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| | hey all just new here, having a 'pain-in-the-ass' problem regarding my external hard drive. thing is i'm trying to connect this usb drive to my dvd recorder. therefore , it has to be formatted in fat32, and recognized by windows as a mass storage device (or removable media). that last … |
| | My cousin asked me to look at his 4 year old Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook, because he was frequently receiving the blue screen of death. After finally getting it to boot up in safe mode and getting his files off-loaded to my primary desktop, I decided to reformat and reinstall … |
| | Hello all I try to burn a CD. The computer forze before it was finish so I turn the computer off. When i restarted the computer the CD writer nolonger read any CDs data or audio. Does anyone knows how to fix the problem. I once did the same thing … |
| | Hi all. My dvd/rw will burn to a disc but when i put any disc genuine or burned in, it tells me what the title is but will not open to play. I tried a new burner and that does the same. When i put my old cd/rw in that … |
| | I don’t know where to start with this problem but here goes. This problem started because I have been tying to repair a hard drive that showed 7.84 GB instead of 80GB, this I eventually did, but in the process I have mixed up all my drive letters. The drive … |
 | I have a SATA western digital 160 GB hard drive. I have formatted it in NTFS but no OS installed, I use it for storage. Recently I havent been able to access it, it doesnt show up in "my computer". The BIOS recognizes it, I even go into disk management … |
| | My cd hard drive doesnt do anything any more, i put a cd in, close it, there is a yellow light for like 5 seconds, and then all of a sudden, nothing happens, how do i get it working again?  |
| | Hello everyone, I am hoping you can help me with this problem, as I am running out of ideas. I installed Linux on a hard drive in my computer, and then afterwards, I switched back to Windows XP because my girlfriend couldn't get along with Linux very well. The problem …  |
| | Hi guys, This issue is driving me crazy. I have an assembled unit and the CD-ROM just wont load anything. Everytime i load a CD/DVD it says the following error consistently CDStart.Exe - Application Error The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000006). THe CDdrive is HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B and i … |
| | hi i have SATA WD Caviar SE 16 320gb and my mainboard is KT6V-LSR i have problem that when i connect my SATA hdd WD Caviar SE 16 320gb my bios dont find hdd please help me i dont know how to make this sata hdd to work my mainboard … |
 | I have a maxtor 6Y120P0 IDE drive and I restarted my computer and it isnt recognized anymore. It still says it is there in the device manager but it doesnt show up in my computer. This drive has like everything on it. I need to find like a driver or … |
| | A friend of mine set up his new computer but in the mean time he set up a raid array with only one computer. I am not familiar with the abit way of doing it but it looks like it is a 0 array. If he only is using one … |
| | hello iv got a 250gb WD HDD that i have in a External Casing, now the problrm is that when i write anything to it it becomes corrupt, it seems to be any file over the size 10mb (roughly) like for example if i downlowd a 200mb install file and … |
| | Hi there, I have some kind of virus/spyware/adware, and some problem winlogin.exe, and I can't seem to get rid of it, so I was thinking about formatting my hard drive. I was wondering how many times can you format a hard drive, and does it wear it down? Some people … |
| | I want a good external hd for my brother in law. I know I could make one for him but I want one that has good software with it and is user friendly for someone without any computer knowledge for backups. I want a good brand and one with good … |
| | I have a friend that has a laptop without firewire inputs just usb 2. His video camera has firewire outputs. How will he connect this to his laptop? Can he get an external hard drive that has usb and firewire and kind of daisy chain it? Hook the ex.hd to … |
| | i read a long list of posts on combining sata & ide drives and think i can set them up, but wonder which one to put the o/s on.building a new machine with an asus mb & i have a new wd 160 gig sata & an old wd 16gig … |
| | Hi everyone :), I have a problem with my dvd drive.I have an HP Pavillion with Win.XP Home. Recently the drive just stoppped working. I cant play CDs, DVDs, CDROMs or anything. When I try and use the Drive I get the messages (depending on which of two media players … |
 | :) hi! everone. i'm going to install a 100gb maxtor h.d. in my emachine w3080 model w/ a 2.167 ghz athlon processor. it has a 512 mb mem. chip in it now & i am planning on getting another 512 to put it along side of the other. the reason … |
| | I hope that someone may have a quick answer for me. In the bios for my IBM desktop computer, you can go to the startup sequence menu. From there, it indicates that by hitting <shift - 1>, you can enable or disable a device. For some reason, hitting <shift - … |
| | I'm almost sure this has to do with one of my 2 Western Digital hard drives. It happens periodically and I'm almost sure its a sound coming from a drive. I'll hear a sound from my case like something is powering down, then a second later power up again, like … |
 | My sons computer came up with a NTLDR error, because he had a relativily small harddrive I decided to install another one. Brought his computer in to the office, power supply was dead, replaced powersupply, point that I am at now If I keep the "bad" harddrive in it shows … |
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| | [I]Hi all:[/I] [I]Can someone please help with the 2 different error messages I am receiving when I insert a disc into my cdrom drive?[/I] [I]The first one is "windows cannot read from the disc because it is corrupted or dirty, or formatted incorrectly"[/I] [I]the second is "please insert a disc …  |
| | Hi everyone! First off, I'd like to say thank you to anyone in advance who can help me with my crucial situation. I'm having a problem with my BIOS. See, I thought I knew about computers more than I do and was trying to fix the problem on my own, … |
| | Ihave 3 scsi hds and i just bought another computer that was runnin scsi.Never hooked them up before if someone could take the time to explain to me how to go about gettin them to read in the bootup ie: boot 0 boot 1 boot 2 etc.. And where the … |
| | Hello all... hope every one had a nice x-mas :) Can any one tell me of a good HDD that does not fail as quickly as the Maxtor's ... this is my 2nd HDD from them (120GB DM9 SATA), and again it just stops the entire system to a holt. … |
| | I bought a Maxtor One Touch II USB External HDD, installed it. I used the *duplicate* option in its software to copy all my personal files. Then, because I thought the files were stored on the external HDD, I did a rebuild on my internal HDD and erased everything and … |
| | I just installed a slave drive, seagate 120gb, into my system. I have a 40gb as my primary. The slave drive does not show up in "my computer". I went into the CMOS and it is there, I also went into computer management > disk management, it is not on … |
| | I'm having a problem, my drive been using 100% of the CPU lately, for simple task as transfering a picture or application installation. It never done this before and it's a headache because now i can't even listen to music from the drive or play music while working with the … |
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