EVERY TIME SYSTEM STUCK ON MESSAGE "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" ,
I have Intel Pentium 4 processor,
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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 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.
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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?
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I just picked up a ps3 and am trying to get my hd movies that i downloaded to be recognized by the system. I found out right away the ps3 doesn't recognize NTFS so after doing s...
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Here is what I get with 2 different setups of dual 300gb Velociraptor drives. I was very disappointed in the RAID 1 performance on reads. I used the defaults of the 3wa...
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My Western Digital MyBook USB 1TB recently died on me. As I was accessing the drive via Windows Vista Explorer, it suddenly became very slow eventually hanging on me. I restart...
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I want to return my old computer to its original factory settings. Its about about 6 years and its just very slow to do everything. I have all the files I want backed up to an ext...
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On my mac i have a external HD with 3 partitions, when i come to delete one of the partitions, it never works. I click apply and it just stays on "Preparing to remove volume" and ...
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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 ...
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?
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This system was running extremely slowly so I booted to the onboard diagnostics and ran diags on the hard drive. I received Error Code 0F00:0244. I then stopped to play it safe. Does this ...
A teacher brought a laptop to me today which cuts out after completing the POST and BIOS stages of boot up, and sits at a blank screen.
As it is a Seagate drive, I ran Seagate SeaTools on t...
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I wish to help a friend of mine with the following error message: No bootable device-insert boot disk and press any key. There are some entries which are displayed b...
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As the Question Title states, this is exactly what I am testing. One of our clients uses a database which is a flat file type database system. We have recently upgraded their 3-...
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for Philips external hard disk SPE3050CC/05 for windows vista looked on the philips site and couldnt find it.
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I'm working on a older p3 Dell laptop that was running windows 2000 just fine, but the owner wanted to switch to xp pro. During the installation, at the part that says "setup checking disks" I...
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I've just purchased a DELL Latitude E4200 Laptop with SSD storage device instead of HDD.
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If i choose the last 2 i'm getting blu...
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