Summary: Is it possible to have an external USB HD connected to a desktop and then connect the same external USB HD to a laptop? If the above is possible, anyo...
Summary: "I dont think the HD is fried coz it is still detected in the bios." That doesn't necessarily indicate the drive is not malfunctioning. "not respondi...
Summary: I just bought a WD 160 GB HD and have it with no jumper settings running by itself. I want to put a old Deskstar HD which died and i want to see if i ...
Summary: "and I very rarely turn my computer off" Maybe this is the answer. When I think about it, we have a good few computers at work that never get switche...
Summary: You can use two hard drives on the same PC but I think you need to use a 'boot manager' if both HD's have an operating system. This tells the PC which...
Summary: To further Badboy assertion that you will have a lot of trouble reactiving the OS: When you first activated your copy of XP, the Windows Product Activ...
Summary: Hey everyone, I have a Asus A7V266-e mb and I'm trying to find out what is the optimal way to setup two HD's and one CD-rom. This thing has both IDE a...
Summary: This whole mess sounds like a bios setting problem... the floppy always does a 'floppy scan' but thats just routine. You said its trying to boot ide-0...
Summary: No offense. If you don't know about jumper settings, you may want to have a friend show what needs to be done. It's a good way to learn. If you want ...
Summary: I have tried the HD and CD as master both ways; the CD alone works fine. replace the CD with HD (known good cable) and the HD jumpered as master/sing...
Summary: I can not for the life of me get my 2 hardrives and a cd rom to boot up at ALL if I hook them all up. I have an IBM Aptiva (model 2170-24U), with an ...
Summary: I stand corrected on ATA100 v ATA133. ATA133 is supposed to have a 33% faster transfer rate, but HD's rarely saturate ATA66 in real world benchmarks ...
Summary: Thanks for the info. I already have latest Soyo Bios. Ive been told I can add a Pci card controller to run the faster drive [I'll be leaving both HD"S...
Summary: Hey fellow techs, I have a USB 2 to IDE adapter and several different drives that I use for backing up various types of data (not attached simultaneo...
Summary: Hi well I have tried a few things since I last posted. Phew sorry I am really unwell at the moment and my patience/memory are not working well....like...
Summary: What is this with hot hard drives today?? Contrary to popular belief, hd's are NOT supposed to run hot. This is why they don't include fans/fins/vent...
Summary: Hello. I am not sure when this started, but it worked properly a couple months ago for sure, not positive since though. I have 2 hard drives (C: & D:)...
Summary: I need some help.. I accidently ordered a Abit NF7 v 2.0 motherboard without the SATA.. and I also ordered a SATA 200GB harddrive. My question is: How...
Summary: "Does this help you two Guys with the diagnostics?" It does regarding your IDE configuration, but I don't know if it will help your camcorder transfer...
Summary: First of all, do you have a Windows98 boot disk or Win ME? if not download one here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/Win98/Update/8266R/W98/EN-...
Summary: Died completely!! Don't know whats killed that so quick - I would be suspiscious of that old hard drive, but I doubt its caused the downfall of this s...
Summary: I recently ran into some problems with my HDs. Although the OS still boots ok, it only detects the hardrive it's installed on. The two HD's are both ...
Summary: I did a couple of different searches here but didn't come up with anything that helped. I've connected a 10G HD as a Slave on the Primary IDE which ha...
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