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How can I install Windows to my new hard drive if I lost my recovery cd that came with my pc?
The hard drive on my pc died and I had to replace it. My pc originally came with Vista and I upgraded to Windows 7. My pc is a Gateway and I can't find the recovery cd anywhere. I have the Windows 7 ...
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Swapped hard drive into new laptop - how do I remove old system files?
I got a new laptop today and rather than reinstall Windows, I just took the hard drive out of my old laptop and put it in the new one. I was able to download all the necessary drivers for the new ...
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External Drive Having Issues… Best Diagnostic Hard Drive Checking Tool for OS X Lion?
I have a WD Elements drive that I use for Time Machine backups, I used Disk Utility to verify the disk, it found errors and I tried repairing it, which failed, so I reformatted the drive and it ...
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Hard drive spins down after installing/updating .NET Framework
This happens on a Windows XP Pro SP3 on a Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD. Intel ICH9R AHCI driver is installed via the F6 method.
Sometimes after I install .NET Framework 3.5 (or a .NET Framework update, ...
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cannot format bad hard disk
I think I have a problem with my hard drive.
I tried to boot the system, and it was taking a long time. After a while it said that the drive was not bootable.
I tried running check disk, but it was ...
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Hard disk is always only detected after the computer is switched on the second time
At the first press of the power button to switch on the computer, the hard disk is not detected, BIOS says "unknown device" instead of hard disk.
Then I switch off the computer by pressing the power ...
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Is it possible to backup the MFT in Windows? - NTFS
I experienced my first crashed Hard Drive a few days back, luckily it was not the primary disk and was just full of software which I could reinstall on.
I tried several utilities like
Easeus ...
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A ZFS or LVM or MD redundant heterogeneous storage proposal
I have the same problem most people have: how to create a reliable personal storage solution with the fact that:
Hard drives fail with alarming regularity. Losing files is unacceptable.
I will buy ...
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How did chkdsk repair a failing drive (ntfs) that was even flapping in the bios?
One of my client PC's blue screened overnight and wouldn't boot.
The system post was hanging also for about 10 seconds trying to find the drive.
System would not boot afterwards saying "inaccessible ...
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Software to read file's starting sector?
I have some old HDD with rapidly degrading magnetic surface (surface where files are stored). Platter is loosing it's magnetic properties (and thus, files stored on it) and i need a way to read SOME ...
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Region code-free linux-based DVD player + hard disk video recorder? [closed]
It is possible to play DVDs regardless of the region code setting of the DVD drive, using linux and the libdvdcss library.
Are there projects, how-tos, products or other efforts that:
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Iomega Home Media hard drive shows empty directories after data loss
I have an Iomega Home Media Network Hard Drive, 1TB. After a 220V blackout we had during the night and due to the cold weather, I can't access the data on the drive.
The shares (both built-in and ...
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Desktop RAID worth it?
I am going to redo the drive configuration on my desktop and right now I am considering options. I have an SSD for the OS and vital programs and HDD's for everything else. I have two 2TB disks of the ...
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Is it worth installing applications to removable flash media on Windows 7?
Without the funds to buy a SSD for my soon to arrive laptop, and the knowledge that Visual Studio 2010 can be quite slow at times on a normal hard disk, I was trying to come up with possible solutions ...
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Repair or Recover data from portable external hard drive?
I accidentally dropped my 500gb Bufallo Ministation portable hard drive on the ground. It was still sorta working, just EXTREMELY slowly. I then ran the mac hard drive repair. It ran for about 5 ...
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Raid Enclosures for running VM's
I'm looking at getting a Raid Enclosure for running vm's on. I have noticed that the ones that I have found, only have 1 sata port on the back of them. I'm going to be running the hard drives in ...
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Computer won't start when connecting SATA HDD
I just bough a new HDD some time ago and recently i bought another SATA cable to have both HDDs connected at the same time, to transfer all the files from the older one to the newer.
When i connected ...
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What is a benefit of using separate HDD / RAID controller?
