[storage] Forum Topics

Hi folks, I need your help. A few days ago my system died. I had to reinstall WinXP. Previous to this I had installed a second (IDE) hard drive. Since the reinstall it's not showing up as a drive in explorer. If I go into Device Manager is shows the …

Hi. My laptop has a 160GB hard drive with three partitions and Windows Vista installed on the first one. What I wanted to do is to resize the third partition from 100 to 80GB, create a new partition from the unallocated space and than install Kubuntu 7.10 on it. However, …

Seagate came out with a 500gb hdd that has a 32mb cache. How important is cache size? Will it make much of a difference in speed? Would it be more important to have the 32mb cache size on my os hdd or as my video, pics etc. hard drives? Please …

Was hoping to get some help with my cd burner. It will let me read what is on a cd but when I go to burn a cd it says there is either something on a blank disk or does not see the blank disk in the burner at all …

Hello, I am facing some problem with my HDD that I am using as external Harddisk. I have been using this since a few months. Everything was working fine till yesterday. Yesterday suddenly, one of the logical drives is not available. It shows the drive letter, but there is nothing …

Alright, so I'm new to this forum, and I do apologize if this is the incorrect forum, or if this question has been answered many times before, but here goes. I have a Maxtor Personal Storage 3200 external hd and I've owned it for approximately 4 months. I've never had …

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to reset a maxtor internal ata I can no longer boot up my machine with it plugged into my computer. It used to boot but i couldn't access the drive (The drive is no longer allowing me to access it, Its …

i have installed 80 gig SATA hard drive i can only acess 5 gig in windows

Hi there. For some reason lately when I boot up my computer, a window stating "On click, Line 1: Unexpected symbol near ' <'" appears. I ran CHKDSK to try and fix this problem, but it freezes at stage 4 of 5 at 57%. Not only that, but Disk Defragmenter …

I bought an 80 gig maxtor hard drive, for a family computer, we had to erase it and put windows xp 5 times already, but now when we check its properties it says it only has 31.48 gigs. is there a way to get it to be an 80 g …

I am having an interesting dilemma with writing to CR-RW discs. I am using a program made by SONIC called DigitalMedia LE v7, my DVD player is a TSST corp DVD +-RW TS-L532B firmware DE03. I am able to write to CD-R and DVD-RW without any problems, but when I …

Once you full out a CD-R with files these file cannot be overwritten, correct? Where as you can overwrite the files on CD-RW, correct? Also I am right now copying imagage to CDR, when they are on CDR, I will be able to copy them from the CDR to another …

I Think my hardrive /mp3 player caught a virus or something and i am lost. I'm learning and quit new in this techy stuff. I just inserted it into this dude's pc and it never came on after that. Any idea what I could do, I mean it is 20gb.

Hi there, I have a P4 3.2 mhz computer with USB 1.0 ports and WIN XP 2000. I have been using my external usb storage drive for about 6 months and it's always worked fine. However, earlier, the storage drive started acting up with the following problems: 1. Whenever the …

I have USB (Thumb Drive) drive which i broke the cover(glass cover). Now it is not working. i mean computer dosent recognized that usb. How do i retrive data from there? help me please Thank you very much in advance yasha

just did a fresh install of XP ,and the dvd writer shows up in the bios, but when you look in device manager its not there,it is correct in the bios, you cannot goto start-run and type the drive letter to access it, when you push the button on the …

Hi, guys, Upon being through with using my flashdisk, I tried to eject it just as usual. But, unfortunately, I forgot to remove it from the USB port. I went about doing some other business in my office, and after sometime, I got back to my PC. Unknowingly, I launched …

hi all, not real experienced with computers, mostly just learning through trial and error, have done this a few times before with the computer i made out of bits and peices for my daughter. haven't seen this before though and would greatly appreciate any help! the problem is this : …

HDD only post in BIOS as slave, jumpers were set to CS and I set them up for master then I put the HDD in another machine and it still only post as a slave. Any ideas?

I have a Toshiba Satellite P105-S6177 laptop that we bought late March/early April. Since getting it, I have used the drive MAYBE 5 times, the last time being 3 months ago easy. With that, I have no idea when it disappeared. I went to get some documents of a disc …

I am trying to use GHOST on an old laptop. I have a 40 GB HD and a 6 GB HD in a USB enclosure. The problem is the USB is not recognized in DOS. The USB A:\ is just fine. Any ideas?

I have a Dell Dimension 4600. My drive was an sata WD360GD. It was the main one and the computer just stopped finding it. It clicks too. 1)I got a serial ata card (connects sata drives to motherboards without them). And tried plugging it in to 2 other comps, still …

I have a floppy. It was storing names in 8.3 form I renamed one of the files to 20.3 on Windows xp and opened it on linux both acknoledge that name .Please tell me what is the file system. I thought it had to be FAT 12 even the boot …

I'm not a tech wizard like most of you on DaniWeb, so bear with me. I added a second hard drive to my Dell Windows XP computer. Is it possible to take that hard drive out of the computer and convert it to an external drive that would have a …

I am trying to retrieve data from my old c: drive. I have a SATA to USB adapter. If I connect the drive in windows xp it loops before the drive is recognized. If I run uneraser from a bootable floppy the drive is found correctly - serial number and …

My Toshiba TE2100 finally bid farewell to normal life last night. Orange light flashing, boots for 2 mins sometimes and then dies.... so I'm assuming it is the power board connection. I'm ok with saying 'au revoir' to the laptop - it has given a lot of service - but …

I hope this is the right forum...my apologies if it isn't. Every once in a while (maybe every other day, at most) when I reboot my computer, I get the "Disk read error occurred. Press ctl-alt-del" Now, there's a new mother board (ECS 945GZT-M) and processor Intel Core Duo. I …

Hi I am having problems using Vista with Sony NEC Optiarc SuperMulti (AD-7170A) OEM DVD Burner.([url]http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3110653&sku=O451-1000&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1474C)[/url]. I have built a Intel Core Due desktop as below. I have my HD0 (IDE) with slave jumper setting connected to the slave side of the IDE cable and the DVD burner with Master …

I ran a Sandra analysis of my home pc. About my Maxtor 2F040J0 it is saying "Current mode not opimal. Check settings." I don't know which settings it is referring to. Has anyone seen this?

hi i have partitioned my hard disk of capacity 40GB, but after the installation of operating system i was shocked to see that only 20 GB is being accessed.. plz help me to get rid of this problem