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Hi, I've been having nightmare with PC boot times ( up to 1 hour long) and extremely limited usage after boot, due to 100% disk activity. I have tried everything possible with windows itself, so today tried to test HDD with HDDtune Pro. Question, #1 - Are these low read speeds? #2 - If so...

Hi, I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...

Hi Everyone. I am trying to re-instal a fresh copy of Win 7 64 bit on my comp. I am currently running Win 7 64 bit, which seems corrupt. It has the following problems Control Panel right click doesn't work any more Windows update doesn't work any more Unable to upgrade IE 9 to IE 10 Net...

So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...

Hello all, This information is intended for anyone on a budget. First off, let's take a look at the motherboard: Newegg.com - ASRock B75M-DGS R2.0 LGA 1155 Intel B75 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard This $49.95 motherboard has one SATA III port, multiple SATA II ports, and...

A problem that has been haunting me ever since I installed my current motherboard (ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4) is that my two external drives, contained in a Startech ESATCASE2, which connects to a SI RAID controller card (can't remember the model at the moment), causes the BIOS to hang on the last...

So, after reviewing countless forum posts over the past year plus, I finally decided to post my own problem here with hopes someone smarter than I can determine why my Win7 box has been crashing randomly for some time. Saga below... Built the box in Dec 2010. Worked like a champ for some...

I've done a search and found plenty of posts where a harddrive is no longer shown under My Computer. My problem is that it is all of my hard drives won't show in My Computer. So this tells me it's probably not all of the power/sata cables all at once. When I restart my PC they reappear...

Laptop Model Sony Vaio SVT13113EN 500GB HardDrive + 32 GB SSD SATA Mode set to RAID When i tried a clean install of windows 7 (Home premium) the installation setup couldn't detect my drive and I tried loading drivers from flash drive manually got the message "No signed drivers found....."...

hello I have a MSI VT8327 motherboard .The motherboard have a two sata ports , i connect a sata hdd but the bios don't recognized . Someone halp me what i do to recognized the bios and i installed the windows.

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Hello. I have a dell dimension 9100. I have two drives on it, a ~160gb drive that came with it with xp, and a 500gb drive with win7. I put the win7 in myself and had been using that. Finally, I decided to erase the old drive with xp on to install linux on it. After erasing the old drive, my...

Hey Tech support guys/gals, i have run into a annoying problem with my new Intel 330 SSD. First of all here my specs: 650W Corsair CMPSU-650TXEU AMD Phenom2 X4 940 3.0Ghz, AM2+ Black Editio Asus M4N72-E, sAM3 Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) XMS-2 8500C5 Asus GTX 570 500GB Western Digital Caviar Black SATA...

GIGABYTE - Motherboard - Socket 1155 - GA-P61-S3 (rev. 2.0) Ive installed the rest of the drivers provided by manufacturer except the SATA RAID/AHCI ones.The Intel Rapid Storage Technology gave me an error that I dont meet the system requirements so I no longer insisted with the others...

Anybody else seen this behavior? Why would changing a SATA controller to a different mode (AHCI to RAID) cause Windows to become deactivated? No Hard Drive changes were made. I will give it some time to see if it comes back, but this is strange. I do have Media Center installed, possibly the...

I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...

I went to the toilet for 5 minutes and when I came back, my computer was off so I tried restarting it and this happened. Its my custom built PC. Its been fine for a few months but a few weeks ago, It said before start up: SATA3G_6 Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, backup and replace. I dunno...

I've tried upgrading my machine three times now and have no clue what is happening. It keeps on failing at around 96% on the finalizing stage and reverting back to windows 7. "We cannot Install Windows 8 your machine has been reset to the way it was before" Soon as it hits 96%, my monitor...

Windows 8 includes a ton of great new features that are easy to overlook amidst the sturm und drang over the Start screen. Meet Storage Spaces, a new Windows utility that allows you to connect multiple data storage devices (internal and external) that rely on different interfaces (SATA hard...

Hi, Ive got a new computer and since the launch i get multiple BSoD first only when launching games now its even when i am in desktop doing nothing. Here is my spec and dump files. Core I5 2320 3.0GHz LGA1155 BOX Radeon HD 7850 OC 2GB 11200-14-20G Agility4 Series 128GB SATA3 2.5'' XFX Core...