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| | [I]I have a Maxtor DiamandMax Plus 9 - 160GB external hard drive that someone plugged my laptop's ac cord into. (Guess what happened to my hard drive!) I want to know if it is possible for me to replace parts on the drive to retrieve the data or if it … |
| | [size=1]Kindly help me! [/size] [size=1]I borrowed a cd writer from a friend and installed it on our drive replacing my cd rom. when i returned my cd rom in its place after mins without using the writer -- it was able to read the cds but as i click on … |
| | Have 3 external USB drives by different manufacturers. Have recently had reason to move them around among 3 different servers, all running Windows Server 2003. Fortunately all these external drives have been backed up, because when I remove one of these drives off ServerA, plug it into ServerB, the external … |
| | Hi I have a fairly old Time Cybernote 953E laptop, which I beleive is a rebranded CTX EzBook 700E. I'm trying to replace the hard disk from the tiny 3 gigs it had to 80 gigs. However the laptop is having trouble detecting it. When I go into the BIOS … |
 | Hi all... newbie here. I've just done a clean install of windows XP on an old P2 Celeron PC. All went well until I tried to unload some files from my USB flash drive. The system did recognize it and showed up the ballon message telling the drive was ready …  |
 | This happened to me every time i put a floppy in the drive new or used the computer freezes and wont let me write to the floppy i tried moving the little tag at the bottom of the floppy it doest work ether i try formatting a floppy in windows … |
| | Ok I have my second hard drive setup everything is running fine and seems to be perfect its a Western Digital 30 gig drive and I am trying to load most the stuff cluttering up my primary hard drive. The thing is when I start copying Files I get "Cannot … |
| | Hi, ive been trying to copy a diagnostics file onto a floppy drive to analyse a problematic HDD. Once the program is on the disk I need to reboot the machine and it will perform diagnostics on the HDD. The problem is when I insert the floppy disk and try … |
| | I have a Plextor PX-716SA/SW CD/DVD drive installed in a new computer. When I have an audio CD inserted, it playes OK, but when I go to My Computer and hover the mouse over the drive icon or right click on it and select " properties " it always shows … |
| | hi i have had a computer for 2 years now and all of a sudden the CD drive doesn't work this is a real problem because I'm producing important work at the moment and my flash drive is broken please could you help me resolve the problem cheers:o |
| | I hope someone can help me because I this is driving me crazy, I have an HP Slimline s7220n running vista home premium, i bought it and installed it when it came out in early February and hap no problems at all and about a week ago out of no … |
| | hey my system has a slave and a master hdd. the slave is about 5 yrs old. i got the master last yr cus sector 0 on the slave is corrupted. latley whenever i turn on the pc, a clicking sound comes from the slave and then i get a … |
| | Last a buy a dvd/cd-rw from one people to replacing with my defect dvd drive. So, when I replacing and start my laptop. It meet a error like this; IDE #1 Error How can a solve this problem. Who can help me I need to quikle work with my computer … |
| | Hi, I have an older dell (the [URL="http://www3.shopping.com/xPF-Dell-DELL-DIMENSION-4500S-COMPUTER-CELERON-1-7GHZ-256MB-40GB-HARD-DISK-CDRW-Dell-Computer"]dimension 4500S[/URL]) and have been wanting to upgrade to a DVD/RW for some time now. I would really like to upgrade to an internal burner and take out my CD Drive, but I do not know if this is possible due to the … |
| | I have a 2.5'' SATA hard drive in a notebook but it has failed in some way. I need to get my files off it. So Im wondering can I just use regular SATA cables (power and serial) to hook it up to my desktop computer to start transfering files? … |
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| | Hi, I just had the motherboard fry in my other computer, which has a 160GB SATA HDD. I need the data on that drive, so I connected it as a secondary storage device on the computer I'm using now. The drive shows up in "My Computer" and I can access … |
| | greetings everybody here i am a newbie, and a silversurfer at that, now the problem is that i have a toshiba 320gig ext hdd but it only shows 2.71gigs,i have tried to format it but its just the same, and the smallest of files or photos nearly fills it up.any … |
| | Hi, The primary HDD on here is an IDE, which comes with the computer, and is not removable as the computer is configured to boot only that HDD (for some reason). I'm trying to get this computer to read a SATA HDD (160GB). I want it to be a secondary … |
| | A friend gave me his PC to look at, so I downloaded a program called FreshDiagnose ([url]http://www.freshdevices.com/freshdiag.html)[/url]. Using this program I did the hard disk benchmark test and the results seem a little odd to me. The average write speed was pretty low at 3.86 MB/s, while the average read … |
| | Hi I have a broken HP Laptop. I took it a part and I want to use the DVD+RW drive for my Mac Mini. I want to know How I can hook it up to my computer, Where I can get a enclosure for the drive, and If need any … |
| | hi, i had a similar problem to this user: [URL]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread70304.html[/URL] I had installed a MAxtor 'DiamondMax 10' 160GB HDD as a slave to another 120GB HDD set as the Master running Windows XP Pro with SP2 and 1GB of Ram. I have all the IDE cables and jumpers set correctly … |
| | Here's the deal. I have a 350 GB SATA that acts as my OS drive, XP. I added an 80 GB IDE drive (from my old PC) on the secondary IDE port on my ASUS M2N4-SLI mother board. When I cold boot neither the BIOS not XP recognize that the … |
| | Hello everyone. Power was coming on and off our building so my friend decided to remove the secondary hard disk. When I came home, and tried to plug in the secondary hard disk, there was a low bleeping sound, then it stopped right after being told to press f1 or … |
| | I just purchased a verbatim 1 GB (red) jump drive. I used it a few times to transfer music between my old pc(running xp) and my new imac. Now it is saying that the drive is full with only 11MB of free space, even though i have erased everything off … |
| | Hi everyone! This is my first post here. I came across this site in a google search, and it seems like you guys really know what you are doing, so I hope you can help. I'm having a huge problem trying to get my new hard drive installed into my …  |
| | I think my ext hard drive is toast. First it worked fine. Then, it worked sometimes. Now, when I plug it in, it makes an "ih, ih, ih, ih, ih ..." and so on sound. Is this thing toast? Can it be fixed? Can the data be saved? Thanks. |
| | Hello, I am new to the forum, hope you guys can help. I know a decent amount about computers but have been stumped on this problem for about a week. I also couldn't find any info on past threads anyway my previous computer died (the motherboard did) and so I … |
| | Hi, i have dell dimension 3000 [URL]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6637.jpg[/URL] i had a LaCie 160 gb external hd [URL]http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10058[/URL] it stopped working [ even when the power was on] so i opened it and found that the hard drive was a [IMG]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6639.jpg[/IMG] Western Digital WD Caviar SE Enhanced IDE Hard Drive WD1600 [IMG]http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/funkinrussell/IMG_6635.jpg[/IMG] … |
| | How do i configure RAID 1 on 2 identical HDD's which are SATA. 1 HDD has windows XP while the other HDD is to be mirrored. The 2 hard disks are identical in the sense that they are of samecapacity. I would like to know the requirements of the 2 … |
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