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Hello All, As a matter of habit, I tend to reformat my machine on a fairly regular basis (every 6 months or so). The last time I did a clean out, I had the problem below. I am about to clean out again, and would like to know if there is any way to avoid the problems I had last time. My...

IDE cables have 3 plugs on them, One end for the MB, and two devices can be plugged into one slot on the motherboard. Is this possible with SATA? I have never 'seen' a SATA cable with places for two devices and I wondered if this is possible and are there cables available to plug two devices...

I have windows 7 bootable DVD and want clean instalation. i boot from DVD and opened stup and i chuse Custom (advanced) instalation and i formated my hard drive instalation started copying files complited on expaning files i got blue screen Link Removed - Invalid URL and this happens evri...

Issue: After completing the Windows 7 64 bit install, the screen goes black with a white blinking cursor. After rebooting the screen freezes at the ‘Starting Windows’ screen which should proceed with the configuration of the Windows 7 install (select computer & user name, etc.) Before the...

Greetings. This screen appeared : Link Removed Before windows loaded. Precursors to this included : All freezes for seconds\minute the unfreezes, sometimes while cpu 100% sometimes not. It also could freeze and show BSOD and start scandisk or something. It occured more often in-game (wic)...

Hey there , 2 hours ago,i wanted to install windows7 on my sata disk ,cause i destroyed my old partition with ubuntu 10.10. So i started to install Windows 7 .However it couldnt be normal.Then i get an error: . A partition on the disk''0''could not be formatted .The error occurred while...

Hi I've been trying to install Windows 7 Pro upgrade as dual boot with XP Home, and keep getting the message (something like) "Disk read error - press ctr-alt-del to restart" at the first boot during the installation process. Have checked the hard drive for errors, and there are none...

I just bought an ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO motherboard with Lite On SATA 6.0Gb/s DVD-RW and Blu-Ray drives. Everything seems to be connected to the right ports, and when I turned on the computer for the first time and went into the BIOS, it detected my clean/bare Hitatchi SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD, and the two...

i have a ECS Elite Group black series mother board 500gig harddrive and a 320 gig harddrive amd phenom triple core 2 gig ddr3 600watts powersupply gforce 8800gt 512mb i was playing game online when my pc suddenly stuck n restared...then it says sata slave S.M.A.R.T capable status bad. backup and...

I just built a new computer for my inlaws and had several BSODs with different bccodes (1, 1a, a). I formatted and reinstalled the OS, updates, as well as clean installs of all recent drivers downloaded from the manufacturer websites. I have had several BSODs after this and I am worried that it...

I am trying to install windows 7 ultimate x64 on a new build, I am getting the error in thread title when it begins to install. I've scoured this forum to see what others had similar issues and tried the fixes. I tried with one stick of ram, tried re-burning the iso, i've used 3 different discs...

Hi everyone! I'm having a lot of trouble and I really don't know what to do. :( I'm installing Windows 7 x64, Ultimate on my new rig. Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.4ghz MSI 760GM P33 Mobo 4GB DDR3 1333mhz RAM 500GB Western Digital Blue HDD, SATA Radeon HD 6850 1GB Every time I try to...

here is my minidump i get ks.sys error with BOSD i havent tweaked anything it happened since yesterday when i added sata dvd burner. i have unplugged it yet i get this error.

Hey all, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my barebones system that I built. A physical descriptions is: Gigabyte GL-P945-PL-S3 Motherboard with an Intel Dual Core Processer running @ 2.3ghz Three (3) internal hdd. One (1) 1tb SATA, One (1) 250gb SATA, and...

As per the title, I am suffering from recurrent system freezes and intermittent and variable BSODs. I've attched the necessary images and system spec. Many thanks for any help, The system is: Item: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit -...

Ok, i had a complete system running windows 7 and i just did a new build. I took my sata hd's out of the first build and used them in the new build. I had a 320g and a 1tb. I installed the 320g by itself and installed w7. Now i plugged in my 1tb drive with all of my personal files that i had...

New 510 SSD series takes advantage of high-speed SATA bus interfaces on new Intel Core platforms Computerworld - Link Removed a new line of solid-state drives (SSDs) that are based on the serial ATA (SATA) 3.0 specification, which doubles I/O throughput compared to previous generation SSDs...

This firmware update tool provides the latest firmware for the following Link Removed SSDs in all capacities: - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8820 - Intel® X25-E SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8850 - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD...

This has turned out to be a heck of a Monday as Intel Corp., the microprocessor giant based in Santa Clara has revealed that it halted production of 6 Series chipsets (codename Cougar Point) due to a design flaw that can affect their SATA performance, significantly. The bug is with one of the...

Hi. First, sorry for long post but I want to give you as much details as possible before asking my questions :-) I've two 1 TB disk running in raid 1 (2 partitions, both mirrored) under Windows 7 Ultimate. Its clean install on new computer. System was installed on single disk and then both...