everything possible but to no …

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I've got two hard drives on my computer and one of them is missing. It's the one where I keep all my music/videos/pictures etc. I can see the shortcut on the desktop but when I click it it says: The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'Seagate (G).Ink' refers …

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I have a tekram TR-621 and trying to get data off of my laptop hard drive. when I plug it up to the USB, I get the yellow light green light comes on for a short instant. no new hardware found comes up and when I go to my computer …

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I have just tried to put my ide slave from my old PC into my new one. I plugged in the ide cable to the motherboard and the drive and connected the power plug. The master drive is a sata. The BIOS didn't auto recognize the new drive. can you …

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I'll try again... Does anyone have any ideas? Tiger on a G4, with a second drive, rebooted last week with a dialog saying "you need to restart..", with a power button graphic behind the dialog. Tried to restart several times with no luck. I then booted into safe mode. When …

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I am trying to install a new DVD drive in my computer and I wanted to know how would I go about doing this. Do I just put the drive in an open slot and then do all the connections and go on the computer and click on Detect New …

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I was formatting a brand new hard drive the other day and my computer froze up so I just shut it off. Now the new hard drive is not being detected in BIOS or in Windows. When I go into the BIOS setting and try to auto detect the hard …

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I just built my own computer system using a Biostar MCP6P M2+ motherboard and an Athlon 1.8 GHz processor, I followed the instructions in the quick setup guide and the manual which i downloaded but the system will not boot into the BIOS, in addition the power light does not …

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Hello hope you can help!, Well i have a SD card (sandisk SDHC card 4GBs ) and i use it to take phots with my digital camera. The SD card worked fine on both pc and camera in the past But yesterday when i took it out of the camera …

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I realize this sounds like a repeated question, but so far 2 days of searching the web has gotten me no solutions to my problem. First, the equipment I do and do not have. NEW WD SATA-II HDD to replace a dead IDE drive. Asus P4s800d-e deluxe mobo DVD/CD burner …

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I do not know what to say but I bought a HP laptop some years ago that is accompanied with HP (Hewlett-Packard) recovery DVDs which is for Vista recovery. However, I am moving away from vista and no longer needs the recovery DVD. I am thinking of formatting the write-protected …

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Hello All, I’ve got a new Samsung NP-NC10 with NoteBook that had XP installed. I replaced it with Vista Ultimate, only to crash it as won’t accept Vista. So, I reinstalled XP and system drivers from the Reload discs. The NoteBook then functioned correctly. However, the C: Drive was renamed …

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hi some one help me my flash drive (usb) is formated with most important data i want to recover that data i have also download a software which is recovering those file but not recovering that folders which were hidden plz any one help me how to recover hidden folders.

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While the competition is hard at work on a [url=http://www.daniweb.com/news/story233646.html]100-core processor[/url], Intel this week reported advances in [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory]phase-change memory (PCM)[/url], a type of non-volatile memory that is seen as a possible next-generation replacement for flash. In a joint [url=http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20091028corp.htm?iid=pr1_releasepri_20091028r]announcement[/url] yesterday with Swiss memory maker [url=http://www.numonyx.com/en-US/Pages/default.aspx]Numonyx[/url], the companies said they had …

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I have a dell 8300, XP, and i tried to install a new 120gb hard drive as my master and make my original 60gb as a slave. I wanted to image my original, put it on my new one so I can format my original and start adding stuff i …

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i have a external storage device that is being recognized by windows Xp but on vista it is recognized. how can i use it in my xp

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Hi ive been given a friends hard drive to recover some data from as his machine recently died! i said id have a look but it seems as though the drive is completely dead. Ive plugged it in as a slave on my machine and it powers up (loudly) and …

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My slave 200G HDD changed from NTFS into RAW after restart, and I seem to have lost everything that was on it! Is there any way it can be changed back to NTFS without losing any data?

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Dear Gurus I was running on 80 GB Samsung (SATA 2) HDD on my PC P4(3GHZ) with Intel MOBO 915 GAV with XP sp2 1GB RAM on it till yesterday perfectly I got a new 160 GB WD (SATA 2) HDD for Upgradation when I installed the nu HDD to …

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Basically I am wondering if there is a hardware adapter available that will allow me to install a SATA drive into a laptop that. is set up for IDE. I have a Dell 1150, that has an adapater (feed thru) that is required to install standard IDE drives. So the …

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Found it useful for myself [URL="http://www.slideshare.net/Acronis/continuous-data-protection-2149693"]http://www.slideshare.net/Acronis/continuous-data-protection-2149693[/URL] There is an examination of the two data protection solutions that will always complement a CDP investment – near-continuous data protection (near CDP) and traditional file-and-folder – and show where each is best applied.

