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 | I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the … |
| | hey, i just started a new site recently, [url]http://www.redrival.com/thekonnection/data-recovery/index.html[/url] its just an informative site about data recovery, with some good links to tools and good stuff like that. not selling anything, just some good data recovery help for people beginner to expert, and some good tools. |
| | Alright I have a Giga-Byte mother board (Duo Pro) that supports SATA. I have two SATA hard drives, on is the Existing Western Digital 80G (this one windows is messed up on and in order to fix I need to setup my old drive is a Slave so that I … |
| | Since no one ever replied to my previous post [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33862.html[/url] , I am rephrasing and refining my q....plz ans this time ULTIMATE HARD DISK SETTINGS - brain racking question Respected Tech gurus and dear forum members Here goes the situation: I have one INTEL 865 GBF motherboard As far as … |
| | Please guide me - confused with SATA PATA Primary Secondary master Slave...!!! Respected members and gurus, I am a non technical person and am only good at using computers for my finance jobs and NOT configuring it. From last three days I have been reading and reading and reading about … |
 | Hi Friends I run the CD ROM and there are 'jumps' and other imperfections in the music, making for an unusable copy. Is this a sign of the lens on the original drive failing? The read-drive is a LITEON LTN485S running at 8.91 average speed , the write-only drive a … |
| | when ever i save data to a floppy disk it always tells me to format the floppy when i click format a message comes saying its unable to format and the disks are brand new Can anyone help me plz? |
| | Why can't anyone make a every growing HD? I mean it's been shown by the ever bigger HDs that the current HD format we manafacture can hold much more then what we currently have out on shelves...so why hasn't anyone thought to develop some system in which there's a HD … |
| | Hi guys & gals first post newbie here, found the forum on good old google. I posted this first under an existing thread from Garandan of 5th sep and its been pointed out to me better to start a new thread to get answers so here goes. I have almost … |
| | Hi all, I need to read the CRC value of the desired sector on hard disk. I DON'T need just to detect was there any mistake reading that sector, I just need to read the CRC value of the selected sector without reading the entire sector and calculating the CRC … |
| | to anyone that can help, saw the threads about this issue but the scenario i encountered is a little different. it happens on and off. I have a 3 month old dell dimension 3000. the problem happened a couple of days ago in the morning. i turned the pc off … |
| | i recently built myself a new system which seems to work ok, but i cant get my floppy drive or zip drive to work. i have a SATA hardrive connected up and working fine, a CD-RW and DVD-ROM drive on one ribbon cable (CD-RW set as master, DVD as slave), … |
| | I am having a problem with my CD-RW drive. It will not read or even recognize 99% of discs (including the Windows CDs, various games, etc), but it will recognize blank writable CDs. When I attempt to burn files to blank CDs, it completes the "writing to CD" process but … |
| | Ok I am fairly new at all this so bare with me. I recently just got a new DiamondMax 10 SATA hard drive, my old hard drive is IDE. I first attempted to pull out the old and stick in the new hard drive with my win xp cd to … |
 | Hi! I have the following hardware: Intel D865PERL Board SATA 0: Maxtor 6B200M0 SATA 1: (empty) Primary IDE (Master): Westren Digital WD400BB Primary IDE (Slave): (empty) Secondary IDE (Master): Yamaha CDR2200E Secondary IDE (Slave): Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-115 Now, hewre are some shots: Simple Device Manager: [img]http://www.imagewhiz.com/images/DoomerDGR8/1main.jpg[/img] Detail of Primary IDE … |
| | I have 2 200 gig hard drives (ata133 7200 rpm 8mg cash). in simple terms, would putting the os on one drive and and other files like music/videos etc on the other actually increase the speed of the computers read/write? My question is because they are both ide on the … |
| | I can't burn CD's anymore. Easy CD Creator reports that it had an 'unexpected error'. Clicking more info shows a copyright screen in a help window, nothing useful. The CD comes out blank. |
| | help my cd drive doesnt read. now i cant play any games on it. |
| | I have a 6+ yr old HP Pavilion that has been giving me problems off & on for a year or so. The latest problem was with the power supply and that finally died last night. Unfortunately, I have not copied the My Documents folder to CD in the last … |
| | Im building my own custom pc and I just finished getting all the parts and putting it together. I turned it on for the first time today and...the cd rom will not open, or even look like it is powering up. Right now it's the only cd device in the … |
| | I was looking at Purging software that helps you clear a harddrive of any personal info in three different levels, yet, no price was listed...Wondering if traditional DELETE as an alternative is a poor call? I planned to move files I want to keep off the PC's drive and delete … |
 | Hi everyone, How's it going? I have to purchase a new HD that will allow me to upgrade with it in the future, potentially to a 64 bit system. I need to know the following: 1. Which is the best one to get? 2. Which one has the best disk … |
| | Hey guys, sorry for this stupid question. I want to take out one of my CD drives (Liteon CD-RW) as i just got a new one, and put it in one of my older computers. The trouble is that after unpowering and unscrewing it, it just wont come out!!! it … |
| | Okay. I have an old hard drive that needs restoring which needs to put into my computer as a slave drive, restored and then switched to master. Am i right in thinking that all i need to do is chuck the toggle on my my primary drive from cs to … |
