sata drive

Hello, I'm new here. I recently installed Windows 7 RC 32-bit on a Seagate 300GB IDE drive. I also have XP on a separate IDE drive. I am able to dual boot successfully. My problem is that I have a Seagate 1.5TB SATA drive that I can use in XP, but W7 does not see or recognize it. I'm...

i've completed the install for windows 7 ultimate x64 twice and no luck, it goes through everything perfectly, then it reboots to finish the installation and the progress bar moves... but then it blue screens and restarts. After the restart it will start loading windows 7 then display and error...

I've been going at this all day searching, trial and error, and it's all very frustrating at this point. I wanted to try Windows 7 since it has been released in the RC status (because I had aquaintances try 7000 beta, and no one liked it). So I want to have it on my machine to tinker with and...

i tried installing w7 64 bit rc on a new 500 gb wd sata drive .my mobo is a gigabyte ga p35 ds3l .in belarc advisor it says its 64 bit ready.w/ the old hd installed .what happened when i installed the 64 bit on new drive the desktop is a light blue screen .when i try to get to anything from the...

Well I just upgraded my PS3's stock 60gb HDD to plump 250gb one, the installation was simple just plug&play. So now I got a spare 60gig HDD just lying around so I'm thinking of putting it into my laptop and use it as a backup disk since my current backup HDD is a measly 10gb. So what I'm...

Hi, i had installed windows 7 (RC candidate build 7100)on my Dell studio 1555 laptop which had windows sp1 32 bit home premium. I had opted for clean install. My problem is that it worked like a dream for almost 3 weeks . But after a normal shut down now comp won't boot,it just freezes when the...

I am hoping there is some small chance here. In anticipation for installing Windows 7 on my main drive I installed my new 1TB SATA drive as secondary under XP, formatted it and moved files to it. I had no problems accessing anything so I didn't think there would be any problem when I tried the...

Okay, So three weeks ago I installed Windows 7 RC, and I was happy with it. So happy with it, in fact, that I proceeded to install quite lot of applications on it. Anyway, last night I was installing the Dreamweaver CS4 trial, downloaded officially from their website. All of a sudden my PC...

I have two disk drives. One that uses SATA and an old IDE drive. I was only able to install Windows 7 via the SATA drive and had to disconect the IDE drive to even install. After installing; I hook my IDE drive back up. Windows will detect it, but the drive is unusable right now. Does anyone...

Cheers all! I put together a new rig, and decided to install 7. Device manager correctly has the dvd running happily along - I can write and burn - no worries. However: No matter what I have done, the drive is not recognized as Lightscribe capable. I have tried the various methods...

So, I'm completely out of disc space on my C: drive. It's a 40GB IDE drive. To compensate, I've installed a 110GB SATA drive, which my computer recognizes as drive E:. I'm trying to stripe these drives (Or get Windows to freely write data across both of them as if they were a single drive.)...

Installed Windows 7 64-bit Build 7100 on system with Plextor Sata2 DVD Drive. No issues. After about 3 days, the DVD locked up. the tray would not open. Even using the Manual Tray Eject did not work well. After I got the tray opened, I rebooted the computer to see if bootup would suck the drive...

hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...

Win7, build 7100 IBM x206 server with 74GB primary (boot) SATA drive on channel 1, and 640GB SATA drive on channel 2 The 640GB drive "disappears" from view after reboot. It drops the drive letter and I have to manually reassign the letter and the shares. Drive is formatted as NTFS, not...

Hi, I have XP Pro 32bit installed on a 160Gb Sata disc and I wanted to install the 64bit version of Windows 7 on another disc. My question is to protect my XP install should I disconnect the disc or is it safe to leave them both connected and just run a dual boot system. Cheers J. :razz:

I've been using Windows 7 for a while now but all the sudden I'm having an issue with one of my Hard Drives. I have a 320gig SATA as my primary system drive, a 500gig SATA data drive (this one is set to 'dynamic') and then an 120gig ATA drive (That I currently have no data on yet.) For a...

I like the way that newly installed games are put there in a centralized location rather than hunting the start menu for who made it etc. The only issue I've been having the past, say week, has been that when I click "Games", it takes about 20 seconds for all of the icons to load and...

Hello, Yesterday I've installed Windows 7057 (RC1), I upgraded it from 7048 with a mounted image. I already managed the problem with notepad starting up on each boot up but the new windows boots up for about 10 minutes and when it finally shows my desktop it keeps causing problems. I can move...

Anyone know why when I go to my computer I can't see my IDE 40 gig hard drive? My SATA Drive (which I installed on) works fine but I can't see the IDE 40 gig :) Please help I have backed up files and folders on that 40 gig and need to access it! Thanks Brian

So yeah I installed the Win7 beta, was going fine initially, then weird things started to happen. Had some hellish issues with my Creative sound drivers, but I managed to overcome them (mostly). Anyway, things went from bad to worse when Win7 kept crashing during startup (on the screen with the...