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| | 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 …  |
| | Have 2 HDD's in my computer One is 100GB with all data. other is 30 gGB with NO data. It is a formatted but empty drive. When I attempt to remove the drive my computer will not go thru the Drive detection stage in the BIOS. If it does get … |
| | What are ALL the parameters considered for measuring the "QUALITY OF CD-ROM"? Is it only the speed by which you can write on it, and other parameters expiriencable during the CD writting itself (like failing to write it correct) or is there something more? (What I have in mind? Well: … |
| | I just put in a hard drive,set it up as a slave,bios and device manager recognize it but can't access it thru MY COMPUTER. my cd rom. has become my E drive,still have C: no D: My jumper settings are correct. I don't get it. |
| | HI! I've had a friend ask for my help, but not sure what's wrong; *OH bought an external hardrive, he formatted it, the pc is recognising it ok but the thing is it's supposed to have 160GB on it and it's only showing up as 1.99GB, anyone know what the … |
| | I want to make my older 1999-era hard drive a slave to a newer 2003-era hard drive, as a secondary drive. The older hard drive has 8 jumper pins, while the newer hard drive has 10 jumper pins. If I follow the instructions to make the older hard drive a …  |
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| | I need help with reformatting an old computer. I don't know how. It is a windows 98 2nd edition boot, but I try to install and it say scan disk found data that might be lost and kicks me out of win setup. HELP ME |
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| | I don't know a thing about what those pins at the back of CD-ROM drive do. Just out of curiosity: Is there some combination of pins that gives (for example) "PLAY" function or "EJECT", etc. In other words: if you would have an autonomus power suplly exact to requirements for … |
| | Hi, I was hoping maybe someone can help me out. Without even knowing how, I think I disabled my secondary hard drive and can't seem to get it back. It doesn't appear in "My Computer" anymore. I attempted a system restore, but a notification popped up saying "changes made to …  |
| | I came across this article recently: [URL=http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Disk-Based-Backup.html]Disk Backups[/URL] I've never had to extensive backing up myself. I've never used magnetic tape for storage. The stuff I've had to backup has always been small enough to fit on a Cd/DVD. For those of you who have used different mediums, what do … |
| | I am taking a little survey about the type of dvd media you use. I know that it all depends on what your dvd player will use etc. but I am just curious what you use. Is dvd-r or dvd+r best? Also, what format do you think will win out …  |
| | A couple of weeks ago I was copying cds, and noticed that the entire copying process was only taking 3-4 minutes per cd. Now, after reformatting my computer, my burner still shows that it is writing at 48x, however it is taking atleast 10 minutes to copy a single cd? … |
| | I have removed the secondary hard disc from my computer because it was faulty. At the present I do not wish to replace it as I have sufficient storage on my primary C drive. However when I start up I get the message "Secondary Master Hard Disc Fail" and the … |
| | Bit of an odd one this. Running Windows XP Pro on a single workstation. My MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8584A was working fine the other day, but now it is convinced it is only a CD ROM. The diagnostic tools I've run also seem to insist it is a cd-rom. I haven't … |
| | Help Please help. I have 2 hard drives installed one is a 80GB, and the other is a 250GB. My son built this computer. Here's the problem I am running out of space on the 80GB hard drive and I want to transfer all of the data from the 80 … |
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| | hello i am new to this forum and i have a problem: My cd drive and dvd drive do not apppear under my computer, and in device manager both drives have exclamation marks in yellow circles... I installed a new cd drive to see if this fxed anything, it did …  |
| | This has happened before, but was easily fixed. When I turn my computer on everything boots nicely (after a full nights rest) After Windows XP fully boots, it locks up tight (no mouse movements or anything) for about 10-20 seconds and then when I open My Computer, my CD-Rom drives … |
| | hi my hard drive has stopped working! i think there was a powersurge and ther is serious data corruption. what can i do to get my work off my hard drive. Please reply Andy |
| | One quick question - Will a UATA133 drive work with a SATA motherboard? |
 | I've got TEAC 4163 (DVD-RW) via SATA. When I play MP3s from a CD all's OK. But as soon as I insert audio CDs my CD players freeze (when starting the CD up) - all of them (including axialis). And through Winamp I can hear kinda brattling or clacking as … |
| | I have a WD 160 GB 7200 rpm hd on primary IDE channel set as master, its the only thing on that channel. an optical disk is on secondary ide channel. looking in device manager, under ide ata/atpi controllers under primary ide channel advanced properties the transfer mode for both … |
 | Hi I have a couple of harddrives (same model) that I have put in a striping array. In Nero you can go to File->Preferences->Cache, about the middle of the dialogue there is a way to test drive speed. When I look at the drive speeds like this in Nero the … |
| | Hi everyone; I am soon to do a complete upgrade on my computer system except my monitor which is a 19" NOKIA 46XPro that I'm happy with. My question, is it worth to switch to one of the new serial ATA HDD's now. I hear that the present transfer rates … |
