hard drives

I recently installed Windows 7 (32 bit on x 64 system) with 2 x 1 TB hard drives (one Western Digital drive + one Hitachi drive) so that I could mirror them with raid 1. When I checked disk management I saw that both HD's were formatted as basic disks but need to be dynamic disks to mirror. I...

I recently installed Windows 7 with 2 x 1 TB hard drives so that I could mirror them with raid 1. When I checked disk management I saw that both HD's were formatted as basic disks but need to be dynamic disks to mirror. I converted both the primary and secondary HD's to dynamic through DOS...

i want to multi boot XP - WIN 7 - Linux on three seperate hard drives what i was wondering is will win 7 uninstal ok to allow me to put released version on or should i wait till i have the completed released version of win 7 pro before doing a multi boot and just stick to xp for now why...

Hello everybody, I'm new here. I have a question concerning windows & and multiple hard drives. I have built a new PC to run Windows 7 on, it has a 60GB OCZ SSD drive that the OS is installed on & a matched pair of Western Digital caviar black 640GB hard drives for data storage (pictures, video...

Hey, i was on windows XP and i installed windows 7 RC ( not upgrade, a fresh copy). on windows i had two hard drives on the computer. ( internal) disk0 and disk1. when i installed windows 7, on the computer, i can only see local disk C: ( the hard drive which i installed windows7 on). . when i...

[SOLVED] Win7 64-bit installation hangs I have a problem. Whenever I try to install Windows 7 Pro it always freezes at some points - these seem random but usually at Expanding Windows files. I tried installing from a dvd at first but went on to a usb stick so it is not a disc problem. I read...

So here's what's going on. I have just recently installed windows 7 for the third time now (following build updates ect). I have two hard drives in my computer, one labeled C:\ where windows 7 is installed and the other labeled D:\ which is the drive in question. When I try to copy a folder from...

I've searched, but couldn't find an answer, sorry if this has been asked before. I have two hard drives, 1 had xp pro and the second had windows 7. Xp was installed first from a while ago, and 7 just recently. I decided to try out my Vista Ultimate again, so I formatted my Xp drive and...

This is a very serious error for users of WIN 7 64 bit only. I have read hundreds of posts about this problem an not a word about it from MS. We have tested this problem on four different computers and three different external hard drives using Win 7 Ultimate. If you connect "Any brand" external...

I have 2 hard drives, the first has Win 7 RC1 and the second has XP and Vista in their own partitions. The Win 7 boot loader gives me the choice of Win7, Vista and XP when I boot up. The question is: If I install Ubuntu onto the second HD in a currently unoccupied partion, will GRUB (which is...

I have XP Pro (32bit) on my C partition (Disk 1), Win 7 32 bit on my F partition (Disk 2) , both are SCSI drives. I also have two WD sata drives 120gb and 640gb. XP recognizes all drives, win7 does not recognize the 640gb hard drive. Suggestions please (in addition to uninstall Win 7...

Can't use two of my internal hard drives fo backup. only offered Win 7 Drive which I don't want to use

Have you ever been in a situation where you desperately need help? Well, I'm in that position currently. This is a time-essential matter and I am appreciative to ANY help/tips/ideas that you have. I seriously need some fucking help here. Alright, I have two hard drives. C, and Y. C is the...

Ok, so i'm having the problem of some programs taking forever to install. I.e I started the install of power dvd, it took like 7min to pop up the window to say Next.\ I installed the 1.2patch of CoD W@W and it took a while, and used 500MB of ram. Thats crazy? or am i just being stupid...

for all thoes people who are experiencing this problem, i have a few tips that worked for me. Solving Windows freeze on startup....(this can happen when even booting from the startup disk, it has nothing to do with any drivers or software related issues) If you have sprung upon this problem...

Installing this OS has been a nightmare to date, granted it is on an older system: DFI Lanparty sli-dr NF4 AMD64 FX-53 2G ram 2x Seagate 120G barracudas (originally set up on a raid 0 array) BFG nvidia 7800 ultra On the initial install windows would not recognize my hard drives tried using...

So, I'm completely out of disc space on my C: drive. It's a 40GB IDE drive. To compensate, I've installed a 110GB SATA drive, which my computer recognizes as drive E:. I'm trying to stripe these drives (Or get Windows to freely write data across both of them as if they were a single drive.)...

I have 3 hard drives on this workstation. I use Boot Magic to boot into Win98 DOS, Win Me, W2k, XP. hd0 had WinMe (1), W2k (2), XP (3). hd1 had Win98 DOS on partition 1. I installed Win7. I wanted to install on hd0 but there were no more available Primary partitions, so I chose hd2 (sata)...

I was running the Windows 7 beta, and I just finished installing the RC. Everytime I've booted up it's stayed on the Starting Windows screen for over a minute each time. I have a two 7200 RPM 32MB cache hard drives in RAID 0 and an e6750 running at 3.3ghz so the boot up time is ridiculous. The...

Good news. "The Serial ATA International Organization today, made the third-generation SATA interface official. The new interface provides a 6 Gbps high-speed serial data connection between the system and most of today's data storage devices such as hard drives, solid-state drives, optical...