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I want to know if anyone has any insight on which dvd burner is an overall better burner? It is the pioneer dvr -110d and the lite on 1693s. Anyone care to comment on what they know?

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Hey there, I was wondering if anyone can help me with this problem. Before I state the problem I'll list my system setup. I'm running an 80GB IDE HDD as my main drive (C:\) with Windows XP installed and a second 200GB SATA drive (D:\) setup as a storage drive. …

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I have a brand new PC, AMD Athlon 3000+, Geforce 6200, Gforce ATX? motherboard, 1gb of ram, yada yada yada, but whenever I load up a game (Quake4, Doom3, F.E.A.R., Half Life 2), I can play for like 5-10 minutes then the computer screen freezes replaying the same sound over …

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have a mxtor 6B200PO 200 gb. i have updated my bios and now my hardrive shows up in the bios as 189gb which is whats roughly supposed to be. the problem is even though i have sp2 and i used the maxtor tool to change the registry and i have …

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I have a Sony Vaio desktop with a SATA HD I have an old IDE drive that I want to recover data from I unplugged the IDE disk drives and plugged in the IDE hard drive It powered up but was not recognized after reboot The cables are fine The …

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Hi Can someone please help me My d-drive(cd/dvd) just went missing. It was OK when I last used it few days ago. When I go to my computer, its not there. Checked device manager-also not listed. However, "physical d-drive" is OK - I can put in a disc & the …

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From the "Trippy but True Hardware Fixes" department: For any of you out there who've had the wonderful misfortune of having a hard drive go totally belly-up on you, but recovering the data on the drive is absolutely necessary, check this out: One of my clients' old Maxtor drives finally …

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Hello. Last year I bought a 160 gb WD ide drive and installed as a slave on my computer which was running windows ME, only to be disappointed to find out that ME doesn't support drives that big so I had to format it at 127 GB. So that's what …

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Hello, I'm currently creating a PlayList for a media application I am working on. I'm using a JList as the GUI object for the PlayList and a DefaultListModel as the storage area to be held in the PlayList. I was hoping that if I was to pass a DefaultListModel object …

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friends, i came back with another problem and plz help me.. i brought one hitachi 80GB SATA HDD some one month back.. installed it two weeks back... now i have two hdds one sata and one ordinary.. i have the os winxpSP2 in both the hard disks.. i was worked …

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Hey I am just building a new computer, but i'm worried about moving my harddrives over (i dont want to lose the stuff on my secondary drive). The secondary drive is a 250GB western digital So after I install windows on the primary, I assume I would install the cd …

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Hello All, I am new to the forum but I have a question...I just picked up a used gateway solo 3150 laptop and the cd rom module is bad, but I can't for the life of me find a way to eject the entire drive so that I can replace …

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Hiya all ive decided to do my final year project designing an online music video library that will allow multiple access by many users to the same files that will be highly available, with facilities to access the video library by pc, pda and mobile phones. how would i integrate …

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I have a dell dimension 3000, and the bottom drive (CD-RW) is the only one that reads anything, the computer says that is working properly but nothing ever happens

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I asked on another topic about a pocket hard drive and someone suggested making my own. Ok, but what will I need to do to make it? What advice can you give on where to go and what to do?

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I am installing Netware 5.1 on a new server with 250gig ide drives, and the installation hangs when I get to the "select properties for the storage device" screen. Anyone got any ideas how I can get past this? Have tried different drives (as small as 40 gig)

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Hiya Everyone! I am trying to install two hard drives on my system. A 7200 rpm IDE drive and a 10000 rpm SATA drive. I want to load my OS off the 7200 and use the 10000 rpm drive for gaming. It's been about 5 years since I have built …

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I've been on this computer for 7 years. It's a Presario 5700 series with the following configuration: 320 Megs of ram, PIII 500 and is running five drives: [HTML] IDE: Primary Secondary [Floppy] ---- ------- ---------- ------ 0: HDD DVD-ROM Floppy 1: CD-RW Zip 100 |_(j. on 'CS') [/HTML] Before, …

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i got a spyware which disables my desktop. i've seen somebody's got the same problem. . i've tried many ways. it doesn't work. so please help me out thank you so much..... :lol: this is my log files from hijackthis Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1 Scan saved at 12:36:53 PM, on …

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I have never had so much trouble in all my IT life than I have had with these two firewire enclosures. One is a bytec / welland me-320F and the other, well.. I don't know but it has that same damn chipset under the hood. Well I have had the …

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I KNOW THERE IS SITES SPECIFICALLY FOR MY NEEDS BUT THEY HAV'NT REPLIED" ? Hi guys ive just registered and i aint too clued up with forums and threads and stuff! so first of all i hope this is the correct manner in which to go about solving my problems …

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I have a Sony VIAO system with a pentium 4 2.4 GHz with a Sony DVD rw drive. The drive will play cd's, cdr's, audio, etc. When I put a disk in the dvd format into the drive the computer freezes and never comes back until I reboot by holding …

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Hi All, I need to find out what's the biggest hard drive I can use with an eMachines FIC AM39L (FIC K7M-400A) mother board & an AMD Athlon XP 2700 2.71 gHz? I've messed up before with an 200+ GB HDD for a different set up & it only supported …

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:rolleyes: my dell optiplex gxp1 will not show cd-rw drive along side sony dvd in hardware devices with removable storage. it all started when i installed the sony dvd rom drive. got confusing to me when i had to set jumpers & install the ide cables in the correct order. …

