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Generally, you may need pliers, possibly a phillips head screwdriver, maybe a flat head, and electrical tape.
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How would one proceed to wipe a hard drive?
To wipe a hard drive, you would normally need a recovery CD which is normally provided by the manufacturer. Reboot your PC with a CD which has a shredder and partitioning tool on it. You can then proceed to wipe the hard drive using the tools on the CD.
Do you need a hard drive to play CD?
No, but you need to have a hard drive to put them on your xbox.
What kind of device do yo need to copy files onto a blank CD?
A CD drive, capable of recording onto a CD-R disc. It will be marked somewhere as a CD-RW.
If you need to replace a hard drive in a notebook why is it best not to use a standard Windows XP setup CD to install the OS on the new drive?
Because it will not be notebook compatible. The Standard XP setup CD might not have the supports drivers specific for the notebook.
What to do if the computer is damaged and need to format it when your optical drive is not working so you cannot enter a CD?
You need a new CD or DVD drive first.
How do you replace the driver on a CD drive?
im trying to figure that out my self sorry!
How do you play a CD if your iMac has no CD Drive?
You would need another device to connect to it.
How do you play dvds in a CD-rom drive?
You cannot play a DVD in a CD-ROM drive, you need a DVD compatible drive in order to play a DVD.
What is disk read?
Hard Drive:Possibly because your filesystem is broken or corrupt. TO FIX: MUST HAVE WINDOWS INSTALL DISK/RESTORE, THEN REINSTALL, MUST HAVE ACTIVATION KEY FOR REINSTALL! CD/DVD DRIVE: WORN OUT DISC, BROKEN CD/DVD PLAYER, CORRUPT/BROKEN OR NO FILESYSTEM, NO FILESYSTEM AS IN YOU NEED TO FORMAT THE DISC OR REPLACE YOUR CD/DVD DRIVE OR REPLUG IDE PLUG. FLOPPY DISK:NO FLOPPY IN DRIVE, BROKEN/DAMAGED DRIVE, CORRUPT OR UNFORMATTED DISK, UNPLUGGED IDE ON MOTHERBOARD. FIX: FORMAT FLOPPY, REPLACE FLOPPY DRIVE, PUT FLOPPY IN DRIVE. Disk read error is because your Harddisk's/CD/DVD drive/Floppy Drive is broken, corrupt, missing, unformatted or unplugged.
How do you replace the disc tray in CD rom?
honestly, its better to replace the whole CD Rom drive.if you have the time to put into it, you can replace it yourself (or repair it with Superglue?if you have the time and energy. it IS a complicated thing to do, so you'd have to find a manual online on how to disassemble the CD Rom drive.
What are the tools use to build a computer?
You need all the components : case power supply (psu) motherboard processor (cpu) hard drive (hdd) cd/dvd rw drive ram etc. then you will need screw driver cable ties (plastic) skills patience
Can you remove a plain CD burner from computer and install a DVD CD combo and it work without doing any special work in mother board?
If the drive that you have removed is an IDEE drive, and you replace it with an IDEE drive, yes. If you replace it with a SATA drive, you will probably have to go into the 'setup' routine and reconfigure the CMOS options. If the new drive came with instructions, read them and do what they say.
