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| | Hello there all!!! I guessed this would be the best place for me to ask question. A cousin of mine has a sony VGN-C140G, he told me that just after he formatted it...his CD ROM drive stopped reading CDs. It is getting kinda troublesome finding the solution. I tried unstalling …  |
 | I have a bunch of songs that I downloaded and burned to cd-r disks, and they play fine in the normal cd player, but there is one problem. After one track is finished, it repeats, instead of skipping to the second track, and the only way to get to the … |
| | Will running FIXMBR in the recovery console affect the data that is on a drive or should the drive be backed up as much as possible before doing this?  |
| | I was trying to install Windows XP in my Gateway Notebook Model MA7 with SATA Drive but it comes out with the message Hard disk not found while there is active HDD ditected in the BIOS setup. I have done all I can in the Bios setup but to no … |
| | Hey, I have a maxtor 150 gig hard drive. Its running on xp system with 1gig ram so pretty decent. I was working on something and then the system crashed so i restarted. Then it did a system check on E drive (the external hard drive) The drive was normally …  |
| | Ok, this is a strange one... Was running the Fedora 9 live cd, and deleted some stuff off my desktop in Vista. I also was getting ready to play a movie (all my movies are stored on my external drive) while the Fedora installer ran on the Live Cd. The … |
| | Hey, I'm diligently trying to install a SATA hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) with my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and the damn thing wont recognize it at all. I can only connect it with a SATA cable (no ribbon option, which is what the previous HDD was) and the motherboard … |
| | i don't know what's the problem with my cd-rom drive but the icon in MY Computer keeps on disappearing frequently. i tried clicking on device manager, scanned the hardware but it remains hidden. The icon isn't visible. Can anyone plz help in this regard? it's too frustrating at times. Thanxx.... |
| | I'm having a problem when I turn on my PC I get this message "Detecting IDE Drives". Then it takes a few times turning it off and on to get it to work. Sometimes a good whack on the side works LOL. I've taken it to the local computer shop … |
| | I recently had a start up problem with my Dell XPS 410 which I purchased in March 2007 and has a 250 GB Samsung SP2504C hard drive. I have partitioned the drive so my data is on one partion and the software on the primary partition. Fact is I started … |
| | my computer is about 4 or five years old and has an 80GB hard drive in it. when i right click on the C drive in my computer and click properties it shows i have 74.4 gb i figured it was just getting old but i ran HD tune 2.55 … |
| | Hi, I've got a Toshiba HDD2718 B ZE01 T Model MK2104MAV Hard Drive. I also have an interface connector to connect this HD into an IDE cable into my Desktop PC to enable me to load Win 95 / Win 98 OS onto the laptop HD. This connector joins 2.5 … |
| | I was not using that drive for a while and now when I insert a video CD or mp3 CD, it doesnt recognize. Any tips? I don't think it's software related. |
 | I have a Gateway M520 laptop. The CD/DVD drive does not show up on Windows. The tray will open and close just fine, the light blinks like its reading it but does not register. Windows said the device is working properly and the driver is installed. It does however register … |
| | I'm having trouble with my RAID0 array (2x250GB SATA1), I think one of the drives hay be bad/corrupted* but my system freezes when the array is enabled. I'm thinking about disabling my raid adapter and running chkdsk, ect on the individual drives. Since I've never tried this before I'm worried … |
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| | Well lemme explain my situation, my hard drive is dieing, i go into a game and 10min later i hear this "click" sound....it only clicks once and my computer freezes and i usually immediately shut off to try to avoid anything else happening. But thats not my main problem, my … |
| | hai,hope all are happy. i have a new data pendrive,but problem is, i want to format it very often, useually i am scaning but nothing , do you have any idea for me,please <<imras>> |
| | I recently bought a newer pc. It already had XP on it, as did my old one. So I didnt bother to change over my HDD. But afterwards I wanted to transfer some Music & Pictures from my old HDD to my new HDD, but when I enter into the … |
 | I wasn't sure if Win XP could do CHDSK on a RAID 1 Array. I haven't done it yet. I ran a defrag utility on it and thought about issues with info being defraged to bad sectors. I was uncertain if the array would be corrupted if windows did error … |
| | Hello, I bought a dvd burner for an older pc that I have, and when I tried to play a movie it said "windows cannot play this movie because you don't have a decoder installed" The burner didn't come with software, and I was wondering where I could download a … |
| | I have a SATA DVD drive thats not working. I have an IDE drive on hand and wanted to use it for now. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe. There is only ine IDE header on this MOBO and one IDE cable included in the box that the MOBO came … |
| | I am hoping someone can give me some insight on making a SATA raid with a PCMCIA card. I have a new Alienware laptop that kicks butt and I want to make it rock hard with a raid. I want to stick 2 250gig hard drives on a two channel … |
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| | Hello all, new here and baffled! Well this recently just maybe a month ago that it wouldn't read CD roms. It reads and loads DVD roms fine. Sometimes I can get it to read the CD roms by opening and closing the tray with the cd rom in it like … |
| | Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a … |
