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| | Hi, My computer recently overheated and after I rebooted it, it wouldn't load properly. So I first checked the BIOS and noticed that the Primary IDE Master, which is my Hard drive, and my Primary IDE Slave, which is my second hard drive, which is my second harddrive, is not … |
| | Everytime I try to access any disk on my floppy drive I get the same message. "A:\ is not accessible, No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk." Right clicking gives me the same message also, in fact anything that I do that concerns this drive gives me …  |
| | I have a problem with my Master drive, Drive0, changing the drive letter after installation. Most recent, internal Zip drive, usually B: or H:, now H: is Drive0, Boot Drive, and C: is Drive1. When Win2Kpro was installed the last time, I verified immediately following OS installation, that Drive C … |
| | I bought an external hard drive for my msntv 2. Which was no surprise to me, just a wishful thinker. But my question is i can find a way to hook-up my external hard drive to the libraries computer so I can download things for myself transfer them to a … |
| | my friend loaned his 80gb hard drive to his mate when the guy put it in his pc he forgot to change the 80gb to slave so his master a 20gb hhd and the 80gb hhd are both set as masters when he turn on his pc it crshed.But now … |
| | Just like everyone else on this board I have a HD (IDE) issue. The drive is recognized in the BIOS. But I noticed that it "sees" it as a gig more than it actually is. When Windows comes up the drive does not show up. I have tried using WinHex … |
| | hey, my mate's laptop HD just totally crashed and we can't get it going anymore. the laptop says that the OS can't be found, and when we tried running a repair install, it says that the HD can't be found. i removed the HD and put it into an external … |
| | Hello I have a problem. I recently bought a pc with no cd rom attached. When I went to put in my cd burner, nothing happened. It doesnt detect my harddrive or the burner. When I disconnect my burner, the pc loads just fine. I am pretty new to this … |
| | Hi, My friend's computer broke. Windows XP wouldn't load up and safemode wasn't much use. There were some important video editing files on the HD, so I agreed to help him. Having more knowledge of computers than him, I suggested the best solution would be to buy a new HD, … |
| | I just recently bought my laptop its Compaq V2305CA Mobile AMD Sempron Processer 3000+ 1.79GHZ 512 Shared (498) left See i have 60GB of hard driver but now i have 30.1 GB left but see the thing is The driver space is 60.00GB -2.72GB = 57.28GB -9.34GB = 47.34GB Total … |
| | Hi, A pc running XP Home has crashed and there is data on there i need. I have another machine running xp pro and intend to add the corrupted hard drive as a 2nd drive (slave ) to try and recover the data. can this be done or can someone … |
| | Hi guys, i have a custom built P4 3.4ghz, 1024ddr, 200gb Western Digital SATA drive. Due to some error i could not load windows so i removed the hd and formatted it in another pc. When i put it back to do a fresh install of windows it says Primary … |
| | errr i dunno where to post this :o my hard drive seems to be making noise when i am near people on online games. i cant explain the sound but it only occurs when im around people and i slow down. anything i should do? thanks |
| | I have 1 HD and 1 cdrw each set to master on seperate channels. I want to install a second HD. How do I set it up? |
| | I have two 80g WD drives that i have setup into a Raid 0 right now on an old computer. Well i have a new laptop and want to turn that old computer into a linux box to play around with. So i was wondering if there was a external … |
| | Hi, I have Biostar u866d socket 478 with celeron d, 2 ide hdd,cdrw and cdrom. I was trying to replace cdrw with dvdrw, and now anything that is on the 2nd ide channel is not visible, even on bios. I played with jumpers, capble position etc, and after many attempts, … |
| | A friend asked me to help him install a second hard drive that already contains a ton of data on his computer. I suppose he wouldn't have needed my help if everything worked like it should. Anyway, here's the fun stuff: It's a Dell Dimension 8200. The master hard drive … |
| | So I get a lot of calls wanting to know if you can use a drive on both Mac & PC, I think I have a solution...but I'm not sure, I want to know of any conflicts or any ideas why it won’t work. Easy steps to format an external … |
| | Please tell me that which hard disk will be compatible with a toshiba satellite A 15.I installed a new one one but my notebook is working very slow after that.Even P1 will be faster than my noteook.(it takes 15 mns to boot).I think that one is not fully compatible as … |
| | Hi, I am a pretty technical person as far as I know how to change out my drive, but for some reason it's not working. Help. Here's the sitch, I have a Toshiba Satellite 2415 S205, my cd/dvd combo drive crapped out when I was in Iraq. I purchased a … |
| | Hey all. Someone I know just bought a second hand PC with a 10 GB hard disk. In the same order they bought a 40 GB HD, but the PC, which is a Dell GX110 (I think) only has one drive bay. The system came preinstalled with XP Pro but … |
| | I have a pocket hard drive I got in school. It's formatted for Mac, but I have a PC and no where to use it now. It still has photos and info I need access to. I heard that items formatted for Mac will work with PC, but not the …  |
| | Installed new western digital hard Drive, 160 Gig.HD is not detected in manufacturers setup disk, and also not in BIOS. chanel 1 cabel has no hard drives displayed, chanel 2 ribbon cabel(secodary), shows both my CD-RW'S. Cofused, can you help? The origina HD has WIN XP on it.I got a … |
| | I have a Seagate Model ST340015A hard drive that came out of a NEO Car Jukebox ([url]www.ssiamerica.com)[/url]. I have tried installing this hard drive in two different computers with no luck. I have tried installing the drive as a master, slave, CS in combination with the other drives on these … |
