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| | I work at a salon, and am opening my own soon. All my customers names etc are on work computer. Can I just put a disc into the hard drive and copy them? |
| | I recently burnt 4gb of mp3's onto a dvd-r from an I-Mac machine. I took it home and poped into my pc's Dvd r/rw drive and the icon in my computer switches over to show that a dvd-rom has been inserted. When i double click to explore the disc it … |
| | I have a cdrw which is causing some problems. when i am playing music from the harddrive and recording a cd to the hd from the cdrw, the cursor freezes up and the whole computer spazes out for a minute and when it comes out of it the door to … |
| | I have two hard drives on my primary IDE and two CD/DVD ROM drives on my secondary IDE. I would like to add another hard drive. Is this possible with this configuration? Thanks. -Jim  |
| | I have an Acer cdrw(slave) and a Mad Dog DVD Rom/cdrw(master). They were both working fine and then my computer had a nervous brake down and I had to reformat and install everything over. Now the burners will read everything except for blank cdr/cdrw's. I though maybe the problem was … |
| | Need your help please i have a 97 apple power mac G3 model m4405 with floppy drive ,cd drive and single hard drive the problem started sunday i went out with a few friends to a club to watch the superbowl game and my son thought he would help his …  |
| | My CD R/W, working for 2 years, suddenly says all discs are blank But the winbdows troubleshooter says "This device is working fine" The disc goes round The laser lights (for 6 secs while searching the disc) And My Computer, drive E, says the disc is empty Please suggest some … |
| | Anyone out there with a Mac G-4 having problems with a Lacie d2 CD-RW drive? Mine will not burn but it plays CD's. It is on Firewire. My machine runs OS 10.2.8 and Classic. I have heard there are problems with this drive and Toast. The system profiler does not … |
| | well I fixed my whole problem with my drives but now win 2000 sees my cdrw as a cd rom. I noticed in another post that you can change it in the regedit on win xp. is there a way to do this in win 2000? I tried to find … |
| | I have an extra hard drive for my laptop. Is there a way that I can modify this hard drive to be an external hard drive to work with the hard drive that I already have? Thanks |
| | I have a dvd-rw and a cd-rw. they worked fine for over a year, then one day they both stopped reading cds.I would have to reboot the system to read a cd. so I got new drives but both new drives are doing the same thing also. I am running … |
| | It all happened so sudden! I'm not sure about the problem here, but both my CD Roms are dead. My only guess is virus. When I turn my computer on after about 20 minutes of cooling time the cd roms are detected, after the computer is running in Windows XP … |
| | My computer's Windows XP OS recently "crashed" so I put in a new hard drive with Windows ME OS. I've installed everything with the replacement hard drive, but for some reason I can't get it to recognize my other hard drives that have information written from the XP OS. The … |
| | ok this might solve my other problem. I have the IDE cable plugged into my mobo and then the other 2 connectors, the first connector goes to my cdrw which right now is not plugged in and has no jumpers, the last one on the cable goes to my dvdrw … |
| | Just installed a maxtor 200gig hard drive. Got it up and running for a day and transfered lots & lots & lots files to it. It is a third drive, so I installed it with a sabrent pci controler card. Also have 2 cd-dvd player\burners. computer is a Dell 8200 … |
| | I recently had some really bad problems with XP and am gonig to do a reinstall of the OS. I have also purchase a new 160G hard drive to accompany my 40G that is already in the PC. I play a lot of battlefeild, war craft and other online games. … |
| | Hello all I am trying to install a slave drive in my pc. The drive is a Maxtor 80 gig unit. i have installed the software and it keeps telling me that the BIOS must be set to AUTO or ENABLED for the drive. I am unsure how to do … |
| | Hello all, Been a lurker here for a while now, and decided to join in. I'm always finding good info here. I have a friend who has a spare 80G SATA internal drive from his desktop pc. He wants to use it for an external backup with his laptop. I … |
| | My DVD drive doesn't seem to recognise DVD -R format discs, but it supports DVD +R discs just fine. Is there any way that I can update or alter my drive so that it will accept the DVD -R variety? My drive is labelled as follows in the Device Manager: …  |
| | can ny1 help me my DVD re writer wont boot the WIN XP Pro OS cd. Help |
| | [url]http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/ide-to-sata-converter.htm[/url] i was wondering if that would change the transfer speed too...since they say sata is faster...i dont know if it would or not..but would it? |
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| | Hi, im a bit of a begginer when it comes to computers. I have recently added a another 40GB hard drive to the 10GB i already had, i was wondering weather i could store all my important thinks like windows and my broadband modem drivers and graphics card drivers etc … |
 | Hi guys, i recently purchased a 512MB USB storage device, something im mainly going to use for school and some programming projects. But i noticed something when i looked at the space available. I just plugged it in my computer (running winXP) and noticed only 495MB are available. Now i … |
| | my dell xps removable d drive is vibrating faily loudly. it didnt do it in the beggining, but once i have taken it out a couple of times it now vibrates. just wondering if this is a problem, and if it is, what i can do about it. thanks #tbone |
| | I have a friend who just bought a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1762 laptop. He can't get most USB devices to load onto the computer. It will recognize the device, but that's as far as it will go. We tried going into device manager to see what the problem was, but it … |
