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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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I have recently had 2 Maxtor HDDs shown to be "Failing" when tested with PowerMax. One had already completely crashed (failed - see below), and the other is still going, but on its last legs I suppose... (Its data is now backed up, of course). One was 5 months old, …

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My dvd rom doesnt read dvds but reads cds What could be the problem If anyone has solved this problem Please Advice!!!

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Hi, I just recently bought a new computer from customperfection.com they installed a WD rapter 74gb 10 000rpm drive and installed windows on it. It shows up in bios and works wonderfully. The problem i am having is installing my old HD from my old computer which isnt working properly …

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Hello! I have Dell Latitude Csx (3 years old). The problem is , that USB port stops responding ,especially , when i am using pen drives . The pen drive ends up corrupting its data and i have to reformat it every time this happens :sad: . Same with my …

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Hi My CD-writer (HP CD-writer plus 9150i) is not detected by the BIOS. I have had it for several years (since I got the computer) and have not used it much. The problem where there from the beginning I think. However during short periods (typically a week) it has been …

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is it possible to change the sata drivers on a sata hard disk? with a little help i can get around the xp wpa thing, but the upgrade to the new motherboard is being hindered by the fact that the dfi sata drivers aren't compatible with the abit drivers i …

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yes i have an emachines 1.8 GHz Intel celeron PC and I am trying to add a second hard drive. when i plug it in (power and IDE cable) and try to boot it says "NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND". When i unplug the new drive my first drive boots into …

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Hello, I currently have a motherboard with no SATA support so I may buy a SATA controller but I want to know do you get the same speeds out of a SATA controller than you do with a motherboard with SATA ports.

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So here's me, 3 days and about 20 dvd burn attempts down the line and I STILL can't burn more than a couple of hundred mb reliably. I'm using Nero Ultra edition after my Instant CD/DVD refused to believe I wanted to burn a DVD rather than a CD (God …

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So I am trying to put an IDE Hard drive in to my new computer that has a SATA hard drive already installed. But the geniuses at Dell only put one ide port on my motherboard and the eide cable that runs off that one controls my cd rom and …

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I'm going on a very boring, 3 hour trip. My laptop battery will last me long enough that I can have a computer during that time, but I thought I'd ask first, is this a bad idea? Could bumpiness during driving crash the harddrive, or cause other damage to the …

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hey, i just started a new site recently, [url]http://www.redrival.com/thekonnection/data-recovery/index.html[/url] its just an informative site about data recovery, with some good links to tools and good stuff like that. not selling anything, just some good data recovery help for people beginner to expert, and some good tools.

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Alright I have a Giga-Byte mother board (Duo Pro) that supports SATA. I have two SATA hard drives, on is the Existing Western Digital 80G (this one windows is messed up on and in order to fix I need to setup my old drive is a Slave so that I …

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Since no one ever replied to my previous post [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33862.html[/url] , I am rephrasing and refining my q....plz ans this time ULTIMATE HARD DISK SETTINGS - brain racking question Respected Tech gurus and dear forum members Here goes the situation: I have one INTEL 865 GBF motherboard As far as …

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Please guide me - confused with SATA PATA Primary Secondary master Slave...!!! Respected members and gurus, I am a non technical person and am only good at using computers for my finance jobs and NOT configuring it. From last three days I have been reading and reading and reading about …

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Hi Friends I run the CD ROM and there are 'jumps' and other imperfections in the music, making for an unusable copy. Is this a sign of the lens on the original drive failing? The read-drive is a LITEON LTN485S running at 8.91 average speed , the write-only drive a …

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when ever i save data to a floppy disk it always tells me to format the floppy when i click format a message comes saying its unable to format and the disks are brand new Can anyone help me plz?

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Why can't anyone make a every growing HD? I mean it's been shown by the ever bigger HDs that the current HD format we manafacture can hold much more then what we currently have out on shelves...so why hasn't anyone thought to develop some system in which there's a HD …

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Hi guys & gals first post newbie here, found the forum on good old google. I posted this first under an existing thread from Garandan of 5th sep and its been pointed out to me better to start a new thread to get answers so here goes. I have almost …

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Hi all, I need to read the CRC value of the desired sector on hard disk. I DON'T need just to detect was there any mistake reading that sector, I just need to read the CRC value of the selected sector without reading the entire sector and calculating the CRC …

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to anyone that can help, saw the threads about this issue but the scenario i encountered is a little different. it happens on and off. I have a 3 month old dell dimension 3000. the problem happened a couple of days ago in the morning. i turned the pc off …

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i recently built myself a new system which seems to work ok, but i cant get my floppy drive or zip drive to work. i have a SATA hardrive connected up and working fine, a CD-RW and DVD-ROM drive on one ribbon cable (CD-RW set as master, DVD as slave), …

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I am having a problem with my CD-RW drive. It will not read or even recognize 99% of discs (including the Windows CDs, various games, etc), but it will recognize blank writable CDs. When I attempt to burn files to blank CDs, it completes the "writing to CD" process but …

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Ok I am fairly new at all this so bare with me. I recently just got a new DiamondMax 10 SATA hard drive, my old hard drive is IDE. I first attempted to pull out the old and stick in the new hard drive with my win xp cd to …

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Hi! I have the following hardware: Intel D865PERL Board SATA 0: Maxtor 6B200M0 SATA 1: (empty) Primary IDE (Master): Westren Digital WD400BB Primary IDE (Slave): (empty) Secondary IDE (Master): Yamaha CDR2200E Secondary IDE (Slave): Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-115 Now, hewre are some shots: Simple Device Manager: [img]http://www.imagewhiz.com/images/DoomerDGR8/1main.jpg[/img] Detail of Primary IDE …

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I have 2 200 gig hard drives (ata133 7200 rpm 8mg cash). in simple terms, would putting the os on one drive and and other files like music/videos etc on the other actually increase the speed of the computers read/write? My question is because they are both ide on the …

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I can't burn CD's anymore. Easy CD Creator reports that it had an 'unexpected error'. Clicking more info shows a copyright screen in a help window, nothing useful. The CD comes out blank.

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