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| | I have been working on getting a RAID 1 working on a Dell desktop computer. I have the IDE card installed and working. I was able to mirror the master drive to the slave while testing if it would work. Everything has worked out just fine, except one big problem. … |
| | My hard drive is very small. I got it a while ago in an old computer. Its a DELL computer. My drive has 37.2 Gigs. Yes,yes, I know its tiny! A shrimp! Thats why Im trying to boot it to the curb. I have some questions though, thats why I … |
| | I have an hp pc. When it boots up the first screen that shows is the "HP Invent" screen. THis is the screen that gives the option to perform a system recovery or go into bios setup. That seems normal, however it stays on the screen for 30 sec.. After …  |
| | I have windows XP on an Dell INspiron 1100. I have gotton a Primary Disk Drive not found error message for a few days and just now got into Windows. I believe something is wrong with my hard drive b/c it makes a lot of clicking noises before giving me … |
| | I have a Dell computer, 128mb of RAM, 20GB hard drive space, and a 850MHz Pentium III processor. The computer is running Windows 2000 Professional. Here's my problem: When my computer begins to start up, I get the "Dell" screen for a few seconds and then two beeps, followed by … |
 | Hi guys When searching the internet for info on how to install windows 98 on to a newly built pc, I saw some articles saying that windows 98 can only deal with hard drives of up to 130gb is this true and if so how can I install windows 98 …  |
| | We booted from a system cd and formated the 250GB sata hard drive, partitioning it. I am trying to get my newly built computer to recognise my satas cd drive (a SH-W163A BEBN) so that I can load Windows 98. I have copied the dos_drive directory from the cd onto … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension 9100 with 1 gig of ram and 160 gig hard drive XP Professional SP2. I had to shut if off a couple of weeks ago just power it down. When I tried to reboot the computer I got a error that it could not find … |
| | I needed to rebuild my wife's computer (Bad hard drive). I managed to get her bookmarks exported, and off the machine. When I reloaded the machine, and imported the bookmarks, what I got was screwy. Many of the bookmarks are missing (but none of the folders are missing). Many of … |
| | All I'm new to these forum seeking help. The below start's with Aplus.net's (hosting company) reply to my emails. Our dedicated server down some 8 hours they knew it didn't come back up and failed to contact us... it's all in the emails (most recent at the top.) What can … |
| | I have an older Dell Dimension 550L and it has a single Maxtor 10 gb hard drive. Well the drive is pretty much full the system is working fine, and i am running Windows XP SP2 with no problems. I had a friend give me a Western Digital 100gb HD … |
| | First of all, I'm not a super computer techie, so if you can help me, please keep the acronyms and jargon to a minimum...treat me like your grandmother who is using emial for the first time! (I'm not that bad, but still!) I have a older Dell Latitude that won't … |
| | I am starting out my computer service business in the part time, and have had some calls come my way. I have been able to solve them all, except for the ones which relate to hard drive failures. So, now I am looking to invest some money into some hardware-software … |
| | Hi: I'm working on a Dell Inspiron 500m Laptop running Windows XP. The machine suddenly crashed (I was programming but nothing related to the OS) and now it won't reboot. It runs through the Dell bios startup and then goes to a black screen. I've attempted to boot from the … |
| | Has anyone had a bad experience with Dell? I always thought they were really awesome and wouldn't bye anything else untill now. We bought 2 laptops of the same kind (600m inspiron) about 1 year and 4 months ago. I loved my laptop and had no problems with it. Right … |
| | I have Windows xp pro and 98 installed on one hard drive and linux on another drive. My windows 98 works fine but xp does not boot.Screen just blanks out after the Windows xp screen showing the blue moving bar. [B] But xp loads in safe mode[/B].Similarly linux also blanks … |
| | i have been toying around with an old Tandy 1000TX. for those of you who dont remember, or where too young, it is a very old system. It is a 286/10Mhz, 640K ram and CGA graphics. anyway i want to know of something i can do with it. i need … |
| | Im trying to fix my girlfriends zt1000 laptop. it started having issues with clicking coming from what i beleive is the hard drive. after a few weeks it just stopped working. when it trys to boot up it gives me this message "1500 mhz pentium 4 cpu external cache: 512k … |
| | My computer freezes for 2-10 seconds and then goes back to normal. It's happened ever since I got it. It will completely freeze whatever I'm doing; this is extremely annoying in games or on the web. I really need a solution to this but I can't get a new hard …  |
| | I have a Dell Dimension XPS 1500 (pretty old) with a maxtor 20gb hard drive. This computer got pretty messed up so i decided to do some fixin. I bought a samsung 80gb hard drive. I installed the hard drive (i added it along with the maxtor, i didnt replace … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]Hi Everyone,[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]I have a crashing problem with my computer. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]It’s a Dell Optiplex GX620[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Pentium 4, 3.4GHz, 1GB RAM[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]Windows XP Professional version 2002, SP2.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000]The computer died so Dell technician replaced the mother board and I also had to format the hard drive. Since then … |
| | I have a Dell Dimension XPS 1500 (pretty old) with a maxtor 20gb hard drive. This computer got pretty messed up so i decided to do some fixin. I bought a samsung 80gb hard drive. I installed the hard drive (i added it along with the maxtor, i didnt replace … |
 | For someone who has used windows all their life moving to linux is not going to be a simple task. Somethings to consider are what apps that you use in windows that you would like to bring with you over to linux. Most common windows apps like word have wines … |
