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| | Hi I'm wondering about the windows NTFS bad cluster file, $BadClus. It keeps a record of all the bad sectors on the hard disk. (Its a hidden file in the MFT). If I reformat, I'm assuming this is recreated. Is that correct? in this case, doesn't that mean that the … |
| | I have an 80gig HD that has been partition 10gig local disk(c:) & 70 gigData(D:0 the main one been 10gig I want to un partition it to make it one 80gig but not sure what to do. |
| | i formatted a old partition and everything goes well until when it change from the blue windows setup screen.I mean when the windows setup reboot. i received a message (disk error. press ctrl,alt,del to restart) and the windows installation do not continue. What should i do???? in order to reinstall … |
| | I'm trying to ghost my c: drive using Norton Ghost 03. I have an external drive (where I have ghost installed) and I installed it on the computer where the CD/RW drive is. I did this so the ghosting would not take so long using a usb cable. I tried … |
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 | I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109.. from a sony vaio machine. I replaced the motherboard and installed my own version of XP... Now though my dvd-rw isn't working properly it will read cds and burn cds but I am having trouble with it working with dvds windows device manager says … |
| | Please help me. I need your help badly. I already post my problem below as the reply to the similar case, but after a few days since no reply for me. I want to use USB external casing with 40 GB Fujitsu notebook harddisk in it. I tried several boot … |
| | So I just installed a computer game on my PC about a week ago. I go to play a game I already have installed and I find out that my DVD/R and CD/RW drives are not being recognized by my PC. I have been looking all over the place for … |
| | Well..I have a dell dimension 9200c..with a TS-L632D slim 8x DVD +/ - RW...with windows vista installed..The problem is I installed a driver for windows XP thinking it was an update but I didnt notice..now it doesnt want to open...and when I put eject it appears "Cd drive is currently … |
 | hello ppl i have a laptop with only one partition 60 gb i need to divide it to 2 parts can i do it without loosing my files or back up |
| | Hi guys, has anyone got a picture of what an internal notebook dvd drive component layout should be? One of the springs fell out and i dont know where this part should sit. Its a pioneer DVR-K06/1 dvd drive. see picture attached. |
| | I have two hard drives, a C: drive and a D: drive. The C drive is a Maxtor 2F040J0 (I think) and the D drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, however, they may be the other way around. I recently bought a new motherboard and processor and installed them and connected … |
| | Just installed a 2nd hard drive in a Compaq Presario running Windows XP Home Multi Media. It's an 80GB but now formatted it shows only 31.4 GB with no more space available. Any ideas on how to get the full capacity back?  |
| | Hi, I have recently got given an old computer that someone didnt want. it is running on windows 98 SE. It booted up fine the first time, but the second time, it booted up untill the windows loading screen, did that 4 a few secs, and then i got this … |
| | Last month i lost everything from my IDE hard disk, that was 80Gb with 4 partition in it. in first partition (C:) was the OS windows XP. operating system wasn't working. then i tried to see my files in dos mode but it was showing no partition in my hard … |
| | Hi my DVD re-writer after a couple of years of loyal service has stopped reading dvd's and only reads cd's, in fact in the properties of this drive it comes up as a cd drive. I bought a new dvd writer ( HP dvd740 Internal 16X DVD Writer ) but … |
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| | Hi all, the Dvd R/Rw drive on my laptop is having issues reading disc put into it.. It was still doing okay a few days back when i used it to copy a few discs.. But now it don't seem to be able to read or write, and the "D … |
| | My mobod will support many different types of raid so that is not a problem. My question is about raid and the os. What would be the best way to do it. I don't want any other type of raid so don't go there. Any way should I put the …  |
| | hello all i have an Emachines 500 is. it had wondows 98 se installed for about 7 yrs.this past spring i upgraded to windows XP.the main hard drive is 4gb in size. i had a tougfh time with all the updates and adding SP2 to the mix.i figured i would … |
 | After spending the entire morning just getting a live boot of ubuntu to work (my fauly really, the last blank cd i had burned with an error, and i had to configure a flash drive to do it instead), i was finally able to use linux for the first time. … |
| | Maybe someone has an idea on this one: I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm happy with them, and I wanted to install larger hard drives in them and give them … |
| | Well over the past few months I burn the periodic cd and listen to them in my car and everywhere throughout my house. I have burned CDs many times with multiple machines, but this is a first time I have encountered this problem. I usually use Windows Media Player to … |
| | Hi, I am new to this site. I am having problem with my new DVD driver as discussed in a previous thread. In that thread there were many referrences to pin 45+47, and a picture for how to handel the two pins. I can not find any pins on my … |
| | I have a Lite-On XJ-HD166S (that came with a Dell Dimension 4700 in Dec 04) and it no longer works. I replaced the old one with a new liteon (i've had good luck with liteon drives), and gave it back to my family member. Now, I want to resurrect the … |
| | Anyone out there know how to unlock a password from a Hard Drive 2.5" Fujitsu MHV2100BH PL - SATA Thanks, hdn  |
