| Subject | Date Asked | Expert |
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| Hard Disk Drive | 7/16/2008 | Ashit Gajwani |
Q: When starting my home system an error message shows that the Hard Drive is not correctly configured, ...
A: Need a bit more information from you. Do you get that "..not correctly configured..." screen before ...
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| Secondary hard drive install | 7/11/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I was wondering if you could help me out with installing a secondary hard drive in my laptop. It is ...
A: Ok here are some things: First you don't want to install a 7200 in a laptop unless you are always ...
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| Dropped I/O Magic 250 Gigabank... | 7/10/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Chris. My I/O Magic 250 Gigabank was working and then my gf dropped it about 2 feet up and I was ...
A: If the drive is initializing you should be able to get the data off. Try testdisk ...
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| External Harddrive | 7/9/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I am having difficulty accessing my 500 gb external harddrive. It began acting sluggish and I began ...
A: Yep don't you just love good old microsoft? You need data recovery software that ignores the format. ...
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| I need to figure out how to return a hard drive to its factory settings if possible | 7/8/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: To start off with, my hard drive already had three partitions on it. One was a 40GB partition for ...
A: Yes bios has everything to do with what the motherboard will see on hard drive size. Check the ...
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| dual processor | 7/7/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: would like to know the difference between dual processor and cluster of processors and also about ...
A: Dual core refers to the main processor of the computer (soon to be replaced by quad core), with two ...
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| External HD install | 7/6/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I'm totally computer illiterate. I just bought a Maxtor 320GB portable H=hard drive to back up my ...
A: Make sure you have all the windows updates installed. If the drive came with a software disk you ...
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| adding 2nd hard drive | 7/5/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a dell dem 4100 that i have added a samsung hard drive in and it shows up as a hp recovery i ...
A: you'll need the HP recovery software to be able to read the recovery back. I don't know of any ...
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| Disk Partition | 7/4/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Chris, I have a Sony Vaio that has an 80G harddrive (Win XP)that was partitioned when I inherited ...
A: First run cleanup http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=223 ...
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| windows was unable to complete the format | 7/4/2008 | Ashit Gajwani |
Q: Sir, I have a problum about seget harddisk the problum is when i put new winxp cd in cd-rom and ...
A: Obviously the setup detects errors on your disk which need to be addressed before a clean install ...
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| hard disk vibration | 7/1/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: what are actually the cause of hard disk vibration? what are the consequences?
A: Hard disk can vibrate from cheep cases, loose screws, over usage (not enough memory), and some other ...
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| hard drive needle broke | 6/29/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a 320 gb hard drive and all of the sudden it stopped working, it was making a noise and the ...
A: Opening the drive was not a good idea. I am really sure you cannot but internal hard drive parts. ...
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| Win XP Password | 6/28/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I went out to fix a Dell Dimension 3100 that had a BIOS PW issue. I got passed that and then I ...
A: Have you tried entering safe mode? (by hitting F8 continuously before windows boots you should get a ...
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| Dell Dimension 3100 | 6/27/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a friend who manages an apartment complex that has a Dell Dimension 3100 running a program ...
A: If the bios is password protected you need to reset the bios manually, but you'll need to know what ...
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| unable to install window XP in a 500gb SATA external disk | 6/26/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: i am unable to install window XP in a 500gb SATA external disk which is connected to my system ...
A: That is a default function in XP and vista. They will not let you install to a external drive. There ...
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| I need to figure out how to return a hard drive to its factory settings if possible | 6/24/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: To start off with, my hard drive already had three partitions on it. One was a 40GB partition for ...
A: All hard drive manufacturer's have utility to do this. Just visit the manufacturer's site and ...
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| hard drive freeze | 6/23/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: if i leave my PC on,it will lock up with message: Drive 0 not found: Serial ATA, SATA-0 Strike the ...
A: When the computer boot to the manufacturer or motherboard screen, presss the correct "F" key to ...
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| hard drive | 6/22/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a Compaq presario v6210us laptop I've had about one and a half yrs.All lights come on except ...
A: Do you see anything on the screen at all? You can try cleaning it out to start with. Buy some canned ...
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| Drive Stability | 6/21/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I'm having trouble understanding what's going on here... I own a Toshiba Protege M400 laptop and I ...
A: Purchase some canned air from an office supply store. Remove the panel above the keyboard. The might ...
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| Startup Folder Programs No Longer Start | 6/20/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Yesterday I tried to add a second IDE hard drive to my PC. I was not successful—the BIOS did not ...
A: You can try removing the cable from the CDROM drives and adding the second drive as a master there ...
