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 am attemtpting to install the win 64bit 7 RC on a brand new build. I am using a USB stick as my install media. The install boots, although it takes a VERY long time to get from when windows begins to load the setup files to the place where I have issues (about 15 - 20 minutes). Where the...

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 have XP Pro (32bit) on my C partition (Disk 1), Win 7 32 bit on my F partition (Disk 2) , both are SCSI drives. I also have two WD sata drives 120gb and 640gb. XP recognizes all drives, win7 does not recognize the 640gb hard drive. Suggestions please (in addition to uninstall Win 7...

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...

Installing this OS has been a nightmare to date, granted it is on an older system: DFI Lanparty sli-dr NF4 AMD64 FX-53 2G ram 2x Seagate 120G barracudas (originally set up on a raid 0 array) BFG nvidia 7800 ultra On the initial install windows would not recognize my hard drives tried using...

I'd just like to check whether I've got everything right here - it's been a long time since I built a PC! Here are the key elements: ASUS ATI RADEON HD 4350 512MB DDR2 TV-OUT/DUAL DVI/HDMI AMD PHENOM II X4 QUAD CORE 940 BLACK EDITION 3.0GHZ SOCKET AM2 BIOSTAR TA790GX 128M AMD 790GX...

Well I've successfully installed 32Bit Windows 7 on my Compaq computer. Now when i go to install it on my custom computer that already has windows XP home on it i get the following error: Windows has encountered problem communicating with device connecting to your computer. Status: 0xc00000e9...

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...

Hello, all - brand new member here. Good-looking forum, looks like it has a lot of useful info. I did a search for this, but didn't find anything exactly like what I'm experiencing (found a couple of things that were close, tried those solutions, no dice). I just installed W7RC into a...

Hi guys, as i didnt find any real answers about this, i will ask in my own post. From my experience with win7 x64, for me the best version was 7000, no doubt about it. Since i installed RC1 x64, on the same system, i get unstable system. Sometimes windows explorer stop responding, for...

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...

CPU: AMD X2 64 bit 3800+ (2.0 GHz) RAM: 4 GB Motherboard: BFG nForce4 Ultra Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8500 2 SATA Drives (160GB & 250GB) IDE DVD burner I have downloaded and burn multiple copies of Windows 7 and cannot get it to even really start the install. Went ahead and created a bootable...