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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...

Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...

I have a 650GB Sata H.D.How can I partition it to half this?

Hello, I am currently experiencing a troubling issue with a WD Caviar HD. It was installed as the only HD on a Dell machine that after falling on the desk (from vertical to flat) decided it was tired of booting normally. I took out the hard drive, attached it via SATA to a working Win 7 Pro...

Just installed a new 256GB SSD. Installed Windows 7. Windows is running fine but now even the BIOS does not recognize the SATA HDs. Frank

There were two PCs - one with Win8 64bit ConsumerPreview(1 HDD 120GB) and one with WinXP 32bit (1 HDD 750GB). I've tried to put both HDDs in same PC but failed. When bootdevice is HDD with WinXP everything is OK, just one more 'volume' appears. But when i set bootdevice to other HDD with Win8...

Sorry for the long post, but wanted give all the background info. I have been temporarily relocated for work. As part of the relocation, I had my desktop computer shipped out to me. However, in the process of shipping, the computer was destroyed by UPS. I'm still waiting for a check after 34...

In the past I've post an issue I had were I was getting a B(Blue)SOD but now this is something different, I hope. When I launch either of 2 games (Borderlands and The Secret World), after a while, the screen will go dark and most of the time I'll hear a high pitched wine, I'll restart the PC...

Hi, I have a new machine I built about three months ago and I've only occasionally had BSODs. But now they've increased in the past couple of weeks to sometimes two or three a day. Usually a few minutes after I wake the machine from sleep. One BSOD error said something about USBScan.sys with...

Hi! I'll jump straight to the point, I had windows 7 installed for a long time, today all of a sudden the PC crashed and I'm getting the Bootmgr is missing error at startup. I can't press F8 etc., only BIOS setup works. Since I don't use a DVD for reinstall, I used a USB installation, made it...