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| | Have an old MAXTOR D740X-6L IDE drive. On the drive is jumper information not fully clear to me. An image of the drive information is uploaded to: [B][url]http://cid-63220807a7f4accb.photos.live.com/browse.aspx/MAXTOR[/url][/B] I am familiar with cable select but not the others. Just want to set it for master but hopefully I can learn …  |
 | Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 simplifies and automates workstation and server backup and disaster recovery processes in Windows and Linux environments and across physical and virtual platforms. It also simplifies migration and deployments. It's the complete disaster recovery solution for minimizing downtime and increasing IT productivity. |
| | i have a maxtor basics 1TB hard drive with about 700gb of data that seems to have gone walkabout. worked well and showed no signs that a problem was forthcomming, tried to access it recently computer says unrecognised device it still shows up as a F drive but when you …  |
| | I have a 2TB external hard drive that I'm trying to format, however, although the computer recognizes the hard drive it isn't allowing me to name or format the drive. I'm running Windows XP. The hard drive was previously formatted on a Windows 98 PC. Any suggestions would be helpful. …  |
| | hello can you help me how can i slave my one hard disk drive please help me...hoping for your positive responds...thank you in advance... |
| | there is some software i can use to put password in my portable hard drive? because if lost the HD, they can see all my personal documentation... any idea?? |
 | Solid State Disks are ideally suited to laptop use, being small and thin but rugged as well. The lack of moving parts is pretty much a win-win for mobile usage, making these units much less prone to the knocks and drops of daily life than your average mechanical hard drive. … |
| | I have a HP Pavillion DV6000 laptop,512MB RAM. 160GBHDD with a Windows Vista operating system installed. I want to format it using windows XP but the setup couldn't find harddisk on my computer......while I try to format using Windows 7, it find the harddisk.....Please, anybody with solution should kindly come … |
 | Hi all I've been trawling the net trying to find out how MySQL would handle partitioning if I don't specify any values for RANGE. My code is as follows: [CODE=MySQL]PARTITION BY RANGE(vehicle_id) PARTITIONS 10()[/CODE] The table will most likely end up having roughly 50 000+ records. Can anyone perhaps give …  |
| | There's a thread here called "Hands-on with the world's first portable USB3 SSD Flash drive". It says this product costs $229. I heard on the radio that there are now SD cards that are like $25 for 4 Gig. Are these basically the same thing, except that they're internal, rather … |
| | why is that my T3104 emachines desktop only recognizes IDE drives connected to the IDE2 chennel on the motherboard. Currently there is a 100g hard drive, and a dvdrw drive connected and I cant add anything else. Tech support is no help |
 | Hi guys, a friend of mine got the wonderful idea to let the macbook fall down form the table. The bonus? No hard disk working. So I'm trying to helping him by using testdisk and photorec to recover this HFS partition. The problem is that some physical damage let the … |
 | So I am wondering if it is possible to use 1 Solid State Drive for just the Windows Operating System and another 7200 RPM hard drive for programs like Microsoft Office, Steam, or even Firefox. Basically any application and document. Like make the 7200RPM hard drive the "Program Files" while … |
 | I am adding a secondary hard drive to my dell tower. I am wanting to duel boot Windows XP and Slackware Linux. I currently have only Windows XP on my computer, but I am not sure what formating it has on it. My question is: what format should I use … |
 | i bought a new Western Digital 3TB HDD, i format with the WD format software that came with the drive. now it only shows 750GB. I have used the westerd Digital smartware and still only a 750GB, i have used windows disk manager. there are no other partition, or non … |
| | I have an HP dv6837cl laptop. The original hard drive is a Samsung HM250JI which crashed and needs to be replaced. This hard drive is now more difficult to find and I've seen instances of others on the web who have also encountered issues with this HD so I'm even … |
