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| | I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop and my HDD just failed. I'll be very specific so you all can help. When booting (XP Pro) I got the blue Screen of Death: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DRIVE I ran a DST-Short Test and got: Msg: Unit 0:Drive Self Test failed. Status byte = 79. I …  |
| | My 6 month old laptop has needed 4 reformats so far because of disk problems and now it wont boot past the windows loading screen. i played around and i found a diganositc test that could be run through the bios and it passed everything up till one called DST … |
| | Boot from live windows Cd or from Windows Recovery Console and type chkdsk c:/f (c: or whatever ur windows drive be) and press enter. After checking completed, restart ur PC. Remove ur CD or Pendrive. and Wallah...done.  |
 | hello everyone, just wondering: would buying a second identical hard drive and setting up raid 0 on my computer be worth it? Will raid 0 give me a preformance boost? Or should i upgrade my drive from my stock WD10EARS (Western Digital Green) to a Western Digital Black? Specs: Gateway … |
| | I have a acre aspire one notebook and I can't get it to work on battery only , when I unplug the power it closes off. The battery reads that its full, so I took the battery out for a few days when I put it back in it still … |
| | I'm not sure if this is the proper forum for my problem, but I've been all over the internet and have found similar problems but no easy solutions. I'm running WIN 7 on my home pc and transferred some files via a Flash Drive to a laptop running XP Pro … |
 | Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard drives. It seems that I need to restart Windows (version 7 running on a Dell 490 workstation) to get a replaced drive to be recognized. What seems to happen is th name …  |
| | I'm running Windows 7 on an Acer laptop. I have tried two known and working External hard divers on my laptop. I can see both on the Device manger and it states both drivers are working, however they are not appearing on my Computer. i have followed previous threads and … |
| | ok i have acer aspire 0ne 721 series with an hitachi 160 gig hdd i have taken it out to reformat it on my computer because it has a password protected and i have forgotten the password the problum is that is showing up in the device manager but not …  |
 | what is the Difference between Hard Disk and SSD drive ? |
| | Hello, i am creating one multiuser project. All data will be stored on server side. But i need to store some settings on client side. So can any one help me which are the ways to locally store data and which is best??? Thank you.. |
 | hello i just need some advice and suggestions the program(will be using vb.net & matlab) is about security software for flash drives where the user is required to say something(eg. a password) that will open or explore the device. the thing is when the flash drive is plugged to the … |
| | i have maxtor 500 GG someday i figured the disk turn to raw and get panic and sad i had a boot tools in USB drive and he have paret magic linux os when i boot it to os and comes linux and reset the pc my hard disk turn …  |
| | I have the task of configuring storcenter px4-300r network storage,just some configuration has donebut remote configuration in yet ,when i arrive to the point of switch on the remote configuration,i see OFF check box but ON box is hiden,and remote is not configuring and disable and when u ping his … |
| | Hi All, I have a home-built PC running W7 pro with a Sata drive as the primary drive, and a second PATA drive for general file storage. This has been running fine for a couple of years. I have recently installed a hot swap sata drive bay into the pc, … |
| | Hi all I need any tool which can write protect all externl storage devices in corporate network of more than 200 computers. thanks in advance |
 | I have an iOmega Home storage 1Tb model 31803000, which contains some info I would like to recover. Had it working on XP using a router (Sitecom 300N), but it stopped working normally, went visible/invisilbe and when visible stopped during data transfer. Now I am on Windows7/x64 Home, but still … |
| | I have a Dell Vostro 200 Slimline that I want to put another hard drive in. I have a harddrive out of a Dell Dimension E521 that I want to put in their, however, I don't want to lose my data on it. Currently the BIOS is set to RAID, … |
 | . Question: . Can XP support 64 bit multi-core processors? If so, Which versions? . What is the max RAM memory XP can make use of? . Is there RAM-Disk software redily available For XP? For Win-7? Any Freeware? .  |
 | I am trying to put a Western Digital 500 GB HDD into my Dell Inspiron 1011 (which has a 120 GB HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I was able to exchange the hard drives, and my laptop was able to recognize the HDD, but there was another problem. After the … |
| | What's up with my external hard drive. It stopped showing up on My Computer, but I see it in device manager (device working properly... Ja). I plugged it into my laptop and I can access all the info on it, but when I plug it back into my desktop.. Nothing! … |
| | Dear friends. I have been using an external hard drive for over several months now to back up my files, till one day i discovered the stored files could not be accessed, for reasons only known to the computer. It does store still, it seems to me; but i could … |
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| | Recently while watching a show online in bed my laptop decided that it had enough of this world and threw itself off the nightstand. Upon trying to turn the laptop back on after a few minutes I get the error of either some wires came unblocked or faulty hardware and … |
| | Why do we need cache memories, and why L1 cache has greater memory than L2 cache ? |
