http://www.daniweb.com/forums en-US Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:34:51 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/myimages/misc/rss.jpg http://www.daniweb.com/forums http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136888.html Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:17:09 GMT I have one very dead fan in my computer, which is why I have an external one that keeps the machine cool. I also have SpeedFan, which measures the temperatures of both the harddrive and the CPU. I'm wondering if there's a magic number that the harddrive shouldn't go over (I'm worried about overheating, and I should be - I've cooked two harddrives with the fan not working properly)
We're talking about a laptop here, so I don't know if it's different from a desktop. I've read that 45 degrees C is the most you want to try, but also that standard harddrives are rated for up to 55 degrees C.
Any other advice? I am looking at replacing the actual fan in the laptop itself, but I don't know what I'll do yet... ]]> Storage FragFighter http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136888.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136262.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:04:57 GMT Hi there, I have a strange problem with my machine at work. Suddenly, it has stopped detecting all the USB storage devices attached to usb ports. As I figured it out, according to my new company policy ;-), admins blocked them from registry via group policy settings and by disabling the removable... Hi there,

I have a strange problem with my machine at work.
Suddenly, it has stopped detecting all the USB storage devices attached to usb ports.
As I figured it out, according to my new company policy ;-), admins blocked them from registry via group policy settings and by disabling the removable storage service.
I undo the changes and now I can access my previous usb disks, which I used successfully on this machine before.

But, when I connect a new Western Digital disk, it does not detect it as a USB Mass storage device and instead detects it as "External HDD" and asks for drivers, which is wrong.
In short, the machine is now not accepting any new USB storage devices as usb disks :-(
I strongly suspect that this is a part of USB group policy applied to the machine as the same disk is working perfectly on the machine which is not in the work domain.

I tried giving exclusive rights to usb related files in Windows\inf folder, but in vain.
Could not find anything about this problem on internet.

Please help me in this case.
Thanks in advance. ]]> Storage sujk2k http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136262.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136046.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:25:31 GMT Will running FIXMBR in the recovery console affect the data that is on a drive or should the drive be backed up as much as possible before doing this? Will running FIXMBR in the recovery console affect the data that is on a drive or should the drive be backed up as much as possible before doing this? ]]> Storage slash49er http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136046.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135696.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:58:48 GMT Ok, this is a strange one... Was running the Fedora 9 live cd, and deleted some stuff off my desktop in Vista. I also was getting ready to play a movie (all my movies are stored on my external drive) while the Fedora installer ran on the Live Cd. The installer crashed, and when I logged back into... Ok, this is a strange one...

Was running the Fedora 9 live cd, and deleted some stuff off my desktop in Vista. I also was getting ready to play a movie (all my movies are stored on my external drive) while the Fedora installer ran on the Live Cd. The installer crashed, and when I logged back into Vista, I cannot access my external drive. In fact when I go into control panel > computer, my external drive isn't even listed. I can only see it in Device Manager and Disk Manager. In those programs, Vista reports that everything is fine with the external drive and it is working properly.

To give more details, the external drive has three partitions on it. First one is an ext3 partiton I created to install Linux on. Second partition is the Linux swap file. The third partition is an NTFS that I have my movies, pictures, documents, etc on. I use this as a shared partition for Vista and Linux. Disk Manager shows that the first two partitions are active and healthy, but for the third partition (the one I need to access), it only lists the partition size, but no status or health reports.

To make things more confusing (or hopefully easier), in the Event Log, it says that some registry entries are being used by another program. What I think may have happened is this-

When the Linux Live CD crashed during install and I still had the external drive open, I had to hit the reset button on my computer, since the system froze. Perhaps because of that, Vista thinks that Linux is still using the partition?
So I tried booting up the Live Cd again, opened and closed the partition in the external drive, then rebooted into Vista, but that didn't solve the problem.

Not sure what to do now, the movies and stuff I can replace, but I have some very important files that I cannot afford to lose, and not to mention irreplaceable pictures of my family. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you..


