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I have an iOmega Home storage 1Tb model 31803000, which contains some info I would like to recover. Had it working on XP using a router (Sitecom 300N), but it stopped working normally, went visible/invisilbe and when visible stopped during data transfer. Now I am on Windows7/x64 Home, but still …

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I have a Dell Vostro 200 Slimline that I want to put another hard drive in. I have a harddrive out of a Dell Dimension E521 that I want to put in their, however, I don't want to lose my data on it. Currently the BIOS is set to RAID, …

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I am trying to put a Western Digital 500 GB HDD into my Dell Inspiron 1011 (which has a 120 GB HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). I was able to exchange the hard drives, and my laptop was able to recognize the HDD, but there was another problem. After the …

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What's up with my external hard drive. It stopped showing up on My Computer, but I see it in device manager (device working properly... Ja). I plugged it into my laptop and I can access all the info on it, but when I plug it back into my desktop.. Nothing! …

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Dear friends. I have been using an external hard drive for over several months now to back up my files, till one day i discovered the stored files could not be accessed, for reasons only known to the computer. It does store still, it seems to me; but i could …

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In some software like tune up, they serve a utility that helps us to recover permanently deleted files from memory, how is this possible ? What really happens in hard disk/ memory when we [SHIFT]+[DELETE] a file ?

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Recently while watching a show online in bed my laptop decided that it had enough of this world and threw itself off the nightstand. Upon trying to turn the laptop back on after a few minutes I get the error of either some wires came unblocked or faulty hardware and …

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Why do we need cache memories, and why L1 cache has greater memory than L2 cache ?

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hi, i have a Seagate 2TB external HDD when i plug it into my computer it powers up. (i can hear it spinning up, it clicks a few times then stops spinning but is still powered up) when i go into device manager and then USB controller its showing up …

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I recently installed a 1TB WD HDD in my Vista x64 computer. I went through the normal Disk Management steps, formatted and assigned a drive letter, all of that. Used it for several days. My main HDD was almost full so I moved a few things over. Then, all of …

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Looking to find ANY information on upgrading an old Sony VGN-FS980 laptop HD to an SSD. All help will be appreciated. I am trying to speed the system up. I currently have maxed out the RAM and shut down most of the garbage software and Apps. I am currently using …

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I'm ready to pick motherboard for my custom-build. Problem is I cannot find any having both floppy drive connector [B]and[/B] NVIDIA SLI for any Phenom II X6 processor...boards either have one or the other, but none have both. I want the SLI, but been told on many forums now that …

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Well actually my friends 3yr old son dropped my external hard drive. Now it will power on and everything, but it makes this noise as it sits there and tries to get loaded by windows like a clicking noise, or if you put a scratched up CD in a drive …

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what are some reasons why the operating system might require accurate information on how blocks are stored on a disk? How could the operating system improve file system performance with this knowledge?

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For unknows reasons, other than the fact that I'm trying to intall Windows 8 beta on a separate partion (and the fact that, well, I AM dealing with Windows <sigh>. I kept ending up with a dead 8GB thumb drive that was dead because Windows, in its infinite wisdom caused …

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how do you delete a hard drive completely so that no data can be obtained? ive heard of drilling holes in them, then starting it up.is it true and is there any other way to do it

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i has 500gb hitachi external drive...i have divide to 4 partition...Whenever i plug in my external hard drive in computer, it detect but when i open "my computer", the window explorer just freezes and the green ribbon shows up, moves very slowly, and eventually stops at some point. i can …

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1. Stop writing any data to memory card anymore 2. Recover lost data in time 3. Choose data recovery software with pertinence. Watch out when performing memory card data recovery operations 4. Back up original data in advance if it is allowed. These four points are good for guaranteeing perfect …

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Hi I have, almost in a panic, realised that I have some hard drives that need to be replaced as they are 6 years old. Although I have had no issues with them I thought replace them before they fail. It still seems a shame that a working hard drive …

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Hi I have set up a RAID 1 and want to move my data to the RAID and leave applications and the operating system on the non raid drive. I just copied My Documents to the RAID and did a backup before deleting My Documents from the non raid disk. …

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Hi Friends, I want to develop a website like file manager. Where user register and will get fix disk space lets say 20MB. Now user can upload their pdf, doc, txt, jpeg etc files upto their disk limit. I can develop upto this using PHP. Now my issue is if …

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Windows XP - Computer 1 & 2 - IBM Netvista ThinkCentre's P4; 2.8 GHz Problem: Computer 1 (Windows XP Home) copied photo's from 2gb SD card using Lexmark Pro200 printer with SD card reader to Easygo 4 GB flash drive (verified that the photo's were there.) Computer 2 (Windows XP …

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Hey everyone, Our team at Dell SMB has recently put together a [Slideshare](http://goo.gl/oJtjH) of our most popular white papers. I hope this is helpful to the Daniweb community! Thanks, Mourin

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Hello everyone. I'm VERY new to forums so please bear with me as I will undoubtebly irritate a few with my lack of proper forum ettiquette and never-ending paragraphs... my humble apologies if I offend :) ... I recently acquired an old 1GHz IBM Thinkpad Laptop (not sure exactly what …

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I am updating my personal computer's hard disk to an SSD drive soon, and I see there are two main types of drives, SATA II and SATA III. My computer's motherboard was made for SATA 3GBPS, will a SATA III drive still run on it?

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Hello, I have a Custom-Made PC from DinoPC.com. It's been working fine until today, I closed it down safley as I always do and took the case off to see how many PCI slots I have. I then unplugged the Hard Drive and plugged it back in. Now the PC …

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Hi. Today I bought a used Hard disk. Now I want to format it completely and check for any bad sectors which HDD may have. How can i do this? Tell me the best way to do it. I am Windows user. Hard disk is IDE (not SATA)..

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for the past weeks my micro sd card has reduced from 4gb 2 30.9 mb and i dont know wat to do..please can u help me with this...

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[FONT=Trebuchet MS]I'm having trouble getting a hard drive to become detected. I have an AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 512 mb ddr sdram, nvidia geforce 2, and windows xp home edition. A while back (before this computer had windows xp), I was re-installing windows ME (it had gone squirrelly on me, …

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