HDD Password Removal
Hi, recently i forgot my admin password to recover that i changed all passwords in set up-security-boot password, admin password, system password, hdd password. Now it is showing error for HDD...
View ArticleFirmware update killed my Blu Ray drive
Is there anyway to fix a bricked Blu Ray drive? I was doing a firmware update that the Dell driver analyzer recommended and the update failed and the drive disappeared. It seems pretty dead. The...
View ArticleStudio XPS 8100 and Large 3TB HDD
I have a two year old Studio XPS 8100 desktop to which I decided to add a WD Caviar Green 3TB drive. The drive does not get recognized by the system as anything larger than a 768gb drive. I am running...
View ArticleDrive rails and cages
I have had many Dells over the year , and a few are now going out to pasture. I am now cannibalizing an old Dell 4300, which had a great setup for the 5.25" and 3.5" drive bays, where plastic rails...
View ArticleThinking about a SSD
Hi there, i'm thinking of buying a Samsung 840 EVO SSD 120GB. But i'm not sure if it's compatible with my Dell Inspiron 620. And I currently have a 1.3TB HDD (Hard Disk Drive). But if I buy an SSD do I...
View ArticleInspiron 3520
Hello,I have an error that states Hard Drive 0 -DST Short Test with error code 2000-0151. Any ideas how to fix?
View ArticleHDD Making Very Low Clicking Sound
Hello Guys, Yesterday Night I reformatted my HDD and installed Windows 7 Ultimate. Everything was going fine but suddenly I heard a very low clicking sound which is almost Unheard-able. I remember...
View ArticleDrivers download to Desktop instead of correct folder
Reposted from the Laptop Support Forum, because I'm not sure which forum this should be placed in. I'll delete if in wrong area. So whenever I try to update my drivers and download, it always sets the...
View ArticleDVD Drive not working
My CD/DVD drive is having a funny problem. It will play DVD's with no problem, but won't play audio CDs or read picture files from a CD. When I booted up my computer, it read the picture files for a...
View ArticleHard drive problem
Hi, i purchase a Dell optiplex 760 (small form desktop) my personal Hard drive sata 500 gb not working in this computer only show in setup bios.. but working in my previous pc optiplex 745.when i...
View ArticleNew Hard Drive for an XPS420 ??
I have had this Vista machine since about 2008 and it still runs fine. But I expect the hard drive to fail sooner or later. I think that I would like to install a second drive (with an OS or not) to...
View ArticleResetting XPS ONE 2710 to factory defaults
The following steps describe how to reset XPS ONE to factory defaults, with special regard to SSD cache configuration.Reset BIOS to factory defaults;Make sure that in the BIOS the SATA controller is in...
View ArticleInspiron 15 3521 CD/DVD RW rom {moved from Laptop General Hardware Forums,...
Which CD/DVD RW will fit in my Dell Inspiron 15 3521. Please help me.
View Articlenone of my players recognize a cd in e drive when i try to burn a music(wma)cd
this is after running ALL Dells diagnostics which all PASSED! Yes I have looked for a new driver(s)in device manager,Yes I have unistalled driver and rebooted cpu(when the cpu came up it reloaded the...
View ArticleI WANT TO KNOW IF THIS IS POSSIBLE...
I HAVE AN XPS 8500 AND I INSTALLED A 128GB SSD AND THEN I INSTALLED WINDOWS 8 PRO ON THE THE SSD .RECENTLY I ORDERED A XPS 8700 THAT IT HAS WINDOWS 8 AND MY QUESTION IS IF I CAN TRANSFER MY SSD FROM...
View ArticleReplaced HDD on N5010, Getting 'Windows Boot Manager' error
I am having N5010 and installed new Seagate hdd. I used dell recovery disk (created when the system was up with old hdd) to installed Windows 7 and all software came as part of factory image. After...
View ArticleHard Drive Storage Boxes
Hi All - I have a somewhat odd question about storing hard drives. I would like to store a set of 4 hard drives offsite so I need a few plastic storage boxes. These drives are from a Dell R4500 and so...
View ArticleInspiron 530 Primary HDD upgrade to SSD
I have an Inspiron 530 that I'm going to put Windows 7 on. I thought that rather than trying to upgrade the OS, I'd add an new primary drive to do a clean install of 7 on and make my existing drive the...
View ArticleIntel Rapid Start Technology Manager disabled/not available
I have a XPS 12 9Q33 and recently changed out my SSD to one with a larger capacity. I did a disk clone prior to the change out. The new drive is a Crucial M500 240GB mSATA SSD CT250M500SSD3, which is...
View ArticleHDD sometimes not found in Boot Devices list
Latitude E5520Seagate Momentus 750GB (ST9750420AS) HDDWindows 7 x64Hello,I'm not sure the problem is in HDD. But it looks like it.Problem started with BSOD that according to web means windows or hdd...
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