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| | Hello, I received a Sony USM256EV/V Micro Vault Storage Device 256MB today and have hit a brick wall. [url]http://www.sony.net/Products/Media/Microvault/usm-e.html[/url] It does get recognized on [b]Windows XP[/b] but the package did not come with a CD or floppy containing any drivers. On the manual, it is said that it should auto … |
| | Bit of an odd one this. Running Windows XP Pro on a single workstation. My MATSHITA DVD-ROM SR-8584A was working fine the other day, but now it is convinced it is only a CD ROM. The diagnostic tools I've run also seem to insist it is a cd-rom. I haven't …  |
| | Help Please help. I have 2 hard drives installed one is a 80GB, and the other is a 250GB. My son built this computer. Here's the problem I am running out of space on the 80GB hard drive and I want to transfer all of the data from the 80 …  |
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| | hello i am new to this forum and i have a problem: My cd drive and dvd drive do not apppear under my computer, and in device manager both drives have exclamation marks in yellow circles... I installed a new cd drive to see if this fxed anything, it did …  |
| | This has happened before, but was easily fixed. When I turn my computer on everything boots nicely (after a full nights rest) After Windows XP fully boots, it locks up tight (no mouse movements or anything) for about 10-20 seconds and then when I open My Computer, my CD-Rom drives … |
| | Over Christmas I've taken on the task of putting together a database for work; I don't have a deadline but it would be nice to have something to show in the new year. The database I am intending to build is to track the location of wheelchairs in the hospital … |
| | hi my hard drive has stopped working! i think there was a powersurge and ther is serious data corruption. what can i do to get my work off my hard drive. Please reply Andy |
| | I have studio 8 and I have made some dvd's from vhs. I would like to know where all the files for this go. It says I have used 34 gb of storage. I went and deleted some in my documents where it stored some of it but where is … |
| | One quick question - Will a UATA133 drive work with a SATA motherboard? |
 | I've got TEAC 4163 (DVD-RW) via SATA. When I play MP3s from a CD all's OK. But as soon as I insert audio CDs my CD players freeze (when starting the CD up) - all of them (including axialis). And through Winamp I can hear kinda brattling or clacking as … |
| | I have a WD 160 GB 7200 rpm hd on primary IDE channel set as master, its the only thing on that channel. an optical disk is on secondary ide channel. looking in device manager, under ide ata/atpi controllers under primary ide channel advanced properties the transfer mode for both … |
 | Hi I have a couple of harddrives (same model) that I have put in a striping array. In Nero you can go to File->Preferences->Cache, about the middle of the dialogue there is a way to test drive speed. When I look at the drive speeds like this in Nero the … |
| | Hi everyone; I am soon to do a complete upgrade on my computer system except my monitor which is a 19" NOKIA 46XPro that I'm happy with. My question, is it worth to switch to one of the new serial ATA HDD's now. I hear that the present transfer rates … |
 | Hey, im looking at buyings a new dvd burner, but I also want it to burn cd's as well. Can someone tell me if this one [url]http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=27-151-054&depa=1[/url] burns cd's? I think it does but I just want to make sure. Also, is there anything im leaving out, like compatability issues, …  |
| | I have an asus mobo with athalon 1.4ghz thunderbird. i'm running a maxtor 200gb sata hd with sata card and another maxtor 80gb ide hard drive. both drives work fine, but the sata runs extremely slow. booting up on the sata takes about 15 minutes. what's going on? |
| | In 1999, I bought a computer from a company called Midwest Micro. When I bought the computer, it had Windows 98 installed and came with a 200 GB hard drive. I never had any trouble with it until last year. Something caused the hard drive to shrink from a 200 …  |
| | ok...so my last mobo & chip & audio card took a dump.... so i bought all new gear. 2.8 intel & mobo, 200gig hd, 1gig memory & audio card is coming. here is my problems.... 1. the new hd is sata...the old one is ata.... and when i try to … |
| | I bought a new Dell 8400 in January. It has 2 Seagate 160 gig SATA hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I want to add another single drive to use for video capture and such. I don't need mirroring on this drive as the contents will not be critical. …  |
| | I just bought a new drive & USB enclosure for backup and main music/photo directory. All formatted and recognized (able to copy files to it, etc) and have set the drive as a slave by the jumper setting so basically it's seen as an additional HDD. I'd like to have … |
 | Ive been having problems with my cd burner since i got my computer a little while ago. When i start a burn it seems to be doing fine, then the buffer overrun goes to 99% and just sits there. Ive updated all the ASPI drivers, and even replaced the burner. … |
| | Hi there, I bought a Lacie External HD (160GB, Porsche, firewire), formatted it for Mac, transfered all my music and movies on it and after 1 week my eMac (OS 10.3.8) stopped recognising it. It doesn't mount and the light on the Lacie HD keeps flashing green and amber. What … |
| | I need more storage space for my digital video collection and I am trying to figure out the best option. I currently have two hard drives. One is dedicated to Windows and my applications. The other is dedicated to my digital collection and is full. I could try to add … |
| | Hi I hope all you wonderful people out there can help me I have just built my computer and it has two SATA drives fitted. I installed an O/S and the system has been running fine for the last two days. However this morning I turned it on and received … |
| | I am thinking about getting a DVD ROM. Could you tell me what "Dual Layer technology" is and whether I need special discs for it? __----------------_______________----------------_________-------- Micro Advantage 16x Dual Format DVD+/-R/RW Drive 16x DVD writer supports both + and - standard format Backup your data, share films, record music … |
