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| | I hope that someone may have a quick answer for me. In the bios for my IBM desktop computer, you can go to the startup sequence menu. From there, it indicates that by hitting <shift - 1>, you can enable or disable a device. For some reason, hitting <shift - … |
| | I'm almost sure this has to do with one of my 2 Western Digital hard drives. It happens periodically and I'm almost sure its a sound coming from a drive. I'll hear a sound from my case like something is powering down, then a second later power up again, like … |
 | My sons computer came up with a NTLDR error, because he had a relativily small harddrive I decided to install another one. Brought his computer in to the office, power supply was dead, replaced powersupply, point that I am at now If I keep the "bad" harddrive in it shows … |
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| | [I]Hi all:[/I] [I]Can someone please help with the 2 different error messages I am receiving when I insert a disc into my cdrom drive?[/I] [I]The first one is "windows cannot read from the disc because it is corrupted or dirty, or formatted incorrectly"[/I] [I]the second is "please insert a disc …  |
| | Hi everyone! First off, I'd like to say thank you to anyone in advance who can help me with my crucial situation. I'm having a problem with my BIOS. See, I thought I knew about computers more than I do and was trying to fix the problem on my own, … |
| | Ihave 3 scsi hds and i just bought another computer that was runnin scsi.Never hooked them up before if someone could take the time to explain to me how to go about gettin them to read in the bootup ie: boot 0 boot 1 boot 2 etc.. And where the … |
| | Hello all... hope every one had a nice x-mas :) Can any one tell me of a good HDD that does not fail as quickly as the Maxtor's ... this is my 2nd HDD from them (120GB DM9 SATA), and again it just stops the entire system to a holt. … |
| | I bought a Maxtor One Touch II USB External HDD, installed it. I used the *duplicate* option in its software to copy all my personal files. Then, because I thought the files were stored on the external HDD, I did a rebuild on my internal HDD and erased everything and … |
| | I just installed a slave drive, seagate 120gb, into my system. I have a 40gb as my primary. The slave drive does not show up in "my computer". I went into the CMOS and it is there, I also went into computer management > disk management, it is not on … |
| | I'm having a problem, my drive been using 100% of the CPU lately, for simple task as transfering a picture or application installation. It never done this before and it's a headache because now i can't even listen to music from the drive or play music while working with the … |
| | hi felllas and ladies, got a asus a7n8x deluxe motherb board.was trying to install my hitachi deskstar 80gb times 2 drives.was fine up till point after formatting.then for some reason files were missing.i figure i didnt copy all needed files to floppy as floppy was too small.i tried to skip … |
| | :cry: I have an external Lacie hard disk of 160 GB with a firewire connection, unfortunately I got a virus on my PC, after having to format both disks my internal one works OK but my Lacie is having tandrums, one day I can read/write it, another nearly all my … |
| | Hi the seagate momentus 5400.2 hard drive is not allowing me to access the data as it has been locked, does anyone know of any way to access the information from the disk. It stopped booting from my laptop and then i connected it to a usb bridge and it … |
| | I recently bought an IOGear 2.5" 80GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive, installed it on my Dell inspiron laptop via one of the four USB ports on the laptop itself. It set up an E, F, G, and H drive automatically and all is fine with that. Works great. … |
| | Well I figured it was time to defreg the three of my drives today, my primary is a SATA 40GB, Sata 320GB, master DVD Burner/IDE, and slave 160GB IDE HDD, both SATA's were done defreging before I fell a sleep except for the IDE 160GB which still had 60% left. … |
| | Hi Apologies if this is in wrong section or has been covered before! I had a prob with my hard drive and had to reformat. The only way i could access my hard disk was to take it from my laptop and put it into pc as a slave. From … |
