sata drives

I have Windows 7 HP on Drive C, and a new drive in D. I have Windows 7 Pro upgrade disc. What I would like to end up with is Windows 7 Pro on C, and my current C drive in the system as D, with all data intact, so I can take my time moving data over. Here's how I think I need to do that and I...

I've been using the Win 7 RC for quite a while now, and really have enjoyed it. Ordered a couple copies of the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my wife and I. Got her PC all updated no hitch. Unfortunately, I've been fighting the process on my system all night long. It's just been one thing...

Hi everyone, I wanna dual boot Windows 7 with Windows XP HOME SP3. I have seen multiple guides telling me how to do it if I was to use the same physical hard drive but then partition it, but I was wondering if it was different if you wanted to have XP on your primary drive and then install...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. 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...

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...

Hi, I have a computer with two physical sata drives on one of which is a 32 bit version of XP. I had Vista on the second untill this past weekend when I pulled it to install the new Windows 7 beta 64 bits. Before installing I used Partition Magic to re-partition and format. All went well with...