my hard disk drive can format
l bought a hard drive for my toshiba laptop but when l started the format the system, l received this message that error have been encounter and restart the computer. it happens all the times. what should l do to solve this problems? help me out. thanks

Answer Question   |  February 27, 2012  10:54 AM
Microsoft operating system, SATA Hard Drive

HP Proliant ML 350 G6 Hard disk not Visible
Hi this server has 2 146GB (6G DP 10K) SATA hard disk. It installed windows 2003 well on one hdd but the second hdd is not sensed whatsoever.

Answer Question   |  April 12, 2011  9:58 AM
HDD, HP ProLiant, SATA, SATA Hard Drive, Windows Server 2003

Advice about upgrade Hard Drives from 250Gb each to 2Tb each in DELL PowerEdge2900
Hello World; At the business we looking to upgrade hard drives for DELL PowerEdge2900, currently having 8 hard drives SATA @250Gb each (used only 7) under RAID5 (one hard drive not configured) Client wants to upgrade Hard Drives to SATA 2Tb each for the 7 drive without killing RAID5, and without an outage in the [...]

Answer Question   |  March 1, 2011  10:29 PM
Dell PowerEdge, Dell PowerEdge 2900, SATA, SATA Hard Drive

Windows Server 2008 & Marvell driver
I have an Asus MB P6X58-DE I have 2 1TB Western Digital HD SATA 6. When I turn on NEW computer and have server disk at startup and start install windows says there is no HD showing and to load driver for it. I found Marvell controller drivers but they cannot be installed because i [...]

Answer Question   |  January 26, 2011  4:17 PM
ASUS, SATA Hard Drive, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 64-bit

Recovering SATA hard disk and data after faulty connection
I accidentally connected my PC cabinet fan power plug into my SATA hard disk power, causing the HD power connector to spark. After that, my PC isn’t recognizing the HDD and there’s no power reaching it. How can I recover my data? Is it fried?

Answer Question   |  November 2, 2011  6:40 PM
Backup and recovery software, Data Center in 2010, Data Center management, Data Recovery, Hard disk performance, hard disk storage, HDD, HDD failed, SATA hard disk, SATA Hard Drive

SATA Hard Drive on Win 2003 Server
We have a Win 2003 Server with 2 SATA drives. I have a 750 gig SATA drive that I want to install in it. This drive was satisfactorily formatted (NTFS) on another machine. But the server won’t recognize it, in spite of their being 3 unused SATA ports on the motherboard. I’ve tried different ports [...]

Answer Question   |  March 5, 2010  2:38 PM
SATA, SATA Hard Drive, Windows Server 2003, Windows storage

Sata drive hijacking the boot process?
I tried installing a Sata drive as a secondary drive (to the existing IDE). First I could not get the onboard Sata connections to work, so installed a Sata card. After wrestling with drivers, it was finally up & running….but apparently wants to take over as soon as Windows (XP sp3) starts to load. The [...]

Answer Question   |  April 2, 2009  5:11 PM
IDE, SATA, SATA Hard Drive

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 there a fix for [...]

Answer Question   |  December 15, 2008  2:34 PM
Hard drives, IDE, IDE hard drives, SATA, SATA Hard Drive, Windows XP

BIOS detects SATA drive but I cannot see it on the Win XP computer
The BIOS detects my SATA drive but I cannot see it in my computer once in Windows XP. What might be the problem?

Answer Question   |  November 18, 2008  6:52 PM
BIOS, SATA, SATA Drives, SATA Hard Drive, Windows XP