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I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...

Hey everyone, I just got a new really nice PC for gaming. I first noticed the problem when i started playing Prototype. The game's graphics run completely fine, but every 30 seconds or so the game will freeze and then play again. I figured it was the graphics so it turned it completely down. and...

Hey guys, I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the...

Alright , I had this problem previously, and fixed it both times eveuntully. My problem is this , I can't install my Windows Ultimate 64 bit edition on my RAID 0 Western Digital 500GB hdd's because on the boot screen my computer keeps telling me to "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert...

Hello, I'm new here and glad to be here. I have a Dell Studio XPX8000 with a WD 640GB Hard Drive. About a month ago I started noticing, in Event Viewer, the following message: "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume OS." It is...

I'm having troubles with my system and can't figure out the cause. After a several trials with this system I started up completely from scratch. I'm having an Asus Motherboard M2A VM HDMI, running well and installed the latest BIOS to be sure that this couldn't give me any troubles. 4 Gb...

Hello everyone, I've got Windows 7 Pro 64 bit and I've recently been getting the BSOD with the "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION" error. I was wondering if you guys have had the same problem and if you can tell me what I can do to fix it? I'll post the hardware in my rig below. Case: Coolermaster...

Western Digital’s Raptor family hit the enthusiast hard drive market like an asteroid in 2003, and has been a benchmark in high-end desktop storage ever since. With no direct competition in its spindle speed class, this 10,000 RPM hard drive remains a coveted choice for enthusiasts and IT...

I have a DELL XPS420 running Windows 7 premium. I have a Western Digital 1TB external hard drive. The drive no longer appears! I have tried changing from firewire to USB but nothing. Can anyone help?

My pc was running Xp and I had 2 hard drives installed, 1 for system stuff and the other backing up. I removed the back-up drive and installed W7 on the main drive. When I reconnected the back-up drive W7 doesn't see my files, it just sees a blank disk 127GB capacity. I've tried to connect the...

My first hard drive, entombed in a 1988 XT clone, stored 20 megabytes and clicked and chugged almost as much as my dad’s Buick. Back then, I worried about preserving 30KB text files. Now, I have to preserve, well, everything. Perhaps like you, I’ve lost count of how many terabytes of capacity I...

i installed windows 7 and immediately had problems. after spending literally days worth of time on the phone to Microsoft support my original problem remains,they can't fix it. but my latest problem,which they can't fix either is my computer no longer recognizes my external hard drive through...

The experts agree with my strong recommendations to get a new hard drive with Windows 7 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-upgrade,2515.html This is from my webpage Link Removed YOU WILL NEVER REGRET BUYING A NEW HARD DRIVE BECAUSE: 1. All hard drives eventually fail...

First let me start by saying "Hi" and giving a bit of back information, Built this machine about 3 years ago, so it's a bit antiquated but she still has a lot of life left in her... Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI (Socket 939) CPU: AMD Dual Core 64 FX-60 (2.61 Ghz) Ram: 4 GB (1 x 4 DDR400) Video...

Ok, I built this computer myself half a year ago, and it has been working perfectly since, except for my 2nd harddrive and I figured out that it was time to fix it. You see, I got two identical harddrives (WD Caviar Green 1 TB) but only onw of them is showing up in "My Computer" Spec: I am...

I'm using: OS - Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit CPU - AMD Athalon XP 2400+ 1.99GHz RAM - Kingston 2.00 Gb MOBO - VIA VT 8366a Apollo KT266a the problem I have is an 1Tb Western Digital external USB drive. It will work fine, but every now and then I can't access anything on it. I can browse...

After searching around for a couple of weeks only to get more frustrated, I found a solution that worked for me last night. I do see there are many threads about this, but hope you can handle one more. Funny thing was that in Safe Mode my external disk showed up and I could even go into it like...

My friend recently purchased a Western Digital Passport 60GB USB 2.0 external hard drive from Newegg. Its working pretty fine on his laptop without any problem. But, whenever he tries to connect this hard drive to his desktop computer, get an error message says "USB Device Not Recognized". His...

Rotational Speed: 7,200 RPM (nominal)Buffer Size:16 MBAverage Latency:5.50 ms (nominal)Read Seek Time:12.0 msTrack-To-Track Seek Time:2.0 ms (average)Buffer To Host (Serial ATA):3 Gb/s (Max)Formatted Capacity:320,072 MBCapacity:320 GBInterface:SATA 3 Gb/s Model #WD3200BEKT

I'm new around here,and my hope of put my HDD working is dying day after day....Since last week my External HDD isn't recognized on any Windows OS i've tried. Ex: W7,Vista, NT. It gives me a "Code 43" error. I've tried many drivers and stuff like...