Dell Drives

I want to upgrade my hard drive on my Optiplex 170 L. I was told that any SATA drive would be ok, but I don't hink this is the case. I bought a SATA drive, but it has different connections than the original DELL drive?, nobody knows the type of playe

I just got an OptiPlex GX280 rebuilt thanks to an Ebay store. The machine runs very well but the thing is really noisy. Sometimes, it seems he will take the wide - like a car engine reving upward. Sometimes he does so power and fan kicks on that is i

What is the best way to connect a drive external esata to my XPS420? I can assume there is no port esata to the back of my computer.  Is there an extra connector on my motherboard I can in a cordon of snakes and use? THX

I have a Dell Dimension E510, running Windows XP Media Center, I bought in November 2005. I now have a permanent error message on a pop-up from Intel.  He said that "a hard drive is missing; the system works normally.  However, data protection is no

I want to add another hard drive but don't know what to get. No matter what ATA to choose? (100 150 or 300). I'll get my memory in 6400 DDR2 at 800 mhz and eventually upgrade my processor. Like to go to a Quad core or even the slightest line QX. Any

Just got my 1720 a couple of days... love up to the exception of surveillance do not include mounting for a second disk drive.  Bad bad bad decision. In any case, after arguing with technical support and get anywhere, I need to know what the official

Have a 410 XPS which had a RAID configuration. The two HD went bad so I wanted to just buy 1 HD and disable the RAID. I put the 1 HD in and installed WinMCE from the supplied DVD. Everything goes well until I did a reboot. "No Boot Device Found" "F1

May be it some please tell me what means this error: Spoolsv.exe Application error: The instruction at "0x01fd167c" referenced memory at "0x00000020. The memory could not be read.

Hello I recently reinstalled XP on my Dimension 4600, when I did that I have improved my 80 GB to 250 GB hard drive. I partitioned 50 GB from what I to have a dual boot with Ubuntu on a smaller part, I changed my mind on what I have now on another ma

Hi everyone- I have a dell e510. Play DVDs, it will not burn them. It is a Sony CDRWDVD CRX310S model. He says it is a DVD/CD-RW. I'm trying to burn using Verbatim DVD + R 4.7 GB LightScribe. It looks like it should write on DVD + R media CAN WRITE D

I bought a WD additional 500 GB hard drive (same as the installed drive (OS)) I followed the installation instructions (inserted to the SATA1 and SATA2 during testing). At the start, I checked the BIOS details and two hard drives present ability. Bot

Just bought a Vostro 1500 / XP Home/factory gig HD 160 partitioned at 50-50.  After installing my Office XP and other programs, when I run a defrag it won't completely defrag C: drive.  I would be ok if it was just a few small files but the file will

Hello. I like to play rental movies on my computer. Sometimes, but not always, I get the message 'No disc in drive D' and cannot charge the Powerlink DVD player. A few other movies will play no. All these movies are commercial matter original, not co

I have a Dimension 8400 with a 80 GB SATA Seagate drive. I try to upgrade to Windows XP Pro. I used a Seagate installation disc to wipe the disk, the distribution and the format to get rid of the original operating system. When I put in the XP Pro In

I installed an external HP DVD Writer 640 on my XPS 600 with Windows XP. When I try to use it I get an error message not saying "No HP DVD drive detected on this computer." However, my device manager clearly has the listed drive (HP DVD Writer 640v U

Having a Dimension 5100 and an internal TSST corp CD - RW TS-H292B & HL DT St DVD ROM GD R8163B I can't get a DVD to burn, but I can burn CDs... I made Diagnostics and it says that drive O don't past Drive 1 no disks and disks 2 and 3 were in charge.

I have an old Dell Dimension XPS... more than 10 years.  The operating system does more.  I get a black screen with this message on the screen: Microsoft Windows 98 installed. A: / > I want to just get rid of all the files before starting.  Help!

I bought an Inspiron 1720 with 2 x 160 SATA HD. Now I would like to replace the second HD (that I use with external USB box) with another one with a greater capacity and 7200 RPM. will I need editing for the new HD equipment or can I use the mounting

I thought to increase the capacity of the hard drive on my desktop. The case seems to have a position for another HD. I've never done this before. I have a 160 GB sata and would like to put in a 250 GB. Wouldn't be better to add another hard drive or

HelloMy computer specs are:Dell Dimension 8300. Multiprocessor PC ACPI. Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.20 GHz 2 x Radeon X 300 series. ATA Storage Controller - 266F, Intel 82801FR SATA AHCI Controller, Intel 82801FB/FBM. My problem is that I filled my disk sp