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I'm sure most of you have heard this before. So I'm going to say it simple. After reinstalling Windows XP along with all the drivers with my recovery CDs, my Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-K15 Drive isn't acting the same as it used to on my laptop. Here's how it is: Plays …

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Hows it going guys, I'm having a few troubles with several hard drives, so grab a glass of milk and some cookies because your going to be sitting here a while. Okay. So to start the story, I was using three seperate hard drives as follows: IDE 0 - 40 …

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Hi I'm wondering about the windows NTFS bad cluster file, $BadClus. It keeps a record of all the bad sectors on the hard disk. (Its a hidden file in the MFT). If I reformat, I'm assuming this is recreated. Is that correct? in this case, doesn't that mean that the …

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I have an 80gig HD that has been partition 10gig local disk(c:) & 70 gigData(D:0 the main one been 10gig I want to un partition it to make it one 80gig but not sure what to do.

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i formatted a old partition and everything goes well until when it change from the blue windows setup screen.I mean when the windows setup reboot. i received a message (disk error. press ctrl,alt,del to restart) and the windows installation do not continue. What should i do???? in order to reinstall …

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I'm trying to ghost my c: drive using Norton Ghost 03. I have an external drive (where I have ghost installed) and I installed it on the computer where the CD/RW drive is. I did this so the ghosting would not take so long using a usb cable. I tried …

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hi every body i request to all my friends to suggest me how i can convert NTFS partation to FAT partation ? it is possible ? kindly regards sanjay

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I have a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-109.. from a sony vaio machine. I replaced the motherboard and installed my own version of XP... Now though my dvd-rw isn't working properly it will read cds and burn cds but I am having trouble with it working with dvds windows device manager says …

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Please help me. I need your help badly. I already post my problem below as the reply to the similar case, but after a few days since no reply for me. I want to use USB external casing with 40 GB Fujitsu notebook harddisk in it. I tried several boot …

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So I just installed a computer game on my PC about a week ago. I go to play a game I already have installed and I find out that my DVD/R and CD/RW drives are not being recognized by my PC. I have been looking all over the place for …

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Well..I have a dell dimension 9200c..with a TS-L632D slim 8x DVD +/ - RW...with windows vista installed..The problem is I installed a driver for windows XP thinking it was an update but I didnt notice..now it doesnt want to open...and when I put eject it appears "Cd drive is currently …

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hello ppl i have a laptop with only one partition 60 gb i need to divide it to 2 parts can i do it without loosing my files or back up

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Hi guys, has anyone got a picture of what an internal notebook dvd drive component layout should be? One of the springs fell out and i dont know where this part should sit. Its a pioneer DVR-K06/1 dvd drive. see picture attached.

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I have two hard drives, a C: drive and a D: drive. The C drive is a Maxtor 2F040J0 (I think) and the D drive is a Maxtor 6E040L0, however, they may be the other way around. I recently bought a new motherboard and processor and installed them and connected …

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Just installed a 2nd hard drive in a Compaq Presario running Windows XP Home Multi Media. It's an 80GB but now formatted it shows only 31.4 GB with no more space available. Any ideas on how to get the full capacity back?

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Hi, I have recently got given an old computer that someone didnt want. it is running on windows 98 SE. It booted up fine the first time, but the second time, it booted up untill the windows loading screen, did that 4 a few secs, and then i got this …

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Last month i lost everything from my IDE hard disk, that was 80Gb with 4 partition in it. in first partition (C:) was the OS windows XP. operating system wasn't working. then i tried to see my files in dos mode but it was showing no partition in my hard …

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Hi my DVD re-writer after a couple of years of loyal service has stopped reading dvd's and only reads cd's, in fact in the properties of this drive it comes up as a cd drive. I bought a new dvd writer ( HP dvd740 Internal 16X DVD Writer ) but …

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Hi all, the Dvd R/Rw drive on my laptop is having issues reading disc put into it.. It was still doing okay a few days back when i used it to copy a few discs.. But now it don't seem to be able to read or write, and the "D …

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My mobod will support many different types of raid so that is not a problem. My question is about raid and the os. What would be the best way to do it. I don't want any other type of raid so don't go there. Any way should I put the …

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hello all i have an Emachines 500 is. it had wondows 98 se installed for about 7 yrs.this past spring i upgraded to windows XP.the main hard drive is 4gb in size. i had a tougfh time with all the updates and adding SP2 to the mix.i figured i would …

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After spending the entire morning just getting a live boot of ubuntu to work (my fauly really, the last blank cd i had burned with an error, and i had to configure a flash drive to do it instead), i was finally able to use linux for the first time. …

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Maybe someone has an idea on this one: I own several Toshiba 2805 laptops - ranging from the S201 model (Celeron 650) to the faster S302 (PIII 750) models. They're working perfectly and I'm happy with them, and I wanted to install larger hard drives in them and give them …

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Well over the past few months I burn the periodic cd and listen to them in my car and everywhere throughout my house. I have burned CDs many times with multiple machines, but this is a first time I have encountered this problem. I usually use Windows Media Player to …

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Hi, I am new to this site. I am having problem with my new DVD driver as discussed in a previous thread. In that thread there were many referrences to pin 45+47, and a picture for how to handel the two pins. I can not find any pins on my …

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I have a Lite-On XJ-HD166S (that came with a Dell Dimension 4700 in Dec 04) and it no longer works. I replaced the old one with a new liteon (i've had good luck with liteon drives), and gave it back to my family member. Now, I want to resurrect the …

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Anyone out there know how to unlock a password from a Hard Drive 2.5" Fujitsu MHV2100BH PL - SATA Thanks, hdn

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I have been told that my drive is partitioned into Drive C & Drive D I am losing hard disk space very rapidly on Drive C, I also think that I have a file which is mirror imaging my files, therefore taking up space, its called an ntuser cd video …

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Data Recovery - why do they let the damaged HD run all night? I talked to a Data recovery house and they told me they sometimes have to let the drive run all night - why is that? Won't that cause more damage?

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