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| | so I bought a extra Harddrive for extra storage I opened my PC (finally) found out there is NO SPACE WHATSOEVER to place an extra HDD ok screw it, I'll just lay the new HDD on the bottom & try not to shake my PC to much PLUS the original … |
| | hi all ..could really use some help im thinking of installing a single sata harddrive to replace my run of the mill hard drive but i really dont know where to start or is it a worthwhile upgrade all i do know is that i have two ports on my …  |
| | my hardrive shows in post, shows in device manager, but does not show any where else. eg My Computer, Disk Defragment it does not show in all these things.  |
| | Can someone out there direct me to some good tutorials that aren't too geekish which will show me how to go about setting up my computer in a RAID configuration and also how to go about hyperthreading? Thanks. |
| | Suddenly, both my dvd player and my dvd burner will not read cds. I could see that the cd lens could go out on 1, but not both - especially since the dvd burner is only 1 month old. This presents a real problem when I want to install new … |
| | I am in need of a new hard drive for an Dell Inspiron 4100. Is it better to order it through Dell or could I go with one from somewhere like Circuit City? I know I need at least 7200 RMP's and ATA-100, but what else should I be looking … |
| | hello follows Could some of you guys please tell me if there is a diference between[B] [U]PATA [/U] [/B] on the new motherboards and IDE interface Known as the type of device ATAPI. Also if the PATA is compatible with Type of device (ATAPI) CD Rom and DVD players and … |
| | I was wondering how I could make a complete copy of my master drive to a separate drive weather it be internal or external.[preferably external] I need to know this because the drive has a special partition that I need to run my recovery CD. So if my drive fails … |
| | A while ago I installed a new hard drive and the old one became my boot disk c:, it was formally d:. I had an antivirus program called AVG6.0 free which I wasn't concerned about at the time because I wasn't on the internet , but now I am,so I … |
| | Hi I have a 40gb hard drive in my new machine that is running Win XP Pro - I have another hard drive 20gb (which was from my old PC) which I have formatted, and connected to my new PC, it is labelled: F I have changed the jumpers so … |
| | I recently added a "COMBO" PCI card to my Intel 845BG board. Card provides SATA, USB 2.0, & FIREWIRE ports. Windows XP was already installed. All drivers that came with card were loaded. I then added 120GB SAMSUNG SATA drive. Two issues: 1. Drive not recognized in BIOS set-up, but … |
 | I have had a Dell Inspiron Laptop for over 3 years. Two months ago it fell on the floor and completely stopped working. It does not turn on period. Being an idiot, I did not save a lot of my important information on cds. Fixing the laptop will cost me … |
| | I have had a burner for a while now and i tried installing it myself and i did it wrong i guess because even witht he software installed it wasnt found. Now over about a year later i am determined to get it done right. One problem, i lost the … |
| | These have finally shown up on ebay at prices nearer the distributor cost. Was going to setup an array of 6-does anyone have enough uptime with these to comment on reliability? Also, does any1 know if these are Quantum drives with Maxtor stickers(like the 10K IV's), or are they actually … |
| | i just got my computer back from a computer repair store and they didnt install windows, i took it home and tried to install it and it says "Hard disk drive not found" so i call them back and they say i need to use the Asus A8V DDeluxe cd … |
 | On a notebook drive is Pin #1 towards the power connector (as I would expect) or is it away from the power connector.  |
| | Everyone knows about them. People call them "Value Hard Drives". If you dont already know what i'm talking about, there the 5400RPM drives. I baught a 60 Gig Western Digital 5400RPM drive and its doing fine. Seems like a good drive to me. I also read that they were just … |
| | Hi guys, Today i decided to delete files i didn't need and for some reason i deleted a folder called SonyUSB which i thought was for my old digital camera but it turns out it was for my CD rom and DVD rom or some crap..I dont fully understand. I … |
| | -My PC is a HP Pavilion a510n 3000+ with a 120 GB 72000RPM Ultra DMA HD -I just bought a Western Digital 120 Hard Drive I want the new Hard Drive as a BACK UP ONLY to store extra files & whatnot thing is the manual is not very specific … |
 | Hi, just curious. By going into DOS and typing oh say: [code] Format C: [/code] and then answering yes, does that make the format ntfs or fat32? Thanks in advance, oh and whats the useable memory loss after formatting in FAT. |
| | Hello, I recently bought a 250gb hard drive to use in a disk caddy as a removable back for my other two 120gb drives. When I went to format it, I could only get 127gb. I found out that this could be due to my BIOS and unable to find … |
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| | Hello I have 2 maxtor plus 9 160 gig sata drives in a raid 0. I have windowsxp pro running on it. Today my array 1 only show the one drive in it and the other not. So my raid array is not functional. Could my one drive lost the … |
| | Ummm, I dont really know whats the problem... I bought a new Bytecc Aluminum 3.5" HDD Enclosure and installed my 200gb ata100 drive in it. I plugged it in and the system recogized a USB Mass Storage. The drive is already formatted with over 100gb of stuff. I cant see … |
| | :mad: i have an asus a8v motherboard and i'm trying to set up xp on my new western digital raptor wd740 hd but xp doesnt recognise the hd. so is anyone out there who can tell me have i got the wrong parts, is there a strange install/setup prior to … |
| | I have a friend that has an older hp n3350. It may be 3 years old or older, I am not sure. His hard drive is small and is totally full. He has put it over to xp which takes up a lot of the space but wants to keep …  |
