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| | easy all having a bit of trouble with my laptop - the power socket has failed so i'm unable to either charge the battery or run it from the mains. it's still under warranty so fixing it isn't a problem, but there's some data on the laptop's hard drive that … |
| | I am currently trying to repair a PC for a school computer lab. This Dell Optiplex will not recognize any hard drives or boot from any CD's. The only device on the boot sequence list is the floppy drive, it is acting as though it does not recognize anything else. … |
| | I am going to be buying a new machine and the hard drive will be SATA. I want to transfer my storage drive from my previous machine which is IDE. (I want to run a SATA and IDE together, the SATA being the operating system drive). Would somebody be able … |
| | Hi all, Unfortunately, recently my laptop had water spilled on it by some guests who were visiting my house, and now the motherboard is of course fried. In the between time of now and getting a new laptop I need access to all the old files on the laptop's hard … |
| | I have a (more of a) question and (less of a) problem here. Recently I purchased, what I tought was a Pioneer 110D, but the casing says 110DSV. I also purchased a genuie 110D (casing stamp confirms it). Now, 110DSV gets recognised as 110D in my device manager. When I … |
| | Hi, just joined and hopefully someone here can help me out with something that is probably simple but i have not managed to solve it yet:sad: I have a Sony Vaio which has 20gb of hard drive. 10 gb on Vaio C and 10 on Vaio D Now C is … |
| | on my external harddrive, someone told me to defragment it.. and so, i did. however, when i got on my computer the next day.. i cant seem to get into my external harddrive. it's telling me to format it. is there any other way[I] besides[/I] formatting? cuz i dont want … |
| | i'm having trouble with windows recognising my 200Gb h/d right now i have to h/d...40Gb and 200Gb windows on the 40Gb and when i partition the 200Gb...only 130Gb due to some limit windows put in is there some way to get rid of the limit?? thanks in advance |
| | I have just upgraded my motherboard, and am not able to view my SATA drive anymore. As i said in the title it's recognized in the disk manager, and also in the device manager. I would like to make it accessable again without reformatting as i have some files on … |
| | i have this question which some had asked before...but i'm still confuse i bought a new H/D and want to connect it to the PC so i get 2 H/D... so i have an old IBM 40 GB H/D a new Western Digital ATA100 200GB so now i have them … |
| | My PC won't recongize by newly insallted DVDRW (ComStar 16x16). I put it in place of my old CDROM drive (there wasn't enough rails to have all 3, or cables). I can open and close the drive, but the computer dosen't see it in My Computer, dxdiag, Device Manager or … |
| | So, it looks like I'll be getting a new motherboard after my first motherboard went bad in my computer. And before I do this, I want to back up the 50GB or so of things I've downloaded as I'm not sure if I'll lose everything when I'm forced to reinstall …  |
| | Sorry if this has been asked a million times.... but I need to get some games off my kids comp that quit working yesterday (mysteriously). What can I do with the old HD? I have a old computer to add it to if possible. Similar models one is a E-machines … |
| | Hello, I just got a new hard drive. I mounted it in my computer. And connected it to the SATA ports on the motherboard to the drive with the SATA cable. When I turn my computer back on it doesn't see that something was put there. I tried connecting the … |
| | hey everyone, i'm looking for a good hard drive shredder that's free. if anyone has any advice on good software, preferrably from D.O.D., that would be ideal. the last software we had, you were able to boot off a floppy and allow it to take over and shred the drive. … |
| | I know this must be some settting that I didn't do. I got a mad dog - DVD writer drive - Installed it. Now my CD drive :rolleyes: will not read any thing - to open it you have to right click on the drive and hit edject - anyone … |
 | hi, can anyone help me out with disk cloning? i've never really used it before and i'm getting a bit lost. i have a system with an ata133 HDD. i have just installed a new scsi system. so what i want to do is copy everything from my c:\ drive … |
| | I reformatted my C drive, due to some major errors and what not. And before I did it, I was sure to save all the files I wanted on my other Hitachi HD (120 GB). After I did that, I went ahead and reformatted my C drive, to a clean … |
| | Ok, for some odd reason my secondary "slave" hard drive just messed up on me. It doesn't show up on "My Computer", "Device Manager", and BIOS. and it makes my Primary "Master" not show up on BIOS only. and before it stopped working it, windows xp said some thing like. … |
| | I brought a External usb hard drive (120 gb) a little while back. it worked fine until my computer was unplugged. when i put everything back together it didnt work anymore. it just glows blue as it did when it was brand new. now my computer just reconizes it as … |
| | I found that this actually seems to be a reoccuring problem with Dells on here... I have a Dell, it's pretty new, a little less than 4 months old, (but about 3 weeks past its warrenty expiration, go fig) it was running fine until about a week ago when I … |
| | I'm trying to install a used 40 gig HD. It is recognized in the bios but when I try to format it says Can't access hard disk, I tried to use fdisk with a startup disk and got the same result. Can I assume it is shot. |
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| | My dvd drive, dvd-ram doesnt work for some reason. First it didnt burn dvds properly, I have a dvd camera, and then it just stopped reading dvds or cds, when you put in a disc, it just doesnt read it, even when you start up a computer, it doesnt check … |
| | Well, I've spent the last couple nights trying to install my a new 300 GB SATA on my ASUS MOBO without resolution. I've looked high and low on this forum for help, but none seems to hit my problem just right. Here's my system: MOBO: ASUS A8V Deluxe 200 GB …  |
