Questions specifically geared toward HDDs
If you've got a problem with your hard drive--or even if you don't--it's a good idea to have a copy of the hard drive manufacturer's diagnostic program in case something goes wrong. We have great hard drive utilities at our downloads site at http://www.haftahave.com. Burn them to disk so you...
Hello, i have a 70 gig internal hard drive, not sure exactly what except it is SATA...I do alot of gaming and so I install and uninstall games alot, and yes i run Defrags alot, and just recently I re-installed XP and my drive says that it has 20 gigs of space left even though when i go into Remove...
I have been fixing up a computer I got from work, reinstalled Windows XP Pro, changed out a bad audio card, etc. but I did not clean off the old files from the hard drive. I plan to sell this PC when I am done, after all I am reading about people recovering old data, I am thinking I need to clean...
I have a issue with a sata HDD on a laptop being reconized by the BIOS and another computer if i connect it via USB convertor. However when attempting to a do a fresh install from a generic XP CD it will not reconize the HDD to install the OS on. This is occuring during the Blue screen fresh...
Hey all trying to diag a laptop hdd right now. A fresh install wont take and ends up with a blue screen of death. I have a coolmax 350 combo adapter and it lets me connect ide/sata to USB without a external case. Ive used it on a different HDD so I know it works. However when I plug in the suspect...
ok everyone I have a tower of a friends who had a "supposed" computer repair guy work on her computer. Its a Windows Pro HP computer and anyway he did the usual put AVG and Malwarbytes on it, told her she had 3 viruses, and it needs more memory and then maybe he could speed it up but its fixed. ...
I want to replace the 40GHz HD in my Dell Dimension 2400 which is 6yrs old. It has a Pentium4 processor, XP with SP2 loaded , HD is 7200rpm IDE unit with a 40 pin cable I believe. How can I determine how big (capacity wise) a HD this unit will recognize?
I have a very weird situation. Two different desktops came in this weekend for a whack and a re-install. I do my normal install, format the HD (both QUICK and Normal formats) and then the copying of files process begins. And goes on and on and on and on.. I kid you not, it took 6 hours...
EDIT: I found out why I was having issues installing the HDD in my laptop. Now my problem is that I can't find a sata or scsi driver for the motherboard. If anyone has any ideas on how I can find it I'd appreciate it, it's proving a lot more difficult that you'd think. Some information on the...
hi everyone I was wondering if anyone can help; i have removed the hard drive from my laptop as it wasn't booting.I suspect there is a problem with corrupted sectors of the drive. i am able to detect the drive using a ide to usb tool and file scavenger and was able to recover some of my photos,...
I have HP laptop pavilion zv5000. It doesn't want to boot up. when it boots up, it give me choice to Start Windows Normally, Safe Mode, Safe Mode with command promt..., but which ever option I choose it just freezes up. In Bios I have done HDD Self-test, and both SHORT and LONG test failed. Does...
I have a Compaq Evo SSF D500 P. 4 with 1.7 mhz. I want to install a Compaq 72.8 gb 10k rpm ultra 320 scsi Hdd pn: 232431-003 model no. BD07264546 which I already own. Need advise as to whether this hd can be connected to my 68 pin controller (adaptec 29160n) with a lvd single device ribbon...
After reloading Windows XP (home) on my new WD320GB hard drive I check the properties through "mycomputer" it's only showing that the total size is 8GB. During :confused start up and through the BIOS it's recognized as the correct size. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I have an HP pavilion ze5700 laptop. I replaced the original 80 GB hard drive with a Samsung Spinpoint 160 GB Hard Drive, model HM160HC which has a faster rpm as well as more storage than the original. However, the computer now runs painfully, painfully slow. I have maxed out the RAM, 1GB. What...
I've a WD 500GB SATA2 8MB buffer drive, and the write speed is consistently around 7MB/s while the read speed is well above 50MB/s. I do know it has nothing to do with OS or drivers since I tested the write speed from WD DLDiag booted directly from CD which confirmed that it will take 20 hours...
hey, does anyone know how to recover memory from a computer that won't turn on? it's a Toshiba Satellite A55-S306 that i got in 2004 and will no longer turn on. it's been like this for about 8 months and when i try to turn it on the orange power source light only blinks. (i was trying to fix the...
upon trying to energize the hard drive the power indicator blinks yellow only; will not go green..any ideas?
http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/Michaeljp86/DSC00568.jpg http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/Michaeljp86/DSC00569.jpg This hard drive went bad and I cant seem to find another one with the same plugs in it.
I need to clone a smaller hard drive to a larger one of different brand name type,my xp cd is scratched can any one explain how to do this?
Have a new computer and need to know it I can take the main HD out of my old computer and install it as a 2nd drive in my new one to gain access to any files/programs on it. Not really sure if the boot and original computer info will prevent this or conflict.........Both systems are windows XP ...
Yesterday, my brother asked me to look at his computer because he couldn't connect to the internet. I took a look and realized he had viruses and the best solution would be to reformat. I had an extra hard drive that was larger than his so I went ahead and just installed that one instead. Now, I...
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