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| | I bought a Seagate 7200.11 SD15A Firmware 500GBhard drive last December. Just today when I turned on the PC it got bricked i.e BIOS cannot detect it, for no reason and hangs at boot when I turn on autodetection of drives. I am guessing it is the dreaded [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_Technology#Firmware_problems_with_SATA_disks"]BSY bug[/URL] …  |
| | Hi, Anyone could help me please reply soon. My PC Hangs whenever i insert a CD or DVD on my LG DVD writer and when i restarts PC it take very long time. For this I have to remove the SATA cables of hardisk and reinsert them. After this my …  |
| | iam having p2 433mhz celeron processor system, with 64mb and 32mb sd ram,intel chipset 810 mother board. my system is slow when i install xp operating system, to increase the speed ,whether i can increase the value of ram to 256mb sd ram. i want to know, how much mb … |
| | Hi, I want to write System files in window CE Compact flash card so that it boots from CF flash. The files are 1.Configuration file: bootcepc.cnf 2. Boot logo .pcx file: bootcepc.pcx 3. Kernel Image file (nk.bin) To write i have just copied file's by copy and paste in Flash … |
| | I am running XP Pro. I have installed a new (Hitachi) 1TB SATA hard drive. The drive shows in Device Manager, but it does not show in My Computer. How can I correct this? Thanks |
| | Our normally dependable Dell Optiplex GX150 will not turn on properly. It now gives these messages when I turn it on: Primary hard disk drive 0 not found Primary hard disk drive 1 not found Secondary hard disk drive 0 not found Secondary hard disk drive 1 not found This … |
| | I used a cracker for a program, and my computer restarted itself. When it came back on, it wouldn't play any Aveyond games, coming up with the code 'Error! Code LP5. Failed to unpack the program. Contact the author' or something to that effect. I contacted the author. No help. … |
 | I have a 1TB Maxtor Basics external hard drive. After a power cut, I lost access to the entire data in it; I couldn't see the drive in my computer but the system was slowing down and getting stuck about every 10 seconds periodically. First I tried running CHKDSK.EXE, but … |
| | Hey, Whenever I try to boot windows 7, it bluescreens with stop 0xED (UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_DEVICE). I installed the drive in my xp machine and whenever I try to access it I get a "disk is not formatted" error. When I try to access it in command prompt, I get this message: … |
| | Well, the Cavier HDD in my sig is acting funny. Last night I loaded about 30 gigs of data to it, not that much (its still over 60 percent free). So today I turned on my computer and was using files on it, and all of a sudden it made … |
| | I've googled around the internet and have found many solutions to a Delayed Write Failure to my 1TB external Western Digital Hard Drive. So far nothing has worked. The drive is still accessible and can still transfer files. It's only when I try putting larger files on it, that it … |
| | I purchased a new laptop, that came pre loaded with Vista, I need to revert back to xp professional. I have the full versioin of xp professional service pack to ... and when booting from cd to install I get "cannot find hard drive" Hard Drive Momentus 5400.3 160 gb … |
| | One of my Segate SATA HDD had developed bad sectors, windows was having hard time reading the drive and system hanged randomly I formatted drive today after many months and it seems to be working perfectly fine, I have installed a fresh copy of windows over it without any problems … |
| | so i just recently format my hard drive C and i have a problem, my primary hard drive is D ( C & are the same partition ) my question is: how can i change to be C my primary Hard drive |
 | Hey guys, I have been given the task of attempting to recover some data from a hard drive. This is what I know: -The hd failed the READ test, READ VERIFY test, and Internal Cache test. -When I plug it in using IDE cables, or using a IDE->USB external case … |
| | I am looking for a bezel / faceplate for a laptop cdrw/dvd combo drive - the model is Quanta (QSI) SBW-242C. Any suggestions about where I might be able to buy one? |
| | hello guys! need help with this.. I have 2 SATA Hard disk.. Seagate 160GB (C:) & 500GB (D:) all of a sudden when i open my pc.. an error message popped up in the BIOS. [I]"Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and … |
| | I have been having trouble upon bootup of my XP running desktop. Lately (past month), if there is any removable storage device plugged in (ie memory card plugged into the port on the printer, cd in the disc tray, etc) the OS will not load. It just sits there will …  |
 | Deduplication used to be an exclusive tool of the large enterprise, with an imposing cost, a daunting learning curve, and – with file-only deduplication – a limited ability to use deduplicated data to restore a failed machine. Until now, deduplication has been too expensive to implement in any but the … |
| | Recently I plugged my Western Digital external hdd into my computer and it will keep turning off and then the lights will come back on and it will spin for about 7 seconds and then do the same thing over and over again.. I contacted WD with no help really … |
| | I have a HP DLT VS160 model tape drive with HP DLTtape VS1(160GB) I made backup of my database on tape drive through windows Backup utility and through SQL server Administration now Please guide me how to access the contents of tape drive and if I want to delete the … |
| | Hello everyone! I've really big problem with my external disc. I have two of them (Transcend StoreJet 25M, one of them is mine and other is my father's), same size, bought at the same time. Last nigh my dad reinstalled Windows Vista on his Toshiba laptop, and did a stupid … |
| | I have a Dell about 5 years old.os is xp,the cd reader is not responding.Under device manager there is a yellow exclamation point.the computor says I have the correct drivers installed.I bought a new reader and the same problem exsists.I swapped ide cable connections on the motherboard with the hard … |
 | Most often, when someone talks about a filesystem or file system, they're referring to disk filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ISO 9660 and many others but can also refer to network file systems such as CIFS (Common Internet File System aka Samba) and NFS. A filesystem is … |
 | You already know how important it is to archive business email in case you need it later for reference, audits, or litigation, but storing all those archived bits and bytes is a real headache. Shoving them all on disks or a dedicated hard drive isn't practical or secure, and searching … |
 | I thought I would do a blog on everyday tech stuff that I come across :) I just got a IBM Netfinity 5600, Came through the post a couple of days a go and I was very impressed with it :) Specs: P3 @ 866 1.5GB Ram 2 18GB SCSI … |
 | Rob Siemborski, Gmail Engineer, wrote in the [URL="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-gmail-storage-coming-for-all.html"]official Gmail blog[/URL] on Friday that "a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage." … |
| | [URL="http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/index_eng.asp?br=ie"]The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[/URL] has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 to Albert Fert from France and Peter Grünberg from Germany for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Working independently, the two discovered the Giant Magnetoresistance effect in 1988, although it wasn't until 1997 that the first … |
| | Twenty years ago the hard drives I recall using might not have been fast in the data transfer stakes, they were certainly not lithe and sexy pieces of hardware and I prefer not to think how much I actually paid for a large and clunky bit of kit to store … |
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