Trying to install a new hard drive
Hello, I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop and my hard drive has recently failed. The laptop won't start anymore and I bought a new hard drive.This is the hard drive that I had:Model: HM250HIS/N:...
View ArticleHard Drive failed Targeted Read Test
Hello,I have been experiencing issues while playing PC games. It occurs randomly, but consistently in the middle of games. I at first believed it to be a video card error but made sure all drivers were...
View ArticleNew larger drives. Need the software to make a raid 1 again.
I hve a T110 server. Used AOEMI to clone small disk to larger disk Had a Raid 1. I removed original disk put in clone and a new larger 2nd disk for raid but does not see it as a raid just another...
View Articledisk freeze
i dint understand why the disk always shows 100 to 70% usage , and on transfer of file ,freezes down the whole computer
View ArticleUnable to recover Windows 8 to my new HDD
Hi,I have replace my hdd with a brand new seagate hdd as the old one got crashed. After replacement tried to recover factory installation of Windows 8. Got error "Error 0x4001100200001005 if problem...
View ArticleNew Hard drive
I need to replace the hard drive on my N5050. Is windows 7 on the recovery disks I made when laptop was new? Is it on the driver disks that came with it? I backed up the computer so will it be on the...
View Articletry to reseat your hdd
my dell inspiron 1545 is not detected hdd and not shown in bios/system/general.after booting it shows try to reaseat your harddrive.and i reseated the hdd but again and again it does not detected in...
View ArticleST33000652SS 3TB NearLine SAS drive firmware upgrade Ubuntu server
Hello everybody,I recently added an MD1200 to my T110II Ubuntu powered server;I installed OpenManage 7.4 from the community repository; On the DAS I have 600GB 15K SAS drive and 2x 3TB NearLine SAS...
View ArticleAdd 2nd PATA hard drive to Dimension 4600
I have a dimension 4600 with a 40gb IDE hard drive. I want to add a 320gb IDE in the second slot. Will my jumper setting on the 40gb hd remain "cable select" and what will the setting be on the 320gb...
View ArticleHard Drive Replacement on a Dell Inspiron 620 desktop
[Admin NOTE: Service tag removed per TOU policy] The hard drive has developed bad sectors that check disk has attempted to fix but cannot. (Hard drive freezes and is overall slow) No malware or virus...
View Article2014_Nov.Conversion of Dell Basic to Premium edition BU to external USB 1tb...
Dell's automated notifications suggested an upgrade from the Basic to Premium backup purchased on 11/12/14... installed 11-19. The subsequent electronic download software was Cleverbridge-softthinks....
View ArticleLatitiude recovery disc is full but folder says empty
I receive a warning that the Recovery HDD is full. When I open the drive and folder there is nothing in there. Please advise...
View Articleinspiron 1545 dvd drive reading branded dvds but not dvds burned from laptop?
i have inspiron 1545 laptop win 7 and dvd drive is reading dvds obtained from market like movies and original softwares but not reading dvds burned on laptop ,previously it was fine any help...
View ArticleDefault files missing
I am trying to reset my system back to factory default settings and upon trying to find the drive I need to redo it is missing so any idea how I can get those files back so I can restore my system back...
View ArticleUSB 3.0 not working on M4800
Until recently my USB 3.0 ports were nice and fast - aroound 150 to 175 MB/s. About a month ago my USB 3.0 external drives and thumb drives all slowed down to about 30 MB/s. I verified that USB 3 is...
View ArticleSSD in T7500
Hey folks,I have aquired a used Dell Precision T7500 and was advised to get a crucial 512gb mx100 SSD -- but the crucial site tool is saying its "incompatible". Is this accurate? If so - any advice...
View ArticleAny firmware updates on the HL-DT-ST DVDRWBD CA40N driver?
I've found most of the newer DVD's I've purchased in the last couple months will not be read. IE disk tries to spin up and the drive makes noise then spits the disk out. Looking around searching for...
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