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  • average hard drive age?

    What is the average age for a hard drive? Mine is a bit over 2 years old and I'm afraid it might die soon :(
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 02-27-2010

  • Floppy drive not reading any disks

    I recently built a new computer with a 3.2 Ghz P4, 1 gig of Kingston Hyper X ram, and a asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo. After getting it running and installing all the necessary drivers and reinstalling certan programs, the floppy drive no longer reads any disks. The BIOS sees the floppy drive and so does...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 02-23-2010

  • How to access parallel port floppy drive on Toshiba Laptop

    I have an old Toshiba 430CDS laptop with a CD ROM Drive in the bay. No floppy drive came with the laptop. I also have a Dell Lattitude Laptop that has a CDROM drive and a floppy drive. The floppy drive or the CDROM can fit in the bay or via a parallel cable. The Toshiba laptop had Win95 installed and...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-19-2009

  • Adding a SATA HDD to an ASUS A7V8X-X Motherboard

    I have an ASUS A7V8X-X MB connected to two IDE drives (160GB/180GB) and two DVDs (1xPlextor, 1 xLite-On). I have 2 spare PCI slots. Runnning XP Pro SP2. I have just bought a 400GB SATA Hitachi Deskstar HDD (72000/16MB) and my question is, if I use a IDE to SATA Hard Drive Motherboard Adapter Bridge,...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 12-09-2009

  • Can a USB 2 flash drive be used in a USB 1 port?

    Can a USB 2 flash drive be used in a USB 1 port?
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 11-30-2009

  • No cdrom drive detected!

    There is no cdrom drive listed in my computer. I replaced the cdrom drive and booted, i got the bubble saying it found new h/w for the cdrom drive but in device manager it says that the driver has been installed but no h/w detected! One thing thats bothering me is that under disc drives, as well as the...
    Posted to Other (Forum) by hardware on 11-27-2009

  • Slow performance from IDE drive

    I have a Sempron 2.8 with the following drives; IDE0: Master - 20 GB FAT32 (C:) Slave - DVD-ROM IDE1: Master - 110 GB NTFS (E:) Slave - 110 GB NTFS (F:) The issue I have is slow performance when transferring files to/from the E and F drives. As an example, it takes about 150 seconds to transfer a 360MB...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 11-05-2009

  • Symantec backup Exec

    in symantec backup Exec12.5 .. what is the meaning of the block size, buffer size, and buffer count in the drive properties ?? and what is the meaning of the options write single block mode ?? + write scsi pass-though mode ?? thank you so much
    Posted to Backup Exec (Forum) by hardware on 11-05-2009

  • BIOS keeps changing the hard drive it boots from

    well, im a comp tech, and this one has had me stumped for months..... I run an HTTP server, with Win2k. It has two hard drives. C, and D:. D: is the drive I run all the software, OS, etc. off of. C:\ is just another drive on the comp, and I use it for storage. I also have Win2k installed on this drive...
    Posted to Misc (Forum) by hardware on 10-30-2009

  • Noton Ghost 14 says my hard disk is about to fail and won't do a backup

    I'm trying to do a backup of my harddrive using Norton Ghost 14 and I get the error message "Error EC8F17B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: Drive Backup of CHO (my computer). Warning A7C30019: The type of errors encountered indicate that this hard disk drive is about to fail. It is recommended...
    Posted to Norton Ghost (Forum) by hardware on 10-29-2009
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