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will a toshiba 30gb hd work in a dell inspiron 1200?

Hello all! I'm trying to add a WD 750G HDD to my system. I have a Silicon Image SiL3114 PCI SATA card, and I'm still booting from my IDE HDD. I initialized and formatted the new 750 while it was in an external case, and started moving some files onto …

Windows Xp crashed for some reason earlier and my external hard drive that I had hooked up to it wont work now. The power light comes on but I dont even get the 'bong' sound from putting in a USB device. Does anybody know any ways to troubleshoot this or …

Good Afternoon, I was curious if anyone has experience with these drives. I bought it just over a year ago, didnt catch it only carries a one year warranty versus the norm of 3/5 years. Everything has worked well expect last night while transferring data over the network it stops …

i want to buy the acer aspire one laptop wich has a solid stste drive of 4GB. but i would love to have a bigger storage in it. is it possible to install the usuall internal SATA HD in this laptop? thanx

Back a couple of weeks ago, although lately it feels like a lifetime ago, I was receiving McAfee pop-up notifications on boot-up, that the security suite had detected StealthMBR!mbr in any &/or all of the following locations: G:\, G:\Desktop.ini, I:\ and I:\Desktop.ini. The F drive is my boot drive on …

Hey Guys, Not sure if this should go here or in the OS forum, so sorry if I picked wrong! So, I'm building a new pc (specs below if needed), & I have a question about moving my HDD over before I do the upgrade. Currently on my old machine, …

Address where i can get controller board for Seagate SATA

I purchased a hitachi 1TB HD and installed. i followed these instructions I found on Dell forums. The one thing I noticed is the HD has no jumper to set. Secondly, the computer recognized a new drive installed. I just cannot format it. I find no drive in my computer. …

I have Windows Vista,my DVD drive will not recognize any DVD's or CD's or install software.The drive shows in 'My Computer' but when I attempt to open or explore contents it ejects the disc.The driver is up to date,it shows that''Device is working properly''and I set the region to 1-for …

My colleagues laptop had a problem where it kept rebooting unexpectedly and required fixing, I reset the BIOS and I could not boot into windows and the windows setup saying there was no hard drive installed after changing the AHCI setting the hard drive was detected, may I ask what …

My wife's computer's hard drive died. I tried installing both IDE and SATA drives to use for the restore. None of them are recognized by the Disk Management system using the MS HomeServer Restore CD, Vista, or XP Install disks. The BIOS shows the HDD. I partitioned and formatted the …

First, please know that I've already checked out the other threads on the subject and none of the solutions have worked in my case. Having said that, I recently upgraded the memory and replaced the mobo in my HTPC. Below is my current setup: Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 mobo AMD Athlon 64 …

hi guys,have this problem.. it was working good,,,haven't used like 6 months ago,today my cousin asked me to charge his sansa mp3..found out it didn't detect it.. -i swap slots..nothing .i unistalled drivers,,nothng scan for new changes,,OC DETECT the new hardware,,install drivers,,but nothing -in this pc i have xp-sp3 is …

I'm currently running an ASUS P5Q-EM motherboard with a 250 GB hard drive with all my data on it and Windows XP Home. I purchased and installed two 640 GB hard drives with the intention of using these in a RAID1 configuration for all my personal data, and leaving all …

Hi After adding a sata dvd writer, whic became the 3rd sata drive, the second ( Seagate barracuda 500gb)goes missing. It shows up in bios and 'device manager' , but not in 'disk management' or 'my computer. System: win. xp pro. home, gigabyte motherboard, amd dual core processors. The missing …

Hello, First of all, I'm very new in computer hardware, so pardon my level of knowledge. So, here's my story I found (lying in my campus corridor) a WD2500JB HDD. So, I took it home and tried to install it to my PC (an eMachines T4010). I choose the jumper …

I recently bought a refurbished Maxtor DiamondMax 11 and it totally sucked so I returned it. It made sandpaper noises. So then I figured I can't go wrong with a brand new Seagate Barracuda 500 gigger but was I ever wrong. It works ok until it actually has to transfer …

My son's computer got virused. IT won't boot but rather goes to a blue screen with and missing User32.dll message. Afte researching, I found a method to replace the user32.dll file (as far as the instructions go, anyhow) I took his hard drive out of his machine and placed it …

Hey folks I have an external hardrive which is the back-up of a dead machine. I have managed to crack the windows security by resetting the security permissions as was denied - however, when the drive is plugged in (via USB) to a Vista machine (yeuch) it is showing as …

Hey all, I have a XPS M1730. I have Intel Duo 2.4 GHZ and 2 GB of Ram. I noticed last month every once in awhile my hard drive would get overloaded and the computer would freeze for about 30 seconds. Last month I was running Vista, and most of …

I have a 320 gb sata dard drive that I've been using for about a year. There are three partitions C, D and E. C and E are about 150 gb eack and D about 20 gb. Due to (my music) collection growing now to 80 gb, looking back I …

I am a xp user.I used Easeus patition magic for deleting a partition. then a window came with 2 options : 1. delete partition ; 2. erase data and delet partition. I dont know why i chosed option 2, and then my harddisk was totally blank,cannot boot. then i did …

Hi All, I have posted here before and everyone was very helpful with getting me through a wireless networking problem. Now, I am hoping someone can be as helpful with a question I have about a hard drive. I recently got a new computer. As such, I was going to …

Good day. I have a problem i got a 400 gb HDD it was partitioned in 2 200gb each drive. i reformat the drive c: to install a fresh OS (Windows XP SP2) I partitioned the drive into 40gb c:drive & 160gb in the other drive. I used the one …