*Edit- Forgot to mention that when I boot into the Linux Live CD, I can access the partition, it is only in Vista that I am having this problem. ]]> Storage flynismo http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135696.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135496.html Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:28:51 GMT I have a bunch of songs that I downloaded and burned to cd-r disks, and they play fine in the normal cd player, but there is one problem. After one track is finished, it repeats, instead of skipping to the second track, and the only way to get to the next track on the cd-r is to press the forward... I have a bunch of songs that I downloaded and burned to cd-r disks, and they play fine in the normal cd player, but there is one problem. After one track is finished, it repeats, instead of skipping to the second track, and the only way to get to the next track on the cd-r is to press the forward button. I use real player to store the songs and burn them to the cds. Am I doing anything wrong with burning the cds, or is it normal. Thanks for your help. ]]> Storage forumdude123 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135496.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135489.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:03:01 GMT I own a HP system, I don't usually buy brand name systems but this system had all that I required.

It came with a 500gig HD (Sata) and preinstalled Vista Premium and no backup disks. The harddrive has a factory recovery partition, unfortunately to recover my system using this partion also requires re-installing all the trial software the system came with.

I've downloaded all the chipset drivers pertaining to my machine and burnt them to a cd.

Among the chipset drivers is my Serial ATA Controller Driver. I'm purchasing Vista Ultimate not the upgrade. I want to format and install Ultimate thus also getting rid of the trial software.

The installation will be on my Sata harddrive C: I'm assuming that 'll be asked to press F6 to load any third party drivers. I'm also assuming that if I don't install my Serial ATA Controller Driver at this point then the installation might fail... Am I right in this assumption?

I'm new to Sata but with the help so far you've given me I'm beginning to understand, thankyou. I'm not new to installing systems but I am, to Vista and Sata.

Mario ]]> Storage MarioG1953 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135489.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135416.html Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:30:02 GMT I was trying to install Windows XP in my Gateway Notebook Model MA7 with SATA Drive but it comes out with the message Hard disk not found while there is active HDD ditected in the BIOS setup. I have done all I can in the Bios setup but to no avail. It install Windows Vista allright but I do not... I was trying to install Windows XP in my Gateway Notebook Model MA7 with SATA Drive but it comes out with the message Hard disk not found while there is active HDD ditected in the BIOS setup. I have done all I can in the Bios setup but to no avail. It install Windows Vista allright but I do not like Vista. What do I do to install XP in it. Furthermore, All effort to access Gateway Website for probably BIOS upgrade drive failed. I need help.
Digitrust. ]]> Storage digitrust http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135416.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135556.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:08:47 GMT Hello there all!!! I guessed this would be the best place for me to ask question. A cousin of mine has a sony VGN-C140G, he told me that just after he formatted it...his CD ROM drive stopped reading CDs. It is getting kinda troublesome finding the solution. I tried unstalling the driver and... Hello there all!!!

I guessed this would be the best place for me to ask question. A cousin of mine has a sony VGN-C140G, he told me that just after he formatted it...his CD ROM drive stopped reading CDs. It is getting kinda troublesome finding the solution. I tried unstalling the driver and installing it back again...there was no change.

I really..really need help.

Thank A lot!!! ]]> Storage Slave_of_Allah http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135556.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135100.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:09:29 GMT I am looking for an affordable, quality laptop that will last me for 4 years. Please specify the laptop you would recommend and why. Also, I'm on a budget so a laptop under $1000 would be nice. Remember, I'm also asking what websites you would recommend to buy quality laptops at a cheaper price. (Much like when you buy furniture from a warehouse) Thank you for your help! ]]> Storage sunybck http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread135100.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134403.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:07:07 GMT I recently had a start up problem with my Dell XPS 410 which I purchased in March 2007 and has a 250 GB Samsung SP2504C hard drive. I have partitioned the drive so my data is on one partion and the software on the primary partition. Fact is I started my machine one day and no program including the... I recently had a start up problem with my Dell XPS 410 which I purchased in March 2007 and has a 250 GB Samsung SP2504C hard drive. I have partitioned the drive so my data is on one partion and the software on the primary partition. Fact is I started my machine one day and no program including the PC Cillin antivirus will work. I decided to restart it and then it failed to start.



