Dell Drives

I get a message during startup which reads "Checking file system on C.  Cannot open volume for direct access.  What does that mean?  How should I do?

I have a three-year-old inspiron 9400 with a mounted disk 7200 RPM 100Gbyte. Is it possible to install a secondary hard drive and if so any advice on how to go in this regard would be welcome. Thanks Iain

I want to add a second hard drive in my Dimension 4700. Currently, I have installed a 80 GB drive, which is the largest size, I can add and what kind it should be. My OS is Windows XP sp2, I have 2.5 GB of memory also.

I have an Inspiron B120 XP-couple years running The DVD-ROM is not working.  When you insert a CD (audio or data), it starts to spin and then makes a sound of ratatat ratatat for about 10 seconds and then closes. I ran the diagnostic CD and contains

HI there, Im having some problems here. First of all, I have a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 2 with BIOS A06. I replaced the original hard drive to 120 GB because I received a stop error code with a new 320 GB (000000 x 24 or somethinglike that) but after r

I have a Dimension 3000 that runs very, very slowly.  I took it to Staples for the free update and the tech recommended I have wipe the hard drive and restore the factory settings. I tried to do the F11 process all that is is past is that the keyboar

I just added a 500 GB Sata Drive in my Dell8300. I cloned it with the info of the Sata 120 GB drive came with the system. I left the orig. cable/HDD attached as he was to the Mboard and plugged the new drive in the free sata connection. When I go int

Run Dell diagnostics, an error 0F00; 136C What that tell us?

I have a Dimension 8250 with an 80 GB IDE hard drive which contains the OS (XP - Pro SP2) and applications. All data are stored on a separate file server. Is it possible for me to buy a new machine (490 precision work) and put the old drive in the ne

I recently installed the 'Everest' diagnostic tool and it says that my HARD drive is divided into 3 partitions: #1 utility Dell [about 39 MB] (I think it's the hardware diagnostic tool the team of Dell Support told me to use when I had problems with

I booted up my D430 today and noticed that it took two minutes or more to get into XP.  Generally, everything seemed morose.  I did a fast hard drive performance criterion and the playback speed fell to 1 mb/sec!  Previously, he was at least 35 MB/s.

My system: Vostro 400 desktop, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.3 GHz, Windows XP Home Edition. Situation: I use a SATA hard drive and the DVD drive is SATA. I want to add an IDE hard drive (from my old computer) to this system. I can't find any IDE cable or even

Hi, I have a Dimension E520 (Vista Edition home premium) is it possible to upgrade to the next hard disk: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640 GB 7200 RPM 16 MB Cache SATA 3.0 GB / s HDD? If yes would I need to first upgrade the BIOS? And how c

I have a dell optiplex 330. According to the manual, I should be able to put 2 hard drives and 2 optical drives in this system and the hard drives must be connected to sata0 and sata1, while optical drives should be connected to 2 sata and sata 3. I

I have a XPS 420 running 32 - bit Windows Vista Home Premium Just installed a second identical WD 500 GB hard drive plugged in SATA 3. SATA 3 is enabled in the Bios. It is a non-raid configuration. The drive appears in Device Manager, but does not ap

Why is that when I Shop Dell for a HD for the latitude D600 they show ATA is not IDE is there a difference between IDE / ATA or both work with the same connectors?

My hardrive recently died on my old Dell Inspiron Laptop for 4 years.  To watch someone injured install a hardirve I thought that I could do.  The hard drive I bought was a Seagate Momentus 5400 and it is 120 GB.  This is the model ST 91208214.  I ge

On my Dimension E520 running Windows XPsp2 I get this: "Windows cannot load the driver for this hardware device. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) "after he tried to update the driver. I tried; uninstall, remove, update the driver.  T

Since the second day of the machine, I get a message on every 5 minutes telling me space low disk RECOVERY d so I click on the ball and it takes me to 'Disk Cleanup Options' my files or other users. I clicked on both with the same results, office set