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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
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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...
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November 22nd 03 01:54 AM
by Jo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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November 21st 03 01:25 PM
by Stan
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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...
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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
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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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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...
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November 20th 03 04:25 PM
by Rosie
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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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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...
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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"...
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November 20th 03 12:47 AM
by Lippo
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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...
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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.
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November 19th 03 02:44 PM
by owlbird
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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
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November 19th 03 09:01 AM
by sergio
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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...
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November 18th 03 08:46 PM
by Joep
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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...
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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...
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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...
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November 18th 03 05:29 PM
by blade0r
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