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| | My external Western Digital Elements 500GB USB drive occasionally sets itself to "Write Protected" and I can't alter any of the files on the drive until I reboot and the write protection is reset. This usually happens after a day or so, and rebooting is the only way of unlocking … |
| | Is any one familiar with creating (from scratch) menus on a usb drive? Is it just a simple autorun or can the drive be configured like a cd rom? Can ".ini" files be used? Any help or ideas would be welcome and explored. |
| | Hello, i would be grateful if you could answer a question for me. I have the above laptop, which has an 80 gb hard drive. Is it possible to upgrade the hard drive? and how would you go about doing this? Thank you very much. |
| | I just replaced a hard drive that had gone bad (I think) as I was getting a "bad hard drive, backup and replace" message. I tried several options but decided it was best to just get a new one. The problem now is that I get a "Master Hard Disk: … |
| | Using XP I have a 6.4Gb hard disk C which is full except for 200Mb. When I sum the size of each file and folder in C they total about 4Gb. I could sure use the missing 2Gb. Can some one point to where I should be looking. I used … |
| | Hi all. I have a 500gb external freecom harddrive. This had been working fine until today. When i turn it on i get the connection beep and it shows up in Device manager as working fine. BUT it does not show up in Disk Management or My Computer. This coincides … |
| | I bought a SATA western digital caviar SE 1600AAJS.At that time I had a mobo that didn't support SATA (I was planning to change mobo so I didn't buy a PATA HDD) so I bought an usb adapter and worked fine.At that disk I had my torrent downloading folder so … |
 | I wanna use my PC's DVD Drive for an external DVD drive on my Laptop - how can I make this happen? I do not have any money right now to use conventional methods. My laptop's DVD is no longer working; that's why I need to find a CD/DVD source. … |
| | Hi all Situation is: old motherboard don't have SATA connector and had plugged on it one HD on the primary IDE and one DVD drive on secondary IDE connector. I wanted to connect new SATA HD (WD 5000 AAKS ) and bought IDE-to-SATA adapter, plugged it on the primary IDE, … |
| | I would say i'm decent at data recovery. I have recovered off many hard drives, SD cards and the likes. Sometimes with 100% recovery and other times with much lower varying results. I have Several bad 500 gb SATA Drives. 2 seagates (is the maxtor trend still there) and a … |
| | Hello. I just bought Seagate SATA 250gb. Conntected it to the computer, installed via hyperion pro latest version 5.20a but now my hdd is recognised as VIA RAID CONTROLLER not as hdd. How can I fix this problem? Click here to view a screenshot of the device manager: [img]http://prikachi.com/files/295680N.jpg[/img] |
| | A friend has a toshiba A205 S4777 and reinstalled software from manufacturer discs. Afterwards the multi disc driver will not read cds but reads DVDs with no problem. Device Manager shows everything working correctly and computer reads the drive letter. I tried to upgrade the driver and no success. Uninstalled … |
| | i've tried to install win xp to my flash disk but it was running very slow so i just quit installation and repoot. once i tried to open the flash disk it was raw and i formatted it but it's size redused to 470 mb it was 2gb can any …  |
| | Hello experts here! I got a odd problem here, and really need your kindly help... Recently I have discovered that my computer went down, I supposed my primary master hard drive may died, because I can't hear it spin when I turn on the computer... so I took the 2 … |
| | Hi, I Have a Toshiba Satellite Pro A10 and I recently replaced its DVD drive for a Pioneer KD-08. I received the IDE #1 ERROR from the BIOS. I've looked at loads of forum threads with the same problem and the solution every time was to solder or connect pins … |
| | I was having difficulty with an extremely low framerate on a new MMO (Age of Conan). One of the suggested fixes on the AoC forums was to download the updated nVidia drivers for my 7200 video card, then download a program called driver sweeper, run driver sweeper with a checkbox … |
| | I am having trouble getting my DVD player to burn DVDs. Prior to this issue I was not able to read DVDs. Here is the lst log that I have from NTI CD & DVD Maker ========== BEGIN OF LOG ========== NTI CD & DVD-Maker 7.0.0.37 (SKU-21710411020) Start Time: Tuesday, … |
| | I have a sony dvd drive and for 2 or 3 month it could read cd but it stopped. |
| | Hi guys. This may sound pretty dumb, but here goes. I have a Seagate 40Gb external laptop HDD. The other day I changed the name of the drive from "Removable Disc" to "SHAUN40GIG" and everytime I plug it into a computer, it lights up and the disc spins but the … |
| | my computer is a compaq presario with xpsp3 and 256 ram. i used driveimage xml to create a backup image of my hard drive C:. do i also need to make a backup of my hard drive D:? i thought the D drive was specifically to make a "one time" … |
| | This is probably going to be long but I'l try to explain as best I can. I broke my laptop about 2 months ago, and according to my friend who fixed it, my harddrive had "clusters'. my hard drive is a SATA 80gb with 2 partitions: 1 for OS and … |
| | I have a biostar MB with slot sata 1.0, up to 1.5 gb/sec transfer. I want to buy a HDD 250 GB sata 2 with transfer 3.0 g/sec. Will work this HDD on my computer? OR it must buy an HDD sata 1? Thank you |
| | In a machine I am working on neither cd burner will read anything. I have uninstalled drivers, there is no 3rd party burner installed. What could it be? |
 | I have one very dead fan in my computer, which is why I have an external one that keeps the machine cool. I also have SpeedFan, which measures the temperatures of both the harddrive and the CPU. I'm wondering if there's a magic number that the harddrive shouldn't go over … |
| | After I installed Windows service pack 3 my computer will not boot up past the screen with the little white dot moving. After it boots up I can plug in the Western Digital External HD and my PC will recognize it. I have been in touch with Microsoft support re … |
| | I own a HP system, I don't usually buy brand name systems but this system had all that I required. It came with a 500gig HD (Sata) and preinstalled Vista Premium and no backup disks. The harddrive has a factory recovery partition, unfortunately to recover my system using this partion … |
| | Hi there, I have a strange problem with my machine at work. Suddenly, it has stopped detecting all the USB storage devices attached to usb ports. As I figured it out, according to my new company policy ;-), admins blocked them from registry via group policy settings and by disabling … |
| | I am looking for an affordable, quality laptop that will last me for 4 years. Please specify the laptop you would recommend and why. Also, I'm on a budget so a laptop under $1000 would be nice. Remember, I'm also asking what websites you would recommend to buy quality laptops … |
| | Hi, I've looked at the other threads and didn't find anything that solved this problem. I can't eject the tray using right click and eject or the eject button under the tray. The only way it opens is if I press hard into the pinhole under the tray. The device … |
| | I have just purchased a 400 GB USB hard drive. I have "ghosted" my Drive E containing Vista using "Acronis True Image", and I am tring to boot from this external drive. I have reconfigured the BIOS to boot from this first, but it does not work. I get "NTLDR … |
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