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Hi I meet a problem I bought a **WD HDD** (WD2500AAKX) with **SATA3** connection but my **motherboard chipset** only supports **SATA1**. The question is: how to set **jumpers** and to slow down speed at 1.5 Gbps? On the HDD is saying that Jumper on Pin 5-6 slow down to 3 …

My programs objective is to mkdir and ope dir. if I ever get it jarred up I would like to run it from a jump drive. [code] public static final String USERHOMEDIR = System.getProperty("user.home", "."); [/code] clearly this code will not be valid any more. Could this USERHOMEDIR be replaced …

Why would you set one hard drive as master and the other as slave? Is the hard drive a master by default? The master would plug into SATA0 and the slave in SATA1 on the motherboard, right? As an example

hi, I made a new partition to install vista because i wanted to make sure i would have all the files i needed before i normally would've cleaned the original partition and installed it there. I plan to keep the second partition and i would like to move memory from …

A few months ago I replaced my Toshiba Satellite A665 hard drive. A couple of weeks ago I upped my RAM from 4 to 8Gb. Is it a coincidence that shortly thereafter it started not to boot properly? When I wake it up from sleep the hard drive starts to …

I have a dell dimension 8250 that I've had for quite a while. Up until now I've been able to fix all of its problems but I was swapping out a hard drive and I accidently pulled out half of the power cord and the computer short circuited and it …

Hello Community, I was wondering if there is a way to access SkyDrive using php i have looked at so many forums and i could not find anything and what i did find was too complicated to understand, what i want is a way to create files or folders, get …

I'm working on an application that runs off of a thumb drive. The very first step in the application is to select the drive letter of the thumb drive. That populates a variable which is used throughout the program to note various paths on the thumb drive. Is there a …

I came across this project that could be really helpful.. if I was c++ literate. I know enough c++ to be dangerous and thats about it. Thanks in advance for anyone who wants to take a crack at it. ps credit to: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/13839/How-to-Prepare-a-USB-Drive-for-Safe-Removal

i have maxtor 500 GG someday i figured the disk turn to raw and get panic and sad i had a boot tools in USB drive and he have paret magic linux os when i boot it to os and comes linux and reset the pc my hard disk turn …

How can we make usb not to work in linux fedora?

am finish to install the operating system but local disk c is not appearing i don't know the problem that's why i want your help my computer is showing only new volume d

usb drive detected but not started even not in my window explorer not in other pc but it gives me blue light in my pendrive when i connect...

Hi everyone, When I purchased my hard drive, its size was 1TB. Iformatted it a few times and I don't know why and how it has lost 70GB. Is there a way that I can get it back up to its original size? if yes, Will I be able to …

when I try to enter the C: root, it goes to C: \ Users \ PC1> so I've tried pressing E: so it goes to E:> when I saw press C: so it goes to C: \ Users \ PC1> again, it has worked until today, but now it does …

Recently while watching a show online in bed my laptop decided that it had enough of this world and threw itself off the nightstand. Upon trying to turn the laptop back on after a few minutes I get the error of either some wires came unblocked or faulty hardware and …

Hi Im Crystal I just saw that ALL, EVERYTHING, on my external hard drive is gone! wiped out!! I am a photographer so, all my images were on there :( SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! CAN I FIX THIS?? CAN I GET THEM BACK? It is a Seagate - FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB …

Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive …

I added a second Hard Drive to the extra bay in a HP Pavilion Notebook and it disappers after a few minutes. It then comes back if you reboot and fades out again. Sometimes it will come back and ask you if you want to do something to the new …

We have a system that has a drive bay, mounted in the computer in a 5.25" bay, which connects to an internal pci sata card. The drive bay accepts 2.5" sata drives, and the drives themselves are inside an enclosure that inserts into/ejects from the drive bay. The connection between …

Everytime I clear space on the computer, it suddenly fills up! Simple and annoying. I'm getting concerned of the cause, as its causing incoveniences. Thanks in advance.

Hi All I've noticed recently that in some circumstances Windows Explorer is maxing out when I'm trying to access flash drives. Typically, I insert a flash drive, open my shared folder (which has full access for everyone), then try copying the data I want from the PC to the flash …

I can't see my I:\ drive in My pc. That's an external usb drive, and works ok. I can access it ok, and disc works fine but it just won't show on My pc. I don't want to change drive letter (can't explain reasons but simply can't). I need it …

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Windows XP - Computer 1 & 2 - IBM Netvista ThinkCentre's P4; 2.8 GHz Problem: Computer 1 (Windows XP Home) copied photo's from 2gb SD card using Lexmark Pro200 printer with SD card reader to Easygo 4 GB flash drive (verified that the photo's were there.) Computer 2 (Windows XP …

Hi Although my PC detects my disc drives and can play from them when I try to write to the RW drive I get a message "No disc detected". I am using Roxio Creator LE Dell Edition. I have cleaned the laser carefully using methylated spirits and a surgically clean …

I have been using Super Duper to create a bootable copy of my hard drive nightly. (This is in addition to using Time Machine.) My hard drive has a capacity of 1TB of which 250GB is used. My backup drive is a firewire 800 WD MyBook 1TB. I noticed that …

Hopefully my question is pretty simple... Currently I have an ubuntu server (I am not runny server edition, simply the 32-bit desktop distro), but when I built it I was not sure what I was doing with it just yet, but decided to have it as my low-wattage home media …

I took the hdd out of my external computer to transfer a large # of files (over 1TB worth) and to use the full 3tb I made it a GPT Partition. Now since I want it back in the normal enclosure the computer "sees" it, in the device manager or …

I'm having problems reading or writing files in my C++ program. I'm using Fedora 16 on a USB stick and Eclipse for C/C++ developers. Here's snippet of code from my program. fp is always 0. I've also got other code that is loading files (which always fail). I've tried running …