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I have an ASUS A7V8X-X mb with 2 HDS, both partioned X2; 1.5 gig RAM; a 2 gig AMD processor. This is kind of a long storyi. I began getting Boot Disk Failures here awhile back. They would begin once in awhile and grew to nothing, but Failure. I had …

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Hello everybody, I tried to copy my 60GB hard drive from my old laptop to my 160GB hard drive on my new laptop. It is Windows XP SP-2.I uninstalled all additional drivers.The copy works perfect on the old laptop,but not on the new one.On the first "Windows" screen,where the three …

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Hey, I've seen this external hardrive and was wondering if this would be ok to save ALL my files to it, So in the end i wouldn't have any files on my computer but all on the hardrive, its 1TB in data, 1024gb if i'm correct? [URL="http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/0622165/Trail/C%24cip%3D1500011728.Office%2C%2BPC%2Band%2Bphones%3EC%24cip%3D1500011797.Hard%2Bdrives.htm"]Clicky[/URL]

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Hi everyone, I have a problem that I would like to share with you. I recently bought a hard disk and had formatted it on my friends system. The installation had no problems and I copied some software in that. But later I found that I could not read some …

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Hey Please help, Ive just built a system for my gf's dad/sis not tht it matters. anyways it was the first time i have used a sata HDD and had some troble installing it (solved by a nicked floppy drive from work). But noticed tht the system would not boot …

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PLTD is a registered and legitimate company that offer the whole world access to buyer Electronic product at affordable prices. Our product are 1st factory condition with 2years factory waranty in brand new original box with complete accessories . We operate a 100% return policy guarantee . Our aim and …

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Recently I got a new laptop because my old one completely broke. I was able to get my hard drive out of the old one, and have been searching for something that I could use to still view the files. I finally found an adapter that i could use and …

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I am in the field of desktop support In a system with configuration Core 2 duo 2.2 Ghz, 1GB Ram, 160 GB Hdd, Lg DVD Writer Model GSA-H55N. In the drive the Video files with extension *.vob plays normally by right clicking the drive and selecting "play with power DVD". …

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I keep getting the following error message in my Events Log: Event Type: Warning Event Source: Disk Event Category: None Event ID: 51 Date: 5/17/2008 Time: 8:30:42 PM User: N/A Computer: GARYHOMEOFFICE Description: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\D during a paging operation. For more information, see Help and …

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I am trying to retrieve data from a HDD that was inside a computer whose MOBO sustained a hit of lighting and fried. I plugged in HDD to power supply and smoke immediately appeared. Any ideas on what to do next? Thanks Sylvia

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Hi All, Any thoughts on this one? I've got a Lacie 250GB Quadro HDD that I have used with a Mac and a PC in the past. Now the PC won't recognise it and hence, I can't access the data. I have gone to disc management and device management on …

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A hardrive was connected and powered in a PC without the old hardrive present. Issue now: There is no visual, as if the graphics card does not work. Note: The new hardrive was connected to the PC without properly being formated. How do I solve this problem? What are the …

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Hi, my Maxtor harddrive recently stopped working....I have it jumpered correctly and everything, I've check all wires and cordings, and replaced them with brand news ones. I can get it to detect the harddrive when I have hit hooked up as a slave to my 1.9gb harddrive, but when I …

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hey im new at this and i was hoping u could help me out i have a drive that wont read disks its a ts-h652 its a dvd rom im trying to watch movies burn cd/dvd im running windows xp but the drive came out of a vista cpu so …

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Hello, I have a problem, the CD drive in my laptop does not read any CDs any more, although it reads DVDs normally! What can I do to solve this?

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So I've got this laptop that was stuck in an infinite boot loop (I feel that I should mention that it would reboot after showing the windows loading screen), chances are OS is corrupt, right? So we decide to reinstall, but first I've got to get the data off. The …

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Hello there. I recently upgraded my pc ( find spec below). I pulled out the hard drives from my old pc and put them in the new one. i reinstalled XP and booted. i am running a 500GB 32mb SATA and a 1TB SATA . Windows is installed on the …

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I have a sony spressa i link external drive i took the cdrom out and put a hd in and it worked i am trying a different hd and its not working my card, cable, and hd are fine. I am wondering if the jumpers need to be in a …

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Hey Everyone! I need some help! My LaCie 500GB external USB hard drive is having troubles- my sister-in-laws baby knocked it over and I have valuable information on it! It worked afterwards a couple of times then it had some kind of error on it- I can't recall the actual …

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Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite m45 s 269 that has a 100gb HD. I recently purchased a 2.5 hdd harddrive enclosure however it does not fit. The hard drive does says its an Hdd. I am confused. I tried it on my Compaq presario 905 us harddrive which says …

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i have a dell 4150 inspiron lap top, i am looking to upgrade the hard drive. it now has only 30 g. i would like to put at leasdt 100g in it. noblody , but noby seems to be able to find me one that fits,(except if i took it …

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Hi, I'm a very, very newbie to this forum. I have a Gateway desktop running Windows ME that has started to die and I want to remove the hard drive, put it in an enclosure, and use it as an external drive for my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop which is …

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Hi I have a memory USB stick which I used for a while, just now I have problem , when I connect it to my computer I couldn’t find it. I don’t have any access to it. I have my data in it and don’t want to lose them. I …

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If I had a problem with my main drive, and it were to crash, and I had my Program Files on a 2nd drive. Once I re-install my Wnidows is there a way to direct it to my "old" Program Files on the 2nd drive and run it from there?

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I have a 120Gb seagate harddisk that is bringing me problems. It started having system checking issues and it was not completing to scan it using chkdisk. When i reboot the system, it says that it cannot find the system disk and on further checking i find out that the …

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i am running windows xp sp2 on my hp compaq laptop.it was attacked by a virus a few weeks ago which made it imposible for me to open my drive c or d.after i cleaned the laptop with avg antivirus i realised the virus had made folder options,run,search and other …

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I am pretty computer savvy and I would like to try to retrieve data from a HDD. The MB of the old system was hit by lightning. My thoughts on the recovery process are as follows: If the HDD in question is an IDE drive, I could connect it to …

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hi i have a new cpu, with P5E board installed and a new 500G HD. the problem is, when i try to install windows xp, it says the HD is only 137G... the bios sees it as 500g as it should. the only thing i can think of is that …

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Hi, I am looking for a little advice. I want to buy a NAS unit with RAID capabilities for under £350. Can anyone make any suggestions? Thanks, Kevin

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so i was planning on getting a small sata internal hard drive and a large external usb2 hard drive, but i was concerned about the speed of usb2. but i just heard that there are such things as external sata ports! so if i build a comp with these, i …

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