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LG GGW-H20L not handled on Win 7 x64 works perfect in Xp Pro x64. I have a split 500g drive with Xp on one partition and Win7 on the other. Using another SATA drive for file dumping, and LG using the 3rd and final SATA port on the Dell P490 I am using. Device manager recognizes 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...

Hello there. I'm trying to install Win7 RC x64 (build 7100) in my desktop but not success so far. When I try to install, I get the following message: Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition. Error: 0x80300024 My hardware involved: - a 160GB Sata HD...

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:

My primary computer passed the readiness test for Windows 7 using the beta utility on the Microsoft site. The computer has a good running XP Pro installation on it on one of two available SATA drives. The second drive has 3 large empty partitions on it so I decided to install Win 7 build 7100...

Hi, Windows Vista Home 64bit Abit motherboard running intel chipset and Core i7 6 gigs memory 2 solid state disks in stripe as C running fine 2 one-TB samsung f1 in mirror (one drive failed) I had a d drive in a mirrored configuration when one of the drives went bad. I don't have a backup...

Yes. I've found another little problem. I have the power settings set to turn off the display after 30 minutes. Whenever I resume work, the screen stays black. Ctrl+Alt+Del ha a very slow response and goes to the blue selection screen. None of the selections work. Thus I have to reboot. I will...

Hi, when i try to install Windows Vista 64, i get the same problem that many other have, that i cant find anny drives to install on, and i have understood that i need sata drivers. But i cant find anny drivers, i have a Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe Motherboard. and was wondering if anny one knows where...

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...

Hi. I tried to install windows 7 (latest) but when it reboots second time it hangs up on windows logo screen. I tried to wait about 5 - 10 minutes but there doesn't seem to be any harddrive activity. Does the it take longer time and did i give up too soon? I have tried allso installing vist 32...

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

I recently had a new system built running a RAID array using two WD 250GB SATA drives, Vista Home Premium, Intel duo core 3.1GHz processor, 4GB mem, ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard. I was trying an ATI Radeon HD 4670 video card and when installing the Vista drivers, the system froze and I had to shut...

I have installed W7 32 on a laptop. It is running. I am now trying to install W7 64 on my desktop. I can't get past the drive partitioning screen. I deleted the partitions and repartitioned it and formatted it but it is still telling me it can't install on this drive because the hardware may not...

I have been using W7 for a week with various gimicks to thwart the driver signing issue. Last night, I did a clean install and restored my applications from backup. In some cases (Office, Outlook, Power DVD) I had to re-install from the original media, but my settings and data were preserved...

Have just built new system:-phenom9950, m/b GA MA78GM-S2H,2g ram@800, Nvidia 9800gtx.Had vista premium 64 already installed.On boot, after verifying data got message "missing NTLDR". Tried fresh install. After formatting hdd & repartitioning, Vista said "unable to find suitable volume on which...

Hello. I tried to configure a PC with W7 like this: c:\|d:\ SATAII HDD (two partitions) e:\ IDE HDD f:\ IDE DVD-RW I couldn't. Or could I? I did it but... albeit showing all the drives in the esplorer tree I couldn't explore the DVD I put in. But I could in the command prompt... The board...

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...