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 | Hey everyone, I have customer that I just replaced a DVD-Rom with. When we check the old one, it would freeze up when you would try to play any disc in it, I tried re-installing drivers and all that jazz, nothing worked and the computer just went into a hard … |
| | Hi! I had my USB external HD 200GB for about over 1 year. It was working fine until 2 day ago my town got thunder storm, my house electronic was out and got back in a sec. My computer was restarted, I could see my USB HD in window explorer …  |
| | Wiped HDD are doa I received several Maxtor 40 gb hard drives that were “wiped” by the donor. So far, I have not been able to get past “operating system not found” or “hard disk not found” on any of them. Using three different computers and trying all the variations … |
| | Wiped HDD are doa I received several Maxtor 40 gb hard drives that were “wiped” by the donor. So far, I have not been able to get past “operating system not found” or “hard disk not found” on any of them. Using three different computers and trying all the variations …  |
| | Hello all. Here we go.... I used partition magic to partition a 20gig 2.5" drive installed in one of my desktop systems with an IDE adapter. Windows will not recognize the drive after using PM, before all was fine. I have tried booting with several boot cd's/floppys. The best I … |
| | Hi! I have an external hard drive and I was converting the file system from FAT32 to NTFS on it. That operation completed, sort of, but it came up with some odd message I cannot recollect, at the end of the process and now I cannot see the files on … |
| | Ok chaps, here's the setup, and I'd like your advice how to make it go as painlessly as possible, please ;) I currently have a Foxconn 760GXK8MC motherboard, running a 40Gb Master and an 80Gb Slave drive on an IDE channel. I've purchased a 320Gb Western Digital SATA drive to … |
| | The power supply reads proper voltage (voltmeter), however no lights come on for this 750gb Maxtor HD One Touch IV. I know that I can get a warranty one, however I had literally finished, one day before, organizing every single music, video, footage, file, and harddrive backup into something clear … |
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| | Ok new problem. I took the old hard drive out of my Compaq lappy and have managed to connect it to my dest top as a secondary drive. I can read and copy most of the files on it but all my music and photos in MY DOCUMENTS cannot be … |
| | Hey guys, I was trying to boot up my old computer to transfer some files to a new one and it wasn't working. It's a Dell Dimension, and when i turn it on it just freezes up after the screen asking for boot menu/setup. Also at times, the screen will …  |
| | Hi I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent showing in BIOS... the wierd thing is their both present … |
| | Hi all, I am reaching out for a bit of assistance. I hope to get some before I go all nuts... I have an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard, to which one 200 GB SATA HDD is installed as the main drive. Then I have one small 20 GB IDE HDD … |
| | :confused: I OWN A CTX EZBOOK 800 SERIES LAPTOP WITH AN AMD-K6 333MHZ PROCESSER, 160MB RAM, 4 GB FUJITSU MHC2040AT HARD DRIVE, EXTERNAL PCMCIA 8GB IBM TRAVELSTAR E HARD DRIVE, 1.44 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE, 56K MODEM, AND A Q-LITY 4X4X6 CDRW (MODEL: ECW-043). PROBLEM: A FEW DAYS AGO, I DELETED … |
 | Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least … |
| | I have two hard drives, one is sata. I want the one that is sata to be the default one my computer starts up on. How do I change my other hard drive being default? |
| | how to solve the problem of dumping of physical memory in disk.......if this problem is occuring frequently |
| | I had an ancient 386 computer that I wanted to salvage data from. So I took out the drive, put it into an external drive enclosure, and plugged the USB cable into my XP machine. XP recognized the enclosure, assigned the drive a letter, but refuses to open the drive. … |
| | I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC running Win 2000 Server. Currently there are two hard drives controlled by an ATA-100 Host bus Raid adaptor for Poweredge SC. (#9K646) in a Raid 1 (Mirroring) configuration. I want to leave the raid configuration intact but add a third hard drive as backup … |
| | This notebook is going back to HP for repairs, under warranty. The problem is I have importaint info on the HD, I was going to ship it without the HD to protect the info, HP won't accept the notebook without the HD....even though the problem is in the MB. Does … |
| | So I got a new computer recently (posted below) and I decided that instead of taking out the extra 80gig i ordered with it and replacing it with my 300gig hard drive, that i'd just put the 300gig in there. Now, I didn't have any more IDE slots so I … |
 | Hello, I backup my files on the external harddisk before I reformatted my PC. Then I installed the OS. At first, PC can read external HD with drive letter, space usage and free space percentage, can read folders but it says all folders are empty! I tried to reformat my … |
| | If you help me solve my problem, I'll make sure you go to heaven : ) I've scoured the net looking for a solution. I know nothing about computers, and desperate for an answer. My Maxtor DV3000 Ext. Hard Drive is flashing a green light and the icon won't who … |
| | So I just got my new computer, everything works great, it sounds great, however when I went to check the C drive under my computer I found a problem. The C drive read 74gigs free out of 79 gigs. Now, that wouldn't normally be a problem except its reading the … |
