I have a SATA western digital 160 GB hard drive. I have formatted it in NTFS but no OS installed, I use it for storage. Recently I havent been able to access it, it doesnt show up in "my computer"....

I have almost the same problem, except both of my hdd are SATA. I cant find the second hdd in "My Computer" but when I go to the device manager it shows both of them. I bet it will show the SATA hdd...

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...

I was using nero express 6, it came with the dvd burner I bought, then I took out the dvd burner then put the cd burner and try to use nero again to burn a cd. Didnt work so I thought I would...

Ok, first my dvd burner totally crapped out on me, wouldnt burn, wouldnt read discs nothing, about as useful as a drink holder. So I put a cd burner that I used to use in there, and it reads cd's....

well, Im bidding on a computer at work that is a little damaged and I mainly want to use it for parts. I was talking to my friend about it and he said HP harddrives didnt work with anything other...

Are hp harddrives compatible with other systems, say like a system somebody built?

you could probably type the specifications into google and find a jumper diagram for it.

You could buy multiple hard drives of 200gb, possibly changing them out and categorizing them, putting the older video's on the drives that are out of the computer. Could get too impractical though,...

do they make dual layer dvd-r disc? I know they make dual layer dvd+r discs, but I was wondering if they made them for dvd-r.

Is this what your talking about with the dual layer burner http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-182-031&depa=1 ? This burner comes with nero software, so would it be safe to...

Hey, im looking at buyings a new dvd burner, but I also want it to burn cd's as well. Can someone tell me if this one http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-151-054&depa=1 burns...

I believe that cd formats the hdd and creates a partition and gets it ready for loading whatever OS you plan to use, I would use that first then load your OS. And please correct me if im wrong...

Im not even sure what that disc your talking about is, if I were you I would just hook her up and install the OS, so yes you can just directly install your OS on it(which probably be the best idea)....

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...

Have you hooked it up to your comp and booted it up yet, or are you have problems with it. It should already be set to master jumper settings. If you can locate the jumpers(usually on the side or...

it is pretty old it is about a 1 gb hard drive it is a quantum firball 3.5 series. What i meant to say is that it has the jumper pins, there are 3 and only 3. But i guess im not sure exactly how to...

forget that question, how can i configure my hard drive to slave setting if it doesnt have any jumpers to begin with?

when you slave a hard drive, i know you are talking about hooking the slave ribbon up, but that means being able to run your main harddrive but then also have a second hard drive and be able to...

yea, that is a smart move by making an image of the OS and drivers b4 putting anything on it. I will be loading windows XP tommorow, could you also elaborate more on how to make image of your OS and...

Hey i was just wondering if you could wipe a hard drive clean without clearing the OS and the other essentials. I could manually remove everything but im not well versed in what I should keep and...