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Hello, I was wondering if someone knew how i can use both of my hard drives for storage. my primary C drive is only 6 GB and my D drive is 8 GB and Pretty much empty. i have been trying to drag programs folders into the D drive by …

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I have a Philips internal (aftermarket) cd/dvd drive that has always worked fine with all WMP iterations. All of a sudden, related to no software or hardware issue I can think of, I get the error message stating that Windows Media Player can't detect any cd drive. I have checked …

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My flash drive keeps going on and off. When I plug it in, nothing usually happens, and I waited like 20 mins and it popped up. Then it went away again after a few minutes. And when its off, Windows can't detect it, so i can't format it. I have …

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I have tried this drive in 2 separate computers with the same problem. It will read cds of any kind but no dvds, except in one instance it read a dvd that was made with dvd-decrypter using dvd-decrypter as the read program. i have emachines 2.93ghz 1gig ram 450 gig …

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hi, friends my system config is: Intel EM64T 3 ghz processor, Asrock 945gl dual motherboard having 6 sata ports, 1 gb ddr ram, 80 GB, i am running windows XP. My problem is, recently i have bought a 160 GB sata seagate hard disk but my sysmtem is not reporting …

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Hello, I have a computer I built about 2 years ago maybe a little longer. I recently upgraded my DVDRW drive from IDE to Sata. Now more times then not when I insert a cd the drive begins to spin it and then shuts down. It takes me a while …

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Hey everyone, I'm Warren. I just bought a new HP notebook because my old DELL died - motherboard, graphics card and power supply. I bought an enclosure for the HD left over from the DELL running XP. After plugging the HD into my notebook (running Vista) the device appears perfectly. …

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hi guys i know you have probably come accross this problem loads of times but i have installed a second hard drive on my pc as a slave it is showing up in add hardwere and is saying that the new hard drive is working but its not showing up …

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Hello, thanks in advance for any help! Recently got a new HD, Seagate Barracuda SATA300 320GB. My machine is a Dell Dimension 5100 I put the drive in, connected power and SATA cord cables. Then run device manager or the seagate tool that came with it, they both tell me …

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Is it alright to upgrade the hdd speed in a notebook that's 2 years old? I need a new hdd, but I want it faster. Would this be likely to cause problems? Its original speed was 4200 rpm, I want more. I leave it plugged in for the most part, …

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hi guys i know you have probably come accross this problem loads of times but i have installed a second hard drive on my pc as a slave it is showing up in add hardwere and is saying that the new hard drive is working but its not showing up …

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Hello All, I have a strange problem with my external 120GB hard disk. It had 4 partitions but with this new office laptop, the 4the partition is not visible at all. I don't have access to disk manager but when I go to utility to safely remove hardware, I can …

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Ok, I have an Airport extreme that I'm using as my wireless router. So far it has worked great. I have a PC and Mac and the wirelessly share files between the two without problems. I can't however get the Airport to work with my external HD. I wiped the …

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Does the ide controller exist in the hard disk itself and only the IDE host exists in the PC mother board? If yes than how can I find out that how many IDE hosts my mother board had and how many hard disk I can connect to each ? Thanks

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Heya! Hopefully you guys can save me a headache or three. I run a tower containing both a CD/RW and a DVD/RW drive. I ran a 60 GB HD for years in it without problems, then made the mistake of attempting to add more space. I purchased a 250GB drive …

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CD/DVD DRIVE READ/WRITE ERRORS If your drive is still under warranty, STOP here. Protect yourself. Contact mfg. for tech support, replacement, or warranty service. If your drive isn't covered by warranty but you would like to keep it running if possible and don't feel comfortable with a do-it-yourself project, take …

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Hi, there, how are you all? I am experiencing a problem with this SATA nonsense. I have an IDE harddrive as my main HDD, I wish to keep it this way as I don't want to re-install windows, I basically don't have the time to go about fiddling with all …

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Hi, My Acer laptop can read CD's and burn them but can't read or burn DVD's. At first it was able to read DVD's but could not burn them now it can't read them also. It's a year and half old. What is the problem and what would be the …

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aright I'm gonna resurrect an old problem, but add a twist: i can see my second SATA drive in device manager, but cannot see it in My Computer, ive already checked out the thread based on this problem but hasnt fixed it for me yet. K my twist is this: …

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A week gone last Friday at work a tester PC's outer casing came into contact with a bare 240Volt live wire (The less said about the events leading up to that situation the better!!). Needless to say the PC got very unhappy and refused to work for the company any …

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Ok, currently I do not have this problem but I would like to know how to solve it should(when) it happens. I realize recovering data is a specialized field in some cases but for a small job....is it possible to clone a HD that is not responding using any available …

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Many people have thought, especially when they experience a catastrophic data loss that a hard disk drive failure can’t happen to something that hasn’t last for 15 years or so. They believe that hard disk drives are impossible to break down, thus the physical hard drive crash problem is not …

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I am trying to fix a friend's computer and problems abound. About 7 weeks ago a friend's computer wouldn't start anymore, i found out the graphics card was dead and replaced it, their machine was also running really slow so i reformatted the hard drive and put on a fresh …

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I'm working on an E Machines (not mine, I wouldn't own one), that I think has a hard drive issue. The drive is readable, but the MBR and boot sector are either bad or corrupt. What I want to know is, is there any way to pull the info in …

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I have a Packard Bell easy note which I bought in June 2004. It has a cd burner/writer which is also a dvd player but not a dvd burner. Idon't useit that often only to burn music and back up pictures. It has been working fine up until yesterday when …

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I have a Dell Dimension 4600 for about five years now. For the last 18 months or so whenever we booted up the computer, it would give the error message Primary Drive not found Press F1 to continue. We have just been pressing F1 and that has worked until now. …

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Hey everyone, I have customer that I just replaced a DVD-Rom with. When we check the old one, it would freeze up when you would try to play any disc in it, I tried re-installing drivers and all that jazz, nothing worked and the computer just went into a hard …

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Hi! I had my USB external HD 200GB for about over 1 year. It was working fine until 2 day ago my town got thunder storm, my house electronic was out and got back in a sec. My computer was restarted, I could see my USB HD in window explorer …

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Wiped HDD are doa I received several Maxtor 40 gb hard drives that were “wiped” by the donor. So far, I have not been able to get past “operating system not found” or “hard disk not found” on any of them. Using three different computers and trying all the variations …

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