Internal Hard Disk Drive Not Found
So I was having some anger management issues and kinda smacked my laptop. When I tried to turn it on, it said that my internal hard drive was not found, and that I had to try to reseat it. But anyway,...
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Good day.I am trying to re-install Windows 7 on my XPS15 (L501x) from a USB drive. However, the installation claims my DVD drive (DVD+/-RW, 8, 12.7, Serial ATA, TRAY, HITACHI LG DATA STORAGE) does not...
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My Dell desktop blew up a few months back and I want to recover the data on that internal hard drive as well as use it as an external hard drive with my new Dell laptop.. It is an OEM drive made by...
View Articleusing internal as external drive
I have a Precision T5600, with a dualboot (It came with windows 7, I installed ubuntu 12.04, I am only using Ubuntu).I am trying to use an internal drive harddrive WD (external) using a USB3.0 to SATA...
View ArticleLooking for help fro printer and windows 7
I have a Dell all in one printer 962 driver for this has been removed due to a virus. I have a Inspiron 520 which crashed, all drivers have been remove from my tower .Now I have installed window 7...
View ArticleMy Inspiron wont boot up
My Inspiron 15z wont boot up. It gives me the :( face and says it will auto repair but then it gives me the message "boot configuration data file missing" error code: 0xc0000034. I have a disk labeled...
View ArticleHelp -my updated Win7 laptop won't boot from its old XP HD in a USB enclosure!
After upgrading my Dell Latitude E6500 to Win7 with a new HD, I bought a 2.5" SATA HD to USB 3.0 enclosure (from Fry's Electronics) for my old HD, which "IS" my former XP computer. My hope was to be...
View ArticleDell Inspiron 15R Special Edition CD Drive won't open
Hi folks, I'm having an issue with my cd drive. It is unresponsive when I press the button to open the drive, and my laptop itself doesn't recognise the drive. I used to eject the drive through 'my...
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Hard Drive Failure Inspiron 620
I'm yet another Dell customer who had issues with the PC not booting and it's related to the Hard Drive failing... I've already read everything here, i'm hoping to fix it. I didn't even have a Dell...
View ArticleRestore to factory setting fails
I have all the disks with me.The OS disk, the driver and utility disk.I put the OS disk in the drive. I start the pc, I press F8 vigorously. I can not restore it to a certain point because no such...
View Articleexternal hard disk raw error
I bought a DELL computer three years ago and there was something goes wrong days ago. When I inserted the external hard disk to the computer and try to open it, system prompted me that I need to format...
View ArticleDell 4550 - Not Recognizing any IDE Drives.
Tried all Jumper Settings. Using WD HD -- Please Help if you can - Thanks
View ArticleRaid drive status reverting to Resyncing after status changes to optimal
We recently had a raid controller go bad in our server. After replacing the controller we initiated the LSI Configuration utility that displayed a status of 0% Syncd. We after several hours the...
View ArticleWindows 8 "Fully clean the drive" effective for SSDs?
Windows 8.x has the option to Reset the operating system and "Fully clean the drive", presumably doing this by overwriting all parts of the drives in the computer. Does this work reliably for SSDs in...
View ArticleDell Opti-Plex GX280 - not booting (or staying on should i say)
ok.... want to say thanks in advance for any help, i am a complete novice when it comes the inside of pc's etc.anyway i understand this computer isnt new, however i dont use it much as i have a laptop...
View ArticleDVD/CD-RW Drive won't Read Discs
I have a dimension E521 and it will not read any discs placed into the drive. I do not get any error messages, just that there is no disc in the drive. When I ran a custom test of the CDROM/DVD it gets...
View ArticleDell Inspiron 570 Desktop SATA 3 HDD?
Dell Inspiron 570 DesktopI want to install an additional hard drive to my Dell I570 Desktop. My current HDD uses a SATA connection. Most of the HDD I need are SATA 3. How can I tell if my I570 Dsktop...
View ArticleXps 15 little click sound noise hard drive
Hi,I bought a xps 15 16 GB Hard drive Toshiba 1TB hard drive MSATA32GB . http://www.dell.com/ca/p/xps-15-9530/pd?oc=nxps154_bt_h1602e&model_id=xps-15-9530When a use my laptop I hear a noise from...
View ArticleLATITUDE D820 HARD DRIVE
Trying to install a 500gb hard drive in this unit, win 7 is saying that it does not see the drive and is asking for drivers??, is 500gb too big of a drive?,
View ArticleCan't boot from CD-DVD in LEGACY mode (NOT Secure Boot NOT UEFI )
Problem: Even if I turn OFF UEFI and Secure Boot and my machine sees my CD-DVD as a boot option, when I try to boot from the CD-DVD, I get an error message. (Optiplex 7010 Mini-Tower with Win 8 Pro...
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