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| | Is there a special way to create a new programs folder in my d drive? or do i just open it up and file new folder and name it? |
| | Greetings, friends. I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed. After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to …  |
| | My little niece dropped my sister's laptop which just our luck is out of warranty. Now I am getting the dreaded PXE errors and the Bios said none for HDD. This is a Toshiba A215 model. I opened the HDD slot and removed and re-inserted the drive firmly. I then …  |
| | Hello, I have just bought new HP Proliant ML150 Generation 3 Server without any OS. I have decided to install Win XP professional so I have inserted Win xp prof. CD and Windows installation started successful until I didnt recieve next message: ******************************************************************************************************************************* Setup did not find any hard disk … |
| | My motherboard stopped working on my dell & I have lots of important pictures on my Hard drive so I got a USB thingy to make it an external hard drive. I have no problems with the computer recognizing the drive or accessing parts of what is on it. But … |
| | I have a few locked laptop Harddrives all of them are good but they just have a password . Ive tried using ATAPWD wich is the only program i found that deals with HDD password but it dosent unlock them with out having the password it self. It has nothing … |
| | I have an IBM "Desk Star" 20g hardrive. It died. My tech has looked at it and the verdict is that the problem lay in the actual casing of the drive. His system (or mine)does not recognise it. He tells me that it is a fault within the hardware itself. … |
| | I have an external usb drive. I am not sure what file format it was and I was forced to use it for a boot up drive. I had stored about 80 gigs out of a 120 gig drive. I went to set a partition it said there were 45 … |
| | Hello, I need some information as to why my friends DVD burner no longer works, in device manager it has that dreaded Exclamation mark next to it, I have done everthing from re-installing the drivers to changing the DVD Burner with one that works on another computer(I did this with … |
| | Hi, Just bought a Western digital 10,000 rpm sata Hard drive that I'd like to use for boot. Motherboard has 6 ata ports + an IDE. Have an old IDE HDD as master w/ an IDE cd-rom. When I plug in the sata hard drive it isn't recognised by computer … |
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 | I have a customer that wants to know if I will help him set something so he can write multiple DVDs at a time, possibly by networking a tower with several writers, but I wasn't sure if the software would support that. Maybe this post is in the wrong place; … |
| | When i switch on the computer(this error appears occasionally), it says: Pri Master S.m.a.r.t. Command Failed. Press F4 to resume I press f4 and it boots as per normal after that. I replaced my motherboard about 2 to 2.5 months ago and the HD problem started about 1 month ago. … |
| | IRQ 0 System timer OK IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK IRQ 10 MPU-401 …  |
| | Hi folks, I need your help. A few days ago my system died. I had to reinstall WinXP. Previous to this I had installed a second (IDE) hard drive. Since the reinstall it's not showing up as a drive in explorer. If I go into Device Manager is shows the … |
| | Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, … |
| | Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os hdd or as my video, pics etc. hard drives? Please … |
| | Was hoping to get some help with my cd burner. It will let me read what is on a cd but when I go to burn a cd it says there is either something on a blank disk or does not see the blank disk in the burner at all … |
| | Hello, I am facing some problem with my HDD that I am using as external Harddisk. I have been using this since a few months. Everything was working fine till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly, one of the logical drives is not available. It shows the drive letter, but there is nothing … |
| | Alright, so I'm new to this forum, and I do apologize if this is the incorrect forum, or if this question has been answered many times before, but here goes. I have a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external hd and I've owned it for approximately 4 months. I've never had … |
| | I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to reset a maxtor internal ata I can no longer boot up my machine with it plugged into my computer. It used to boot but i couldn't access the drive (The drive is no longer allowing me to access it, Its … |
| | i have installed 80 gig SATA hard drive i can only acess 5 gig in windows |
| | Hi there. For some reason lately when I boot up my computer, a window stating "On click, Line 1: Unexpected symbol near ' <'" appears. I ran CHKDSK to try and fix this problem, but it freezes at stage 4 of 5 at 57%. Not only that, but Disk Defragmenter … |
| | I bought an 80 gig maxtor hard drive, for a family computer, we had to erase it and put windows xp 5 times already, but now when we check its properties it says it only has 31.48 gigs. is there a way to get it to be an 80 g … |
| | I am having an interesting dilemma with writing to CR-RW discs. I am using a program made by SONIC called DigitalMedia LE v7, my DVD player is a TSST corp DVD +-RW TS-L532B firmware DE03. I am able to write to CD-R and DVD-RW without any problems, but when I … |
