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| | I have a Western Digital Combo - USB/Firewire External hard drive. I use it mostly for saving movie files and editing on my Mac OS X computer. One day working the computer I was working on forced shut down on me twice, with out the ability to correctly eject my …  |
| | I have a brand new PC, AMD Athlon 3000+, Geforce 6200, Gforce ATX? motherboard, 1gb of ram, yada yada yada, but whenever I load up a game (Quake4, Doom3, F.E.A.R., Half Life 2), I can play for like 5-10 minutes then the computer screen freezes replaying the same sound over … |
| | Hey all, If anyone could help or give me an idea of what's wrong, that would be great... I purchased a new system and pieced it together: AMD Sempron 3100+ (2.0GHz), 256Kb L2 cache ATI All in Wonder Raedon 9600 128MB DDR AGP 8X Gigabyte GA-K8NS, 1 GB DDR SDRAM … |
| | First many thanks for taking the time to look at my logfile. My computer has suddenly begun to run slow, and magically had a gig of hard drive space freed up. The Hijack This is post fixing any common errors, and the Ewido is after a third run of that. …  |
| | I connected a new stand alone hard drive with 160 GHz and the results that i got was 31 GHz why didn't it acknowledge the 160 GHz? I have it connected with USB2, i'm using Windows XP. HELP Please Any one have a clue ? marbeau41 |
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| | Another one of Choppyness.... I have an HP Laptop. All of the sudden the DVD's are being played all choppy. It just happened suddently literaly from one day to the other, I do not remember to have done anything different, and I definitely did not install any software? Other than … |
| | From the "Trippy but True Hardware Fixes" department: For any of you out there who've had the wonderful misfortune of having a hard drive go totally belly-up on you, but recovering the data on the drive is absolutely necessary, check this out: One of my clients' old Maxtor drives finally … |
| | hey all Im running a 2.4ghz P4 processor, with a Asus P4PE motherboard, 330W ATX power supply, a CD-RW drive, a DVD rom drive, and a 160gig western digital hard drive i was using my computer around half an hour ago, and the computer just turned off, as if someone …  |
| | Hi I'm new to the site and wondered if anyone could help me with my dead machine. It has been running fine up until recently when I added sonicstage 3.3 software. I then came to it several times to find a black screen with the message "operating system cannot be … |
| | I need some help. I had an old PC I was using as a file server running Windows 2000 server with active directory. The motherboard died but the Hard Drive is still working. I need to get the data stored on the hard drive. My problem is this, I hooked … |
| | After upgrading to tiger the programs ical, mail, preview, & worldbook will not open. If i us Pacifist and update the first three they will work temporarily, around 24 hours, then they stop. Worldbook was an install before shipping and I don't have a install disk for it. I do … |
| | Hello all, i am a 14 year old computer tech. I know what your thinking, yeah right some little kiddie unplugged his hard drive and plugged it back in and considers himself a tech. HA. your all wrong. i have revived a gateway that my neighbors were throwing out because … |
| | Hey everyone new here. I am having trouble reformatting my windows xp. The computer runs fine but it is loaded with junk so I need to reformat. When I boot of the windows xp cd i'm asked if I want to install windows or repair. When I click install it … |
| | I am trying to use the external hard drive on a win98se system. It asks for a driver when the startup identifies a new hardware, but I can't find it anywhere, including from winxp disk. Can someone help me with this? foxkueh  |
| | About 3 months ago my saddle bags on my motorcycles broke off while I was on the freeway. Unfortunatly my G3 Titanium laptop was inside one of them. The laptop was a complete mess but I was able to save the hard drive that somehow survived the accident. I need … |
| | I'm using HP Pavillion 520n motherboard; I formatted Seagate hard drive; how do I reinstall Win XP home?; all I have are startup disks; I also have e-machines hard drive with XP on it; all I get is disk read errors with either hard drives; I changed jumpers;  |
