Summary: I see this same problem yet I'm using the original XP CD from Dell that has SP3 on it already. I have OSX and Ubuntu booting fine, but the Windows boo...
Summary: Which cable can't you fit? The data cable of the power cable? SATA drives have a smaller data connector and they are not interchangable with an IDE...
Summary: ingredients: ide mobo; ide hdd (20Gb); sata hdd (1Tb); sata/ide interface card (via) + cables (data & power). connect all & switched on. How do i make...
Summary: I have a pc tower computer 3 years old which has ide connection for the hard drive - my hard drive has gone faulty and a friend gave me a sata drive -...
Summary: I was running an 120gb Sata drive in this laptop. That hard drive crashed on me so i brought an 160gb Sata drive here: http://www.goharddrive.com/Prod...
Summary: You don't. Stick with this thread unless you have a totally different problem. BTW you are working with a SATA drive not an ide drive. And when you ...
Summary: Not sure why the machine info showed up wrong. It's a custom built w/ a dual core Intel 2GHz cpu, MSI P6NGM-L motherboard, 1 Kingston DDR2 667 stick,...
Summary: Hi again. I have now found out that the MB does recognise both sata and ide drives but didn't realise that the boot sequence only displays 1 drive (wh...
Summary: So, I bought a computer last year with 2 500gb SATA hard drives set up as mirror drives. I want to add storage and still maintain this backup arrangem...
Summary: My laptop is usually on 24/7 and basically my room is HOT, so I think my hard drive over heated. The 1st time when I tried to use it, it was not in wi...
Summary: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC Laptop that came with Windows Vista installed. We are in s chool district where all our sysytems are running XP...
Summary: i am using external hard drive, my external hard disk,as one partition is not working and when i want to open it it says in page operation failed,it a...
Summary: I'm wondering if there is an adaption that can convert a connection port of Sata 1.5 ( First Gen) to Sata 3.0 ( Second gen) I don't need the speed ...
Summary: If the computer is 8 years old the hard drive may be too large for the BIOS to configure it. Did you watch the POST screens at start up as I suggested...
Summary: How many PHYSICAL hard drives do you have in your computer? Asus M4A78-EM AMD Phenom II X2 550 @ 3.11 Patriot PC2-6400 4Gig MSI R4830 Seagate 160Gig S...
Summary: I've had the above external hard drive since the summer (09) and it has worked perfectly. Came home from work today and my laptop refuses to detect it...
Summary: Hi all, i am using a Toshiba MK1234GAX USB Device (portable external hard drive) 120Gigs and i have been backing up files on it. One day i was backing...
Summary: I believe so. I just may use a PCI/SATA card and eliminate possible problems there and pick up some speed in the process. I may also just do a fresh i...
Summary: I have a new laptop hard drive with a full capacity of 320GB which I'd like to swap out with my existing 50+GB hard drive in my Dell Inspiron E1505. U...
Summary: I plug in the hard drive the wrong way, now my hard drive will not spin. I was thinking it could be the plug, so can I solder the wires separate...
Summary: grasshopper...thanks for your ideas, but I don't want another partition. I actually don't want any partitions. I have a whole nuther drive to back up ...
Summary: No need to worry about the BIOS right now. Back in Device Manager are there any devices listed with yellow or red punctuation marks by them? As was st...
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