| | Once you full out a CD-R with files these file cannot be overwritten, correct? Where as you can overwrite the files on CD-RW, correct? Also I am right now copying imagage to CDR, when they are on CDR, I will be able to copy them from the CDR to another … |
| | I Think my hardrive /mp3 player caught a virus or something and i am lost. I'm learning and quit new in this techy stuff. I just inserted it into this dude's pc and it never came on after that. Any idea what I could do, I mean it is 20gb. |
| | Hi there, I have a P4 3.2 mhz computer with USB 1.0 ports and WIN XP 2000. I have been using my external usb storage drive for about 6 months and it's always worked fine. However, earlier, the storage drive started acting up with the following problems: 1. Whenever the … |
| | I have USB (Thumb Drive) drive which i broke the cover(glass cover). Now it is not working. i mean computer dosent recognized that usb. How do i retrive data from there? help me please Thank you very much in advance yasha |
| | just did a fresh install of XP ,and the dvd writer shows up in the bios, but when you look in device manager its not there,it is correct in the bios, you cannot goto start-run and type the drive letter to access it, when you push the button on the … |
| | Hi, guys, Upon being through with using my flashdisk, I tried to eject it just as usual. But, unfortunately, I forgot to remove it from the USB port. I went about doing some other business in my office, and after sometime, I got back to my PC. Unknowingly, I launched … |
| | hi all, not real experienced with computers, mostly just learning through trial and error, have done this a few times before with the computer i made out of bits and peices for my daughter. haven't seen this before though and would greatly appreciate any help! the problem is this : … |
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 | I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6177 laptop that we bought late March/early April. Since getting it, I have used the drive MAYBE 5 times, the last time being 3 months ago easy. With that, I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to get some documents of a disc … |
| | I am trying to use GHOST on an old laptop. I have a 40 GB HD and a 6 GB HD in a USB enclosure. The problem is the USB is not recognized in DOS. The USB A:\ is just fine. Any ideas? |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 4600. My drive was an sata WD360GD. It was the main one and the computer just stopped finding it. It clicks too. 1)I got a serial ata card (connects sata drives to motherboards without them). And tried plugging it in to 2 other comps, still … |
| | I have a floppy. It was storing names in 8.3 form I renamed one of the files to 20.3 on Windows xp and opened it on linux both acknoledge that name .Please tell me what is the file system. I thought it had to be FAT 12 even the boot … |
| | I'm not a tech wizard like most of you on DaniWeb, so bear with me. I added a second hard drive to my Dell Windows XP computer. Is it possible to take that hard drive out of the computer and convert it to an external drive that would have a … |
| | I am trying to retrieve data from my old c: drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter. If I connect the drive in windows xp it loops before the drive is recognized. If I run uneraser from a bootable floppy the drive is found correctly - serial number and … |
| | My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but … |
| | I hope this is the right forum...my apologies if it isn't. Every once in a while (maybe every other day, at most) when I reboot my computer, I get the "Disk read error occurred. Press ctl-alt-del" Now, there's a new mother board (ECS 945GZT-M) and processor Intel Core Duo. I … |
| | Hi I am having problems using Vista with Sony NEC Optiarc SuperMulti (AD-7170A) OEM DVD Burner.([url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3110653&sku=O451-1000&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1474C)[/url]. I have built a Intel Core Due desktop as below. I have my HD0 (IDE) with slave jumper setting connected to the slave side of the IDE cable and the DVD burner with Master … |
| | I ran a Sandra analysis of my home pc. About my Maxtor 2F040J0 it is saying "Current mode not opimal. Check settings." I don't know which settings it is referring to. Has anyone seen this? |
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| | [COLOR=#000000]I recently purchased a new Biostar P4M80/M7a Version 7 with Intel Pentium D 840 and 1 gig of memory.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]On first boot entered BIOS settings, reboot, lock at POST screen, and cannot enter BIOS[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Could not enter BIOS again[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Cleared BIOS picked default settings, reboot lock at POST screen, and … |
| | Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-SD279 with both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it. I bought a DVD-RW burner combo (P000366780) and as soon as I tried it, the computer gave me the Error #1 message and my only option with windows was to reboot. I could enter into … |
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| | I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen … |
| | I have a Compaq model 5835 w/celeron processor running Win98. The hard drive crashed, something came loose inside the drive. I replaced the drive with a good one from another computer, with Windows ME o/s. When I boot the computer, I get the 1782 Disk Controller Failure message, and I'm … |
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