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| | Hello Everyone Recently, my comp was having problems with spyware and other stuffs which caused me to re-install Window Xp home Edition yesterday / spent 2 hours with the Dell Technician.. Everything seemed fine after the succesful re-installation. Had installed back some Network/Video/Sound Drivers successfully. Which pleased me. After a … |
 | Alrighty, we got us an issue. Again. Me dood's machine is getting reformatted. All is well, we put in el disc, chose his SATA drive out the two [an IDE Samsung 160Gb and a SATA Seagate 80Gb] in the comp. The reformat went well, no problems. The issue is when … |
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| | I installed my new HD, inserted my Windows XP CD and started the computer. My BIOS reognized the new HD correctly, the CD started working fine... I chose to make a partition. It was about 49% done and I realized I did not chose the right size for the partition. … |
| | I installed a 300 GB Samsung internal hard drive as a slave, and it doesn't show up normally under 'my computer'. I can find it if I right click on 'my computer' - 'manage' - 'device manager'. It shows up under 'disc drives' - 'samsung 300'. When I click on …  |
| | I have just bought a new 80Gb ide hard drive to go in my computer at work as the old one was getting full (only 9Gb!). Iv put the hard drive in and connected it all up and its not working. The pc can detect its there but when I … |
| | hi every1~! I am in need of an external HD as I want to keep an archive of my old data. So I was wondering if you could recommend me to the one that is not very expensive but relieable. I think about 40-60 GB of space would be great, … |
| | hi guyz, I've recently built my PC from scratch (took a while too hehe), and i went with the option of not putting in any floppy drives at all, as i thought i won't be using it anymore since i can back up all my bigger files onto cds & … |
| | I have just purchased a Western Digital SATA drive to accompany my Seagate SATA drive and my ATA drives. The system (XP) will not recognise it. I plugged it in place of the Seagate drive to ensure the cables and controller were OK and if I have both connected, neither … |
 | Hi, I had a ..um..cute friend drop off her HP Pavillion and I had to reinstall windows XP for her, alls working but the CD-RW. the device manager says its working fine, the drivers loaded successfully. I did the old unplug the drive reboot, then plug it in and let … |
| | Historically I have had about 18.5 gigs of space left on my hard drive, give or take. Curiously, last week, I noticed that the hard drive space was down to 17.6 gigs and today I have noticed that my hd space is down to 16.9 gigs. I say Holysmokes! I …  |
| | well i just got a new 40gb seagate hdd for extra storage since i have a 20gb as my master, i placed it as a slave. Now my issue is this. When i look in the bios, it shows up there, and in device manager is shows up, and when … |
 | I dropped my external hard drive while it was running; properties shows half of it being used, but if you open the drive no files or directories show. Is there anyway to pull that info out. anyone I could use the help, its work related. |
| | i have a hard drive that was in another computer and i put it in a case to use as an external hard drive. my windows me will only recognize it in the device panel and not in my computer. i know the hard drive is good because i formatted … |
| | First off, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this. Please move if so :) I bought a second PC a week ago which I plan on using as my main PC. Now I want to play around with different OS's on the older one. I'd like to … |
| | Hi, I'm running Windows Xp on my system. I currently have a 200 Gb hard drive installed. When I got this computer, I also added my 80 GB hard drive off my old computer. It worked fine for over a year until recently when I did a system restore. Now, … |
| | I recently installed a 200gb maxtor Ultra ATA/133 hard drive. I wanted extra storage space so I connected it as a slave to my existing 120 GB hard drive. After connecting all the cables I restarted the machine. I got as far as the windows loading logo, and then the … |
 | I work for an engineering company as the ITT. We have to maintain backups incase of some sort of issue so that we can go back and recover files. A little while back, one of the employees burned DvDs consisting of files copied from CDs in order to reduce the … |
| | I just wanted to get a few opinions from people before I spend monery on a new external hard drive. I love to test new beta products. I am downloading windows vista beta 2, along with the new office 2007 suite. I had installed the office beta on my good …  |
| | I put in a SATA drive in my computer to run a SATA2 HD 120 gig from Western Digital (the sata drive was recommended by a Geek Squad guy). The Sata drive works just fine but my problem is my HD isnt showing up to use in "my computer" area. … |
| | Hi, I have a hp laptop (about 14 months old) with CD/DVD drive. It doesn't read CDs. I can see the drive on my computer, but when I open it, it shows a blank CD. Rarely it opens and writes CDs . But most of the time when I try … |
| | I recently took apart an older HP Computer and took out a Maxtor Hard Drive (20 gig). I wanted to put it in my newer computer as a second drive. The hard drive has Linux installed on it and is set so Linux is the only partition. The newer computer … |
| | Hi guys, I have a SATA hd having windows XP installed in it. After that i used PATA hd for a while and now i want to use my previous hd..i.e the SATA hd. But when i connect the SATA hd , the system is not recognising the presence of … |
| | I put in a new motherboard and hard drive in my computer. I had some data on my old hard drive that I wanted to try and copy to my new hard drive before formatting it. So I conected my old hard drive with a USB to IDE cable to … |
| | I have a similar but unrelated problem. The "R-Driver" make USB 2.0 'USB-to-IDE' cable does not let my laptop (HP-Compaq nx9005, which has a USB 1.1 controller) recognize a 3.5" SAMSUNG 20 GB HDD. The HDD just keeps making ticking noise as if it is "hunting" for the boot sector. …  |
| | Right ill start from the beginning so you can get the whole story, Built a new computer but was short on cash so i scavenged two old hard drives out of other computers (1x20gb and 1x40gb). Soon ran out of space, they were running realy slow so after a while … |
| | I'm interested in the answer to the "not support IDE" question as well, ...any I've seen with SATA had both, ...re the original question of external HDD cases, mine are called "enclosers" and the one for 5.25" HDDs was about 1/4 the cost of a HDD, very cheap and handy … |
| | I have 4 hard drives that I want to connect together and either make them run as one large drive or individually. For each of the drives I have a device that connects the the IDE and power slot and outputs them both to a single parallel female parallel port. … |
| | Ok I have very little of a clue as to what I am supposed to do, or if it is even possible. I am using a laptop dell latitude for school and was wondering if I would be able to hook up an old computer tower to the laptop to … |
| | I have a dead USB drive that reads used space 0 bytes and free space 0 bytes. I learnt that this is caused by a bug in Windows. Ive tried a couple of utilities to recover but in vain. Does anyone know a utility that can help me recover the … |
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