Other - Hardware - July 2007

So I have a dying hard drive due to a growing number of bad sectors and about ready to crash. Im going to be getting a new drive. Is there a way I can copy the data from a dying drive to the new drive and maintain the same windows installation? Or will Windows throw a fit and force me to reinstall?

The file system and Windows seem to be intact and stable. And I would really rather not have to manually move 50 gb of data if there is an easier way to do this.
Or am I better off just copying the drive and reinstalling windows?

2007-07-19 14:13:11 · 5 answers · asked by David 5

2007-07-19 12:52:24 · 4 answers · asked by allanguese 1

Ok, first I'm planning on purchasing a nForce 570 SLIT-A (V5.1) motherboard, and I was wondering if someone could tell me if I had compatibility issues with my old hardware and the motherboard.

I have:
a Lite-on It brand CD-RW Drive
a Toshiba DVD-ROM Drive Modle # SD-M1612
an ATI Radeon 9200 128MB videocard
a Belkin USB Card
a Maxtor 541 DX 20gb harddrive.

hope this helps. I also know that I need a Dual-Core processor which I'm buying today. If you have a website link it would be very helpful too. I've had no luck findig this out on my own. Thanks very much

2007-07-19 07:07:51 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-19 04:30:26 · 4 answers · asked by fisherpress 1

I tried to partition and format a used 40gig Seagate barracuda drive using the Windows98 startup disk. The system infomation that came up was that there were only about 300meg on the disk? How did this happen?

2007-07-19 02:22:12 · 2 answers · asked by Pascha 7

When i start pc and run any program ..it will restart automaticaly without any warning. When i scan with AVG all other drive scan perfectly. but only when c drive scan pc restart automaticaly. I try to write mp3 DVD in nero but when i start write after some time it will restart my pc. somtime there is an voice comes from system. i can't graps it where it exactly comes..but i things it is frm H/D, Ram, Processor, or SMPS. I think when my pc uses heavy program or use excess memory
it restart pc. I scan my pc through Quick heal and AVG Spyware but pc not restart. but when i scan it through AVG pc restarts and only when c: start scanning. plz tell me solution..I use PIII,256 mb RAM, 40 GB H/D,Win xp sp2...My fan is working properly.

2007-07-19 01:04:11 · 9 answers · asked by dev s 1

drivers

2007-07-19 00:11:36 · 2 answers · asked by manoj k 1

or are these just like data packets or electrical signals instead of actual hardwiring???

2007-07-19 00:04:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone help me understand this better?


Okay. .so this is my understanding ..but it's probably wrong

Expansion Slots can connect to expansion busses (either ISA or PCI or AGP for video cards)
Windows' internet connection communicates with the Modem via a device driver and
tells the modem card to send an IRQ down the ISA bus which is connected directly to a northbridge chip. The northbridge chip then routes the IRQ signal directly to another type of internal bus --the address bus which leads directly to the CPU and contains the hexidecimal I/O Addressing for each device ...but the PCI or ISA slots don't contain the I/O Address resource

IS this at all right ??






thnks

2007-07-18 23:28:37 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 23:27:40 · 7 answers · asked by sidvic1959 1

Just got a new system. Any program or game that uses the graphics card only works after a restart, never after a cold boot. I have correctly installed the latest drivers.Whats up with that ?

2007-07-18 22:56:40 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok. I'm getting a new pc for multimedia such as High-Definition Video Editing, listening to music, browsing the web, watching videos, and playing games like World of Warcraft (WOW). I just need to know if this is sufficient enough.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2GB PC5400 DDR2
400GB SATA II 7200RPM
DVD+RW/-RW DL Lightscribe
Blu-Ray Drive
Sparkle GeForce 8600GT 256mb GDDR3 HDCP enabled

Is it good? If it isn't what can I change? It doesn't need to be extreme. I know what I need for extreme. But i'm not good at main stream.

2007-07-18 22:40:05 · 7 answers · asked by piNkiShlOOps 3

My AVR got broken(its making static sounds) and i am planning to not have one.

