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| | My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware … |
 | I have had this dirve since October and Must have made around 20-30 single sided DVD burns since then. A week ago I put in a CD to re-install some drivers, the next day when I put in a Disk it made some kind of noise as if it were … |
| | My niece's Dell Inspiron 5100 has got a Hitachi 40 gig hd and it over heats. Got a laptop cooler and it still runs hot 125deg's and up. If i take a regular house fan and turn it pointing up and sit the laptop on top of the fan it … |
| | hi i have a maxtor II one touch and recently it just wouldnt boot up. started to panic as it has incredibly important photos. i sent it to a data recovery specialist and he said that he managed to get it working again, but couldnt access the data because it … |
| | Hallo, 1 week ago I got an external USB Harddisk (MaxtorOne Touch III: 7200RPM 500GB) and I pluged it into USB port. Windows gave automatically drive letter G: . All was fine, and I could save my data on it. And today I restarted my PC and found that I … |
| | I have an older PC, with Win 98 SE. I installed a network card, and when it restarted, I received an error message "Your multifunction device (Intel 823.... Bus Master [URL="http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1366681&page=1#"]IDE Controller[/URL]) has some devices using 32-bit drivers and others using compatibility-mode drivers. This configuration is not supported, so your … |
 | if i was to put a hard drive in a enclosure and set it up on my computer in my bedroom 1. format it 2. allocate drive letter would i be able to write files to it and take it to my other computer down stairs and use it without … |
| | All drives in the DiamondMax Plus 8 series are listed below: 6E020L0 (20Gb) 6E030L0 (30Gb) 6E040L0 (40Gb) Identification: A slimline IDE hard drive with a shiny metallic top and a white Maxtor label in the centre. The "DiamondMax Plus 8" label can be found a third of the way down … |
| | Hello I have a Samsung VM8000 with windows 98 as an operating system. When I put any audio or installation disc's in the cd rom drive its reads it and an orange light flashing up on the cd drive which obviously means that it is reading the disc, when suddenly … |
| | hellow to all how do i install a new hard drive on a tishiba satellite 2435-s255 i got it for free but without a hard drive so i will be installing a fresh install eny body have eny ideas thanks blackmagic |
| | The dvd burner will not burn normal cds, when u right click the disc drive and a disc is in it it does not give you an option for format. When you double click the drive and a blank cd is in it, it says drive is not acessible, and … |
| | I recently bought a used T21 ThinkPad laptop form a local shop specialising in second hand PC’s. It’s a 700mhz Pentium 3 with CD-R and DVD-R (not writers) and a single USB 1, so I guess it’s about 4 or 5 years old. The CD-DVD drive is a ‘cassette’ type … |
| | i have a acer travel mate a really old one i don't know what make it is though. it can read data Cd's and music Cd's but it cant read windows xp windows 2000 or anything it says the disk is corrupted but i tried it in many other PCs … |
| | [font=Comic Sans MS]:confused: Ive got an Dvd-burner/Cd drive and it cant read any of my disk and i cant burn either....plz help coz the warranty just run out a week ago!!!! i happened rite after i woz watchin a dvd help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i cant afford $500 for a new one (btw … |
| | Was software wiping a 100gb laptop drive to sell it, and now the Bios cannot see it. A few disk diagnostic programs seem to be able to access it anyway and they say the drive is fine (full surface scan). Windows XP install disk can partition, format, write the OS. … |
 | This IDC White Paper looks at the savings and benefits that system software and disk defragmentation can provide to customers. It also examines the savings that were achieved by three enterprise customers using a simple model over one year. These customers were selected by Diskeeper for analysis by IDC. |
| | While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend the frequency of defragmentation across an infrastructure. Some IT professionals use defragmentation as a measure of last resort, defragmenting only after system performance has sufficiently degraded to … |
| | Depending on your perspective, [I]virtualization’s [/I]purpose is to afford divergence and convergence. It affords the division of logical objects that should be separated, and/or the consolidation of objects that should be grouped together. The technology’s recent explosion coincides with the trend of consolidating systems on to fewer, but more powerful … |
| | The mathematics of accidental file erasure is alarming.A PC user is likely to spend an average of one hour in a frantic effort to recover the file (or files, or an entire directory) before turning to the help desk. Just two occurrences per day – a conservative estimate for a … |
| | Resolving issues with file system performance include numerous solutions, primarily hardware related, from use of faster disks, a greater number of disks, distributed storage, SANs, and on the bleeding edge extreme, petabyte-worthy technologies such as cluster file systems. It can also lead to “workaround” handlings such as reinstalling software, re-imaging … |
| | Despite all the advances of recent times, the disk remains the weak link. And with the ongoing explosion in data storage as well as the massive size of modern disks, that link is growing steadily weaker. As a result, fragmentation exerts a severe toll on enterprise performance and reliability, one … |
| | In today’s environment of bigger disks storing not only larger files but more files than ever before, the effects of fragmentation worsen markedly with each day’s use. To keep up with same-day performance degradation, disks must be defragmented in real-time. |
| | I am trying to install a dvd writer that has s-ata cables only problem is that my system uses ide cables. Can this work and how? |
| | My external hard drive began rattling so loudly it sounded like a motorcycle was in my living room. I immediately turned it off, let it cool down and tried turning it back on - it made the same noise. My external holds 500gb and I am currently using 100+. All … |
| | Let's say, for example, we have 27 drives connected to a computer via USB, or a network, or whatever. The floppy is A: and/or B:, the HD is C:, the CD ROM is D:, etc, all the way up to Z:. Now, what would the drive letter of the next …  |
| | Hi, This is my first time to this website and I am very computer illiterate. So I don't even know if this is the right forum to post this in. I'm sorry if it's not. I recently downloaded itunes and I bought about 20 songs. I'm trying to put them … |
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| | After my windows totally crashed i thought it might be time to format my hard drive, taking it out of my computer and placing it in a friends i pulled off all the flies that i needed to keep. after putting it back into my computer i attempted to format … |
| | I have a HP Paviliona600n computer that I'm working on. Windows does not boot. What I do is I take the harddrive out and I put it in a external case and copy the data that they want. I'm having problems with this harddrive. I can't access it. It's like …  |
| | I have some TV recordings on DVD+RW made on my Bush DVD recorder. I was hoping to transfer them to my PC and extract the sound to convert into MP3's. However my PC DVD-rom drive doesn't like them. The DVD-rom drive is a Samsung SD-616T. I have installed the latest …  |
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