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We've touched on the topic about the speed of Win-8 compared to XP and Win-7, but tonight I decided to do something about that. I moved Windows 8 from an old 80 gig Sata II drive to a new Seagate SATA III (6GBM) drive on a SATA III controller card. Windows XP would not run on the SATA III...

Hi, im new here, I have just looked for posts that would solve my problem but found nothing. I got a nice computer (hardware listed below), I used to use windows XP, I could do anything without any problem. I installed Windows 7 yesterday and thats where my problems started, now I can't even...

Hi, I am running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit installed on a partition size of 270GB.The system worked for two months.Now when I start the pc, after the bios screen I get "Windows is loading files with a white completion bar.As soon as the bar gets completed or is full the system restarts.I tried...

I have an HP dv6-2155dx and purchased a new HD just like what came out actually a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM SATA new HD. I turned it off and put disk 1 in the drive and turned it on. It loads windows and asks for each of the 3 disk but no luck from there. When it restarts it goes to the black...

I recently upgrade to a Z68/i7-2600k combo and I am currently having this BSOD problem whenever the computer wakes up from hybrid sleep. This does not happen if I sleep before logging in. I have tried disabling every start-up program with msconfig, but Kaspersky Antivirus, Asus SmartDoctor...

hello to all--need help--had vista 64bit computer- backedup often onto seagate320gb external hd-- old computer chashed ,done gone-- got new windows 7 computer--- want to transfer from external hd to new computer-- did not do transer tool on old computer just backup-- can not transfer to new...

Windows 7 64bit Asus P7P55D-E LX 8GB Crucial SDR DD3 EVGA GTX 260 Samsung 470 SSD 128gb (Startup Disc) Seagate 2TB WD 2TB <--- Problem Drive WD Velocirator 300GB LaCie 2TB external connected with eSata Last night i installed a new Bootup disk drive (128gb ssd). The PC started up fine with most...

I just bough a brand new Seagate external HDD 500GB.When i connect it to my USB ports it works fine however the cable that i got is very small so i bough an extended USB cable and now when i connect it through the extended cable it says 'USB device not recognised'.What do i do?? PS:I also tried...

I made a few months back a backup of my machine(windows 7 64bit edition). The size was like 25gb's so I saved it on my external hard-drive(I bought a case and put a hard drive(Seagate I think) in it). I know want to use this to restore my computer. So I made a system repair disk and loaded...

I tried to install win7 on my new Momentus XT drive but my bios and win7 does not see the drive. My bios is up to date so its not that. I checked seagate's web sight for drivers and cant find any. Tried the firmware sd25 but that does not work. The win7 install asks for a driver disk for the...

Okay I have been having this problem for the past two months or so where my BIOS and/or Windows 7 is only sporadically recognizing my two optical drives and my external HD. I can't seem to find a fix! First, here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Motherboard...

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...

Hello all, I'm brand new to windows 7. I just installed last night to a Crucial c300 SSD (drive c:\). I want to have everything else go to my 2TB Seagate Barrracuda HDD (Drive b:\). I'm sure it's just a setting in disk management somewhere, but how can I set it so that the default installation...

Hi, I hope I picked the right forum category. I'm not computer literate so when my 14 month old PC running Windows 7 Home Premium failed to restart I took it to Staples for a recovery installation. Since bringing it home I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials, then downloaded PC...

I have a 2TB Seagate hard drive that keeps dropping out in Windows 7. I use it as my main backup drive and when writing to it using either of the two backup apps I use the drive usually "disconnects" and I have to switch it off and on again to use it. I've tried using a different USB port and...

I have two external USB drives, one independently-powered, one USB-cable-powered, both with NTFS and linux ext2 and ext3 partitions. Under Windows7 both drives show up under Device Manager with the Property: "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be...

I'm trying to copy 6,400 songs or 28 GB worth of music from my Seagate External Hard Drive to my Windows 7 PC. At first I tried CTRL+A, CTRL+C and then tried to paste them into a folder called "music" that I created on my "C" drive. That didn't work so I tried right clicking copying and pasting...

My computer is reletivly new, here are the specs. AMD Phenom II 840 Quad Core(x4) 3.2Ghz ASUS M4A78LT-M LE 8Gb Dual Channel DDR3-1333 Seagate/Western Digital 1TB SATA II Liteon 24x SATA Dual Layer DVD Writer Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 Basically the problem first started yesterday after...

Hi, everyone.. i am a newbie here. and i wish to ask experts here to help me. i have a Notebook Asus N82 and i change my harddisk (5400rpm 640Gb) to 320Gb 7200rpm. I using Seagate hd to clone all files. and boot... it works normally except starting up when windows flag appear.. it will takes...

Hello all, This is my first post and have been able to find a lot of very useful information on this site. I have been searching for a solution to my problem with no luck finding it thus far. I'm sure I am not the only one that has had trouble setting this up. Anyways I have two seagate...