I just put together a system to replace my old one that was very slow. I wanted to make sure I never had slow problems again so I got a motherboard that is capable of bus speeds up to 2600 mhz, AMD Phenom quad-core 2.5 ghz processor, and 4 gb …

I have a pc with two hdds: 1. maxtor - diamondmax 10, 160gb pata133 hdd, n256, 3.5 series ,d33019 2. samsung sata sp2504c When turning on my pc, sometimes i would get the error that there are bad sectors and the hdd (maxtor had the os - xp - installed …

Hi, My 500 Giga WD MyBook HD is dead and I'm looking for a dependable replacement. Since this failure happened with a year use, I am prone to look for a more dependable option? Should I prefer an internal HD and an enclosure? If so, suggestions and warnings are highly …

I have a raid 5 that I am attempting to setup. They firmware is Symbios and while in post I can view the drives and set them up to work on boot. The NVRam is active. Now when I boot the machine the raid says that it has failed. I …

I apologize for any lengthy explantation ahead of time. But thank your for taking your time to read this. I have spent hours and hours reading and have had no luck. Everything seems to lead back to nothing. Background- 1 month ago my Windows XP 250g 7200 hard drive was …

I got a lil prob here....i hope this is the correct section to ask this question!!! okey i hav 4 year old sony vaio which is very gud laptop and very nice one i want to install a new hard drive in this laptop and i want recover the windows …

My old Dell PC, now defunct, has a Hard Drive with the following description: 60GB,7200RPM Hitachi,VAN2 I want to purchase a new Compaq Presario SR5710F Desktop Computer With AMD Athlon™ X2 Dual-Core Processor 4450e+ . If I use a data transfer cable, will I be able to transfer files from …

I have a 750Gb Maxtor USB HDD mounted as G:. I just received a message saying "G:\$Secure is corrupt. Run chkdsk". So I did (in a cmd window). What I got is this: C:\Documents and Settings\Norman>chkdsk g: /f The type of the file system is NTFS. Volume label is OneTouch4. …

ok, i have a laptop and i wanted to run a game off of my external hard drive. I know it is possible but i was wondering what the best way to go about it is. My computer has USB 2.0 and an HDMI slots. I know you can run …

DVD drive won't read one of my DVD disks. It has a spot that is a bit darker and blurry. What is that? Can it be repaired?

So I recently bought and external hard drive to back up some files and it works fine when the computer is already turned on but once i have to restart or just start up my computer it stops at the first screen i tried just letting it process the informations …

Hi... I need HELP! About a week ago after firing up my computer and trying to access my elements external drive it just wouldnt let me open it, just seemed like i wasn't plugging in anything at all? I later realised that the little light that would usually be on …

When I try to boot my laptop I am getting the following messages. Primary Hard disk not found optical drive not found Press F1 to retry boot or F2 to run set up. Please somebody help me to fix this problem. Thanks Jai

[B]my hard drive was always patition before. Yesterday i tried to delete one of the partition after formatting it now am gettin a message saying there is not enough disk space i tried using my dell media direct cd to format it but i gettin error so i cant format …

I'm using a Dell Dimension 5150 machine with BIOS version A05, I'm planning on purchasing a Seagate (or Iomega) external USB 2.0 1TB drive. I recently contacted Dell hardware support who assured me that the BIOS supports this type of storage device even though I can only find references to …

I have 2 Western Digital Hard Drives that I now can't access. Neither one of them will load up when I connect them to my PC. It doesn't even show that one of them is connected. Any ideas?

Bios does not recognize hard drive - Hard drive appears as 'Rigel' rather than as Maxtor 5T060H6. Apparently some hacker got to it. Any way to re-program it?

I got a new Maxtor 500 GB sata II hard drive last month..it's still under warrany..but this was my 2nd hdd,my first one is a seagate 80 GB SATA drive which contains my Os, out of no where all of a sudden my both driver stopped working.. My board is …

Hi I've just bought the Samsung HD502IJ hard disk and I am trying to install it myself. My old HD had a 'disk failure', and what I am trying to do is make the Samsung be the master HD, install windows XP on it, then connect the old HD as …

Hey, Currently my computer has one 40GB hard drive in it, and my friend has an old computer that he never uses with an 80GB hard drive. Is it possible just to take that hard drive and plug it into one of the connectors in my computer? Thanks!

Hi all, I have a DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configrutaion of 3 hard drives capacity 73GB 10k Ultra 320 SCSI. Two of the hard discs started blinking 4 times per second which clearly states the hardware failure in dell systems. So 2 out of 3 HDs stopped …

i'm new here, so i hope i put it in place.. i have a cd from 2 years ago, of picturs. when i tried to open it i couldn't see my picturs. i tried to copy it to the computer with "total commander", but only few of the picturs were …

Please help, My new segate 1.5 terabyte sata hard drive on motherboard 945GCT-M/133 64 bit, will not start using windows xp pro 32 bit cd. But it will start and install windows 2000 pro and only partition at 130 gigabytes. The hard drive came with a disk utility cd and …

RIG: --- 1.15 GHz AMD -- 256 MB RAM -- 56x CD -- DVD drive -- 40GB HDD --- Hi, I'm new to this forum but relatively experienced in computers; I recently removed a *gradually* failing IDE Western Digital HDD from my computer (slave position), and the master IDE HDD …

I have a new computer with Windows XP professional installed. The new motherboard (XFX GeForce 8200) is set up mostly for SATA drives with a connector for IDE drives. I have the computer set up so it boots up from the SATA drive. I have an older hard drive (WD1200 …