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Running Dual Boot with 98SE and XP Pro SP1 by Ron
I have a dual boot system on an Abit BD7II-R with 98SE on an old Seagate ATA33 HDD on Primary IDE 1 Master and a Lite-On CD-RW Primary Slave. Secondary IDE 2 Master is a LG GSA-4040B DVD-RAM with NO slave. My WinXP Pro is on Primary IDE 3 & 4 as a RAID array. Now, this mobo has IDE 3 & 4...
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November 22nd 03 04:46 AM
by 0_Qed Go to last post
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xp pro does not see new hard drive or DVD by Happy Camper
I attempted to add a second hard drive and a dvd burner to my xp pro system. The bios recognized both, but xp cannot see either. I have them set up properly as master and slave I tried using diskpart|rescan to no avail I tried adding the hd using computer management|disk management|rescan I fdisked...
November 22nd 03 02:41 AM
by Happy Camper Go to last post
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Samsung SP1614N failure. No longer seen by OS, makes 'clack' 'clack' sounds. by Jo
I bought a Samsung SP1614N 160GB hard drive a couple of weeks ago. The drive has now failed. Its symptom was to start making continuous 'clack' 'clack' 'clack' noises at about 500mS intervals. The drive no longer appears on of the windows disc management dialogs. I have copied data on to the...
November 22nd 03 01:54 AM
by Jo Go to last post
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Firewire disk - why XP can't mount the volume? by PlusPlus
I just bought a Firewire case for my small (4GB) 2.5" disk. This disk is perfectly visible via 3,5"-2,5" adapter on the IDE bus. But, after installing it in a FW box, XP "see" the hardware - there is a "ding!" from a speaker, the device is available for safe removal, there are two new devices in...
November 21st 03 10:44 PM
by Eric Gisin Go to last post
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Cannot write to Drive C by Vibes
I have Win98SE. Occasionally, at any time, I get this blue screen of death message (I also occasionally get a boot failure message, when I switch off and on, and the PC starts normally: I had a new motherboard fitted by PCWorld recently as the clock way, way out) I am told in a web site, in...
November 21st 03 05:19 PM
by Robert B. Clark Go to last post
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Problem with Highpoint Rocketraid 133 and high cpu usage by Mr A
I just installed a rocketraid 133 card. I have 2 hd's on it in a mirrored array and two other hard drives in my system not connected to the card. When I copy files from a hard drive not on the card to the hard drives on the card I have excessively high cpu usage, around 90-99%. If I copy files...
November 21st 03 01:25 PM
by Stan Go to last post
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Firmware upgrade on Barracuda III/IV ATA drives? by Colin Bigam
Hey all; I've got a couple of 20GB Barracudas (st320011a and st320414a respectively) that came from surplus (i.e. fried) Sun Ultra10s. These drives check out fine on a Sun, can be seen properly by my bios, but under no circumstances can they be seen as more than 8GB drives by Win2k or WinXP! They...
November 21st 03 12:42 AM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Hard drive about to fail? by Capt. Monty
HP Pavilion Laptop ZT1000 series WinXP 512 MB RAM 40 GB IDE HD I ran my HP's eDiagtools and it gave me this info in the report: " IDE HDD : Failed SMART error
November 20th 03 06:15 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Bad sectors on a new drive by news.ntlworld.com
I've just installed a Seagate Barraacuda 120Gb Hard Drive as a slave. After formating I ran Scan Disk (Win 98) and it found Bad Sectors on the disk. Is it normal for a new disk to have Bad Sectors or is this a faulty disk? Should I just mark the bad sectors and start using the disk? Thanks for...
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November 20th 03 04:32 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Drive Image 2002 by Rosie
I went to make an image just now and as soon as I clicked to start the program I got an Error 1 init failed. 'This operation is not supported. This may be because this operation does not currently work with the current file system or partition type'. Has anyone seen this before? There is nothing...
November 20th 03 04:25 PM
by Rosie Go to last post
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Western Digital Drive Faillures by Scott Davis
Hi all, I am a custom system builder specializing in custom systems for games for extended family and our friends. (used to have own business but couldn't make money - do it for fun now). I have exclusively used Western Digital Special Edition Drives for their performance and 3 year...
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November 20th 03 11:39 AM
by Terry King Go to last post
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image of a Fujisu drive to a Maxtor drive by HugeDee
Hello: I want to ghost image my Fujisu drive(about 8G - just finished from a fresh install of xp with all programs) and put that image(about 2G) to my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 drive 80G drive. I am still waiting for a replacement Maxtor drive since it failed on me. PowerMax gives me a 6 digit...
November 20th 03 05:43 AM
by Rod Speed Go to last post
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Highpoint RocketRAID 1540: can it work without drivers? by Lippo
Can the Highpoint RocketRAID 1540 controller work without additional drivers, exactly like a standard IDE controller? E.g. I want to install Windows 2000 without needing to load a "third party RAID controller" during installation. Once installed, I want to be able to use the "Standard PCI IDE"...
November 20th 03 12:47 AM
by Lippo Go to last post
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ntfs drive won't boot but data is all there by number657
I left my windows xp computer running a overnight and in the morning when i restarted it froze after the bios. Even attempting to boot from the windows xp cd, the computer still freezes (starts to boot off cd, and freezes after scanning for installed components). Putting a different hard drive in...
November 19th 03 10:49 PM
by Michael Hawes Go to last post
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Help with FINDPART by Jerry Lindsey
Hi, I used Partition Magic v8 to move partitions around on my hard drive and encounterd a problem when 98% of my linux partition had been moved. At that point I believe it came up with a message that there was a bad sector. After that I couldn't access the partition.
November 19th 03 02:44 PM
by owlbird Go to last post
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Need Controller Card for Quantum HD by David P.
Hi folks, I have a Quantum Fireball QMP 200000AS-A which has a defective controller board and I need to get the data off this drive. Does anyone have a drive with a good controller board or have any suggestions about where I could get a board? Thanks in advance, David
November 19th 03 09:01 AM
by sergio Go to last post
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problem with HDD by djino
I have one Maxtor slim (one plate) disk.The size is 40 GB.He become unstable and I lose my all my data.Bios see the disk just fine.I try to repair it from dos with pqmagic,fdisk/mbr,Unix fips etc.But the error is still there.Neither one OS ( windows or Unix-linux,Free Bsd,Suse) can see the...
November 18th 03 08:46 PM
by Joep Go to last post
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Seagate st39205lw hardware question. by Kalani
I have a seagate 9.1gb scsi drive that suffered an unfortunate accident, damaging a surface mounted component. I am hoping someone can help me identify this component. It is labeled 34 07 There are two of them side by side. They are big as far as the other smt parts are, but they do not look...
November 18th 03 07:18 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Load/unload count by Jani Ahti
I have an one year old IBM ThinkPad A31p. Its hard drive crashed about a month ago and was replaced with a new one (Hitachi DK23FB-60B 58,6 GB). I installed HDD Health Monitor which now reports that the Load/Unload cycle count (S.M.A.R.T attribute) has decreased from 100 to 93 and the nearest...
November 18th 03 06:25 PM
by Folkert Rienstra Go to last post
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Drive Image not working with new drive by Martin
I have just replaced my primary slave drive, which I use for file backups and drive images, with a higher capacity drive, and now can't run Drive Image. With the old, smaller drive there is no problem. I get 2 error messages with the new one: " #91 - Disk Manager detected on Drive 1, but is not...
November 18th 03 05:29 PM
by blade0r Go to last post
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