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I was wondering if a P3 450GHz is capable of burning DVDs at 1x, can I take the risk of buying a DVD burner?

I was wondering if anyone can give me advice. I'm planning on buying an new external HDD, connecting either via firewire or USB. If it had both connections, it would be best. I don't know if should buy a seperate HDD case and hdd or should I buy a complete external hdd from Maxtor or WD??? One...

I reformatted my first hard drive and backed up all the information I needed off it on the second hard drive. After restarting my computer with the newly formatted hard drive, I go to My Computer and double click on my second HDD and it takes about 20 secs to load, and it tells me "The disk in...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.video.dvd,uk.media.dvd,alt.video.dvd.tech,alt.video.dvdr (More info?) From time to time people say that they can not read their DVDs which they burnt at 8x speed on other players. How common is this problem? I know it also happened...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) I've got a Promise SuperTrak 6000 that will behave fine for about 2-3 boots, then it goes "critical" and wants to rebuild itself. I've got a mix of Seagate and WD 160G drives (6, the controller is full) running on Win2K (fully...

I'm posting on behalf of a friend here - god knows i always seem to be the one doing the leg-work. Anyway, he was using an SATA drive as his only HDD until recently, and decided to add a second 160G ATA for multimedia file storage. Thing is, he can't seem to get it to work at all. As he lives...

Hello, Was hoping you guys could answer a few problems I may be having. First of all built the system and everything seemed to be working great, installed windows 7 and installed fine. Installed antivirus and a few motherboard drivers. The next day when I went to install office and bunch of...

Hi all I just bought an MSI DVD writer that burns at 4X speed. I have another CD-RW drive in my computer. The DVD writer is hooked up to the same IDE channel as the CD-RW drive. Problem is, when I try to to a CD to CD copy (with Nero Burning ROM), the burning always fails. Does anyone have a...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?) I've lost access to a FAT32 partition. Following situation: Samsung SpinPoint SP1614N (160 GB) Partitioned: * primary with about 15 GB (C:) * an extended with one logical drive -> rest of the disc space OS: Win98SE I do...

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Hello, Running Windows XP Home here. I recently defragged one of my hard disks using the PerfectDisk program and the defragging process went through without a hitch. However, after defragging, all the files on my D:\ drive were corrupted and could no longer be utilized. I could not gain...

I purchased a antec corbra ultra ata 133 cable for my pc i am about to build(waiting on intel)...anyway... the cable has a grounding conector and i have a aluminum case with no where relly near there to ground it too. question 1... Do i need to ground it for it to work? question 2... i was...

If I have 2 HD's configured in RAID(increased performance mode)do I install windows XP onto the raid setup or will I need to have a seperate HD for the OS and install my applications on the array? Thanks.

Gameshadow allows me to find the patches that I need for both my games and my components (found ATI drivers). If anyone is familiar with it do you know why on some of my games it shows unsupported version. For instance it says that on The Movies ( I also have the expansion), WildLife Zoo, Caesar...

LaCie Bigger Disk 1000GB (1TB) 7200RPM Firewire 800 $1,189, and the PYRO DV Firewire RaidRT 1000GB Drive $3,549. I wouldn't know what to do with all that space!!!!!

Hey guys, I'm using the acer M5620 Desktop PC, running with an Industry Standard 250W PSU, I'm not sure what kind of MOBO I have, so those of you "Techy's" out there probably know. I recently purchased an XFX Radeon 5770, but is totally not compatible with my PSU. What's the next-up good PSU to...

I recently bought the 560ti and everything was running ok when I installed it so i tried out some games.Every game runs perfectly except MW2 and Black Ops.I played BFBC2 with around 60FPS but when i play MW2 i get like 90FPS also in BO i get around +70FPS.The 90FPS and 70FPS aren't bad but every...

Hi, I got Nero cd burning software with my LG 32X writer. Most of my data files and folders names are more than 100 Characters in length since Windows allows upto 255 Chracters long file names. Problem is now I can’t burn these files with Nero because they have long file names. There are...

i have win xp pro and the yamaha 3200ez internal with latest firmware. i have the latest nero installed as well, adn hacked. here is the problem.... when i am installing a game, or doin something with cds... sometiems the drive jsut disappears from windows explorer, and wont come back till i...

I have a 45 gig hard drive with 3 8 GB files and nothing else(DVD ISO's). I am unable to defragment this drive! When I try to run disk defragmenter it runs for about 10 minutes then exlorer crashes. I am unable to kill the disk fragmenter process, nor am I able to kill and rerun explorer.exe...

I just recieved my 99minute cdrs and im planning on burning VCDs of home videos. Can anyone tell me what software to use? I have a lite-on cdrw 24x and nero doesnt seem to let me burn anything over 80 minutes. please help. thank you.

I'm vowing never to buy Western Digital any more b/c of 2 failed drives, one under their white label MDT. Sooo, which one should I get? A new Maxtor 30GB 7200rpm, ATA133 1yr warr. for $53 or A new Seagate 30GB 5400rpm, ATA100 1yr warr. for $51 I know the Maxtor looks slightly better but...

