Huge Descriptive Letter - Upgraded From Maxtor
Oct 12, 2006
I just typed a huge descriptive letter,went to send it andGone I'll just list whats going on. I ahve a hp pavilion 521n upgraded from maxtor 80g hd to western digital 150g hd upgraded from 384g to 1g of ram(system limit)everest shows that i have 1 stick of 512 ram and 1 stick of 128pc wizard says the same
i right click on my computer and it says i have the full 1g of ram.i ran the prime95 "torture test" and it immediately showed errors and said they were hardware related.
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Jan 21, 2010
when I click a letter on the keyboard another letter appears, why?
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Aug 27, 2005
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Feb 19, 2008
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Aug 12, 2009
Am trying to do a bit of tidying and my F (main) drive has a WINDOWS folder that is 59.6Gb. When I do properties on the folder's contents (including show hidden files) IT ONLY COMES OUT AT 3.3 gB. there there's over 55Gb of stuff that I can;t access to see what I need and what I can delete.
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Aug 11, 2008
I happen to notice the size of the WindowsSystem32 folder to be a surprising 892 MB. Checking the size of the Windows folder showed a 383 GB size on disk. Aren't these numbers a tad on the large side? Is my system failing to purge trash and temp files by attaching some strange extention on files? Are log files ever labled as anything other than .log? Or temp files ever something besides .tmp? Fellow tech freaks, I await thy wisdom. If I'm just being paranoid, and my OS folders aren't bloated, please pass on anything I can do to keep an eye out for commonly overlooked bad habits of windows xp sp2 including file and folder build-up, leading to sluggish start-up and general degrading of simple operations.
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For some reason, my services.exe file on my computer is hogging my CPU, usually holding around 70% of my CPU usage. I'm not sure at all why this is happening. I recently installed a Kensington Bluetooth adapter, could that be the problem? I started having this problem a few days ago, about 5 days after I installed the adapter...
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Aug 9, 2007
I have a Maxtor internal 300gb drive that I've mounted in an external casing. The other day I knocked it over and ever since then when I turn it on it makes some kind of warning sound three times. The computer doesn't detect it anymore and I can't access any of the information on it
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Sep 4, 2005
At least twice per day Explorer.exe hogs the CPU to 99%. I can only stop it by rebooting. It has started doing so only the last two weeks or so. I use Windows XP Pro, Norton Security, Stopzilla, Counterspy, Microsoft anti spyware, Norton Ghost, Retrospect Express for my backup drive. I have a Pentium 4 2.25 Ghz, 1.5 Gb memory, Nvidia graphic card. I have searched Microsoft Knowledge Base as well as Google groups and have found no answers.
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Apr 4, 2007
I'm not really sure if this is a Windows problem or a hardware problem, but I'm gonna start here and see where it goes... I'm working on a Dell Dimension 2400 running XPHE, SP1 which has, roughly, a 38 gb harddrive. All but five percent of the drive is filled, mostly with fragmented files huge, solid "chunks" of red, fragmented files. Programs installed and related files total almost 2 gb. Searches for photo, video and other possibly huge files found nothing. All installations considered, less than 10 gb of this drive should be used, yet there is only just over 2 gb available.
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Feb 11, 2010
i have Maxtor 80 gb usb Hard Drive but D'nt have it Driver to use it please if some have it then give.
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May 8, 2009
I've had a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250GB for about 2 and half months now, and its been working pretty well until now. The small light will come on only if the plug in the port on the EHD is being held in the right position, and the 2 plugs in the computer ports are fine. The light is on, but the computer is not reading it. It also makes a small beeping noise as the light goes on and off. Is it possible to fix, or at least get files off?
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Nov 25, 2005
my mother in law has a huge list of window xp hotfix items in her add and remove programs list, does she need to keep them?
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May 8, 2008
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Jun 5, 2005
I'm an unhappy owner of a Maxtor 160Gb hard drive (6L160P0). I'm unhappy because I'm not able to make it use the UltraDMA mode, but only the slow PIO4 mode. I have WinXP Pro sp2.My motherboard is an Asus A7A266 with Alimagik1 chipset (North bridge Ali M1647, South bridge Ali M1535D+) with the latest BIOS (1013 beta).I also have a Samsung 40Gb hard disk that works perfectly in UDMA5.I tried uninstalling and reinstalling IDE channels from device manager,but I still have PIO4.I checked BIOS, setting either "Auto" or "Manual" in HD configuration (manual udma6, udma5 etc...). No way.I downloaded Ali/Uli integrated drivers v2.096, then I enabled mini-IDE driver (v1.5.10) modifying the "install.ini" file and installed it. No success, hd still uses PIO.Now in device manager under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers I have "Ali M5229 PCI Bus Master IDE Controller".I tried forcing UDMA changing "MasterDeviceTimingModeAllowed".
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Aug 18, 2005
I installed the patch last night on my windows xp service pack one machine. Plugging in the drive causes the icon to appear in the system tray, but there is no drive letter assigned to the drive and going in to explorer shows the drive "locked".
