sata

My friend passed away recently and his wife knows there are lots of pictures on his windows 10 computer. Unfortunately he password protected it It has a sata hard drive. I don't have any other sata drives and my computer doesn't have a socket for sata to allow me to plug it into mine as a...

So here's the story: I have a 500GB 970 Evo Plus NVMe, about 40% full on the motherboard as a C:\ system drive. Works as quick as the board/CPU/RAM (ASUS 970 gaming aura, FX8350, 16GB) will let it. It's only PCIe 2. It's still quite quick. 1.4GB/s read, 1.1 write (seq) from Crystal Mark Also...

Hi, tried to refresh W10 by inserting W10 USB set it in bios priority boot & the start hungs up as per attached. Pressed Delete to go in Setup with no response. Removed the USB stick but the effect remains the same. The Repair mem stick has same effect, I am well & truly stuck. Can you...

OK, this is driving me nuts! I need to reinstall XP on a friends laptop - it needs to be XP, for the time being at least. The problem of XP not having built in drivers for the SATA controller rears it's ugly head - it's listed in the current install of XP as nVidia nForce for the controller...

SATA Mode only shows RAID option. I did all the update on my Windows 10 and downloaded the necessary Drivers from my Unit's Manufacturer Website, Intel, and Microsoft. And my SSD M.2 2280 cannot be detected. I checked and it should be compatible. M.2 slot might be disabled but I don't know how...

I'm hoping someone in this community can help me with a hard drive problem. Recently, I replaced my old laptop (it ran a Linux/Ubuntu OS). Before getting rid of it, I removed the laptop's hard drive with the intent to repurpose it into a portable hard drive. I then encased it within a plug...

Computer: Motherboard: Asus Prime B250 Plus CPU: Intel i3 7100 I formatted a hard disk and am trying to install Windows 7 64 bit into the first partition. When I try to install it freezes where it says: "loading windows" From my research I think it is a problem with usb3 drivers. When I plug...

I lost all my data because apparently external ssd's are not hot swappable. Here is how it went: I installed Windows 10 on the SSD and moved all files from the HDD to the SSD while running the OS on the HDD. Then I put the SSD in the laptop hard drive space and booted up, but there were no files...

Situation is I have a client that just purchased some old POS equipment on the cheep. He gives them to me to set up. Unfortunately he bought several XP machines and the POS program only works on Win 7 and up. I have upgraded one of the computers to Win 7 and the POS program works fine...

AMD release Chipset Drivers for Ryzen processors. This driver set offers optimized chipset compatibility with AMD Ryzen processors and AMD Socket AM4. Ready for AMD Ryzen processors - AMD Socket AM4 represents the company’s new future-proof platform targeting the fastest DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0...

AMD release Chipset Drivers for Ryzen processors. This driver set offers optimized chipset compatibility with AMD Ryzen processors and AMD Socket AM4. Ready for AMD Ryzen processors - AMD Socket AM4 represents the company’s new future-proof platform targeting the fastest DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0...

On one of my (older) computers there is a defect sector on the hard disk. Checking the surface of the hard disk shows a red square for it. It seems to me that all the "usual" reserve sectors are already in use. Every thing else works on this computer. No unusual noise comes from the hard disk...

I have this computer, happens to be winXP but that may not be important. Now I understand SATA drives boot in sequence from No. 1. So if you had four boot drives the one it would boot from would be SATA port No. 1. Right? But when I put an extra drive into this computer today it didn't. It...

Hey guys, Yesterday when I switched on my PC,it said "checking file system on :C" and it checked it and my PC worked fine for about 2 minutes. then I got a message saying "windows explorer is not responding" and my computer shut down and it said "A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctr+alt+Del to...

Hi, bit of a long shot, not sure if anyone will be able to help me. I remember a good few years back i would always use the latest SATA or matrix / RST drivers and would always update them regularly, I’m pretty sure i have had newer drivers on my laptop in the past than what i have now, i...

Hi I'm getting very slow hard drive transfer speeds. Both drives are SATA: Seagate Barracude Green 2TB 6Gb/s 5900RPM ST2000DL003 HGST 4TB 6Gb/s 7200RPM HDN724040ALE640 There is plenty of space on each drive. I'm transferring from the Seagate to the HGST. I'm copying over some video...

Dose it Support sata 6gb my Alienware Aurora f2zynn1 does it support sata 6gb Sent from my iPhone using Windows Forums mobile app

I have purchased a pc from my friend he told me to replace sata drive to ssd for better performance with windows 7 professional. what is the performance difference after replacing sata drives to SSD. I Need fast windows startup and fast opeinig of programs

So, Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with Silicon Image 3114 SATA Raid on motherboard... Got everything up and running on Windows 10 x32 (x64 won't load, I think it does see enough RAM) thanks to Neemobeer. In order to boot into Windows I must configure something on the SI RAID controller. If I don't...

I'm trying to install Windows 10 on a new pc but only accepts to select the installation disk path when windows will be installed only of the sata drives that are connected to the motherboard but not the drives on the sata card i have. I'm using DVD of windows 10 and i have booted to it to...