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However, on certain OSes, this laptop does not have support for RAID configurations at all. This can be circumvented with a different BIOS and/or OS. Supports up to 320 GB of hard drive storage using dual 160 GB hard drives. [3] Optical Drive: LightScribe SuperMulti 8X DVD±RW and 24X CD-RW Combo Drive with Double Layer Support
A head crash in a modern drive. Note circular scratch mark on the platter. A head crash. A head crash is a hard-disk failure that occurs when a read–write head of a hard disk drive makes contact with its rotating platter, slashing its surface and permanently damaging its magnetic media. It is most often caused by a sudden severe motion of the ...
Xbox (DVD) Two sets of media descriptors are used. Initially, and on typical DVD-ROM drives, only a short partition containing a brief DVD Video can be seen. The lead-out section of the disk stores a second set of media descriptors describing the bounds of the main partition. It also contains a partially-encrypted "security sector" used for ...
Upon inserting such a disc in the CD drive of a computer running Microsoft Windows, the XCP software would be installed. If CD ripper software (or other software, such as a real-time effects program, that reads digital audio from the disc in the same way as a CD ripper) were to subsequently access the music tracks on the CD, XCP would ...
Missing wireless connections (No wireless networks detected by the laptop and the wireless adapter is absent from Device Manager). Video card or graphics chipset failures (No video from either the LCD display or on the external monitor). [2] Sound system, optical drive and/or hard drive problems.
A driver communicates with the device through the computer bus or communications subsystem to which the hardware connects. When a calling program invokes a routine in the driver, the driver issues commands to the device (drives it). Once the device sends data back to the driver, the driver may invoke routines in the original calling program.
Common examples include USB mass storage (flash drives), memory cards, CD-ROMs, and DVDs. Utilities have therefore been developed to detect the presence and availability of a medium and then mount that medium without any user intervention.
Read-only DVD and Blu-ray drives are also manufactured, but are less commonly found in the consumer market and mainly limited to media devices such as game consoles and disc media players. Laptop computers used to come with built-in optical drives. Some laptop computers used modular systems (see Lenovo UltraBay).