I went to the advanced boot options by pressing F8 at start up time and choose "last known good configuration" this too did not work so I decided to repair with the installation CD, this too failed and so I decided to reinstall the operating system. This too failed so next time I went to the prompt from the inside the set up process and issued the fomat c: command. This worked all the way till it asked me to key in a label for the drive. After I did that, it reported "Format failed" I repeated this several times but to no avail.



In the bios, I realised that the systems recognises the SAMSUNG hard drive but reports that there is no SATA hard drive present.
I run windows Vista.

Now I used the DISKPART.EXE utitlity to clean out the whole disk and that came out successful and then in the same utility I formatted the whole disk which too was successfull. However, when I returned to the CMD prompt after restartin gthe machine to install a OS (VISTA) it starting at the stage where it is copying files and returns with the following mesage " Windows could not reinitiliaze the deployment engine". I then went back to the prompt to format the disk it finished and ask me to key in a label for the volume which I did. it started with building the file system structures and then reported that format failed.

I am wondering what to do to be able to bring the system back.


Any help? Suggestions? ]]> Storage eaglescamp http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134403.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134138.html Sun, 13 Jul 2008 10:56:31 GMT Hey, I'm diligently trying to install a SATA hard drive (Western Digital 160GB) with my ASUS K8V SE Deluxe and the damn thing wont recognize it at all. I can only connect it with a SATA cable (no ribbon option, which is what the previous HDD was) and the motherboard has four SATA connections. I've gone into the BIOS menus and it seems to recognize it somewhat but when I try to reinstall windows, it eventually informs me that there is no HDD to detect. WTF?!!!?!?!?!?!

I've built a few custom machines and never once have I come across anything as lame as this.

Please help me before I go completely insane!

Thanks,

Rich ]]> Storage hi-lum http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134138.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134062.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:04:08 GMT Bought kingston flash drives, they seem not to be working correctly, they are telling me that at about 25/30% i have reached capacity and need additional drives to copy balance of files on a 2 gig drive. can anyone tell me what is going on.? Bought kingston flash drives, they seem not to be working correctly, they are telling me that at about 25/30% i have reached capacity and need additional drives to copy balance of files on a 2 gig drive. can anyone tell me what is going on.? ]]> Storage THECAMEO http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread134062.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread133989.html Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:43:35 GMT my computer is about 4 or five years old and has an 80GB hard drive in it. when i right click on the C drive in my computer and click properties it shows i have 74.4 gb i figured it was just getting old but i ran HD tune 2.55 and it says the whole hard drive is fine and usable and Belarc Advisor... my computer is about 4 or five years old and has an 80GB hard drive in it. when i right click on the C drive in my computer and click properties it shows i have 74.4 gb i figured it was just getting old but i ran HD tune 2.55 and it says the whole hard drive is fine and usable and Belarc Advisor says i have 79.99gb of usable space. should i worry? ]]> Storage tommck4742 http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread133989.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132954.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:03:59 GMT I was not using that drive for a while and now when I insert a video CD or mp3 CD, it doesnt recognize. Any tips? I don't think it's software related. ]]> Storage washington http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132954.html http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132181.html Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:43:40 GMT I have a Gateway M520 laptop. The CD/DVD drive does not show up on Windows. The tray will open and close just fine, the light blinks like its reading it but does not register. Windows said the device is working properly and the driver is installed. It does however register on the BIOS. WEIRD!! ... I have a Gateway M520 laptop. The CD/DVD drive does not show up on Windows. The tray will open and close just fine, the light blinks like its reading it but does not register. Windows said the device is working properly and the driver is installed. It does however register on the BIOS. WEIRD!! Please help me.
Thanks, Goom ]]> Storage goomnaga http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread132181.html