Hi there! I am building a gaming rig, with 3 monitors. I am looking for cheap, half-decent monitors. Any suggestions? *** Long version: I live in Sweden and am using http://www.edbpriser.dk/ as a baseline for my search (this website is a meta-searchengine for IT retailers in Denmark...

Ok here is the thing. I have reacently bought some DiamondMax Plus 9 Fluid 160 GB harddisks, currently three of them is placed on a controller from promise: Ultra133 TX2. The last one is connected to the mainboard with an ide cable. All disks are running NTFS. The problem is: Last night when I...

Greetings folks, I believe these issues started when I installed Windows 7 Home Premium, but I'm not quite sure. It was a clean install on freshly formatted harddisc, and then I installed Power DVD 9 Ultra for my Blu-Ray playbacks. It seems like sometimes (not always), the blu-ray playback will...

I have a Gigabyte ga-7vaxp mobo,Athlon2100+,256mb2100SDRAM, with a 10 gb maxtor 51024U2 HD. The BIOS only reports the HD as a PIO4 mode HD but i know that it is at least ATA66/UDMA4. This is a 3 month old mobo, and any other drive i put into it only comes up as a PIO4 also. Do you think this is...

I have a problem with an installation of 3rd hard drive on my windows 2000 os. I would like to install 80 GB (8 MB Cache) Western Digital hard drive on my computer. After installaing windows 2000, I was able to detect 1st and 2nd hard drive; but 80 GB hard drive was not detected. From Western...

My moboard died recently and had a highpoint 372 raid controller on it. To retrieve the data on the disks do I need to: A) Buy another mobo of the exact same make B) Buy another mobo with the same raid controller C) Buy a RocketRAID 133 with the 372A controller D) Use any raid controller that...

Hi Guys ! I'm not an expert, but neither a newbie. the last week i bought 5 Asus P5KPL-AM Motherboards for my office. Currently I'm experiencing great performance. here is my combination : CPU : Intel E5200 (65 Watt) Mobo:Asus P5KPL-AM RAM...

I got an old comp here I was looking at for a friend, nuthin but an internet surfin box. Wont reconise the hard drive until you hit the rest button twice. So on the third boot, it finds the drive, and then goes merrily into Win98 SE. Pentium 200 Intel Board 128mb EDO 70ns 3.5 GB HD *this is...

I'm getting a WD80GB. If I partition this drive into lets say a 3,25,25,25,2,GIG and install my OS,Drivers,updates on C:{3GIG}, can I copy it to the G:{2GIG}. Then if C: gets corrupted all I would have to do is format C: and copy G: to C: and Budda Bing! back in Business. Would this work????

OK, I screwed up and now I need some help: My comp was running PIII with Win98, 20G drive (7200 Deskstar). I upgraded the MB to Asus A7V + Athlon 1100. Bought new 40G Deskstar, formatted and loaded WinXP Pro. My thought was I could add my original drive after getting the 'new' comp set up and...

Ok here's the situation. I have a new son at home a little over 2 months. Of course being a new daddy I've been going crazy with the digital cam and the old sony handycam 8mm. My Kenwood TrueX has finally hit it's last days and I've been looking at DVD Recordables. The 3 different formats...

hi guy's i need your help bad. i just bought a refurbished western digital 40 gb 7200rpm drive. i went to go and try to use fdisk to partion the drive but when i go to try to delete the volume label it has codes that i can't type in there. and it wont let me delete it and its got 60% used . can...

I have a Sony CRX195A1 40x 12x 48x. The burning program that it came with is called "B's Burner" and works fine. however it takes about 4 minutes to burn a full data CD. This is about how fast as my freinds 24x burns. I tried using nero, but apperently my burner is not supported by it. Can...

How do I fix cross-linked files? I was using Partition Magic and tried to merge two partitions. Apparently I hadn't read the instructions thoroughly enough and I lost one partition. The other one i still there, but I can't access it. I can run scandisk and I can defrag it, but I cannot access...

OK, kind of a long story, but here goes: I just got dual wd800jb's up and running on my Abit kx7. Well, I over clocked it a bit (so my xp1900 had a fsb of like 136-137). Well there was this huge lan that I went to and the array failed. It took me out of the game for about 6 hours trying to...

Built it almost a year ago with a new IBM Deskstar HD. Now I can't boot up. It was running fine before. I'm (was) Running Win98se., it goes to the Win98 screen then goes black and says can't find C: drive. I ran the rescue disk for Norton Anti Virus found nothing. Any idea's????? Thanks for...

Hi Are there any programmes that let me Play Mpegs or Avis on CD-ROM on a DVD Player? Thanx

Hello! I have some problem with my GS724T switch. When i start it and put a cable from it to my laptop nothing happens as it's a switch, but when i put another cable from my router into the switch ALL the lights on it lights upp and it reboots, after the reboot i get an IP from my router and...