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I’m not sure if this is a Hardware or Software problem. I apologize if I have posted this in the wrong forum. When I burn a CD from the music on my windows media player, the burned CD will only play on a computer! So that means my burner is …

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Though it burns CDs, When I try burning DVDs on my SONY DVD writer it gives a message- Burning failed- "Power callibration error"

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Crap, I spelled "advice" wrong. Won't be my first, nor last, error today. First, apologies for breaking the rules right off the bat. I don't have my notes or the dead Shiba at this house - I'm moving. I searched through the threads, and found some promising leads for download …

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Hey guys, uhh I have this error on my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4666 laptop and using Windows Vista Home Basic. I just recovered it with the recovery disk provided. I did a full disk recovery then when it finished I restarted my computer and it said "Missing Operating System". Anyone know …

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hi. i have a hard drive that had been working. today i opened it up and only saw 3 nonsensical files and all my files are gone. the drive indicator still says that the files are in there because the "free space" left is quite small. is there anyway i …

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I have a Dell that came with Raid 0 (I'm pretty sure) that had two 149g HD's. One just failed so I put a replacement in (500g as I couldn't find any 149gs). Bottom line is I want to install XP on the 500g to just run like normal on …

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HP Pavillion a1410n with Samsung SP 2004C HDD. Would like to make Seagate U6 ST380020A the master drive and Samsung the slave. Seagate jumpers set to master. Not familiar with slaving SATA drives, especially with non-SATA master. Please advise.

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The operating system and other software on the NAS unit provide the functionality of data storage, file systems, and access to files, and the management of these functionalities. The unit is not designed to carry out general-purpose computing tasks, although it may technically be possible to run other software on …

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hey i've got the same problem but i cannot see any of my two hard drives in computer managment ): has anybody got ideas? thx

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This is Robert with Hitech Assets and I am developing recycling partnerships. We have a full DOD wiping system and 200 employess. We are fully compliant and would love to talk to anyone that needs to clean out that I.T. storage closet or has a system migration going on. I …

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These devices are not detected in the BIOS & actually do not work (cannot open cd writer tray). But when i remove the IDE cables from these devices leaving only the power cable connected then they work. Any solutions?

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hi there.. i have a few question about my pc.. ..i have bought a AMD athlon processor and SMI motherboard K9N6PGM2..RAM 2gig.. (sata system), ..i bought this item to replace it to my older pc which is IDE system, ..i replace the older processor,motherboard, and ram with the new, .. …

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when im using my pc, my cd-rom is always open and close by itself.. it will not stop unless i will turn off my pc... what is the problem of this? pls help me..!! thanks a lot!!!

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I have a Seagate Internal HD where i have "windows xp" installed that isn't working properly due to shock however i can still turn it on but it only shows up a blank black screen and doesn't go no where. So i had to put it in an external enclosure …

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Just read the closed thread "Hard drive recovery and cryogenics..." and wondering if freezing might help recover a camera 2GB Lexar Flash drive. I successfully took and stored several hundred pictures on a Kodak digital camera in .jpg format. Replaced batteries after getting "Battery Exhausted" alert, and when I turned …

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a quick question (i think i know the answer just want to confirm befor i go ahead) in my pc ive got 3x 500gb hdds ive got 3x 1tb external hdds doing nothing so i am going to install them into the pc insted ive done two disks, all apart …

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Hi, guys! I'm trying to get a little more from my laptop. Here is the current configuration: Intel T2410, 2GHz, 3GB ram (cheap, slow, i suppose), Radeon HD3470, 250GB Toshiba 5400 rpm, 17", Vista Ultimate. So my question is: what to buy, a 4GB kit of low latency memory, from …

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Hisun 8GB USB 2.0 Flash drive on Windows XP SP3 computer. The drive works well with any other type of file, except a video file. .AVI .WMV etc... I have 4 Flash drives two out of the four will not play video files and if you just use them to …

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Trying to format a Samsung 120 GB IDE hard drive FAT32. Want one partition of 120GB. All utilities, even Swissknife will only format to 31.4 GB leaving the other 90 GB unformatted. How format beyond the famous 32 GB barrier??? Drive must be formatted FAT32 since it will then be …

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Please can someone advise me if my second storage SATA 320 Gbt HD should be set to have a primary or logical partition as I am somewhat confused about this. My main bootable HD is a SATA 1.5 Tbt which already has 3 partitions. I am using XP SP3. P4 …

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Hi everybody. If y'all will remember my Toshiba A100 "System Restore not working" post, thanks to all involved, my laptop is once again shiny! But there is still one remaining problemo. When I try to use my inbuilt CD/DVD drive, the disk, whether it be music, movies or anything else, …

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I have 10 hard drives on my computer. 4 internal and 6 external (USB2). I noticed lately that one of the External ones (Seagate FreeAgentDesktop 1000) has a VERY low write speed when copting files to it. I did a test with HD Tune Pro and low and behold, all …

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Hello, I have an old IBM Netfinity 5500 M20 server that i want to use as a server for backups and other stuff The server works but i do not have the driver for the ServeRAID-II controller i need it during the installation of Windows Home Server / Windows Server …

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i bought a 1tb maxtor one touch external harddrive. now i broke the case so i took it apart and put the drive in my pc. i connected it via the two cables (power and connect it to motherboard) as you can tell im not the most techincally minded but …

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Hi to all !! I have a Compaq Presario SR1602HM. Windows XP Home. I think the hard drive has went bad. When the computer is booting up, the Compaq screen shows up , then the Windows XP screen shows up but thats all. After that , its all black. I …

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We run a very large data base program over a domain. On of my key users ran a backup of the data (very large) and it failed or she stopped it early. Now when she tries to start the program she gets a message that she is out of disk …

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i have an lg dvd rw but its not writing cds or dvds. furthermore its not reading vcds and dvds but can read data cds,can some one please help me with this problem.

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Hi all,need your help here...? i have 2gb kingston pendrive..and i set my pendrive drive name to 'myname'..when i plug in the pendrive,'.my problem is,when i plug in install driver 'usb disk 30x usb device' and my pendrive name change from 'myname' to 'removable disk'.and when i rightclick to properties,my …

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What would cause a bluescreen error 32.dll file missing and then harddrive failure on next boot? :eek:

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I have used this forum on a few occassions and have found the help to be quite useful. Now I really have an issue that I need some assistance with. A few years ago I purchased a NetGear SC101 Network storage device. When utilized the NetGear software formats the drives …

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