Hard Drive Lost Pins. Hi.Sorry this is in totally the wrong category but i really need some feedback.My friend's hard drive (Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 30Gb-not that it makes a difference)has lost a few pins from the ide connection gradually over the last six...

External Hard drive lost. I was not sure if I was to reply or start a new post. So I started a new post. I did notice that when I try to boot or shut down with the external drive plugged in it stops untill I unplug the drive then every thing shuts down and...

Ext. drive as an internal hard drive under 'My Computer'. When I clicked on it, Windows asked my if I wanted to format it. I said 'No' and removed the Ext. hard drive. I then tried to use my ext. hard drive on my other XP machine and it also aked...

Added DVD drive lost CD-RW control. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage () Added 2nd hard drive (D:) and DVD drive (E:)to my system. When te DVD drive in the slave position, the CD- RW can't be accessed. Unplug the DVD...

Lost my presario_rp(d:) drive. i have home vista pre and it was working fine and then it would not open windows,had 0x000000f error.i used recovery disc and then i had no d drive.so it seems i have a hard drive problem.how do i recover my d drive? i lost all...

If you choose the wrong file system, and commit the change, you WILL corrupt any information that is on the drive. This is absolute and irrevocable! I have successfully recovered about a dozen drives that have gone RAW, or otherwise lost their partition...

hard drive for this). Given a decent drive, having the swapfile on a separate drive on its own channel will make your system more responsive. 2. A hard drive should be partitioned so files are better organized on the drive and backups are simpler. What...

Updated from 98 to XP and lost email files. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () When I updated to XP I lost all My email Folders and Files. Where are they? Can I recover them from the hard drive or are they lost?. Archived from groups:...

situation: External USB hard drive lost power when attached to the front USB port. WinXP was in the middle of the "AutoPlay" function, where it was reading the directory of the attached hard drive, after being attached to the system. Problem: External...