hard disk

I have just re-built my windows 7 machine after a harddisk failure. All seems to be working fine except for my external USB drive which locks up explorer and windows in general, only way out is the magic reset (even Task manager locks up). Any suggestions most appreciated.+o(

1. Until recently my laptop was working fine. 2. I frequently take backup of my "c drive" only by creating system images in my external hard disk. I did 3 or 4 times, it worked fine. 3. When I tried to create my system image recently I encountered this problem, "0x80780119" then I googled for...

Hello People! I am not sure how to describe the problem, so i am not even sure how to search around if this would be a common happening. From a day to the other, the computer turned extremely slow. CPU usage is really little even down to 2/3%, hard disk is not doing anything. Obviously no AV...

You can customize the general behavior of a library by changing its default save location - not in my case. :confused: . I partitioned my hard disk into two logical drives Sys (C) and Data (D). I would like to use D:/Documents as the disk storage location for my Documents library. I can not...

I messed up whilst installing windows 7 over older windows 7 drive. I formatted the windows 7 drive and again tried to deleted that partition, but that deletion process took around 10-15 minutes, so restarted my system. Now i cannot install any of the windows os or even linux :(. Please anybody...

I messed up whilst installing windows 7 over older windows 7 drive. I formatted the windows 7 drive and again tried to deleted that partition, but that deletion process took around 10-15 minutes, so restarted my system. Now i cannot install any of the windows os or even linux :(. Please anybody...

Hello everyone, hope you all are ok. From 3 days ago my windows 7 ultimate suddenly hangs and freezes a lot. i did a complete scan with Avast 6, Anti-Malware and Super anti-spyware the problem was still exist. i thought the problem with the hard disk, i did also a complete scan with Disk...

I'm sorry, I can't find a better place to post this topic (if you find one, please relocate it so I'll know next time :) ). In the downloads tab, under "Utilites", there are a few things (in my opinion) that would be helpful to people if they were there: Prime 95 Free Software - GIMPS for...

Fixes a problem in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 where various Stop errors occur when you try to resume a computer that has a large SATA hard disk. Link Removed - Invalid URL

After a long wait of 2 weeks I got my Hands on new Samsung NP550P5C-S02IN - Corei7 3610QM, 8GB DDR3 1600, Nvidia Geforce GT650M, and...... a 5400 rpm HDD :(Seagate Momentus ST1000LM024).....The system was not delivering the expected performance, so i did a benchmark of the HDD using...

Hello My windows vista laptop suddenly doesn't start up anymore. It starts to scan it's hard disk, then restarts en starts to scan again... I can start in safe mode so I think (hope) it's not a hardware problem? I ran the diagnostic tool but I cannot seem to install the CPUID tool... I hope...

I have problem with new sony vaio laptop. started to install win 7 home premium and during insallation my battery went down and terminated installation. now i'm stuck. it won't start again. installation is on laptop hard disc. can i start it again somehow?

This is a article. Why does the free space in Disk C shink? Generally, Windows 7 takes up about 20GB space in the hard disk. During regular use, it is normal that the disk space shrinks gradually on the system disk. Where has the free space on Disk C... More...

Boot Up Any Computer, Rescue Windows and Data in 5 mins!, well maybe not 5 minutes, but fairly close. Many of you already know and have probably used this CD before as it has been around for ages. This is for those who do not know about it and that you may find it extremely useful. The CD...

Hello !! Recently I want to install Windows 7 as my previous OS was Windows xp... Now, I am unable to install windows 7 as , when I start the install and click on install it shows that setup was unable to create a new partition or locate an existing system partition... I have 2 hard disks ...

Hello... I got something on my Laptop. Its Toshiba c640, 2gb ram, 1gb vga, win 7 home premium, with Samsung HM321HI. Everything went fine, until i got a message, saying i have a Hard Disk Problem. It says i have to back up my drive, before the next warning, and so on.. This is the message: Link...

I've been using my computer now, and this issue is getting (somewhat) more common. SO, here I will be playing my game or surfing on the internet, when suddenly.... BOOM! Screen freeze. I can't move my mouse, I can't CTRL+ALT+DEL or do anything. There is not even a BSOD. It just hangs there...

Hi there, I had been trying since the past 2 days to install windows XP professional 64 bit in my sony vaio (vpceb3gfg) running windows 8 release preview. I downloaded the windows XP pro x64 and slipstreamed it using nLite to integrate the iaStor.sys controller driver to include support for SATA...

Hello, 2 weeks ago i replaced XP with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on my PC and since then my D: drive randomly disappears. I have been using the PC which has 3 internal disk drives with XP for the past 3 years never having problems with the disk drives. Since i installed Windows 7 Professional 64...

When I copy lets say 13 files from my hard disk to a pen drive, copy paste happens. While the process is on, it shows 14 files being copied, i.e. 1 file extra. Whe I look into the destination copy folder, I find only 13 files. And when I delete that folder, it mentions 14 files being deleted...