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 | Okay, a few months ago, my dad's friend built him a PC cheap, and everything was fast and tickedy boo until now... BOTH the drives keep their names and letters, but have the words "CD Drive" just underneath on the left. They won't play or write DVD's anymore, and blank … |
| | hello, I read all the applicable threads for my question but I can't seem to solve it. My old drive is SATA from which my PC boots. I installed a new 80gb IDE drive and my troubles began. 1) I have Separate ribbon cables for IDE drive and DVD-ROM. At … |
| | Hello i was wondering if someone can help me i am using roxio easy media creator 8 to burn dvds to disc - i tried two times to burn a movie and both times failed. i have now lost around ten gigabytes of space on my hard drive and can …  |
| | I recently purchased a 100GB 7200rpm HD to replace my laptop's 60GB 5200rpm HD. I tried cloning my system's HD using Norton Ghost 9.0 via external USB but was unsuccessfull. I then turned to MaxBlast3 and it did the job. However, now my 100GB HD has the identical capacity as … |
| | I don't know if this is best place for this post but here goes anyways. In the near future I will be getting a new computer. I want to turn my old one into a file server. I don't need any fancy features on it but just extra storage space. … |
| | Is it possible to set up a raid just using software or do you need hardware support to do it? |
| | newbie here.... I have a Dell dimension 2400. My old hard drive is IDE. I just bought a Western 250 gig SATA (stupid me....did not pay attention). Is there anyway I can use it on an IDE motherboard ? what is the best/cheapest way to convert ? :eek:  |
| | well i have two HDs, i took one out of my wifes dell when it died and added it to my dell 8200 1.7 Ghz, worked fine for months, then started saying it couldn't find one of HDs to pres F1 to continue. But in windows it shows. i actually … |
| | Does anyone know how I can upgrade the internal memory slot of a Toshiba Satellite M105-SP381? Thanks,  |
| | I have a customer laptop that someone locked with a HDD password. Does anyone know where this password is stored? I can think of three places but dont know which if any is correct. CMOS. If its the cmos then removing the mobo battery should clear it. HDD Firmware. If … |
| | I recently copied my 30GB HDD from my laptop to an Western Digital external 120GB HDD using copywipe 1.14. Everything went fine except now on the external HDD I can only see the 30GB copy. How do I get the other 90GB back? Do I have to repartion the Ex … |
| | I had problems installing Diskeeper. Their website suggested that I uninstall Norton System Works, then install Diskeeper and reinstall Norton. I also had to change the permissions in the SOFTWARE section of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in the Registry to EVERYONE. This worked initially and the Diskeeper program worked, recognised all my … |
| | i'm using a dell notebook but i think the hard drive is locked with a password and it says "The system primary hard disk is protected by a password authentication system.You can not access data on this hard drive without the correct password." WHAT DO I DO? |
| | I have been working on getting a RAID 1 working on a Dell desktop computer. I have the IDE card installed and working. I was able to mirror the master drive to the slave while testing if it would work. Everything has worked out just fine, except one big problem. … |
| | I got some dvd's from a friend of mine that he made of our bb team. I try copying them from disk to disk. That doesn't work. I try using roxio classic and put certain files in. I have tried nero and no luck. What is the problem. I can't … |
| | My computer has been up and running for about 5 months. I have a cdrw, dvd player and the standard 3 1/2 floppy. About a month ago, the computer stopped reading the cdrw and dvd drives. I wasted money taking it to a computer shop. He said both drives were … |
| | My hard drive is very small. I got it a while ago in an old computer. Its a DELL computer. My drive has 37.2 Gigs. Yes,yes, I know its tiny! A shrimp! Thats why Im trying to boot it to the curb. I have some questions though, thats why I … |
 | [quote=Telecorder]I physically swapped the drives in the PC case to facilitate installing the CD-RW at the end of the 40-pin/80-conductor cable as the jumpered Master and the DVD-ROM at mid-cable as jumpered Slave. 72+ hours without any timeout errors and counting.:cheesy: :) :cool: Many thanks to all who responded and … |
 | Hi guys When searching the internet for info on how to install windows 98 on to a newly built pc, I saw some articles saying that windows 98 can only deal with hard drives of up to 130gb is this true and if so how can I install windows 98 … |
| | We booted from a system cd and formated the 250GB sata hard drive, partitioning it. I am trying to get my newly built computer to recognise my satas cd drive (a SH-W163A BEBN) so that I can load Windows 98. I have copied the dos_drive directory from the cd onto … |
| | I have an older Dell Dimension 550L and it has a single Maxtor 10 gb hard drive. Well the drive is pretty much full the system is working fine, and i am running Windows XP SP2 with no problems. I had a friend give me a Western Digital 100gb HD … |
| | Computer turns on fine Windows XP loads and does its thing Desktop comes up and not all of the icons display correctly: My Docs, My Computer, Outlook and IE don't show as they should If I try to open any one of them, the cursor changes to show that its … |
| | We have a small peer-to-peer LAN running Windows XP. In the last week the same problem has cropped up on 3 separate PCs (all under a year old). Floppy drives won't read, sometimes an error message saying the disc is not formatted, sometimes "No ID address mark was found on … |
| | I am starting out my computer service business in the part time, and have had some calls come my way. I have been able to solve them all, except for the ones which relate to hard drive failures. So, now I am looking to invest some money into some hardware-software … |
| | My DVD drive reads normal CDs but not DVDs i tried reinstalling but still dont work can someone please help me with this o and when i oepn Roxio dvd recording program thing, it says i dont have the dvd recorder... |
| | A week ago my dvd/cd rw drive worked perfectly, but now when i try to put dvd rw, dvd r disks in my computer it doesnt read them and tells me its a blank CD. When i put any cd in my computer it reads it and it works fine. … |
| | hi, i am having an odd problem with my cd tray. its a pc.. and it was working perfect, but all of a sudden i pusht the button it wont ope... i tried restarting the computer but no luck. i know for sure that there is no damage to it … |
| | Hello, I am having the task of moving a 1.9 gb file over from a Mac to a PC. What do ya think would be the best method of doing this? Lastly, I apologize if this is the wrong forum for this. ;) |
| | I have a Dell Dimension XPS 1500 (pretty old) with a maxtor 20gb hard drive. This computer got pretty messed up so i decided to do some fixin. I bought a samsung 80gb hard drive. I installed the hard drive (i added it along with the maxtor, i didnt replace … |
| | I run XP Home on my pc. I did a restore point and later tried to go back. this is when the issues started. after trying to restore the HD wouldn't reboot. So in stead of screwing around I bought a new HD and installed it making the old 80 … |
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