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| | Hi all, I have a DELL Poweredge 2800 with a Raid 5 configrutaion of 3 hard drives capacity 73GB 10k Ultra 320 SCSI. Two of the hard discs started blinking 4 times per second which clearly states the hardware failure in dell systems. So 2 out of 3 HDs stopped …  |
| | Here's the situation: I need to recover some files from a broken hard drive The hard drive is connected to my PC via IDE apaptor I cannot access the files I need because I don't have permission I can change the security settings of the folder in Safe Mode But … |
| | I had an infection that hit me while browsing the blog Dividends4Life on Jan 1, 2009. Avast caught it but somehow it still infected my computer and cause the same symptoms as Paul had at [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread165698.html[/url] I ran through all the steps of your Read Me and I think I …  |
| | I downloaded the latest drivers for my Intel chipset915G. I thought they would have the drivers that were out of date on my computer. I installed them and rebooted. When I went to reboot, the computer hung up. I watied 10 minutes and didn't hear my hard drive so I …  |
| | I tried Googling this to no avail: how can I request the used space/ total size of the hard drive? In this case it is safe to assume that the machine will be running Windows. |
| | So, here's my issue. I want to buy an EEE PC with Windows. But I want to replace the hard drive. Any advice on how to copy XP on to the new drive? Thanks, Nick |
| | Here is the order of events that has brought me here. My system info will be at the bottom of this. When I would start my laptop. Within a few moments the fan would start spinning faster and faster until the laptop turned off. It would stay on for 1-5 … |
| | this is my first post so i hope its usefull and im gonna provide you guys alot of nice tweaks i tried other than the boring ones if u want to speed ur acces to ur hard drive install System Mechanic Professional 7 and go to increase performance and choose …  |
| | I have a hp pavilion zv5000 series laptop with a corrupt hard drive in it. I was also given a acer travelmate 240 laptop to salvage parts off of for the hp laptop. I took the hard drive out of the acer laptop to use in the hp laptop but … |
| | Please help, My new segate 1.5 terabyte sata hard drive on motherboard 945GCT-M/133 64 bit, will not start using windows xp pro 32 bit cd. But it will start and install windows 2000 pro and only partition at 130 gigabytes. The hard drive came with a disk utility cd and … |
| | I have a computer here that just will not start. When I received the machine it would start once in about ten tries to start it up. Then over time it just got worse until it just will not start at all. I have checked the power supply and it …  |
| | Hi this is my first post and im a novice with computers so please bear with me. i have a compaq presario about 3 1/2 years old. has worked perfectly till the other morning. switched on got lights, fans started but made different noise as though no load on them, … |
| | For the past 7 times when I have booted up my pc has beeped twice in quick succession instead of once at the memory test stage and the windows opening stage. When my pc is fully booted I can only access my c drive and my d drive which is … |
| | Am not too sure what this goes under but since am working with Vista, i guess it could apply to this forum. Well you see i have been getting some trouble with my new computer. It is custom built and am very sure that all the parts are compatable with … |
| | Hey guys, long time user, first time poster. Well, my problem is that I was reading through a forum on World of Warcraft, and for some reason, when I went to open up my computer so I could watch a movie on my hard drive, I couldn't. I did this … |
| | I did a search on Google for some micellaneous item dealing with engineering. My corporate anti-virus program Symantec, notifed me when I clicked on a link on the Google webpage that the webpage had a virus. It did not identify the virus but it did say that it was unable … |
| | I have a new computer with Windows XP professional installed. The new motherboard (XFX GeForce 8200) is set up mostly for SATA drives with a connector for IDE drives. I have the computer set up so it boots up from the SATA drive. I have an older hard drive (WD1200 …  |
| | I have a 4yr old dell dimension 5100 that decided not to start today. i.e. no lights, no fans turning, no hard drive motion -All of the power connections from the power supply have been checked -All of the cable connections have been checked -When plugged in, the LED on … |
| | My brother showed me pictures he took on his travels on India, unfortunately he managed to pick up a trojan or worm of some sorts on the hard drive and passed it on to this computer. Avira came up with alerts constantly, and after a scan I managed to delete … |
| | Ok whenever i burn a disk it used to take like 3:20... not it takes like 7:30 and whenever i installed CS4 it took 28 hours... could it be a problem with the hard drive? NEED HELP!!!!!!!! |
 | Hello, i Recently Tried to copy a simple txt File To my Pc From My apps resources, But i get errors ect, Is this even possible? i was using [CODE] System.IO.File.Copy(svchost.Properties.Resources.Textfile, @"C:\", true); [/CODE]  |
| | Hi experts, I am writing a window application in C# which requires to format user selected hard drive programatically. Any help or suggestions please? |
| | My computer will not boot. I run Windows XP SP1. Over several weeks it just keep shutting down when my son was using it. It eventually just stopped booting. When I tried to restore to a previous restore point, all of them had the same problem. I get a message: …  |
| | Hi, Recently, my NTFS file system became corrupt but fortunately I was able to fix this. However, I now do not have several functions that I did have before, like the taskbar, copy, cut, paste, move, or even system restore. I am planning on resetting the pc to its factory … |
| | I have heard so many horror stories about this new Anti Virus 2009 Virus. I popped up on my screen next thing i know it is scanning my pc. So i just pulled the plug and wiped the hard drive and put g os back on it agin. Anybody else … |
| | I just reformat the hard drive in my laptop and I got everything up and running fined, and the only problem I have is the sound. It's a compaq laptop Presario V2000. I went to their website download the driver for audio and sound and for some reason it doesn't … |
