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IDE - SATA drive combo

I followed the discussion about putting IDE drives into a system with SATA drives. I've done this successfully, but on one machine (Win XP Pro), the system constantly reboots if an IDE drive is attached to the cable marked 'slave'. I removed the jumper according the instructions on the drive. Is...

View Answer   |  Dec 12 2008  2:34 PM GMT
Windows XP, Hard drives, IDE
asked by Britinga

  345 pts.

Ethernet Not Available

I recently updated my windows because my c: drive quit working. I had to install windows on d: drive in order to get my computer to even work. I then updated my c: drive with windows update (I had to have windows on the computer in order to update my c: drive-c: drive was missing a system 32 file...

View Answer   |  Dec 1 2008  3:04 PM GMT
Installation, Ethernet, Hard drives
asked by Mikimichelle

  5 pts.

Install IDE drive as slave on a Vista Dual Core Processor w/SATA primary drive

First: Got a new Vista machine (pentium Dual Core Processor) w/SATA hard drive. Want to install a 5 year old 40 gig Western Digital IDE drive as a slave for storage. The motherboard has what looks like a connection for an IDE drive. The connection on the board is blue to match the blue end of...

View Answer   |  Nov 30 2008  7:54 PM GMT
Hard drives, IDE, SATA
asked by Brenger

  165 pts.

C drive disk defragmentation

What would cause my C drive not to fully defrag when I run the scan?

View Answer   |  Nov 30 2008  7:27 PM GMT
Windows XP, Hard drives, Defragmentation
asked by Roxza

  20 pts.

USB SATA/IDE adapter

I can not get into the files from the old sata drive? How can i get into the files with out placing the old hdd back into the case

View Answer   |  Nov 30 2008  0:26 AM GMT
Hard drives, IDE hard drives, SATA hard drives
asked by HulkIT

  5 pts.

Dynamic Hard Drive - convert to basic - XP prof

Can you convert a dynamic hard drive to a basic one? If so how would you do it?

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2008  3:37 PM GMT
Windows XP, Hard drives, Dynamic Logical Partitioning
asked by SCG

  5 pts.

implication of upgrade in Hard drives to 72gb from 36gb on windows NT using RAID 5

implication of upgrade in Hard drives to 72gb from 36gb on windows NT using RAID 5

View Answer   |  Nov 24 2008  1:03 PM GMT
Hard drives, Windows NT, RAID 5
asked by Stiv

  20 pts.

Is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA:ST3300831AS disc drive a SATA or SATA-2 drive?

Is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 SATA:ST3300831AS disc drive a SATA or SATA-2 drive?

View Answer   |  Nov 14 2008  7:40 PM GMT
Hard drives, SATA, SATA 2
asked by SearchStorageATE

  200 pts.

External hard drive suddenly gone crazy

I use a USB hub with my laptop, which has only two USB 1.0 ports. Until recently, I had a hub into which I had two USB plugs from a Seagate external 40 GB hard drive, a scanner, a printer, and an external floppy drive. I noticed the laptop suddenly didn't recognize the external drive. I got a new,...

View Answer   |  Nov 11 2008  4:00 AM GMT
Hard drives, External hard drives, USB hard drives
asked by Chico

  5 pts.

How can I get XP to assign a Letter to an additional IDE drive installed as slave

How can I get XP to assign a Letter to an additional IDE drive installed as salve, so I can access it? XP installed and it appears as hard drive in Device Manager hardware.

View Answer   |  Nov 8 2008  6:07 PM GMT
Windows XP, Hard drives, Slave drive
asked by Nettie01

  5 pts.

Partitioning an external hard drive.

I have just bought a new 500gb external hard drive to back up all my files before having the internal hard drives looked at as one of the is overheating and cutting out all the time. How do I pertition the new external hard drive so that I have two drives, one of say 100gb and the other 400gb?

