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| | I have a K8V SE Motherboard with 2 WD 160 Sata hard drives Raid striped connected to PRI Sata & SEC Sata connecters. I wish to add 2 WD Sata 200G hard drives as storage on the Sata 1 & Sata 2 connecters without using another raid array & I … |
 | OS: Win98 Location: Home I just installed a second hard drive on my open computer. I did this because this is a computer that I use as extra storage and backup my network on. I installed a second hard drive (one that I have had lying around for a while). … |
| | I have a Western Digital 250Gb drive, using it as a secondary drive in my machine. Asus P4P800 motherboard, using XP pro on my OS. Problem…. When using the installation tools from WD it says that I can only use 137Gb of the drive. Says that Windows can only see … |
| | I currently have an EIDE hard drive installed with XP on it. I just bought an an xtra hd for more storage and was told I could get a serial Ata. I didnt realize there were differences and now I noticed when going to install it the xtra connector off …  |
| | Hello all. My main hard disk is failing[C:], according to SMART, so I purchased another one[F:]. Both are from Western Digital, so I used their tool included in order to clone the current failing hard disk[C:] onto my new disk[F:]. All went well, except the program said it could not …  |
 | Hello Guys and Gals .I trying to install a new never used 52x CDRW in a older P166 with 64 megs of Simm ram and a Asus Motherboard ,Problem begins when i put a cd in the Drive ,it sees all files as Audio files .Nero ,doesent see it as … |
| | I have purchased a mitsumi floppy and 7/1 reader combo. It takes the normal floppy cable but it also requires an internal usb connection which my board has two but I need one for two front usbs and two back usbs besides the built in ones I have. I hate … |
| | I finally decided to build my own computer but have a question. I thought you just put in a new hard drive and installed the os. The seagate hdd that I want to buy has a discwizard starter edition disc. Do I really need this to get started or can …  |
 | I was reading up on the new HP dvd burner with lightscribe, and I was wondering do any of you think its worth it? its a x16 dvd burner with lightscribe for $129 lightscribe looks pretty awsome and it would give me a cool way to label my dvds, the … |
| | Its crazy, my cdrw/dvd will not read burned cd's. It will read originals but if I burn a cd with it or any other burner it will not read it. Cds burned with this burner can be read by other CD-Roms but when I put the disk back into the … |
 | I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive, I have a HP pavilion with an ASUS CUW-AM mobo. Now im not sure what the difference is between SATA, IDE, RAID etc. which one should I choose? and is there any thing else I should take into consideration before buying … |
| | Friends 120gb hdd had 229 viruses. was running Win Xp. AVG finally removed all but left WinXP unusable. Formatted hdd. But now cannot get win Xp reinstalled. Message on several attempts was "missing or corrupt file "\windows\system32\config\system" when trying to boot on new install. Formated the c: partition after each … |
| | Hi folks! I'm a techie amatuer who needs help! :rolleyes: Upon booting, CHKDSK comes on, staing HD needs to be checked for consistency. However, CHKDSK freezes in the middle of fixing disk errors. (It finishes checking security descriptors, then states its adding "data attributes" to a number of specific files …  |
| | Hi, I have two questions 1) Why did my dvd burner burn two 8x dvds and now does not want to burn the anymore 8x dvds out of the same exact spindle? I use dvd x copy and it reads the dvd then when it goes to burn it, it … |
| | Okay, I am new to the list but I have had a problem with my IDE-CD R/RW drive ever since I installed Microsoft's service 2 update to XP. It could be a coincidence, but I could use my CD drive until then. According to my son (14) he has been … |
| | Ok i just bought a new 200 gig maxtor hard drive ata 133 how do i get it to be recognized when i boot up my comp i want to put my operating system on there |
| | I got home from a hard days work and went to boot up the ol puter and after the XP splash screen I get an error reading "lsass.exe failed to load, could not find the fild dnsapi.dll....reinstallation of this will fix problem" What do I do? I tried a repair … |
| | im wondering how hard it would be to do myself,i currently have 40GB of hard drive,im wanting to upgrade it to 60GB,i do still have the windows xp cd that came with my laptop so im thinking of taking out this hard drive and putting in the new one,and booting … |
| | I have a dvd/rw and a cd/rw on the same system and they cant read anything now. the OS is win 2000 pro. It just started the other day, any ideas??? |
| | When you put a cd in the cdrom drive on our lap top it makes a loud noise, and the cd, audio or video, skips. Could this be because of a misaligned tray? Whatever it is, could i fix it myself? |
| | I got a new computer and I want to put a slave in it. Well.... I put a slave in it and made the jumper settings right. I turn on the computer and it boots up fine but, when I go to MY COMPUTER to see if the slave is … |
| | I had written in another post about my hard drive going bad or so I thought. This would be the 4th. I know odds are not good that's what it was but the easiest to try and solve. I installed a new hd, installed windows xp pro and after about … |
| | hi, recentley i added a pci card to my computer (belkin wireless adapter) and after that i cannot access cd's on the computer, the icon for cd-rom drive appears in my computer but clicking it does nothing, in order to install some drivers i put a dvd writerdrive in its … |
| | I am running windows 98 se on my computer and I had the FAT get corrupted on my first hard drive. So I repartioned it and formated it and reloaded Window onto it. Now I am unable to access the second hard drive through windows. The drive shows up under … |
| | All: I have a dell system running XP pro. I had moved the original maxtor 30gb hard-drive from the master to the slave position due to some issues caused by my son (still alive, for the time being!). Everything has been just fine up until about a week ago.:eek: Now, … |
| | I keep getting and error message saying unable to write to the c: drive. I have already replaced the IDE cable and it has had no effect on the problem. Is there any solution to the problem short of replacing the hard drive. |
| | what does the Enhanced mean in EIDE and will it work with a motherboard that only has IDE interfaces.  |
 | MB: Asus A7V266-EX Master HDD: WD Caviar 200GB New HDD: Maxtor Diamond Max 10, 300GB. IDE (or PATA if you like). 6B300RO I bought the above new HDD to replace my existing slave HDD, an 80GB Maxtor. All was working well previously. BIOS set to Auto-Detect. However, BIOS was no … |
| | You have your primary harddrive that has the OS installed on it. You have a second hard drive. And you want to add a 3rd hard drive. How do you add the 3rd one when the cable only allows 2? |
 | hi, i just wanted to know if there was any way of undoing a FORMAT on a hard disk? doesn't sound possible...but is it?  |
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