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I have used Hiren's Boot CD a great deal, but now I am unable to. Whenever I click Enter on USB Flash Device in the menu, instead of opening up Hiren's Boot CD, it is giving me the message: When I strike F1, it just repeats the same message ad infinitum. I have Hiren's on a 4GB flash drive...

I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...

I have a win 7 system that periodically fails to recognize the IDE dvd drive, I have tried other drives with same result, When it does show up in device manager I get the message, device cannot start Code 10 and other times it does not show up at all. There was a time when it worked ok and...

Good morning, folks! Running XP Pro apps on older system disk with Windows 8 on new system On my previous desktop computer, one of my IDE hard disks was partitoned into Drive C and Drive D. Each of the partitions had an installation of XP Pro so it was a dual-boot system. My desktop...

Hi,I have an old cumputer: P4 3,4 ghz(northwood) in a asus p4c800-e deluxe. 4gb ram,and skystar 2 satellite card,pctv 310i tdt tv card.A his 4670 agp.2 ide hdd one sata hdd and a dvd rewriter and other dvd reader. Windows xp works perfect,ram is cheked:perfect.I take outside all...

I have been having BSOD for the last five months now, off and on. They started almost exclusively when I was playing Skyrim, but in the last week they have been occurring during even basic web browsing or word processing. I have used the BlueScreenView app, which gave me consistent reports of an...

Hi, I've successfully installed a 100GB IDE drive that was successfully being used as a secondary 'slave' drive in an older Win98SE system (it had to be partitioned into 4 25GB partitions, to deal with 98's inability to handle large HDDs). I want to preserve the data in the drive (it's just...

ok so i have a build computer by my dad , it is windows 7 home premium . i wanted to format the computer using the CD that i have which is GIGABYTE 6-quad/ S-series . Ok so i was playing around to see if it could load ( but nothing was loading until it came a point that when i try to start...

I have the BSOD Bad Pool Header problem, in addition to having error 39 (no drivers) on an IDE storage controller. I have the BSOD appear relatively frequently, and just noticed this missing driver. Help is appreciated. Minidump.rar Above link is the minidump rar Specs: GTX 275, i7 920, 12 GB...

Okies, so today I backed up my files when prompted by the little flag icon, they went on an external HDD. Updated everything. Went back to pc after tea, and when i switch on it can't boot windows. 1.. it asks me to put the cd in, when i do it goes through to the option to upgrade, repair or...

My Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit OS got messed up so I restored the original image I made from DriveImage XML successfully. Now when my PC boots, I get the mobo splash screen and then just a cursor. When I put my Win 7 install disk in I can "press any key" to boot from it and the DVD goes right to...

Hello, I have a 150 GB SATA and a 70 GB IDE hard drive in my computer. When I ran XP, everything was fine, but since Windows 7 was installed on my computer a few days ago, it doesn't recognize my IDE hard drive. The XP had been on the SATA drive, and the Windows 7 is there now as well because...

Hi guys I've recently assembled a new PC and installed W7 on it, only to then find that some of my cherished software won't run on W7 whereas it did on my old pc running XP (which has now been dismantled and cannibalised). So I've decided to make my new machine a dual boot. Having looked at...

I recently bought a new PC (Intel Core2 Quad, 6GB ram, Sata with 300GB HDD) and installed a new (OEM) version of Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) Everything was running fine until I decided I'd physically add the old 'primary' drive from my old Pentium 3 as a secondary/backup. It's only 120GB so...

Hello, I currently have 2 HD, one 160Gb SATA and this 80Gb IDE. I was using both normally, but since yesterday I can't access my IDE HD. The unit is gone in My Computer, as you can see in this SS: Imageshack - semttuloix.jpg But when I access Disk Management, there's the disc, labelled as...

This topic might be a repost, please forgive me for being a noob... Does anyone on here use Windows 7 Professional? I installed it (legally) from XP using a CD and now it wont detect any IDE CD ROM drives or any Virtual drives. I've tried using two seperate CD drives, and Windows will not...

I have XP Pro installed on my primary IDE drive (C:) I installed a SATA drive and installed 7 Ultimate to it as a dual boot system. XP sees the drive as E:. When booted in 7 it sees the drive as C: and the XP drive as D: I have downloaded, installed and configured the XP VM plus the patches. The...

Hi I have windows 7 home prenium oem but I cant install it, nothing happen when I boot on dvd, I tryed on another dvd ide and didnt work either, I looked if I could see windows 7 files in windows xp explorer but It seem to not be able to read the dvd, I tryed to read others DVD and CD and all...

Hello, I use a seagate SATA hard disk as a master disk where i have my OS installed etc. and a WD IDE disk as slave where i usually keep files like mp3s, movies and so on. As long as I had windows xp everything worked fine. I installed Windows 7 yesterday on the SATA disk, and now i can't see...

im having a big issue and i don't know who else to ask! my computer is a pentium 4 sony vaio that has winodws 7 on it.2.4ghz and 768mb ram. upgraded the motherboard n CPU to a amd quad core 620 and motherboard is an ECS GeForce6100PM-M2(V3.0).got everything installed.but i cant get into windows...