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I am trying to retrieve data from my old c: drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter. If I connect the drive in windows xp it loops before the drive is recognized. If I run uneraser from a bootable floppy the drive is found correctly - serial number and …

My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but …

I hope this is the right forum...my apologies if it isn't. Every once in a while (maybe every other day, at most) when I reboot my computer, I get the "Disk read error occurred. Press ctl-alt-del" Now, there's a new mother board (ECS 945GZT-M) and processor Intel Core Duo. I …

Hi I am having problems using Vista with Sony NEC Optiarc SuperMulti (AD-7170A) OEM DVD Burner.([url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3110653&sku=O451-1000&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1474C)[/url]. I have built a Intel Core Due desktop as below. I have my HD0 (IDE) with slave jumper setting connected to the slave side of the IDE cable and the DVD burner with Master …

I ran a Sandra analysis of my home pc. About my Maxtor 2F040J0 it is saying "Current mode not opimal. Check settings." I don't know which settings it is referring to. Has anyone seen this?

hi i have partitioned my hard disk of capacity 40GB, but after the installation of operating system i was shocked to see that only 20 GB is being accessed.. plz help me to get rid of this problem

[COLOR=#000000]I recently purchased a new Biostar P4M80/M7a Version 7 with Intel Pentium D 840 and 1 gig of memory.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]On first boot entered BIOS settings, reboot, lock at POST screen, and cannot enter BIOS[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Could not enter BIOS again[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Cleared BIOS picked default settings, reboot lock at POST screen, and …

Hello, I have a Toshiba Satellite A25-SD279 with both Windows XP and Ubuntu on it. I bought a DVD-RW burner combo (P000366780) and as soon as I tried it, the computer gave me the Error #1 message and my only option with windows was to reboot. I could enter into …

Hello, i have an ACER Travelmate 292LMi. The original Dvd-Rom that was with my acer broke down and i switched it with a NEC 7550A. Now i want to format my pc and i noticed that primary dvd is still the one i changed(the one broken). First boot device is …

i insert my usb pendrive into the socket but nothing seems to detect it even with windows xp service pack 2.

I recently had a defective MOBO replaced by ASUS. It's a P5B Deluxe. After reinstalling the MOBO and all original components the BIOS wouldn't recognize the HDD, a Seagate 320 Gb SATA drive. After checking everything and several restarts it finally recognized the hard drive. Once past the BIOS screen …

I have a Compaq model 5835 w/celeron processor running Win98. The hard drive crashed, something came loose inside the drive. I replaced the drive with a good one from another computer, with Windows ME o/s. When I boot the computer, I get the 1782 Disk Controller Failure message, and I'm …

i think it should go here i have not got a cd re-writer but i want to install ubuntu so is there anyway i can install it from and iso seperetly

To start off, I am trying to fix my friends computer because his hard drive has failed. He is planning on building a whole new computer in about six months, however he wants to get his current one going until then. I went out and bought a 250 GB/SATA 16Mb …

I recently received an Acer Aspire 5100 laptop with a Hard Drive Failure post (fixed disk 0 failure). I immediately assumed the hard drive wasn't plugged in securely or it had failed. I proceeded to swap the drive out and test the old hard drive in another computer. It turns …

I installed a second SATA drive on my Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R board and am curious if anyone knows if it matters, performance wise, whether the second drive is on a different channel. I have tried switching it around, but to be honest I don't see any real difference, although it may …

Hey ive just got a new 80Gb IDE hitachi HDD. Now installing would be simple enough but, My primary HDD is a SATA HDD. I've read there should be no problem but i cant get my bios to pick up the new HDD. i've got a double IDE with DVD …

Hello new friends A somewhat long story, but I am loosing sleep over this one. I have this very weird problem after purchasing a second, identical sata drive. Mobo= MSI Neo FSR v2 / IDE = NEC DVD rewriter / Sata = 2 Samsungs 2504C, BIOS = latest AwardPhoenix. Everything …

I have a 40 GB Samsung hard disk. Free quently booting I lost my hard disk data. It may be burn. It is dedected by mohter board but not windows xp. By seagate disk manager I dedect it . But it seens 18 Gb. I just Restore my data .doc …

Hi I want to add one Baracuda HD and one Sony DVD RW in my computer which has already one Baracuda HD and Samsung DVD rom. How can I connect with the IDE 1 and IDE 2 and how should I arrange the jumper in all these IDEs Pl help …

I set a partition up for my pc to run linux. This made me lose 130gb form my hard drive. i removed the partition but still no luck. i checked the partition again, i tried to deletd the partiton with windows installed in it but was unable to. anyway of …

cd rewirter recgnizes cds but does not burn cd's please help i need to burn cd's if it means opening up the cd rewriter i will:(

Hi Guys. I'm having a problem with a SATA HDD and would appreciate some advice. My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 and is SATA capable. I was running a couple of IDE drives with XP installed on the C:. A couple of days ago my C: developed a problem so …

I bought a new SATA Hard Drive, and I want it to be secondary to my first hard drive. After I connected the device to my computer, how do I install it so I could see it in the "My Computer" folder? I'm also having problems setting it up on …

So.. my old motherboard died on me after a couple of years of good service and I had to buy a new one. Old board was a MSI K7N2-Delta2-LSR([url=http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=596&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=&cat3_no=]link[/url]) with a nvidia nforce 2 RAID MCP raid controller on it. I had two sata drives running in a bootable raid …

Could someone help me,after $400 and 2 techs later I still have the same problem.In simple terms(which is all I know)monitor always left on like I was told and I turn on the hardrive in the morning and only sometimes will it come on,I have to turn it off at …

Hello Everyone: I am using an Intel D845GNT board with 2x80GB SATA drives. I am trying to replace these with 2x320 GB SATA II drives. I have ghosted the RAID 1 array data to an IDE HD. Here is where my problem begins. I am totally unable to boot into …

Hi, My motherboard is an Asus A8N-Sli Deluxe and my hard drive is 200GB Seagate Barracuda. Here goes, I had the hard drive up and running and all working fine. Then something happend and my best option was just to format the drive and start all over again. When I …

my friends memory stick got corrupted yesterday i think the psp displays a message that tells us to format the stick but we get an error when we do.. we tried to do it in DOS but it says "invalid media or track 0 bad - disk unusable" can we …

Hi, I have a IBM T41 Thinkpad. When I purchased it, it did not come with the recovery disc. And if I want to get it, it's $45. So I was thinking of formatting it without the recovery disc. But I am a computer newbie, and not sure where to …