Summary: Attempting to use a single SATA drive to boot\install XP(Home). I Read the manual and from various net sites took on board more tips than a bookies ru...
Summary: Thanks. Tried that but did not work either. What is so weird is that my computer will not even recognise an EXTERNAL USB CD/DVD drive, nor an EXTERNAL...
Summary: I have a maxtor diamond drive that will not be recognised by xp when connected thro an external hard drive case connect thro the usb port, it comes up...
Summary: Hey TopFarmer I have been trying to help this person but I am off to dinner. My latest thought is that the drive being installed is not being recogni...
Summary: My Dell (inspiron 5100) under My computer will not display the "Toshiba External Hard Drive" icon (Like the Toshiba's user manual states should happen...
Summary: Put the FSB back, boot to the BIOS, check to make sure all drives are being recognised there by model# and check to make sure both IDE channels are en...
Summary: Does the drive show in My Computer? Have you tried to read any retail software disks? Look to see if the drive is being recognised in the BIOS. Also...
Summary: tryin to install a maxtor 40gb 7200rpm on a pentium 200 (yes a pentium 200) with 32mb ram. drive not being detected. fdisk reports no fixed disks. the...
Summary: (Oh, and to avoid any confusion, I'm typing this on someone else's computer) Today I bought replacements for my main hard drive and CD burner, and als...
Summary: Heya goatman, I was having the same problem with the RAID / SATA drives not being recognised when installing XP alongside Vista. This is why I used nL...
Summary: Hi, I have an external hard drive that I have owned for less than six months. I plugged it into my friends mac and it said it was too powerful for her...
Summary: i've tried to do my due diligence to poke around the forum before asking, but don't see what i'm looking for. aside from telling me that lacie isn't a...
Summary: The answer to your question is I don't know, that depends on the drive geometry. There was another recent post here with the same issue, but XP did r...
Summary: You say you don't know much about the bios. Some bios programs can be "locked," and will not auto detect drives on startup. Have you gone in and lo...
Summary: If you have one of those $5 adapters that enable a laptop hard drive to be used in a desktop, you then can see if it is any good. Once connected, jus...
Summary: When trying to open a floppy disk my PC doesnt seem to recognise that there is a disk inserted and tells me to 'insert disk in to drive A' I have done...
Summary: Is this a Laptop computer? Some types of files on a DVD disk can still be accessed? If that is the case then you are lacking some codecs (software) ...
Summary: I would like to know how you find which application has created a virtual drive that I believe is causing a conflict on my machine, in order for me t...
Summary: I need some help! My ex gave his SATA Drive. He tried to place his SATA Drive in my IDE computer, that sooo didn't work. I've removed that and now the...
Summary: It's odd the cdroms aren't being detected. While it's not absolutely necessary for a bios to see them in order for them to work I'd think that mother...
Summary: "Seagate Model ST3500630AS Interface IDE SATA-II" Some mboard chipsets that support SATA only (a.k.a. SATA-1 or SATA 150, the 150 being a max burst da...
Summary: well the disk is being recognised now, but I'm still getting the 'disk boot error, insert system disk'. This is so frustrating I'm taking it back, I j...
Summary: Recently installed a CDRW. It worked once but not again. The light will flash on boot up and I can open the drawer from Windows. Windows (System Dev...
Summary: yep some people on here need to read the breaf properly. if you havent copyied em they will still be on the flash drive. not the laptop. if you opene...
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