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Hey guys, My grandmother's computer keeps rebooting itself. My dad and I can not figure out what the heck is wrong with it. When he told me what it was doing my first thought was the Sasser virus. So we went and looked it up on the Microsoft updates page. …

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Hello, I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig …

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Hello, All right. Here is my little issue with my CD/RW. It's been workin' fine for quite awhile, then it starts not seen the blank disks, except a very few of them. Let's say, 90% of the time it dosen't seem them. I've gone through about 2 Spindles (100 CD's), …

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Hey, I have no idea where to post this, i am sorry if it is no where near where it should be....its just I am a graphics designer and I have Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and now I cannot load it up because it says i am out of disk space …

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Does anyone make a multiformat DVD drive ( DVD+/-R, +/-RW) for laptops? The ones that I have seen are mostly only for -R/RW media. I am looking for an internal drive as opposed the the external USB/Firewire models that are available on the market. Ant help will be appreciated! Whipaway

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[COLOR=Black][COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2]I just bought a brand new 120 gb 7200rpm Samsung SATA Hard drive to replace my 80gb Maxtor 5400rpm ATA Hard drive because it was acting up and i decided to get a new one. Anyways, i just got it in the mail and to my dissapointment i have IDE …

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I just bought a new hard drive as i said in a post below this one and still have my old one in my computer. I have a IDE cable that has 3 40 pin connectors. One to the mother board, one to the HDD and another for another HDD …

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Hello :) I am having a bit a strange problem, ever since i built up this machine, a bit bothering at times. When i am online, using my internal dial-up modem, i can't use the CD-Rom drives, neither to install something nor to listen music! If i do so, the …

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i reformated my computer and i for got to save all my drivers and now i cant install windows and how do u unzip them to a floppy disk what is a good website to down load it from?

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We have a Matshita CW-7503 CD-R unit running with Iomega hotburn software and windows 98 OS. The problem is getting a blank cd-r recognized as a blank. Iomega troubleshooting guide suggests certain units only recognize certain color cd's. Does anyone know if this model is one of these units and …

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i just reformated my computer and im having a problem. :sad: i didnt make a back up of the drivers and now when i try to install windows its saying the drive is not ready and i dont have a driver floppy disk im trying to find a disk for …

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i've a 80G seagate barracuda 7200.7 which was installed with win xp pro and the master drive. i reformatted it recently n now i can't reinstall my windows xp for some reason. i didn't think of it as a problem as i thought i could use it as a SLAVE …

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I have an old HP 9210e cd burner, & when i insert a 700 MB Cd-RW it doesnt seem to recognise it, also when i use directcd to format it, it stops half way with no message. I think it may only be capable of writing up to 650 but …

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1. [color=black]Western Digital - The drive some how it must of shorted out.[/color] [color=black] It was setup as my slave drive and the problem for me[/color] [color=black] is that this drive has valuable pictures and file.[/color] [color=black] [/color] [color=black]2. [/color] [color=black]Seagate SCSI Hard drive[/color] [color=black] This drive went install the …

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Hello there folks. I'd like some advice on what to do about my floppy disk not being listed in my computer. I have recently reformatted and reinstalled XP Pro. I notice that the floppy disk controller is listed in device manager and all is apparently working fine. I don't have …

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I have a Western Digital 40 gig hard drive. I installed XP pro on it using the NTFS file system. Is there any way to go back FAT32? DOS will not see NTFS to my knowledge. thanks

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I get this error message when I try accessing my floppy drive from windows xp "A:\is not accessible. The floppy disk controller reported an error that is not recognized by the floppy disk driver" and when I try to boot from a floppy i get "please insert system disk" or …

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Wow, been a while since I posted here. Anywho, I have an A drive that refuses to work. The error message that I get is this: Disk I/O Error Replace the Disk, and then press any Key I know that is associated with having a disk in the drive, but …

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When I started my computer and insterted a disc, this is what happened. 1. Disc was inserted 2. You could hear it beggining to read 3. The reading process slowed, and you could hear a distinct CLICK 4. The light by the CDROM drive which was once green now turned …

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Hello, I installed a Serial ATA Card, the pc see the card, but WIndows 2000 explorer doesn't. How do I format the 2 Serial Ata hard drives?

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I've just upgraded to musicmatch jukebox plus but can't move tracks onto my mp3 player now (nike psa) as it brings up the message "not enough space on player to perform the requested operation. do you want to download only those tracks that fit". basically musicmatch is trying to download …

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Hi, I have a been given a 2nd hand harddrive that I want to install as a slave. The problem is I am unsure what is installed on this harddrive. Do I have to format this drive? Or should I just plug it in?

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Hello, I have a strange problem with my cd burner. not really a big issue but a slight irritation. I have a toshiba 48x24x48 cd r rw drive which seems to only write at 24. it used to burn at 40x but now for some reason it only seems to …

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I need to know where I can get a auto-feeding CD-rom. I dislike the ones with these trays even tho I know if my cd got stuck in there it would be a pain to get out. I still like autofeeding ones better and have seen them before but I …

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I have an Acer CDRW 20x10x40 CD writer. It was working fine and I have written a number of CDs on it. However recently I bought CDs from 3 vendors and all of them when I put them in the CDRW and right click for properties showed that they were …

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The relevant parts of my system; Asus P4v800-x M/Board (via VT8237 SATA raid controller) 512MB DDR-400 Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 120GB SATA 8MB cache Western Digital WD200 20GB ATA Inno3d GeforceFx 5200 128MB The problem; Up till a few days ago everything was working well. Now, my system hangs when …

