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ok this might solve my other problem. I have the IDE cable plugged into my mobo and then the other 2 connectors, the first connector goes to my cdrw which right now is not plugged in and has no jumpers, the last one on the cable goes to my dvdrw …

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Just installed a maxtor 200gig hard drive. Got it up and running for a day and transfered lots & lots & lots files to it. It is a third drive, so I installed it with a sabrent pci controler card. Also have 2 cd-dvd player\burners. computer is a Dell 8200 …

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I recently had some really bad problems with XP and am gonig to do a reinstall of the OS. I have also purchase a new 160G hard drive to accompany my 40G that is already in the PC. I play a lot of battlefeild, war craft and other online games. …

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Hello all I am trying to install a slave drive in my pc. The drive is a Maxtor 80 gig unit. i have installed the software and it keeps telling me that the BIOS must be set to AUTO or ENABLED for the drive. I am unsure how to do …

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Hello all, Been a lurker here for a while now, and decided to join in. I'm always finding good info here. I have a friend who has a spare 80G SATA internal drive from his desktop pc. He wants to use it for an external backup with his laptop. I …

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My DVD drive doesn't seem to recognise DVD -R format discs, but it supports DVD +R discs just fine. Is there any way that I can update or alter my drive so that it will accept the DVD -R variety? My drive is labelled as follows in the Device Manager: …

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[url]http://www.cwol.com/serial-ata/ide-to-sata-converter.htm[/url] i was wondering if that would change the transfer speed too...since they say sata is faster...i dont know if it would or not..but would it?

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hey I am planning a new comp and i came across this info about a soltek board: SL-K8TPro-939 IDE: 2x ATA 133 up to 4 Devices, 1x ATA 133 up to 2 Devices by Promise 20579 with RAID 0/1/0+1 SATA: 2x Serial ATA with RAID 0/1, 2x Serial ATA by …

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Hi, im a bit of a begginer when it comes to computers. I have recently added a another 40GB hard drive to the 10GB i already had, i was wondering weather i could store all my important thinks like windows and my broadband modem drivers and graphics card drivers etc …

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Hi guys, i recently purchased a 512MB USB storage device, something im mainly going to use for school and some programming projects. But i noticed something when i looked at the space available. I just plugged it in my computer (running winXP) and noticed only 495MB are available. Now i …

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my dell xps removable d drive is vibrating faily loudly. it didnt do it in the beggining, but once i have taken it out a couple of times it now vibrates. just wondering if this is a problem, and if it is, what i can do about it. thanks #tbone

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I have a friend who just bought a Toshiba Satellite A65-S1762 laptop. He can't get most USB devices to load onto the computer. It will recognize the device, but that's as far as it will go. We tried going into device manager to see what the problem was, but it …

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I just purchased a new DVD burner with all the goodies. My problem is that I wanted to start making copies of my movies. I purchased a spindle of DVD+R Discs and when I try to burn it tells me that it does not have enough space to insert another …

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Hello, I recently purchased a Maxtor Onetouch USB External Hard Drive at 200gbs. I installed it and it worked perfectly for about 30mins. Unfortunately in that time I copied over my media collection (8000+ songs) and then set WMP to work creating a new media library as it was relying …

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:cool: This is so weird. I have one hard drive which is C drive, one that's D drive and a cdrom that's E drive. For weeks D drive has just been missing. It's not in My Computer. I've looked in the bios. Think I set all to auto. Tried installing …

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I turned on my computer today and the second hard drive starting to make a clicking noise. It did not want to load Windows for some reason. I have removable drive bays because I am constantly removing my drives for other drives. I switch the bay in the chassis of …

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Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me out. My CD burner doesn't burn CDs anymore, I've tried looking around to see if anyone has the same problem, but I can't find one similar to mine. If you find a board already solved, can you link me to it? …

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On the back of the cd drive there is a 4 pin audio connect. It says to connect the cd drive here to the sound card. Why would you need to do this?

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It's a desktop pc that may have been virused; not sure. During POST I get two followed by four "beeps". I don't think the system ever "checks" the floppy drive. Everything was seated inside and I tried to boot from a Win2K startup disk (since a regular boot only elicits …

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Anyone know how to 'destroy' the FAT12 boot sector so the system BIOS does not attempt to boot to the floppy (no 'invalid system disk' message) and will continue to the next boot device? I know if I zero out the boot sector, it will achive the desired results, but …

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can anyone please help,hd appears to be on the way out but i dont want to lose the data and start reloading all the software/updates.can i copy the data to another hd and replace the old one with it. :?: ;)

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I recently found out that my floppy drive isn't working. I was in the process of putting XP on my computer, when I realized it no longer works, and I need to run a boot disk to get anywhere because I've formatted the hard drive. When I turn on the …

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It happens all the time right? I have a major problem, seems to be a machanical or physical problem with the HD motor spins but it wont read, I was a Idiot for not backing everything up, but I have a bazziloin things I need off of there, what to …

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hello I want to build a computer and i'm afraid i have an abundance of ignorance about some basic things. Looking at hard drives, will an eide drive work or does it need to be specified as an ide drive? also, if the drive is specified as "ultra" what does …

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I have a K8V SE Motherboard with 2 WD 160 Sata hard drives Raid striped connected to PRI Sata & SEC Sata connecters. I wish to add 2 WD Sata 200G hard drives as storage on the Sata 1 & Sata 2 connecters without using another raid array & I …

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OS: Win98 Location: Home I just installed a second hard drive on my open computer. I did this because this is a computer that I use as extra storage and backup my network on. I installed a second hard drive (one that I have had lying around for a while). …

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I have a Western Digital 250Gb drive, using it as a secondary drive in my machine. Asus P4P800 motherboard, using XP pro on my OS. Problem…. When using the installation tools from WD it says that I can only use 137Gb of the drive. Says that Windows can only see …

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I currently have an EIDE hard drive installed with XP on it. I just bought an an xtra hd for more storage and was told I could get a serial Ata. I didnt realize there were differences and now I noticed when going to install it the xtra connector off …

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Hello all. My main hard disk is failing[C:], according to SMART, so I purchased another one[F:]. Both are from Western Digital, so I used their tool included in order to clone the current failing hard disk[C:] onto my new disk[F:]. All went well, except the program said it could not …

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