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I don't hear any spinning no. Nor do I hear any spinning when I hook it up to another laptop with a IDE to USB cable. It worked the first time I did it to get some files off (when I was waiting for the repair) but hasn't worked since. You are not being rude, I agree with you. The problem is I'm over...

I put the original harddrive back in. If I slide the harddrive out, and then slide it back in the same way, I don't see why it wouldn't work anymore. It can only fit in one way. If you look back to my first entry, I sent in the laptop for repair so removed the harddrive before I did for security rea...

Okay here is what I have currently: Primary Master: [None] Secondary Master: [HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4082N-] When I go down to primary master and hit the enter key, it says: Type: [Auto] Multi-Sector Transfers: [Disabled] this is grayed out LBA Mode Control: [Disabled] this is grayed out 32 Bit I/O [Di...

Could you please be a little more descriptive as to how I do that? I'm new to this. Thank you.

How do I know if the computer detects the harddrive? I tried changing the boot order and there was absolutely no change. Based on a recomendation by someone else, I went into the Bios and disabled PXE which he said is really a network thing anyway and I'll never need it. I disabled it, and now all i...

Hi, I'm totally new to this. I recently sent in a Gateway MX7120 in for repair (external cosmetic repair only - due to a manufacturing defect). I have been eagerly awaiting it since I hate vista and had everything working smoothly on this. But when I popped the harddrive back in and turned it on, I ...