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Hello all, After 5 years of use, my college laptop (Windows Vista) finally gave up on me a couple of months ago. Each time at start up, it would automatically go to the blue screen of death and never get past that point. I wound up getting a new laptop (ASUS S500CA) operating on windows 8, and...

Hello to all,I have a PC with 3 disks, all sata,I had installed w7 on a 640gb disk, on a 250gb I have w8,and lately I installed again w7 on a 80gb disk so to use the big disk for saving files. the problem is that the 640 disk has kept some boot info and I can only go to w8 if I boot the PC from...

I wiped a sata drive with wipe drive. And proceeded to reinstall windows 7. The program loaded part of the way and an error window came up saying “Boot MGR is missing”. I Google it but a lot of suggestions but no help. Any help would be great. Thanks funnnyfarm

Hello, I have been working on my own computers for 15 years, have built 6 over the years, and always fix mine and my parents computers whenever theres a problem. Occasionally I get stumped and need help, so thats why I am here. My desktop home office computer is doing several things over the...

A little odd, but maybe someone here can help :D If i have any drives hooked up via sata cable, the computer wont boot from disk. If I have no HDD hooked up, it will. I am using a GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-S2p motherboard with a amd 6 core 1045t. I truly appreciate any help, thank you again.

Everything I've found, as far as SATA cable testers appear to only be for testing the power cables, not the data cables. I know that cables are cheap, thus not making testing an absolute necessity, but I hate buying new cables when I'm not certain it's necessary. Is there an inexpensive tester...

Hi, I believe one night my RAID driver crashed and now Windows doesn't see my array. Some History: One night I was trying to use Glassfish outside of Netbeans, but my website wouldn't work. So, I try to close Glassfish and went back to Netbeans because I know my site worked fine through...

For several reasons, I'm considering adding a drive selector switch to my desktop, but all that I've found available are designed for a maximum of 6 drives. I want one that will handle 8 drives...5 SATA HDDs & 3 ODDs. I could put all of the ODDs on 1 switch, which would make the 6 drive switch...

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard RAM - CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost)...

Hi, My system is restating daily 5-6 times with error "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 " CPU : Core 2 Quad 9300 Motherbaord : Ausu p5q pro RAM : 6 GB, Kingston 2 DIMM(1 GB), Corsair 2 DIMM (2) DDR2 Hard Drive : 5, 1 PATA & 4 SATA Graphic Card : Radon HD...

This is an item I have heard about in passing many times, but never paid much attention to, because at the time, I didn't see why I would want one. However the notion struck me that it would be a convenient means of transferring data via a hard drive from one computer to another, so I quickly...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

Hello ! I have a Neewer 4 port sata pci card SIL3114 installed and running windows 7. I do not see my hard drive connected to it. Does anyone know if drivers are needed for this ? I have googled but hothing is said about drivers for windows 7. Thanks in advance for any help

Working on an older Dell desktop for a friend of my son. It was her Mom's and she had it passed on to her. She usually uses a Mac but has been using this Dell because it has Office and Quickbooks on it for her businesses (she does home cleaning and also photography). Anyway she brought it to...

I just put together a brand new PC build with all new components. In the middle of a custom install of Windows 7 on the HDD (the system only has one 1TB 7200rpm toshiba HDD), the installation screen went blank and the computer restarted. After restarting, the monitor displayed bootdisk mgr...

Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Hi, I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...

Hi Everyone. I am trying to re-instal a fresh copy of Win 7 64 bit on my comp. I am currently running Win 7 64 bit, which seems corrupt. It has the following problems Control Panel right click doesn't work any more Windows update doesn't work any more Unable to upgrade IE 9 to IE 10 Net...

So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...

Hello all, This information is intended for anyone on a budget. First off, let's take a look at the motherboard: Newegg.com - ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard This $49.95 motherboard has one SATA III port, multiple SATA II ports, and...