You can go to the Western Digital website and get the testing utilities for the drive. If those don't give you any leads, you could try running...
Well done, thanks for letting us know and marking the thread resolved.
After you found it would not start up or before you reinstalled Windows? You need to give us some "timelines" on when things happened, otherwise...
Watch any other LEDs. On your "tower" there should be an LED for disk drives, what does it do? (Flash or stay on?) Gruelling reformat? Did you...
Sounds like you are making a plan Mike. First thing I know to do is drivers. Your system won't be vulnerable to any malware while you have a...
My advice, be careful when you "rebuild" the system. Check and test whenever you are installing something. After installing Windows, install...
I am not sure I can answer. I look for quality motherboards, although people might ask me to get them a "value" motherboard, my quality...
Running the repair reinstall again should stop it cycling. They talk about Shift F10 here...
Try going into msconfig and setting (putting a check in) Safeboot. Not being able to boot into safe mode would ring alarm bells for me.
Your HDD is probably ready to fail if CHKDSK can't fix the error (and that would probably only be a short-term fix anyway). Here is the Samsung...
Well done, mark the thread solved if you find it is the solution to the problem.
Not many things turn a computer off, restart, yes. If this is all due to ongoing problems? You might need to get it opened up and cleaned out...
Hi hawk, if you can see "Press any key to boot to CD..." the boot sequence is correct.
My style, but maybe not yours. If there are driver problems, I go into Device Manager and uninstall them. When you reboot it will probably ask you...
Windows won't run from an external USB drive. It will run from an external eSATA drive. "Clone ", a lot of drive manufacturers offer software...
Q1 I think you are saying that the new Floppy Disk Drive has been returned to the place where you purchased it, because it has trouble reading the...
If I find problems after a reinstallation of Windows, I look at reinstalling again. The problems only tend to hang around or get worse. Your...
Hi and welcome to the BBS, Please read the Forum Rules, they are not only rules but carry good advice for how to get people that have knowledge...
Asus haven't made Vista drivers for that motherboard (assuming it is the P5GD2-Deluxe listed in that CPU-Z readout). I can't find the...
IBM OS/2 and Apple Macintosh are different operating systems, Windows might not be able to read their formatting. Not only can't it read the...
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