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| | Hi, My boyfriends laptop (Medion) is having some problems with the DVD drive. It will read some burnt dvds (mostly the movies) but not all (alot of the tv shows won't read). It's not the discs, because they worked on my friends mac, but I really don't know what the …  |
| | Hi! I know you have probably answered this question a thousand times however I have read a thousand replies and not sure if I still know what to do. Problem::::: I bought my son another hard drive Seagate 320 gig to be a slave to his his comp of a …  |
 | my system was running fine- three HDs and a DVD drive, i had to un hook everything to do some work and now only my first HD, the one with XP on it, works. when i first boot up, BIOS takes a lot longer than before and then i get … |
| | Normally I can fall asleep and not wake up till morning but last night as I lay in bed last night unable to sleep, this thought popped into my head ............... "Has anybody ever thought of making HDD interlinkable? So for example if you have a Database and you need …  |
| | I have 2 hardrives in my Dell Dimension 4500. One is 200 gig, and the other which I bought the other day is 400Gig. When installing the 400 gig I must have done something wrong because the 400 gig is only showing up as having 150 gig. Can someone help … |
 | I recently installed a new Double Layer Lightscribe DVD burner and am having issues with copies of DVDs I am making (let's assume they are legal DVDs). Whenever I burn a copy they never quite work right. At various points, it varies on each burn, they stop working. I did … |
| | Circuit board swap - didn't work, can see in bios, but can't see in XP I tried a circuitboard swap, exact serial/pn and firmware - but when it boots, it keep trying to access the drive, with that up and down sound. Finally it is seen in the bios, but … |
 | Hello guys, recently i bought a 200G HD to replace my old 40G HD but I already set mg 200G HD as my primary harddisk and i want my second Hd to be preimary slave HD but I encounter this "PRIMARY SLAVE ERROR please press F1" already check my jumper … |
| | Hi All My first post. I have a Acer 660 laptop which has a duff CD / DVD rom combi drive. I need to replace it but Acer Support is charing 200 pounds for a replacement. The thing is I've seen similar drives on ebay for 20 pounds but what's … |
| | occasionally system will not reconize the sata drive when booting up. The cure is to reload the sata raid drivers from mother board manufactor. Like you have to do when you are installing windows xp for the first time where is says press f6 to load any additional drivers. no … |
| | Cannot get it right. I have A ASUS P5B de Luxe WiFi-AP MB and 2 Samsung Sata 500Gb disks and 1 WD 200Gb IDE disk. I boot from the 2 disks who are in a Raid0 configuration. Works fine. But (there always is) the IDE disk is completely vanished. I … |
| | I have a HP Compaq Presario 2100 series laptop that will not recognize the IDE hard drive that is brand new. It has been installed correctly and it is not being reconized. I am reinstalling Windows XP Professional on it. So far I have had no luck at all on …  |
| | Hey, I really need your help as my hard drive is dead. Is there anyway I can retrive my files? I don't have a backup! When i plug the USB into any computer, it doesn't run. IS THERE HOPE? |
| | I have been trying to install a WD500AKSS 500 gb drive to no success. My system is XP Pro on a SuperMicro X6DAL-XTG mobo. Can't get info from any manfacturers. My mobo manual states the following: ...for drive capacities over 137 gb your system must be equipped with 48-bit LBA … |
 | When I boot up my computer with my 200GB Maxtor external hard disk connected and powered on, the POST/BIOS freezes while booting. Depending on when I turn the drive on, it will freeze in different parts of the boot process, but regardless, it still freezes. The one thing that really … |
| | Hi! I have a PC with a SATA hard disk. I wanted to add a second SATA hard disk. From what I had read it was just a case of plugging into the right holes with the right connectors. I thought I could handle that! However, when I connected the … |
| | Hi All , I have Pentium-4 system with 40GB HDD, 256MB RAM and process 2.8(I think so). I bought new 160GB HDD and installed Operating system in that. Initially it shows both the old 40GB HDD and 160GB HDD but now it is showing only 160GB HDD only. And one … |
| | I actually just joined today so I am not sure if this has already been discussed here. My question is: Is there really a software that can reset a Seagate hardrive back to zero? Going back to zero includes resetting the bad sectors of the drive. My friend claims he … |
 | Hi all, On (lucky me!) Friday the 13th, my [b]Maxtor 250GB SATA[/b] drive failed. Its connected to a Promise SATA PCI Card, and my computer specs are as follows: 2 existing SATA drives connected to mobo, 2GB ram, 3.2Ghz P4 HT. [b]The error:[/b] Windows loads very sluggishly, and when I … |
| | Hi I am new in the forum.....I just installed windows vista and I'm having trouble with the hardrive memory....every time I enter my computer I see that the memory is lower....right now is 10 g less than it was when I install vista....I ran Norton scan and it did not …  |
 | Hi, Ive recently brought a second SATA HDD for my comp. Installed it with no problems and its working fine the only problem is the size its says it is. I bought it as a 250GB but when i look at it in "My Computer" it says that it is … |
| | Hi, my name is Joe. I bought a used IBM Travelstar for my Laptop. It had Windows NT on it. I used FDISK and was able to delete the Non-disk partition, but I cannot delete the other partitions. Tells me I need to delete the Logical partition first but there … |
| | Hi all I am in serious trouble. i am not able to access my c: drive(when i open my computer it is shown like ([B][COLOR=red]Access Denied (c:)[/COLOR][/B] wherever i click on the icon it says c:\ not accessable. Access Denied. For this drive the sharing and security tab in the … |
| | I keep getting boot from cd: boot disk error insert system disk when I try to load up. The drive is browsable from a temporary one which I added. In the recovery console I have tried bootcfg /rebuild fixmbr and fixboot to no avail.. This problem occured after I installed … |
| | Hard Disk - One Partition Unaccessible...!!! Hi I have attached three hard disks and have booted from one hard disk...but why one of partition (partition J ) of another hard disk is not getting accessed from the hard disk from which i have booted. Normally i was able to access … |
| | My laptop recently crashed (by the way, thanks again to those of you who responded to that post =] it works now) and so i was looking into the area of external hard drives for back up between my desktop and laptop i don't really know much in the hardware … |
 | I have had this dirve since October and Must have made around 20-30 single sided DVD burns since then. A week ago I put in a CD to re-install some drivers, the next day when I put in a Disk it made some kind of noise as if it were … |
| | My niece's Dell Inspiron 5100 has got a Hitachi 40 gig hd and it over heats. Got a laptop cooler and it still runs hot 125deg's and up. If i take a regular house fan and turn it pointing up and sit the laptop on top of the fan it … |
| | hi i have a maxtor II one touch and recently it just wouldnt boot up. started to panic as it has incredibly important photos. i sent it to a data recovery specialist and he said that he managed to get it working again, but couldnt access the data because it … |
| | Hallo, 1 week ago I got an external USB Harddisk (MaxtorOne Touch III: 7200RPM 500GB) and I pluged it into USB port. Windows gave automatically drive letter G: . All was fine, and I could save my data on it. And today I restarted my PC and found that I … |
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