 | Hey, im looking at buyings a new dvd burner, but I also want it to burn cd's as well. Can someone tell me if this one [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-151-054&depa=1[/url] burns cd's? I think it does but I just want to make sure. Also, is there anything im leaving out, like compatability issues, …  |
| | I have an asus mobo with athalon 1.4ghz thunderbird. i'm running a maxtor 200gb sata hd with sata card and another maxtor 80gb ide hard drive. both drives work fine, but the sata runs extremely slow. booting up on the sata takes about 15 minutes. what's going on? |
| | In 1999, I bought a computer from a company called Midwest Micro. When I bought the computer, it had Windows 98 installed and came with a 200 GB hard drive. I never had any trouble with it until last year. Something caused the hard drive to shrink from a 200 …  |
| | ok...so my last mobo & chip & audio card took a dump.... so i bought all new gear. 2.8 intel & mobo, 200gig hd, 1gig memory & audio card is coming. here is my problems.... 1. the new hd is sata...the old one is ata.... and when i try to … |
| | I bought a new Dell 8400 in January. It has 2 Seagate 160 gig SATA hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I want to add another single drive to use for video capture and such. I don't need mirroring on this drive as the contents will not be critical. …  |
| | I just bought a new drive & USB enclosure for backup and main music/photo directory. All formatted and recognized (able to copy files to it, etc) and have set the drive as a slave by the jumper setting so basically it's seen as an additional HDD. I'd like to have … |
 | Ive been having problems with my cd burner since i got my computer a little while ago. When i start a burn it seems to be doing fine, then the buffer overrun goes to 99% and just sits there. Ive updated all the ASPI drivers, and even replaced the burner. … |
| | Hi there, I bought a Lacie External HD (160GB, Porsche, firewire), formatted it for Mac, transfered all my music and movies on it and after 1 week my eMac (OS 10.3.8) stopped recognising it. It doesn't mount and the light on the Lacie HD keeps flashing green and amber. What … |
| | I need more storage space for my digital video collection and I am trying to figure out the best option. I currently have two hard drives. One is dedicated to Windows and my applications. The other is dedicated to my digital collection and is full. I could try to add … |
| | Hi I hope all you wonderful people out there can help me I have just built my computer and it has two SATA drives fitted. I installed an O/S and the system has been running fine for the last two days. However this morning I turned it on and received … |
| | I am thinking about getting a DVD ROM. Could you tell me what "Dual Layer technology" is and whether I need special discs for it? __----------------_______________----------------_________-------- Micro Advantage 16x Dual Format DVD+/-R/RW Drive 16x DVD writer supports both + and - standard format Backup your data, share films, record music … |
| | HI, I am srinivas bhatt. Some bad clusters have been developed on my pc's HDD. somebody told me to do low level format. Could u help me how to do low level format and sugest me any other tools to remove bad clusters. Thanking...... regards, srinivasbhatt. |
| | Can anyone think of a reason why my Insprion 8600 won't restart as long as there a external hdd plugged in? I hangs during the boot-up sequence. If I power off the laptop and power it back on (after unplugging the external hdd) it starts right up. I'm trying to … |
| | I would like to install two hard drives. One is a 200gb maxtor and the other a 160gb seagate. What would be the best way to do this? thanks. |
| | hi there, to begin my story i must say i am in a sort off computer terror period off my life, everything seems to slowly break down, thats just a little problem.. thew big problem is that my " work " dissappears with it. SO I BOUGHT A WD 200 … |
| | Hi I hope you guys an help me. I have just built a PC and put two SATA Seagate hard drives in (ST3160827AS) both 160 GBs. The thing is in “my computers |
| | Lost Partitions Hi while trying to resize a partition it all went nasty, instead of 3 partitions totalling 200 gig it's only showing 1 at 10 with the os on it, all my data is now in the unpartitioned space. I haven't formatted the partitions or changed anything since it … |
| | Hello -- I am new to this forum... I have a dual boot machine with one hard drive dedicated to Linux, but I would like to undo that and claim the drive for Windows XP and make the system exclusively Windows XP. How can I do that? |
| | Hello, im having a problem with my CD drive not functioning properly. I'm trying to upgrade Windows 98 to 2000, but the installer says no compatible CD drive is detected, and there's not enough room to copy the files to the HD. I checked and it says it's running in … |
| | Hello everyone, My internal DVD +/- drive is not behaving at all and it is making me go mad! When I put a CD/DVD (anything) in the drive the little green light goes on for two minutes and then stops...but then when I try to open the drive by clicking … |
| | I just bought a Soltek SL-K8TPro-939. I also bought a new serial ATA hard drive. In my old computer I had an 80gb ide bought a few months ago. I put both in the new computer and the Motherboard recognizes the serial ATA but does not see the IDE drive. … |
| | Hi I need some help figuring out the specifics to adding a second harddrive or at least geting a larger one.I am unsure though of I what I would need as I am not too experienced.Things like the max size my os would recognize etc... Here are my PC specs … |
| | About 4 weeks ago my cd drive started to screw up. Sometimes it didn't scan my TFT, but mostly it did. I didn't think much of it until like 2 weeks later, my CD just plain wasnt scanned at all. I then tried everything i knew: reinstalling my CD Drive … |
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