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| | I reinstalled Windows XP Pro SP2 today, and after rebooting and getting everything set up, I tried to use my BitTorrent client, "BitComet". The program wouldn't download anything, because there [i]wasn't enough space on the hard drive[/i]. I have 48 gig free! lol What's going on? My newsgroup software (NewsLeecher) … |
| | Hi there i have a computer that im trying to format and re-install Windows XP professional but when i boot up the disk and press enter to install WinXp it says hard disk not found press F3 to quit. Can anyone help me? |
| | My Acer Travelmate laptop will partially power-up (power light illuminates but no monitor or external monitor display) but will not boot. I am within the warranty period so I plan on mailing my laptop back to Acer to repair. BUT, before I do so I would like to remove all … |
| | I recently purchased an 150GB Sumsung SATA HD because my current 60GB IDE Maxtor drive is nearly full and quite old. I hooked everything the SATA HD up and started my system. It was still running of my old HD so I went to Computer Manager etc and formatted the … |
| | [quote=fry;231535]it looks like that you have a SATA drive, and window doesn't recognize some of sata controllers, you need to install sata drivers befor installing windows. while the drivers initialization, you are offered to press F6 and install SCSI of SATA drivers. you just press F6 insert floppy disk(it must … |
| | Hi, I'm having problems with my sata hard drive after reformatting. After i reformat and install my OS (windows xp) it says that my sata drive must be reformatted. However, I can't do this because I have a lot of data stored in it. This has happend twice already and … |
| | Hi i just bought a new hard drive mother board and processor. Its running a Intel 865GV MSI but it did not come with a sata driver. When i called the guy he said Intel MSI doesn't need 1.But i cant seem to install windows on the new pc. Where … |
| | I have an internal hdd capacity 160GB Seagate Yesterday I partitioned it using partition magic 20GB C: 30 GB F: like that But letters d: & e: are missing but when I renamed F: to D: , it shows Local Disk (D)(F) Do u know how to rename from Local … |
| | Part 1. I have a 100 GB Western Digital Caviar EIDE Drive that has and extended partition with 10 logical volumes (D through M). The L partition has a permanent error. Reformatting that volume only, does not help. I want to find good cheap software that will allow me to … |
 | [B][COLOR=darkgreen]I have an old Fujitsu MPD3084AT 8.5Gb hd that I had planned on either putting in the kids computer as a slave, or loading Windows on and keeping as a backup in case they crash their 40 Gb WD again. The problem is, when I install it in either of … |
| | My older computer just went down, it wont turn on at all. Its running WinXP. So I took out the harddrive and put it into my new computer and it turned out fine except for the fact that I cannot access any of my information that was under my admin … |
| | It'll read a couple, like Roller Coaster Tycoon, or The Sims, but if I try to make custom made ones, it'll be like "No Disc Found" or sometimes it'll find it, but when I try to burn it'll get an error right at the end, and the disc is now … |
| | Hi I am having problems running chkdsk. Whenever i open up the command console and type in chkdsk /f it comes up with the message "cannot lock current drive chkdsk can't run because the volume is in use by another process. Would u liek to run chkdsk when u restart … |
| | Hi I have got a seagate 80gb hard drive but because i have such an old bios my computer could only see it as 33gb. I recived the computer from my uncle he set it up with the a dynamic drive overlay by using the seagate disc wizard. when i … |
| | What is a 3.5" enclosure that is supposed to be a very good one. I want to make another external hdd for my friend because he is going to store and transfer videos for football films to watch and move around from computer to computer. I have used 2.5 enclosures …  |
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| | hi there, i have recently got my computer a new hard drive, because my old one got damagaed and unfortunately didnt work. i have 2 local disk (C and I) but 1 hard drive i think. it was originally drive C, but due to some partition problems (computer technician said) … |
| | I can't seem to figure out how to install my new hard drive onto my computer. It's a Seagate 320 GB 7200 RPM. Are there any good tutorials I could use to figure it out? I've tried looking but haven't really found one to suit my needs.  |
| | HI, I had a hard drive that was used just for storage and now i would like to install windows in it becuase my old HD died. If i installed windows on my hard drive that was used for storage, would all teh files in that hard drive be deleted … |
| | I bought an I/O Magic USB 2.0 Enclosure for 3.5" Hard Drive to use with my new HP running Windows XP Pro. My old W2000 machine died last week and it was time for a proper burial. The old machine was IDE and the new is S-ATA. This enclosure worked … |
 | My Moms Computer is old, but it has been upgraded a couple times already.....and the hard drive needs to be upgraded soon as you can see below. So what i have is a Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 PC, with a 8.06 GB Hardrive, with a ASUS motherboard. … |
| | Not shure if this is the correct place for this but here it goes. I got my son a CD-RW, but recently its not been working, when ejected the tray hardly comes out, ive opend it up and what i think, is that when ejected the part with the laser … |
| | I just installed a new Asus Premium SLI motherboard.... I have been having the usual problems, but just when I thought I had it figured out and I was installing my programs, the computer decided not to recognize my DVD or CD drives. I have four dvd drives. two of … |
| | Hi there all. have this problem with a hdd password. its like this.I got this error 163 and 161 on my ibm laptop which says its a bad cmos. I changed its been asking for a password.its not a bios password cos i put the hdd into another laptop and … |