| | Hi All, I just ran into a problem with my Lacie Big Disk 500GB Firewire drive that I hope someone has seen. It contains 2 WD 250GB disks, and when one went south I lost tons of stuff that I really didn't want to lose, but that's a story for … |
| | dear friends after burning an iso image of a game on my NEC 3550A dvd burner, The drive itself can not read the content. the indication is that there is nothing in the drive. on the other hand, inserting it into an old dvd drive (not burner) brought it up … |
| | when i run chkdsk, it comes up saying more than one unrecoverable error, and wont do a chkdsk, does this mean my computers screwed? it crashes all the time and comes up with the blue screen, its a Dell Inspirion 1100 so its at least 4 years old,  |
| | Recently I bought a [URL="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2268595&Sku=TSD-320AS"]320gig SATA hard drive[/URL] from Tiger Direct. My computer, a Dell Dimension 4600 had a 40gig ATA, but anymore it just does not have enough space, and I'm having problems with it... So I figured it was time to upgrade. Knowing that my mobo does not … |
| | Hi, I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard which supports SATA with RAID. I want to fit 2 drives as RAID striped, (motherboard manual briefly describes how). However, can I leave my IDE UDMA drive in place and use as a slave? If so will I have to change the … |
| | I installed a 250gig(reads as 232) IDE hard drive into my computer as a secondary drive... and it runs CONSIDERABLY slower than my other drive. There's a different hookup... the new one uses a regular ribbon(I don't know the technical term) while the other one uses something that looks more … |
| | I just installed a new 80GB SATA Drive alongside my old IDE drive which holds my Windows XP installation. I used Partition Magic to format the new drive and clone my IDE partition to the SATA drive. When windows booted up it asked me to select which OS to run … |
| | :?: Looking for some help here. Is it possible to have 3 hard drives on a personal computer? If so, how would I go about putting in a 3rd one? Thanks for any help. D |
| | hey buddies... recently my hard disk .. samsung SV0411N [U]has started hanging evrytime i try to move data from it .. [/U] [U]to other hd or cd/dvd...[/U] I thut it mus coz of bad sectors... [U]so i tried scannin it .. but Hangs der too ....[/U] [U]i really wanna save … |
| | Hasn't anyone noticed? Most retail computer hardware stores, are selling hard drives using the IDE Specification. It's extremly compatible, but many people have SATA and don't know it. I currenlty am using IDE, but I wish I had an SATA drive. A guy told me when he went to Staples, … |
| | [B]Drive specs:[/B] Type: Seagate Barracuda, 7200rpm Model: ST3200826AS Size: 200GB Interface: SATA [B]System specs:[/B] OS: Win2k SP4 RAM: 1GB CPU: P4 2.8e MOBO: Asus P4P800-e deluxe AV Software: NOD32, 30 day trial version. [B]Problem:[/B] In short, data corruption. Originally, I was using NTFS on the drive. I use it as … |
| | Hello, i am a complete noob so you guys have to explain it to me. I just recently bought a new samsung sp1614c hard drive but i didnt notice that it was SATA. i found an extra power cable and the other cable to connect it to my SATA1 slot … |
| | I have a hard drive problem with my armada 7800 6266/t/8000/d/0/1 laptop computer. (Windows 2000 will not start) I just purchased a desktop hp 1647c. I would like to connect the laptop hd to the desktop. I need to move the data. Please help!!! specify the adapter needed and possible … |
| | Hi guys, I converted my hard drive to a dynamic disk the other day, and I've been having horrible problems with the RAID setup ever since. For some reason every time I boot up my computer now, it doesn't seem to recognise my hard drive as a boot device, so … |
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| | I would like to know what is a good hard drive cleaner. I want something that will clean everything so that nothing can be picked up period. Is this one a good program? [B]Active@ Kill Disk - Hard Drive Eraser[/B] |
| | Hi ppl. I have been struggling with this one for couple of days now. It appears that my Windows XP think that my Pioneer DVR 110 D is a CD-ROM drive. I've learned how to make windows think it is a burner, but I can't make it recognize it as … |
