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| | does anyone know if you need a siig card to install an 200gb hard drive in a 1.25GHz G4?  |
| | Sorry to go UB33R L33T there but trying to stay decent. Heres what i got. I have a 1gig Emac 512 megs ram. 10.3 and a 40 gig hard drive. Ive done nothing more drastic then search the web. This is my first mac and though i consider my self … |
| | I have an aluminium PowerBook with 500MHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB SDRAM, 18.63 GB harddrive. I'm getting a message that says that my start up disk is full. I checked my hard drive space and I'm getting very low. I think that the only thing that may be taking up … |
| | Hello, this is my first post so thanks for any help you can provide. At work, I had about 350 Contacts in Outlook 2003. A coworker tried to sync his blackberry with the contacts and instead of taking them from the computer, he did the opposite, he managed to take …  |
| | I have an 80gb hard drive which I wish to partition. On one partition I would like to install Windows 98, mostly in order to play older games. One the larger partition, I would like to install XP, for anything else I need to do. I understand that Windows 98 … |
| | [COLOR=Black][SIZE=4][FONT=Arial]I'm very frustrated at my computer. My friend had built me a computer and for some reason the Windows XP Home OS does not install...and if it does, the computer keeps crashing. (I've tried different cds of XP, even Windows 98-->NOTHING WORKS) I've tried using a new hard drive (Western … |
| | Just installed a maxtor 200gig hard drive. Got it up and running for a day and transfered lots & lots & lots files to it. It is a third drive, so I installed it with a sabrent pci controler card. Also have 2 cd-dvd player\burners. computer is a Dell 8200 …  |
| | I recently had some really bad problems with XP and am gonig to do a reinstall of the OS. I have also purchase a new 160G hard drive to accompany my 40G that is already in the PC. I play a lot of battlefeild, war craft and other online games. … |
| | One of my computers will not boot. It may have been infected. If I attach the hard drive from this computer to a slave of the hard drive of another computer, will I be able to access files on the old hard drive? Are there any serious risks? Responses can … |
| | I just purchased a new 160 gig hard drive. What is the best way to configure the hard drive. A friend of mine suggested the following: 20 gig - Drive C Windows operating system only 5 gig swapfile Remainder for files and applications I'm no expert, but here is my … |
| | Hello, I have recently decided to save money and build my own computer. I purchased a case with a 420 watt power supply, a DFI Lan party kt400a, 512 mb ddr3200, and a video card and hard drive. The video card and hard drive are irrelovent for this question. I … |
| | Ive always been used to a couple of folders under the documents and settings folder. Recently I went to just check it out and for some reason I have 9 different folders in it now. I only have one user account so I figured I should only have that folder … |
| | is there a way to partition a hard drive without the need to format the disk? i have heard pc have one 'partition magic' but i cant find one for osx.cheers |
| | Hi there. I am new to the forum so hope someone out there can help me. I have just purchased a smartdisk 160GB external hard drive for my G5 but when i try to connect it via Firewire, the drive does not mount onto the desk top and i cannot … |
| | i ripped apart my computer because i got impatient waiting for a case to come via fedex. unfortunately, my current power supply doesn't have a atx 12v connector, so had to put it all back D: now my hard drive led wont turn off, after fighting with it logically for … |
| | My computer has been having some issues since I had to reformat and recover my hard drive. I came in contact with a trojan that I couldn't get rid of. Some of the symptoms I am having are unexpected freezing when I open zip files, One of my hard drives … |
| | I have A Compaq presario I am trying to install windows XP Home on I have Fdisk the hard drive formated it done a scandisk 0 all segments tried to install XP but half the files will not load this one has me lost.any help would be greatly appreciated have … |
| | HI there, I'm hoping someone here can help me. I posted this in the WinMe forum but to no evail and I have new info now too. My computer does not recognise my hard drive as being larger than 2 gig anymore. I recently formatted my machine as I had … |
| | I Just put a new computer together, well really my dad did all the work, so now I'm trying to install Windows XP Pro. The hard drive already has exsisting files and OS on it so I'm trying to wipe everything and install the new OS (I don't know if … |
| | Hi, im a bit of a begginer when it comes to computers. I have recently added a another 40GB hard drive to the 10GB i already had, i was wondering weather i could store all my important thinks like windows and my broadband modem drivers and graphics card drivers etc … |
| | I have an Inspiron 3800 that I bought a while back and hadnt done anything to upgrade it since I bought it. I recently bought a bigger hard drive and more ram. I also installed XP Home. I now want to replace my old 600MHz Celeron processor with a faster … |
| | I have a new computer with a 120g hard drive and a 20g hard drive as a slave. I also have 1 gig of memory. My question is this: In setting up partitions for my computer, is it ok to have just one partition or should I make several? For …  |
| | When I'm online my Explorer keep blocking and sometime sending me to a different site, and what's this Syncor.exe every time It start my browser crash. My hard drive is divide into 4 parts with two operating Systems drive F: for the Internet and drive C: for game and so … |
| | Hi all, I'm looking for some help. I'm in dire need of it. I'm trying to setup the computer I built. I cannot get the windows XP CD to setup properly. Here are my specs... Athlon 64 3500+ w/ Zalman 7000a heatsink (& arctic silver) Asus K8V Deluxe SLI 939 … |
| | Morning to all I need help on adding a new hard drive to a windows 2003 server. The hard drive shows in the bios and not in my computers. Currently there is a local drive and cd-rom connected plus a floppy disk drive. Any ideas as to why the new …  |
