sata drive

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...

Hello there. I recently just built a new pc and decided to buy a new 500gb sata drive to go with my new version of Windows 7. I've been using windows xp for a decade now and generally know it pretty well. Under device manager the only thing that wouldn't install is my wireless card, now it...

I have a 1TB hard drive divided into 2 partitions of 500GB each. On one partition I have installed windows 7, and on the other, windows vista. Several days ago I started getting a blue screen when trying to boot the windows 7 side. It occurs almost immediatedly after the splash screen. The...

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...

lsst week i noticed, that i had 99GB of unallocted. so i extended it to my current HDD.. when i rebooted the computer i had the message 'autochk program not found- skipping AUTOCHECK' and then the computer reboots endlessly. this is a cycle. i have only found one solutiuon on the net and it...

Hi Everyone, I've upgraded from XP Pro SP3 to Win7 Home Premium. I'm just getting started with this upgrade and am new to this forum, so I apologize in advance for any posting gaffes. The immediate problems so far: 1. Sound - I have a Creative X-Fi Extreme Audio card, which worked OK the...

Hello Everyone, This is my first post so excuse me if I dont provide all relevant info right off the bat. Today I built a new workstation for my job, got everything assembled and started the Windows 7 installation process. System looks like this Antec Three Hundred Case Corsair 550 W...

Ok. I know this is a known issue but I just need to find out for sure before I go spend money again... I bought Windows 7 Ultimate which comes with the 32bit and 64bit dvd's. Right now I have the Windows 7 RC1 32bit installed but as we all know its gonna start acting up in March since it will...

I have a dual boot system with windows 7 and xp on one sata hard drive, and a 500 sata hard drive for storage. Initially, i was not able to see my 500gb drive on either os. I ran Partition Master recovery while in xp, and it got stuck about 2/3 through the intelligent searching part, but...

Hi Guys, I had a test version of windows 7 installed on my Sata drive which had 3 partitions on it (c:40gb, d:40gb, e:220). This worked fine. I decided that i liked Windows 7 so i wanted to re-install it on a permanent basis so i went through the installation, formatted C: ONLY and installed...

I installed W-XP on a PATA drive, then 'upgraded' to W-7 on a SATA drive. Unfortunately it seems to have installed part of W-7 on the PATA drive so I can't remove it. I adjusted the partitions on the PATA and all partitions on the SATA apart from the first vanished. They are visible in "Disk...

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 Vista Ultimate 64bit currently installed on C:: drive. I disconnected the Vista Drive and installed a new 7000+ RPM SATA drive, which I installed the Windows 7 Professional on. So, naturally when I connect the cables to each drive I have issues with disk ID pointers - C: F: E: kinda...

I recently installed Windows 7 on a separate SATA drive and for some reason, I can't connect to my wireless. I use a Wireless card to access my network and Windows saw and installed it correctly. However, as a precaution, I installed the official driver, same thing. I installed Win 7 Ultimate...

I've got Vista 64bit Ultimate currently installed on EIDE 400 gb HDD. I bought the W7 Professional edition, because I won't use the features of W7 Ultimate. Therefore a custom install is indicated by MSFT. Bought a 1TB WD SATA drive I disconnected the EIDE drive from computer and did a clean...

Hi my D drive icon has gone, the drive is working other than this, also to mention my Western Digital My Book can open folders but says all are empty when on vista and xp they are full. when i first installed windows 7 pro everything was fine but has updated about 50 updates since and now this...

So here's yet another addition to what seems to be an ever-growing list of drives behaving badly. I've got two DVD drives, neither of which are working properly in 7, the main one being a Lite On (Atapi DVD A DH16A3L) SATA drive. It's a DVD +/- RW Dual Layer that was working perfectly 2 hours...

Hi I am trying to install Win 7 on my computer from a DVD. I first tried to install Win 7 "over" my Win XP but the installation frooze all the time. So i went ahead and formatted the SATA-driev and now when i try to install the Win 7 i recieve the message "BOOTMGR is missing". Has anyone...

hi i installed windows 7 on my pc on a seperate sata drive now i can boot vista/xp/windows 7 ,great! only problem is i have a ide controler because there was only one ide port so i had to buy a 4 way controler that my lightscribe dvd is conected to,,only problem is it does not see the dvd...

Ok, you have Windows 7, either the 32 or 64 bit version and looked over the new features and either burned the image to disk or set it up on a 4 gig memory stick and are ready to jump in the deep end and install Windows 7. My advice is to do a CLEAN install on a NEW hard drive. 500 gb drive...