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Evening all, I've seen a number of cases recently where the disc drive ceases to function (mainly in laptops for some reason), usually evident by the icon no longer being displayed within My Computer. Seems to be when someone either updates or installs a Symantec (mostly Norton 360) product. To …

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I have a new computer arriving soon with a 640GB SATA hard drive running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit, I want to move my other 250GB SATA hard drive running Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit from my dead computer to the new computer to transfer data. My question is after …

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My computer is always showing a boot error asking me to insert proper boot device and restart. Checking the boot system it shows Secondary master: ATAPI incompatible. What could it be?

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I bought a Seagate 7200.11 SD15A Firmware 500GBhard drive last December. Just today when I turned on the PC it got bricked i.e BIOS cannot detect it, for no reason and hangs at boot when I turn on autodetection of drives. I am guessing it is the dreaded [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Technology#Firmware_problems_with_SATA_disks"]BSY bug[/URL] …

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Hi, Anyone could help me please reply soon. My PC Hangs whenever i insert a CD or DVD on my LG DVD writer and when i restarts PC it take very long time. For this I have to remove the SATA cables of hardisk and reinsert them. After this my …

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iam having p2 433mhz celeron processor system, with 64mb and 32mb sd ram,intel chipset 810 mother board. my system is slow when i install xp operating system, to increase the speed ,whether i can increase the value of ram to 256mb sd ram. i want to know, how much mb …

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Hi, I want to write System files in window CE Compact flash card so that it boots from CF flash. The files are 1.Configuration file: bootcepc.cnf 2. Boot logo .pcx file: bootcepc.pcx 3. Kernel Image file (nk.bin) To write i have just copied file's by copy and paste in Flash …

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I am running XP Pro. I have installed a new (Hitachi) 1TB SATA hard drive. The drive shows in Device Manager, but it does not show in My Computer. How can I correct this? Thanks

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Our normally dependable Dell Optiplex GX150 will not turn on properly. It now gives these messages when I turn it on: Primary hard disk drive 0 not found Primary hard disk drive 1 not found Secondary hard disk drive 0 not found Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found This …

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I used a cracker for a program, and my computer restarted itself. When it came back on, it wouldn't play any Aveyond games, coming up with the code 'Error! Code LP5. Failed to unpack the program. Contact the author' or something to that effect. I contacted the author. No help. …

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I have a 1TB Maxtor Basics external hard drive. After a power cut, I lost access to the entire data in it; I couldn't see the drive in my computer but the system was slowing down and getting stuck about every 10 seconds periodically. First I tried running CHKDSK.EXE, but …

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Hey, Whenever I try to boot windows 7, it bluescreens with stop 0xED (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE). I installed the drive in my xp machine and whenever I try to access it I get a "disk is not formatted" error. When I try to access it in command prompt, I get this message: …

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Well, the Cavier HDD in my sig is acting funny. Last night I loaded about 30 gigs of data to it, not that much (its still over 60 percent free). So today I turned on my computer and was using files on it, and all of a sudden it made …

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I've googled around the internet and have found many solutions to a Delayed Write Failure to my 1TB external Western Digital Hard Drive. So far nothing has worked. The drive is still accessible and can still transfer files. It's only when I try putting larger files on it, that it …

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I purchased a new laptop, that came pre loaded with Vista, I need to revert back to xp professional. I have the full versioin of xp professional service pack to ... and when booting from cd to install I get "cannot find hard drive" Hard Drive Momentus 5400.3 160 gb …

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One of my Segate SATA HDD had developed bad sectors, windows was having hard time reading the drive and system hanged randomly I formatted drive today after many months and it seems to be working perfectly fine, I have installed a fresh copy of windows over it without any problems …

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so i just recently format my hard drive C and i have a problem, my primary hard drive is D ( C & are the same partition ) my question is: how can i change to be C my primary Hard drive

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Hey guys, I have been given the task of attempting to recover some data from a hard drive. This is what I know: -The hd failed the READ test, READ VERIFY test, and Internal Cache test. -When I plug it in using IDE cables, or using a IDE->USB external case …

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I am looking for a bezel / faceplate for a laptop cdrw/dvd combo drive - the model is Quanta (QSI) SBW-242C. Any suggestions about where I might be able to buy one?

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hello guys! need help with this.. I have 2 SATA Hard disk.. Seagate 160GB (C:) & 500GB (D:) all of a sudden when i open my pc.. an error message popped up in the BIOS. [I]"Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and …

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I have been having trouble upon bootup of my XP running desktop. Lately (past month), if there is any removable storage device plugged in (ie memory card plugged into the port on the printer, cd in the disc tray, etc) the OS will not load. It just sits there will …

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Deduplication used to be an exclusive tool of the large enterprise, with an imposing cost, a daunting learning curve, and – with file-only deduplication – a limited ability to use deduplicated data to restore a failed machine. Until now, deduplication has been too expensive to implement in any but the …

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Recently I plugged my Western Digital external hdd into my computer and it will keep turning off and then the lights will come back on and it will spin for about 7 seconds and then do the same thing over and over again.. I contacted WD with no help really …

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