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| | I have a dell dimension 3000, and the bottom drive (CD-RW) is the only one that reads anything, the computer says that is working properly but nothing ever happens |
| | I asked on another topic about a pocket hard drive and someone suggested making my own. Ok, but what will I need to do to make it? What advice can you give on where to go and what to do? |
| | Hiya Everyone! I am trying to install two hard drives on my system. A 7200 rpm IDE drive and a 10000 rpm SATA drive. I want to load my OS off the 7200 and use the 10000 rpm drive for gaming. It's been about 5 years since I have built …  |
| | I've been on this computer for 7 years. It's a Presario 5700 series with the following configuration: 320 Megs of ram, PIII 500 and is running five drives: [HTML] IDE: Primary Secondary [Floppy] ---- ------- ---------- ------ 0: HDD DVD-ROM Floppy 1: CD-RW Zip 100 |_(j. on 'CS') [/HTML] Before, … |
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| | I have never had so much trouble in all my IT life than I have had with these two firewire enclosures. One is a bytec / welland me-320F and the other, well.. I don't know but it has that same damn chipset under the hood. Well I have had the … |
| | I have a Sony VIAO system with a pentium 4 2.4 GHz with a Sony DVD rw drive. The drive will play cd's, cdr's, audio, etc. When I put a disk in the dvd format into the drive the computer freezes and never comes back until I reboot by holding … |
| | Hi All, I need to find out what's the biggest hard drive I can use with an eMachines FIC AM39L (FIC K7M-400A) mother board & an AMD Athlon XP 2700 2.71 gHz? I've messed up before with an 200+ GB HDD for a different set up & it only supported … |
| | Hi I've not been on for quite a while. I'm going to have a new and bigger hard drive installed and I was wondering if I can have the old drive conected up as an external drive or are they special types of drives. Bill :-| :-| |
| | hi i just bought a dvdrw Toshiba sd-r6472 to change my old dvd\cdrw Teac on my Toshiba Satellite 2450-401. It doesnt work...and i get IDE #1 error message. I tried the dvd driver on a Sony notebook and it works very well...so i updated my bios and also tried put … |
| | Okay, I've had this problem with my floppy disk drive for probably a year now. When I open the Drive A folder, the contents on the disk would show and I could view/cut/copy/paste/edit.. etc. BUT when I would close the folder, take the disk out, put another one in and … |
| | :mad: OK Seriously, I've been working on my second Hard Drive issue for about a week now and still I'm having problems. I have a Asus P4VP-MX Motherboard with 1.5GB of ram, 2.4GHZ P4 Processor. The Old HDD is 80gb while the new one that I'm putting in is 400gb. … |
| | Ok, me and my dad are trying to setup a SATA to my computer. We are using a IDE as the master, I know I should probably use the SATA as my master but listen to the whole story first. We tried to connect it to my SATA1 connector in … |
| | Does anyone have the firmware for Seagate 36GB ST336704LCV drives to make them Simbios compatible and revert back to factory default from EMC firmware? |
| | Ho Ho Ho seasons cheer to one and all! I think I'm going blond. I've just bought a 200gb drive and cant figure out how to get over the 32gb limit set by some older bios's. I'm running xp home and I guess I'm having some brain fade, and I've … |
 | I have a western digital SATA150 160GB. I was installing linux fedora core 4 and it had formatted the hard drive and was installing linux when my niece turned off my computer in the middle of installation. Now Im trying to install windows again and I can partition the hard … |
| | Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron  |
| | Can someone plz help me with my computer. I have a problem, i have 2 drives, and one is a DVD-RAM/RW drive and another is a CD-RW/R drive. The problem is that when windows starts it doesnt show them in "My Computer" and when i look at the BIOS screen …  |
| | I Have A Dell Dimension 4600 And It's About 2 Years Old And We've Never Done Anything To It, Like Installing New Memory Or Anything. I Was On It One Day Just Checking Up On My Forum When It Started Making These Weird Clicking Noises, And It Wouldnt Stop So … |
| | I recently had a brief back and forth with nizzy1115 about IDE channel sharing and how to set up drives on the channels for maximum performance. Since there isn't a "right answer", I was curious what everyone's take was. My opinion is that harddrives are used more often than optical … |
| | Last night I went to download the update for WoW. Anyway, my hard drive and fan seemed to be spinning very high. Towards the end of the download, I heard a "whirring" or "whistling" sound, which sort of faded in, got a little loud, and then faded out. It did … |
| | Hello, I have a 120gig western digital external hard drive. I currently have about 40 gigs of data on the hard drive, but when I look at the properties it shows me only having 2 gigs of space left. I'm not sure what is wrong, and it will not let … |
| | my laptop hardrive is now an external component that connects with a USB port,. i installed the laptop harddrive externally onto my desktop. (i just plug the usb into the front of the desktop..) now i can access my files from the old harddrive through my desktop through windows explorer … |
| | I am desperate... I have just transfered data from a Hard Drive (HD1) to another one (HD2). So at the end HD1 is empty and HD2 is full. Then the accident happen: Crash of HD2. Impossible to read it, Windows won't even start when HD2 is plugged. Then I thought: … |