 | How could i make my usb thumb drive bootable: Lexar media secure jump drive 512MB with an NTFS file sys.? |
 | I'm considering buying an external hard drive. My internal HD is 160GB, should i buy a 160GB EHD or something bigger, such as a 250GB? It's going to be used as a backup to the Main HD, so i want to be able to put everything on it, i will … |
| | Hi guys, I just bought a Seagate 320GB Sata II hard disk drive, initial plan of it is to store all my files. I already have a 120GB Sata I drive that I am going to keep as my primary drive so that the Windows XP can run of that. … |
| | Hi All, Hope I don't sound like too much of a simpleton, but I'm a relative novice. I have a emachine that had the hard drive die about a year ago, I replaced the old drive and moved it to the slave. this was working fine until last month. At … |
| | Hello all: Im having an odd problem I can't seem to figure out. Before we get started I'm an A+ Certified technician, so my understanding of PC's is fairly good. So, I have a Toshiba satallite 2435-s255 and it's hard drive had a complete failure. I've purchased a replacement drive … |
| | Everyone! First, forgive me...I'm new to the forum. I've been looking around and have not found my answer and wondering if you all can help. I have a Maxtor One-Touch 250GB USB/Firewire external HD. Today...it made a bunch of weird noises when coping files to it and then it came … |
 | I've been asked if you can run an EIDE drive with a SCSI drive on the same machine ? The SCSI was original. He's adding the EIDE and tried chg'g Bios to boot. Now having problems booting. [COLOR=blue]"" [/COLOR] [COLOR=blue]I used Norton GHOST to transfer system and everything from the … |
 | [COLOR=darkgreen]:sad: XP will not recognise the new or old DVD-RW drives i have fitted....[/COLOR] [COLOR=darkgreen]BEFORE ,i had an A-Open dvd rw drive and a Sony CD-RW drive that were instantly recognised.......I now have an A-Open DVD-RW drive AND a Panasonic DVD-RW drive that if i unplug 1 of them the …  |
| | Hi all, This is my first time here (actually, my first time on any forum!) and I'm hoping that I can find a solution to this problem that's been bugging me!! (I did try and go through threads related to the query I'm about to make but nothing worked for … |
| | What is the easiet way to switch from IDE to SATA? My current configuration is as followed: OS: WINXP SP2 MB: MSI -cant remember the model number, about 3 years old. IDE 1 - 40 gig WD IDE 2 - 20 gig WD I would like to swap out the … |
| | Hello, when i boot up my computer it checks all hardware then says "disk read error occured, press cntrl-alt-delete to restart", which i've tried often. I've had this sata hardrive running for a couple of days with no problems, then i turned it on and all of a sudden there's … |
| | I have a Sony DRU820A DVD-RW, and within the past day it just stopped readin any discs whatsoever. It does not recognize that I have put a disc into the drive. However, when i reboot my computer, if i leave a cd in the drive, it wont start windows until …  |
| | Hi I'm new here.... Hi you all!! I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there's a way to clone more than 1 drive by tcp/ip using just one drive image in a server or something like that. This is my problem, I work as an IT support specialist … |
| | Hi all, Had asked for assistance concerning the problem am having on my pc but it seemed only one person had a similar problem. My hard disk space is just shrinking. I looked for the problem and found that in C:\WINDOWS\Temp something was just creating the following files: Acr4A, Acr4C, …  |
| | I copied my data and programs to a 200 gig hdd and now my machine doesnt boot up I believe that it is still seeing the 137 limit. I tried to install a controller card but it appears that will only work with a freshh copy of XP. So my … |
| | :mad: [B]I've had lots of experience with computers with scomputers and know how to work with them well, but i never worked with SATA hard drive and SATA adapters. When i connect my new [I][U]SATA ULTRA 16 300GB 16MB CACHE 7200RMP Serial ATA/150 [/U][/I]to a [I][U]SATA to IDE Adapter[/U][/I] and … |
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