| | Im not sure if this Q should be on this forum,but I didnt know where else to put it. OK so my HP Omnibook 6000, I just bought the Fujitsu MHT-AH MHT2040AH 40GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache Notebook Hard Drive - OEM. THis is a generic HD that i was … |
 | Hi everyone, I have a computer with no operating system on it. I have been trying to put one on for a long time. The computer recognizes the floppy drive and so I got some generic CD-ROM drivers, put them on a floppy, and stuck it in the machine. The … |
| | I asked on another topic about a pocket hard drive and someone suggested making my own. Ok, but what will I need to do to make it? What advice can you give on where to go and what to do? |
| | my hard drive wont boot, so i bought a new one and want to transfer the files using usb, well, my profile has a pasword on i so it wont let me access the files under my profile, i cannot get into the OS to remove the password, i would … |
| | Hey Guys, I have a 250 GB maxtor external. I have had it for about a year and has always been a pain but I've managed. Anyhow, today I was trying to copy some files over to it but kept getting the cyclic redundancy check error. I decided to turn … |
| | Hi All, I need to find out what's the biggest hard drive I can use with an eMachines FIC AM39L (FIC K7M-400A) mother board & an AMD Athlon XP 2700 2.71 gHz? I've messed up before with an 200+ GB HDD for a different set up & it only supported … |
| | Hi I've not been on for quite a while. I'm going to have a new and bigger hard drive installed and I was wondering if I can have the old drive conected up as an external drive or are they special types of drives. Bill :-| :-| |
| | I need to download the motherboard drivers for this motherboard: "MSI K8N Neo MS 7030". I have a fresh install of winXP and I need to get my pc and its onboard LAN working!!! [Here is the long story if anyone's interested :sad: ... I made the mistake of using … |
 | :cry: i have one :?: to ask. when trying to install w98 on my toshiba satellite pro 400cs. & i have already petitioned the hard drive. what do i type next to the a> to start the command prompt? I've tried different things & it always says wrong or missed … |
| | ok heres my problem i have xp sp2 installed on my comp right now my windows xp cd is service pack1 so when i try to run the setup straight from windows says i have a older version of windows setup cannot continue, ok so i restart change my bios … |
| | I don't know what I really need but I do know that I need a sound installation of some sort. I was deleting files from my computer, those that I think it was just filling spaces so I can delete them and I think I deleted the sound file from … |
| | I just got a new laptop from Dell and am trying to partition my 60GB drive so that the C Drive is 15GB (will hold OS and programs), and the D Drive is 45GB (for data). I have an XP Pro disc and am trying to get all of the …  |
| | hope someone might help on this. Tried starting computer this morning but it won't go any farther after the post screen. I tried changing bootup from another hard drive but still same results. Everything worked fine when shutdown last night. I tried to boot up from from the cd but … |
| | :mad: OK Seriously, I've been working on my second Hard Drive issue for about a week now and still I'm having problems. I have a Asus P4VP-MX Motherboard with 1.5GB of ram, 2.4GHZ P4 Processor. The Old HDD is 80gb while the new one that I'm putting in is 400gb. … |
| | A few weeks ago I fitted a new network card into my PC, but have recently taken it back out again. So now when I when I go to a Windows XP shut down, the machine shuts down as it should, but the fan on the power supply doesn't go … |
| | Hi This is my first post and I have a a problem that is driving me crazy. My computer suddenly stopped booting. The power gets to the machine but nothing else. No POST just dead. I have replaced the PSU thinking this was the problem (It works ok). The hard … |
| | Yes, I did read the sticky at the top of the forum, and I know that I have clues to where the problem is, but I need to make sure I've tried everything possible before I spend a small fortune on a new mobo. I run an AMD Athlon XP …  |
