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| | I'm having a problem with my IDE drivers. The primary/secondary IDE channels in my device manager have yellow exalamation points and the error is a code 31 "unable to load drivers". unisntalling/reinstalling/rebooting does nothing. I've tried uninstalling all of my cd/dvd burning software and that did not fix a thing. … |
| | Hi everyone, Please help me!!!! I have an external hard disk, previously i have stored my personal files and folders inside. Right now going to give it to my friend but before doing so i need to completely delete all the data inside so that no one can access to … |
| | im making a computer i have a hd with win xp but it wont boot the hd in bios, the bios is award i think it checks mem and detects ide drives an then says floppy disk failed (40) and restarts and keeps goin thru the same thing i dunno … |
| | As the title suggests, I'm replacing my mobo and my current HDD are in Raid-0. My question is when I get a new mobo can I set the bios so that it recognizes my HDD as being in raid-0 with windows etc. already installed? Never actually reused a HDD before … |
| | Hello people, I wonder why many business machines such as servers and process computer (I work in one power plant) use SCSI disks? I noticed that practically all computers that do a lot of processing use SCSI disks. These computers are rather old (4 years and older). Maybe today, situation … |
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| | due to a windows problem i need to back up my master hard drive before i reinstall . I can connect it to another pc as a second HD fine, i can access my user folder in documents and settings using the network sharing option but i cant access the … |
| | Hello all, Whenever i connect it to my friend's computer, it gets detected well. all the data from my disk can be copied to my friends disk. also all the data can be copied from my friends to mine disk also. but whenever i rejoin my disk to my computer, … |
| | Which one of these hard drives would you recommend: Samsung SpinPointF1 1000GB, 7200rpm, 32MB cache, SATA-300 ($300 est.) Western Digital Raptor 150GB, 10000rpm, 16MB cache, SATA-150 ($179 est.) Online @ tomshardware.com, the majority of the benchmarks were ruling in favor of the samsung, but i don't get that!! how did … |
| | I have a motherboard which supports: 2 x Serial ATA/300 SATA, 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE and a SATA2 Hard drive, to they make converters to connect the SATA2 to one of my existing ports listed above? Thanks in advance.. |
| | Here is the specs of my motherboard ports: 2 x Serial ATA/300 SATA, 1 x Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) IDE As you can see I have SATA controller built in. I purchased a WD 180 GB HDD which is SATA2 . My question is will the SATA2 HDD run off of … |
| | As part of the original setup on my daughter's laptop, it asked if I wanted to set up a partition on the HD dedicated to recovery. I accepted and the 60 Gig HD set up a 12 Gig FAT32 partition. I guess that it immediately filled and it's apparently 100 … |
 | For some reason my computer refuses to burn DVD's using Nero Express 6, or by simply copy and pasting the file i want to into the DVD drive icon in 'My Computer' My CD/DVD drive is a "_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG" I am trying to Burn with DVD-R's Any Ideas? Serunson. |
| | I am trying to make a driver floppy for my Western digital 80 gig sata hd, I have found the files but when i try to put them on a disk it tells me its too big... i had a floppy already but the info got corrupted and as i … |
| | Hello. I have a Victorinox Swissbit 512 flash drive. I have had it for over 4 years now, and used is several times a month. Recently, I tried accessing the data on it, and I receive the following error message: USB device not recognized. I tried troubleshooting with windows, but … |
| | [COLOR=black]Hello, I have a Maxtor 5000Le 80GB external unit. I am running Windows XP Pro. I've had this unit for years and it has been great. About a month ago my computer locked when booting and after checking out all my external hardware, I found out that this unit had … |
| | i've already XP intalled on C drive and now want to install linux on F drive that 's free and having 20 gb. but unable to do this. pls help me to install this on my pc. here is the name of linux: PCQLinux 8.0 Based on Red Hat 8.0 |
| | I was using using external hdd mobile rack as storage. The rack was connected to the computer via HDD to USB adapter with external power supply. It worked fine for some time. Suddely, computer stopped detecting the hdd although it could detect something called 'storage device'. A number of attemps … |
| | My external hard drive has been acting very strangely for the past few days, and I can't figure out what the problem is. The drive disappears intermittently from my system, then reappears as an "unformatted" drive, which is inaccessible via My Computer and recovery tools. If I unplug the drive's …  |
| | Problem statement : My Seagate Ext HDD fan/electrics died, & I need to recover the files on the hard drive. HDD appears OK. I read somewhere that I could take the HD out of the Seagate enclosure & connect it to my PC (Dell Dimension 2400) after I had removed … |
| | Hello there,bout a year ago my pc packed up and i was gutted because i had hard drives in there that had loads of music files pictures etc.Well last week i bought myself a laptop and also a intergral external enclosure to put my old hard drives in to transfer … |
 | Hi, I'm looking to increase my storage and I'm looking into an external hard drive. Just wondering what people recommend and if they have had any problems with heat? I've tried a hard drive enclosure with one of my internal HD and but stops working when it gets hot. I'm … |
| | Hi, i have just upgraded my computer to 64bit after my last computer failed on me, i think that in the process of my last computer failing, windows must have corrupt as i can't load up windows with this hard disk - i just get a blue screen error straight … |
| | I have a user's laptop which is currently running XP Media Center. In order to connect his notebook to the domain, I have to reformat and reinstall as XP Pro. One problem... it appears that his hard drive is SATA and I can't get the XP install disk to see …  |
| | I have just bought a Maxtor 3200 usb external hard drive. It is formatted in ntfs. I have two operating systems Win98SE and XPHome. Both are formatted in fat32. I need to keep them both in fat32. However, I can't seem to format the hard drive in fat32 (doesn't give …  |
| | Hi, When I run the XP installation CD, the following message appears: "Disk does not contain a Windows XP-compatible partition" I'm guessing this message stems from the fact that neither FAT32 nor NTFS partition is present (see below). "244 MB Disk on disk [MBR] Unpartitioned space 243 MB 76317 MB … |
| | Hey all, newbie here, have a question for ya. Machine: HP PAvillion 5218nr (2006) 80Gb HD 200Meg Ram (UG) And the ever lovely Celeron M I've read similar posts on the topic already but wonder whether there's a genuine problem uninstalling/deleting the HP system recovery partition if i have the … |
| | Hi I bought 80 gb IDE HD for celeron PC as secondary HD When i installed the hd it suppose to show the full volume of 80 gb but it was showing only 34gb. I thought this celeron PC may not support such big HD So I tried the same … |
 | Hello everyone, *sigh* continous computer problems recently. I had a faulty hard drive replaced it with a 320 gb SATA seagate hard drive a little while ago(starting from scratch). The old hard drive kept refreshing; it was whirling down, then spinning, the whirling.. etc. After installing the new hard drive … |
| | The DVD drive won't read DVDs burned by it, it will read other DVDs like the ones from the DVD manufacturer or software DVDs, however if I burn a data DVD or an ISO image, nothing will show on the DVD disk. I had this problem with a Lite-ON DVD … |
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