I moved an SSD to a new system. Now I can't access files on the old hdd that were created during the time the SSD was a part of that old system. Can they be brought back to life?
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posted by peacay
on Jan 9, 2013 -
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My second hard drive in 6 months appears to have developed issues. What should I be looking for?
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posted by BadMiker
on Sep 6, 2012 -
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What's the best way to go about installing a solid state drive in a new laptop? (And is this even a good idea?)
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posted by Rhaomi
on Jul 30, 2012 -
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I'm trying to prep a PC for donation/craigslist by wiping the drive. DBAN won't boot from the CD drive, and neither will KillDisk.
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posted by lvanshima
on Nov 13, 2011 -
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Stolen PC and back up to an external hard drive. How do I restore documents and media to a new PC from a back up?
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posted by Verdant
on Sep 1, 2011 -
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If one sets up a RAM stick as temporary storage to reduce writes on a SSD (via http://goo.gl/7cem) or for any other reason, can that particular RAM stick to be utilized
only in this manner?
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posted by robobrent
on Jan 20, 2011 -
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I have a hard drive that I ripped from a 2000-1 ish year Compaq, and I need to find an enclosure. What kind of hard drive is it, and what's the cheapest enclosure?
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posted by two lights above the sea
on Aug 26, 2010 -
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Computer froze completely during a game, all subsequent downloads of various installer files were corrupt. BSODs galore. Now, when I turn on my computer, no video input is detected whatsoever. Next step?
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posted by TimeTravelSpeed
on Jul 13, 2009 -
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I'm in the market for a new laptop. Should I get a PC or Mac? What specs are important for me to look at when making a decision?
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posted by reenum
on Jun 2, 2009 -
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Hard drive recovery: my external USB hard drive is mounting fine on both my mac and PC, however, all the files are showing up as garbage characters.
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posted by mike_bling
on Jun 1, 2009 -
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My computer is having problems with recognizing capacity of hard drives or recognizing the drives at all.
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posted by reenum
on May 4, 2009 -
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So I'm installing a new Seagate 500GB SATA HDD in my PC, when I notice, for the first time somehow, a jumper that limits the drive to 1.5 GB/s. What's that all about?
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posted by Avenger50
on Jan 14, 2009 -
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My external hard drive seems to have stopped working. Is there any way to get my data off of it and onto another drive?
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posted by reenum
on Oct 14, 2008 -
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Is there anything that would prevent a working Macbook hard drive from working in a PC notebook? Is there something different about them that makes them not work in a PC?
posted by raddevon
on Jul 31, 2008 -
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I consider this to be google cheating, but I honestly know nothing of this. Get me a power supply - model #atx-300-12e or the equivalent. Asap. Please.
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posted by damnjezebel
on Apr 9, 2008 -
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Would upgrading my hard drive again be pushing my luck? I'm already beyond my laptop's specifications.
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posted by Alabaster
on Jan 12, 2008 -
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What do I need to know about hard drive enclosures? My computer (PC) died this morning and I want to pull out the 2 hard drives and use them as external drives for my new Mac. I don't know if they're FAT32 or NTFS. I don't know if they're IDE or SATA. How do I find out? Do I need to? A little background on my old PC. It was one of the first P4 3.0 PCs with hyperthreading technology. I've had it for ~4 years
posted by smithmac_99
on Aug 28, 2007 -
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Plug external hard drive into PC, grab all my music/docs, unplug, plug into shiny new MacBook, move files off drive. Can it be done?
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posted by sjuhawk31
on Nov 29, 2006 -
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My USB2 hard drive will only stay mounted if I keep accessing it. If I don't, within 5 hours or fewer, I can't access files on the drive or even do a directory listing. I can then unmount the HD, power cycle it, and it will mount again as if nothing had happened. If I keep accessing the disk, say by continuously playing an MP3 mix on it, the disk acts completely normal: uptime now (with MP3s playing) is something like 20 hours without the shadow of a problem.
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posted by rwhe
on Apr 18, 2006 -
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Recommended data recovery places in New York City, specifically Manhattan? It shouldn't be a huge problem, but I don't want to just pick a name from the Yellow Pages. There is, of course,
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posted by booksandlibretti
on Feb 28, 2006 -
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I've just install a new 120 gig hard disk as a slave on my Windows 98 PC, replacing an old 2 gig disk. The BIOS recognises the real size, but when I format the disk it only recognises 8 gigs of it. What happened to the rest of it?
posted by feelinglistless
on Nov 1, 2004 -
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Using XP Pro 2002. Main HDD dies, replace C:, now can't get out of BIOS without unplugging D: (storage). Actually, D: works occasionally, but during those regular operations it sometimes bluescreens and on reboot I get BIOS errors for *all* drives. Wha?
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posted by petebest
on Aug 20, 2004 -
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posted by trharlan
on Jun 17, 2004 -
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I have one hard drive installed in my computer, and it shows up as E: . There is no C:. How can I tell the computer that the installed hard drive E: should be C:?
posted by alball
on Jun 1, 2004 -
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