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| | To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb … |
| | I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns … |
| | I installed a second SATA drive on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R board and am curious if anyone knows if it matters, performance wise, whether the second drive is on a different channel. I have tried switching it around, but to be honest I don't see any real difference, although it may … |
| | Hey ive just got a new 80Gb IDE hitachi HDD. Now installing would be simple enough but, My primary HDD is a SATA HDD. I've read there should be no problem but i cant get my bios to pick up the new HDD. i've got a double IDE with DVD … |
| | Hello new friends A somewhat long story, but I am loosing sleep over this one. I have this very weird problem after purchasing a second, identical sata drive. Mobo= MSI Neo FSR v2 / IDE = NEC DVD rewriter / Sata = 2 Samsungs 2504C, BIOS = latest AwardPhoenix. Everything … |
| | I have a 40 GB Samsung hard disk. Free quently booting I lost my hard disk data. It may be burn. It is dedected by mohter board but not windows xp. By seagate disk manager I dedect it . But it seens 18 Gb. I just Restore my data .doc … |
| | Hi I want to add one Baracuda HD and one Sony DVD RW in my computer which has already one Baracuda HD and Samsung DVD rom. How can I connect with the IDE 1 and IDE 2 and how should I arrange the jumper in all these IDEs Pl help … |
| | I set a partition up for my pc to run linux. This made me lose 130gb form my hard drive. i removed the partition but still no luck. i checked the partition again, i tried to deletd the partiton with windows installed in it but was unable to. anyway of …  |
| | cd rewirter recgnizes cds but does not burn cd's please help i need to burn cd's if it means opening up the cd rewriter i will:( |
| | Hi Guys. I'm having a problem with a SATA HDD and would appreciate some advice. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 and is SATA capable. I was running a couple of IDE drives with XP installed on the C:. A couple of days ago my C: developed a problem so … |
| | I bought a new SATA Hard Drive, and I want it to be secondary to my first hard drive. After I connected the device to my computer, how do I install it so I could see it in the "My Computer" folder? I'm also having problems setting it up on … |
| | So.. my old motherboard died on me after a couple of years of good service and I had to buy a new one. Old board was a MSI K7N2-Delta2-LSR([url=http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=596&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=]link[/url]) with a nvidia nforce 2 RAID MCP raid controller on it. I had two sata drives running in a bootable raid … |
| | Could someone help me,after $400 and 2 techs later I still have the same problem.In simple terms(which is all I know)monitor always left on like I was told and I turn on the hardrive in the morning and only sometimes will it come on,I have to turn it off at … |
| | Hello Everyone: I am using an Intel D845GNT board with 2x80GB SATA drives. I am trying to replace these with 2x320 GB SATA II drives. I have ghosted the RAID 1 array data to an IDE HD. Here is where my problem begins. I am totally unable to boot into … |
| | Hi, My motherboard is an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and my hard drive is 200GB Seagate Barracuda. Here goes, I had the hard drive up and running and all working fine. Then something happend and my best option was just to format the drive and start all over again. When I … |
| | my friends memory stick got corrupted yesterday i think the psp displays a message that tells us to format the stick but we get an error when we do.. we tried to do it in DOS but it says "invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable" can we … |
| | Hi, I have a IBM T41 Thinkpad. When I purchased it, it did not come with the recovery disc. And if I want to get it, it's $45. So I was thinking of formatting it without the recovery disc. But I am a computer newbie, and not sure where to … |
| | hi to each and everyone! last night i went to my friends house to fix his computer. the problem was IE keeps hanging up after browsing 4 different websites. i ask him if he's using a genuine he said no. so i had a newly bought winxp genuine went to … |
| | I am having major probs installing a 2nd SATA drive on my system. ASRock P4VM8 motherboard - supports 2 SATA drives. First (already running XP) drive is a Seagate 160GB SATA w/8MB cache. The new drive is a Western Digi 400G SATA2 7200RPM w/16MB cache. Plugged it in etc. Powdered … |
| | Hey guys, ive got aproblem with my cd and dvd drives. Ive had a look around in a few forums but cant find the same problem so I thought Id ask for a hand. On both my cd and dvd (seperate drives) I can play audio cds, burn cd and … |
| | Here's my problem: My PC eventually starts making optical drive related problems. Looks like ASPI layer issue, but it isn't. I have ASPI layer tools and utilities and they don't help. Nero has it's own ASPI layer, and reinstalling complete Nero (7.10) doesn't help. I am missing something here, and … |
| | I currently have one SATA drive in my system. I would like to add two SATA drives and set them up in raid0. I would also like to keep the other SATA drive in the system, but not in raid, as it already has data on it. Is this congiguration … |
 | i got a used laptop and i remooved vista from it, and the problem i got is that before i removed vista tere was 2gb ram and now it is about 340 mb left, what can i do to recover the missing ram? |
| | I am trying to install a new larger hard drive while keeping the smaller hard drive for backups. I ghosted the existing drive to the new drive and have them properly set with the new larger drive as master and the older drive as slave. All of my data is … |
| | I've been looking at buying an external hard drive to back up my main internal drive. So many different interfaces, USB2, firewire etc. My MOBO is an ASUS P5B-Deluxe and has an external SATA plug at the back ( am I to assume that this plug is what is referred … |
| | greetings, first of all i have to say i'm almost completely computer illiterate. So my problem is this.... i have 2 hdd in my cpu c and d. Few weeks ago, i couldn't enter explorer on my desktop, and had to do tasks using the task manager. Then all of … |
