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| | I have an older Dell Dimension 550L and it has a single Maxtor 10 gb hard drive. Well the drive is pretty much full the system is working fine, and i am running Windows XP SP2 with no problems. I had a friend give me a Western Digital 100gb HD … |
| | Computer turns on fine Windows XP loads and does its thing Desktop comes up and not all of the icons display correctly: My Docs, My Computer, Outlook and IE don't show as they should If I try to open any one of them, the cursor changes to show that its … |
| | We have a small peer-to-peer LAN running Windows XP. In the last week the same problem has cropped up on 3 separate PCs (all under a year old). Floppy drives won't read, sometimes an error message saying the disc is not formatted, sometimes "No ID address mark was found on … |
| | I am starting out my computer service business in the part time, and have had some calls come my way. I have been able to solve them all, except for the ones which relate to hard drive failures. So, now I am looking to invest some money into some hardware-software … |
| | My DVD drive reads normal CDs but not DVDs i tried reinstalling but still dont work can someone please help me with this o and when i oepn Roxio dvd recording program thing, it says i dont have the dvd recorder...  |
| | A week ago my dvd/cd rw drive worked perfectly, but now when i try to put dvd rw, dvd r disks in my computer it doesnt read them and tells me its a blank CD. When i put any cd in my computer it reads it and it works fine. … |
| | hi, i am having an odd problem with my cd tray. its a pc.. and it was working perfect, but all of a sudden i pusht the button it wont ope... i tried restarting the computer but no luck. i know for sure that there is no damage to it … |
 | Hello, I am having the task of moving a 1.9 gb file over from a Mac to a PC. What do ya think would be the best method of doing this? Lastly, I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. ;) |
| | I have a Dell Dimension XPS 1500 (pretty old) with a maxtor 20gb hard drive. This computer got pretty messed up so i decided to do some fixin. I bought a samsung 80gb hard drive. I installed the hard drive (i added it along with the maxtor, i didnt replace … |
| | I run XP Home on my pc. I did a restore point and later tried to go back. this is when the issues started. after trying to restore the HD wouldn't reboot. So in stead of screwing around I bought a new HD and installed it making the old 80 … |
| | I have an IDE drive (200 GB) connected to my motherboard, set to master, with an SATA drive (320 GB) as well. I am trying to install Windows XP on the IDE drive so that can be my primary drive and my secondary drive (SATA) can be used to store … |
| | Hello Everyone Recently, my comp was having problems with spyware and other stuffs which caused me to re-install Window Xp home Edition yesterday / spent 2 hours with the Dell Technician.. Everything seemed fine after the succesful re-installation. Had installed back some Network/Video/Sound Drivers successfully. Which pleased me. After a … |
 | Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when … |
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| | I installed my new HD, inserted my Windows XP CD and started the computer. My BIOS reognized the new HD correctly, the CD started working fine... I chose to make a partition. It was about 49% done and I realized I did not chose the right size for the partition. … |
| | I installed a 300 GB Samsung internal hard drive as a slave, and it doesn't show up normally under 'my computer'. I can find it if I right click on 'my computer' - 'manage' - 'device manager'. It shows up under 'disc drives' - 'samsung 300'. When I click on …  |
| | I have just bought a new 80Gb ide hard drive to go in my computer at work as the old one was getting full (only 9Gb!). Iv put the hard drive in and connected it all up and its not working. The pc can detect its there but when I … |
| | hi every1~! I am in need of an external HD as I want to keep an archive of my old data. So I was wondering if you could recommend me to the one that is not very expensive but relieable. I think about 40-60 GB of space would be great, … |
| | hi guyz, I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & … |
| | I have just purchased a Western Digital SATA drive to accompany my Seagate SATA drive and my ATA drives. The system (XP) will not recognise it. I plugged it in place of the Seagate drive to ensure the cables and controller were OK and if I have both connected, neither … |
 | Hi, I had a ..um..cute friend drop off her HP Pavillion and I had to reinstall windows XP for her, alls working but the CD-RW. the device manager says its working fine, the drivers loaded successfully. I did the old unplug the drive reboot, then plug it in and let … |
| | Historically I have had about 18.5 gigs of space left on my hard drive, give or take. Curiously, last week, I noticed that the hard drive space was down to 17.6 gigs and today I have noticed that my hd space is down to 16.9 gigs. I say Holysmokes! I …  |
| | well i just got a new 40gb seagate hdd for extra storage since i have a 20gb as my master, i placed it as a slave. Now my issue is this. When i look in the bios, it shows up there, and in device manager is shows up, and when … |
 | I dropped my external hard drive while it was running; properties shows half of it being used, but if you open the drive no files or directories show. Is there anyway to pull that info out. anyone I could use the help, its work related. |
| | i have a hard drive that was in another computer and i put it in a case to use as an external hard drive. my windows me will only recognize it in the device panel and not in my computer. i know the hard drive is good because i formatted … |
| | First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. Please move if so :) I bought a second PC a week ago which I plan on using as my main PC. Now I want to play around with different OS's on the older one. I'd like to … |