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| | [QUOTE=rcrevolution]can you run ata/133 and sata/150 at the same time in one system? the sata as a primary and the ata/133 as the secondary? I have a 200Gb sata HDD, but my life is so busy now with christmas coming up and all i cant install it[/QUOTE] Need Assistance! I …  |
| | I have a secondary computer that refuses to recognize a slave drive on the primary IDE channel. I have changed the cable, and also tried different drives, jumpered Cable Select or slave. But the bios does not see that slave, although the master is OK in all cases. I also …  |
 | Can you use SATA CD and Hard drives along side IDE CD and Hard drives?? |
| | Greetings! I can't get my CD drive to work. Perhaps after reading the issue someone could either help me out or point me in the direction of a previous post answering the question. When I put a CD in the drive, the system tries to read it but fails, and … |
 | Okay, a few months ago, my dad's friend built him a PC cheap, and everything was fast and tickedy boo until now... BOTH the drives keep their names and letters, but have the words "CD Drive" just underneath on the left. They won't play or write DVD's anymore, and blank … |
| | hello, I read all the applicable threads for my question but I can't seem to solve it. My old drive is SATA from which my PC boots. I installed a new 80gb IDE drive and my troubles began. 1) I have Separate ribbon cables for IDE drive and DVD-ROM. At … |
| | Hello i was wondering if someone can help me i am using roxio easy media creator 8 to burn dvds to disc - i tried two times to burn a movie and both times failed. i have now lost around ten gigabytes of space on my hard drive and can …  |
| | I recently purchased a 100GB 7200rpm HD to replace my laptop's 60GB 5200rpm HD. I tried cloning my system's HD using Norton Ghost 9.0 via external USB but was unsuccessfull. I then turned to MaxBlast3 and it did the job. However, now my 100GB HD has the identical capacity as … |
| | I don't know if this is best place for this post but here goes anyways. In the near future I will be getting a new computer. I want to turn my old one into a file server. I don't need any fancy features on it but just extra storage space. … |
| | Is it possible to set up a raid just using software or do you need hardware support to do it? |
| | newbie here.... I have a Dell dimension 2400. My old hard drive is IDE. I just bought a Western 250 gig SATA (stupid me....did not pay attention). Is there anyway I can use it on an IDE motherboard ? what is the best/cheapest way to convert ? :eek: |
| | well i have two HDs, i took one out of my wifes dell when it died and added it to my dell 8200 1.7 Ghz, worked fine for months, then started saying it couldn't find one of HDs to pres F1 to continue. But in windows it shows. i actually … |
| | Does anyone know how I can upgrade the internal memory slot of a Toshiba Satellite M105-SP381? Thanks,  |
| | I have a customer laptop that someone locked with a HDD password. Does anyone know where this password is stored? I can think of three places but dont know which if any is correct. CMOS. If its the cmos then removing the mobo battery should clear it. HDD Firmware. If … |
| | I recently copied my 30GB HDD from my laptop to an Western Digital external 120GB HDD using copywipe 1.14. Everything went fine except now on the external HDD I can only see the 30GB copy. How do I get the other 90GB back? Do I have to repartion the Ex … |
| | I had problems installing Diskeeper. Their website suggested that I uninstall Norton System Works, then install Diskeeper and reinstall Norton. I also had to change the permissions in the SOFTWARE section of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the Registry to EVERYONE. This worked initially and the Diskeeper program worked, recognised all my … |
| | i'm using a dell notebook but i think the hard drive is locked with a password and it says "The system primary hard disk is protected by a password authentication system.You can not access data on this hard drive without the correct password." WHAT DO I DO? |
| | I have been working on getting a RAID 1 working on a Dell desktop computer. I have the IDE card installed and working. I was able to mirror the master drive to the slave while testing if it would work. Everything has worked out just fine, except one big problem. … |
| | I got some dvd's from a friend of mine that he made of our bb team. I try copying them from disk to disk. That doesn't work. I try using roxio classic and put certain files in. I have tried nero and no luck. What is the problem. I can't … |
| | My computer has been up and running for about 5 months. I have a cdrw, dvd player and the standard 3 1/2 floppy. About a month ago, the computer stopped reading the cdrw and dvd drives. I wasted money taking it to a computer shop. He said both drives were … |
| | My hard drive is very small. I got it a while ago in an old computer. Its a DELL computer. My drive has 37.2 Gigs. Yes,yes, I know its tiny! A shrimp! Thats why Im trying to boot it to the curb. I have some questions though, thats why I … |
| | [quote=Telecorder]I physically swapped the drives in the PC case to facilitate installing the CD-RW at the end of the 40-pin/80-conductor cable as the jumpered Master and the DVD-ROM at mid-cable as jumpered Slave. 72+ hours without any timeout errors and counting.:cheesy: :) :cool: Many thanks to all who responded and … |
| | Hi guys When searching the internet for info on how to install windows 98 on to a newly built pc, I saw some articles saying that windows 98 can only deal with hard drives of up to 130gb is this true and if so how can I install windows 98 … |
| | We booted from a system cd and formated the 250GB sata hard drive, partitioning it. I am trying to get my newly built computer to recognise my satas cd drive (a SH-W163A BEBN) so that I can load Windows 98. I have copied the dos_drive directory from the cd onto … |
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