Hard Drive Troubleshooting

 

     This is the questions page to the problems you have. Each question on this page takes you directly to the answer rather than having to scroll all the way down a full page of information. 

      Please bear in mind this page is updated daily and if the question you seek the answer to is not here, then it may well be here tomorrow.

       Please feel free to email the author of the site if you have a specific problem you need help with and we will do what we can to get back to you and solve the issue.

Don't forget to check out our tips and tricks section under your operating system.
We have a lot of answers to your questions to solve you problem there also.

 

(Q1) Question

Can I fit my old hard drive from an old "AT" model case into an old "atx" case. I tried it but the hard drive led just stays on .... and it does not seem to recognize it

(Q2) Question

Have read an article about monitor not working. I have the same problem but my machine will not boot. Using XP and everything was fine up until 3 days ago. When i switch my machine on the lights on one of my cd-drives comes on, but the system them freezes. Monitor stays on standby, and i can't even get into the bios. Have reset the cmos checked all cables and connections and even tried another monitor. How can I get my machine working again..?

(Q3) Question

I was able to format my hard disc no problem when I had windows 98 , but how do I go about doing it to win xp professional, do I still press f8 at start up or what?

(Q4) Question

I have a Pentium 4, 1.5Ghz running Windows ME. When I attempt to defrag the C Drive using either Norton Utilities or windows own defrag program I get the following error message " Windows cannot defrag this drive because it has been locked by a disc utility, and generates an error code DEFRAG00105. I have checked the startup and win.ini and in my limited experience can find no utilities running or anything untoward. In all other operations the hard drive (c) works fine. Is there any help or advice?

(Q5) Question

I am using Win XP and over the last 2 days I have shut down the computer, as usual, switched my monitor off, as usual and all is quiet. But after about 20 minutes my tower switches itself back on.

I have NOT changed any settings in respect of the PC.

(Q6) Question

Having bought a new hard drive I believe I have to partition & format it can I be told how?

(Q7) Question

I have reformatted my h/d and now it is partitioned and I want to get it back to what it was can anyone help me

 

We have more questions other than the listing on this page click on the next button