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Hi all, A friend brought me this computer, it's a gateway NV53 with windows 7. The problem was that the HDD was locked. Everytime the computer is turned on, the message "Ennter HDD User Password" appears. For that, we got a new hard drive for it and a windows 7 …

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I have a Dell Inspiron Laptop and my HDD just failed. I'll be very specific so you all can help. When booting (XP Pro) I got the blue Screen of Death: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DRIVE I ran a DST-Short Test and got: Msg: Unit 0:Drive Self Test failed. Status byte = 79. I …

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My 6 month old laptop has needed 4 reformats so far because of disk problems and now it wont boot past the windows loading screen. i played around and i found a diganositc test that could be run through the bios and it passed everything up till one called DST …

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Boot from live windows Cd or from Windows Recovery Console and type chkdsk c:/f (c: or whatever ur windows drive be) and press enter. After checking completed, restart ur PC. Remove ur CD or Pendrive. and Wallah...done.

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hello everyone, just wondering: would buying a second identical hard drive and setting up raid 0 on my computer be worth it? Will raid 0 give me a preformance boost? Or should i upgrade my drive from my stock WD10EARS (Western Digital Green) to a Western Digital Black? Specs: Gateway …

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I have a acre aspire one notebook and I can't get it to work on battery only , when I unplug the power it closes off. The battery reads that its full, so I took the battery out for a few days when I put it back in it still …

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I'm not sure if this is the proper forum for my problem, but I've been all over the internet and have found similar problems but no easy solutions. I'm running WIN 7 on my home pc and transferred some files via a Flash Drive to a laptop running XP Pro …

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Hi I have an Antec Easy Sata hotswop hardrive caddy. I have been using it with two hard drives. It seems that I need to restart Windows (version 7 running on a Dell 490 workstation) to get a replaced drive to be recognized. What seems to happen is th name …

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I'm running Windows 7 on an Acer laptop. I have tried two known and working External hard divers on my laptop. I can see both on the Device manger and it states both drivers are working, however they are not appearing on my Computer. i have followed previous threads and …

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ok i have acer aspire 0ne 721 series with an hitachi 160 gig hdd i have taken it out to reformat it on my computer because it has a password protected and i have forgotten the password the problum is that is showing up in the device manager but not …

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Hello, i am creating one multiuser project. All data will be stored on server side. But i need to store some settings on client side. So can any one help me which are the ways to locally store data and which is best??? Thank you..

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hello i just need some advice and suggestions the program(will be using vb.net & matlab) is about security software for flash drives where the user is required to say something(eg. a password) that will open or explore the device. the thing is when the flash drive is plugged to the …

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i have maxtor 500 GG someday i figured the disk turn to raw and get panic and sad i had a boot tools in USB drive and he have paret magic linux os when i boot it to os and comes linux and reset the pc my hard disk turn …

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I have the task of configuring storcenter px4-300r network storage,just some configuration has donebut remote configuration in yet ,when i arrive to the point of switch on the remote configuration,i see OFF check box but ON box is hiden,and remote is not configuring and disable and when u ping his …

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Hi All, I have a home-built PC running W7 pro with a Sata drive as the primary drive, and a second PATA drive for general file storage. This has been running fine for a couple of years. I have recently installed a hot swap sata drive bay into the pc, …

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Hi all I need any tool which can write protect all externl storage devices in corporate network of more than 200 computers. thanks in advance

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I have an iOmega Home storage 1Tb model 31803000, which contains some info I would like to recover. Had it working on XP using a router (Sitecom 300N), but it stopped working normally, went visible/invisilbe and when visible stopped during data transfer. Now I am on Windows7/x64 Home, but still …

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I have a Dell Vostro 200 Slimline that I want to put another hard drive in. I have a harddrive out of a Dell Dimension E521 that I want to put in their, however, I don't want to lose my data on it. Currently the BIOS is set to RAID, …

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. Question: . Can XP support 64 bit multi-core processors? If so, Which versions? . What is the max RAM memory XP can make use of? . Is there RAM-Disk software redily available For XP? For Win-7? Any Freeware? .

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I am trying to put a Western Digital 500 GB HDD into my Dell Inspiron 1011 (which has a 120 GB HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I was able to exchange the hard drives, and my laptop was able to recognize the HDD, but there was another problem. After the …

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What's up with my external hard drive. It stopped showing up on My Computer, but I see it in device manager (device working properly... Ja). I plugged it into my laptop and I can access all the info on it, but when I plug it back into my desktop.. Nothing! …

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Dear friends. I have been using an external hard drive for over several months now to back up my files, till one day i discovered the stored files could not be accessed, for reasons only known to the computer. It does store still, it seems to me; but i could …

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In some software like tune up, they serve a utility that helps us to recover permanently deleted files from memory, how is this possible ? What really happens in hard disk/ memory when we [SHIFT]+[DELETE] a file ?

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Recently while watching a show online in bed my laptop decided that it had enough of this world and threw itself off the nightstand. Upon trying to turn the laptop back on after a few minutes I get the error of either some wires came unblocked or faulty hardware and …

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Why do we need cache memories, and why L1 cache has greater memory than L2 cache ?

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hi, i have a Seagate 2TB external HDD when i plug it into my computer it powers up. (i can hear it spinning up, it clicks a few times then stops spinning but is still powered up) when i go into device manager and then USB controller its showing up …

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I recently installed a 1TB WD HDD in my Vista x64 computer. I went through the normal Disk Management steps, formatted and assigned a drive letter, all of that. Used it for several days. My main HDD was almost full so I moved a few things over. Then, all of …

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Looking to find ANY information on upgrading an old Sony VGN-FS980 laptop HD to an SSD. All help will be appreciated. I am trying to speed the system up. I currently have maxed out the RAM and shut down most of the garbage software and Apps. I am currently using …

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I'm ready to pick motherboard for my custom-build. Problem is I cannot find any having both floppy drive connector [B]and[/B] NVIDIA SLI for any Phenom II X6 processor...boards either have one or the other, but none have both. I want the SLI, but been told on many forums now that …

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