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EVERY TIME SYSTEM STUCK ON MESSAGE  "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" , I have Intel Pentium 4 processor,   2 hard disk attached (Western Digital HDD Models name are :...
I've got a usb 80gb external hard drive.  Is it possible to password protect the drive so that no users can access it except for myself? Thanks
I purchased an external hard drive and it was formatted to FAT 32. I would like to covert it to NTFS.  I have searched the data base and found that the following command can be used. conver...
i get the "write protection" message when I try to copy to or drag and drop to this device.  Never happened to me before.  What is wrong and how do I fix it? Thanks in advance, Donnie616
how can i test a sata hard drive data transfer rate? the WD diagnostic shows its healthy but i get the worst pcmark score in the world for a top spec board amd 64 dual 4200 and i think its har...
Hi there, I recently purchased a Dell C800 laptop on eBay for an incredibly low price.  The seller didn't know anything about the machine and said it was password protected.  When I recieved,...
The computer recognizes that a device has been plugged in.  But when I search for it in My Computer, it isn't  being recognized as a drive.
I am trying to install XP SP2 on some laptops but XP doesn't recognize the SATA hard drive, I had this issue a while back but lost my floppy disk with the drivers. I need to have XP and Ghost ...
I've got a brand new MS Vista  Acer, which I need to downgrade (or is that upgrade!) to XP. Trouble is, my XP install disk won't recognise the SATA drives. I know I need to install them using...
I just bought a new Toshiba Satellie laptop which came with Windows Vista pre-installed.  I need to have this laptop run Windows XP Pro, so I bought another SATA hard drive and put it in the l...
Hello Experts, I've bought a new Acer Aspire 6920 about 2 weeks ago and yesterday when I came home from work it did not want to boot. It had run perfectly at work. It was basically hanging ...
The event viewer shows "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.".  I've run a SCANDISK on both disk partitions with the goal of flagging the bad block but this event still occurs a...
I have a Western Digital 120GB EIDE notebook hard drive (2.5"). I have put the drive it in a Vantec USB enclosure. I would like to format the drive for FAT16 or FAT32 but this option is not av...
When i plug my Wd mybook essential edition into the computer is detects a new usb device but wont detect it as and external drive. Need help.
This message started appearing a couple of days ago. I have tried resetting the CMOS, changing the jumpers on the drive to MASTER and replaced the ribbon cable. Also tried changing the drive...
Hi, I had two 250Gb SATA identical hard drives operating in RAID1 with Disk 0 bootable.  OS is Windows XP Home, motherboard is an ASUS M2N (nVidia).  The RAID is now flashing red and both disk...
In Theory, the write speed for a hard disk is approximately 150 MB/sec (for example. SATA). However, in windows vista for example, when I am copying some files, the reported speed is about 10 ...
I know there are tons of questions of this same nature here in experts-exchange, I have read a lot of them, but I haven't come to a solution. Earlier today I was installing new software, Te...
I have a dell server with a build in sata raid.  I am using raid mirror, and I had a hard drive fail.  It degraded the raid, and I want to use a new drive in place of the failed drive.  The on...
My brand new western digital external hard drive is no longer recognized by Windows on my computer. It simply does NOT work.  How do I recover all the data I saved on there? Do you have any re...
I Forget Hard Disk Password
When installing a brand new hard drive, it is OK to do a quick format or is a full format a better idea
    From Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management, the newly purchased external USB drive shows as "Removeable G:" and "No Media".      I'm guessing it...
i'm need to determine what the performance characteritics are of SAS and SATA drives. SATA drives ar cheaper. Why buy SAS?
I recently recovered a client's Windows XP machine, from a registry failure that was causing it to consistantly BSOD, using "Last Known Good Configuration".   While trying to set the machine...