| | hi, i have a Seagate 2TB external HDD when i plug it into my computer it powers up. (i can hear it spinning up, it clicks a few times then stops spinning but is still powered up) when i go into device manager and then USB controller its showing up … |
| | I recently installed a 1TB WD HDD in my Vista x64 computer. I went through the normal Disk Management steps, formatted and assigned a drive letter, all of that. Used it for several days. My main HDD was almost full so I moved a few things over. Then, all of …  |
| | Looking to find ANY information on upgrading an old Sony VGN-FS980 laptop HD to an SSD. All help will be appreciated. I am trying to speed the system up. I currently have maxed out the RAM and shut down most of the garbage software and Apps. I am currently using … |
| | I'm ready to pick motherboard for my custom-build. Problem is I cannot find any having both floppy drive connector [B]and[/B] NVIDIA SLI for any Phenom II X6 processor...boards either have one or the other, but none have both. I want the SLI, but been told on many forums now that … |
| | Well actually my friends 3yr old son dropped my external hard drive. Now it will power on and everything, but it makes this noise as it sits there and tries to get loaded by windows like a clicking noise, or if you put a scratched up CD in a drive …  |
 | what are some reasons why the operating system might require accurate information on how blocks are stored on a disk? How could the operating system improve file system performance with this knowledge?  |
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 | For unknows reasons, other than the fact that I'm trying to intall Windows 8 beta on a separate partion (and the fact that, well, I AM dealing with Windows <sigh>. I kept ending up with a dead 8GB thumb drive that was dead because Windows, in its infinite wisdom caused … |
| | how do you delete a hard drive completely so that no data can be obtained? ive heard of drilling holes in them, then starting it up.is it true and is there any other way to do it |
 | i has 500gb hitachi external drive...i have divide to 4 partition...Whenever i plug in my external hard drive in computer, it detect but when i open "my computer", the window explorer just freezes and the green ribbon shows up, moves very slowly, and eventually stops at some point. i can … |
| | 1. Stop writing any data to memory card anymore 2. Recover lost data in time 3. Choose data recovery software with pertinence. Watch out when performing memory card data recovery operations 4. Back up original data in advance if it is allowed. These four points are good for guaranteeing perfect … |
| | Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive … |
| | Hi I have set up a RAID 1 and want to move my data to the RAID and leave applications and the operating system on the non raid drive. I just copied My Documents to the RAID and did a backup before deleting My Documents from the non raid disk. … |
 | Hi Friends, I want to develop a website like file manager. Where user register and will get fix disk space lets say 20MB. Now user can upload their pdf, doc, txt, jpeg etc files upto their disk limit. I can develop upto this using PHP. Now my issue is if … |
| | Windows XP - Computer 1 & 2 - IBM Netvista ThinkCentre's P4; 2.8 GHz Problem: Computer 1 (Windows XP Home) copied photo's from 2gb SD card using Lexmark Pro200 printer with SD card reader to Easygo 4 GB flash drive (verified that the photo's were there.) Computer 2 (Windows XP …  |
| | Hey everyone, Our team at Dell SMB has recently put together a [Slideshare](http://goo.gl/oJtjH) of our most popular white papers. I hope this is helpful to the Daniweb community! Thanks, Mourin |
| | Hello everyone. I'm VERY new to forums so please bear with me as I will undoubtebly irritate a few with my lack of proper forum ettiquette and never-ending paragraphs... my humble apologies if I offend :) ... I recently acquired an old 1GHz IBM Thinkpad Laptop (not sure exactly what … |
| | I Want To Make A Utility Like The Old DOS Command "rdisk" In C++. The Things I Want It To Be Able To Do Are: WIN: Be Able To Specify The Drive Letter (Like rdisk's /:Z) UNIX: Be Able To Specify The Mount Point (/mnt/rdisk or /media/somthing, etc) BOTH: Make … |
| | I am updating my personal computer's hard disk to an SSD drive soon, and I see there are two main types of drives, SATA II and SATA III. My computer's motherboard was made for SATA 3GBPS, will a SATA III drive still run on it? |
 | Hello, I have a Custom-Made PC from DinoPC.com. It's been working fine until today, I closed it down safley as I always do and took the case off to see how many PCI slots I have. I then unplugged the Hard Drive and plugged it back in. Now the PC … |
| | Hi. Today I bought a used Hard disk. Now I want to format it completely and check for any bad sectors which HDD may have. How can i do this? Tell me the best way to do it. I am Windows user. Hard disk is IDE (not SATA).. |
| | for the past weeks my micro sd card has reduced from 4gb 2 30.9 mb and i dont know wat to do..please can u help me with this...  |
| | Hi there, I just bought Dell XPS 15, with 500 GB HDD I have habit of using 3 partitions. One for System, 120 GB 2nd 190 GB 3rd 190 GB But now, there is recovery partition of 13.4 GB, C of almost 200+ GB & Another of again 200+ GB … |
| | [FONT=Trebuchet MS]I'm having trouble getting a hard drive to become detected. I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512 mb ddr sdram, nvidia geforce 2, and windows xp home edition. A while back (before this computer had windows xp), I was re-installing windows ME (it had gone squirrelly on me, …  |
 | Recently my girlfriend's laptop "died", that is, it may be only the monitor but in any case, it is no longer functional. [U] My question is this[/U]: We would like to recover all data from the laptop hard drive without having to take the laptop to a shop to have … |
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