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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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I inherited an old 1U Dell Server. It has 2 hard drive bays. The 2 drives that came with the server have failed, so I'm trying to install a new drive. The drives that were in the server originally were 250GB ATA/100 drives. I bought a 500GB PATA drive and …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]16999[/ATTACH]Seagate made the switch to serial-attached SCSI (SAS) drives a few years ago, but have only upgraded to the 6 Gb/s standard (SAS 2.0) within the last year. SAS drives require special controllers that are occasionally built into motherboards, but more often, come in the form of a PCI-Express card …

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When it comes to data storage and retrieval the current buzz is undoubtedly cloud-shaped, so why would anyone want to invest in Network Attached Storage? Two words: cost and capacity. Cloud services are great, but as far as storing and accessing large amounts of data is concerned things can get …

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Hi guys, Am in a big problem, I have a 120 GB external HD which I use to store and move my most important files. Yesterday I have attached it to my relative's laptop and since then the nightmare started. When I connected th HD to my laptop it didn't …

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my cd drive is showing in the my computer,but its not reading any kinda disc... not even able to boot.....help nilesh

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READ IT ALL BEFORE YOU START ************************** A possible workaround for the IDE #1 ERROR when using a Cable select (CS) drive in a Toshiba laptop. Once this modification is carried out the drive is accessable for flashing as a master/slave or region free (RPC1) subject to the F/W being …

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Foreword: As the first manufacturer of HD data recovery tool aimed at firmware repair, so far ACE lab already released 3 versions: PC3000ISA, PC3000PCI and PC3000UDMA. ACE Lab has a large number of clients since its first PCI version till latest UDMA. However, to thousands people, the product called PC3000 …

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[URL="http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2010-08-16-ir-release.aspx"]Dell announced today[/URL] that it has reached an agreement with the California based data storage company [URL="http://www.3par.com/index.html"]3PAR[/URL], to purchase the company for a total price tag of $1.15 Billion.[ATTACH=RIGHT]16668[/ATTACH] Dell hopes that this move will help the computer giant cut its own data storage costs by as much as 50%. …

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"the device is not ready" Any Ideas Appreciated Unstalling and reinstalling in System Devices didnt help.

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I have a new Toshiba HDD, MK4026GAX 40gb, and it works perfectly in most laptops except in my Toshiba Tecra 9100, when i fit it I get IDE #0 Error and can not get any further. I have been told that it works in Compaq laptops because the firmware is …

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Hi, I have recently disconnected all the connection everything to clean MY PC form dust particle. When i joined all those again my diagnostic screen shows everything none... Like "Primary Master:None" , Primary Slave:None" , after that it says "DISK BOOT FAILURE. INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" , i …

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[B]Web Site[/B]: [url]http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/online-backup/[/url] [B]OS[/B]: Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 [B]Cost[/B] $4.95/month or $49.95/year for 250 GB [B]Reviewer's View[/B]: Overall this a fine backup choice. It provides a generous amount of space for a fair price. They could do a better job of defining how to get started, and the …

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Hello, I have been wanting to buy an external hard drive for some time now. I'm now wondering which one I should take. I'm looking for one with 1.5-2TB of storage capacity. Now what I think is weird is this: For a LaCie 2TB drive I have to pay 219€ …

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Hello I have a company laptop (HP 8530w) with Checkpoint Pointsec HDD encryption and 32bit Vista. I want to use win7 booted from an external eSATA drive. For that to work first of all I had to remove the internal HDD, because win7 install has already fucked my system up …

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Does anyone know if its at all possible to un-do 'Restore factory settings'? I was told to do this when having problems starting windows and I lost everything on my hard drive including thousands of precious photos, music and documents. I have an Acer Aspire 5100. I will be SOO …

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Hello, my hard drive has a really weird problem: When i turn on my computer normally the hard drive will make mechanical clicking sounds, as if the "reader head" was hitting something over and over again. Then a few seconds later the sound will stop, but my pc wont find …

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I have Transcend Storejet 320G Hard Disk which i have been using for around a year now without any problems. However recently when i plugged it into my laptop it will not be detected anymore. I hear the whirring of the cylinders and the light on the hard disk turns …

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Right this is a big one, I have been tasked with seeing if we can move our calls that we store on DVD RAM to disk. The machine used to record calls is a Nice Mirra V2. I tired pulling out a drive and putting a disk in, connecting it …

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[U][B]System Properties[/B][/U] -Dell Inspiron 6000 (Laptop) -Intel Pentium M Processor, 1.60 GHz -512 MB of RAM -Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition: Version 2002, SP2 [U][B]History of Conflicts, Problems[/B][/U] -In Late December 2005, early January 2006, the Computer Crashed (1st Time.) *Cause Unknown -We were able to gain access to all …

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Complete range of LTO Ultrium Tapes including LTO1 tape, LTO2, LTO3, LTO 4 tape, LTO5 Tapes and Tapes cleaning cartridges

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[ATTACH=LEFT]15910[/ATTACH]Seagate announced their new NAS system, GoFlex Home, today, and it unites the worlds of portable and network storage. Home enables access to the hard drive dock from a wide array of mobile devices, HTPC setups, and networked computers (Windows or OSX). Seagate notes that their propriety software will make …

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I want to install a SATA in addition to the IDE that I have (Asus p4p800). The power cable for the IDE comes from the floppy drive. How do I get power to the SATA?

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My Acer F5P4 computer has an un-branded CD/DVD reader/writer, shows up as an HL-DT-ST-DVDRRW GWA-4164B in the "my computer" info, and the manufacturer is shown as "Standard CD ROM drives". It uses the driver from Windows XP Pro, "\system 32\DRIVERS|cdrom.sys"and does not have it's own driver. It will read DVD's …

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Hi i have a dell Optiplex F160 and the hard disk is locked and i do not know what the user or master password is. Does anyone know what i can do to unlock this drive or somehow reformat it? thanks

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I recently baught a pocket portable hard disk drive which is a Toshiba MK8025GAS HDD. I have lost the cd with the drivers and I cannot get my computer to recognize the HD. I am running XP PRO SP2. I wonder if anyone has a driver that will work or …

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Working with a Toshiba A40 Laptop. CDs and DVDs play but now disc formatting efforts fail. Never been a problem before. Event viewer shows "bad block". Don't know if this refers to the drive itself or the disc. attached please find image of the immediate error. Below please find text …

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My CD-RW plays but won't burn. My computer is not detecting my CD-RW, but it detects the CD-Rom. When I go to burn a cd it just says No Device Detected. What could be wrong? Ps. I have an NEC -7900a CD-RW Drive

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The Error message I keep getting is Floppy Disk Fail. Also when I boot up the computer I have to hit F1 to get into Windows. How do I fix this? Please help with this matter, I am at my Witts end with these stupid error messages. Please Help

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