DELL External USB DVDRW drive GP60N won't play DVDs
Hello,I have a new Dell Inspiron 3531 with Windows 8.1. The laptop did not come with an internal DVD/CD player so I purchased a Dell GP60N External USB DVDRW Drive. When I put a DVD into the drive...
View ArticleDell XPS L502x SSD upgrade
Hi,I also got the Dell XPS L502x. These days on ebay once can buy "Mini SATA mSATA SSD to 2.5" HDD Enclosure Case Converter Adapter" Which connects like the conventional sata HDD on 2.5" laptop sata...
View ArticleInspiron 7437: installed mSATA Crucial m550 512GB cant get OS installed
Hi, after actually returning a previous mSATA ssd (the same as in the title) I thought was faulty, upon receiveing the replacement I get the surprise that I'm getting a weird behaviour when trying to...
View Article(redirected) poweredge 2950 change all drives while maintaining OS
I have a poweredge 2950 with 5 x 145GB sata HDD's and a windows 2008 R2 installed, and I have 6 x 2 TB SAS hard drives in which I bought to upgrade all hard disks on this server, how can I do that...
View ArticleBook type change
I want to write some DVD+R in compatibiliy mode for a old player and I cant change the booktype setting in ImgBurn.Can anyone help me?Im using a Dell XPS 2720, DVD Writer HL-DT-ST DVD+-RW GA31N,...
View ArticleInstalling 256 GB mSATA in XPS 8700
I recently bought an XPSS 8700 with Windows 7 on it. It did not have an mSATA SSD installed so I got a Crucial M550 256 GB drive. I installed it in the socket and hit F2 on boot-up and checked that the...
View ArticleReinstalling RAID after OS upgrade
We upgraded an Optiplex 655 with RAID 1 from XP to Windows 7 using a clean install without formatting and then using PC Mover. If I remember correctly, PC Mover did not give us the option of bringing...
View Article(redirected) Alienware 18 Clicking Noise
I bought my alienware about 5 months ago and I noticed that there was a clicking noise inside it on the bottom left side. After a while I found out that this noise only happens when I'm downloading...
View ArticleCannot install wifi driver. Alienware 17 laptop
I just recently purchased my laptop and within the last week have had problems with the wifi. It would randomly boot me out of the 'private' network to a 'guest' network. I was thinking it was a...
View Articledeleted recovery partitions
i have loptop that had window 8 preinstalled. recently i deleted my disk leaving. then i install a pirated window .yesterday my friend tell me that i can recover my hidden partition by some advance...
View Articlerecover deleted partition
i have loptop that had window 8 preinstalled. recently i deleted my disk leaving. then i install a pirated window .yesterday my friend tell me that i can recover my hidden partition by some advance...
View ArticleCode 19
XPS 8700CD/DVD opens and closes but does not read disks. went into device manager and this is the device status message:"Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information...
View ArticleDell Latitude E4200 after update SSD Firmware, No Bootable devices found.
I have Dell latitude E4200 with SAMSUNG SSD PM800 TM 64G, Since everything was working fine, I updated SSD Firmware as per instruction installation and sofware said successfully update firmware and I...
View ArticleHDD recognized, but in a roundabout way!
My last mess-up was trying to fix my main problem. I had a new hard drive put in my XPS L501X (warranty expired), but did not want to give it up). One problem. Worked fine, but then it started freezing...
View ArticleNew Hard Drive
So one of my friends laptops stopped working. Inspiron 15 late 2012. The warranty is up until March 27th 2015. So is there still a way to replace this before the warranty ends or will I just have to...
View ArticleToshiba MKxxxxGSX HDD Firmware Update
Have an Inspiron 5520, Windows 7(64 bit) and a Toshiba MK type of disk(500GB) and cannot run above Firmware Update. When trying to install there is no 'setup.ex' so cannot update. I noticed that the...
View ArticleDell 7010 SFF with Intermittent Losing HDD from BIOS
Hi,I have a customer with a machine that has started showing symptoms of HDD loss...In the middle of working away(can take days to fail) the desktop crashes as if the HDD was disconnected....When it...
View ArticleUsing factory image on a new ssd?
I have a failing hard drive on my XPS l502x, I have ordered a new 512gig ssd to replace it. I hope this is a simple question but I keep coming across conflicting posts/ideas. All I want to do is create...
View ArticleVMware esxi5.5 on Dell Precision T7610
I have installed ESX5.5 on Dell Precision T7610 with this hardware configuration :CPU cores : 16 CPU 2.593processor socket : 2 Memory : 64 GBDisks:1- Disk SSD 500GB ( ESX5.5 installed on this...
View ArticleWhat is the warranty for the internal hdd of XPS 15 l502x?
Hi, I would like to know the warranty period for the internal HDD of XPS l502x. The HDD has failed. The warranty of my system is already over quite a while ago. But I've read that the peripherals may...
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