250GB Internal Storage Drive - Recovery Consol
Jul 17, 2009
These two folders appeared some time back on my 250GB internal storage drive. The names of the folder are 15 characters long and are alphanumeric and have one subfolder in each named i386. And are ?0? in size. I first tried shift delete, ?Can?t remove access denied? I download and tried Erase. First with 1 pass, nothing? Not even an error! I went all out and did the Gutmann, 35 passes. Nothing and no error! The file just remains. For convenient sake I renamed the main folder to 1 and 2 and booted into the recovery consol and tried to delete it from there. Same thing! ?Can?t remove access denied? What the!!
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Feb 23, 2006
Hi Folks, I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 running Windows XP Pro with 512MB memory. I currently have a 40GB hard drive in there. I want to know if it can handle a 250GB hard drive. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm considering the Western Digital Hard Drive.
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Jan 6, 2008
I bought the drive came home and installed in on a PC with XP SP_2.Stated the machine and it took forever to load up windows ( not normally like this )Went to start to transfer files over , and no disc to be found anywhere (?)Start/MyPc/properties/hardwareTab/device manager/ and there is nothing to indicate there is a USB hd connected to my machine .right click mypc/manage/discManagement and still no disc shows up in the menu .(?)restart the PC .NOW for the first time ever my pc takes forever to shut down and restart .when the pc restarts repeat the above and still no disc to be found anywhere .while plugged in and connected to the machine i unplug the power to the drive and plug it back in , now outta nowhere XP says it has found a new Seagate drive . YAY right , wrong. i restart my machine and the slow shutDown and restart is still happening (thumbs down )when the pc restarts ( finally ) i check the shortCut i made for the HD on my desktop , no hd icon just a grey box with a Question mark . so i unplug and plug the power cable as i did before and bang there it is again ( the hd).
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Jan 23, 2009
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Jan 5, 2006
Every time I turn my computer on I am getting the following error message;
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