I have Asus P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard with integrated HDD controller providing 6 SATA II (3 Gb/s) ports. I use this controller for 2 SSDs and 4 HDDs. SSDs and one HDD are for host system (Windows 7 ...
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Re sizing VirtualBox vhd with windows 7 host and windows xp client
I am stuck on one step of resizing a virtual hardisk... I followed the instruction used found in this Youtube video...
Video I followed
Well that worked. But my windows xp virtual still had the ...
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Windows 7 Startup Repair deleted user/system files, won't boot at all now
My 64bit PC running Windows 7 was hanging on AVGIDSEH.SYS at boot. After googling this issue (which appears common) I renamed the AVG folder in Program Files and removed all avg*.sys files from ...
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Cloning 2.5" laptop HDD and SDD fast over multiple laptops?
I noticed that simple USB -data-transfer may encounter heat-problems because the newer models have no separate line for energy as some XYZ-other-cord. Today, I received a box full of Seagate FreeAgent ...
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Is it possible to install WinXP side-by-side to existing Win7 and access my data from both?
I have (actually, my dad has ...) Windows 7 64bit installed on his computer.
He had, on his previous WinXP-running computer, an arcane piece of software that does not work on the newer OS, no matter ...
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Laptop harddisk not recognized after boot
I have HP dv6600 laptop. Its windows crashed recently. After that I tried to restore a backup image created by self-image. But unfortunately backup file was corrupted and C: partition was rendered ...
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How to check harddisk type?
[root@testing ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
274597936 23881492 236542648 10% /
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Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 undetected by BIOS
I just mounted a new system few weeks ago. To make a short story, I had an old external IOMagic drive that I decided to put in my system for backup. The hard drive is a Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB with a ...
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Performance issues with my Windows 7 hard drive
My desktop's performance has been much slower than it should be for quite awhile. The issue doesn't seem to be with the processor (AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core Processor, 2.30 GHz) as it's utilization is ...
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New computer keeps experiencing lag
I have a brand new machine (I7-2600k) with 8GB RAM. However, I find the computer very sluggish in general.
I believe the issue to be with the hard drive – is there any software I can download that ...
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External HDD Failure: Fell on the ground and now only beeps
My 3,5" portable drive fall on the ground from 40-50cm high.
I connected USB cable to computer. It ran (I heard rotation sound), but the disk not shown under My Computer.
Then disconnected it. While ...
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Incorrect disk size reported for internal drive after attempting to boot from external drive
I wanted to run something off of my old Windows XP install, so I plugged it in as an external hard drive and attempted to boot from it. The machine blue screened on me. (I now know this is a bad ...
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Boot from Hard Drive via USB but not directly?
I'm having a bizarre problem, and it seems I'm not alone.
On a Dell Latitude 13, I get the error message "internal hard disk drive not found" during POST.
Yet, if I take the very same hard drive and ...
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Windows 7 64 bits taking hours to load. Even the bootable Windows CD is behaving on the same way
I bought a wd5000aakx hard drive. It is one of that models that came with Advanced Format Drive.
I did a clean install of Windows 7. Everything was working fine, and loading fast.
But one time, after ...
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Restoring an Windows system image to a smaller drive
I recently had two 320GB HDDs on Raid 0 running on my main computer, and decided to split it in order to use one of the HDDs on another computer.
A windows system image of about 150GB was made on a ...
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Putting an ATA storage device into PIO mode
I'm trying to do make the drive go into PIO mode with hdparm on Linux.
hdparm -X pio0 /dev/sdX
I have tried about 4-5 disks (PATA & SATA). I always get the same error:
SG_IO: ...
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Will Windows notify me if there is a S.M.A.R.T warning?
If there are S.M.A.R.T. warnings, will Windows (7, 2008 Server) notify me that the disk may die soon? Or do I need to install some 3rd party notification software?
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Ubuntu installer detecting multiple Windows7 loaders
I bought new laptop with Windows7
hp dv6 , 750gb hd, 8gb ram ...