| | Hi guys im new so please be patiant. Okay Firstly my system Amd Athlon 64 3400+ 512 ddr ram 266 Asus k8vx motherbored Maxtor 200 gigg sata Geforce 6200 256 ram My computer was working fine. i was busy on the internet and my system crashed so when it restarted … |
| | Box1 (Running Web and FTP servers, as well as various shared network folders) Windows 2000 (all current updates) 250 gig HDD 3 partitions 733 mhz CPU 384 mhz RAM NIC Box2 (Main system, requires access to the shared network folders on Box1) Windows XP (all current updates) 20 gig HDD … |
| | Ho Ho Ho seasons cheer to one and all! I think I'm going blond. I've just bought a 200gb drive and cant figure out how to get over the 32gb limit set by some older bios's. I'm running xp home and I guess I'm having some brain fade, and I've … |
| | How can you list ALL the files on your computer in a single list that you can sort and/or edit using Excel and that includes file size and location, etc.? (This was easy in the old MS DOS days, but a way to do this in Windows eludes me. I … |
| | I have new hard drive when i put windows xp cd in it only comes up with ibm secure data disposal utility 2.0 ibm remote deployment manager 4.1 date time of execution 10/27/05 12.30.39 comand executed a:\scrub3.exe/d=all/1=1 return code....................................0 please help i dont know to much about computersi thought xp … |
| | Well, you guys are going to hate me. I've got two computers that need repairs (I'm the tech guy home from college and family expects it to be done). One is an HP, almost-legacy age (5-6) years and on boot-up, does not recognize the hard-drive, I'm not sure if master … |
| | Ok I have a Dell Dimension 4500S, just over 3 years old, which consists of: 2.0 P4 256MB DDR RAM – upgradeable to 1Gb (1 free slot) 40Gb IDE Hard Drive Its been having a hard time recently having connected to a wireless network and dealing with internet & anti-virus … |
 | I have a western digital SATA150 160GB. I was installing linux fedora core 4 and it had formatted the hard drive and was installing linux when my niece turned off my computer in the middle of installation. Now Im trying to install windows again and I can partition the hard … |
| | Going to buy a new computer and just wanted to know if its possible to have a sata hard drive and a slave ide hard drive in the same system along with a cdrom..... thanks in advance for any replies. Ron  |
| | Back in May 2003 I got a new computer with these specs: Pentium IV 2.4GHz 512 PC 2700 DDR-RAM ATI Radeon 9500 Pro Video card MSI 648 Max Motherboard w/ integrated sound card 40 GB Hard Drive (Brand Unknown) 16x DVD ROM Drive (Brand Unknown) Windows XP Pro Ever since … |
| | Hello forum How can I get my USB external hard drive to mount as non root? I am using diskdrake to mount it (me being the owner) and this drive has a NTFS file system. The only way I can view the contents of this hard drive is to log … |
| | Ive been trying to get this to work for over a week now.. After setting up the bios to boot the CD-ROM drive first I pop in the Windows XP disk. It goes to this blue screen where it starts loading all the files on the disk. But, like a … |
| | my hard drive suddenly lost a large amount of storage without me installing anything. this happend after i deleted a virus deteted by my Avast. then my hardrive(40 gb) having a free space of i think 20+ GB suddenly became 1.7 gig. i dont know what happend. so can anyone … |
| | Last night I went to download the update for WoW. Anyway, my hard drive and fan seemed to be spinning very high. Towards the end of the download, I heard a "whirring" or "whistling" sound, which sort of faded in, got a little loud, and then faded out. It did … |
| | Hello, I have a 120gig western digital external hard drive. I currently have about 40 gigs of data on the hard drive, but when I look at the properties it shows me only having 2 gigs of space left. I'm not sure what is wrong, and it will not let … |
| | I am desperate... I have just transfered data from a Hard Drive (HD1) to another one (HD2). So at the end HD1 is empty and HD2 is full. Then the accident happen: Crash of HD2. Impossible to read it, Windows won't even start when HD2 is plugged. Then I thought: … |
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