| | First let me say I don't really understand much of these things. I have a newer PC that runs on XP, and had and old PC that run on ME. I want to use the old HD on the new computer as a slave, but they dont look the same. … |
| | I have just upgraded my PC. I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe motherboard and an AMD 64 3700+. The problem is with my hard drive (SATA2 western digital 250Gb). When I first booted up it didnt recognise the hard drive at all. I have solved that problem but now when … |
| | Having read several partitioning [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]strategies[/URL] I keep seeing different opinions on the matter of location of the [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1229099&page=1#"]program[/URL] files folder and or swap files. The need and essence of proper and smart partitioning of drives is clear to me. However I can't figure out where to place the more demanding … |
| | Hi Folks, I just installed a New Western Digital 80GB HD in my Toshiba Tecra A1. To test it, I started to load up Fedora Linux as an OS. Linux saw the drive ok and everything seemed to be ok. I halted the install as I need to load it … |
| | i have 2 hdd on 1 pc i have installed xp on both drives i need to be able to boot up one or the other drives at start up one is for the kids and one for work i need to be able to password protect one drive is … |
| | I've seen a few of these threads regarding dvd drives and the pin soldering technique. I have a new 'cable select' hard drive (used to be my secondary) that I need to use to replace a dead drive in my Toshiba laptop (Satellite 5205-S705). It seems that this type of … |
| | I have an issue where a recently purchased Maxtor 160GB IDE hard drive is not allowing a [B][I]specific PC[/I][/B] to start. When the power wire is plugged into the Maxtor drive and the PC is started, the tower starts to power up for about 1 to 3 seconds, then the … |
| | Hi everyone, Here my problem, When I boot up computer windows starts and works for a while then I get blue screen saying a process or thread crucial to system has unexpectly exited or been terminated. Computer restarts but now bios can't find my hard drive. Primary SATA not found. … |
| | Does anybody know how you can check to see what kind of hard-drive you can get for your computer? Thanks |
 | [COLOR=DarkRed]HI ppl: Well I was trying to find an article or guide that'd show me how to Format my current Slave Hard Drive (MAXTOR 36147H8) and then Re-Install it without having any reboot or Recognizion issue but i can't see to find any... so Would u please Help me out? …  |
| | Hey all I just got the ASUS DRW-1608P2S DVD-RAM drive. The specifications for this drive state that this drive can write to CD-Rs at 40x in CAV mode and upto 32x in PCAV mode. I bought a few Moser Baer 52x CD-Rs, but nero only allows me to write at … |
| | Seems complicated, but I'll try my best to explain. I was having some overheating problems, so I opened up the PC, sucked out the dust and rearranged my SATA and Power cables. Then when I booted my PC up, my BIOS HD Detection gave me a message of "No hard … |
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| | I am looking for CD copier software which copies directly to CD, without first going onto hard-drive. My PC has Windows Me. Have heard good stuff about Ashampoo Burning Sutdio 6 ... anyone comment on this? At present, I have Musicmatch Jukebox installed...want to replace it, since I find it … |
| | Hey guys, I purchased a new 160GB Maxtor HDD last November. Everything was working fine and until last week, i am supposed to have 70GB of free hard disk space. However, i made a image of my primary HDD onto my 160GB HDD and accidentally deleted it soon after. Since … |
| | Hi, I used to have only one HD in my computer. It was a SATA main HD, a 250GB one, but now I set it as a secondary master because the primary master being a new 160GB one. I did not yet wipe the data on the 250GB HD because … |
| | i have tried sevel different programs to burn audio cd's or mp3's and all i end up with is a blank disc. even if i stick the disc in a dvd player it is blank. i do not know who made my cd-rw drive but will let you know who … |
| | i'm thinking of buying a dvd burner i"m looking at sony dual layer or is there something else? |
| | Ok my cd burner is giving me all kinds of problems i have a Lite- On LTR- 52246S. Ok well first when i look at it in the device manager its show up and Lite- On LTR 52246S SCSI Cd Rom Device. I dont know if a CD rom Device … |
| | hi, admittedly, i'm a only an intermediate with computers.... and i'm attempting to make my own external hard drive. i just bought a 250 gb hard drive for backup. it's a hitachi sata hdd and i have a nexstar 3 sata enclosure. with such a big hard drive, do i … |
| | I[COLOR=Navy] have a starting problem means when i changed booting preference on my pc but it doesn't happen it will boot from hard disk always so i cann't change booting options like it will not boot from floppy ,cddrive.[/COLOR] |
| | [font=verdana, arial, helvetica][size=2]Does someone have a clue? I've tried to burn an audio cd with[b] nero[/b] and with [b]cd creator 5[/b], but neither one works. When I click burn or record I get this message saying...... [b]Nero says"Sorry, your compilation cannot be written on this kind of disc. Please insert … |
| | I recently purchased some hard drives from a site ichbanpc.com. They had pretty good prices on oem hard drives not refurbished so I was told. Anyway I bought several and have used them in computers. All but one have worked great. The one when it was cold would not get … |
| | Drive: OEM stock that came with my Compaq Presario 6330us. Failed attempts: 1. Using the 5 System Recovery CDs I cannot reformat the user partition. If I turn it on, press Esc twice I will get into the boot option menu. After I then press Ctrl + Backspace the Hard … |
 | How is hard drive installation? From some people, I hear that it's easy...and from others, it's not. I'm wanting to install a brand new hard drive. Does that mean I'd have to reinstall Windows? If so, that's no problem.. And...how to I access the BIOS information? I think it must … |
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