| | I hope you don't mind rookie posts, but that is what I am. I want to add a 200 gig Maxtor HDD to 2 existing 30 gig Maxtor HDDs. I am running XP Home SP 2 ( Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.2180 ). I have an Asus a7v133 MB w/ 2 ide … |
| | I am using a Toshiba Satellia M40-JM3. I've had this problem for a while, even took it into Future Shop and the gorons there claimed they fixed it after holding onto it for 10 days when they did nothing at all. The laptop is only a month old and the … |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba 1410 laptop and i bought a Toshiba SD-R2212 dvd-cd/rw drive for it. When i installed it i got the IDE#1 error, so i read some threads on here about changing the firmware and how its best to use another laptop etc. Problem is i dont … |
| | My D drive won't show a CD or open even though I know that there there. It just stoped working one day. Should I just Reformat the computer or try something to get it to work. |
| | Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me out please. I am trying to replace a faulty DVD/CD-RW drive in a Toshiba Satellite A-10. The original drive is a SD-R2412. I am trying to replace it with a TS-L462 by Toshiba/Samsung. The drive fits fine and light flashes when … |
| | Hi everyone! I've got the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR with 0xC000000E code (STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE) sometime, after using the Win XP for hours or for not so long. The error message is sometimes STACK, not DATA, and at the bottom of the sreen there is a filename, like ftdisk.sys, atapi.sys, etc. Before the blue screen … |
| | At my local Goodwill charity thrift store I picked up an Hewlett Packard DAT (Digital Audio Tape) drive for 10 bucks. I've powered it up with a tape and it seems to work fine, however, no software or interface to connect to my 2000 year and newer PCs that use … |
| | just booting up the pc for the first time, loading up the windows disk but then says unable to find hard drive press enter to reboot. everything is connected up, but my only concern is that i think the disk is not spinning but i am unsure to tell. anyone … |
| | Hey guys. just got the BenQ Lightscribe DW1625 DVD writer and am having some problems with the installation! I poped it in a spare slot...and put in the power connection, and the CD-Rom cable dircetly from my old CD writer. I also have a DVD-Rom inside which i did not … |
| | hey guys i might be buying a new dvd drive for my computer. it is a lg dvd burner but i need to know that if it burns cd-r aswell as dvd-r. also if i burn music on dvd-r disc how will i be able to play them?PLZ HELP |
| | Hi, I am doing it again, let me start at the end game: I put my old harware in my wife's case, and now it boots with my old SATA drive. But I can not see her original (IDE) drive, which was of course also a bootable XP. [B]WHAT TO … |
| | hey all, having a problem with my containers on my dell server. when the server is booting, it checks through all the containers to make sure theyre ok, then it gives me the error (don't know the exact error) "missing members and are degraded, containers #0 and #1" then it … |
 | [B]recently i built a cheap web hosting company [url]http://computer-gods.com/[/url][/B] i have a huge server as i have many clients due to my $6.95 domain offer i need more hdd's and alogether the servers will accept around 50.000 more gigs (all of them will) what are the best hdd's to use |
| | whats the difference between dvd-r and dvd-rw |
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| | [FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Comic Sans MS]xxx[/FONT][/FONT] Hey all, this is a problem thts been buggin me for a while now.. when there is a CD in the drive and i am shutting down, windows Hangs and i have to press the power button for 5 secs instead of an auto power … |
| | I currently have a [30 GB Ultra-ATA/66] and I was wondering if I'll have any problems upgrading to a [250 GB Ultra-ATA/100]. I'm not familiar with hard drives, but as far as memory goes, I understand that type of memory is dependant on the memory speed (e.g. PC133). I was … |
| | Hello. I have a 512 MB Kingston flash drive. For some reason the files started to corrupt, and before you knew it access was denied. Windows said the drive needed to be formatted and when I tried using XP to format, it said the drive was write protected. I know … |
| | I have 2 harddrives. One is a 40 gig maxtor and the other is an 80 gig maxtor. On Easter of this year I had the pleasure of receiving a worm virus which crashed the 40 that was a slave. To get the computer to run, I had to disconnect … |
| | Ok, here's the story... I reformatted my computer today, I was getting my drivers (still can't find a damn audio driver :\) I rebooted, and all of the sudden my second hard drive isnt showing up? Its not registering at all anymore, what can I do, what happened, etc..? |
| | Right, basicly sent my computer away to be fixed and the buggers formatted my hardrive as part of the process. They tried to migrate it onto a new hardrive but the image wouldn't ghost(not entirely sure why as of yet) so I have two hardrives one with virtully nothing on … |
| | First off I will start with my system. Dell Dimension 8400 3.4 Ghz Pentium 4 550 w/HT Seagate Barricuda 160 GB HD (ST3160023AS) 1 GB Dual Channel PC3200 (2 DIMMs) 400Mhz NVidia GeForce 6800 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Now when I use this PC, doing things that require a …  |
| | CDR101: Not ready reading drive N Abort, Retry, Fail? |
| | I'm ready to buy a plug-n-play external hard drive for a USB 2.0-compatible machine. I live about a mile from Frye's, but don't have a clue once I get in the store. Would appreciate a specific recommendation. Thanks. |
| | hey guys yesterday i put a cd rom in my cd drive and the cd broke in bits in the drive half of it came out when i ejected it but now it wont open the light flashes but nothing happens, when i start the computer the boot up menu … |
| | Hey guys, my old PC's motherboard firied! but I wanted to save my files that were on my hard drive, so I made it a slave on another computer. now I cannot acesses the files on the slave due to them being password protected. I have tryed setting the jumpers … |
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