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Had Windows XP installed on an old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB. Formatted the drive for a clean install from Windows 7 DVD Now I get this: "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is...

sorry if this is annoying, sure you must be getting many of these... but i was wondering if anyone has any tips i could follow to help lock my drive in DMA mode... I have done everything others have told me and yet every time i do anything on my 2nd drive (1st primary is SATA and slave is IDE)...

Hi all, Old laptop had XP. Died. (no, the issue is not the hard drive). Got a new laptop with Windows 7. Took out hard drive from old computer (Samsung model MP0804H, IDE PATA 80 Gigs), bought a generic enclosure (that operates of two USB ports for power and data). Upon plugging it in I get the...

First let me start by saying "Hi" and giving a bit of back information, Built this machine about 3 years ago, so it's a bit antiquated but she still has a lot of life left in her... Motherboard: Asus A8N32-SLI (Socket 939) CPU: AMD Dual Core 64 FX-60 (2.61 Ghz) Ram: 4 GB (1 x 4 DDR400) Video...

I have several drives in the Windows 7 box, both IDE and SATA. They all work fine. I put a drive that was working fine into a USB enclosure and plugged it in. Rebooted the system, and although I couldn't see the drive in the BIOS (it goes by too fast), but I presume it's getting found because...

Hello. I have searched for this error message in this and other forums and tried to follow the steps in those solutions but haven't had any luck. Here is a screenshot of the Disk Management window with my drive information: http://i.imgur.com/w2eO4.png I used to run Windows XP Pro and it was...

Hi, I spent the afternoon putting together my new PC: Intel i5, GB P55-UD3, Seagate 500gb SATA, my optical is an IDE. All brand new virgin hardware (except the ide optical obviously). Everything went well, POST with no problems and everything is looking good in BIOS: CPU, RAM, HDD optical...

Hi everyone! I installed windows 7 build 7600 on my computer and have this strange problem. First of all, I was using XP and it's still on my compuıter. I just created a new part on my harddisk and formatted it and installed 7 there. So here is what happened: I tried to install Windows 7 from...

I have a comp that is able to run 64 bit as I have had vista 64 on it before. I have 3 hd's two are blank 250 and 500 gb and a 1.5t I have nothing plugged into comp as in printers and such as I thought that might be the problem not it. I can open 32 bit in windows xp and run it but not 64 and am...

[SOLVED] 0xc00000e9 After Install Wow... This install is driving me nuts. I've never had this much trouble installing an operating system. Here goes.. I'm trying to get Windows 7 64-bit installed. First I was getting an error about corrupt files during extraction, so I swapped out my RAM and...

I am trying to upgrade my HP a1719n from Vista SP2 to Windows 7 Home Premium (using the upgrade DVD) without having to do a clean install. Before the installation starts I get this message. The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task...

First of all, hi for all - i'm new in this forum :) Okay so this is my question: I got computer which has: Pentium4 Northwood 1.6ghz (turbed to 1.88ghz) 768mb ram DDR 200mhz nvidia fx5200 128mb WD 320gb IDE 7200rpm Question's would be: 1-do you know any programs which could boost my windows7...

I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit edition RTM and it boots fine, works great, etc. The system is a dual 3.4ghz Xeon socket 604 on a TYAN motherboard. The only real issue so far is with drives. I have a 1.5 terabyte SATA drive and 2 IDE 160gb drives. I have 32bit XP sp3 on the 1.5 tb...

Hi, I am running winows 7 (very successfuly i might add) anyway i have a compaq desktop quite old which has a 160GB SATA HDD i want to add a 160GB IDE HDD (because its free) but no matter what changes i make in the bios the machine always boots from the IDE which i only want to use for storage...

Hello all, sorry for yet another post on this subject but I have tried all the other ones to no avail....so I installed Windows 7 way back during the beta and right from the get go have had this problem. I install fine and get into windows then take out the DVD and low and behold bootmgr is...

Well hello I am new to these forums but not a total idiot but cant figure out this problem. So i recently bought new computer parts and built it myself. the parts are: XFX 750i motherboard XFX 8600gt 512mb DDR2 450w Power Up psu Angstram 2GB DDR2 667MHz Ram I am using an IDE HDD I...

Ok, i have finally got Windows 7 to install. I love it! Anyway, it would not install if i were to put it in my older IDE DVD drive. I installed it via my other SATA DVD drive which went as it should've. After installing Windows 7, i hooked my IDE drive back up and Windows will detect it but...

As a new user of Windows 7, I wonder if anyone can help? I recently installed Windows 7 on a partition on my 200GB IDE HDD. I tried to install the SATA driver for my SATA HDD but Windows 7 doesn't recognise it. The driver is on my AS Rock motherboard CD AA1697-11. The driver is installed OK on...

I mounted the ISO image on drive X: using deamon tool.After clicking Install Windows 7 the screen shows copying files....and then the error message pops up. "Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary files.To install Windows,make sure that a partition on your boot disk has 685...

Trying to upgrade to RC x64 (from beta 7077; should be possible). I get this error: Windows default drivers are installed and it can't find any updates. My motherboard. Any tips? I'd be willing to do a clean install, but I don't really want to have to set everything up again. I have a...