| | I just purchased a new DVD burner with all the goodies. My problem is that I wanted to start making copies of my movies. I purchased a spindle of DVD+R Discs and when I try to burn it tells me that it does not have enough space to insert another …  |
| | Hello, I recently purchased a Maxtor Onetouch USB External Hard Drive at 200gbs. I installed it and it worked perfectly for about 30mins. Unfortunately in that time I copied over my media collection (8000+ songs) and then set WMP to work creating a new media library as it was relying … |
| | :cool: This is so weird. I have one hard drive which is C drive, one that's D drive and a cdrom that's E drive. For weeks D drive has just been missing. It's not in My Computer. I've looked in the bios. Think I set all to auto. Tried installing … |
| | I turned on my computer today and the second hard drive starting to make a clicking noise. It did not want to load Windows for some reason. I have removable drive bays because I am constantly removing my drives for other drives. I switch the bay in the chassis of … |
| | Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out. My CD burner doesn't burn CDs anymore, I've tried looking around to see if anyone has the same problem, but I can't find one similar to mine. If you find a board already solved, can you link me to it? … |
| | On the back of the cd drive there is a 4 pin audio connect. It says to connect the cd drive here to the sound card. Why would you need to do this? |
| | It's a desktop pc that may have been virused; not sure. During POST I get two followed by four "beeps". I don't think the system ever "checks" the floppy drive. Everything was seated inside and I tried to boot from a Win2K startup disk (since a regular boot only elicits … |
| | Anyone know how to 'destroy' the FAT12 boot sector so the system BIOS does not attempt to boot to the floppy (no 'invalid system disk' message) and will continue to the next boot device? I know if I zero out the boot sector, it will achive the desired results, but … |
| | can anyone please help,hd appears to be on the way out but i dont want to lose the data and start reloading all the software/updates.can i copy the data to another hd and replace the old one with it. :?: ;) |
| | I recently found out that my floppy drive isn't working. I was in the process of putting XP on my computer, when I realized it no longer works, and I need to run a boot disk to get anywhere because I've formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the … |
 | It happens all the time right? I have a major problem, seems to be a machanical or physical problem with the HD motor spins but it wont read, I was a Idiot for not backing everything up, but I have a bazziloin things I need off of there, what to … |
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| | I have a K8V SE Motherboard with 2 WD 160 Sata hard drives Raid striped connected to PRI Sata & SEC Sata connecters. I wish to add 2 WD Sata 200G hard drives as storage on the Sata 1 & Sata 2 connecters without using another raid array & I … |
 | OS: Win98 Location: Home I just installed a second hard drive on my open computer. I did this because this is a computer that I use as extra storage and backup my network on. I installed a second hard drive (one that I have had lying around for a while). … |
| | I have a Western Digital 250Gb drive, using it as a secondary drive in my machine. Asus P4P800 motherboard, using XP pro on my OS. Problem…. When using the installation tools from WD it says that I can only use 137Gb of the drive. Says that Windows can only see … |
| | I currently have an EIDE hard drive installed with XP on it. I just bought an an xtra hd for more storage and was told I could get a serial Ata. I didnt realize there were differences and now I noticed when going to install it the xtra connector off … |
| | Hello all. My main hard disk is failing[C:], according to SMART, so I purchased another one[F:]. Both are from Western Digital, so I used their tool included in order to clone the current failing hard disk[C:] onto my new disk[F:]. All went well, except the program said it could not …  |
| | Hello Guys and Gals .I trying to install a new never used 52x CDRW in a older P166 with 64 megs of Simm ram and a Asus Motherboard ,Problem begins when i put a cd in the Drive ,it sees all files as Audio files .Nero ,doesent see it as … |
| | I have purchased a mitsumi floppy and 7/1 reader combo. It takes the normal floppy cable but it also requires an internal usb connection which my board has two but I need one for two front usbs and two back usbs besides the built in ones I have. I hate … |
| | I finally decided to build my own computer but have a question. I thought you just put in a new hard drive and installed the os. The seagate hdd that I want to buy has a discwizard starter edition disc. Do I really need this to get started or can … |
 | I was reading up on the new HP dvd burner with lightscribe, and I was wondering do any of you think its worth it? its a x16 dvd burner with lightscribe for $129 lightscribe looks pretty awsome and it would give me a cool way to label my dvds, the … |
| | Its crazy, my cdrw/dvd will not read burned cd's. It will read originals but if I burn a cd with it or any other burner it will not read it. Cds burned with this burner can be read by other CD-Roms but when I put the disk back into the … |
 | I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive, I have a HP pavilion with an ASUS CUW-AM mobo. Now im not sure what the difference is between SATA, IDE, RAID etc. which one should I choose? and is there any thing else I should take into consideration before buying … |
| | Friends 120gb hdd had 229 viruses. was running Win Xp. AVG finally removed all but left WinXP unusable. Formatted hdd. But now cannot get win Xp reinstalled. Message on several attempts was "missing or corrupt file "\windows\system32\config\system" when trying to boot on new install. Formated the c: partition after each … |
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