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  1. Windows 8 Just for fun!

    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...
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    Windows 7 Problem with windows 7 (slow full screen videos and games)

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 restarts without loading

    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...
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    Windows 7 HELP...new HD and will not recover from disk

    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...
  5. Windows 7 BSOD after waking up from hybrid sleep

    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...
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    Windows 7 transfer help

    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...
  7. Windows 7 Clean install, cant boot with my media drive connected

    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...
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    Windows 7 Seagate External HDD on connecting says 'USB device not recognised'

    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...
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    Windows 7 How to connect my external harddrive to be used with System Repair disk(Restore Img)

    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...
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    Windows 7 Momentus XT no drivers?

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 not consistently recognizing optical drives and external HD

    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...
  12. Windows 7 New Computer Build Multiple BSODs

    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...
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    Windows 7 Change active Drive in Win7?

    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...
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    Windows 7 CD/DVD drive malfunction on recover 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...
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    Windows 7 External Hard Drive Drops Out

    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...
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    Windows 7 USB drive not recognized in Windows7, problem with services

    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...
  17. Windows 7 Can only copy a few items at a time from external hard drive

    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...
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    Windows 7 Computer will no longer detect my HDD

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Starting Up Slow about 2-5 minutes to startup

    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...
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    Windows 7 Redirecting "User Folder" on desktop to another partition

    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...