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| | These devices are not detected in the BIOS & actually do not work (cannot open cd writer tray). But when i remove the IDE cables from these devices leaving only the power cable connected then they work. Any solutions? |
| | hi there.. i have a few question about my pc.. ..i have bought a AMD athlon processor and SMI motherboard K9N6PGM2..RAM 2gig.. (sata system), ..i bought this item to replace it to my older pc which is IDE system, ..i replace the older processor,motherboard, and ram with the new, .. … |
| | when im using my pc, my cd-rom is always open and close by itself.. it will not stop unless i will turn off my pc... what is the problem of this? pls help me..!! thanks a lot!!! |
| | I have a Seagate Internal HD where i have "windows xp" installed that isn't working properly due to shock however i can still turn it on but it only shows up a blank black screen and doesn't go no where. So i had to put it in an external enclosure … |
| | Just read the closed thread "Hard drive recovery and cryogenics..." and wondering if freezing might help recover a camera 2GB Lexar Flash drive. I successfully took and stored several hundred pictures on a Kodak digital camera in .jpg format. Replaced batteries after getting "Battery Exhausted" alert, and when I turned … |
| | a quick question (i think i know the answer just want to confirm befor i go ahead) in my pc ive got 3x 500gb hdds ive got 3x 1tb external hdds doing nothing so i am going to install them into the pc insted ive done two disks, all apart … |
| | Hi, guys! I'm trying to get a little more from my laptop. Here is the current configuration: Intel T2410, 2GHz, 3GB ram (cheap, slow, i suppose), Radeon HD3470, 250GB Toshiba 5400 rpm, 17", Vista Ultimate. So my question is: what to buy, a 4GB kit of low latency memory, from … |
| | Hisun 8GB USB 2.0 Flash drive on Windows XP SP3 computer. The drive works well with any other type of file, except a video file. .AVI .WMV etc... I have 4 Flash drives two out of the four will not play video files and if you just use them to … |
| | Trying to format a Samsung 120 GB IDE hard drive FAT32. Want one partition of 120GB. All utilities, even Swissknife will only format to 31.4 GB leaving the other 90 GB unformatted. How format beyond the famous 32 GB barrier??? Drive must be formatted FAT32 since it will then be … |
| | Please can someone advise me if my second storage SATA 320 Gbt HD should be set to have a primary or logical partition as I am somewhat confused about this. My main bootable HD is a SATA 1.5 Tbt which already has 3 partitions. I am using XP SP3. P4 … |
 | Hi everybody. If y'all will remember my Toshiba A100 "System Restore not working" post, thanks to all involved, my laptop is once again shiny! But there is still one remaining problemo. When I try to use my inbuilt CD/DVD drive, the disk, whether it be music, movies or anything else, … |
| | I have 10 hard drives on my computer. 4 internal and 6 external (USB2). I noticed lately that one of the External ones (Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 1000) has a VERY low write speed when copting files to it. I did a test with HD Tune Pro and low and behold, all … |
| | Hello, I have an old IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 server that i want to use as a server for backups and other stuff The server works but i do not have the driver for the ServeRAID-II controller i need it during the installation of Windows Home Server / Windows Server … |
| | i bought a 1tb maxtor one touch external harddrive. now i broke the case so i took it apart and put the drive in my pc. i connected it via the two cables (power and connect it to motherboard) as you can tell im not the most techincally minded but … |
| | Hi to all !! I have a Compaq Presario SR1602HM. Windows XP Home. I think the hard drive has went bad. When the computer is booting up, the Compaq screen shows up , then the Windows XP screen shows up but thats all. After that , its all black. I … |
| | We run a very large data base program over a domain. On of my key users ran a backup of the data (very large) and it failed or she stopped it early. Now when she tries to start the program she gets a message that she is out of disk …  |
| | i have an lg dvd rw but its not writing cds or dvds. furthermore its not reading vcds and dvds but can read data cds,can some one please help me with this problem. |
| | Hi all,need your help here...? i have 2gb kingston pendrive..and i set my pendrive drive name to 'myname'..when i plug in the pendrive,'.my problem is,when i plug in install driver 'usb disk 30x usb device' and my pendrive name change from 'myname' to 'removable disk'.and when i rightclick to properties,my … |
| | What would cause a bluescreen error 32.dll file missing and then harddrive failure on next boot? :eek: |
| | I have used this forum on a few occassions and have found the help to be quite useful. Now I really have an issue that I need some assistance with. A few years ago I purchased a NetGear SC101 Network storage device. When utilized the NetGear software formats the drives … |
| | Optorite CW4801 drive motor runs all the time. How to stop? |
| | Hi I bought a gaming computer awhile back like about 6months ago or so i'd say. When i first got it the hardrive which already had windows XP pro installed had trouble detecting the hardrive. Only after 30minutes or so of reconnecting the SATA cable that it was finally able … |
| | I have just purchased a brand new Hitachi Deskstar 500gb SATA Harddrive. When installed in my PC, I performed a NEW Windows XP installation. When it got to the point when it wants to fromat the drive, it tells me there is only 476gb available. My question is - where … |
| | Well.. I've got a USB2.0External HDD box. I was copying some content from it in ubuntu.I don't remember what i've done later but i suppose i restarted system without unmounting it. From then on External HDD doesn't get detected and reports "USB Device not recognized" I've got lots of important … |