| | HI, I am srinivas bhatt. Some bad clusters have been developed on my pc's HDD. somebody told me to do low level format. Could u help me how to do low level format and sugest me any other tools to remove bad clusters. Thanking...... regards, srinivasbhatt. |
| | Can anyone think of a reason why my Insprion 8600 won't restart as long as there a external hdd plugged in? I hangs during the boot-up sequence. If I power off the laptop and power it back on (after unplugging the external hdd) it starts right up. I'm trying to … |
| | I would like to install two hard drives. One is a 200gb maxtor and the other a 160gb seagate. What would be the best way to do this? thanks. |
| | hi there, to begin my story i must say i am in a sort off computer terror period off my life, everything seems to slowly break down, thats just a little problem.. thew big problem is that my " work " dissappears with it. SO I BOUGHT A WD 200 … |
| | Hi I hope you guys an help me. I have just built a PC and put two SATA Seagate hard drives in (ST3160827AS) both 160 GBs. The thing is in “my computers |
| | [b]kimfalk[/b] posed a question about static functions in a class in [url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19241.html"]http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread19241.html[/url] to which my reponse was duly correct by [Quote=Narue]You're mixing up your statics. :) static is overloaded for too many different uses. In a class declaration, static means that the name belongs to the class and not to … |
| | Lost Partitions Hi while trying to resize a partition it all went nasty, instead of 3 partitions totalling 200 gig it's only showing 1 at 10 with the os on it, all my data is now in the unpartitioned space. I haven't formatted the partitions or changed anything since it … |
| | Hello -- I am new to this forum... I have a dual boot machine with one hard drive dedicated to Linux, but I would like to undo that and claim the drive for Windows XP and make the system exclusively Windows XP. How can I do that? |
| | Hello, im having a problem with my CD drive not functioning properly. I'm trying to upgrade Windows 98 to 2000, but the installer says no compatible CD drive is detected, and there's not enough room to copy the files to the HD. I checked and it says it's running in … |
| | Hello everyone, My internal DVD +/- drive is not behaving at all and it is making me go mad! When I put a CD/DVD (anything) in the drive the little green light goes on for two minutes and then stops...but then when I try to open the drive by clicking … |
| | Can someone help me please? I've got 17 errors and 3 warnings. The main problem is that it keeps telling me that "Triangle" isn't a class name :confused: i'm so confused. Could you also help me with any other problems that you see? Thx in advance. (list of errors at … |
| | I just bought a Soltek SL-K8TPro-939. I also bought a new serial ATA hard drive. In my old computer I had an 80gb ide bought a few months ago. I put both in the new computer and the Motherboard recognizes the serial ATA but does not see the IDE drive. … |
| | Hi I need some help figuring out the specifics to adding a second harddrive or at least geting a larger one.I am unsure though of I what I would need as I am not too experienced.Things like the max size my os would recognize etc... Here are my PC specs … |
| | About 4 weeks ago my cd drive started to screw up. Sometimes it didn't scan my TFT, but mostly it did. I didn't think much of it until like 2 weeks later, my CD just plain wasnt scanned at all. I then tried everything i knew: reinstalling my CD Drive … |
| | Iv recently acquired a EMPREX single layer 8X DVD burner. Not the greatest of makes i know. The problem is whenever i try and burn certain files it comes up with an error message as if it cant find the file its trying to burn. The files in questions are …  |
| | Hi I just bought a new Seagate 40GB ST94811A [url]http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/ata/st94811a.html[/url] for my Toshiba Satellite 3000 x4 I installed the new drive as master, then booted it said no operating system as I missed the BIOS setup so I restarted then did F2 to get into BIOS (Phoenix 4 build 6.0) … |
| | I work at a salon, and am opening my own soon. All my customers names etc are on work computer. Can I just put a disc into the hard drive and copy them? |
| | Hello all. Not sure who can help here, but I have a major problem with a hard drive. Now I am not sure about all the details. I am aware of the fact though that my hard drive does not work right for some reason. When hooking up to the … |
| | Okay, this is driving me crazy. I recently purchased a segate 200 gig hard drive for my windows 98 second edition system (I am using a pentium III computer with a asus cusl2 motherboard). When I first installed the segate hard drive, I only could access the first 132 GIG. … |
| | I recently burnt 4gb of mp3's onto a dvd-r from an I-Mac machine. I took it home and poped into my pc's Dvd r/rw drive and the icon in my computer switches over to show that a dvd-rom has been inserted. When i double click to explore the disc it … |
| | I have a cdrw which is causing some problems. when i am playing music from the harddrive and recording a cd to the hd from the cdrw, the cursor freezes up and the whole computer spazes out for a minute and when it comes out of it the door to … |
| | I have two hard drives on my primary IDE and two CD/DVD ROM drives on my secondary IDE. I would like to add another hard drive. Is this possible with this configuration? Thanks. -Jim |
| | I have an Acer cdrw(slave) and a Mad Dog DVD Rom/cdrw(master). They were both working fine and then my computer had a nervous brake down and I had to reformat and install everything over. Now the burners will read everything except for blank cdr/cdrw's. I though maybe the problem was … |
| | Need your help please i have a 97 apple power mac G3 model m4405 with floppy drive ,cd drive and single hard drive the problem started sunday i went out with a few friends to a club to watch the superbowl game and my son thought he would help his …  |
| | My CD R/W, working for 2 years, suddenly says all discs are blank But the winbdows troubleshooter says "This device is working fine" The disc goes round The laser lights (for 6 secs while searching the disc) And My Computer, drive E, says the disc is empty Please suggest some … |
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