Disk Drives

The ins and outs of PC media storage, including HDD, SSD, CD/DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
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  • Forum Post: Re: help my inspiron 570 don't play or burn disc!!!

    I have dell vostro 3500 series laptop with windows 7 OS. And I am facing some problems with . WHen I turn on my laptop ., I am getting the following error message " Reatek PCIe GBE family controller series v2.35(06/14/10) PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable PXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROM...
  • Forum Post: Computer fails after upgrading HD firmware

    Hi, I installed the recommended firmware update D2D5DEM1.zip on my Dell XPS laptop. I used the Windows GUI. As expected, the system rebooted but did not upgrade successfully the firmware. After a whole night of waiting, I shut down the computer and tried to restart, but the system is now saying...
  • Forum Post: Dell Mini 1010 0200 Failed Fixed Drive Error

    Hello all, While in an airport waiting for a flight back from a trip to Seattle, I was booting up my Dell Mini 1010 and received the above error. I googled the error and the most likely cause was cited as a loose HD cable. I hav opened my machine and reseated all cables and the hard drive...
  • Forum Post: HDD failure

    seems as though i have a complete failure wont even let me into safe mode i ran a diagnostic from boot menu (pre-boot system assessment build 4129) gave me error code 0146. though cant find out what the code means. i think the hdd should still be covered by warranty even though the pc is no longer...
  • Forum Post: Clean Install with new hard drive

    My Dell inspiron 15r(N5110) laptop recently had a standing speaker fall on to it and shortly after the hard drive crashed. My laptop was no longer under any type of warranty so I decided to install a new seagate momentus 500gb 7200 rpm hard drive into it. I installed everything to best of my abilities...
  • Forum Post: high hard disk activity .. slowing down of computer .

    due to constant high hard disk activity my laptop has experienced general slow down (XPS L502X) ... even on doing nothing videos run with lag on any player , i have tried kmplayer , vlc , windows media player , gom player .. even the mp3 in windows media player lags little bit in start ... working in...
  • Forum Post: Installing a Raid 0 on Studio XPS 7100

    I bought a Studio XPS 7100 desktop back in 2010. I have the HDD go out in already and it came with a single 1tb HDD. I bought 2x 2TB HDD and was going to go ahead and install a raid 0. Problem is I can't seem to. It is an AMD board, AM3 with a Phenon II 6x core. The Model of the board is: Dell 0FF3FN...
  • Forum Post: 1 System OptiPlex GX60 Series of dell computer

    My computer has problem: mary hard drive 1 not found; ondary hard disk drive 1 not found.
  • Forum Post: XPS 420 Hard Drive swap and Win 7 Install

    Hello, I have been having some issues installing Win 7 Pro Upgrade 64-bit on a 'blank HDD' Recently, my primary hdd failed with Dell Diagnostics providing the following errors: (0F00:0232 Read Test Fail, 0F00:0432 Seek Test Fail, 0F00:1232 Smart Test Fail ...and so on). The drives were...
  • Forum Post: Help! Data Recovery!

    Hello all, My laptop was working fine when suddenly it became very slow to access data one for a couple of days.Then the next day Win7 didn't load up. Now I can't even get the Dell BIOS screen up and running when I turn it on. Just a black screen (power is on though). I thought it...
  • Forum Post: Migrating Dell HD to custom machine

    I just purchased a Ins 580 with WIN 7. I took the hard drive out and tried to use it in my custom game machine and it will not boot up. I tried the repair but it still won't boot. Long story as to why but both legal copies of Win XP and 7. So what do I have to change to get rid of the Dell hardware...
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