| | Hello, still some time to wish a happy new year.. im new on this forum, im just installed a new dvd burner in my toshiba laptop, 5205, and i get this error. IDE #0 error, at the startup of the computer then it ask me for my disk system. - … |
| | ThankU Friend 4 reading my thread ! ___________________________________________________ I have A SEAGATE 80 GB Harddisk , With lot of enourmous important datas. ** Once my system hung and I restarted it.**** ***After that I cant see my files and folders in my second partition but the space is still used …  |
| | Hello, I'm having a problem with my computer startup. When the computer boots it stops saying FDC error, press F1 to continue. I get that it means Floppy Disc Controller error, but the funny thing is I don't even have a floppy disc drive. I have a feeling that this … |
| | hiya can any one help i have just replaced my cd writer with a dvd writer in device manager my pc reconises my new burner but when i go to nero it doesnt reconise it only image recorder can anyone help thx :twisted: |
| | I am looking to purchase a new computer (old one took a dive but HD is ok) the new one has SATA drive with XP media suite and the old one has 2000 on it can I just plug the old one in to the ribbon and be good? :o … |
| | I have recently formatted my hard drive as i was having problems with windows system files. But now, when i try to re-install windows, i can not create a partition larger then 129GB when my hard drive is 250GB. I triede to install windows once just on this 129GB partition …  |
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| | hey guys, i dont know where to post this, iveb een trying to find out where the section is but i couldnt find it, sry ^_^....ok my problem is that i got my resume on my floppy disk (its ms words file) it was working yesterday but now its not. … |
| | My computer will run with cdrom and HD set on cable select. However the cdrom is the master and the hd is the slave in the bios. I have tried setting both jumpers to master and using 2 ribbons and the bois sees only the cdrom as primary master but … |
| | I need a bigger hard drive but I only have 1 bay. Can anyone tell me how I can copy the data across? I read here [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33915.html[/url] that HD's come with disks for this. I bought my desktop from dell years ago - would it still come with a disk? … |
| | Can anyone tell me anything about the Seagate pocket hard drive . I'm looking to buy the 2.5 GB hard drive the Seagate offers. I know Seagate is a reputable business but is there another type of pocket hard drive that you feel is better for the money. Right now … |
| | I plan to remove the current HDD running Win ME and install a new HDD with Win XP. Then I'd like to add the old HDD as the slave. Will Win ME be an issue when I access the old drive? Should I uninstall ME before I remove the old … |
| | Hi, I have an important file on a floppy disk but cannot access it as the error message ' Data error - cyclic redundancy check ' appears when i try and open it. I know the file is still there as i have managed to preview it but i cannot … |
| | Hey all! My mother in law bought an HP with an AMI Bios, it is still within a year old and the HDD will not boot up without showing the SMART command failure message. I have tried going into the setup and disabling this but there is no toggle available. … |
| | I can't figure this one out at all... I have an HP Pavilion with two optical drives - 1 is a DVD writer, the other a reader. Whenever I copy an audio disc on the fly, the burn is fine and everything is normal but for some reason, when I … |
| | I want to know if anyone has any insight on which dvd burner is an overall better burner? It is the pioneer dvr -110d and the lite on 1693s. Anyone care to comment on what they know? |
| | Hey there, I was wondering if anyone can help me with this problem. Before I state the problem I'll list my system setup. I'm running an 80GB IDE HDD as my main drive (C:\) with Windows XP installed and a second 200GB SATA drive (D:\) setup as a storage drive. … |
| | I have a brand new PC, AMD Athlon 3000+, Geforce 6200, Gforce ATX? motherboard, 1gb of ram, yada yada yada, but whenever I load up a game (Quake4, Doom3, F.E.A.R., Half Life 2), I can play for like 5-10 minutes then the computer screen freezes replaying the same sound over … |
| | have a mxtor 6B200PO 200 gb. i have updated my bios and now my hardrive shows up in the bios as 189gb which is whats roughly supposed to be. the problem is even though i have sp2 and i used the maxtor tool to change the registry and i have … |
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| | Hi Can someone please help me My d-drive(cd/dvd) just went missing. It was OK when I last used it few days ago. When I go to my computer, its not there. Checked device manager-also not listed. However, "physical d-drive" is OK - I can put in a disc & the … |
| | From the "Trippy but True Hardware Fixes" department: For any of you out there who've had the wonderful misfortune of having a hard drive go totally belly-up on you, but recovering the data on the drive is absolutely necessary, check this out: One of my clients' old Maxtor drives finally … |
| | Hello. Last year I bought a 160 gb WD ide drive and installed as a slave on my computer which was running windows ME, only to be disappointed to find out that ME doesn't support drives that big so I had to format it at 127 GB. So that's what … |
| | friends, i came back with another problem and plz help me.. i brought one hitachi 80GB SATA HDD some one month back.. installed it two weeks back... now i have two hdds one sata and one ordinary.. i have the os winxpSP2 in both the hard disks.. i was worked … |
| | Hey I am just building a new computer, but i'm worried about moving my harddrives over (i dont want to lose the stuff on my secondary drive). The secondary drive is a 250GB western digital So after I install windows on the primary, I assume I would install the cd … |
| | Hello All, I am new to the forum but I have a question...I just picked up a used gateway solo 3150 laptop and the cd rom module is bad, but I can't for the life of me find a way to eject the entire drive so that I can replace … |
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