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| | Did you know smoking near your hard drive will reduce your hard drives life by 25% no joke a proven fact. :-X :-/ :o :( |
| | :eek: I have a toshiba tecra 8100 600meg, 128MB Ram Recently installed a QSI-SBW242 dvd-CDRW drive. After having a lot of troubles with an IDE#1 error (which i solved with the help of this forum) the drive finally seemed to work properly. I can burn everything i want, read every … |
| | I have Asus motherboard P4s8x, and one hard drive.This is what happens when I try to reinstall winxp .The windows setup screen appears and loads files. The next screen says welcome to setup and offers three options . 1-to setup XP press enter. 2 To repair XP press R 3 … |
| | Hi ya all. I've been asking around about this for months all sorts of different place and no one seems to have a good answer, I really hope you can help. Is there a way to connect a laptop hard drive while still in the laptop to be used by … |
| | Hello, I have a Dell 4400 with a Maxtor 80G HD that I use as my system/boot drive. Last night I installed a Maxtor 200G HD to be used as storage for video (master/slave configuration). Now, the computer does not recognize either HD in BIOS (I had to boot up … |
| | Im new here im not sure if i post this in the right place but o wellz. Neway my problem is my mp3 player wont turn on it will onli play wen it is connnectied via the usb. does ne1 else have this problem or no how to fix it … |
| | I recently installed Windows 2000 and now my Hard Drive light stays on all the time and the system does not recognize my second hard drive. No physical changes were made to the computer only installed Windows 2000. Whats up? Thanks |
| | BEST affordable DVD writer available...!!! Hi everyone, I am currently having SAMSUNG combo drive (dont know what combo means) which is i believe cd rom + cd writer + dvd reader (NOT dvd writer) SO I am planning to purchase DVD writer....??? Q. Which is the best DVD writer cum … |
| | [FONT=Arial]I have a relatively new (1 month) laCie 500 gb external harddrive that for some reason today has disappeared from my desktop. Nothing seems to find it. Any ideas on how I can locate it? I don't want to think I have lost 200 gb of data this month. sigh.....[/FONT] … |
| | SWITCHING between TWO separate physical HDD drives… Well… Situation: TWO separate HDD in one CPU: (Say): a. One HDD of 80 GB used for general work and internet etc…(having its own windows xp prof OS) b. Second HDD of 160 GB containing utmost critical and sensitive applications and data…(having its …  |
| | [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Could anyone tell me, is it always possible to buy bigger HDD and get smaller storage? like I’ve bought a Samsung HDD 120GB installed and everything and now I only have 111GB storage what could be the problem???[/size][/font] [size=3][/size] [font=Times New Roman]Can someone tell me is that normal …  |
| | I recantly had some problems and wound up reformating, and afterwards the POST would stop and give me the following message: Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, Backup and replace. I'm using the computer now, and haven't had a hickup since I reformated, does this message mean that I … |
| | I have 2 user profiles on my XP machine. One is my own account, the other is a guest account. I bought an external hard drive to back up my files. After I backed them up, I can now view ALL of my files on the external hard drive from … |
| | Hi, this is an emergency. my cousin had an old computer. his harddrive storages is only 8000mb. he had windows98 when he first got it. now he wants to install windows xp on that pc. but it got lots errors. finally i got to the point where its installin. but … |
| | Hey, I have a Seagate 250GB 7200.8rpm hard drive, and the computer is only reading 127GB's of that space. I have SP1 and 2 installed and im pretty sure the motherboard (MSI Neo4 Platinum) drivers are up to date. Any ideas? Thanks |
| | Hello i wondered if i could pick your brains , i am looking to install another h/drive for extra storage i currently have an 80gb SATA as my main drive , running on an Abit BH7 mobo , (which has only one sata plug) , on ide 1 i have … |
| | Dear members: I just would like to know should i put a failed/failing hard drive (30gb ibm internal hd) in external enclosure as slave so i can get the data off (its been a month since it has failed) |
| | Hi, first post, pardon me if I sound ignorant. I've just purchased a second hard drive (Hitachi 160GB parallel ATA). I am currently using a 60GB Hitachi parallel ATA hard drive as my primary drive, Windows 2000 OS. I can't get the new hard drive detected. I have tried several … |
| | Any ideas on this one chaps, trying to get pics from friends hard drive onto mine. Fujitsu hard drive, set as slave, connected to my PC after disconnecting my slave drive. My PC will not boot when attached,but when pressing f8 I can start windows normally.PC will not recognizedrive as …  |
| | PEN DRIVE - ultimate value for money Respected advanced super ultimate techies, Well...!!! OBJECTIVE: Purchase of a Pen Drive of 1 GB in India BUDGET: Rs 4000-5000 (a bit flexible if getting value for money) equivalent to USD 80 to 100 $ REQUIREMENTS: a. Company should be best in class … |
| | My daughter has a Sony VAIO desktop with a Pentium 4 and Windows XP SP2. Friday night she used the computer until midnight, then left it on and went to bed. When she woke up she found that the computer had rebooted and was on the logon screen. She logged … |
| | Hello, I just bought a new Pioneer DVR-109 Burner and fully reinstalled my computer. I see the Dvd Burner in the Bios but not in windows (XP Pro SP2) and either in the Device Manager (their is no CDROM or DVD Device section !!!!) And the strange thing is that … |
| | I need to know if a Serial ATA-150 hard drive works with a Serial ATA II motherboard.  |
| | Hi, I'm running win xp on C: 40 Gig.[master] I've installed second formatted hd E: 20Gig[slave].Problem is i can't get into E: to install win98 se. I have a boot disk and installation cd.Could someone please help. thank-you |
| | Like what the title says. I'm pretty new to computers so please not too many technical terms. My computer says it is a Sony Boot CD-RW under Hardware. I got the disk out but the tray won't open. The Activity light is blinking rapidly. The manual eject and clicking eject … |
| | Since recently my DVD Drive is not recognizing any CD's or DVD Disc. The drive shows up in My Computer but when i put a cd in the drive light comes on briefly and then goes off and it does not run the dics. Does anyone know how to fix … |
| | hey i have a maxtor.., its now outta warranty whenever i boot it.. it works fine then after about 5-7 hours it just makes all these noises then like it freezes and freezes my computer is it a problem with the hard drive? what do i do? would formatting it … |
| | I'm getting a new PC in three days and now I think... How would I install the S-ATA HDD without a Floppy Drive/USB Key? I have no idea. Is there a way? |
| | Unfortuantly I am not to familier with this type of computor or where to find a replacment part. The computor itself is and old IBM that runs a Particle Analyzer from Malvern on DOS. My problem is in the IDE board (i hope) and with that I am having a … |
| | i have Compaq Presaio 5000, XP Pro, with two CD drivers 'R' and 'RW' only. CD RW drive tray wont open. i have a CD stuck in side. the light in front of tower at rw drive doesnot work, when eject button is pressed. and icon of rw drive is … |
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