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I hear you all here talk about a lot of "partitions" when talking about hard drives, backing up data, and reinstalling windows. What is that, exactly, and what does it do?

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I got 2 new hard drives for my pc which is alreay setup in a raid configuration. since i installed the new drives my system now hangs on boot for about 2 mins. This is the first time i have had a problem like this, but have no idea how …

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Dear friends ! I have a HP Compaq nx6110 Notebook PC. It comes with IDE Hard Disk. There is a problem in the PC that it is not detecting both the Hard Disk and CD-ROM. (I checked in BIOS setup and also when I want to install new XP, it …

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Hi everyone. I have my recitation in one my subject in school. One of my topic is about flash drive. Why does Flash Drive Size is not exact? example. i have 1GB,and it should be 1024MB but the stated size in the properties is 982MB. I am confused how does …

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Never thought this will happen to me, but, guess what, IT DID!!! I have accidentally let my drive slip from my hands yesterday with almost a terrabyte size of data on there. Obviously after re-inserting the drive into my hard drive dock, all the funny noises started and my system …

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when i wanted to start my external disk, it did not show up at my pc, it did start but it did not show, so i did go to hardware to see what was wrong, than i saw the code 10 so my external disk can't run, how can this …

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Lately I have been getting JRAID errors when using both of my DVD rom drives, an LG and a Plextor PX-870A. They will usually play normal audio CD's but sometimes when I rip from them I will get many errors. When I play a DVD movie I sometimes have to …

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Hello, I have just bought a new NAS ([url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-RND2110-ReadyNAS-Duo-1000GB/dp/B0016KVW96[/url]) and set up two drives in it in RAID1. I connected the NAS via a gigabit connection but the transfer rate won't seem to budge over 30mb/s when reading and tends to get stuck at around 15mb/s when writing. The primary …

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I want to adapt a newer .5Tb SATA 2.5" drive to my older HP laptop with Ultra ATA100 interface-- do-able? is there a super-compact adapter out there somewhere?

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Hello all. I have accidently dropped my 500 GB Western Digital SATA hard drive when moving it to other computer. I used that hard drive as secondary hard drive. After reconnect the hard drive to my pc it's still look normal. I can access the file. But some files appears …

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I am attempting to fix a computer that was attacked by a nasty virus. I have recently zeroed the drive to wipe it clean. I am now trying a fresh reinstall of windows XP and the computer will not recognize my hard drive. It also will not recognize my second …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]16858[/ATTACH]You may have noticed that solid-state drives (SSDs), those flash memory-based drives that were touted as an alternative to hard disks, have remained stuck in the 80GB to 160GB size range and the prices are not coming down. There's a good reason for that. Starting in early 2009, the price …

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Hi guys! How is it going? Hope fine!! Am a student currently studying undergrad BSC computing and my computer is giving a problem i can't solve. My hard disk space keeps reducing. I use Norton Antivirus and have scanned my computer several times with the result that my computer is …

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Hello, I am facing a strange problem. One of my friend's machine was not working fine. I went to his place to check the error, but the Win XP in his system was just not ready to startup. So I decided to Repair / Format his HDD. The machine was …

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[B]hi guys i need a case study on any device which have all the required things in it.. its very urgent i have to submit dis on monday.. pls guys help me.. pls anyone of u send me the case study document on SNIP

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Ok, so I did the clumsy thing and knocked my Seagate 1.5 TB External HD 10cm to the ground. It made some funny sounds and stopped functioning. After waiting some time, I reattached it. It made the funny noise for 5 minutes then the noise stopped. The computer said usb …

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At just 25, [URL="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/aaron-levie"]Aaron Levie[/URL] is a youthful CEO. His company, [URL="http://box.net/"]Box.net[/URL], is a cloud-based storage and collaboration solution. He originally conceived and developed Box in his dorm room with a friend when he was just 19 years old because he was simply looking for a way to solve a …

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Hi All, I am having a very bad weekend. I am having problems with a HDD, so on Thursday I when out a bought a new HDD to go in the bank of 4 HDD's. To add this new drive to the computer system I also got a 7 port …

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old pc died, using windows xp pro, purchased lenovo with sata hd, using windows 7 pro how can i retrieve the data from my windows xp hd. can i use a usb?

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Our old PC finally died a slow, agonizing death. So we replaced it with a new PC, which has an S-ATA hard drive. We need to retrieve the data from the old IDE drive in the dead PC (I'm hoping that the reason it died was not due to a …

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Hi guys I need help with downloading mpg movies. I use mozilla and internet explorer on a windows xp pc. In mozilla the file 'pretends' to open, but it happens so fast and I end up with zero bites. In IE the "server returns an invalid or unrecognised response". I …

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Hi there to everyone. I have a big problem with my pc and I need HELP!!!!!!!!!. I have an Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard with two HD S-ATA raid 0 configuration. My mobo faulted today, so I've replaced with another identical motherboard which just have an usb port faulty. Now I …

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few days ago my brother-in-law brought me his computer with problems. It is an hp pavilion a6519fh running Vista with a 500 MB seagate 7200 rpm hard drive. When I powered up the computer it would take me to a screen with the option to do a bios setup ( …

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This is about a C++ problem.[CODE][/CODE] I have an object tracking program that takes images from 0,...,n in a loop. At current frame the computations are based on previous frames, therefor I need to hold those variables, matrices, etc for later use. This program has to be integrated now into …

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I'm attempting to install a SATA HDD into my system, but no success. The system consists of: MoBo: ECS PM800-M2 CPU: Intel P4 2.4G Mem: 2 Gb OS: Win XP Home, SP3, all updates, still fairly fresh and clean, runs well Security: MSE Primary HDD: 160 Gb WD1600AAJB, 95Gb free …

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Hi there, this is DJ Eris, from Belize... Maybe someone out there can help me understand what is my problem... I have a Seagate 160 Gig (Baracuda 7200.7) Harddrive. It has some bad sectors on it but I ghosted a 40 gig (w/ windows 7) to it and i manage …

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In an old thread, someone posted advice to try mounting a disk with a bad $mft onto a different computer. (See [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post171363.html#post171363[/url]) This worked for me. (That is, on one computer a particular removable USB Sata drive wasn't readable, even after reboot. On a second computer, the same drive is …

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Hopefully someone can help me with my CD drive. It's not reading some of the CDs I put into it. My CD writer / DVD ROM combo drive is reading and running CD-RW disks but not reading normal CD-R disks. It also varies with programs & games. My drive will …

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Hi, i am using a compaq laptop. It is a core2duo with 2gb ram. 2ghz. Now my problem is that sometime ago my hard disk stopped detecting. I was out of my warranty and also out of cash so didn't know wat to do. I knew about the ubuntu live …

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Hi all, Our small business is currently using an online file server for our file sharing needs. Recently, there have been complaints around the office about the server. In particular, the problem people have the biggest issue with is file linking. MS Excel links don't work for files on the …

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