No Service tag Number for a Dell Backup Plus External 1 TB hard Drive
I purchased this external hdd from an online website and it has now stopped working. When I try and go on dell support online, I need to enter a service tag number and my product does not have a...
View Articlecompatibility
I just purchased a Dell Inspiron I5 desktop and I want to add an additional hard drive in the open slot Which kind should I purchase?
View ArticleDell Dimension B110 use two hard drives.
I have a Dell dimension B110 My neighbour tossed out a Compaq Presario SR1303WM, it has the same type hard drive connectors I/DE it has a 40 gig hard drive. Could I use it as a second hard drive to...
View Articleerror 0x4001100200001005 if problems persists contact Dell support
"error 0x4001100200001005 if problems persists contact Dell support"The reason you get a 0x400 error is because the OEM hard drive was replaced with a retail hard drive. OEM drives are "tattooed" or...
View ArticleCD/DVD/HDD Eject??
Hello:My new Inspiron 3847 arrived this week, and I'm using it for the first time.It was hard enough to locate the disk drive, Once I found it behind the super-secret hidden door, I put in the monitor...
View Articlenot enough options for SSD drives?
I'm planning to purchase a XPS 8700 Special Edition desktop. I'm dissapointed that it doesn't give options for this model- for hard drives, only "2TB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6.0 Gb/s + 256GB SSD"-...
View ArticleProblems Replacing Boot SATA Drive with IDE
My goal was to replace a friend's old SATA boot drive in in his Dell 9150/XPS 400 with another friend's old XP IDE boot drive. I removed the SATA drive from the Dell and sequentially connected the IDE...
View ArticleVostro 400 6tb compatability
Hi, could anyone please tell me if a WD Green 4tb & 2tb sata3 combination would work with my computer please?I have the 1.015 bios updateI read that there was a 1tb limit (2 x 500gb max) but not...
View ArticleData recovery after blue screen error?
My previous HD in my Dell XPS410 desktop gave me a blue screen error saying "unmountable boot volume". I tried to do the chkdsk scan but that just stayed on "examining bus" message. Is it still...
View ArticleCloning a hard drive
I need to clone my existing hard drive (System XPS One 27 2 tb 8gm Intel i7 Win 8.1 Pro) as the hard drive is giving me a failure message using the Dell Diagnostics. Dell is willing to replace the...
View ArticleHow to Open CD/DVD Tray Inspiron 15 3537 Windows 8.1
I have a brand new Windows 8.1 laptop and have no idea how to open the optical drive. There is no button on it to push so I am at a loss. I tried cmd prompt C:\>eject D:, but it says it does not...
View ArticleXPS 8700 harddrive parks twice when shutting down
I own a XPS 8700 with a 256 gb SSD and a 3 TB SATA 3 disk drive.I have a problem when shutting down after the 3 tb SATA drive has gone to sleep. What happens is that it spins up for then to shut down,...
View ArticleHard Disk Error Code
I have a Dell Studio XPS 8100 desktop computer, purchased in December 2010, running windows 7. Several days ago I was suddenly unable to get my computer to boot up to windows, even in safe mode. Tried...
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Targeted Read & SMART short self test failed & Graphic Issues
Above is the results of test which my laptop failed to do so. And when I ran Diagnostic it showed me 0146 Error Code. Please assist.Also as far as Graphics is concerned I am unable to play 1080p videos...
View ArticleDell Studio XPS 1645 jammed slot loading drive.
Fellow Dell users, So I've got a XPS 1645, and ive got a problem. I can't eject a disk from the DVD/BLU Ray drive. I've updated The touch pad drives incase they were being difficult but that doesn't...
View ArticleCan someone Read Dell Diagnostic Codes?
I have XPS/Dimension 9150 with two 160GB HDD's in a raid0 configuration. I get three errors on the same message blocks on the Read Test and the Verify Test using F12 Dell Diagnostics>Blue Sceen...
View ArticleOS won't load
I recently bought a used Inspiron 6400 that worked fine until yesterday, when it started having trouble loading Windows XP. Windows would load very slowly and I got an error message about it not being...
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Cannot Create RAID 1 Volume
I have a Dell XPS 8700 running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. It came equipped with one 2TB hard drive (Seagate 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive + Intel SRT 32GB SSD Cache). I bought a second identical hard...
View Articlelow disk space
My computer tells me that I have low disk space on recovery D. What must I do to correct this? I am using Vista.
View ArticleUsing Portable USB drive for second offline backup
I do regular backups to an external HD that is always online.I plan to start doing periodic copies of critical folders/files to a pair of drives that will be swapped on & off-site."Portable" drives...
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