| | Hi, I'm running Windows Xp on my system. I currently have a 200 Gb hard drive installed. When I got this computer, I also added my 80 GB hard drive off my old computer. It worked fine for over a year until recently when I did a system restore. Now, … |
| | I recently installed a 200gb maxtor Ultra ATA/133 hard drive. I wanted extra storage space so I connected it as a slave to my existing 120 GB hard drive. After connecting all the cables I restarted the machine. I got as far as the windows loading logo, and then the … |
 | I work for an engineering company as the ITT. We have to maintain backups incase of some sort of issue so that we can go back and recover files. A little while back, one of the employees burned DvDs consisting of files copied from CDs in order to reduce the … |
| | I just wanted to get a few opinions from people before I spend monery on a new external hard drive. I love to test new beta products. I am downloading windows vista beta 2, along with the new office 2007 suite. I had installed the office beta on my good …  |
| | I put in a SATA drive in my computer to run a SATA2 HD 120 gig from Western Digital (the sata drive was recommended by a Geek Squad guy). The Sata drive works just fine but my problem is my HD isnt showing up to use in "my computer" area. … |
| | Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try … |
| | I recently took apart an older HP Computer and took out a Maxtor Hard Drive (20 gig). I wanted to put it in my newer computer as a second drive. The hard drive has Linux installed on it and is set so Linux is the only partition. The newer computer … |
| | Hi guys, I have a SATA hd having windows XP installed in it. After that i used PATA hd for a while and now i want to use my previous hd..i.e the SATA hd. But when i connect the SATA hd , the system is not recognising the presence of … |
| | I put in a new motherboard and hard drive in my computer. I had some data on my old hard drive that I wanted to try and copy to my new hard drive before formatting it. So I conected my old hard drive with a USB to IDE cable to … |
| | I have a similar but unrelated problem. The "R-Driver" make USB 2.0 'USB-to-IDE' cable does not let my laptop (HP-Compaq nx9005, which has a USB 1.1 controller) recognize a 3.5" SAMSUNG 20 GB HDD. The HDD just keeps making ticking noise as if it is "hunting" for the boot sector. … |
| | Right ill start from the beginning so you can get the whole story, Built a new computer but was short on cash so i scavenged two old hard drives out of other computers (1x20gb and 1x40gb). Soon ran out of space, they were running realy slow so after a while … |
| | I'm interested in the answer to the "not support IDE" question as well, ...any I've seen with SATA had both, ...re the original question of external HDD cases, mine are called "enclosers" and the one for 5.25" HDDs was about 1/4 the cost of a HDD, very cheap and handy … |
| | I have 4 hard drives that I want to connect together and either make them run as one large drive or individually. For each of the drives I have a device that connects the the IDE and power slot and outputs them both to a single parallel female parallel port. … |
| | Ok I have very little of a clue as to what I am supposed to do, or if it is even possible. I am using a laptop dell latitude for school and was wondering if I would be able to hook up an old computer tower to the laptop to … |
| | I have a dead USB drive that reads used space 0 bytes and free space 0 bytes. I learnt that this is caused by a bug in Windows. Ive tried a couple of utilities to recover but in vain. Does anyone know a utility that can help me recover the … |
| | for some reason my cd-rw drive doesnt show up in my computer and says uninstalled on device manager and even when i change the cd-rw drive for a normal cd drive it still doesnt show up and still says uninstalled, if anyone can help, i would be very thankful as … |
| | Hi all having a little bother here with my serial ATA drive. All was fine until 2 days ago. i have a dual partition setup on my serial sata 300 gig hd. prt 1 is 100 gig and prt 2 200 gig all fine, now window encountered a problem as … |
| | Hi I have IBM Thinkpad R52 1.73 Ghz, 256 DDR2 RAM . Originally, i had a combo drive .Recently , I installed a DVD drive, which is a DVD-RAM drive. I dont know what the problem is, but my computer crashes as soon as I insert a disk. Is my … |
| | Trying...this is really true...trying to assist a family member mirror images to 2 drives. From what I have read a RAID level 1 is the thing I am looking for. I have a couple of questions: 1. The drives must be identical. for example both must be 250GB. A. Can … |
 | For some rather peculiar reason, I'd been experiencing certain problems with my CD-RW, which was working perfectly well until recently but not lately, I'm afraid. Recently, I was ONLY able to open the CD-RW at certain times such as, in between as soon as I switch the PC on and … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to set up an external SATA enclosure box with my XP machine. The box has it's own power supply, holds 4 drives on rails and comes with a multilane pass through cable and connector, which seems just to be a cable with two small cards on each … |
| | Hi all I have a computer with 4 partitions on an 80 gig HD. Now, 10 Gig is what ive allocated to drive C: (the system drive). I have a tendency to try out every piece of software out there, and hence i tend to reformat drive C: every 4 … |
| | Hi! I've had extremely slow performance for a while now and haven't been able to solve the problem. Now I've done some research and have outlined a possible explanation. I just want your opinions. My problem: after an extremely long gaming session (my computer had been on for about 9 …  |
| | I have dvd reader/CD writer that was working one day, and 2 days later suddenly was not. The first indication of a problem was when I tried to burn a CD, and it kept giving me the message that the drive was busy. Now, though the device manager says everything … |
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