| | Hi im new to this forum but i got a problem. My new hp pavilion dv 1000 with windows xp home edition I installed Mandriva and now window doesnt work. I put in the XP disk in and try to format it but when it come up after i hit … |
| | Hi, im new here infact this is my first post. So i recentley bought a SATA hd and i can see it in mycomputer. Im running Win Vista Ultimate, and have an Abit fatality1.... This is what i tried to do to see if the HD is detected at all, … |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba Satellite M45 S331 with a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-830S using Firmware=1.00. Until recently all was just fine. I have ripped literally hundreds of audio CDs into iTunes to put them on my iPOD. I just tried to do so again with a new CD and it … |
| | i needed to reinstall my operating system (XP), so i used symantec ghost to clone the entire drive (C:) to an external 350Gb drive (F:). before i cloned it, however, i partitioned the target drive into two parts, 200 F: and 150 G:. the larger partition will contain the copy … |
| | hi guys i have a question..my 80gigs started to fail.... still good for me.. is like 6 years old ..well i run a scn in active@ file recovery 7.1 .. it detected some bad sectors fat's bad sectors asa well...my question is... -if make a partition where the drive is … |
| | I have a Western Digital 3200JS Caviar Hdd I have tried everything on this thing, the Western digital tools say that their is a smart error, Fdisk has a non dos partition that has -224mb alocated, and this is a 320gb hdd and FDISK reports it as only being 8024kb, … |
| | I have an 80 GB HD on my desktop and I want to upgrade to a larger one. When new, it was also available with a 160 GB HD. This a SATA drive and I want to replace it with a bigger one like 250 GB or 320 GB. Are … |
| | I have a sony 2Gb flash disk which is causing me great torment. I had a black out one time with the flash disk still on the computer. When power was restored and i placed the flashdisk back to the computer ot was detected fine but when i tried to … |
| | IDE Hard drive, nVidia 7900GT, 500 power supply, IDE DVD rom? I'm aware that this probably isn't the right place to post this, but I didn't see anything in the Hard Ware section dedicated to general help. I'm getting all of those tommorow (If I'm lucky) and will probably need … |
| | Ok. I have scrolled google for several pages and I haven't been able to solve this problem. I added another SATA drive to my computer and I cant see it in the my computer. The disk management tool shows that this drive is drive 1 and my system drive is … |
| | I'm trying to set up a NAS made by tritton technologies that someone gave me. Im trying to plug it directly into my computer through an ethernet card to configure it. Ive been following all the steps from the guide at [url]http://support.trittontechnologies.com/downloads/NASxxx/[/url] and then some.... I reset the nas to … |
| | I have tried to get the freeagent pro to recognize the esata port but for some reason it just doesn't. I have read others who have had the same problem on google but did not find an answer. Does anyone know what I need to do. I am using the … |
| | I have a Samsung SpinPoint T Series HD501LJ hard drive ( [url]http://www.pcworld.com/product/specs/prtprdid,29867541/specs.html[/url] ) but I can't figure out the cables I need for it. If someone could hook me up with a link to the newegg listing of the stuff I'd appreciate it. The connections don't seem to be standard … |
| | Hi, Hope someone can help. I have a NC6000. It keeps freezing while in the middle of working, not on any one programme, could be anything, and after 3 mins, or half hour. To rule out O/S errors, i reinstalled XP on it, it all went in fine, was running … |
| | i have a samsung ide hd, this morning when i booted up it wouldnt detect the hd in the boot order, hard rive wasnt listed my hard drive is the only thing on the wire... its not connected to the cdrom or anything, just the motherboard and yesterday it stopped … |
| | Hello, I downloaded HDD Health to monitor the condition of my hard drive and just recently I noticed that the seek time performance is showing in [COLOR="red"]red[/COLOR]. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Shore I have 7 columns first column is ID which = 08 second column is … |
| | Apologies if this is in the wrong place, I was debating between the XP and Network Hardware Forums before I settled it here. I've been looking into possible backup solutions for around 10 or so users all on Windows XP undomained PCs, and I've narrowed the possible options down to … |
| | Dear Gurus, I have a 80 GB IDE Drive(Seagate). I have windows xp installed on it and everything is prim and proper. Now i have to upgrade storage. So got a 320 GB seagate barracuda SATA Drive. Put it in the sata slot. The Bios detected both drives. Booted the … |
 | I am looking for a solution to my new hard drive. I have recently bought a Maxtor ATA/100 500GB Hard drive. I followed the instructions on physicaly installing it perfectly. My master boot drive is a SATA(Serial ATA) and my new Maxtor is an ATA/EIDE. I have installed it correctly, … |
| | Hello Everyone, I have three hard disks installed in my system 1.Samsung 40Gb ultra ATA HDD 2.Samsung SATA 80 GB HDD 3.Segate SATA 250GB HDD Added in the order given above.When initially disks 1 and 2 were installed everything was fine.The problem started when the Segate 250 Gb HDD was … |
| | I am running a 80gig IDE HDD and I want to add a 360gig Sata drive. I want to either get them to work together, because I have my 80gig set up with windows just the way I want it. or find some way to mirror my 80gig over to … |
| | I'm sure most of you have heard this before. So I'm going to say it simple. After reinstalling Windows XP along with all the drivers with my recovery CDs, my Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K15 Drive isn't acting the same as it used to on my laptop. Here's how it is: Plays … |
| | Hows it going guys, I'm having a few troubles with several hard drives, so grab a glass of milk and some cookies because your going to be sitting here a while. Okay. So to start the story, I was using three seperate hard drives as follows: IDE 0 - 40 … |
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