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    Windows 7 WD Caviar disk very slow to respond

    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...
    • alberto
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    • boot issues data recovery dell disk management easeus partition master hard drive performance issues sata wd caviar windows 7
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Improving Performance with a Second Internal WD Caviar Black Hard Drive

    I just installed a WD Caviar Black last week as a second internal HD. I've had a couple of pleasant surprises. The first was moving my virtual machines there improved the performance of them. The second was making a drive image with Acronis there it takes about half the time of doing on one of...
    • Joe S
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    • acronis disk imaging external storage installation internal drive performance surprise usb 2.0 virtual machine wd caviar
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 making a hdd image

    hi all. need some help, so hope someone can oblige. have used ATI for a long time with no problems on various machines, including my Windows 7 Ultimate, x86 computer. this machine has a WD black caviar sata lll 500gig hdd, but is connected on sata ll (mobo doesn't support sata lll). have just...
    • Prettygrim
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    • acronis true image backup drive recognition file size hard drive hardware hdd image installation issues overclocking recovery disc sata software alternatives system restore troubleshooting user support wd caviar windows 7 x64
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 BSod when resuming from sleep

    Hello, Sorry for my english but I'm french :) I've just bought a new computer and I get BSoD (yellow screen in fact) each time I resume from sleep Link Removed : KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR I took a picture of it: Link Removed due to 404 Error Thank you for your help. My computer...
    • fredo0877
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    • asus blue screen bsod computer corsair error graphics card hardware i5 2500k kernel_data_inpage_error motherboard premium ram sapphire sleep storage system error troubleshooting wd caviar windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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    Windows 7 W7-64bit installation not detecting HD...

    Hello guys, I need some help please. Put together a computer and started the W7-64bit installation and as soon as it gets to the screen where it asks for the HD to install windows on, it does not detect my HD and keeps asking for a Driver, which i cannot find it anymore. I tried the Driver on...
    • Winterds
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    • 500gb amd bios compatibility driver issues error formatting gigabyte hard drive installation micro atx pc build primary hd sata troubleshooting upgrade wd caviar windows 7
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 7 running horribly slow

    As the title says, I just got done installing 7 64bit (after like a 5 hour install) and now the OS is slow to respond to anything I request of it. XP ran perfectly on this rig My specs: Harddrive: WD Caviar Blue Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusc 7.1 CPU: Pentium D 940 Presler...
    • astelly
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    • clean install cpu usage graphics card hardware installation pentium performance ram resources slow sound card system performance system specs task manager troubleshooting wd caviar windows 7 xfx
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Not recognizing my HDD

    My HDD is found in my bios, and my windows 7 dvd seems clean. I've tried 4/8 sata ports on my mother board with no luck. I'm going to try another down load an burn today which will hopefully be more successful. This is a clean install by the way. Has anyone else had this kind of trouble. I'm...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 install error, I/O communications, SATA drive

    hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...
    • pfreedom
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    • ahci cmos configuration drive drivers error external drive gigabyte hardware i/o error ide installation optical drive sata storage issues system freeze troubleshooting wd caviar windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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