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Hi I've not been on for quite a while. I'm going to have a new and bigger hard drive installed and I was wondering if I can have the old drive conected up as an external drive or are they special types of drives. Bill :-| :-|

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hi i just bought a dvdrw Toshiba sd-r6472 to change my old dvd\cdrw Teac on my Toshiba Satellite 2450-401. It doesnt work...and i get IDE #1 error message. I tried the dvd driver on a Sony notebook and it works very well...so i updated my bios and also tried put …

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Hello, this is Walton and I need help! None of my shortcuts or programs on my desktop work anymore and I can't get into add/remove programs. I ran Mcafee Virus Scan, Spybot Search and Destroy, and Ad-Aware scan, and I'm still having trouble. I also restored my computer to an …

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Okay, I've had this problem with my floppy disk drive for probably a year now. When I open the Drive A folder, the contents on the disk would show and I could view/cut/copy/paste/edit.. etc. BUT when I would close the folder, take the disk out, put another one in and …

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:mad: OK Seriously, I've been working on my second Hard Drive issue for about a week now and still I'm having problems. I have a Asus P4VP-MX Motherboard with 1.5GB of ram, 2.4GHZ P4 Processor. The Old HDD is 80gb while the new one that I'm putting in is 400gb. …

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Ok, me and my dad are trying to setup a SATA to my computer. We are using a IDE as the master, I know I should probably use the SATA as my master but listen to the whole story first. We tried to connect it to my SATA1 connector in …

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[b][Moderator's note: post split from [url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33918.html"]this thread[/url]] [/b]Hi DMR, I have the same problem with the Hacktool.Rootkit virus, and tried to follow the directions you had provided in this thread but was unable to find the "Lockx.exe" file. Would you please view my startup log below, and advise on how …

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Does anyone have the firmware for Seagate 36GB ST336704LCV drives to make them Simbios compatible and revert back to factory default from EMC firmware?

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Ho Ho Ho seasons cheer to one and all! I think I'm going blond. I've just bought a 200gb drive and cant figure out how to get over the 32gb limit set by some older bios's. I'm running xp home and I guess I'm having some brain fade, and I've …

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I have a western digital SATA150 160GB. I was installing linux fedora core 4 and it had formatted the hard drive and was installing linux when my niece turned off my computer in the middle of installation. Now Im trying to install windows again and I can partition the hard …

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Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron

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Can someone plz help me with my computer. I have a problem, i have 2 drives, and one is a DVD-RAM/RW drive and another is a CD-RW/R drive. The problem is that when windows starts it doesnt show them in "My Computer" and when i look at the BIOS screen …

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I Have A Dell Dimension 4600 And It's About 2 Years Old And We've Never Done Anything To It, Like Installing New Memory Or Anything. I Was On It One Day Just Checking Up On My Forum When It Started Making These Weird Clicking Noises, And It Wouldnt Stop So …

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I recently had a brief back and forth with nizzy1115 about IDE channel sharing and how to set up drives on the channels for maximum performance. Since there isn't a "right answer", I was curious what everyone's take was. My opinion is that harddrives are used more often than optical …

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my hard drive suddenly lost a large amount of storage without me installing anything. this happend after i deleted a virus deteted by my Avast. then my hardrive(40 gb) having a free space of i think 20+ GB suddenly became 1.7 gig. i dont know what happend. so can anyone …

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Last night I went to download the update for WoW. Anyway, my hard drive and fan seemed to be spinning very high. Towards the end of the download, I heard a "whirring" or "whistling" sound, which sort of faded in, got a little loud, and then faded out. It did …

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Hello, I have a 120gig western digital external hard drive. I currently have about 40 gigs of data on the hard drive, but when I look at the properties it shows me only having 2 gigs of space left. I'm not sure what is wrong, and it will not let …

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my laptop hardrive is now an external component that connects with a USB port,. i installed the laptop harddrive externally onto my desktop. (i just plug the usb into the front of the desktop..) now i can access my files from the old harddrive through my desktop through windows explorer …

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I am desperate... I have just transfered data from a Hard Drive (HD1) to another one (HD2). So at the end HD1 is empty and HD2 is full. Then the accident happen: Crash of HD2. Impossible to read it, Windows won't even start when HD2 is plugged. Then I thought: …

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[url="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225"][color=navy]http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=2225[/color][/url] [color=navy][/color] [color=navy]For those with short memories, single layer Blu-ray discs hold 25GB and relatively stable mass production of them has been around for a while now. The real technical challenge is to achieve the same results with dual, triple and quadruple layer discs which will boost potential capacities to …

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Hello, I am planning to add ide or sata pci controller card into my pc to break the bios barrier limitations. What I wish is to install the operating system on it and make it a boot drive. And the cdroms will be attached to the onboard ide. Is it …

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Hello, Good day! How can I format an 80GB hard disk as fat32 and install winxp? Thanks!

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Hiya all ive decided to do my final year project designing an online music video library that will allow multiple access by many users to the same files that will be highly available, with facilities to access the video library by pc, pda and mobile phones. i want to concentrate …

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Hiya all ive decided to do my final year project designing an online music video library that will allow multiple access by many users to the same files that will be highly available, with facilities to access the video library by pc, pda and mobile phones. i want to concentrate …

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Hiya all ive decided to do my final year project designing an online music video library that will allow multiple access by many users to the same files that will be highly available, with facilities to access the video library by pc, pda and mobile phones. i want to concentrate …

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