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| | hi i just bought a dvdrw Toshiba sd-r6472 to change my old dvd\cdrw Teac on my Toshiba Satellite 2450-401. It doesnt work...and i get IDE #1 error message. I tried the dvd driver on a Sony notebook and it works very well...so i updated my bios and also tried put … |
| | Okay, I've had this problem with my floppy disk drive for probably a year now. When I open the Drive A folder, the contents on the disk would show and I could view/cut/copy/paste/edit.. etc. BUT when I would close the folder, take the disk out, put another one in and … |
| | :mad: OK Seriously, I've been working on my second Hard Drive issue for about a week now and still I'm having problems. I have a Asus P4VP-MX Motherboard with 1.5GB of ram, 2.4GHZ P4 Processor. The Old HDD is 80gb while the new one that I'm putting in is 400gb. … |
| | Ok, me and my dad are trying to setup a SATA to my computer. We are using a IDE as the master, I know I should probably use the SATA as my master but listen to the whole story first. We tried to connect it to my SATA1 connector in … |
| | Does anyone have the firmware for Seagate 36GB ST336704LCV drives to make them Simbios compatible and revert back to factory default from EMC firmware? |
| | Ho Ho Ho seasons cheer to one and all! I think I'm going blond. I've just bought a 200gb drive and cant figure out how to get over the 32gb limit set by some older bios's. I'm running xp home and I guess I'm having some brain fade, and I've … |
 | I have a western digital SATA150 160GB. I was installing linux fedora core 4 and it had formatted the hard drive and was installing linux when my niece turned off my computer in the middle of installation. Now Im trying to install windows again and I can partition the hard … |
| | Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron  |
| | Can someone plz help me with my computer. I have a problem, i have 2 drives, and one is a DVD-RAM/RW drive and another is a CD-RW/R drive. The problem is that when windows starts it doesnt show them in "My Computer" and when i look at the BIOS screen …  |
| | I Have A Dell Dimension 4600 And It's About 2 Years Old And We've Never Done Anything To It, Like Installing New Memory Or Anything. I Was On It One Day Just Checking Up On My Forum When It Started Making These Weird Clicking Noises, And It Wouldnt Stop So … |
| | I recently had a brief back and forth with nizzy1115 about IDE channel sharing and how to set up drives on the channels for maximum performance. Since there isn't a "right answer", I was curious what everyone's take was. My opinion is that harddrives are used more often than optical …  |
| | Last night I went to download the update for WoW. Anyway, my hard drive and fan seemed to be spinning very high. Towards the end of the download, I heard a "whirring" or "whistling" sound, which sort of faded in, got a little loud, and then faded out. It did … |
| | Hello, I have a 120gig western digital external hard drive. I currently have about 40 gigs of data on the hard drive, but when I look at the properties it shows me only having 2 gigs of space left. I'm not sure what is wrong, and it will not let … |
| | my laptop hardrive is now an external component that connects with a USB port,. i installed the laptop harddrive externally onto my desktop. (i just plug the usb into the front of the desktop..) now i can access my files from the old harddrive through my desktop through windows explorer … |
| | I am desperate... I have just transfered data from a Hard Drive (HD1) to another one (HD2). So at the end HD1 is empty and HD2 is full. Then the accident happen: Crash of HD2. Impossible to read it, Windows won't even start when HD2 is plugged. Then I thought: … |
| | [url="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225"][color=navy]http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225[/color][/url] [color=navy][/color] [color=navy]For those with short memories, single layer Blu-ray discs hold 25GB and relatively stable mass production of them has been around for a while now. The real technical challenge is to achieve the same results with dual, triple and quadruple layer discs which will boost potential capacities to … |
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| | Hello, Good day! How can I format an 80GB hard disk as fat32 and install winxp? Thanks! |
| | I have attached another stata hard drive to my pc on connection number 1 (c drive is connected to connector 0 on motherboard) and the os does not recognise the drive. Do I need to do anything else other connect the sata cable and power cable? Please help! Thank You … |
| | Hi everyone...I am new to this forum and am hoping you all can give me some guidance. I am not a tech person but love my computer and am usually able to figure stuff out as I go. Well I installed a 2nd hard drive on my computer and got … |
| | Ok, first my dvd burner totally crapped out on me, wouldnt burn, wouldnt read discs nothing, about as useful as a drink holder. So I put a cd burner that I used to use in there, and it reads cd's. But when I go to burn something it will say … |
| | i have been trying to install a second hard drive in my computer for the past few days now. all the cables and jumpers are correctly set,(i have checked 20 sites and i know it is all hooked up correctly.) and it is just frustrating. :mad: under the system properties … |
| | Just add in a new HD in PC. BIOS can detect the 2nd HD or slave but Window can't? Open Window Disk Management only see Disk 0 but can't see Disk 1. New HD Pin jumper set to SL(slave). Any good advice. Thanks |
| | Hello. I recently purchased a first generation Proliant DL760 off e-bay due to the fact that I needed a server of some kind, and thought that since it would have as high specs as a pc I could build for the same price, and would most likely be more reliable, … |
| | First of all, this involves a Western Digital 250 GB drive. I partitioned it into 4 seperate drives. Aside from one of the drives on here, all the others seem to be working fine. My "Music" drive, the one causing problems, reads files fine too. That is until you move … |
 | I have a Seagate external hdd that was working awesomely. About a week ago, I dropped it. I rushed into my office to see if it was still working (I didn't expect it to). It worked fine up until yesterday. I used it to logon to my website at work … |
| | Hi there, my name is Don & new to the Forum, I unfortunately suffered the net result of an Operating System malfunction (XP Home ser pack 2 etc).and I am not very impressed, more highly stressed at the moment & I would appreciate any help. All of a sudden Windows … |
| | If anyone has encountered this problem I would really appreciate your help. I have a Toshiba Satellite A75 S206: P4 2.8 GHz Laptop which has a 300 Gig Maxtor USB external HD connected. The HD was being detected fine via the USB port after I formatted it but since I … |
 | I am planning on building a new AMD 64 system in jaurary and since its gonna be a high end system I want a faster HDD to keep up with the system. currently I have a ATA/100(133?) i dont know 40GB hdd, and a slave 160GB Ultra ATA/133 hdd. what … |
| | I'm wondering if they make such a thing. I just got a new computer with a SATA hard drive, but i have 2 fine IDE hard drives that aren't being used. One has all of my music, and the other has files on it that I would like to retrieve. … |
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