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| | Hello everyone, i'm a new user and welcome all of your input. My cd drive has started acting up lately. It will spin and read any original cd i place in; however, it will not spin any burned discs that i place. I don't think it is a problem with … |
| | At the tender age of fifty odd i decided to have alook into computers, having never touched one before its a very steep learning curve.I've been at it two months now, built a couple, out of old bits and pieces with reasonable success and strange results at times. However as … |
| | Just a quick question. I've bought a SATA 2 harddrive with a SATA300 connection, speed 3Gb/s. Will it work on my motherboard which has a SATA controller? Apparently SATA 2 hard drive will not work in a SATA controller on the motherboard. ThankS, WEEFCORP |
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| | I'm about to buy a computer (I've chosen the parts myself). It has a SATA 300 g HDD... I also have a IDE 30 g HDD from before and I wonder, can I take the SATA out and put the IDE in and install Windows on it and then put … |
| | hi, i am looking 4 a converter or adapter or card 2 let me use my SATA harddrive on a motherboard with no SATA ports, only one spare IDE port. Any advice? all i can find is converters 4 IDE drives to work on SATA ports, but not the other … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]I was on my laptop, Inspiron 8100, and everything was fine, no errors or anything. Took a break and when I came back my computer had a black screen. I tried to restart and it goes to the dell load page and windows XP pro page but that’s it. It … |
| | My CD drive is only reading audio CDs after installing iTunes. The drive is recognized in My Computer but won't read a CD.Initially my CD burning software refused to run, citing a .dll error. I downloaded the .dll file and now the software runs, but still won't recognize a disk … |
| | Before I go ahead and buy my [URL=http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-152-014&depa=1]hard drive[/URL] , I have one quick question. Will there be a performance increase if I went with SATA once I have actually opened an application? (Faster rendering times, or a higher frame rate in games) Thanks, and sorry for the silly question … |
| | Hello I would like to know wether In case I connect a cdrom as a slave to a primary HD, would it lawer its performance? I would like to know that in both IDE and SATA connections Thanks Tori |
| | Hello people...my first post and i'm sure its not gona be the last. I've spent the last two days looking for and reading the entire www for a solution to this problem, (not very well i might add, im sure the problem would've been solved then:-| ). I've just bought … |
| | Hi Can i just say thankyou in advance for any help anyone can offer me on problems i am experiencing. I recently bought a 74gb raptor drive 10000 rpm sata, i use an abit is7-g mb and with just the sata hdd connected everything is fine i installed the driver … |
| | I learned about this site a few days ago, and it has already helped solve one of my problems, so I thought I'd ask another question. I am looking for an external hard drive. I found a great buy on amazon.com, its a SimpleTech 250gb external hard drive for $104. … |
| | My Emachines t2482 has problems (PSU, motherboard, + who knows what else) and I want to slave the 80gb hard drive (which runs WindowsXP) on my son's older Micron Millennia (which run's Windows98se) to get my data off the 80gb. Can someone please give me some direction on what to … |
| | [B]Can anyone recommend a data Recovery Company? Like anyone who's had a hard drive crash, I don't want to trust the recovery of my image files to an inexperienced outfit. I have/had a LaCie d2 Big Disk 500GB with about 400GB of files on it. Evidently, the problem is most … |
| | Hi all, I use Partition Magic to create partition but after pc is restarted, an error occured and windows can`t load. I took this hdd and make it slave with other pc. The hd can now recognized by windows but when I click to enter the partition this message [B]"Disk … |
| | I just installed a western digital slave drive in my pc. When I reboot the found new hardware wizard pops up. I have formatted the slave drive and I still get the wizard. I have checked the Master/Slave connections on the drives and they are correct. Does anyone have an … |
 | Just bought a new 120gb WD hard drive. I plug it in, and Windows doesn't seem to recognise it. It pops up with "Found new Hardware", and the add hardware wizard simply says it is working properly. BIOS also shows the hard drive is there and working. Whats up? Do … |
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| | Greetings all. I have the dreaded IDE#1 Error. I have a Toshiba Satellite 2455-S305 with an SD-R6012 DVD/CD combo. Recently and without warning the bloody thing stopped writing/reading BLANK DVD's. I can read regular movie DVD's just fine. I purchased a new TSL532 DVD/CD combo drive, Version 051, ROM Ver. … |
 | :) is it possible to install my new maxtor 100gb h/d in one computer & load windows xp pro, then take it out & install it into another w/out any conflics? i have a W3080 Emachine w/ a 2.167 ghz athlon processor & going to install another 512 chip & … |
| | ok, heres my situation...:sad: a friend of mines computer, after a reboot, RANDOMLY refused to boot in to windows, the error message was something like.. cannot complete boot because the file lsasrv.dll is missing or corrupted. so.. i couldnt get it to boot up, i tried safe mode, and still … |
| | I have a Compaq Presario 6000. A friend messed up my computer and then reinstalled windows xp. Now my computer will not detect the 2nd cd drive (cdr/rw) and my hard drive which was 40 GB now only shows 1.99 GB. Reinstallation is not an option because I don’t have … |
| | On my sons computer if he plugs in a mass storage device the computer blue screens and he cant reboot untill the device has been removed, any ideas |
| | Ok my dell (november 2005. just out of warranty grrrr) has started making clicky scratchy grindy noises from the HDD , no bad sectors yet but windows goes dead slow whenever it accesses the HDD and the noise is really loud. I have backed up. Should i just get a … |
| | Hi......both my CD drives dont work. I have a cd rom drive (D) and a cd rw drive (E). Neither of them read any type of disc, whether it be data, music, photos etc and i have tried these disc in another pc and they work fine. I am using … |
| | After 20 minutes of working my hard drive freezes and stops working. When I take it out, after 30 minutes, when I put it back it works again. I have an impresion that it is hot. Please help me with some advice. pxe - e61 media test failure, check cable:?: |
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| | ok im 16 so i dont know what everythings called sorry, but for some reason my motherboard, which has both sata and ide ports for hard drives, only recognizes the ide ports. also all the ports that show up in the bios setup screen have a way to auto detect … |
| | I have 3 XP machines and we think this all started after 3 kids got ipod nanos for xmas. Latest version of itunes is now installed on all computers and now none of them will recognize a disc. Something like Print shop which is already installed on one computer will … |
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