| | My Dell Dimension 2350 has a mystifying problem of shutting down its the hard drive and not rebooting. After troubleshooting for several hours last night, it "miraculously" came back to life on its own and ran fine (all programs o.k., screensaver activated o.k. w/quick resume). Then sometime this afternoon it … |
| | Hi all, I have recently connected a second sata drive to my motherboard. It powers up and is listed as working properly in XPs "device manager" however it does not appear in the "disc management" list. As such I can not use it. I'm pretty sure it has to be … |
| | ok, so my computer was working fine the night before. but today when i turned my computer on it says "disc boot failure, insert system disc and press enter." I tried an old Hard drive in it and it worked. im just wondering if anyone could tell me if its … |
| | I've been using my Asus F3F laptop for about two years now during which I have rarely experienced any serious problems. However, recently I've been getting crashes. Usually this was simply due to dust in the machine or my hard drive sitting loose. This time I'm having a problem with … |
| | Recently my laptop's hard drive died. I'm not so good with computers but I've managed to connect it to my PC, with an IDE adaptor. The files I need to recover were on the desktop, but I can't access Documents and Settings\Home User - I guess because it was password … |
| | Hope you can help me I think I have a virus or spyware or something. I have a Dell Dimensions 9200 with Windows Vista. Last week Spyware Guard 2008 popped up saying you have 29 virus’ download Spyware Guard 2008 to delete them. So I did. When it got to … |
| | xp recognizes my external hard drive by it does not show up in my computer. It is formatted and has information on it. When I right click my computer and go into disk management xp sees the hard drive but it does not have a volume letter. |
 | Hi, I have had advice on another forum: [url]http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post512196-3.html[/url] that I could transfer my data from my dead XP Pro to a new PC using a powered ATA/IDE to USB 2 connector from my XP system's hard drive to the new machine. The problem is that the new machine is … |
| | Can anyone out there help me, please. I had an e-machine with XP home installed. the machine died the death BUT I managed to salvage the hard drive. Working by studying here and other forums I have created an i386 file of the installation on CD. When I tried installing … |
| | Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me with this issue. I had a desktop with ASUS P5GC-MX/133 motherboard installed with two physical hard drives - 1 IDE and 1 SATA2. A year ago I installed window XP SP2 on the IDE hard drive and used SATA2 as storage … |
| | Hello, I have a compaq nx6325 laptop, how can i access the BIOS? i tried f2, f9, f10, f12 but none of them work. F12 will let me chose if i run from CD or HD. F10 loads something up (not the BIOS though because i cant partition a hard … |
| | I'm having many little problems with my gigabit network. My hard drive reads at 85 MB/s, so why am I downloading from the ftp server at 68 MB/s? How could I diagnose what is eating those 17 MB/s? Why does my windows machine have a slow 326 Mbit/s transmit speed … |
| | I have Windows XP Professional SP3 (32bit) installed on one hard drive. I installed Windows 7 Beta (64bit) on a separate hard drive. Ever since I installed Windows 7, the Windows Installer service does not start on Windows XP. I googled this and attempted to reinstall it; now it's not … |
| | Hi, I m new here, and no nothing about computers... I recently recently got a bad virus, and had a friend clear out my hard drive. I have reinstalled my LEXMARK x3550 printer/scanner/copier. The printing works fine, but the scanner, and hole where I stick my camera card won't work. …  |
| | Help....lol I have a computer with the following specs: AMD 3800+ 2 Gigs RAM Gigabyte MB SATA HD Maxtor 300 gig SATA 2 here is my problem, I believe it was a power surge but for some reason when I turn my power on to the computer it trips the … |
| | I purchased my Mac G5 over a year ago from a guy in NJ. I live in Calgary, Alberta Canada and run a home-based graphic design business. I depend greatly on my mac system as it's my work machine. Over the past I've had it freeze off and on and … |
| | I like WMP 10 and have resisted moving to wmp11 because after trying it awhile I got TIRED of trying to unravel why it would not play music I owned or let me copy it to my hard drive or why movies audio sounded so bad. So i finally got … |
| | This seemed like the best place for this question, so if it isn't please let me know. I am looking at buying a new computer and I have narrowed it down to two from Dell. Both are customizable but neither have all the features I want. The Specifications are listed … |
 | My Problem: Several of my games (typically, but not always, graphically intensive ones), have a duration when moving the mouse that varies from making it very difficult to aim, to having to wait about a second after my mouse moves left to see my character move left on the screen. … |
| | And I am having trouble with my computer! Does anyone here know if I can completely redo a hard drive without EITHER the reformat disk OR a windows xp disk? My reformat disk was completely destroyed and I'd like to avoid paying 27 bucks for a new one if possible. … |
| | I have a Vista Laptop with a dead motherboard. I want to pull all the files off the hard drive. When I connect the hard drive to an XP computer, I cannot access all the folders in the Users Folder (which is where all the data should be). I have … |
| | I have a shuttle SN68g2 barebones pc, with a sata dvd drive and hard drive. Ive been having problems with it since building it. At first my sata drives were set up as IDE automatically and were very slow and basically the whole thing didnt work well at all. So …  |
| | I am looking to buy a middle to low end laptop. Doing a lot of internet work and some work with digital pictures. I'm looking in the range of $550-$650 and am very confused as to: [B] whether I should go with AMD or Pentium faster FSB is better or … |
| | am having issues with a trojan zlob.dnschanger. it redirects google and other searches, an i tjhink it isnt letting avg update. I have used spybot s+d which finds and deletes the trojans but they always come back. I have tried formatting the hard drive and reinstalling windows then running spybot …  |
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