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| | Im building my own custom pc and I just finished getting all the parts and putting it together. I turned it on for the first time today and...the cd rom will not open, or even look like it is powering up. Right now it's the only cd device in the … |
| | I was looking at Purging software that helps you clear a harddrive of any personal info in three different levels, yet, no price was listed...Wondering if traditional DELETE as an alternative is a poor call? I planned to move files I want to keep off the PC's drive and delete … |
 | Hi everyone, How's it going? I have to purchase a new HD that will allow me to upgrade with it in the future, potentially to a 64 bit system. I need to know the following: 1. Which is the best one to get? 2. Which one has the best disk … |
| | Hey guys, sorry for this stupid question. I want to take out one of my CD drives (Liteon CD-RW) as i just got a new one, and put it in one of my older computers. The trouble is that after unpowering and unscrewing it, it just wont come out!!! it … |
| | Okay. I have an old hard drive that needs restoring which needs to put into my computer as a slave drive, restored and then switched to master. Am i right in thinking that all i need to do is chuck the toggle on my my primary drive from cs to … |
| | I hope you don't mind rookie posts, but that is what I am. I want to add a 200 gig Maxtor HDD to 2 existing 30 gig Maxtor HDDs. I am running XP Home SP 2 ( Atapi.sys version 5.1.2600.2180 ). I have an Asus a7v133 MB w/ 2 ide … |
| | I am using a Toshiba Satellia M40-JM3. I've had this problem for a while, even took it into Future Shop and the gorons there claimed they fixed it after holding onto it for 10 days when they did nothing at all. The laptop is only a month old and the … |
| | Hi I have a Toshiba 1410 laptop and i bought a Toshiba SD-R2212 dvd-cd/rw drive for it. When i installed it i got the IDE#1 error, so i read some threads on here about changing the firmware and how its best to use another laptop etc. Problem is i dont … |
| | My D drive won't show a CD or open even though I know that there there. It just stoped working one day. Should I just Reformat the computer or try something to get it to work. |
| | Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me out please. I am trying to replace a faulty DVD/CD-RW drive in a Toshiba Satellite A-10. The original drive is a SD-R2412. I am trying to replace it with a TS-L462 by Toshiba/Samsung. The drive fits fine and light flashes when … |
| | Hi everyone! I've got the KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR with 0xC000000E code (STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE) sometime, after using the Win XP for hours or for not so long. The error message is sometimes STACK, not DATA, and at the bottom of the sreen there is a filename, like ftdisk.sys, atapi.sys, etc. Before the blue screen … |
| | At my local Goodwill charity thrift store I picked up an Hewlett Packard DAT (Digital Audio Tape) drive for 10 bucks. I've powered it up with a tape and it seems to work fine, however, no software or interface to connect to my 2000 year and newer PCs that use … |
| | just booting up the pc for the first time, loading up the windows disk but then says unable to find hard drive press enter to reboot. everything is connected up, but my only concern is that i think the disk is not spinning but i am unsure to tell. anyone … |
| | Hey guys. just got the BenQ Lightscribe DW1625 DVD writer and am having some problems with the installation! I poped it in a spare slot...and put in the power connection, and the CD-Rom cable dircetly from my old CD writer. I also have a DVD-Rom inside which i did not … |
| | hey guys i might be buying a new dvd drive for my computer. it is a lg dvd burner but i need to know that if it burns cd-r aswell as dvd-r. also if i burn music on dvd-r disc how will i be able to play them?PLZ HELP |
| | Hi, I am doing it again, let me start at the end game: I put my old harware in my wife's case, and now it boots with my old SATA drive. But I can not see her original (IDE) drive, which was of course also a bootable XP. [B]WHAT TO … |
| | hey all, having a problem with my containers on my dell server. when the server is booting, it checks through all the containers to make sure theyre ok, then it gives me the error (don't know the exact error) "missing members and are degraded, containers #0 and #1" then it … |
 | [B]recently i built a cheap web hosting company [url]http://computer-gods.com/[/url][/B] i have a huge server as i have many clients due to my $6.95 domain offer i need more hdd's and alogether the servers will accept around 50.000 more gigs (all of them will) what are the best hdd's to use |
| | whats the difference between dvd-r and dvd-rw |
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| | [FONT=Comic Sans MS][FONT=Comic Sans MS]xxx[/FONT][/FONT] Hey all, this is a problem thts been buggin me for a while now.. when there is a CD in the drive and i am shutting down, windows Hangs and i have to press the power button for 5 secs instead of an auto power … |
| | I currently have a [30 GB Ultra-ATA/66] and I was wondering if I'll have any problems upgrading to a [250 GB Ultra-ATA/100]. I'm not familiar with hard drives, but as far as memory goes, I understand that type of memory is dependant on the memory speed (e.g. PC133). I was … |
| | Hello. I have a 512 MB Kingston flash drive. For some reason the files started to corrupt, and before you knew it access was denied. Windows said the drive needed to be formatted and when I tried using XP to format, it said the drive was write protected. I know … |
| | I have 2 harddrives. One is a 40 gig maxtor and the other is an 80 gig maxtor. On Easter of this year I had the pleasure of receiving a worm virus which crashed the 40 that was a slave. To get the computer to run, I had to disconnect … |
| | Ok, here's the story... I reformatted my computer today, I was getting my drivers (still can't find a damn audio driver :\) I rebooted, and all of the sudden my second hard drive isnt showing up? Its not registering at all anymore, what can I do, what happened, etc..? |
| | Right, basicly sent my computer away to be fixed and the buggers formatted my hardrive as part of the process. They tried to migrate it onto a new hardrive but the image wouldn't ghost(not entirely sure why as of yet) so I have two hardrives one with virtully nothing on … |
| | First off I will start with my system. Dell Dimension 8400 3.4 Ghz Pentium 4 550 w/HT Seagate Barricuda 160 GB HD (ST3160023AS) 1 GB Dual Channel PC3200 (2 DIMMs) 400Mhz NVidia GeForce 6800 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Now when I use this PC, doing things that require a …  |
| | CDR101: Not ready reading drive N Abort, Retry, Fail? |
| | I'm ready to buy a plug-n-play external hard drive for a USB 2.0-compatible machine. I live about a mile from Frye's, but don't have a clue once I get in the store. Would appreciate a specific recommendation. Thanks. |
| | hey guys yesterday i put a cd rom in my cd drive and the cd broke in bits in the drive half of it came out when i ejected it but now it wont open the light flashes but nothing happens, when i start the computer the boot up menu … |
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