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| | for some reason my cd-rw drive doesnt show up in my computer and says uninstalled on device manager and even when i change the cd-rw drive for a normal cd drive it still doesnt show up and still says uninstalled, if anyone can help, i would be very thankful as … |
| | Hi all having a little bother here with my serial ATA drive. All was fine until 2 days ago. i have a dual partition setup on my serial sata 300 gig hd. prt 1 is 100 gig and prt 2 200 gig all fine, now window encountered a problem as … |
| | Hi I have IBM Thinkpad R52 1.73 Ghz, 256 DDR2 RAM . Originally, i had a combo drive .Recently , I installed a DVD drive, which is a DVD-RAM drive. I dont know what the problem is, but my computer crashes as soon as I insert a disk. Is my … |
| | Trying...this is really true...trying to assist a family member mirror images to 2 drives. From what I have read a RAID level 1 is the thing I am looking for. I have a couple of questions: 1. The drives must be identical. for example both must be 250GB. A. Can … |
 | For some rather peculiar reason, I'd been experiencing certain problems with my CD-RW, which was working perfectly well until recently but not lately, I'm afraid. Recently, I was ONLY able to open the CD-RW at certain times such as, in between as soon as I switch the PC on and … |
| | Hi, I'm trying to set up an external SATA enclosure box with my XP machine. The box has it's own power supply, holds 4 drives on rails and comes with a multilane pass through cable and connector, which seems just to be a cable with two small cards on each … |
| | Hi all I have a computer with 4 partitions on an 80 gig HD. Now, 10 Gig is what ive allocated to drive C: (the system drive). I have a tendency to try out every piece of software out there, and hence i tend to reformat drive C: every 4 … |
| | Hi! I've had extremely slow performance for a while now and haven't been able to solve the problem. Now I've done some research and have outlined a possible explanation. I just want your opinions. My problem: after an extremely long gaming session (my computer had been on for about 9 …  |
| | I have dvd reader/CD writer that was working one day, and 2 days later suddenly was not. The first indication of a problem was when I tried to burn a CD, and it kept giving me the message that the drive was busy. Now, though the device manager says everything … |
| | easy all having a bit of trouble with my laptop - the power socket has failed so i'm unable to either charge the battery or run it from the mains. it's still under warranty so fixing it isn't a problem, but there's some data on the laptop's hard drive that … |
| | I am currently trying to repair a PC for a school computer lab. This Dell Optiplex will not recognize any hard drives or boot from any CD's. The only device on the boot sequence list is the floppy drive, it is acting as though it does not recognize anything else. … |
| | I am going to be buying a new machine and the hard drive will be SATA. I want to transfer my storage drive from my previous machine which is IDE. (I want to run a SATA and IDE together, the SATA being the operating system drive). Would somebody be able … |
| | Hi all, Unfortunately, recently my laptop had water spilled on it by some guests who were visiting my house, and now the motherboard is of course fried. In the between time of now and getting a new laptop I need access to all the old files on the laptop's hard … |
| | I have a (more of a) question and (less of a) problem here. Recently I purchased, what I tought was a Pioneer 110D, but the casing says 110DSV. I also purchased a genuie 110D (casing stamp confirms it). Now, 110DSV gets recognised as 110D in my device manager. When I … |
| | Hi, just joined and hopefully someone here can help me out with something that is probably simple but i have not managed to solve it yet:sad: I have a Sony Vaio which has 20gb of hard drive. 10 gb on Vaio C and 10 on Vaio D Now C is … |
| | on my external harddrive, someone told me to defragment it.. and so, i did. however, when i got on my computer the next day.. i cant seem to get into my external harddrive. it's telling me to format it. is there any other way[I] besides[/I] formatting? cuz i dont want … |
| | i'm having trouble with windows recognising my 200Gb h/d right now i have to h/d...40Gb and 200Gb windows on the 40Gb and when i partition the 200Gb...only 130Gb due to some limit windows put in is there some way to get rid of the limit?? thanks in advance |
| | I have just upgraded my motherboard, and am not able to view my SATA drive anymore. As i said in the title it's recognized in the disk manager, and also in the device manager. I would like to make it accessable again without reformatting as i have some files on … |
| | i have this question which some had asked before...but i'm still confuse i bought a new H/D and want to connect it to the PC so i get 2 H/D... so i have an old IBM 40 GB H/D a new Western Digital ATA100 200GB so now i have them … |
| | My PC won't recongize by newly insallted DVDRW (ComStar 16x16). I put it in place of my old CDROM drive (there wasn't enough rails to have all 3, or cables). I can open and close the drive, but the computer dosen't see it in My Computer, dxdiag, Device Manager or … |
| | So, it looks like I'll be getting a new motherboard after my first motherboard went bad in my computer. And before I do this, I want to back up the 50GB or so of things I've downloaded as I'm not sure if I'll lose everything when I'm forced to reinstall …  |
| | Sorry if this has been asked a million times.... but I need to get some games off my kids comp that quit working yesterday (mysteriously). What can I do with the old HD? I have a old computer to add it to if possible. Similar models one is a E-machines … |
| | Hello, I just got a new hard drive. I mounted it in my computer. And connected it to the SATA ports on the motherboard to the drive with the SATA cable. When I turn my computer back on it doesn't see that something was put there. I tried connecting the … |
| | hey everyone, i'm looking for a good hard drive shredder that's free. if anyone has any advice on good software, preferrably from D.O.D., that would be ideal. the last software we had, you were able to boot off a floppy and allow it to take over and shred the drive. … |
| | I know this must be some settting that I didn't do. I got a mad dog - DVD writer drive - Installed it. Now my CD drive :rolleyes: will not read any thing - to open it you have to right click on the drive and hit edject - anyone … |
 | hi, can anyone help me out with disk cloning? i've never really used it before and i'm getting a bit lost. i have a system with an ata133 HDD. i have just installed a new scsi system. so what i want to do is copy everything from my c:\ drive … |
| | I reformatted my C drive, due to some major errors and what not. And before I did it, I was sure to save all the files I wanted on my other Hitachi HD (120 GB). After I did that, I went ahead and reformatted my C drive, to a clean … |
| | Ok, for some odd reason my secondary "slave" hard drive just messed up on me. It doesn't show up on "My Computer", "Device Manager", and BIOS. and it makes my Primary "Master" not show up on BIOS only. and before it stopped working it, windows xp said some thing like. … |
| | I brought a External usb hard drive (120 gb) a little while back. it worked fine until my computer was unplugged. when i put everything back together it didnt work anymore. it just glows blue as it did when it was brand new. now my computer just reconizes it as … |
| | I found that this actually seems to be a reoccuring problem with Dells on here... I have a Dell, it's pretty new, a little less than 4 months old, (but about 3 weeks past its warrenty expiration, go fig) it was running fine until about a week ago when I … |
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