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| | I have a computer (no OS yet) that will not boot from the floppy drive. I checked all the connections and everything seems fine. I checked the BIOS and made sure it was set to boot from the floppy. What I noticed, however, during startup, the floppy is shown as …  |
| | Hi there! I've been having problems with a slave HD ever since I installed it. Unlike the main drive (C: for these purposes), it has a tendency to be very slow and laggy when playing high-quality video files, or other large files. Sometimes the files freeze entirely for seconds or … |
| | I am trying to move 20 Gigabyte hardware from the uncle's Win ME celeron computer to my sister's Win 98 pentium II computer so she can have more memory. I start up the computer and it says that the hard drive has failed. I tried reformating the drive but the … |
 | :evil: Ok, this may take a bit of explaining... I was getting a few errors from my old HDD, but i was just ignoring them.. cause i knew i was going to get a new hdd soon.. ok then one day i was just playing a game and my whole … |
| | I was running on my machine a Seagate Serial ATA harddrive (120gb) and had data corruption of the registry (Windows XP Pro). The data on the partions was retrieved but the data that was under the administrator account on the C drive is currently being stopped by the administrator password. … |
| | I hooked up the data cable correctly, and I did a auto detect and cant detect the second hard drive. I am running WIN XP powered it up but no detection, what am I doing wrong. :rolleyes: |
| | ok, when i plug a device into IDE 2 on my motherboard, IDE 1 stops working. so if i have 2 hard drives on IDE 1, and 2 CDrom devices on IDE 2, none of them work the IDE2 is interfering with IDE 1 is there a simple way to …  |
 | I really have no clue about how to install a harddrive. Im not looking at a simple plug n play... here is what I am trying to do. I am building my own computer and I am buying a new harddrive. I want to install XP Pro on it. Can … |
| | Okay guys, I want to install a new hard drive in my computer. I mentioned this in another thread where I fluffed up and had to reset the Bios... :o Here is the situation, I have a Dell 8300 that came with an original Western Digital 60gb and I want … |
 | HI, First of all I use Win XP. Everything is updated. My computer has 400 mhz, 448 mb, 30 gb (supposed to been 80 gb, I dont know why, maybe its the motherboard). I have installed few games with no problem. This one game I tried to install, it took … |
 | hello, i am trying to install a western digital 40 GB 7200rpm hard drive into a gateway 2000 p5-100. the gateway originally came with a western digital caviar 31000. on the top of that hard drive it reads AT compatible 1083.8MB. i was able to install windows 98 on the … |
| | I am trying to install windows xp on my external hardrive (80gb western digital 7200rpm) so i could boot off of it later. i am 100% shure that this is possible i just dont know how. it is a usb HD. the first thing i tried was to put in … |
| | I upgraded Windows Me to Windows XP and my CD burner, Lite-On LTR 48246S is not recognized by my CDRWIN burning program. I installed the Lite-On myself and have used it for months, but I have lost the installation CD for the burner. It seems as if a driver is … |
| | my floppy drive will occasionaly make grinding sounds and wont even take a floppy disk all the way in so i figure it is time to get a new one. how compatible does it have to be for your computer. i have a toshiba satellite 1105 (laptop). thank you |
| | "Invalid" system disk...." I installed a second Maxtor 5T040H4 HD. The specs say that I don't need to set a jumper to make it a slave. When I bootup I get the following message: "Searching for Boot record from Floppy..Not found Saerching for Boot record from IDE-1..OK Invalis System disk … |
| | I have a 200GB maxtor that pisses me off Maxblast v1x sees it and can work on it. Maxblast 3x doesn't even see it. I can't see it from a command line I can FDISK it somehow (seems to work) but it doesn't change anything Scandisk doesn't see it BIOS … |
 | Please guys, I really need help here. Last night I was using my computer and it was working fine. There were zero problems. Naturally, I switched it off and went to bed, it shut down fine. This morning, I go to turn it on, and it sits on the dell … |
 | here's what I have, 1Ghz AMD Athlon 10GB HDD - primary master - FAT32 40GB HDD - primary slave - FAT32 Windows 2000 Pro the problem: It just happened, probably by a virus of some sort... my slave drive suddenly disappeared, there's this unknown device that show's up on the … |
| | I have new Toshbia DVD sd-c2612 Drive to replace the one in the Toshbia notebook that I'm working on, the new one is said to be a master / slave, and I need a cable select, Is there anyway to fix this with out sending this in to Toshbia to … |
| | Windows, nor bios, will detect the usb hdd. It's 250gb, the cable plugs into a usb port on the computer and a usb 2.0 on the hdd. There is definitely power to it, and everything is connected right, so whats wrong? |
 | Hey guys, My grandmother's computer keeps rebooting itself. My dad and I can not figure out what the heck is wrong with it. When he told me what it was doing my first thought was the Sasser virus. So we went and looked it up on the Microsoft updates page. … |
| | Hello, I am new to this forum and apologize for the double post (wrong area). I have an old PC with a bios/chipset that can only see 8.4 gigs. I added a Promise Ultra66 card to get over the 8.4 gig limitation. I have an unformatted Quantum fireball 20 gig … |
 | Hello, All right. Here is my little issue with my CD/RW. It's been workin' fine for quite awhile, then it starts not seen the blank disks, except a very few of them. Let's say, 90% of the time it dosen't seem them. I've gone through about 2 Spindles (100 CD's), … |
| | Hey, I have no idea where to post this, i am sorry if it is no where near where it should be....its just I am a graphics designer and I have Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and now I cannot load it up because it says i am out of disk space … |
| | Does anyone make a multiformat DVD drive ( DVD+/-R, +/-RW) for laptops? The ones that I have seen are mostly only for -R/RW media. I am looking for an internal drive as opposed the the external USB/Firewire models that are available on the market. Ant help will be appreciated! Whipaway |
| | [COLOR=Black][COLOR=Navy][SIZE=2]I just bought a brand new 120 gb 7200rpm Samsung SATA Hard drive to replace my 80gb Maxtor 5400rpm ATA Hard drive because it was acting up and i decided to get a new one. Anyways, i just got it in the mail and to my dissapointment i have IDE … |
| | I just bought a new hard drive as i said in a post below this one and still have my old one in my computer. I have a IDE cable that has 3 40 pin connectors. One to the mother board, one to the HDD and another for another HDD … |
| | Hello :) I am having a bit a strange problem, ever since i built up this machine, a bit bothering at times. When i am online, using my internal dial-up modem, i can't use the CD-Rom drives, neither to install something nor to listen music! If i do so, the … |
| | i reformated my computer and i for got to save all my drivers and now i cant install windows and how do u unzip them to a floppy disk what is a good website to down load it from? |
| | We have a Matshita CW-7503 CD-R unit running with Iomega hotburn software and windows 98 OS. The problem is getting a blank cd-r recognized as a blank. Iomega troubleshooting guide suggests certain units only recognize certain color cd's. Does anyone know if this model is one of these units and … |
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