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I know this is a stupid ?, but please give me the run down on the different types of burners and how they work. Exe. If you get a dvd burner, do you have to have a seperate dvd drive. One to read while the other burns? Same ? for …

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Here goes..... My uncles machine stopped booting, it kept resetting the system and I couldn't get it out of this somewhat permanent funk so I decided to make it a slave on my PC and back up his stuff onto DVD. My uncles hard drive is a MAxtor 20gB running …

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i have a siemens mobile scenic 710 of 1998. A few days ago i change my harddrive (1,44 GB by 20 GB), bios only detects a drive of 8GB. when a start with MSDOS i can't reach the drive, so i cant install windows98. i only can install windows xp. …

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I have only built one computer so far, but I have spent enough time researching to know that there are some very knowledgeable people here. I am trying to build my daughter her own computer from some old stuff so she is not bugging me every 5 min. to play …

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Dell Small Business has a great value on the Western Digital 250GB 8MB Cache 7200 rpm Hard Drive for $250 - 20% instant off - $70 rebate (good through 2/27) = $130 with free shipping

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[size=2]I purchased a Dell Dimension 4550 (which uses Windows XP) about a year ago now, to replace my old Compaq Presario 5000 computer(which used Windows ME). Which has since been rendered useless over the last 6 months or so. I sold some it's vital parts (like memory, video card, cd/rw, …

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Here is my problem. I have two computers both running Windows XP. Just the other day one of the computers stops loading Windows XP. I think the partitions got messed up. I've attempted to connect that hard drive to the other computer that is working but it is not recognizing …

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[font=Verdana, Arial][size=2]I just got this drive and hooked it up and it burns ok but slowly. When I check the nero drive info. it tells me thats its a CLV drive instead of a CAV drive. Because of this it runs at ~20x all over. Now sure this is OK …

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Has anyone ever heard of a CD-ROM Destroying a CD? I Just had a teacher come to me and said that she put this CD in, 10 seconds later heard a loud POP and ejected the tray and there was nothing gut shards of a CD left. She knows that …

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Hi all. I have a dead pen drive on my hands. It is a Sony MicroVault (USM128U2), and it only is recognized as a "security device" by windows (with do drivers available . . . ) I cannot even mount it under linux. I have spent hours googling around for …

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My apologies for the length but am unsure of specific diagnostic data needed for trouble shooting responses. From perusing the threads, there are a lot of competent people who are really sharp in these matters. If additional info/diagnostics are needed, let me know. I've researched a lot of Liteon/Microsoft/Intel et …

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Hi, I have two HDDs: a Seagate 4.3 GB and a Western Digital 4.0 GB (Model WDC AC24300L). The Western Digital had developed bad sectors. So I used Digital Data LifeGuard (which is Western Digital's software) on it. In the write test I got warning that DLGDIAG was attempting to …

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Hi, I want to install a 40GB hardisk on a Celeron 300 running Win 98SE. When I run scandisk on this system, the HDD is show bad sectors after a certain point. However when I check the same HDD on a Celeron 1.7 GHz system, the scandisk is coming out …

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hi everyone, My problem is big i think, and would appreciate any but all help i can get. My PC is a Acermate model 5120 pentium 120mhz. Its original operating sys was win95 then it was upgraded to win98 It was extremely slow on net and some applications I was …

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anyone know of any issues with this hd as they are being discontinued at certain stores here in California?

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hi i got two harddrives and i was wondering if i could install my games on my 2nd harddrive and would it work

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My dvd-rom is working fine, but it doesn't auto-load. Recently i reinstalled my window xp because i installed a new motherboard. The old system didn't have this kind of problem but the new one did. Im frustrated sometimes because it stays there, when i put in my music cd or …

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I have a codirect USB 128MB thumbdrive. Windows 2000 recognizes the drive when I connect it as I can read and write to the drive with no problems. My problem is I cannot safely remove this drive. When I click on the remove/stop hardware icon in the task bar, I …

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I installed a SD-C2402 Dvd drive in a toshiba satellite 4000cdt. The computer came with only a cd-rom, windows 98. After installing it, it doesnt read dvd's or cd's. When i click properties on a cd/dvd, it says cd/dvd full at 127 mb, yet it does show the directory of …

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I own a maxtor 120gb 7200 ulta ata/133 hard drive. I have used it for the last 3 months without any problems. I am using it for video editing purposes and have large files on it. This morning, my computer would not recognize it. It comes back with E: not …

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I am not that tech/computer savvy------However, I have a Toshiba Tecra 510CDT, 133 mhz laptop. I want to know if the following hard drive is compatible. (I can get it free, if it is) TOSHIBA HARD DRIVE FOR LAPTOP...4 GIG....MK4313MAT....HDD2141. Very thin..measures about 3/8". Dan.........

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Which is the best (read fastest) type of hard drive for a new gaming PC? Are the Serial ATA's the best? TIA

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Can somebody refresh me up on how to edit the registery to play dvds that can't be played in the dvd rom in the computer?? I've learned once but i forgot already the steps to edit the registry. There are some dvds that can be played in the dvd player …

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Anyone have an idea of what I missed here? I have Pentium 2 - 233MMX system 512RAM, Asus P2L97 Motherboard. It had a 2.1 GB Maxtor HD with Windows 95 on it, but I have replaced it with a fujitsu 8.1 GB HD (from my Server System - so it …

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