Dell Drives

looking to add a new hard drive for my dimension 5150 desktop and got my hands on a new seagate barracuda 7200.10 320 GB 7200 RPM sata 3.0 GB/s for free.  My system currently has 512 MB. installed at the factory. It will work and if so what cables wi

Hi again. This is my second post today. I'm so happy that I found this forum. : womanvery-happy: I am new to the computer world so sorry to post another question. I have a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop Microsoft Windows XP I installed a CD of Samsung dig

After the execution of each diagnostic test possible and trying to reinstall Windows, I finally out of denial and accepted the fact that my hard drive was dead. I was able to transfer all my data on another computer by using the bootable ubcd4win exc

I have a XPS400 with two Maxtor drives.  I don't know if they are configured on the RAID configuration.  I want to get rid of these two disks and put in a new 500 GB drive, but windows XP cannot see the drive on the installation of the OS.  BIOS, he

Drive is NEC DVD +-RW ND6500A. Windows XP Home. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling hardware and driver.  In Device Manager"get the error message:"Windows successfully loaded the device driver for this hardware, but does not material. (Code 41) ». Boug

Help, please! My XPS 400 system crashed with an error hal.ddl.  Was able to copy my important data on a disk external usb.  Tried to re - install windows XP on the old disk and windows does not recognize the hard drives.  I have two drives a Maxtor 2

I put in some new CD/DVD to try to listen and watch, but when I put them in the machine it starts to work and then stops. When I go on my computer there is nothing out there on the cd player. I tried to go into Device Manager and there is a yellow ex

I had a look at the hard, it is over heating and I am sure it must be replaced. However, the interface is SATA-150 Do I need to use the same interface, or can I use a SATA-300 connection in this machine? Because I am struggling to find a player with

I have a new Dell Inspiron 1525 Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 2.0 GHz, 800 Mhz, 2 M L2 Cache 4 GB, DDR2, 667 MHz, 2 Dimm Hard disk 250 G 5400 RPM SATA 8 X DVD +/-RW double layer drive Roxio Creator Basic My question is this: can someone tell me how to burn

My new Inspiron 1525 running Vista Home Pro can't find the CD/DVD drive. I tried reinstalling the driver, but it does not recognize the device to install on! I have installed a DVB - T TV antenna just before that the problem occurred. So far, the dri

Hello, I have a XPS generation 5, intel pentium 4, 3.20 GHz, 1 GB of Ram and 250 GB HDD. I am running Windows XP, home edition, version 2002. I need to reset my computer to its factory condition, but I have difficulties to do so. I looked online and

I bought a Dell 531 running Vista with RAID1 set up on two 300 GB drives. And that works very well... but then the first disc got a bad place. Ideally, I could unplug this drive and run the other player; However, the second disc has a RAID boot secto

Could use really, really, help, I'm not very well informed about computers and I could use the help of someone.  I have a Dimension 2400 running Windows XP and I lived what, in my view, is called a "Blue error screen" and was told to do what I think

Hi I want to know how do I partition my HDD on my Latitude d531. I have only one hard disk of 80 GB. and I want to dual boot linux and XP. If any help will do great! Thanks a ton! compwiz

Hi, I am trying to get a job C640 and at startup I get no disc HARD this error code 1000-0141. searched the forum and I've seen references to an IDE connector. My HARD drive has just the standard pins that seem not aline with internal connector. Do I

I have a dell 8400 with a controller intel 82801fr sata raid and volumn 0 appears as failed. Hard drives are the two wd2500jd. What WD drive I can replace the 2500jd with? The speed of the drive is of no interest to me that performance has been very

I have a laptop Latitude D610 I use for business purposes.  Once a month I have to burn word and Excel files on a disc to send to our customer.  Last month I went to burn and the drive is no longer burning the files to a blank disc.  I tried several

Have a new Dell 530. I get recover partition disk is almost full. I only had the machine for 3 days. How expand the area of disk or delete some of the system restores that I placed there? Harb9

I just bought a new desktop 530 Dell, Inspiron, running windows Vista Home Premium.  I have my old HD attached to the new system through an external USB enclosure, but cannot see the directory of the C drive when I Open this drive.  I hope someone ca

I have a Dell Dimension 2400. The computer crashed and the computer shows now no hard drive installed. I removed the hard drive and put it in one of my other computers, and my computer does not recognize the drive as a hard disk. I put another hard d