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Hello all, Am new here, I have a problem. I have a Dell PC with a SATA Drive (Win 7) and have been trying to hook up my old ide drive using a converter. But the bios and windows dont see the old drive (120GB Samsung) The converter is an …

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Hi, My computer has a Asus A7N8x-E board and has 2 SATA drives. One (80GB)has XP as the OS and the other 120GB has no OS, i use it to store data. Both SATA's are from Seagate. Now, my older computer PII 450Mhz has a IDE WD Caviar SE 120GB …

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Hello guys, My friend bought an old hard drive. He noticed something with the hard drive that it was just replaced with a SATA socket. Now the question is: 1. Does the Transfer Rate of the harddisk (that has been replaced from PATA socket to SATA socket) would be SATA …

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Hey guys, parse here, im actually over there in c++ forums, I got a question. I was told by one of my fellow coworkers at the computer shop that some guy a while back made a utility in DOS that controls or manipulates the Heads or arm on the HDD, …

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I tried to burn a CD this morning, and it got all the way to the "finishing" part, and then it wouldn't stop spinning, then it said that the CD could not be completed and that the disc may or may not be usable again. Of course the disc is …

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I have two cd/DVD drives, both have power and both draws operate (close/sshut) My computer recognises both of them as E and F drives but will not acknowledge any loaded disc, constantly asking to 'Pleas insert a disc into drive 'x' ' All helpful suggestions would be appreciated.

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Since some SATA connections can get up to 6 gigabits per second connection speed, why don't we use SATA instead of USB which the newest version can get 3.0 Gbps.

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HI I HAVE a sony vaio with 5400rpm sata and im a gamer i play games like crysis need for speed shift etc and the loading time is very very slow ...even though i am using game booster and diskeeper pro premium 2010 defragmenter i even close 'explorer exe' before …

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Hi all, Am currently using a Asus mobo and a seagate 7200.12 1TB (that the mobo detects correctly). However when I try to add a new sata hard drive, the bios detect only the new drives and not the original seagate drive. And it can only detect one sata drive …

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I have had this problem for a while now. It started when my "I" storage drive (which holds all my music and photos) was there one day and gone the next. It sometimes re appeared but now has gone and i can not access it. I checked the Bios and …

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Hello Guys, I basically not sure what to do here. I have 4 partitions on my Drive and an external Hard drive and I want to extend the capacity of my Drive: C from a RAW Drive. You can see my Computer management from the file i attached. I have …

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hi i was wondering if the new usb 3.0 hard drive is faster then an internal 5400rpm hard disk ? .......it saya they are 5.0gbps

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Hello All, I am in a bit of a computer crisis right now... I am quite knowledgeable when it comes to fixing computers however I am currently having a hard disk issue that I've never experienced before. I was reformatting my Uncle's Computer (XP Pro, P4, 2.4Ghz, 2.5Gb Ram, 80Gb …

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There are two kinds of [URL="http://www.disk-recover-data.in/index.htm"]RAID data recovery[/URL]; 1. RAID data recovery software, there are many software. 2. RAID [URL="http://www.disk-recover-data.in/data-equipments.htm"]data recovery hardware[/URL], like [URL="http://www.disk-recover-data.in/data-compass.htm"]Data compass[/URL], any body can tell me which tool is better?

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Ogt a 1tb western digital 1tb and tried to install ubuntu on it, but got an I/o error. It didnt tell me what i/o error but it would not install on the hard drive. I tried connectiing it to the Mybook case and it said the drive was locked. But …

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I had connected an additional 40GB HDD to my computer as slave, and checked all connections before power on. As soon as i switched on the power, smoke appeared from the logic board of this HDD, immediately i switched off the power. No more experiment done after this. please advice …

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I have a Dell Dimension 8300 running Win XP SP2. In it I have one DVD-Rom drive and one DVD+RW drive. They both quit reading discs at the same time so I do not believe it is a hardware issue. For the heck of it I threw in a cd-rom …

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I have been using a 1GB of flash drive for over a year now with no problems and decided to get a 8G flash drive but I'm having problems with it. I 'm not sure if the flash drive its self is bad of if I can do something to …

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Hi guys, I just bought an Iomega 1TB external harddrive for my home laptop( I us eit as adesktop because of space). My friend who is computer savvy told me that I should have it on (ac power) all the time and it should be connected all the time. I …

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ok,i accidentally plugged my usb(accessible) out because i'm in rush..after few hours,i plugged back again, nothing happened...i mean,NO AUTOPLAY,NO ACCESS unlike before. I can't see any drive in My Computer.when i go to Device Manager>USB controllers...there is one icon there with a "yellow !"..thinking it's my usb, i always tried …

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Hi guys, i was wondering if any of you can point me in the direction of a network drive, or enclosure, that will work as soon as plugged into a router; any I look at all have included software. This would be for home use so cost is also a …

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I have a very annoying problem. My CDR drive keeps opening and closing for no apparent reason. Since I don't know what causes it, I don't know how to fix it.:cry:

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Compaq Presario 1255, successfully running Windows 2000, despite Compaq stated limitation of W95, W98, WMe. After Upgrading original 4.3gb hard drive to 10.6Gb cloned hard drive, Larger drive will not boot directly, but is accessible by first booting to floppy... Thanks for any suggestions to achieving bypass of the floppy? …

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When I insert a movie dvd into the drive, it makes a funny sound when it spins up. I can then watch this dvd, but when I remove the disk from the drive the dvd drive does not return to 'dvd ram drive", but keep the inserted disk name. When …

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Hi, I need to "force" a CD Drive to "read " an empty CD. e.g. make the laser move across the the disc's surface while it is spinning as if it was reading data. Usually when a blank CD is inserted the Drive starts reading but then stop right away …

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i have a ergo laptop with a 40 gb fuji hard drive in it when i tern it on it asks for a hard drive password it is in a school one of the puiples has locked thhe hard drive is there anyway i can get on to the hard …

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Hi all, I just bought a new 300gb WD velociraptor HDD, I opened up the box and to my surprise there where more than just the two plugs I was expecting, there is another plug with 8 pins and I'm not sure what I need to plug into it or …

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I have several IDE and SATA hard drives that have Master Boot Records on them. I would like to remove the MBR. If I connect them up to a PC as a slave the CMOS does not know what to do. I get a blank screen and the computer goes …

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