| | I've been using a My Book 500GB hard drive as a slave drive for a while now but today it suddenly wasn't appearing. For a while it would appear on My Computer every few minutes then quickly disappear after it went through the files for a few seconds so I …  |
| | Hi - I installed windows XP onto a scsi drive via a pci hdd host bus adapter card but bios , while detecting the adapter controller, would not detect the drive as a bootable option. My guess is this card is a oem with boot option disabled (I have read … |
| | My Dell Powervault 220S disk array contains an Oracle database that is currently down. The errors within the database point to an I/O error with the Raw disks. The Windows Event Viewer has the following error at the time the database went down: "The device \Device\Scsi\mraid35x1 did not respond within … |
| | First, thanks for this great forum with so many helpful people! I know responding to people's troubles takes time and effort you could probably be spending elsewhere! Last night, my laptop was working fine. At one point I came back to it (after it had been sitting on unused for …  |
| | I've had my computer running on this haddrive for 3 years with no problems, but recently I bought a new harddrive and deleted the partition off my old one, but the new one wasn't the proper type so I returned it. Upon plugging in the old harddrive and trying to … |
| | I am a small company that wants to get into the backup/restore business from my house for small Mom and Pop companies. I want to be able to backup company's data to my fileserver and I want to use only Open Source software for Windows. The criteria's that I need … |
 | I've been using an Intel X25-M Solid State Drive for the past 6 months with out any problems. Last week, it suddenly became unreadable, I've tried formatting it with windows, and at 100% an error message pops up saying that it had failed. The drive CAN be recognized, but cannot … |
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| | Hi I tried to use new branded “R-Driver III” USB 2.0 TO SATA IDE CABLE device with Laptop HD IDE and Desktop HD IDE (once at a time) but it did not show me the HD , although I checked Disk Management (each one at a time) I thought the …  |
| | After installing [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]XP SP2[/URL] my Mesh computer will no longer boot, either normally or safe mode. Continual BSOD MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION Stop: 0x0000009C (0x00000004, 0x8054D5F0, 0xB2000000, 0x00070F0F) Machine ran fine until SP2 install. Have now tried to re-install win [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]XP[/URL]. But get the error "Setup did not find any [URL="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Hardware/Desktops/Q_21832132.html#"]hard disk drives[/URL] … |
| | I used the recovery disk for my HP Pavilion a6000n and it seems like the cd-rom stops working after awhile. It will start the recovery and sometimes make it to the second disk but then the disk just stops spinning and wont do anything after that. I've even let it … |
| | Hi Guys, I have a Dell Latitude D630 and the SATA HDD crashed. I accidently purchased an ATA/IDE HDD as a replacement (cannot be exchanged - dodgy dealer!). Is it possible to fit this into the D630. I am aware the the D630 ATG has a SATA/IDE storage controller but … |
| | I bought a system with 3 SATA hard drives. Drive 0 is the main drive where Windows and all the files and other programs are. Drive 1 and 2 are in a RAID 1 array. They are supposed to be mirroring drive 0. That is the point. How do I … |
| | I know the standard way to hook up a hard drive is to hook it up to #1 and the dvd to #2. I have a hard drive and 2 dvd drives. I talked to someone and they said the fastest way for the setup to work is to set … |
| | I just got a new maxtor drive ( 320gb. ) but windows only see 31.gb what can i do? |
| | In CD writing is performed from inner to outer of CD. How is it done in hard disk? |
| | What is the meaning of my portable hard drive beeping all of a sudden, and then I get an error box which says something like "the file H:/yaddayadda failed to write. Data has been lost." This has never happened before, but it has happened 3x in the past 3 days. … |
| | hey guyz, by mistake I clicked format for the drive D, but after just about 15 secs after it started i cancelled it, now whenever i try to open this D drive it says "u need to format the disk in drive D before u can use it", is there …  |
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| | I have a Compaq Presario V2000 laptop. The dvd/cd drive doesn't show up in MY COMPUTER anymore. It has also stopped reading any disc that I put in it. I went to DEVICE MANAGER and there is a yellow exclamation mark on the dvd/cd drive. When I try to update … |
| | hi guys i have a problem with my harddrive 40 gb seagate when ever i put the data cable it gives me beep can any one tell me how to recover it it doesnt detect it just gives beep. |
 | Hi, I have just had a Sata drive start to smoke and melt the power connection. Will it be safe to connect another Sata drive to the PC or should I have it checked by someone first?  |
| | Hi, i got a problem wth my Toshiba 250gb. Before i reformat my hard disk, it working perfectly fine.. after i format it and i restart my laptop. then i plug an usb cable to the hard disk, a light came out but it wont show any plug n play … |
| | I'm not sure if this is the right forum, i have a flash drive what id like to keep some information on permently is this possible and if so how can it be done. |
| | I purchased a 500 GB SATA Seagate hard drive, first it showed up in the BIOS and also in the disk managment snap-in, after I preformed the format for my hard drive it no longer appears in the BIOS or disk management snap-in but it still appears in the device … |
 | I have a 120GB USB hard drive, if i install games on it, will they be slowed down by the fact it is USB? |
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