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| | Hi. There is this computer that can't read from drive C after the person who had it last switched off through the power button and not letting windows to shut down and now the problem is that Iam trying to run scandisk and when its checking the directory structure it … |
| | My computer uses the AMD 756 PCI bus master dual IDE controller. I really don't know much about it, but my device manager is saying that the primary & secondary controllers aren't working properly. It says for both: "This device is either not present, not working properly, or does not … |
| | I have a home built pc with an 80 gig drive. It started making a noise similar to the noise it makes when powering down and the hard drive clicks off. After a couple of days of the random click every hour or so it then started to click repetedly … |
 | After installing a new motherboard and case in my system it seems that my 2 cd drives don't want to work properly. Heres what happens. I try to re-install a game and i put it in the top cd drive but when I got into my computer, there is only … |
| | Halloo. There is this computer I came across in my work place that had the floppy drive right but it can't be seen in the computer i.e when you open mycomputer there is nothing like 31/2 floppydrive.I even checked the device manager and its not there too.I haven't opened the … |
| | Can anyone explain this to me, and can ISO's be installed on my computer or do they have to be installed on a CD R? Don't laugh :evil:  |
| | I have a new NexDisk portable storage unit. I installed it on my computer but it wont let me access it. Got any suggestions? :cry: :-| |
 | Hey Guys, Great Site. Hopefully someone much smarter than I can help me. The 10gb hard drive in my toshiba 2805-s301 die. I am trying to replace it with a 20 gb model mk2018gap. I have upgraded the bios to ver 2.0 . The old drive had no jumpers so …  |
| | I need help on how I install a second Hard Drive onto my PC, I know there is a way to install XP without having to reinstall the whole thing, I'm just not sure how. |
| | Hi there can a dead hard drive be revived in any way. evry time the machine is booting it says invalid system disc replace the correct one. any comments?  |
| | Description: Compaq Presario 5320US, XP home edition, using Compaq 12X Ide CDRW drive. This user complained that the cdrw drawer will not open and that the front led light stays on. I checked the drive and the drawer is indeed jammed firmly inside the drive and it refuses to open. … |
| | Hi guys and girls. I'm having some trouble with my CD ROM drive. When I play music CDs in it. it seems to play them at double time. Almost like if you played a Vinyl at 75rpm when it should be 45, if you get my drift. I can't seem … |
| | hallo techie(s), I have frequently read about SCSI being another way(than the IDE) to attach drives and peripherals .. what i dont really get is what is the 'big diffrence' between the IDE and the SCSI? and in what way is the IDE better and thus more common..? Another Question, …  |
| | hi, i'm looking to buy a second ide hard drive to my current system but i'm unsure if my system will accept it. My current specs are amd 1900+ 512ddr (pc2100) ram geforce 5700 pcchips m830lr mobo 60gb ata/100 hd win xp sp2 I'm looking to buy a ata/133 7200rpm … |
| | Hello, I have 2 hd, master ata100, slave ata66 . Transfer mode "Device 0": Ultra DMA. Transfer mode "Device 1": PIO Mode. When I use explorer and access the second hd, the all computer slow down, the mouse can't even move for a few seconds. What is happenning? I try … |
 | OS: Win98SE I have put the cable in both ways (one way, light was on, the other, nothing) I have changed out different Drives... still nothing. Ideas? |
| | I've just purchased a new computer, and I'm a little etchy on if I bought enough hard drive space. I currently use my computer for programming, web dev, and graphic design. I'm expecting to use a total of 5 GBs worth of program files for all my needs, but I … |
| | Hi, I turned on my PC last night and the computer powered up for about a second then died. However the power light stayed on but none of the fans were going. I messed around with my PC and found out that if I disconnected one of my hard drivers …  |
| | Please can anyone help! I recently won a 'Ministry of Sound S Series 20GB HDD MP3 Jukebox (MOSMP028)'. Unfortunately the Jukebox did not come with the drivers required. Im running Windows XP Home Edition, but it will not recognise the jukebox. I have tried contacting Ministry of Sound, but they …  |
| | my system is windows xp professional. my mother board is an asus board with an amd 900 mhz processor chip. my problem is, that i have tested my floppy drive and the ide cables, and they all work, so i am left to believe that the floppy port on my … |
| | hi, i have a big problem wif booting my system when i turn on the system (im running winxppro), usually there would be no signal to the monitor. but as i keep turning on and off the system, the condition "improves", and it'll turn on, but shut down(no signal to … |
| | I have a new hard drive and i think that i need to move it to the master position, and that i need a bootable diskette. How do i make a bootable diskette? thanks dan |
| | I just put a new hard drive on the computer and have been having a lot of problems with the cd burner. first it wouldn't burn because it thought there wasn't enough room in memory - it was detecting only the room left on the original harddrive. then it would … |
| | hello everyone i got a controller card and i need help installing it is a ultra ata ide controller card(raid 133)can someone help me thanx jay |
| | Hello! I have a HP Pavilion XE748, 320MB RAM, and 700 MHz processor. Tonight I am going to install a new Western Digital 80gb hdd and install Win XP Home ed. (OEM). I’m doing this b/c the original hdd died, crashed, whatever… Is there anything special I need to know … |
