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Hi, I have 2 -500 gig hard drives, first and the original is a Vista 32 Ultimate, the second is Win 7pro 64 bit. I love the 64 bit win 7:D. The vista is too slow and takes forever to load:(. What I would like to do is create a RAID 1 setup where as the the two HDDs will be mirrored in case of...

Hey everyone, I'm new here and the thing that brought me here really sucks. I'm typing this right before I have to leave for school, so it's going to be short and sweet. Please ask any questions to fill in the holes. Here's the problem... I'm running Win 7 64-bit and I've been running a...

Hi All I built a new PC a couple of days ago. OS: Windows Home Premium 64 bit (I now know I have to upgrade this to utilize 24Gb RAM) CPU: i7-980X Extreme Edition MOBO: ASUS P6X58D-E RAM: Corsair XMS (6x4Gb) CMX4GX3M1A1333C9 VID: Gigabyte GTX480 HD: Crucial RealSSD 128Gb (2x128GB) RAID 0...

There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...

I have 2 hard drives both 500 gigs. One currently has Win Vista 32 Ulti, the second Win 7 64 bit. I do not use the Vista because it is so slow. How do I set up a raid 1 to mirror my Win 7 64 HD and erase the Vista 32? Or will doing this erase both drives and start from new? Or do I have to...

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600 Asus M4N78 motherboard Nvidia Geforce 9500GT 2 x Seagate ST3500418AS 500Gb disks striping RAID 1 1Tb Freeagent Pro ESATA LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1693S ATA Device Optiarc DVD RW AD-7241S SCSI CdRom Device System Type...

I have 2 W7 PC's; the good one and the bad one! Let me say at the outset that on both my bios & all my drivers are up to date! I have yet to establish a cause but the bad W7 crashes around start up 3 times per week on average. I suspect that 1 of the two 500Gb RAID discs is the culprit and...

Hi all I have installed recently Windows 7 Ultimate and I am experiencing problems finding audio drivers for my motherboard. I have a gigabyte GA-8I915G Duo motherboard which has an on board sound card 7.1. channels. I can't find either drivers for the onboard raid controller. You can find...

bought a startech pcisataar1, and the bios will not deploy on the screen. I have hit f4 so many times, at so many points prior to bios "boot up". Support at startech is excellent, but they only says supports win 7--not specific on 64 bit. Literature in startech says only 32-bit. And most of...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

Is it safe to delete nvraid.sys from Windows\Drivers? I am not using RAID in my system configuration at all - I have a single 1Tb SATA hard drive running Windows 7 32-bit Home Premium. The Event Log shows: Warning nvstor 129 reset to device, \Device\RaidPortØ, was issued This CONSISTENTLY...

Trying to install Windows 7 with an Areca 1210 controller. I have XP Pro currently, never an issue getting it to install other than needing to load the Areca driver. Windows 7 installer does not see my raid array, so when I try to "load driver" (the Areca Windows 7 driver), it does not find...

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So I sucessfully recreated my raid as a 250 mirrored instead of 500 striped. windows now seems more stable without the freeze up mem 3 issue prior to the change, I used the win7 maintenence backup utility and made a repair disc, did an image, and backup to my 750gig sata drive now this...

so, big drive is in did image and backup to it have repair disc made want to redo raid as mirrored, and reinstall OS clean want to preserve browser settings etc best way ?? Thanks!!

Hey all so I threw my bucket drive in today, segate 750, bios sees it, along with the optical and raid my computer does not list it next step ?

Hi hardware is this: gig h55-usb3 intel 530 [roc 8gig of 1333 mem from crucial HD5570 card pair of 250 drives in a striped raid been having some issues with freezing, that seems better, now last few days some bsod, but restarts fine did the scan now thing, nice tool i guess, but not...

Mebbe someone can help have a decent new board, gig h55-usb3 intel 530 [roc 8gig of 1333 mem from crucial HD5570 card pair of 250 drives in a striped raid should be adequate to check email locks when left alone for a spell tried to stop all higernating etc something about mem 3...

I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...

I built a machine using the following components: Gigabyte GV-N98TSL-1GB Fanless 9800GT 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 (rev 1.0) Processor: AMD K2 2800MHz Corsair: 2 x 2GB 1066MHz DDR3 HDD: Seagate 2 x 2TB ST32000542AS Memory has been testing using program from memtest.org. Hello, I'm...