| | I had a windows xp problem...computer wouldn't boot up..and I decided to restore it with a quick restore cd. Thinking the restore cd would carefully prompt me through each step before proceeding to the final restore, it started to restore both the C and D drives. (My computer initially came … |
| | Hello alll I've been having problems on my hard drive. It has been working fine but all of sudden, when i restart my computer, there is a blue screen which says that my drive e, the Nt drive , needs to be checked for consistency. It does this everytime i …  |
 | I have an ASUS A7V8X-X mb with 2 HDS, both partioned X2; 1.5 gig RAM; a 2 gig AMD processor. This is kind of a long storyi. I began getting Boot Disk Failures here awhile back. They would begin once in awhile and grew to nothing, but Failure. I had … |
| | Hello everybody, I tried to copy my 60GB hard drive from my old laptop to my 160GB hard drive on my new laptop. It is Windows XP SP-2.I uninstalled all additional drivers.The copy works perfect on the old laptop,but not on the new one.On the first "Windows" screen,where the three … |
 | Hey, I've seen this external hardrive and was wondering if this would be ok to save ALL my files to it, So in the end i wouldn't have any files on my computer but all on the hardrive, its 1TB in data, 1024gb if i'm correct? [URL="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0622165/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011728.Office%2C%2BPC%2Band%2Bphones%3EC%24cip%3D1500011797.Hard%2Bdrives.htm"]Clicky[/URL] |
| | Hi everyone, I have a problem that I would like to share with you. I recently bought a hard disk and had formatted it on my friends system. The installation had no problems and I copied some software in that. But later I found that I could not read some … |
| | Hey Please help, Ive just built a system for my gf's dad/sis not tht it matters. anyways it was the first time i have used a sata HDD and had some troble installing it (solved by a nicked floppy drive from work). But noticed tht the system would not boot …  |
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| | Recently I got a new laptop because my old one completely broke. I was able to get my hard drive out of the old one, and have been searching for something that I could use to still view the files. I finally found an adapter that i could use and … |
| | I am in the field of desktop support In a system with configuration Core 2 duo 2.2 Ghz, 1GB Ram, 160 GB Hdd, Lg DVD Writer Model GSA-H55N. In the drive the Video files with extension *.vob plays normally by right clicking the drive and selecting "play with power DVD". … |
| | I keep getting the following error message in my Events Log: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 51 Date: 5/17/2008 Time: 8:30:42 PM User: N/A Computer: GARYHOMEOFFICE Description: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation. For more information, see Help and … |
 | I am trying to retrieve data from a HDD that was inside a computer whose MOBO sustained a hit of lighting and fried. I plugged in HDD to power supply and smoke immediately appeared. Any ideas on what to do next? Thanks Sylvia |
| | Hi All, Any thoughts on this one? I've got a Lacie 250GB Quadro HDD that I have used with a Mac and a PC in the past. Now the PC won't recognise it and hence, I can't access the data. I have gone to disc management and device management on … |
 | A hardrive was connected and powered in a PC without the old hardrive present. Issue now: There is no visual, as if the graphics card does not work. Note: The new hardrive was connected to the PC without properly being formated. How do I solve this problem? What are the … |
| | Hi, my Maxtor harddrive recently stopped working....I have it jumpered correctly and everything, I've check all wires and cordings, and replaced them with brand news ones. I can get it to detect the harddrive when I have hit hooked up as a slave to my 1.9gb harddrive, but when I … |
| | hey im new at this and i was hoping u could help me out i have a drive that wont read disks its a ts-h652 its a dvd rom im trying to watch movies burn cd/dvd im running windows xp but the drive came out of a vista cpu so … |
| | Hello, I have a problem, the CD drive in my laptop does not read any CDs any more, although it reads DVDs normally! What can I do to solve this? |
| | So I've got this laptop that was stuck in an infinite boot loop (I feel that I should mention that it would reboot after showing the windows loading screen), chances are OS is corrupt, right? So we decide to reinstall, but first I've got to get the data off. The … |
| | Hello there. I recently upgraded my pc ( find spec below). I pulled out the hard drives from my old pc and put them in the new one. i reinstalled XP and booted. i am running a 500GB 32mb SATA and a 1TB SATA . Windows is installed on the … |
| | I have a sony spressa i link external drive i took the cdrom out and put a hd in and it worked i am trying a different hd and its not working my card, cable, and hd are fine. I am wondering if the jumpers need to be in a … |
| | Hey Everyone! I need some help! My LaCie 500GB external USB hard drive is having troubles- my sister-in-laws baby knocked it over and I have valuable information on it! It worked afterwards a couple of times then it had some kind of error on it- I can't recall the actual … |
| | Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite m45 s 269 that has a 100gb HD. I recently purchased a 2.5 hdd harddrive enclosure however it does not fit. The hard drive does says its an Hdd. I am confused. I tried it on my Compaq presario 905 us harddrive which says … |
| | i have a dell 4150 inspiron lap top, i am looking to upgrade the hard drive. it now has only 30 g. i would like to put at leasdt 100g in it. noblody , but noby seems to be able to find me one that fits,(except if i took it … |
| | Hi, I'm a very, very newbie to this forum. I have a Gateway desktop running Windows ME that has started to die and I want to remove the hard drive, put it in an enclosure, and use it as an external drive for my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop which is … |
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