2,219 Topics
 | |
| | 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 …  |
| | Hey guys, my old PC's motherboard firied! but I wanted to save my files that were on my hard drive, so I made it a slave on another computer. now I cannot acesses the files on the slave due to them being password protected. I have tryed setting the jumpers … |
| | Here is my hard disk. [color=black]It's a Western Digital Raptor WD740GD. It is the world's fastest SATA HDD and is absolutely stunning! Unfortunately, its only 74 GB and now I have to choose between lots of games and dual booting Fedora core... [/color] [QUOTE][b]Western Digital Raptor (wd740gd) 74 GB Hard … |
| | My old hdd died last week and I found a good deal on a 200GB Maxtor. The broblem is that I'm using Windows 2k Pro which will normally only recognize 137GB, it came with software that will enable the OS to recognize the larger hdd as long as the W2k … |
| | anyone who can help me....running a w2k server farm and just had our backup domain controller go down! fortunately there was no major apps on that server, just data that was able to be restored to another server. had DHCP on it but is now hosted on the 1st domain … |
| | Hi, I have a hard disk that has some issues and I was wondering if there's a program out there that would show me like a inside of a hard disk and then have different keys on the surface to represent good and bad areas of the hard disks surface...is … |
| | My one hard drive got messed up and so I got a new one that has 160 GB on it. Problem is, it is not supported by Windows 98 so I got a burned copy of Windows 2000 Professional given to me by my company. So I hooked up the … |
| | Those proliant 1600 hdd drive at 2.1 gig each - can you buy them anywhere still as it wont take a standard IDE one and other SCSI drives dont fit into the rails. |
| | Hi, My friend has a Sony combo drive, the CRX 320 EE. Supposedly, this drive, as a CD writer is a 52x32x52x drive. Trouble is, when I put in a 52x CD-R disc (Moser Baer 52x CD-R), nero detects it as a 40x disc. The CD is a 52x CD-R. … |
| | Hi all...last night I had 51 disk errors in the event viewer, I think it's time to get another hdd, my question is which one and how big? I have a Maxtor 40GB now and still have 80% free, so I'm guessing that I could get by with a 80GB …  |
| | Hi guys I'm trying to install windows xp on my toshiba tecra 8100. I have an external floppy drive which I've connected. I rebooted the laptop, and pressed 'a'. It read the floppy, and I created a brand new partiton using fdisk. That was fine. Then it asked me to … |
| | i have winxp,service pack2 . CD WRITER .HL-DTST CDRW GCE-8400B when trying to drag files,folders from c;drive to e:drive..and ready to write to cd..i got a message "please use a writable cd or r-w" and i use all blank cd's. i used to have roxio,with this program i can write … |
| | I have a Sony 530A dvd burner and have only had it for a year now. This week I discovered that it would not write to a dvd anymore however it will still write to a cd-r. I have tried 3 dvd-r's that were 2 different brand names and 1 … |
| | I am building a new computer and have never made more than the one partition. I would like to partition into two partitions. One strictly for the os and the other for all else. Does that seem like the correct thing to do? Where is the best place to go …  |
| | i have a plextor 121032A which used to work fine, but a few weeks ago the computer had a nervous breakdown and when i got it running again i could no longer write to a cd from windows explorer, it can still write cds it's just windows itself that can't … |
| | Is this the right sub-forum for this? I'm wondering, is there a definitive answer these days about whether the x-rays at airport screenings damage floppy disks? Last time I flew, I just asked for them to be hand-searched instead, but you never know if those guys will give you a … |
| | Hi everyone. I don't know if any one is familiar with this device, the Mitsumi FA402A. What it is is a floppy drive with built in card reader slots, such as SD, Memory Stick, Compact Flash, etc. I thought it would be a great addon to my desktop...... however I … |
| | OK i am new to this so bear with a newbie. I have 2 hard drives with diffrent OS XP of the master ans Lindows on the slave. For some reason it the BIOS will not see the two HDS's and then after a restart it will and it will … |
| | I recently bought an Sata 250gig harddrive and a IDE dvd burner. I am new to sata and was wonder what jumper to set my dvd drive to. Thanks for your time. Miles |
| | I have a Dell5150 and I'm running XP. I bought a IOGear 250GB hdd. I put all sorts of files on it. Then one day I try and use it, it tells me that the drive is not formatted and asks to reformat now. I've not yet reformatted it. Upon … |
| | I seem to have bad luck with multiple partitions on one drive. I have a 160 gb hdd that was partitoned with one approx 137gb partition with windows xp. It was working fine. I decided to partition the remaining space which was something like 25gb. I did it from windows … |
| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I want to format my PC but I am curious to know if there is any difference between DOS formatting, Windows (while installing) formatting or quick format.. [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Could someone give me an answer please..[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Thank you,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman] … |
| | My computer will not get past detecting my hard drive for some reason. It just freezes. It says detecting primary master ... IDE Hard Drive then it freezes. I'm confused... |
| | Hi Guys I have a problem with my system and have tried all sorts of ways to sort it out but to no avail. Please help if you can. My problem started a few days ago when I installed XP Service Pack 2 on my system. It ran fine for … |
| | I am trying to install a 120G IDE hard disk in a computer that currently has an SCSI 10G drive with the o/s on (connected to the SCSI input on the motherboard) and also has a SCSI pci card with a 3 Hard disk RAID connected to it. The problem … |
| | Hello, I having a problem with my Flash drive. It is an LG 2.0 256MB flash drive. I noticed that it is no longer possible to write or read to it. I receive the message " the disk is not formatted". If I try to format it using windows XP … |
| | Hello, I'm having a problem with my 1GB USB flash drive. My PC will recognise the drive but when I try to access it I get "please insert a disk into drive G:". I've tried to format it but get the same message. It says 0 bytes are on the … |
| | Am new to inside computer works. know all there is to know about software, but hardware is another story. I recently purchased a Serial ATA hard drive, and went to install it, but the cable inside the computer had a different connector on it. From reading on different sites, I … |
| | Hi. I'm sorry if this is in the wrong place, but I just couldn't figure out where else to post it. Recently, my computer exploded. Well, not literally, but it was older than dirt and finally gave out. However, I have a pretty new DVD drive in it. I was … |
| | Did you know smoking near your hard drive will reduce your hard drives life by 25% no joke a proven fact. :-X :-/ :o :( |
The End.