| | It have a Dell D3000 CPU. I installed a secondary samsung SP0802N hard drive. I thought the problem stemmed from the new speakers i purchased but after troubleshooting i discovered that the problem only occurs with the adding of the additional HD. The speed is slow when i try to … |
| | I have a Maxtor 2B020H Master and a Fujitsu MPE3136AH slave HDDs. I had spyware adaware would not remove and eventually fdisked, formatted and reloaded everything. All is OK now but I cannot make it recognise the slave HDD. I have checked the bios and it says there are two … |
| | Hi i have bought a 2nd SATA hard drive, but it wont work as both my SATAs want to be master, which i thought you could do with SATAs anyway. However, Windows just wont load with them both installed, it doesnt like having 2 masters. Any ideas? My PC spec … |
| | ive got two seagate 160 gig sata150s hooked into my asus p45ad2 mobos onboard raid when i booted up even after i installed the drivers windows only recognized one hdd no raid at all only formatted the one drive other the bios shows two drives but says they are nonraid … |
| | Last night I turned my computer off. It recognized all 6 hard drives. Today when I started it the BIOS and controller card recognized all my 6 hard drives but when Windows loaded it only showed 2, the ones connected to my motherboard. It didn't show the 4 connected to …  |
| | I just got a 40g notebook hard drive and wanted to convert it to an external drive. I bought a case that you put the hard drive in and it will convert to usb for both connection and power. When I plugged it into my notebook (compaq presario) windows xp … |
 | Hey guys long time no see. anyways I have a problem. I am trying to back up my dvds with dvd x copy, the program decodes the dvds and gets rdy to burn them, then it doesn't. it ejects the cd and says writing error. I am using memorex dvds … |
| | Hello, everybody I am having problems with my computer trying to recognize a 80GB SATA HD. What lead up to the problem was I bought a DELL GX280, by I wanted to put my business's corporate license on it. And Microsoft says I can only do unless I reformat the … |
| | Hello, I have a Western Digital Raptor SATA drive that one morning decided that it didn’t want to load windows anymore.... It would freeze about 2 or 3 seconds after the Window XP logo appeared and then would flash a blue screen of death at me and reboot. I tried … |
| | Hi – new user here with a hard drive problem. I currently have a 20 GB Fujitsu hard drive (MPF3204AT) with an ATA-5 interface. All OK until….. I recently bought a used 20 GB Seagate hard drive – with an Ultra ATA/66 interface and can’t get it to work. Other … |
| | I have installed a second WD Hard drive in my Dell Dimension 4100. I had to use the 40 pin connector originally on my internal Zip drive. I now have nowhere to connect the Zip to the motherboard as all four connections are used up, two for CD drives, two … |
| | just installed second sata hdd on my machine (jetway kocab board) but the machine wont recognise the second drive.any ideas?. the machine is running fine otherwise |
| | I have a DVD+RW/CD+RW drive in my laptop and just recently it has stopped reading blank dvds. It reads absolutly everything else; audio cds, blank cds, dvd movies, burned dvds, program cds, etc. I used the drive about a month ago and it worked great. I have not installed a … |
| | [url="http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606538p1.html?fromint=1"]http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606538p1.html?fromint=1[/url] [QUOTE] Sony has reportedly suggested using Blu-ray's disc structure and HD-DVD's software technology while Toshiba has suggested keeping HD-DVD's disc structure and applying Sony's multi-layer data-recording technology. [/QUOTE] |
 | I´m trying to switch my CRX 160E DC burner to a new computer (W2Kpro). Trouble is that I lost the installation CD. The unit works fine with the generic Win drivers but doesn´t have the software to write. Sony site has no drivers listed, only CDExtreme update, which won´t run … |
| | Hi there! I'm kinna new in all this stuff but i'll try to do my best! I have a Toshiba Tecra M1 Laptop and i wanted to exchange my current DVD drive for an slime DVD Writer. The writer is an official one from Toshiba but i didn't buy it … |
| | Hey, I have a toshiba laptop which has a dead motherboard. I bought a little caddy and took the hard drive out of it and connected it via USB to my new laptop. (Both laptops ran XP) It worked fine yesterday and I was able to access my old files … |
| | I have replaced my old hard drive (HD-O) with a new hard drive (HD-N) because the operating system was corrupt and could not be repaired without erasing HD-O according to Dell. HD-N now is working fine with MS XP. However I can’t get the computer to recognize HD-O (tested and … |
| | :sad: I am about to hall my hear out! Someone please Help. I have a new ASUS P5GD1 and a new SATA drive. The MB only has a Primary IDE controller (Blue), NO Secondary. It has a Primary and secondary RAID controler and 4 SATA controllers. I have 120mb Seagate … |
| | Hi, newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years old and the XP Device Manager show my … |
| | Ok i was rebuilding my computer, and got a 40gb harddrive from my friend for only $10, I was trying to set it up as my secondary slave drive, but I coulndt figure out how to set the jumpers. I just left them how they were and connected it up, … |
| | Hello forum ppl, Im in the process of upgrading a computer. Heres the new specs: Athlon64 cpu asrock k8upgrade 1689 motherboard maxtor 80gig SATA hard drive. (along with other things that arent really related to the problem) when i tried to install windows xp with the third party SATA driver … |
| | I needed to update my firmware to my dvd rw because of issues that were said to be causing problems with my computer. There was a firmware for a benq 1620 which is what my model was so I thought. I installed and now it screwed everthing up. My computer … |
| | How can I dual boot from 2 hard drives? One will run Xp Pro and the other Linux(Fedora). I want the XP one to auto load after like 10 secondsbut have the option to load Linux instead. How can i do this? I have a 70Gb Seagate and a 250Gb … |
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