| | I have a HP Pavilion XE748, 700 processor, 325 memory. I have never had do replace a hard drive before, but I know I can do the physical work. The problem I'm having or think I will have is how do I get the new drive working with my machine. … |
| | I am looking into getting a new hard drive and I need one that can at least read and write at 4Mbs (but I want to make sure it has more) but I can't work out from the info I am five about the hard drive it can do that. … |
| | I have two HP computers that have trojans that I can not get rid of so I backed up everything to computer 2 and then purchased a new Maxtor 6Y120PO drive and installed it on computer 2 with all the information I wanted to save. The instructions did fine and … |
| | I have a Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT notebook and have recently acquired a Toshiba SD-C2502 DVD-ROM. I wish to install this into my notebook but have found that the connections are different styles. Can I install this drive and if so where can I get what I need and/or more information? |
| | I have a computer (no OS yet) that will not boot from the floppy drive. I checked all the connections and everything seems fine. I checked the BIOS and made sure it was set to boot from the floppy. What I noticed, however, during startup, the floppy is shown as … |
| | Hi there! I've been having problems with a slave HD ever since I installed it. Unlike the main drive (C: for these purposes), it has a tendency to be very slow and laggy when playing high-quality video files, or other large files. Sometimes the files freeze entirely for seconds or … |
| | I am trying to move 20 Gigabyte hardware from the uncle's Win ME celeron computer to my sister's Win 98 pentium II computer so she can have more memory. I start up the computer and it says that the hard drive has failed. I tried reformating the drive but the … |
 | :evil: Ok, this may take a bit of explaining... I was getting a few errors from my old HDD, but i was just ignoring them.. cause i knew i was going to get a new hdd soon.. ok then one day i was just playing a game and my whole … |
| | I was running on my machine a Seagate Serial ATA harddrive (120gb) and had data corruption of the registry (Windows XP Pro). The data on the partions was retrieved but the data that was under the administrator account on the C drive is currently being stopped by the administrator password. … |
| | I hooked up the data cable correctly, and I did a auto detect and cant detect the second hard drive. I am running WIN XP powered it up but no detection, what am I doing wrong. :rolleyes: |
| | ok, when i plug a device into IDE 2 on my motherboard, IDE 1 stops working. so if i have 2 hard drives on IDE 1, and 2 CDrom devices on IDE 2, none of them work the IDE2 is interfering with IDE 1 is there a simple way to … |
 | I really have no clue about how to install a harddrive. Im not looking at a simple plug n play... here is what I am trying to do. I am building my own computer and I am buying a new harddrive. I want to install XP Pro on it. Can … |
| | Okay guys, I want to install a new hard drive in my computer. I mentioned this in another thread where I fluffed up and had to reset the Bios... :o Here is the situation, I have a Dell 8300 that came with an original Western Digital 60gb and I want … |
 | HI, First of all I use Win XP. Everything is updated. My computer has 400 mhz, 448 mb, 30 gb (supposed to been 80 gb, I dont know why, maybe its the motherboard). I have installed few games with no problem. This one game I tried to install, it took … |
 | hello, i am trying to install a western digital 40 GB 7200rpm hard drive into a gateway 2000 p5-100. the gateway originally came with a western digital caviar 31000. on the top of that hard drive it reads AT compatible 1083.8MB. i was able to install windows 98 on the … |
| | I am trying to install windows xp on my external hardrive (80gb western digital 7200rpm) so i could boot off of it later. i am 100% shure that this is possible i just dont know how. it is a usb HD. the first thing i tried was to put in … |
| | I upgraded Windows Me to Windows XP and my CD burner, Lite-On LTR 48246S is not recognized by my CDRWIN burning program. I installed the Lite-On myself and have used it for months, but I have lost the installation CD for the burner. It seems as if a driver is … |
| | my floppy drive will occasionaly make grinding sounds and wont even take a floppy disk all the way in so i figure it is time to get a new one. how compatible does it have to be for your computer. i have a toshiba satellite 1105 (laptop). thank you |
| | "Invalid" system disk...." I installed a second Maxtor 5T040H4 HD. The specs say that I don't need to set a jumper to make it a slave. When I bootup I get the following message: "Searching for Boot record from Floppy..Not found Saerching for Boot record from IDE-1..OK Invalis System disk … |
| | I have a 200GB maxtor that pisses me off Maxblast v1x sees it and can work on it. Maxblast 3x doesn't even see it. I can't see it from a command line I can FDISK it somehow (seems to work) but it doesn't change anything Scandisk doesn't see it BIOS … |
 | Please guys, I really need help here. Last night I was using my computer and it was working fine. There were zero problems. Naturally, I switched it off and went to bed, it shut down fine. This morning, I go to turn it on, and it sits on the dell … |
 | here's what I have, 1Ghz AMD Athlon 10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32 40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32 Windows 2000 Pro the problem: It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the … |
| | I have new Toshbia DVD sd-c2612 Drive to replace the one in the Toshbia notebook that I'm working on, the new one is said to be a master / slave, and I need a cable select, Is there anyway to fix this with out sending this in to Toshbia to … |
| | Windows, nor bios, will detect the usb hdd. It's 250gb, the cable plugs into a usb port on the computer and a usb 2.0 on the hdd. There is definitely power to it, and everything is connected right, so whats wrong? |
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