 | [ATTACH=RIGHT]19662[/ATTACH]In an [URL="http://www.wdc.com/en/company/pressroom/releases.aspx?release=ba433e4b-bff8-4d99-b60f-7f02aa42f444"]announcement made today, Western Digital (WD) agreed to acquire Hitachi[/URL]’s Global Storage Technologies division for roughly $4.3 billion. With this acquisition, WD, an industry leader in consumer and entertainment-class storage solutions that recently ventured into the solid-state drive market, no-doubt aims to become a major player in the … |
| | Does anyone know around how fast an SSD is? I mean is it comparable to 10K HDD? Is a 15K HDD faster then an SSD (especialy 6gb/s)? This is just a random post, just curious because of the high prices. |
| | i have been thinking about getting an portable hard drive for my laptop as it fulled of game and and stuff and is now running slow i wanted to know is there a portable hard drive you can put game on it like sims3 ond sims2 or is it not … |
| | After experiencing loss of 2 hard drives, i realize its time to set up raid. First off, I have 2 via 6421 cards that havent been touched in a while. I was looking at the specs and they are "150 mbps" per sata. Is this fast enough? Or slower than … |
| | 3 days ago I plugged in my external into a USB hub to connect it to my laptop and be able to use a USB mouse and keyboard at the same time. I was running music off it (My iTunes library is on my external) when I heard it make … |
| | Hello all--my first post in the forums Anyway, I have a Maxtor One Touch II 200GB USB external hard drive as a backup. I had problems with my system, so I reloaded everything from scratch on my main HDD. I made an attempt to get my data from my Maxtor, … |
| | Hi, I'm running two 1 TB Western Digital drives, and in Windows 7, the secondary one is slow to access. I have it mounted as M:, and Windows Explorer shows a green progress bar at the top when it loads the root directory. Here's the weird part. It's VERY fast … |
| | I was wondering if there's a way that I can recover data from a storage drive that crashed. The only problem is that when I insert my old HDD the PC freezes at startup right by the beginning of the POST (in fact it shows the model of my Asus …  |
| | Hi, I have this chinese (fake) ipod thing and its totally gone mad. can't turn it on. I don't really mind about not turning it on but i can't use it as storage since when i was formatting it windows stopped and it got corrupted. Now when i plug it … |
| | I bought a new hard drive from newegg and it arrived today. My boyfriends the computer guy, and he installed it for me. However, after we turned it back on it is telling us it "is not accessible access is denied." I googled it, and I tried both going to … |
| | I have a Hp Pavilion running windows ME. The Cd rom is only recognizing certain cd's. I can put certain cdrw's with files on them in the drive and it will read them fine. But I can put other (same brand and type) cdrw's in there and it will tell … |
| | i have a ACER travelmate ,when my laptop starting up it shows HDD password,i know the password but how can i deactivate this password? PLS help me!!!!!!!!. |
| | I had to set my alienware m17x to its orginal factory setting.I read installed all three disc's. I then installed divx when I noticed it wouldn't play youtube videos,My picture view was also not working as well. NOW,it plays Cd's but when I put a dvd in or a game … |
| | I got extremely confused. I asked in many places, I got extremely random and contradicting answers. I even tried HP customer service. I got two contradicting answers from two different agents. My questions are: 1) Do I need drive caddies for HP dv7tqe? 2) The most important: Do the caddies … |
| | Hello, good morning. :) I got some questions about the RAID 2, 3, and 4: 1. In RAID 2 and 3, if the parity disk is damage can I still recover the files? 2. In RAID 4, if the ECC disk is damage can I still recover the files? |
| | the drive d partition of my hard disk all of a sudden takes a long time to open. im using windows vista home premium.i have defragmented it but to no avail. the problem still remains.please help. i fear that the hard disk is about to crash. any help is greatly … |
| | I just bought a Maxtor Maxline III 250 GB SATA-II 300 HD to put in my Sapphire PURE Crossfire motherboard, and even though BIOS detects it, the operating system when I try to install Windows, does not. Now I've tried several things: Frist I ran Maxtor's diagnostics program powerMax, which … |