| | I have been told that my drive is partitioned into Drive C & Drive D I am losing hard disk space very rapidly on Drive C, I also think that I have a file which is mirror imaging my files, therefore taking up space, its called an ntuser cd video … |
| | Data Recovery - why do they let the damaged HD run all night? I talked to a Data recovery house and they told me they sometimes have to let the drive run all night - why is that? Won't that cause more damage? |
| | Alright guys I've been messing with my computer for about 2 months now trying to figure it out on my own and to no avail it isn't fixed yet. I had my computer crash due to a virus and when I went to restart I tried it in safe mode … |
| | Can somebody here please help me SLOW DOWN my laptop? Once in a while, it goes berserk. I have heard/read that it's a good practice to "park" a HDr when it's not needed, but I never got around to learning how, though it seemed like a good idea. As usual, … |
| | Hi, ive got a bit of a list here, all started with a dodgy GPU which i replaced (GeForce 5200FX with GeForce 7300GT). My CDROM doesn't work so i thought id install drivers off the nvidia website. when i restared my OS to activate the new software, i received an … |
| | I have an issue with a new IDE HDD that I'm trying to install. I have been running from the SATA drive that was already installed in my comp. Now I want to add an IDE drive, I tried master, slave, master w/ slave, both plugs on the IDE cable, … |
| | i have done some searching on here and have sein some problems close to mine but none that will help me, i have a maxtor 160 hd that iam tryin to repair for a friend, i have it slaved in my pc, i can see it in disk management, i … |
| | Hi, My boyfriends laptop (Medion) is having some problems with the DVD drive. It will read some burnt dvds (mostly the movies) but not all (alot of the tv shows won't read). It's not the discs, because they worked on my friends mac, but I really don't know what the …  |
| | Hi! I know you have probably answered this question a thousand times however I have read a thousand replies and not sure if I still know what to do. Problem::::: I bought my son another hard drive Seagate 320 gig to be a slave to his his comp of a … |
 | my system was running fine- three HDs and a DVD drive, i had to un hook everything to do some work and now only my first HD, the one with XP on it, works. when i first boot up, BIOS takes a lot longer than before and then i get … |
| | Normally I can fall asleep and not wake up till morning but last night as I lay in bed last night unable to sleep, this thought popped into my head ............... "Has anybody ever thought of making HDD interlinkable? So for example if you have a Database and you need …  |
| | I have 2 hardrives in my Dell Dimension 4500. One is 200 gig, and the other which I bought the other day is 400Gig. When installing the 400 gig I must have done something wrong because the 400 gig is only showing up as having 150 gig. Can someone help … |
 | I recently installed a new Double Layer Lightscribe DVD burner and am having issues with copies of DVDs I am making (let's assume they are legal DVDs). Whenever I burn a copy they never quite work right. At various points, it varies on each burn, they stop working. I did … |
| | Circuit board swap - didn't work, can see in bios, but can't see in XP I tried a circuitboard swap, exact serial/pn and firmware - but when it boots, it keep trying to access the drive, with that up and down sound. Finally it is seen in the bios, but … |
| | Hello guys, recently i bought a 200G HD to replace my old 40G HD but I already set mg 200G HD as my primary harddisk and i want my second Hd to be preimary slave HD but I encounter this "PRIMARY SLAVE ERROR please press F1" already check my jumper … |
| | Hi All My first post. I have a Acer 660 laptop which has a duff CD / DVD rom combi drive. I need to replace it but Acer Support is charing 200 pounds for a replacement. The thing is I've seen similar drives on ebay for 20 pounds but what's … |
| | occasionally system will not reconize the sata drive when booting up. The cure is to reload the sata raid drivers from mother board manufactor. Like you have to do when you are installing windows xp for the first time where is says press f6 to load any additional drivers. no … |
| | Cannot get it right. I have A ASUS P5B de Luxe WiFi-AP MB and 2 Samsung Sata 500Gb disks and 1 WD 200Gb IDE disk. I boot from the 2 disks who are in a Raid0 configuration. Works fine. But (there always is) the IDE disk is completely vanished. I … |
| | I have a HP Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop that will not recognize the IDE hard drive that is brand new. It has been installed correctly and it is not being reconized. I am reinstalling Windows XP Professional on it. So far I have had no luck at all on …  |
| | Hey, I really need your help as my hard drive is dead. Is there anyway I can retrive my files? I don't have a backup! When i plug the USB into any computer, it doesn't run. IS THERE HOPE? |
| | I have been trying to install a WD500AKSS 500 gb drive to no success. My system is XP Pro on a SuperMicro X6DAL-XTG mobo. Can't get info from any manfacturers. My mobo manual states the following: ...for drive capacities over 137 gb your system must be equipped with 48-bit LBA … |
 | When I boot up my computer with my 200GB Maxtor external hard disk connected and powered on, the POST/BIOS freezes while booting. Depending on when I turn the drive on, it will freeze in different parts of the boot process, but regardless, it still freezes. The one thing that really … |
| | Hi! I have a PC with a SATA hard disk. I wanted to add a second SATA hard disk. From what I had read it was just a case of plugging into the right holes with the right connectors. I thought I could handle that! However, when I connected the … |
| | Hi All , I have Pentium-4 system with 40GB HDD, 256MB RAM and process 2.8(I think so). I bought new 160GB HDD and installed Operating system in that. Initially it shows both the old 40GB HDD and 160GB HDD but now it is showing only 160GB HDD only. And one … |
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