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Windows 7 Trouble installing a second drive, which is IDE
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...- Michael Scott
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Installing windows7 on 2nd harddrive
I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...- Maryocon
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Windows 7 Installation Errors with IDE DVD Drive and Boot Issues
Hi There I had windows 7 when it was the beta just to see what its like. Now i have downloaded the new 64 bit version from MSDN. Upon installing i encountered several errors: First time it got almost all the way through then blue screened, then upon restart displays the message that the...- KaiserSozei87
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- 64-bit beta blue screen boot drive boot issues compatibility data recovery drivers dvd drive error external drive format drive ide drive installation jumper settings msdn download ntldr quick format troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 secondary master IDE HDD + slave IDE DVD-RW = problem?
Hello. I tried to configure a PC with W7 like this: c:\|d:\ SATAII HDD (two partitions) e:\ IDE HDD f:\ IDE DVD-RW I couldn't. Or could I? I did it but... albeit showing all the drives in the esplorer tree I couldn't explore the DVD I put in. But I could in the command prompt... The board...- mehrlicht
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- admin tools asus p5ql pro bios settings burning capability command prompt computer setup device recognition disk management drive letter dvd-rw error file explorer fixes ide configuration ide drive jumper settings pc configuration sata drive troubleshooting user experience windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support