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I have a Toshiba Satellite A55 laptop, which I used for 2 years without any problems. Last month the system began slowing to a crawl and then either freezing up or crashing completely. Hard drive was making all sorts of scratching noises, and one time I got the error message …

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I'm feeling a bit foolish right now. Here's what I'm trying to accomplish: I'm replacing my current HD with a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9. I got it in the mail, took the old C drive out and replaced it with the Max. Of course it gave me a "Boot Disk …

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I clicked on the my computer icon yesterday and noticed that the icon for one of my hard drives had changed to a different icon. It is the one that is like a piece of paper with the corner folded slightly and has another picture of a screen or whatever. …

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Recently my hard disk started clicking and i thought that the only way i could access it was by making it a slave. But when i connected it to another computer, the drive is recognized in the post message and in BIOS but not in windows. Is there a way …

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Offices 2007 update started installing on my PC then I had notice cleanup desk the storage size was 1.8 gig the installation could not finish, I have cleanup my desk I can not achieve the normal size yet I can not find the file, I tried antivirus the cleanup desk …

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Hi there everybody, I have got a big problem which I ask you help if possible. I have an IDE hard drive which is mounted on an enclosure. For 4 years it has worked the best but now it seems to have many problems as I am not able to …

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I tried adding a new hard drive to my desktop pc, and now when I try to boot it says "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key" I tried unplugging it and just rebooting, and it worked fine. I …

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Hi, my maxtor ext. hd which has been working well, has suddenly started to flash lights when connected to the power supply. The green light in the case is flashing and the green light on the power adaptor. The light is flashing fast and the icon is not showing up …

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Thanks to new firmware (v.1.3) released last Thursday, Dell's Lifecycle Controller now works with system management tools from BMC and Microsoft. Most reports that followed Dell's Thursday announcement focused on the speed and capacity of its EqualLogic storage arrays, not on the software used to manage them. While improvements to …

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I recently had a home server go down that was running a raid 0 array. The motherboard went out and my backup isn't current. Is the array recoverable? There are a few articles out there that discuss array migration, in this case would I be looking at essentially a array …

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how to check wheter hdd work or not.because when open computer thats can't open monitor

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I have Toshiba Satellite A40 with Toshiba SD-R2412 CD-RW/DVD-ROM Optical drive. I have to change my optical drive due to lens failure and I bought TEAC DW-224E as per recommendation in Toshiba Notebook Manual provided to me. When I insert and turn on laptop, I get IDE #1 error message …

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okay. i have a flash drive, and i keep most of my stuff on it. very recently, though, i went to my computer and plugged it in. usually, an icon appears on the desktop when i do that, but it wasn't there. so i looked at the equivalent of my …

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According to a Search Software Quality survey of 492 IT professionals, 22 percent struggle most with requirements gathering. Yet the same group said they spend less than 12 percent of their time doing it. Not so at [url=http://www.lsi.com]LSI Corp.[/url], which probably made some of the storage silicon in the computer …

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Hello! everyone!.. I am probably the oldest poster on this forum!. Besides a few others that I belong to!. I am herein joining in an attempt to find out why my darn CD-ROM and my DVD-RW all of a sudden disappeared from my XP Explorer. BIOS sees it fine. When …

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Hello, I have a Dell inspiron 600m and I ran into this issue last week when I suddenly cant boot up my laptop. A cranky noise from the compartment made me believe that the HDD had crashed and I therefore replaced it with a new WD - EIDE, PATA, one …

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i need to change my sata mode from AHCI to IDE to reformat my laptop to windows XP. or else i will get a blue screen. i am using Acer Aspire 4736. i jus want to know what is the consequences that i will experience when i change it.

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Hi, I'm no hardware genius so I hope I can communicate what I'm wanting to do. I currently have two HDD on an ASUS P5K SE motherboard and a 500w PSU. I have three partitions on the first (500GB) drive, C: (Win XP Pro), D: (Documents), E: (Somewhere to put …

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Hi I bought a new laptop which came with windows 7 pre-installed. I am supposed to have a 500GB HDD space, but when i view "Computer" which also displays the available size, it says i have 11GB of 40 GB left! but i have a 500GB hard drive. when i …

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Hi G(uy/irl)s, I have a small problem (to you I hope). I have 2 Dells, a Dimension 9200, came with 2x250GB Caviars set to RAID0. Swapped for 2x1TB set to RAID1. No problem. Second, Vostro 200, came as 1x150GB Caviar. I am trying to install the Caviars from the 9200 …

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I am stumped, I searched everywhere and tried a bunch of things to no avail, so I'm hoping someone would know the answer. I have a pretty old PC with an Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard that I’m trying to give a second life to. There are a total of …

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I am trying to upgrade my 80GB hard drive in my Dell Inspiron 710M to a 320Gb drive. I used Acronis to clone my old drive to my new drive, but when i install the new drive, it cannot find the drive. I tried different setting when I do the …

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i bought norton ghost (latest) version, found that after much waiting (over 2 days!), it kinda stopped (some error problem) and now I find the bloody back-up took near 90 gb of my external what is going on?? i thought these image backup supposing takes less hard disk space?! can …

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HI guys i need help. I've got this tribyte that picks up on the bios, but does not pick up on my computer. when i go to disk management it says disk2 unreadable. what happened was i load linux for the first time on a 80gig hdd and to test …

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Hi, The company I working for, fired its Graphic Designer and he remove all designs sources files and take a copy with himself to exchange them with money in future, Anyway His computer has 2 hard drive one his windows and personal files and the other one to store his …

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Hello altogether, a couple of weeks ago I updated my linux-system and copied the ISO-Image on an USB-stick so that I can boot it. It did work though, but now I don't have a clue how to format it back to a FAT32-system. Any idea? Thank you! Simon

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I was just reading about the different types of cables used to connect components of computers. When it comes to serial ports and parallel ports, parallel ports are faster because they send several bits of data simultaneously. Therefore, it should follow that parallel ATA is faster than Serial ATA. However, …

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dell pc bios don't see secondary drive after every reboot hi guys ,,i have a dell dimension 8200 dell pc 768 rdrm bios version A09,xp pro sp3 i unplu pc to clean pc by inside...then when connected the problem started.i had the same problem like 2 years ago,forgot how to …

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Hi all I just installed my new motherboard, along with RAM and Processor Motherboard: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167782#[/URL] Processor: [URL="http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews"]http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168970/show_product_reviews[/URL] Ram: [URL="http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304"]http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=4B84BC76A5CA7304[/URL] I have had a problem in that I cant get windows to see my drives in "My Computer". I had first of my DVD/RW Writemaster SH-S222 which is seen in BIOS …

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