I have 2 hard drives. one holds the operating system etc and the other is
kind of a file back up one in case i have to do something major like
reinstall the O.S. They have both been fine until recently i had some major
probs with the main drive and so did a fresh install of the ...

I recently had a power outage at my house and I guess my surge
protector was bad because my external USB 2.0 IDE drive is TOAST and
will no longer show up in my computer (I took it out of the enclosure
and installed it internally and it wouldn't show up either). SO, today

Hi group,
is it safe to use udma instead of dma ??,  i ask this because i believe this
would celerate considerably my hard disk.
thanks, Carlos.

About a month ago, while running CCleaner, my external 400GB Seagate
HDD showed an error indicating something like "the master file is
corrupt" or "the directory file is corrupt".  It might have been the
master boot file.  I don't remember the exact language.  I rebooted my

Today both  my drives have yellow exclamanation mark in the device manager
and its says in the properties that they cannot be found.
They both show in the bios and during bootup.I tried uninstalling them and
whilst one of them was found it did not finish installing it.

the other half's PC was crashing a couple of days ago whilst I was encoding
an .avi file to .vob so I D/L sisoftsandra lite (freeware) and run a check
of the main board on the "Hardware" tab. I was informed that the main board
was overheating, in fact it was at **97 degrees** ...

hi
i am musing a apple mac laptop and on that i have mac and xp operating
systems if i am using mac touch mouce is working fine right and left click
are working fine,

No input devices function with my Dell Dimension PC.  They function in the
BIOS, where I have tried resetting to the defaults.  I have tried to use USB
kb/m, and all combinations in between, and yet nothing works once WinXP
boots.  This tells me that the problem is with Windows, ...

I installed a ex HD a few weeks ago,  because I was told it would free up
major space on my dell laptop.   The ex has 160 GB.   Transferred all picture
folders etc to the ex.         I STILL am running out of room on drive C.
It's file system NTFS.     HD file system is FAT 32

I have spent a long time on Google trying to locate the manufacture of SHAW
pc cases__can anyone help with this______
With Kind Regards From Willofaustralia

when i put a disk in my d drive it wasnt loading up. so for example i put in
windows xp installtion disk it would light up and you could hear it run the
it stop.
so i sum how mangerd to go to windows update and reinstall the drive but

I have an older laptop that runs XP Pro and a number of office applications.
The laptop's HD shows signs of fatigue (noise), and before it breaks
completely and I have to go into panic mode, I want to replace the hard disk.
I have 2 questions:

Hi all! I'm sure many of you rolled your eyes at the subject trying to
recall how many times youv'e heard this question. :) But bear with
because I THINK my question is at least slightly different from the
typical post.

HI i'm trying to use an older style monitor with my computer as it is  
touchscreen enabled for our disabled child.
I have tried simply setting it up by connecting the VGA cable to the comm
port that had my regular monitor attached..........when i do this i get a

I have a new computer, running XP professional, that came with a 250GB SATA
hard drive.. I installed a 2d hard drive, IDE, 250GB, went to the process in
the system hardware to partition and format the new drive. Windows assigned
the new drive letters as K and L which meant I had ...