• Check to see if the drive spins up; if not, replace drive.
• If drive spins up, check cmos settings.
• If cmos settings are okay, check fdisk to see if partition is still accessible.
• If fdisk doesn’t show partition, create partition and format drive (importance of backing up data).
• If fdisk shows partition, check to […]
1. Touch the drive (or listen to it) to feel whether it’s spinning. Some drives gradually suffer from spin-up problem but otherwise work fine once spinning. If it doesn’t spin at power up, gently knock on the side the drive once or twice to jump start it. This works best if you knock on the […]
There’s a bunch of steps I would take if the drive weren’t being recognized by either the auto setup or manual entry.
1) Check your Master/Slave/Standalone jumper settings and make sure they are correct and don’t conflict with another device on the same IDE channel.
2) Check for bent pins on the connectors.
3) Try a known good […]
If you plan to buy external hard drive, make sure the closure have all the connection on it such as SATA, IDE, Firewire, and USB.
• Hard drive speed: 7200 RPM is better performance in game machine.
• Hard Drive capacity: 500GB is cheap now. This is a good size for any desktop computer (120GB for laptop)
• […]
A man called for his laptop problems and think that he got the bios problems, when I hear the problems he describes problems seem like hard drive problems than bios. When troubleshot computer, make sure go to something is simple first, use common sense. Many times I troubleshot reload window with delete partition, and create […]
If you are going to buy a new external hard drive, take a look of this video review a bout Western Digital external hard drive product, and see if it help you determine what are you looking for.
If you would like to upgrade your playstation 3 hard drive. You want to see this video will show you how, it’s very easy.
Most hard drives are capable of using DMA technology. Just know what by using DMA, your hard drive will transmit data faster. Unfortunately, Windows XP (and even Vista) has not enabled this technology for an unknown reason. Follow these steps to re-enable DMA on your hard drive.
1. Click “Start” and right-click “My Computer.”
2. Choose “Properties” […]
You just purchased a new hard drive from the store, and you installed on your computer but did not know how to do partition so the computer would recognize a new hard drive, come and see this video, some one will show you how to do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkvf6TKmISo
There is one major thing that most hard drive manufacturers will not tell you – most hard drives that are subject to normal conditions and use will fail. In some cases, it may take 10 years or even less than a year for the hard drive failure to occur. But, whatever the case may be, […]