View Answer   |  Nov 6 2008  7:52 PM GMT
Partitioning, Hard drives, External hard drives
asked by Hmfceh12

  5 pts.

How To determine which HD failed in your Server.

I am running a Dell Precision 370 with Dual 160 GB Mirrored Hard drives. One of these drives has failed and needs to be replaced. How do I know which HD is the bad one, so I do not replace the wrong one? Thank you.

View Answer   |  Oct 21 2008  8:51 PM GMT
Hard drives, Mirroring, RAID 1
asked by Jmullinjohns

  50 pts.

Hard Drive

I am having a hard drive whic is installed in a laptop with size of 160 gb having Vista Home Premium (OEM) OS . There was a small shock as my laptop fell down nearly from a 15 cm distance . even after that it was working Nowam getting message as "OS Not Found " after i restarted my laptop ... I...

View Answer   |  Oct 3 2008  6:31 AM GMT
Hard drives, Boot failure, Operating System Not Found
asked by Sriram1982

  5 pts.

Can you use a Dell GX50 power supply just to power hard drives

i have dell gx50 with dudd m/board can i use power pack just to run harddrive[s]

View Answer   |  Sep 28 2008  1:03 AM GMT
Hard drives, HDD, Dell OptiPlex GX50
asked by Tokay666

  5 pts.

Looking for ISO backup system

I'm looking for an easy to use ISO back up system. Ideally the “kit” would consist of a large USB Harddrive to hold multiple drive images and a bootable CD to allow backup and recovery. This program: http://www.drive-image.com/?GGLAW900 Seems to fill the bill. Does anyone have any...

View Answer   |  Sep 9 2008  12:45 AM GMT
ISO, Hard drives, USB
asked by Flame

  14495 pts.

Resizing a Windows Server 2003 partition

Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Hard Drive Setup: 74.50 GB (System = 9.93 Domain Controller/Data Drive = 64.54 it has the Windows Directory which contains the SysVol Directory and NTDS) 372.61 GB (Student Data Drive) Will it be possible to use some extra space of the Data Drive and add it to the...

View Answer   |  Sep 3 2008  5:23 AM GMT
Windows Server 2003, Hard drives, Partitions
asked by Cloudy123

  45 pts.

Proliant server hard disk upgrade

Have an HP ProLiant DL360 G3 with 2 72GB drives that are mirrored. Using W2003 server SP2. I want to upgrade the drives but don't have all the installed software, is it possible to upgrade without having to do a new full install.

View Answer   |  Jul 30 2008  10:39 AM GMT
Servers, Hard drives, HP ProLiant DL360 G3
asked by SMACHEAD

  40 pts.

System Properties mis-reporting used disk space?

I am using Windows Vista (32-bit) on my computer. Lately, I have noticed that the reported "used space" on my hard drive (via right-click/properties) keeps rising dramatically while I add very little to my computer. I then made sure that I had turned on options to show system files and hidden...

View Answer   |  Jul 4 2008  4:31 AM GMT
System monitoring, Hard drives, Vista
asked by Rayhorn13

  65 pts.

Move HD with K2000 to new computer

I need to move the hard drives with Win2000 from an older computer to a new computer. When I tried starting the new computer, I got a BSOD with 0x07B inaccessible_boot_disk. The drives were jumpered correctly, the data cable was secure. The BIOS did not recognize either drive. Any idea on how I can...

View Answer   |  Jun 24 2008  6:24 AM GMT
Hardware, Windows 2000 Server, Hard drives
asked by XMac

  95 pts.

SATA2

Hi, Question 1 - I want to move from an IDE hard drive to SATA. I'm using a Gigabyte GA 7N400 Pro 2 motherboard and although it says its SATA compatiable, would this mean I can use SATA 2 drives on there too? I'm not sure of the differences. Question 2 - When installing Vista would I need a...

View Answer   |  May 29 2008  5:14 PM GMT
Hard drives, SATA, Serial ATA
asked by Alex W

  20 pts.

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