Broken Orange wire holder for optical drive. and cd drive problems Alienware...
I got a sd card stuck in my alienware 14 R-1s disk drive. so I took off the back and got the cd drive and such out and I got the orange wire disconnected and everything was going as planned but after I...
View ArticleInternal optical drive appearing as removable device
I recently purchased a used Dell Latitude E6420 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (SP1) and I'm otherwise very happy with it. But after I finished installing all the recommended drivers from the Dell...
View Articlestrange sound from hard drive (probably)
Hi guys!I have problem with my DELL VOSTRO 3553. It makes strange sounds from time to time - (sounds like that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-1sAmEBuA ). Does anyone have idea whats going on, and...
View ArticleDimension 9200, reinstalling windows XP, hardware problem?
Hi I have a Dell Dimension 9200 that is giving me a problem in reinstalling the O/S (XP sp2).I have arranged the two disks as a raid 1 array the BIOS is setup to use RAID.I reinstall windows using the...
View ArticleXPS 15 Hard Drive Replacement, OS won't load back onto system
I received my XPS 15 9530 on monday (two days ago) with a dead hard drive. I received the new hard drive yesterday from Dell and installed it, but now the OS won't load onto the system. It says that...
View ArticleHelp Needed with DVD-R/W drive
I have recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15.6 laptop running Windows 8.1. It came without a DVD/CD drive. Or so it was advertised. I bought it from an Amazon seller - sold as new - and it was still...
View ArticleTargeted Read Test and SMART Short Self Test Failed
My Dell run an automatic Check Up of the computer and when it finished it told me that the Targeted Read Test and SMART Short Self Test had failed. Im not sure if this is just a mistake or do I have to...
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Optiplex 755 Raid 1
I have an optiplex 755 with raid 1 and one of the hard disk was replaced but the status is still marked as rebuild (and it has been over 2 weeks that the hard disk was replaced)is there a way to check...
View ArticleReplacement drive in RAID, will any drive do?
Hello.We have a server that has Cheetah 15.7K drives .Dell offers thoose for 2.970 SEK ~312€ fully assembled. From a retailer i can get the same disk for 2399 SEK ~252€ .Is there a problem to buy the...
View ArticleSSD System Image
Dear all, I've an Alienware M18X with a 256GB SSD PM81.I'm trying to create a system image with no success because error reading from source disk.I tried several tools, unsuccessfully.Despite very...
View ArticleHelp need - Blue screen, installation of Win 7 Crucial M550 mSATA SSD 512 gb...
Hello :I meet the same error when installing a M550 512gb mSATA SSD on my Latitude E5440. The SSD Model is CT512M550SSD3. The new device can be recognized but the bluescreen occured when I format the...
View Articleraid array in a PowerEdge T710
Can anyone tell me the exact steps to replace the HD's in the array when they start to fail. It has PERC6. There are 4 drives in the array and two are failing. Can they be hot swapped without downtime?
View ArticleInspirion 620 disk drive (CD/DVD)
Help! For some reason my disk drive no longer works. I see no evidence that it spins a disc around, and it certainly does not play a CD. My immediate problem is that I have a new printer, but I...
View ArticlePrecision T5500 > Adding SSD to PERC 6/i ?
Gentlemen?,I have a Precision T5500with a PERC 6/i SAS / RAID controller. This is configured to a RAID 5 using SAS drives. However, I would like to delete the RAID and run the existing SAS drive...
View Articleblue ray do not read
my xps8700s as a flaw in the design the dell people do not want to fix itthey sold me the xps with a sound blaster card plus a video card model 650tiit came like this I could show you my bill on...
View ArticleDell Dimension 8300: 1 IDE HD and 1 SATA HD hids bootloader
I use two HDDs on my Dell Dimension 8300, one for Windows XP and one for Linux. They have both been IDE. But when one broke down and I had to replace it with a new one, the new HDD was a SATA disc. The...
View ArticleDell Dimension 8300 replace IDE with 1TB SATA hard drive but not found
old IDE 80G hard drive was not enough space so purchased a serial ATA 1TB hard drive. I have two available SATA connectors . Installed and connected fine, but turning on PC the SATA Drive Not found....
View ArticleUsing 7200RPM Seagate 2.5' 750gb Internal Hard Disk as an External Hard Disk
Hey everyone,I have a dell XPS 15 L502x , with a Seagate Monuments 7200rpm 750gb (ST9750420AS) Hard disk which I am thinking about replacing with a SSD. Now my questions are:1). will purchasing a Sata...
View ArticleDell Insprion N7110 SM Bus Controller driver
Can someone inform me what driver I need to download for my Dell Inspiron N7110. The yellow excalmatiion on showing after I reimage and reload sw. I need the "SM Bus Controller " driver.When I right...
View ArticleNew second 4TB hard disk only shows up as 1.6TB in my T5500 (Win7 Pro)
Hi,I recently bought a new Seagate NAS 4TB hard disk for my T5500. The BIOS recognise the 4TB drive and it shows up as 4TB when booting to Window. However in Win7, the Disk Management only shows the...
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