| | Ok, this should be the last question I have about completing my new computer system. I have a 160GB ATA drive in my current HP system. It does not have an OS on it and is used for storage and programs only. Should I uninstall all the programs that are … |
| | I have an Inspiron 3800 that I recently installed WindowsXP on. The computer boots fine and works normally, except when i'm not doing anything on it. It will either completely lock up with the display still on or it will flash a blue screen for 2 seconds and reboot. It … |
| | Lately my computer has been acting up by rebooting randomly, not running any of my games for a long period of time, giving me the "game.exe has caused a problem and needs to close" or in the case of HL2 "The memory could not be read". Blue screens seems to … |
| | Hello, I recently purchased a Maxtor Onetouch USB External Hard Drive at 200gbs. I installed it and it worked perfectly for about 30mins. Unfortunately in that time I copied over my media collection (8000+ songs) and then set WMP to work creating a new media library as it was relying … |
| | Hello, I'm new to these boards, because I need some major computer help. I have normally always been good with fixing computers and I've never had to ask for assistance, but this problem I'm having is seriously becoming a nightmare. It all started three days ago. I got a new … |
| | My computer has gone into super slow mode. I reformatted and attempted to re-load windows which took more than 14 hours. I thought the hard drive had gone bad so I replaced that. That didn't help. The computer is still is super slow mode. Any ideas?  |
 | If say, you suspect you have some viral files that replaced some important window system files lurking about your computer… and regardless of what you try, you cant seem to locate them, let alone get rid of them... And there’s a good chance that it’s the root cause of your … |
| | Hi, I was helping my brother install Norton Internet Security, part way through we got [color=red][b]"error 1327 invalid drive c:\"[/b] [color=#000000]Looking at his drives he as 1 floppy A:\[/color][/color] two cd/dvd drives G:\ and H:\ and the hard drive is I:\. Any ideas on solving this problem would be most … |
| | :cool: This is so weird. I have one hard drive which is C drive, one that's D drive and a cdrom that's E drive. For weeks D drive has just been missing. It's not in My Computer. I've looked in the bios. Think I set all to auto. Tried installing … |
| | I turned on my computer today and the second hard drive starting to make a clicking noise. It did not want to load Windows for some reason. I have removable drive bays because I am constantly removing my drives for other drives. I switch the bay in the chassis of … |
| | Anyone know how to 'destroy' the FAT12 boot sector so the system BIOS does not attempt to boot to the floppy (no 'invalid system disk' message) and will continue to the next boot device? I know if I zero out the boot sector, it will achive the desired results, but … |
| | What problems will I have in replacing the hard drive in an XP system That is the only hardware change but will I have to reinstall XP or can I clone it with Ghost or Partition Magic |
| | I recently found out that my floppy drive isn't working. I was in the process of putting XP on my computer, when I realized it no longer works, and I need to run a boot disk to get anywhere because I've formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the … |
| | I have a K8V SE Motherboard with 2 WD 160 Sata hard drives Raid striped connected to PRI Sata & SEC Sata connecters. I wish to add 2 WD Sata 200G hard drives as storage on the Sata 1 & Sata 2 connecters without using another raid array & I … |
 | OS: Win98 Location: Home I just installed a second hard drive on my open computer. I did this because this is a computer that I use as extra storage and backup my network on. I installed a second hard drive (one that I have had lying around for a while). … |
| | Hi. I'm new here and I need help. We have an IBM computer. Because of some problems we were having my husband put windows millennium on the computer. Unfortunately, it made our problems worse. Nothing will work right and we can't uninstall because we can't find it. We want o … |
| | I currently have an EIDE hard drive installed with XP on it. I just bought an an xtra hd for more storage and was told I could get a serial Ata. I didnt realize there were differences and now I noticed when going to install it the xtra connector off …  |
| | Well, I bought a used presario 700 laptop about 2 months ago. The owner is a friend who told me that it was not the best computer but I wasn't really thinking of using it for much more than taking notes. Anyway- i realized that the battery didn't hold much … |
| | Hi everyone, My laptop (a Compaq Presario 700) is about to die, i think it only has a few weeks of life left in it, apparently due to bad clusters on the hard drive. Anyway, I love a project, so I hope somebody can help me. I would like to … |
| | When I click to explore the hard-drive, it comes up and says MTF corrupt. I tried to run chkdsk, and it won't let me. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? It is windows 2000. Thanks |
| | (I have some questions here about hard drives and software reformatting hard drives. I am a novice and have no education in computers other than self learning) Awhile back I had what I thought was a hard drive failure. My hard drive went corrupt during the night running maintenance. It … |
| | Hi, I thought I could find some ideas here to help me complete my new system. So far I have an ASUS P4P800 SE ATX Motherboard, 512MB DDR PC3200 RAM, Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz 800Mhz FSB 512KB cache. I will be using my 128MB video card from my current HP …  |
| | I reformatted my hard drive and everything went okay, except when I try to install the correct drivers it freezes at the browse portion to access the drivers. It will only work on the A: drive. But my drivers are saved on a zip disk B: when I try to … |
| | I finally decided to build my own computer but have a question. I thought you just put in a new hard drive and installed the os. The seagate hdd that I want to buy has a discwizard starter edition disc. Do I really need this to get started or can … |
 | I am thinking about purchasing a new hard drive, I have a HP pavilion with an ASUS CUW-AM mobo. Now im not sure what the difference is between SATA, IDE, RAID etc. which one should I choose? and is there any thing else I should take into consideration before buying … |
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