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I'm having issues with my TrendMicro anti-virus software where my disk activity hits 100% for 10-15 minute periods randomly throughout the day. TM tech support has made a few suggestions but in order to track their effectiveness I have to monitor my disk activity in such a way that I …

My hard disk stopped showing any drives, I tried to install new window but that was not possible because not even a single drive is showing. Can any one help me in getting data in lost drives?

I have a High-Rely hard drive enclosure I connect to my server for backup purposes. I have 5 of the removable drives, and I make a backup each night with BackupExec. The first night goes fine; however, after I remove that drive and insert the next night's drive, the entire …

How to wipe hard disk? I suggested to ask for some 3rd party software and someone recommended Partition Star to me. Is that okay?

I had a interal disk that wouldn't show in the finder at all but was showing as mounted on disk utility. I could get to the disk through a file alias so I know the disk was there and working. I tried numious posts including this one (http://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/apple/mac-os-x/threads/94420/hard-drive-not-visible-mac-osx) with not …

yesterday my pc or tv won't start due to low voltage power problem.. after fixing it..my pc start and this error occurred "disk read error occured. press alt ctrl del to restart.". i have tried almost everything : (1)from window instl. disk cmds like chkdsk fixmbr fixboot but says invalid …

I have a really strange situation with my storage device. I would be really grateful if somebody could guide me through this. System details: Mac mini 2.0 i7 8GB 500GBx2 External storage: My studio Book WD 6TB (inside probably 3TBx2 raid). file format: NTFS Connected to Mac through Firewire. intermediate …

this keeps popping up in a separate tabe in Google Chrome. Yesterday, it had a cartoon picture of a curvaceous woman with brown skin and blond hair whose teeth were being extracted with a pliers. Underneath the pliers was the caption: "Belief"

my hard disk is crashed by some resone and i want to recover a folder from it how can i recover it plz help me that folder is very imp for me

The disk in my laptop has become inaccessible after I changed the cluster size. *The problem* When I try to boot up, I get the laptop's proprietary screen as normal followed by a few seconds of the Windows XP start up screen followed by a brief flash of a blue …

So, I was trying to do two things at once and it went badly: I was just setting up a new HDD with Window7 on it, next to an old HDD with windows xp on it. I decided to shrink the XP drive and split it into tooto give both …

Does the repair/recovery disc for Windows xp need any sort of installing before I can format my hard drive with it? My computer has a virus that doesn't allow installing of programs. I want to know before I order it from eBay.. I don't know much about this sorta thing

Someone brought an old floppy disk into the shop that's apparently unreadable. (It's not a mac disk) So far I've found several shareware/demos that don't allow saving of the file. I guess if client's willing to pay, we could buy one, but we only have one machine that even has …

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 …

I very much appreciate this site. While attempting to "fix" my Compaq Presario F763NR (which runs Vista), I deleted a start up file. Now, when I press the "on" button, it lights up for a second then shuts off and my computer won't turn on. I called HP but they …

I recently downloaded a computer game for my mac, but it does not open up when I click on it. I am under the impression that I need to make a virtual disk image for the file in order to play the game on my comp. I do not know …

I am sure that all my ports are working, i tried to use other flash disk to check if the port is working. It's an 8Gb pqi flash disk. Its working last day but now even the device manager cannot detect it. Please help.

typically i'm good at trouble shooting windows OS even at reformatting and installtion with winows bootable flash disk and it's bootable DVD. but I have a problem in linux. what I want you to know is to properly set up bootable flash drive containing suse linux. because I can prepare …

My cousin wants me to repair her original fat XBox 360. It will play DVDs fine, but when trying to load a game just completely locks up. I've determined that the disk drive is failing, and that it is a Philips Lite-On DG-16D2S. I have an old busted 360 and, …

my laptop's Hard disk crashed. So is there any way to install windows xp in a memory card. Have a nice day! :)

hello everyone. i read about the functions abswrite() or absread() etc, but these fucntions are not supported in modern compilers. i would like to know what are the modern alternatives of these functions in c++?? btw i am using visual studio 2010 and rad studio xe.

Hi there, I got a problem with my external hard disk. I formatted it in an ubuntu os then suddenly windows 7 doesn't recognize it any more.. Is there any possible solution to my problem??

Hi everyone! I am new to Ubuntu and Linux in general, and as is to be expected from such a disposition, have landed myself in trouble. I installed Ubuntu with WUBI and later created a new .disk file with larger capacity to accommodate the growing needs of my system. The …

Dear Sir/Madam, Recently, i got a problem on loading OS XP professional SP-II. I have installed the OS bringing my Hard Disk into another computer where with my Hard Disk's OS is running smoothly. But when i installing the same Hard Disk into my computer it is not loading the …

Hi, I'm writing a scientific application that has to store a large (1GB to 500GB+) amount of data on a hard drive, and then, once written, read it back sequentially to process it. The amount of data for a particular experiment is known in advance, exact to the byte. When …

Hi I am writing this for my little sister who needs a bit of help with her external hard drive. The other day she took out dad's external disk from her old computer and put in her own external to copy over some images, but on her external she could …

This isn't the first time I've had this problem and the last time I had it, I didn't note down how I fixed it. I just spent the last hour or so looking for solutions to this online and to my surprise, nowhere actually has an answer. My external hard …

hi, my c drive shows low disk space, so I want to enlarge it with disk management. After I resize it, I found there are still low space. Any suggestion. Thank u all.