Recent content by webman252

Okay, great. Doesn't matter, just curious. Thanks again!

Ahh okay, the frequency was my main concern but I understand I should leave it as it is. Not a problem. Thankyou very much for those links too. I don't think the sites I was looking at earlier had too many 1333MHz ones. One last thing, is it true that a stick with 4 memory chips may be a bit...

Hi, this will be my first time upgrading RAM on my laptop - which is an ASUS K53SV. I've read through a number of posts and sites but just need a bit of clarification before purchasing to avoid any mistakes. I understand mixing brands is not a good idea; plus it might be hard to match the specs...

I'll have a look at that post and see what I can do. And will consider taking it somewhere for a recovery attempt - thanks to you both. After plugging in the HDD today, disk management only shows an 'Unknown' disk which does have unallocated space for all of it (total: 698GB). When the HDD was...

Okay, E: is labelled active primary partition but when I attempt to open it, it asks to format it first. Clicking cancel results in an error message: "Data error (cyclic redundancy check)". This error occurs for F: and G: as well.

Thankyou for your quick reply. The disk does now show in drives E:, F: and G:, with drives E: and F: being a primary partitions and G: being 'Logical drive'. Sorry but I'm not familiar with what these terms mean - or why there are 3 disks/drives - and haven't gotten as far as this until now!

Hi, I recently had my laptop hard drive replaced and now wish to transfer data from the old hard drive back onto the laptop. I purchased a brand new USB to SATA cable which appears to be recognised by the computer (in device manager), however, the HDD does not show under "Removable storage...