| | [url="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225"][color=navy]http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225[/color][/url] [color=navy][/color] [color=navy]For those with short memories, single layer Blu-ray discs hold 25GB and relatively stable mass production of them has been around for a while now. The real technical challenge is to achieve the same results with dual, triple and quadruple layer discs which will boost potential capacities to … |
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| | Hello, Good day! How can I format an 80GB hard disk as fat32 and install winxp? Thanks! |
| | I have attached another stata hard drive to my pc on connection number 1 (c drive is connected to connector 0 on motherboard) and the os does not recognise the drive. Do I need to do anything else other connect the sata cable and power cable? Please help! Thank You … |
| | Hi everyone...I am new to this forum and am hoping you all can give me some guidance. I am not a tech person but love my computer and am usually able to figure stuff out as I go. Well I installed a 2nd hard drive on my computer and got … |
| | Ok, first my dvd burner totally crapped out on me, wouldnt burn, wouldnt read discs nothing, about as useful as a drink holder. So I put a cd burner that I used to use in there, and it reads cd's. But when I go to burn something it will say … |
| | i have been trying to install a second hard drive in my computer for the past few days now. all the cables and jumpers are correctly set,(i have checked 20 sites and i know it is all hooked up correctly.) and it is just frustrating. :mad: under the system properties … |
| | Just add in a new HD in PC. BIOS can detect the 2nd HD or slave but Window can't? Open Window Disk Management only see Disk 0 but can't see Disk 1. New HD Pin jumper set to SL(slave). Any good advice. Thanks |
| | Hello. I recently purchased a first generation Proliant DL760 off e-bay due to the fact that I needed a server of some kind, and thought that since it would have as high specs as a pc I could build for the same price, and would most likely be more reliable, … |
| | First of all, this involves a Western Digital 250 GB drive. I partitioned it into 4 seperate drives. Aside from one of the drives on here, all the others seem to be working fine. My "Music" drive, the one causing problems, reads files fine too. That is until you move … |
 | I have a Seagate external hdd that was working awesomely. About a week ago, I dropped it. I rushed into my office to see if it was still working (I didn't expect it to). It worked fine up until yesterday. I used it to logon to my website at work … |
| | Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home ser pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would appreciate any help. All of a sudden Windows … |
| | If anyone has encountered this problem I would really appreciate your help. I have a Toshiba Satellite A75 S206: P4 2.8 GHz Laptop which has a 300 Gig Maxtor USB external HD connected. The HD was being detected fine via the USB port after I formatted it but since I … |
 | I am planning on building a new AMD 64 system in jaurary and since its gonna be a high end system I want a faster HDD to keep up with the system. currently I have a ATA/100(133?) i dont know 40GB hdd, and a slave 160GB Ultra ATA/133 hdd. what … |
| | I'm wondering if they make such a thing. I just got a new computer with a SATA hard drive, but i have 2 fine IDE hard drives that aren't being used. One has all of my music, and the other has files on it that I would like to retrieve. … |
| | I have recently had 2 Maxtor HDDs shown to be "Failing" when tested with PowerMax. One had already completely crashed (failed - see below), and the other is still going, but on its last legs I suppose... (Its data is now backed up, of course). One was 5 months old, … |
| | My dvd rom doesnt read dvds but reads cds What could be the problem If anyone has solved this problem Please Advice!!! |
| | Hi, I just recently bought a new computer from customperfection.com they installed a WD rapter 74gb 10 000rpm drive and installed windows on it. It shows up in bios and works wonderfully. The problem i am having is installing my old HD from my old computer which isnt working properly … |
| | Hello! I have Dell Latitude Csx (3 years old). The problem is , that USB port stops responding ,especially , when i am using pen drives . The pen drive ends up corrupting its data and i have to reformat it every time this happens :sad: . Same with my … |
| | Hi My CD-writer (HP CD-writer plus 9150i) is not detected by the BIOS. I have had it for several years (since I got the computer) and have not used it much. The problem where there from the beginning I think. However during short periods (typically a week) it has been …  |
| | is it possible to change the sata drivers on a sata hard disk? with a little help i can get around the xp wpa thing, but the upgrade to the new motherboard is being hindered by the fact that the dfi sata drivers aren't compatible with the abit drivers i … |
| | yes i have an emachines 1.8 GHz Intel celeron PC and I am trying to add a second hard drive. when i plug it in (power and IDE cable) and try to boot it says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND". When i unplug the new drive my first drive boots into … |
| | See subject and please tell me someone has this file. Thanks, James |
| | Hello, I currently have a motherboard with no SATA support so I may buy a SATA controller but I want to know do you get the same speeds out of a SATA controller than you do with a motherboard with SATA ports. |
| | So here's me, 3 days and about 20 dvd burn attempts down the line and I STILL can't burn more than a couple of hundred mb reliably. I'm using Nero Ultra edition after my Instant CD/DVD refused to believe I wanted to burn a DVD rather than a CD (God … |
| | So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and … |
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