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| | I have a Dell Dimension 4600 for about five years now. For the last 18 months or so whenever we booted up the computer, it would give the error message Primary Drive not found Press F1 to continue. We have just been pressing F1 and that has worked until now. … |
 | Hey everyone, I have customer that I just replaced a DVD-Rom with. When we check the old one, it would freeze up when you would try to play any disc in it, I tried re-installing drivers and all that jazz, nothing worked and the computer just went into a hard … |
| | Hi! I had my USB external HD 200GB for about over 1 year. It was working fine until 2 day ago my town got thunder storm, my house electronic was out and got back in a sec. My computer was restarted, I could see my USB HD in window explorer …  |
| | Wiped HDD are doa I received several Maxtor 40 gb hard drives that were “wiped” by the donor. So far, I have not been able to get past “operating system not found” or “hard disk not found” on any of them. Using three different computers and trying all the variations … |
| | Wiped HDD are doa I received several Maxtor 40 gb hard drives that were “wiped” by the donor. So far, I have not been able to get past “operating system not found” or “hard disk not found” on any of them. Using three different computers and trying all the variations …  |
| | Hello all. Here we go.... I used partition magic to partition a 20gig 2.5" drive installed in one of my desktop systems with an IDE adapter. Windows will not recognize the drive after using PM, before all was fine. I have tried booting with several boot cd's/floppys. The best I … |
| | Hi! I have an external hard drive and I was converting the file system from FAT32 to NTFS on it. That operation completed, sort of, but it came up with some odd message I cannot recollect, at the end of the process and now I cannot see the files on … |
| | Ok chaps, here's the setup, and I'd like your advice how to make it go as painlessly as possible, please ;) I currently have a Foxconn 760GXK8MC motherboard, running a 40Gb Master and an 80Gb Slave drive on an IDE channel. I've purchased a 320Gb Western Digital SATA drive to … |
| | The power supply reads proper voltage (voltmeter), however no lights come on for this 750gb Maxtor HD One Touch IV. I know that I can get a warranty one, however I had literally finished, one day before, organizing every single music, video, footage, file, and harddrive backup into something clear … |
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| | Ok new problem. I took the old hard drive out of my Compaq lappy and have managed to connect it to my dest top as a secondary drive. I can read and copy most of the files on it but all my music and photos in MY DOCUMENTS cannot be … |
| | Hey guys, I was trying to boot up my old computer to transfer some files to a new one and it wasn't working. It's a Dell Dimension, and when i turn it on it just freezes up after the screen asking for boot menu/setup. Also at times, the screen will …  |
| | Hi I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent showing in BIOS... the wierd thing is their both present … |
| | Hi all, I am reaching out for a bit of assistance. I hope to get some before I go all nuts... I have an Asus A8V Deluxe motherboard, to which one 200 GB SATA HDD is installed as the main drive. Then I have one small 20 GB IDE HDD … |
| | :confused: I OWN A CTX EZBOOK 800 SERIES LAPTOP WITH AN AMD-K6 333MHZ PROCESSER, 160MB RAM, 4 GB FUJITSU MHC2040AT HARD DRIVE, EXTERNAL PCMCIA 8GB IBM TRAVELSTAR E HARD DRIVE, 1.44 FLOPPY DISK DRIVE, 56K MODEM, AND A Q-LITY 4X4X6 CDRW (MODEL: ECW-043). PROBLEM: A FEW DAYS AGO, I DELETED … |
 | Somewhere along the line, my E: drive where I keep all my game/non-system stuff got replicated to F: Now when I boot, chkdsk comes up and says all these sectors are unreadable for both E&F drives. F: should not exist how do I rescue my system? I would at least … |
| | I have two hard drives, one is sata. I want the one that is sata to be the default one my computer starts up on. How do I change my other hard drive being default? |
| | how to solve the problem of dumping of physical memory in disk.......if this problem is occuring frequently |
| | I had an ancient 386 computer that I wanted to salvage data from. So I took out the drive, put it into an external drive enclosure, and plugged the USB cable into my XP machine. XP recognized the enclosure, assigned the drive a letter, but refuses to open the drive. … |
| | I have a Dell PowerEdge 600SC running Win 2000 Server. Currently there are two hard drives controlled by an ATA-100 Host bus Raid adaptor for Poweredge SC. (#9K646) in a Raid 1 (Mirroring) configuration. I want to leave the raid configuration intact but add a third hard drive as backup … |
| | This notebook is going back to HP for repairs, under warranty. The problem is I have importaint info on the HD, I was going to ship it without the HD to protect the info, HP won't accept the notebook without the HD....even though the problem is in the MB. Does … |
| | So I got a new computer recently (posted below) and I decided that instead of taking out the extra 80gig i ordered with it and replacing it with my 300gig hard drive, that i'd just put the 300gig in there. Now, I didn't have any more IDE slots so I … |
 | Hello, I backup my files on the external harddisk before I reformatted my PC. Then I installed the OS. At first, PC can read external HD with drive letter, space usage and free space percentage, can read folders but it says all folders are empty! I tried to reformat my … |
| | If you help me solve my problem, I'll make sure you go to heaven : ) I've scoured the net looking for a solution. I know nothing about computers, and desperate for an answer. My Maxtor DV3000 Ext. Hard Drive is flashing a green light and the icon won't who … |
| | So I just got my new computer, everything works great, it sounds great, however when I went to check the C drive under my computer I found a problem. The C drive read 74gigs free out of 79 gigs. Now, that wouldn't normally be a problem except its reading the … |
| | This is a two-parter post; hope it's ok to stick it in one thread... a) I would like to change my system drive, which is currently only 40 GB, to a larger one (120 GB). So I'm wondering how to clone what I currently have on my system drive to … |
| | hi, I have a problem with my external HDD: when i try to acces the drive it says i need to format it. There's 300gigs of data on the drive so i don't really want to do that. Anyway to fix this? thnx  |
| | [COLOR=#000000]My folks had a HP from the turn of the century that was dieing and they wanted me to gut... well, I wanted to gut it so I got them a new machine and have been trying to salvage what I can from their old beast. Now they tell me … |
| | Hi all, this is my first post and I have just built my first computer (but please treat me like a beginner as building a PC isnt really that hard, and I'm far from fluent in computer). The reason I think there is a problem with my hard-drives is that … |
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