sata

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...

I try to add a second internal SATA 6 hard drive to my computer. On restart, Windows 8 gives a message "Preparing for Repair" and after few seconds it restarts computer and again the same message and continues to restart. This SATA was already working smoothly with Windows 7 and Windows 8 RP...

I recently upgraded from a 5400 RPM hard drive, to the 120 GB version of the SanDisk Extreme SSD. On my computer with a SATA 3 Gb/s configuration, my WEI score went from 5.7 to 7.7 and the performance gain is simply unbelievable. What's everyone else's experience moving from conventional hard...

Fixes a problem in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 where various Stop errors occur when you try to resume a computer that has a large SATA hard disk. Link Removed - Invalid URL

I'm not certain if this has anything to do with Windows, or my motherboard, or overloading my system, or whatever. But I could use some input. I built my current system in the summer of 2009. I tried to "futureproof" as much as I could by putting in a Corei7 processor (the low-end, 2.66 Ghz...

Describes an issue in which you receive a "STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE" error message when you start Windows Vista or Windows 7 after you change the SATA mode of the boot controller. A resolution is provided. More...

My system is an Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz bought from Overclockers in August 2010. It has been running at 4GHz without any problems until two days ago when I started getting BSODs. I've reset the BIOS to default (non-overclocked settings) and am still getting the same problems (though not quite...

What is going on here? Total madness? Link Removed Link Removed First, please let me apologize for the mass of wires, general techno geek junk, and other no-no’s like a can of diet Pepsi right next to my StarTech 4-port USB3 drive bay. Once I did some extensive reading about Storage...

Hello Yesterday I bought a new Acer Aspire M1935. It has been working just fine until now... When it is turned on for about 5 minutes, I get a blue screen. I cannot take a screenshot of the blue screen because I cannot startup anymore! But at the top of the screen it says...

Well I am trying to install windows 7 64 bit for 2 days My PC's specs - Asus P5G41T-M LX2 Intel Celeron Dual Core E3400 2.6 GHz RAM 4 GB DDR3 HDD : Seagate SATA III 500 GB I am trying to install win 7 but I always have a problem at the last step . It restarts after that and gives a blue screen...

Hello, I have run into an issue here where I am unable to boot my system anymore. It began when I decided to give the disk compression tool a whirl since I thought it may speed up my system a bit...1st mistake. Since it takes about a million and 15 days to complete I cancelled the...

Hi there, I had been trying since the past 2 days to install windows XP professional 64 bit in my sony vaio (vpceb3gfg) running windows 8 release preview. I downloaded the windows XP pro x64 and slipstreamed it using nLite to integrate the iaStor.sys controller driver to include support for SATA...