I wanted to dual boot and install Ubuntu 11.10
As per known procedure I did Shrunk my partition and created
30 gb (unallocated ...
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Does Windows 7 Support Removing Disks from a Spanned Volume?
I would like to use Spanned Volumes in Windows 7 to present a number of disks (or iSCSI LUNs) as a single volume. I like to maintain flexibility in my setups however.
Is it possible to remove a disk ...
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Will 3.0 gigabit HDD work on a 1.5 gigabit controller?
My laptop has a 120 GB HDD at 1.5gigabits/s. Actually it has some bad blocks and is very slow. I'm planning to buy a new hard disk. My question is if I buy a HDD with 3.0 gigabits/s speed, will it ...
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If I have my VM on an SSD but my OS on a spin drive will I take a significant performance hit when using the VM?
I'm not a fan of cryptic question title's, but then I'm not too sure how to elaborate but here goes:
We were planning on buying new PCs for our developers with 128GB SSD drives (the VM takes around ...
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Laptop rebooting multiple times before starting
I have an Acer laptop. Every time I start it, it will restart several times before starting normally. Each time it starts, it makes the same noise as when it is connected to AC power and the plug is ...
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Get ubuntu bootable on different machine
I have ubuntu studio installed on a hard drive that I just moved to a different computer. I can boot the other distributions I have on the drive, but not ubuntu studio. Whenever I try, it shows the ...
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Intel Smart Response vs SSD as primary drive
Building a new system with a 120GB SSD and a 1TB 7200 RPM HDD (windows 7 OS).
Originally I was going to use the SSD as the boot drive and the HDD for additional storage, but then I started reading ...
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How can I wipe a broken hard disk drive before sending it back to the manufacturer for maintenance?
The hard drive of my laptop died, the manufacturer wants me to send it so that they can investigate, but I'm concerned that the drive might contain sensitive information.
When I say the drive is ...
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2.1TB limit on BIOS?
While checking out this 3TB 7200RPM drive as a candidate for my hardware RAID array, I saw the product video and at about 1:40 into the video, the guy says that BIOS can't handle more than 2.1TB of ...
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What is the impact of using a Desktop edition disk in a RAID 1 setup?
I am setting up an onsite backup server in RAID 1 (soft) with low usage.
I prefer quietness and reliability over performance: so I selected one of these "green" disk.
Some NAS brand recommand these ...
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How do I reset the factory capacity of harddisks on win7 or ubuntu
I have a 3TB Hitachi HD () which progressively 'lost' displayed capacity to currently just above 740 GB.
Explorer, Installation-DVD and harddisk manager (win7) all agree on this size @ 1.5 billion ...
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How should I solve this hard-drive lag issue?
I've recently (for about a month or so) been having issues with one of my secondary hard drives. When accessing data it, sometimes it will hang for a few seconds, causing the program doing the reading ...
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Does hard drive cache size matter in a RAID? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Does hard drive buffer size matter?
Ok, so not a RAID exactly, but I just bought a drive-less Drobo to use as raw storage for video/photo work and am now browsing hard ...
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How to force a remap of sectors reported in S.M.A.R.T C5 (Current Pending Sector Count)?
The S.M.A.R.T C5 value of my Samsung HM640JJ Hard Drive (in an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop) is "yellow status = caution"
C5 was 10 yesterday, and it's 21 today.
C4 (Reallocation Event Count) = 0 and 05 ...
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Windows Home Server 2011: My Computer and Disk Properties show old Label after rename
I have a Windows Home Server 2011 box (based on Windows Server 2008 R2).
For ease of use I label my data drives with what is on them:
Data (E:) [500 GB SATA] Data Backup (R:) [500 GB USB]
My Data ...
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Getting files out of a NTFS-formatted system disk via USB
I have replaced an old SATA disk in my laptop with an SSD. Now I want to get some files (that I thought I backed up but I didn't) from the old disk. I have an external disk enclosure that connects the ...
