Posts Tagged ‘hard drive’

Upgrading an external hard drive enclosure?

I have several terabytes-worth of external drives that I've acquired over the years. most of them have a USB interface but as I'm sure many people know, transferring large amounts of data over USB repeatedly takes a LONG time and eventually it gets to the point where it's too much time. My most recent drive [...]

IS THIS A GOOD SYSTEM, OR OUTDATED BY TODAY'S STANDARDS?

I have this laptop my boyfriend left behind – he bought a new one. this one's about 2 years old. I'm trying to decide if its a keeper, or do I need to upgrade it in any area, or buy a new one and sell this one. I know a little about computers but am [...]

About desktop hard drives and a laptop hard drive?

I hav this old desktop, I dont think its still functioning. I need to copy some of the files on its hard drive to my laptop, is there anyway I connect the hard drive to my laptop. I dont want to have to start connecting the desktop hard drive to another computer (desktop)

Can you use a tape drive on a desktop?

Ok this mite be a very stupid question but I'm not really that smart about computer. this mite be only for servers only but I think it mite be possible I have A Tandberg data LTO 3 Internal Tape drive. and I have a tape which comes 400/800 gigabytes I mean that's a lot of [...]

How can I install a SATA hard drive on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard?

I've plugged the hard drive onto the motherboard but neither the bios or Windows detect the hard drive. Help! The bios also doesnt appear to have an option to auto detect SATA drives but it can detect IDE drives.

What internal hard drive fits a Gateway MT678 laptop?

My laptop is locking up after 2 minutes of being logged on and I was told that my hard drive is too small and I need to a new internal hard drive for my Gateway laptop model MT678 but I do not know what spec fit. What's SATA 2.5? I heard someone mention it in [...]

Need help switching and erasing hard drives?

I want to move the hard drive from my laptop into an old desktop that my family doesn't use anymore. I want to keep the desktop's hard drive and use it as extra storage for my computer. How do I go about removing the hard drive from my laptop, make it the primary hard drive, [...]

Decent gaming computer build for low LOW low… any ideas?

hi guys, im looking for another gaming computer build which can run wow at max setting. and atleast play cod4 and Grand Theft Auto 4 at decent setting. im not looking to play crysis on this computer but if some1 can build a computer that can play crysis at decent setting for under $600 that [...]

How do these lap tops compare?

how does Toshiba compare with other brands like Sony, Dell, HP, Compact. what is a good lap top to get for less than $900? It's not the brand its whats under the hood. If I was going to buy a laptop I wouldn't pay something around 1300 dollars. That seems to be a good price [...]

Where can i buy cheap but good working computer hard drives?

where can i buy cheap but good working computer hard drives? i buy all me computer components from Newegg. fast shipping and good products. newegg.com/ newegg.ca/ Hope this helps It depends what you mean by cheap. Ridiculously cheap like under £20 or average price which is around £45. I buy my HDDs from either of [...]