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| | I need a bigger hard drive but I only have 1 bay. Can anyone tell me how I can copy the data across? I read here [url]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread33915.html[/url] that HD's come with disks for this. I bought my desktop from dell years ago - would it still come with a disk? … |
| | Can anyone tell me anything about the Seagate pocket hard drive . I'm looking to buy the 2.5 GB hard drive the Seagate offers. I know Seagate is a reputable business but is there another type of pocket hard drive that you feel is better for the money. Right now …  |
| | I plan to remove the current HDD running Win ME and install a new HDD with Win XP. Then I'd like to add the old HDD as the slave. Will Win ME be an issue when I access the old drive? Should I uninstall ME before I remove the old … |
| | Hi, I have an important file on a floppy disk but cannot access it as the error message ' Data error - cyclic redundancy check ' appears when i try and open it. I know the file is still there as i have managed to preview it but i cannot … |
| | Hey all! My mother in law bought an HP with an AMI Bios, it is still within a year old and the HDD will not boot up without showing the SMART command failure message. I have tried going into the setup and disabling this but there is no toggle available. … |
| | I can't figure this one out at all... I have an HP Pavilion with two optical drives - 1 is a DVD writer, the other a reader. Whenever I copy an audio disc on the fly, the burn is fine and everything is normal but for some reason, when I … |
| | I want to know if anyone has any insight on which dvd burner is an overall better burner? It is the pioneer dvr -110d and the lite on 1693s. Anyone care to comment on what they know? |
| | Hey there, I was wondering if anyone can help me with this problem. Before I state the problem I'll list my system setup. I'm running an 80GB IDE HDD as my main drive (C:\) with Windows XP installed and a second 200GB SATA drive (D:\) setup as a storage drive. … |
| | I have a brand new PC, AMD Athlon 3000+, Geforce 6200, Gforce ATX? motherboard, 1gb of ram, yada yada yada, but whenever I load up a game (Quake4, Doom3, F.E.A.R., Half Life 2), I can play for like 5-10 minutes then the computer screen freezes replaying the same sound over … |
| | have a mxtor 6B200PO 200 gb. i have updated my bios and now my hardrive shows up in the bios as 189gb which is whats roughly supposed to be. the problem is even though i have sp2 and i used the maxtor tool to change the registry and i have … |
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| | Hi Can someone please help me My d-drive(cd/dvd) just went missing. It was OK when I last used it few days ago. When I go to my computer, its not there. Checked device manager-also not listed. However, "physical d-drive" is OK - I can put in a disc & the … |
 | From the "Trippy but True Hardware Fixes" department: For any of you out there who've had the wonderful misfortune of having a hard drive go totally belly-up on you, but recovering the data on the drive is absolutely necessary, check this out: One of my clients' old Maxtor drives finally … |
| | Hello. Last year I bought a 160 gb WD ide drive and installed as a slave on my computer which was running windows ME, only to be disappointed to find out that ME doesn't support drives that big so I had to format it at 127 GB. So that's what … |
| | friends, i came back with another problem and plz help me.. i brought one hitachi 80GB SATA HDD some one month back.. installed it two weeks back... now i have two hdds one sata and one ordinary.. i have the os winxpSP2 in both the hard disks.. i was worked … |
| | Hey I am just building a new computer, but i'm worried about moving my harddrives over (i dont want to lose the stuff on my secondary drive). The secondary drive is a 250GB western digital So after I install windows on the primary, I assume I would install the cd … |
| | Hello All, I am new to the forum but I have a question...I just picked up a used gateway solo 3150 laptop and the cd rom module is bad, but I can't for the life of me find a way to eject the entire drive so that I can replace … |
| | I have a dell dimension 3000, and the bottom drive (CD-RW) is the only one that reads anything, the computer says that is working properly but nothing ever happens |
| | I asked on another topic about a pocket hard drive and someone suggested making my own. Ok, but what will I need to do to make it? What advice can you give on where to go and what to do? |
| | Hiya Everyone! I am trying to install two hard drives on my system. A 7200 rpm IDE drive and a 10000 rpm SATA drive. I want to load my OS off the 7200 and use the 10000 rpm drive for gaming. It's been about 5 years since I have built …  |
| | I've been on this computer for 7 years. It's a Presario 5700 series with the following configuration: 320 Megs of ram, PIII 500 and is running five drives: [HTML] IDE: Primary Secondary [Floppy] ---- ------- ---------- ------ 0: HDD DVD-ROM Floppy 1: CD-RW Zip 100 |_(j. on 'CS') [/HTML] Before, … |
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| | I have never had so much trouble in all my IT life than I have had with these two firewire enclosures. One is a bytec / welland me-320F and the other, well.. I don't know but it has that same damn chipset under the hood. Well I have had the … |
| | I have a Sony VIAO system with a pentium 4 2.4 GHz with a Sony DVD rw drive. The drive will play cd's, cdr's, audio, etc. When I put a disk in the dvd format into the drive the computer freezes and never comes back until I reboot by holding … |
| | Hi All, I need to find out what's the biggest hard drive I can use with an eMachines FIC AM39L (FIC K7M-400A) mother board & an AMD Athlon XP 2700 2.71 gHz? I've messed up before with an 200+ GB HDD for a different set up & it only supported … |
| | Hi I've not been on for quite a while. I'm going to have a new and bigger hard drive installed and I was wondering if I can have the old drive conected up as an external drive or are they special types of drives. Bill :-| :-| |
| | hi i just bought a dvdrw Toshiba sd-r6472 to change my old dvd\cdrw Teac on my Toshiba Satellite 2450-401. It doesnt work...and i get IDE #1 error message. I tried the dvd driver on a Sony notebook and it works very well...so i updated my bios and also tried put … |
| | Okay, I've had this problem with my floppy disk drive for probably a year now. When I open the Drive A folder, the contents on the disk would show and I could view/cut/copy/paste/edit.. etc. BUT when I would close the folder, take the disk out, put another one in and … |
| | :mad: OK Seriously, I've been working on my second Hard Drive issue for about a week now and still I'm having problems. I have a Asus P4VP-MX Motherboard with 1.5GB of ram, 2.4GHZ P4 Processor. The Old HDD is 80gb while the new one that I'm putting in is 400gb. … |
| | Ok, me and my dad are trying to setup a SATA to my computer. We are using a IDE as the master, I know I should probably use the SATA as my master but listen to the whole story first. We tried to connect it to my SATA1 connector in … |
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