Summary: How do I get my second HD to run on DMA mode. Everytime I try to change it in disk management and reboot so the changes takes affect, the HD dissappea...
Summary: I recently reformatted my computer and now my two SATA drives are running in PIO mode. I tried to set them in BIOS, device mananger, registry changes,...
Summary: i have an sd-11 fic motherboard, an athlon 500, 80 pin udma66 cable and wd 13 gb udma compliant (udma/66) hd. whenever i run certain apps. (unreal, w...
Summary: Hello: My hard drive and CDR are stuck in PIO mode. I recently installed w2k with sp4 on an older ECS computer based on a SiS 620/5595 chipset. This c...
Summary: DVD Rom is set up on PIO mode even though I changed the option to DMA if available. Hard disk is setup on primary master. Primary slave is empty. Seco...
Summary: 333cyrix/ 128megs ram /20 gig maxtor hd Here's the problem: I have win2k/win98se on dual boot system. In win2k I can't enable udma support always stay...
Summary: In device manager, under my PRIMARY IDE CHANNEL and SECONDARY IDE CHANEL, all the drives (there are 4) although set to "DMA if available" have "PIO MO...
Summary: OH COME ON! Just answer the guy's question!!!! Forget the advice about partitioning your new 120GB HD into small spaces. I use several IBM 120GB HDs o...
Summary: I have a shuttle spacewalker 591p which has a via mpv3 chipset. I also have a western digital ac29100d 9.1 7200 rpm harddrive. My harddrive is trans...
Summary: I just added two 'new' hard drives to my machine, a 6.4GB and a 2.4Gb - both are UDMA capable drives. So my setup now looks like: Primary IDE: Master ...
Summary: I'm trying to install a Lacie external HD on my Win 2000 PC, but I can't find the way to install the drivers. I've tried on my laptop (same Win 2000) ...
Summary: I solved the problem for the DMA I went to the Cretive Web site I found the information on PIO Mode They said in the Bios to put the PIO at Mode 4. Af...
Summary: HI I have tried to enable DMA for my hard disk in win2k but it stays on pio mode. It is an ata66 capable h/disk. On the secondary IDE port i have a cd...
Summary: Thanks, I found the setting, and it already was set for "DMA if available" on the Primary IDE channel controller, where my HD is. However, the seconda...
Summary: UDMA will work on a 40-connector cable, but not above UDMA-33. Windows should happily fall back to this mode with your HD. It's more likely, if you're...
Summary: I recently got a new HD and used Norton Ghost to clone my old HD on to the new one. I can boot to windows, and when I log on, all I get is the blank ...
Summary: Damn the problems never cease for a troubleshooter. Alright. So i get my WD 60GB working perfecetly but when i reboot, my maxtor 30GB goes back to PI...
Summary: I got the same problem. My primary master ATA100 disk is running 12!!! times faster on Win98. Microsoft tells in kb articles q260233 + q269555 that AT...
Summary: Well this is installed on a BX motherboard, circa 1998. I decided to install the Maxtor Ultra ATA100 PCI card I got with a older hard drive, in hopes...
Summary: Try changing your DMA/PIO mode settings. Right-click on My Computer, select "Properties", then "Hardware", then "Device Manager". Double-click into ...
Summary: hi all, we have scheduled jobs to download customer details from HQ and ineserted in to the automation system to delvier goods. Sometimes all the sc...
Summary: If the 2nd system has different hardware you may run into driver issues. before doing anything, back up the 2nd HD's data, and any drivers you have th...
Summary: Well it could be a Master boot record virus but likley not. It sounds more like a hardware problem, try pulling the bios battery on the board, or if y...