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| Missing External AC Power Supply Maxtor One-Touch 4 500-gig external USB drive | 6/18/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have lost the external AC power supply for my 500-gig Maxtor One Touch 4 USB external hard drive. ...
A: Most of the places that used to have these don't have them since seagate took over. Here is one on ...
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| fprgotten password | 6/16/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I was deployed for a year and forgot my password when i got home to my hp laptop. how can i get into ...
A: Keep pressing F8 before windows starts. Choose safe mode at the menu. Choose to administrator at the ...
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| HDD not shut down? | 6/15/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Two days ago, I was using my laptop to browse the web, chat, and listen to some music. I was on the ...
A: Well first off a system restore to factory will erase everything, including any partitions you made ...
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| Internal Hard Drive error | 6/14/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a Packard Bell PC from 2003 and apparantly the hard drive is unable to be formatted. ...
A: Opening the computer will depend if the side panels remove separately or the sides are connected to ...
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| Security | 6/13/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a Dell Dimension L500r computer I bought in 12/99. I want to donate it but I'm afraid of the ...
A: Formatting the drive will remove everything. If the computer came with restore disks you can use ...
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| Defrag. | 6/12/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a computer that for some reason I can not get the defrag system to operate. It was working ...
A: Run checkdisk first. open my computer and right click the drive. Choose tools and click the button. ...
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| Hard drive problem | 6/11/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: When I click on c or d drive to open or to explore it of my PC it will ask for 'open with' ,how can ...
A: That’s because a trojan create an autorun file in your C drive. Do this: Right click on “C:/” from ...
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| Wrong voltage on external hard disc | 6/9/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Heya Chris. I accidently plugged in my 17' laptop AC adapter to my Maxtor external hard disc. Once I ...
A: Well since it sounds like you burned it up. It may be just the case died and not the drive. Besides ...
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| Hard Drive Problems | 6/8/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have two drives one is C: that is 33.7 GB and has 27.4 GB of free space and then I have the E: ...
A: You can resize partition using programs like partition magic (if these are on the same actual ...
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| simple tech hard drive not working | 6/5/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: i bought a external simple tech 500 gb hard drive 5 months back, suddenly it just stoped working,the ...
A: Best thing to do is remove the drive from the case. Then install the drive internally inside another ...
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| Hard disk | 6/4/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: How to unlock the password protected harddisk ..... i forget the password that i set .... where are ...
A: That depends on how you did it and what windows you are using. If you used a third party software to ...
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| windows xp new install | 6/2/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I'm am trying to install windows xp on my presario 2800 i manage to install 98% of program then ...
A: When installing make sure you choose to format the disk where you are installing to. Make sure it is ...
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| portable hard drive | 6/1/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: my maxtor one touch 4 mini is unreadable on my laptop.I plugged the drive in an it is automatically ...
A: Do you safely eject the external in windows when using it (little green arrow at bottom right). If ...
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| PC Not Recognizing New Hard Drive | 5/31/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have an HP Pavillion Desktop (Model a6242n) it came with Vista Home and has a 300GB HDD. Today I ...
A: the drive most likely has no partitions so it won't show up in my computer. Right click my computer ...
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| HP external harddrive | 5/30/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: recently I reformatted my desktop but did not disconnect my external drive...now I can not get it to ...
A: Not disconnecting the external when formatting and installing was a bad idea. Can cause all sorts of ...
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| Hard Drive Size | 5/29/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I am trying to install a Hitachi Deskstar 1,000 gb hard drive into a windows xp system. (Pentium 4 ...
A: First remember that XP does have some limitations with hard drives. Make sure you have all the ...
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| Maxtor Ext HD not recognized on XP | 5/28/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I have a new Maxtor onetouch mini 4. It is not recognized at all on this machine (AMD 2.1 G ...
A: First make sure you have all the windows updates including service pack 3 -avail from windows ...
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| Drive J | 5/27/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Drive C is a raid 1 (mirror)volume and the windows installer was broken and I was advised to ...
A: Not too much experience with Raid by try this. Go ahead and ghost J to C Boot to windows (off J by ...
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| Screensaver not working | 5/25/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: Ever since I bought my new computer last year, it won't go onto the screensaver by itself. I've done ...
A: One of your programs is always accessing the hard drive. Certain virus scanners and spyware programs ...
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| Compaq Presario 1600i | 5/24/2008 | Chris Morrison |
Q: I would like to put a larger capacity hard drive in this unit but cannot find where it is located. I ...
A: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00033108&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=95186&lang= ...
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