sata drive

Hi all, I installed Windows 7 Home Premium today (fresh install on formatted hard disk) and am downloading some programs I used previously with Vista. I'm getting a hell of a lot of corrupted downloads though - Adobe Reader gives a checksum error when I try to extract it, Toontrack EZDrummer...

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...

Hi All, I have a single 500GB SATA HDD in my computer. (Rest of the specs are : 24x HP SATA DVD R/W, Intel C2D E7500 processor, Intel DG41RQI MoBo, Kingston 800 MHz 2GB RAM). When I first setup my hard-drive, I first installed "Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit" on D: drive then "Windows 7...

New here... Got a problem that just plain doesn't want to go away. I have Win7 Pro X86 on an ASUS M2N series motherboard, AMD X2 4200 processor, plus the usual SATA drives, usb keyboard + mouse, nvidia 8400 graphics and Acer x193w monitor. When this setup works it works perfectly... It worked...

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...

If I buy a external usb floppy drive will then the Windows XP sata drivers work?

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...

Im trying to install windows 7 64bit on my 160gb SATA HDD but gets an error saying....WINDOWS IS UNABLE TO INSTALL TO THE SELECTED LOCATION. ERROR: 0X80300024 i can install windows xp just fine. any help will be appreciated,thanx...

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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...

Will Asus ENGTX 275 ( which has recommended of 550 W power supply ) run good on my comp with 600w power supply ? Edit: other specs : Got 2 Sata hard drives ( 500gb ) 4gb of ram GA-P31-DS3L motherboard , runnin' with Quad core 2.4ghz

Hi All, cant get win 7 to finish installing, goes right up to installing registry >>>> then reboots and then bsod, this is being installed fom dvd which i have used (on this pc) and know works, have tried updating bios etc, I can install xp and vista with no issues and nearly all parts are new...

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 am trying to install windows 7 64-bit fresh on my computer. When I get to the step which asks me where I would like to install it, my hard drive does not show up and the list is empty. Specs: asus p5n32-e sli motherboard 320 gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 SATA HDD Nvidia geforce 8800gts 320...