| | Basically, I hooked up a new Western Digital EIDE 160 gig hard drive(WD Caviar SE - 7200 RPM, if that matters at all) I put the disk into the CD drive that includes software to help partition the hard drive and such, and it works fine. I restart the computer, …  |
| | Firstly, I don't know any of the lingo, so bear with me. I have a Gateway Solo 1150 laptop that worked great for years--it is an older one. I came to the conclusion somehow that my hard drive needed to be partitioned(that may be misspelled), so I thought I knew … |
| | Heh first off, I want to thank the responders here for the help given. Ok, now for the prob. I just wrote my first ever HTML page (awful if ya ask me), and I'm mainly using it as a place to keep files and such. However, it's still in development. …  |
 | Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when … |
| | My goal was to move the software from a Win98 machine to an XP Machine. I attached the 98 hard drive to my laptop and copied several folders over but I was unable to get it to work. When I restarted the 98 machine the dos program gets an error … |
| | Hello, I am an advanced computer user, yet new with laptop hardware; I am wondering if a hard drive upgrade procedure would differ on a laptop than pc, as it seems straight forward-- or am I ignorant? I pulled my 5gb from my Toshiba Tecra 8100 and cloned it to … |
| | I own a small web site / hosting company and I had a hard drive failure and my back-ups didn't work perfectly. I have a complete back-up of my C drive from May 2006, but I can't figure out how to restore my MS SQL. Can anyone help? thanks, Marc |
| | Is it possible to put an OS on a external hard drive:?: :?: :?: |
| | I Wanted To Know The Amt Of Used Up Space But Then I Met With A Problem... I Wnet Through My Properties Then It Showed Me A Free Space Of 12 Gb Out Of 19 Gb And When I Just Went Through All The Folderws In That Drive It Came … |
| | Help, Ok the machine would not boot up last week. Thanks to this web someone said "shake" the machine or "drop it 2-3 inches". Unwillingly but a last resort I did the drop method. GREAT it booted up!! And that's how it has been over the weekend. So on Monday … |
| | I installed a 300 GB Samsung internal hard drive as a slave, and it doesn't show up normally under 'my computer'. I can find it if I right click on 'my computer' - 'manage' - 'device manager'. It shows up under 'disc drives' - 'samsung 300'. When I click on … |
| | I have just bought a new 80Gb ide hard drive to go in my computer at work as the old one was getting full (only 9Gb!). Iv put the hard drive in and connected it all up and its not working. The pc can detect its there but when I … |
| | Hi there everyone. Well i used to have a computer with this stats Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) 750mhz 1024MB RAM Nivida 64 MB RAM 100.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity Something like that ---------------------------------------- Now i changed the motherboard and then it wouldnt load my windows … |
| | When I boot up I get a choice of starting with hard drive C or D. At one time I had my operating system on hard drive D but now it is on hard drive C and have deleted the OS from drive D. I understand there is a file … |
| | I just got this laptop and was trying to activate xp via the phone(another issue in its self) couldnt do it so I shut the machine down went to get an xp disc and when I returned the machine would not start up.I did the usual ,reseat the memory,the hard … |
| | I have brought a Seagate 250gb external USB hard drive to make backups with. One of my computers, a Dell Dimension 2400, will not boot if the drive is connected. THis makes it impossible to backup using Norton Ghost 2003. THe drive does, however, work on another (though newer) Dimension … |
| | i just formatted my hard drive using the "hp restore plus" cd. im now experiencing comsiderably slower performance than before i had formatted.windows startup is noticeably slow and perfomance has just decreased drastically on the whole my machines a P4 2.6ghz, with two 512mb sticks of RAM and a 40gig … |
| | My laptop was broken after I put it in checked luggage on a plane flight. On power-up, it stated that there were no bootable devices, so I decided the hard drive had been broken and bought another one. However, it doesn't recognize the new hard drive either and says there … |
| | can anyone please help me: I have a sony viao laptop and recently it has slowed down nealry to a holt and anysound that the computer makes is like a dvd when it skips, this includes shut down sound, music, dvd and anything else. [B]this is what i have done …  |
| | Hi All, My name is Marc and I live in Halifax, NS Canada. I have 2 great kids and my wife is OK as well. I own a small web site / hosting company and I had a hard drive failure and my back-ups didn't work perfectly. I have a … |
| | [COLOR=#000000]I have a Seagate 80gb Hard Drive that is a IDE. I just bought a new DELL Dimension E310. It has a 80gb SATA 2 Hard Drive. The mother board does not have anyplace where I can connect my older IDE Hard Drive . Is there anyway that the older … |
| | Computer working ok however wishing to re instal xp .get so far then error message saying windows does not detect hard drive any help thanks |
| | So I have a main drive which is a SATAA or ATA drive. Im not sure! Im installing a new IDE drive which is just a replacement I got for my old drive that died. When I attatch my new drive, I get a message on startup to choose the … |
| | Historically I have had about 18.5 gigs of space left on my hard drive, give or take. Curiously, last week, I noticed that the hard drive space was down to 17.6 gigs and today I have noticed that my hd space is down to 16.9 gigs. I say Holysmokes! I …  |
| | So many many problems could be resolved if people only backed up there system with an image. I use to be what I called the reformat queen until I descovered hard drive imaging. I have now gone 5 years without reformating. Anytime something goes wrong which seems to be often … |
 | I dropped my external hard drive while it was running; properties shows half of it being used, but if you open the drive no files or directories show. Is there anyway to pull that info out. anyone I could use the help, its work related. |
| | [FONT=Arial]undefined[/FONT][SIZE=2]undefined[/SIZE][COLOR=Black]undefined[/COLOR] I am using Windows XP Home with service pack 2. when I reboot my computer the hard drive keeps running, and running, and running. when I open the task manager by right clicking on the task bar or doing control/alt/delete it shows the file helpctr.exe many, many times. Then … |
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