| | This is a two-parter post; hope it's ok to stick it in one thread... a) I would like to change my system drive, which is currently only 40 GB, to a larger one (120 GB). So I'm wondering how to clone what I currently have on my system drive to … |
| | hi, I have a problem with my external HDD: when i try to acces the drive it says i need to format it. There's 300gigs of data on the drive so i don't really want to do that. Anyway to fix this? thnx  |
| | [COLOR=#000000]My folks had a HP from the turn of the century that was dieing and they wanted me to gut... well, I wanted to gut it so I got them a new machine and have been trying to salvage what I can from their old beast. Now they tell me … |
| | Hi all, this is my first post and I have just built my first computer (but please treat me like a beginner as building a PC isnt really that hard, and I'm far from fluent in computer). The reason I think there is a problem with my hard-drives is that … |
| | Okay I'm trying to get this computer to run, but it is eating the floppy discs I'm putting into it. I make an MS-DOS startup disk in this machine, it works fine, I restarted with it in to make sure it works, and it worked fine. I put the disk … |
| | I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not recognize the hard drive and won't let us do a repair. … |
| | Hi, I have 2 Hard Drives in my computer. My main one is a Maxtor 250GB SATAII 16Mb Buffer HDD. My second is a Maxtor 120GB ATA HDD (I think 4Mb Buffer). I currently have Win XP installed and all my programs on my 250GB SATAII HDD. My other drive … |
| | I have a eMachines computer, quite new (Vista new), and i am attempting to put in a Western Digital Caviar SE16 hard drive as a secondary. the only problem is when i put it in, my computer doesnt recognize that it is a hard drive. it detects that something is … |
| | i have a maxtor hdd and it gives a double beep when i try installing it also it doesn't detect in the bios. can any one help??? |
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| | Hi I cannot access my hard drive on my hp nx6310 laptop. The DVD rom will also not read any discs. Please help |
| | Hi guys, I'm having a strange problem with my SATA drive and I am totally at a loss at what to do. 2 days ago I had been using 2 hard drives, 1 80GB IDE Seagate hd with Windows XP and my games & programs on it, the other was …  |
| | I'm going crazy and hope someone could assist. I recently bought a barebones to upgrade my existing system. My challange is to keep my main IDE as primary/boot with the existing O/S (XP Pro) and add on 3 additional IDE drives using SATA coverters. The other 3 drives have data … |
| | I am having trouble installing a second hard drive as a slave. They are IDE, originally there were two hard drives, however i have purchased a new hard drive to replace the old slave hard drive. I set the new hard drive jumper setting to slave, however when i do … |
| | Alright so my sound card was going to that evil place down under (yes, australia ;) ) So i booted down my comp and unplugged EVERYTHING and proceeded to take it out. I went to boot the system again but this time i got the error of Boot disc failure. … |
| | Hi all I'm a musician/sound designer and need more clout than most from my PC. So, I've decided to bulid a new system with the following specs: Antec p182 Case ASUS P5K Premium Motherboard Geforce 8800 GT Crucial ddr2 pc6400 ram Intel core 2 Q6600 Sound ok? First thing to … |
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| | [COLOR=#000000]I need help recovering a few days worth of photos in Barcelona off my 20 GB flashtrax, it is essentially a 20gb portable usb2.0 hard drive with a CF card reader, it acts as a portable hard drive, so I imagine any data recovery tools that would work for portable … |
| | Hello. I had a user bring their external USB HD to my office. He used it on his Mac for a backup with the Time Machine software. He accidently pulled his HD from the USB before unmounting it, and most likely when it was being accessed by Time Machine. When … |
| | I am up against a wall on a Proliant with a 3300 es raid card and seven 18.2 drives configured as a raid level 5. we had a drive fail in the array and replaced the drive, by accident we installed a 9.1 gig drive instead of the correct 18.2, … |
| | *Problem: Brand new hard drive (properly installed) isn't being detected by the installation software (or by windows). It is properly installed... It is confirmed as working... It is meant for my computer (computer stats below)... The 8-pin jumper slot has no master or slave modes. *Component: Western Digital SATA 300, … |
| | Hi, I am trying to add 3rd hard drive (500 GB) to my computer. I added IDE PCI card and installed software but, it is not detecting my 3rd hard drive. Is there any thing I have to do with jumper settings? or am I missing any procedures....? Help would … |
| | I'm trying to copy a home DVD to my hard drive and I'm having a tough time. It's just a home movie so there aren't any copyright laws being infringed. When I open the DVD drive there's a file that reads VIDEO_TS. I've tried just hitting "copy" and that doesn't … |
| | Grateful for any help and apologies if this newbie has not found a relevant existing thread, despite having hunted for one! Symptoms CD drive worked fine when installing broadband some months ago. Unaware of likely software interference subsequently. Only major instal has been Norton. I have XP SP2, a Dan … |
| | Bios reconises both hard drives but when xp loads I only have my C:\. |
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