2007-07-18 22:16:44 · 6 answers · asked by Banana C 2

It says i need to remove backup or defragment or something, but how can i if i can't get into the machine?
safe mode doesn't work either, and pressing DEL to log into BIOS is asking for a password which i don't have. Any ideas?

2007-07-18 21:59:35 · 16 answers · asked by bob2356 1

Hey when I go online occasionally a pop-up will apear and say: We have tracked all the adult sites you've been to. This can destroy your marrage and career? I never go on Porn or any websites like that. It also offers a disk cleaning drive. Whats wrong?

2007-07-18 21:46:06 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 21:22:48 · 2 answers · asked by symon_ 316 1

2007-07-18 21:05:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have a ASUS (Info: http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=172&l1=3&l2=12&l3=29&l4=0). I recently purchased and installed a radeonX 1650 agp8 which suggests a 450W power supply, however I only have a 250-300W PSU.

When I first installed the card I had two quick power surges but after that it was fine. However after 2 hours of high end use I again had power surges. I need a stronger psu asap and I've been looking for the past couple of hours. However there are many variables that I do not understand.

Can anyone please suggest a power supply that I should instal? Thank you very much.

2007-07-18 20:23:11 · 4 answers · asked by Thrin 2

The hard drive is a Quantum Fireball CX 6.8. It's my cousin's computer, they bought the hard drive off of ebay. Their processor on their computer is a x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 10 Genuinelntel~996mhz.

2007-07-18 15:36:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

i bought a 2.5" drive enclosure for my laptop hard drive. i put it together and plugged it in to the working computer(comp a). the working system (comp a) does not detect it at all. i am trying to back up my info from the laptop hard drive to (comp a) how can i go about this. i've seen the techs at circuit city use the same approach component wise. what software if any can i use

2007-07-18 14:08:50 · 4 answers · asked by memo_rdgz@sbcglobal.net 1

It orignially had an 80GB hard drive but someone locked me out by changing the password on it....i cant figure it out....so i changed the hard drive and its only a 4GB.....is there a way to override the password on the old hard drive maybe? i didnt create a password reset disk....because the new hard drive isnt working right....it wont connect to the internet and it keeps kicking itself off and taking maybe 20 minutes before it will restart again....

2007-07-18 13:18:57 · 2 answers · asked by Show Stoppin 1

Is this even possible. I am going to get a mac pro soon, but i need it to occasionally run windows. I am looking in to the one with 4 Cores because the 8 Core is overkill for what i need. Would i have to run the professional version due to the dual Xeons? If this is not possible due to the CPU layout, then i will just get an iMac.

2007-07-18 07:25:44 · 3 answers · asked by Reed D 1

Im trying to convert a 4 pin molex computer cooling fan to run on batteries... i just want to have a positive and negative terminal to connect it to... anybody know how?

2007-07-18 05:04:50 · 3 answers · asked by hitokiri_b2sai 2

Morons at Zalman gave me a badly warped contact plate (or whatever the plate on a heatsink/fan that connects to the CPU is called). It was so warped, it only contacted the CPU on the outer edges. After removing it, I noticed that along the edges of the CPU where the heatsink contacted, there was shiny areas, almost as though the great pressure placed in those small areas damaged the matte finish of the processor. Could this happen? Should I buy another CPU (I can't even get my heatsink/fan RMA'd, unlikely I'll get a new processor out of the assholes).

2007-07-18 05:04:30 · 4 answers · asked by Henry B. 3

what is it used for?

2007-07-18 04:16:58 · 4 answers · asked by EL Nene Catracho 1

2007-07-18 03:41:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-18 01:42:27 · 7 answers · asked by sekil2001 2

i am wanting to know how goodthe msi 8600gts over clocked edition vid card is card is ? i have a 7600gt for know

2007-07-18 00:02:50 · 4 answers · asked by chriswinter82 1

2007-07-17 22:50:40 · 6 answers · asked by zombiebrian 4

I would like to know what is the difference between video card, capture card and tv tuner card?
And what is used in a computer to record tv programmes, please also help me with the best card available in mumbai market.

2007-07-17 20:34:29 · 7 answers · asked by Goodguy 4 2