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| | Okay I'm trying to get this computer to run, but it is eating the floppy discs I'm putting into it. I make an MS-DOS startup disk in this machine, it works fine, I restarted with it in to make sure it works, and it worked fine. I put the disk … |
| | I am helping my brother in law out trying to do a non destructive repair using the installation disc. When we went through all the steps and got to the section that shows the hard drives it does not recognize the hard drive and won't let us do a repair. … |
| | Hi, I have 2 Hard Drives in my computer. My main one is a Maxtor 250GB SATAII 16Mb Buffer HDD. My second is a Maxtor 120GB ATA HDD (I think 4Mb Buffer). I currently have Win XP installed and all my programs on my 250GB SATAII HDD. My other drive … |
| | I have a eMachines computer, quite new (Vista new), and i am attempting to put in a Western Digital Caviar SE16 hard drive as a secondary. the only problem is when i put it in, my computer doesnt recognize that it is a hard drive. it detects that something is … |
| | i have a maxtor hdd and it gives a double beep when i try installing it also it doesn't detect in the bios. can any one help??? |
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| | Hi I cannot access my hard drive on my hp nx6310 laptop. The DVD rom will also not read any discs. Please help |
| | Hi guys, I'm having a strange problem with my SATA drive and I am totally at a loss at what to do. 2 days ago I had been using 2 hard drives, 1 80GB IDE Seagate hd with Windows XP and my games & programs on it, the other was …  |
| | I'm going crazy and hope someone could assist. I recently bought a barebones to upgrade my existing system. My challange is to keep my main IDE as primary/boot with the existing O/S (XP Pro) and add on 3 additional IDE drives using SATA coverters. The other 3 drives have data … |
| | I am having trouble installing a second hard drive as a slave. They are IDE, originally there were two hard drives, however i have purchased a new hard drive to replace the old slave hard drive. I set the new hard drive jumper setting to slave, however when i do …  |
| | Alright so my sound card was going to that evil place down under (yes, australia ;) ) So i booted down my comp and unplugged EVERYTHING and proceeded to take it out. I went to boot the system again but this time i got the error of Boot disc failure. … |
| | Hi all I'm a musician/sound designer and need more clout than most from my PC. So, I've decided to bulid a new system with the following specs: Antec p182 Case ASUS P5K Premium Motherboard Geforce 8800 GT Crucial ddr2 pc6400 ram Intel core 2 Q6600 Sound ok? First thing to … |
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| | [COLOR=#000000]I need help recovering a few days worth of photos in Barcelona off my 20 GB flashtrax, it is essentially a 20gb portable usb2.0 hard drive with a CF card reader, it acts as a portable hard drive, so I imagine any data recovery tools that would work for portable … |
| | Hello. I had a user bring their external USB HD to my office. He used it on his Mac for a backup with the Time Machine software. He accidently pulled his HD from the USB before unmounting it, and most likely when it was being accessed by Time Machine. When … |
| | I am up against a wall on a Proliant with a 3300 es raid card and seven 18.2 drives configured as a raid level 5. we had a drive fail in the array and replaced the drive, by accident we installed a 9.1 gig drive instead of the correct 18.2, … |
| | *Problem: Brand new hard drive (properly installed) isn't being detected by the installation software (or by windows). It is properly installed... It is confirmed as working... It is meant for my computer (computer stats below)... The 8-pin jumper slot has no master or slave modes. *Component: Western Digital SATA 300, … |
| | Hi, I am trying to add 3rd hard drive (500 GB) to my computer. I added IDE PCI card and installed software but, it is not detecting my 3rd hard drive. Is there any thing I have to do with jumper settings? or am I missing any procedures....? Help would … |
| | I'm trying to copy a home DVD to my hard drive and I'm having a tough time. It's just a home movie so there aren't any copyright laws being infringed. When I open the DVD drive there's a file that reads VIDEO_TS. I've tried just hitting "copy" and that doesn't … |
| | Grateful for any help and apologies if this newbie has not found a relevant existing thread, despite having hunted for one! Symptoms CD drive worked fine when installing broadband some months ago. Unaware of likely software interference subsequently. Only major instal has been Norton. I have XP SP2, a Dan … |
| | Bios reconises both hard drives but when xp loads I only have my C:\.  |
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| | Is there a special way to create a new programs folder in my d drive? or do i just open it up and file new folder and name it? |
| | Greetings, friends. I'm trying to get my new build to work. After getting it to POST and show up in the BIOS, I popped in my WINXP disc to get the OS installed. After I get the blue set up screen for WINXP to set up, I hit ENTER to … |
| | My little niece dropped my sister's laptop which just our luck is out of warranty. Now I am getting the dreaded PXE errors and the Bios said none for HDD. This is a Toshiba A215 model. I opened the HDD slot and removed and re-inserted the drive firmly. I then … |
| | Hello, I have just bought new HP Proliant ML150 Generation 3 Server without any OS. I have decided to install Win XP professional so I have inserted Win xp prof. CD and Windows installation started successful until I didnt recieve next message: ******************************************************************************************************************************* Setup did not find any hard disk … |
| | My motherboard stopped working on my dell & I have lots of important pictures on my Hard drive so I got a USB thingy to make it an external hard drive. I have no problems with the computer recognizing the drive or accessing parts of what is on it. But … |
| | I have a few locked laptop Harddrives all of them are good but they just have a password . Ive tried using ATAPWD wich is the only program i found that deals with HDD password but it dosent unlock them with out having the password it self. It has nothing … |
| | I have an IBM "Desk Star" 20g hardrive. It died. My tech has looked at it and the verdict is that the problem lay in the actual casing of the drive. His system (or mine)does not recognise it. He tells me that it is a fault within the hardware itself. … |
| | I have an external usb drive. I am not sure what file format it was and I was forced to use it for a boot up drive. I had stored about 80 gigs out of a 120 gig drive. I went to set a partition it said there were 45 … |
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