| | [B]Modern types of writable RAM generally store a bit of data in either the state of a flip-flop, as in SRAM (static RAM), or as a charge in a capacitor (or transistor gate), as in DRAM (dynamic RAM), EPROM, EEPROM and Flash. Some types have circuitry to detect and/or correct … |
| | I have an IBM Laptop circa 2004. I have moved to a mountain climate in Linden,Arizona. The temperature can be from 0 degrees at night to 30-35 in the day time. The inside temperature in the mornings is maybe 50 degrees. When I turn the laptop on it spins with … |
| | This is my FIRST day here... I am working with a Dell computer about 5 years old... The computer will NOT recognize the cdrom/dvd combo drive after an update from Microsoft screwed things up.. The drive letter doesn't even show.. Under Device Manager it shows it as NOT installed.. Since … |
 | Hi, I am about to set up a dual boot configuration on my machine. I plan to install osx on my pc, with windows 7 being the most used partition on the machine. I would like for windows to be out the outside of the hard disk so I may … |
| | ok im trying to use my old laptop hdd as a external hdd whit an enclosure (2.5 sata and ide to usb2.0 imicro)so when i conect the hdd via usb my hpmini recognize the hdd but i cant see him in my computer or disk management, i had window xp …  |
| | I have an approx 5 year old Western Digital Scorpio 80GB hard drive (model WD800VE-75HDT1) that came in a laptop that I no longer have. One day the drive stopped working. I took it out of the lappy and slapped it into a USB enclosure. When I connect it to … |
 | I'm sure threads don't have to be all about problems so, I was wondering when I delete my files, where does it go? How does the hard drive regain its space? I read somewhere that the OS just ignores it but I wanted to make sure and if we used …  |
| | Does anyone know of a solution to support PCI sata on systems where BIOS cannot boot from add-in cards? PC is Dell dimension 2400 P4. Disappointed no PCI boot support, since similar model 2350 does apparently have this option. I am looking for a bootloader workaround which can boot from … |
| | the other day i was checking my email and running a musicjukebox when all of a sudden my computer froze. i thought this was normal so i just ctrl alt del but the computer wouldn't restart. so i powered down my computer. when i tried to boot it up again, … |
| | I have data in c:/ (vista installed) Documents, Downloads etc, and also I have data to D:/ second hdd, well is dangerous after update to SP2[AND FAILURE) lost data in D:/, so backup data of it, along c:/ disc's DATA, OR NO DANGER AND BACKUP ONLY C:/ data, well? I … |
| | Hi Guys, I have a toshiba L300D laptop, and a couple of days ago the harddrive just gave up, i knew it had a large amount of bad sectors so luckily had all the necessary data backed up. However, i have decided that having to replace the harddrive gives me … |
| | Hello all, I have a problem with my external harddisk. It is a 320GB SATA Seagate Harddisk. I have used it for a year or less. Now it cannot be detected by my computer anymore. The harddisk itself is on but it makes a little 'electrical' sound inside. Is there … |
| | I have flight simulator on a external hard drive how to i delete the game and release the activation code. |
| | hello can you help me please, my dvd-rom in my computer disappeared...when i look at in the device manager my dvd-rom is in yellow color.and my audio also was yellow..i am just uninstalling one program called cyberlink youcam when i restarted my pc my dvd-rom was gone in my computer … |
| | HiGuys My harddisk is detected when am in BIOS.But when I start loading Windows XP sp2, the disk is not seen as I get a message "your pc does not have a hard disk" Any help will be appreciated. thanx |
| | Someone asked me to remedy a problem on a laptop running XP Media Center SP3...has a Seagate FreeAgent external hard drive, but Seagate Manager isn't recognizing the drive. When I plug the drive in, Windows recognizes and reads from the drive. I cannot uninstall the Seagate utility to reinstall it … |
| | I have a 20 GB Quantum Fireball HD that I tested not to long ago(a month?). I told my friend he could have it for a bit of extra space, and that I would put a couple of things on it for him. So, I plugged it into my free … |
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