[storage] Forum Topics

Hi All I am new to building PCs. Ihave installed a Gigabyte GA 81945p Pro board and bios does not seem to identify any hard drive or optical drive connected to IDE 2. If they are connected to IDE 1 they are identified. Can anyone help

Hey! So, I have a laptop installed with both Windows and Linux. Linux comes first, logically, so its partitions fill up the first 90 Gigs of my HD. Windows comes at the Very end, filling the remaining 30 Gigs. Interestingly enough, Linux reads and writes from its partitions silently, but …

[COLOR=#000000]Hi,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I am adding a new SATA drive to my system which previously only had an IDE drive. The simple (doh) plan was to reinstall windows on the SATA drive and then to copy my work files etc across from my IDE drive which will then just act …

I have a problem with a 4GB USB Thumb drive that all of the sudden quit working today. Is there a way to get it recognized it again ... or is the drive toast?

Hi, I'm running on: P4 3.0Ghz ASRock 775i65GV mobo 1 x SATA Maxtor 6L080M0 HDD 1 x IDE DVD Benq Rewriter (Master on Secondary IDE channel) 1 x IDE DVD Samsung Reader (Slave on Secondary IDE channel) Geforce FX5200 Video The BIOS detects all hardware (SATA drive at UDMA 6) …

Hey all Ive had an argument with my batch mates. They say that a floppy drive is an IDE drive. I say it is not. Can any of you guys confirm which of us is right? Thanks

On a Dell Inspiron 4000 laptop, clicking was heard upon start up, then primary hard disk 0 not found. Bought a new hard drive and installed it, but am getting the same message. The hard disk is not recognized in the BIOS. Is there anything I need to do when …

I have a problem with my video editing PC. Although having spent a large amount of time investigating solutions on the web, I consistently find recovery software which is either focused on recovering the boot sector, or alternately, specific data files on the HDD. My problem, however, is the following.-- …

bought a new computer latley and since im not too great on em i had a relative install windows etc. he recommended that i installed windows on one harddrive and the other stuff on another so that if windows F**** up i still have programs and documents left. It sounded …

I have a four-year-old Toshiba 1605CDS that I rarely use, but it is pretty fun to mess around with. I want to replace the hard drive on it from a 20GB to a 40GB which I have. Now for my question: Where is the hard drive located on the laptop? …

My problem.... :lol: 1st HD: 40GB with XP 2nd HD: 250GB just data I have a second hard drive(250gigs) installed in my machine basically for data storage, songs etc. Yesterday I tried to install another operating system (Linux) on the larger one. There was an error and seemingly the larger …

So I bought a 120GB HD for my computer, its a Western Digital Caviar SE. I want the make this HD my slave drive, but I bought it from Newegg and it came in a plain brown box filled with bubble wrap. So there is no manual on how to …

Yeah, my Dvd drive seems to work perfectly with all my game dvds , but will not install Medieval Total war even though it works perfectly with Rome total War. It also will now not recognise the Civ 4 dvd which until recently it installed and worked with. All i …

ok heres the deal i got 2 harddrives on my computer whe with 14g and another with 140 or somting. the on with 14 in now full causew i was load things to that dirve not hinking well now its full. so is the hardrive really one and splut into …

i have a 80 gig as my main drive. i have another drive 160gig as my secondary set as slave. how do i transfer all of my contents on the 80 gig drive to my 160gig, as i want to use my 80 gig on a different machine. ryan

My HP ze5500 laptop is about 4 years old. Was really sweet when new (2.8g pentium). Such fond memories...anyway. Have begun getting BSOD and now am getting an "imminent hard drive failure" error on boot. I would like to add an external hard drive to my wireless network. Neither my …

Hello, A few days ago for no apparent reason my hard drive light has began to stay on and my cd/rw is not recognized on my computer. I searched the forum and found that someone else had a similar problem but it didnt help me. I dont know if I …

I have a Vantec NexStar 3 300gb HDD, i just spent 3 days backing up files on it, but for some reason even though usb 2 drivers are installed it runs at 1.1, but the problem is before it was plugged in it worked on my current laptop and main …

i hav problem woth my inspiron 1150 Laptop make dell. it is not detecting the Hard disk. showing primary Hard disk 0 not found. how ever hard is working fine and i dont see any thing wrong with the PC.pl solve my problem

external maxtor II plugged into win xp either with usb or 1394, i hear the window beep, and it shows up in device manager. But it doesn't show up in my computer or disk managment. I'm so curious about this its killing me, anyone with Ideas please respond.

[B]WinX64 not seeing SATA drive[/B] Hope this is the place to ask. Just installed WinX64 and it sees all IDE drives but not the SATA. My mobo picks it up in the bios. I did not use the F6 command when i installed WinX64 seeing as i was going to …

Hi everybody! I have a laptop and it has a HDD Password, but i forgot the password. I was wondering what can i do to take the password off or to format it. :sad:

Hey i don't know a lot about computers. I have just bought a new WD 250G SATA HDD. I currently have a IDE HDD. I want to use the SATA HDD just for storage and no OS on it. Do i need to asign a MASTER/SLAVE to the SATA HDD??? …

hello my computer doesnt boot up it just makes beeping noises it any 1 know how i can fix this

Results for volume C: (NTFS) Volume Label: Volume Size: 62.36 GB Some files on the volume are open. This may effect the accuracy of the file system check and result in false errors. The file system contains errors that need to be repaired. I did a disc check but this …

I have a 250 sata and just got a matching one. I have had just one for over a year now but think maybe I would like to do an raid setup. Is it possible now? If so, what is the best raid setup?

Okay so i just bought an ipod after my cd player crapped out on me, time to get in to this new century we are in. I also bought a new computer a few weeks ago, having all my music about 45gigs + on my old computer i decied that …

Had a working PC with Windows XP, out of no where, the hard drive is not detected at startup (BIOS). The model of the hard drive is WD 160 IDE. This drive was on a Master setting of a Master-Slave setup. Tried playing with the jumper setting to see if …

I have a Gateway M460 Laptop w/ 40GB - bought a Seagate 5400, ata-6, 8mb cache - simply because it was on sale (kind of like shoes). Anyway, I've had it for 6 mos or so and haven't installed it bcs I have 3 boys. Got rid of one (college) …

My cd and dvd drives power up during the post and open when the button is pressed but they do not run cd's and do not appear in My Computer. They are in device manager but only the cd drive reports it is working. The dvd has a ! and …