sata drive

Well, I've been working on this for a couple of days now, and I've researched this issue like crazy, but nothing I've found covers my situation, so I'm looking for some advanced help, please. I'm trying to perform a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from the original retail DVD...

After I upgraded my graphics card driver, my PC got a blue screen with a sad face. It continually would load up, show a blue screen, shut down. This process continued (while I was attempting to troubleshoot) until it finally said, "Missing operating system" and it's been hanging there ever...

So I have just built a new computer and Installed Win8. The motherboard, processor, and system drive are all brand new Intel stuff; the media drive is a new Seagate. Programs get up and running just fine, but I have transferred my files over from my old xp machine, and Win Explorer is very slow...

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...

Hello all, I have a toshoba satellite with windows 7 home version I have a couple of old 2.5 hard drives from an old IBM thinkpad that I want to get the pictures from. I bought a SATA/IDE USB cable and plugged it in after a while it loaded and i could see the drive in "my computer", and I...

Hello, 2 weeks ago i replaced XP with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on my PC and since then my D: drive randomly disappears. I have been using the PC which has 3 internal disk drives with XP for the past 3 years never having problems with the disk drives. Since i installed Windows 7 Professional 64...

Hello all, hoping this is the correct forum for this. History: Back in February I bought a new custom build PC. First PC I've ever owned that didn't come off the shelf at Wal Mart. Had a friend help me spec it out. Asus M5A97 Motherboard AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.6 GHz 8 GB Ram Radeon...

I upgraded my SATA drive from 500 to 1 Tb & used Acronis Disk Director to move all 8 partitions across to it. XP is still showing as the 1st partition, healthy, active etc, yet when I try to boot directly from it the PC just hangs & goes nowhere as if it was a data only drive. Is there an...

Hi I have recently had some problems with my PC I needed to upgrade anyway, so I bought a new motherboard, new SATA HDD and a new copy of Windows 7 Home Premium. I had problems with th initial install, it started hanging three quarters of the way through, I checked online and found that if I...

Have an issues that's driving me crazy. I managed to do a drive image that also included my storage drive on an internal 1TB SATA drive. This, however, was the only one I was able to do. When I tried to run backup a second time, it would start, but then completely hang with only the...

What is generating these errors in W8 on a SATA drive is becoming apparent. What can eliminate them is not... SChannel errors are seen after each Windows Update (and perhaps in other instances). Distributed COM permission errors pop up after clicking on certain start menu tiles (and that may...

Hi, I did a bad thing.... I started a backup to my second SATA drive which had files (pictures etc) on it. Now I cannot read/view them through 'my computer' or CMD. Only the backup files, which failed by the way due to lack of space on the HDD. Anyone had this before and how do I get them...

hi, i had a major issue last night with my machine (home brew) and had to reformat and reinstall w7. I have two sata drives, plus had one ext plugged in. after the install, i can see the second hd (i disconnected the ext after this problem i about to discuss started), but i can't access the...

I have a home-built system with a Gigabyte MA74GM-S2 M/B & 2gb memory. My C: drive or drive #1is connected with an ATA and I have a second SATA drive # 0 H/D . My questionis since my Win 7 O/S is installed on the ATA drive can I designate the SATAdrive for the O/S? Thanks, Bob

Hi all. First timer, so please go easy. Computer Spec: Intel Quad Core 2.87Ghz 2 x 2GB DDR2 RAM ASUS STRIKER II FORMULA ACPI BIOS REVISION 2402 1 64GB SSD drive (my C drive - operating system is installed on this) 2 x 1TB SATA hard drives. Problem: I've done a fresh install of Windows 7...

I used Paragon Partition Manager 11 to make a clone of my "C" boot drive. "C" is the HDD in position 0. The clone is in position 1, which prior to the clone operation was "D". I am sure that if I removed HDD 0 and replaced it with HDD 1, the system would boot to Windows 7. (I have done this on...

OK, I know this thread is old, but I am having an issue with my pc locking up when I try and transfer files. The problem started when I had the bright idea of trying server 2008 with hyper v and running a vm on hyper v should have stuck with VMware. Any way the vm besides having no sound card...

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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...

Need help with tranfer my windows 7 drive to a different drive I have 2 drives: c: which contains the windows and d: for everything else. 1. I've used "backup and restore" and created drive image on a usb hard-drive. 2. i've formated drive c: booted with "ubuntu" and copied all my flies to c...