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Oct 12, 2005
I hadn't changed my desktop wallpaper for a while and decided it was time for a change. After trying a few different images and changing them (with right click > properties > desktop> browse), I found one I liked and clicked apply. Then, for some reason about an hour later, the desktop wallpaper turned gray after I closed an explorer window. I restarted, but the desktop was still gray. I right clicked > properties. however, when i clicked the desktop tab, The cpu usage went to 100% for about a minute, but then the tab showed up. the weirdest thing is that now it not only shows the default windows choices, but it seems that it additionally has everything in my "My Pictures" folder listed. That is about 5 thousand images. This is probably why it takes so long to load the tab. My computer has never done this before. I want it back the way it was.
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Jan 5, 2010
I have a serious problem with some huge vertical lines on my right side of the LCD screen of my Inspiron 9300. ( see picture below)The green(left side) bordered area is the area I can actually see on my screen. The red(right side) marked area is the area covered by the vertical lines. Because I'm not replacing this LCD AGAIN, and I don't have the money right now to buy a new computer, I was wondering if there is a program or anything that could let me resize and relocate the "screen", as the buttons on the normal desktop computer monitors, which let you move/stretch/reduce/center/etc the screen display,so that i can relocate the complete screen on the left viewable area of my laptop's LCD.[IMG]http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt38/tyeclipse/LCD%20Screen/Viewablearea.jpg[/IMG]
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Jun 8, 2008
Basically today I bought a 250gb hitachi sata HDD, dvd drive and computer case, got home, assembled the lot. worked fine. Got my Win XP SP2 installation cd and stuck it in the drive... and started to boot it up... it read the disk just fine, but for some reason every damn time it gets to (Mylex EXR2000, 3000/AR160, 170, 352 Raid Controllers) at the bottom of the screen it just stays there and never progresses.
It's causing me so much hassle. I went into the BIOS, turned off all RAID related options since he doesn't even have a RAID. Then that did nothing, figured I would get rid of the SATA drive for now incase that was the issue, put back in the old IDE 20GB drive... same thing happened. Got another Win XP installation disc that i've used loads of times with no problems... but that one came with it's own error.... a missing file apparently? Anyways the PC is sat downstairs with the old 20GB IDE drive in it and the CD drive and not much else really. All raid options in the BIOS are disabled and my mind is falling to pieces.
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Sep 14, 2006
I have video saved on a Maxtor 80GB external drive that is formated in fat32, from a Windows ME system. I need to move the video info to a newer PC w XP. I have read the forum comments on how to convert from fat 32 to NTFS. However when I connect the Maxtor firewire the PC will NOT RECOGNIZE the drive. Until recongized I can't convert. I have other larger external drives that are in NTFS and are recongized immediately.
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Jul 6, 2005
Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close I get this dozens of times a day and do not know why it keeps happening. I looked at the error report details which was huge and indecipherable and it said the following will be included in the report
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Dec 14, 2008
My Maxtor External Drive became corrupted and I needed to re-format the drive. Unfortunately, while Working in Windows XP I accidentally deleted the partition and the drive. Now I can't get Windows XP to recognize the Maxtor Drive. I tried re-booting the PC and plugging in the Maxtor USB Cable, but this did not work. The Maxtor Drive was my H: Drive. Can get Windows to recognize my Maxtor Drive? When I deleted the drive I was working in the "Computer Management" Screen. I navigated to this screen through the following path: Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management.
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Sep 7, 2006
I have all of our digital photo's on this external hard drive & now I can't access it. When I try I get an I/O device error message. Can anyone tell me how to get back in even once to copy the photo's to my internal hard drive & then burn them?
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Sep 7, 2008
Microsoft did an upgrade to my desktop automatically, called a service pack 3, after which my Maxtor 3200 external hard drive stopped being recognized by my Windows XP system. A code 10 error appeared every time I tried to access through my device manager, and I cannot find a driver to operate this hard drive, I will many songs and pictures if I cannot access this external hard drive. I went on the Maxtor site and they said, it is an internal driver that operates off of my system, what can I do to access the data on this external hard drive.
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Jul 2, 2005
I have two computers (a PC and a Mac) and a Maxtor One Touch External Hard disk 250 GB. I would like to back up these two machines using a single external hard disk. So I have partitioned the hard disk into two and have NTFS and FAT32 as the file systems. The NTFS partition is around 163 GB and the FAT32 is around 75GB. I could successfully back up the PC into the NTFS part but have problems with the Mac.
When the hard disk is mounted on to the Mac, both the partitions appear on the desktop. The Mac OS is 10.3 and it identifies both partition correctly. It recognises the NTFS part as readonly and FAT32 part as "readable and writable". But when I tried to backup for the first time there was an error saying "insert a new disk". I tried to overwrite the contents of the FAT32 part as I didn’t need them any longer hence asked to proceed with the backup. The Mac started erasing. I thought it was erasing the files previously present in the FAT32 part but it continued erasing for some time and finally erased the FAT32 file system itself. So the icon representing the FAT32 part of the partition of the external hard disk disappeared from the Mac’s desktop......
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