media storage

I have a computer that used to be a pc in our den that I recently made my main media storage in basement, on that computer i changed the name to BasementMedia (vs denpc). I tried ipconfig /flushdns then ipconfig /registerdns but when I restarted it In network i still see denpc i'd like to...

i just built this PC and win8 is taking an extremely long time to boot up. it gets stuck at the windows splash screen (see pic) for slightly over 2 minutes each time (i timed it). i've fully updated windows (see pic) along with drivers for all hardware. right before the windows start page...

Hey folks... I recently reorganized my computer and this included a fresh install of Windows 7 on a new disk. I backed up all my data on the old disk so that I could make sure I wasn't losing any important documents or whatever. I'm now sure I've got everything off the disk that I needed and...

Windows 7 64bit Asus P7P55D-E LX 8GB Crucial SDR DD3 EVGA GTX 260 Samsung 470 SSD 128gb (Startup Disc) Seagate 2TB WD 2TB <--- Problem Drive WD Velocirator 300GB LaCie 2TB external connected with eSata Last night i installed a new Bootup disk drive (128gb ssd). The PC started up fine with most...

Ok, So I put together a new HTPC and purchased 4 2TB drives which gave me a total of 6 TB after setting them up as RAID 5. I created two volumes from that RAID, one is 2 TB and the other is 4TB. Windows 7 is currently installed on the 2TB volume, though it only occupies about 17Gb. I...

Does anyone know how many disks you can burn on a DVD writer before it will stop working? I'm talking about hardware limits - not failures or dirty lazer heads. 1000? 5000? 10,000? Do companies post limits?

Hope this hasn't been covered to death. I searched extensively and couldn't find quite the same problem. I installed Win7 x64 Ultimate over the weekend. I previously had Beta & RC as a dual boot in addition to XPx64. I'm now running Win7 alone, though I have the HDD with XPx64 set aside...

Link Removed Microsoft has been licensing its exFAT flash file format for licensing for a while now. In case you forgot, Link Removed due to 404 Error. Link Removed, or EXtended File Allocation Table, is an enhanced version of the FAT file system from Microsoft that uses less overhead than the...

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...

Hey guys. I have Windows 7 Build 7000 (64-bit) and I have a bit of a problem. I was sorting some stuff in disk management and I noticed I had an extra, 1000MB partition on my 200GB media hard drive and I right clicked it to delete it. It told me that it would erase all data on the partition and...