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 | Ummm, I dont really know whats the problem... I bought a new Bytecc Aluminum 3.5" HDD Enclosure and installed my 200gb ata100 drive in it. I plugged it in and the system recogized a USB Mass Storage. The drive is already formatted with over 100gb of stuff. I cant see … |
| | :mad: i have an asus a8v motherboard and i'm trying to set up xp on my new western digital raptor wd740 hd but xp doesnt recognise the hd. so is anyone out there who can tell me have i got the wrong parts, is there a strange install/setup prior to … |
| | I have a friend that has an older hp n3350. It may be 3 years old or older, I am not sure. His hard drive is small and is totally full. He has put it over to xp which takes up a lot of the space but wants to keep …  |
| | It have a Dell D3000 CPU. I installed a secondary samsung SP0802N hard drive. I thought the problem stemmed from the new speakers i purchased but after troubleshooting i discovered that the problem only occurs with the adding of the additional HD. The speed is slow when i try to … |
| | I have a Maxtor 2B020H Master and a Fujitsu MPE3136AH slave HDDs. I had spyware adaware would not remove and eventually fdisked, formatted and reloaded everything. All is OK now but I cannot make it recognise the slave HDD. I have checked the bios and it says there are two … |
| | Hi i have bought a 2nd SATA hard drive, but it wont work as both my SATAs want to be master, which i thought you could do with SATAs anyway. However, Windows just wont load with them both installed, it doesnt like having 2 masters. Any ideas? My PC spec … |
| | ive got two seagate 160 gig sata150s hooked into my asus p45ad2 mobos onboard raid when i booted up even after i installed the drivers windows only recognized one hdd no raid at all only formatted the one drive other the bios shows two drives but says they are nonraid … |
| | Last night I turned my computer off. It recognized all 6 hard drives. Today when I started it the BIOS and controller card recognized all my 6 hard drives but when Windows loaded it only showed 2, the ones connected to my motherboard. It didn't show the 4 connected to …  |
| | I just got a 40g notebook hard drive and wanted to convert it to an external drive. I bought a case that you put the hard drive in and it will convert to usb for both connection and power. When I plugged it into my notebook (compaq presario) windows xp … |
 | Hey guys long time no see. anyways I have a problem. I am trying to back up my dvds with dvd x copy, the program decodes the dvds and gets rdy to burn them, then it doesn't. it ejects the cd and says writing error. I am using memorex dvds … |
| | Hello, everybody I am having problems with my computer trying to recognize a 80GB SATA HD. What lead up to the problem was I bought a DELL GX280, by I wanted to put my business's corporate license on it. And Microsoft says I can only do unless I reformat the …  |
| | Hello, I have a Western Digital Raptor SATA drive that one morning decided that it didn’t want to load windows anymore.... It would freeze about 2 or 3 seconds after the Window XP logo appeared and then would flash a blue screen of death at me and reboot. I tried … |
| | Hi – new user here with a hard drive problem. I currently have a 20 GB Fujitsu hard drive (MPF3204AT) with an ATA-5 interface. All OK until….. I recently bought a used 20 GB Seagate hard drive – with an Ultra ATA/66 interface and can’t get it to work. Other … |
| | I have installed a second WD Hard drive in my Dell Dimension 4100. I had to use the 40 pin connector originally on my internal Zip drive. I now have nowhere to connect the Zip to the motherboard as all four connections are used up, two for CD drives, two … |
| | just installed second sata hdd on my machine (jetway kocab board) but the machine wont recognise the second drive.any ideas?. the machine is running fine otherwise |
| | I have a DVD+RW/CD+RW drive in my laptop and just recently it has stopped reading blank dvds. It reads absolutly everything else; audio cds, blank cds, dvd movies, burned dvds, program cds, etc. I used the drive about a month ago and it worked great. I have not installed a … |
| | [url="http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606538p1.html?fromint=1"]http://cube.ign.com/articles/606/606538p1.html?fromint=1[/url] [QUOTE] Sony has reportedly suggested using Blu-ray's disc structure and HD-DVD's software technology while Toshiba has suggested keeping HD-DVD's disc structure and applying Sony's multi-layer data-recording technology. [/QUOTE] |
 | I´m trying to switch my CRX 160E DC burner to a new computer (W2Kpro). Trouble is that I lost the installation CD. The unit works fine with the generic Win drivers but doesn´t have the software to write. Sony site has no drivers listed, only CDExtreme update, which won´t run … |
| | Hi there! I'm kinna new in all this stuff but i'll try to do my best! I have a Toshiba Tecra M1 Laptop and i wanted to exchange my current DVD drive for an slime DVD Writer. The writer is an official one from Toshiba but i didn't buy it … |
| | Hey, I have a toshiba laptop which has a dead motherboard. I bought a little caddy and took the hard drive out of it and connected it via USB to my new laptop. (Both laptops ran XP) It worked fine yesterday and I was able to access my old files … |
| | I have replaced my old hard drive (HD-O) with a new hard drive (HD-N) because the operating system was corrupt and could not be repaired without erasing HD-O according to Dell. HD-N now is working fine with MS XP. However I can’t get the computer to recognize HD-O (tested and … |
| | :sad: I am about to hall my hear out! Someone please Help. I have a new ASUS P5GD1 and a new SATA drive. The MB only has a Primary IDE controller (Blue), NO Secondary. It has a Primary and secondary RAID controler and 4 SATA controllers. I have 120mb Seagate … |
| | Hi, newbee here, I wish to fit an additional drive to my PC and make it the boot drive. The drive adverts seem to specify SATA or UDMA133, but I don't know which one to buy? My PC is over 2 years old and the XP Device Manager show my … |
| | Ok i was rebuilding my computer, and got a 40gb harddrive from my friend for only $10, I was trying to set it up as my secondary slave drive, but I coulndt figure out how to set the jumpers. I just left them how they were and connected it up, … |
| | Hello forum ppl, Im in the process of upgrading a computer. Heres the new specs: Athlon64 cpu asrock k8upgrade 1689 motherboard maxtor 80gig SATA hard drive. (along with other things that arent really related to the problem) when i tried to install windows xp with the third party SATA driver … |
| | I needed to update my firmware to my dvd rw because of issues that were said to be causing problems with my computer. There was a firmware for a benq 1620 which is what my model was so I thought. I installed and now it screwed everthing up. My computer … |
| | How can I dual boot from 2 hard drives? One will run Xp Pro and the other Linux(Fedora). I want the XP one to auto load after like 10 secondsbut have the option to load Linux instead. How can i do this? I have a 70Gb Seagate and a 250Gb … |
| | Have 2 HDD's in my computer One is 100GB with all data. other is 30 gGB with NO data. It is a formatted but empty drive. When I attempt to remove the drive my computer will not go thru the Drive detection stage in the BIOS. If it does get … |
| | What are ALL the parameters considered for measuring the "QUALITY OF CD-ROM"? Is it only the speed by which you can write on it, and other parameters expiriencable during the CD writting itself (like failing to write it correct) or is there something more? (What I have in mind? Well: … |
| | I just put in a hard drive,set it up as a slave,bios and device manager recognize it but can't access it thru MY COMPUTER. my cd rom. has become my E drive,still have C: no D: My jumper settings are correct. I don't get it. |
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