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Booting With Vista

I'm having problems booting up smoothly to vista. I have a SATA drive with XP on it and an IDE drive with Vista on it. When I press F8 in BIOS and boot to the IDE drive it doesn't boot to Vista. However, if I open the CD drive then...

Tags: Development tools, prinzhernan@..., IDE, CD, IDE Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-10-18

cloning

I have 2 SATA HDD's, and 1 IDE 80GB HDD. My winXP os is on the SATA and i want to put the os on the IDE drive so that i can use the sata for other things. Is there a way to clone the OS to the 80G IDE...

Tags: Development tools, jDizzyl, Serial ATA, IDE, IDE Drive

Discussion threads 2007-07-07

Server fails to recognize IDE drive

I would like to ghost partitions on a compaq server with a RAID 5 config of 2 partitions to an IDE 200Gig HDD then ghost back to the RAID and increase the primary partition size in the processWhen I boot via a FDD ghost recognizes the RAID but not the...

Tags: Storage, Development tools, HBB, ghost, RAID, IDE, IDE Drive, server

Discussion threads 2007-07-05

IDE Drive for SATA HP Pavilion

Have a brand new in box 120GB Seagate Ultra ATA/100. Any advice/caveats as to installing this in a 2 year old HP Pavilion a1100y with a slow 40 GB SATA. Due to the increased speed of the Seagate IDE I am considering using it for the Windows XP OS and...

Tags: Development tools, tnichols@..., IDE, IDE Drive, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2007-06-07

vista ide hard drives offline

I've done some searches on here - you guys seem to have the most helpful forum for non-tech's like myself so please excuse my ignorance on some terms, I'll try to explain my problem as clear as possible.My old pc was running xp on the following config:Chip: Athlon AMD XP...

Tags: Development tools, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), circlework@..., hard drive, IDE, IDE Drive, Microsoft Windows Vista

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with IDE and SATA RAID will not boot

IMy SATA Nvidia controlled RAID array crashed and I am trying to do a restore from a Disaster Recovery CD (DR-CD). It had been booting fine from the SATA Raid1 array and I installed the IDE drive for a backup device and did a backup to it. After...

Tags: ASUS, disaster, geo-mar-wat-spam@..., hardware, IDE, IDE Drive, sata, Serial ATA, xp

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

ASUS A8N-SLI Premium with IDE and SATA RAID will not boot

My SATA Nvidia controlled RAID array crashed and I am trying to do a restore from a Disaster Recovery CD (DR-CD). It had been booting fine from the SATA Raid1 array and I installed the IDE drive for a backup device and did a backup to it. After...

Tags: Serial ATA, IDE Drive, geo-mar-wat-spam@..., IDE, xp, disaster, hardware, sata, ASUS

Discussion threads 2006-12-14

Old IDE drive has password from OS need it on new machine

Hi, Can anyone help.I have an old dead Dell Inspirion laptop broken screen I am trying to take out its hard drive and mount it to my new Dell M65. I brought a caddy to put the old drive in. Via USB it works fine with my new lap top....

Tags: password, gregory.knight1@..., operating system, windows, software, hard drive, hardware, IDE, IDE Drive

Discussion threads 2006-12-04

SCSI and IDE hard drives

I have a PC that has a primary SCSI hard drive that is a bit smallish and I would like to add a second or slave drive but do not want to purchase another SCSI drive. Am I able to add an IDE drive to the PC? The primary IDE...

Tags: IDE, IDE Drive, SCSI, hard drive, installed together, brucea52@..., hardware, SCSI Drive

Discussion threads 2006-09-05

Boot problem with SATA clone of IDE

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this incredibly frustrating problem...I am trying to upgrade my 20GB Seagate IDE drive to a 200GB Maxtor Diamond Plus 10 SATA drive.After installing the SATA drive I was able to boot into XP Home off the IDE drive and after formatting and...

Tags: alphabetax1, hardware, IDE, IDE Drive, SATA Drive, Serial ATA

Q&A 2006-03-06

Anemic PC

My Dell PC (XP SP2) suddenly slowed to an anemic pace. It takes F O R E V E R to do anything with it. I called Dell tech support, and they suggested trying CounterSpy. It took me F O R E V E R but...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Desktops, Viruses and worms, CounterSpy, hardware, spyware, PC

Q&A 2005-05-26

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe SATA problem-no boot

I have one 320GB Western Digital SATA HD in an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard. The POST screen will lists the drive and I can get into the RAID Configuration (although I can't do anything with it-I have only one drive) I am using this drive as a large capacity storage...

Tags: ASUS, BIOS, hardware, IDE Drive, SATA Drive, scotto_10@..., Serial ATA

Q&A 2005-05-27

Additional Resources

ide harddrive

just bought a board and thioght it had a couple of ide connectors but has one ide and one floppy connector with a few sata connectors.is it possible to convert the ide to sata?Possible yes practicle?There are devices available that allow you to connect IDE devices to SATA ports.http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=RXD639-IDE-SATA-ADP&cat=HDDAs to...

Tags: Development tools, Serial ATA, hard drive, bouzeo@..., IDE

Discussion threads 2007-11-23

Cannot detect IDE disk on Windows XP running on SATA disk

When I bought my HP PC Windows XP was running on the SATA disk. I added a IDE disk for data backup and the system ran perfectly for 3 months with both disks. Suddently the IDE disk and the DVD-drive were no longer visible in Windows.The motherboard is equiped with...

Tags: Development tools, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Serial ATA, martin@..., disk, IDE, IDE disk, DVD-drive

Discussion threads 2007-03-20

New Hard Drive Installation

I am installing a new hard drive in my PC. The old hard drive is partitioned, with "C:" being the Primary and "D" being Secondary. If I setup the old hard drive as the "Slave" can I just transfer the files from the old hard drive to the...

Tags: new Hard Drive, old hard drive, hard drive, gbalonek@..., hardware, Serial ATA

Q&A 2006-03-13

IDE Cable Problem

My hard drive won't power on if I plug the IDE cable into the cd drive. I can run the computer without any cd drive, but I need to use the cd drive. I tried using a different IDE cable, but it still won't work.I generally use separate...

Tags: cable, CD, CD Drive, hard drive, hardware, IDE, IDE cable, skullkrusher250@...

Q&A 2005-03-17

Computer not detecting IDE DVD-R drive or IDE HDD

I was installing a DvD-R drive into my computer when this occurred. I turned the computer on and it took an extremely long time to boot. It is not detecting anything IDE. I have 2 CD drives installed and one IDE harddrive my main is SATA. These are not showing...

Tags: Development tools, DVD, Consumer electronics, PRODUCTIVITY, ldp_frog@..., IDE, DVD-R, computer, hard drive

Discussion threads 2007-10-19

logical drive letter assignment- IDE and SATA

There have to be caveats that I am unaware of when installing a SATA drive and then adding two IDE drives to a desktop.XP PROECS-600A MotherboardWD 160G SataWD 40GB IDEWhat's happening is the logical drive letter assignments are not in proper order.The SATA drive shows as C, the NEC DVD...

Tags: IDE, stoutcj@..., SATA Drive, Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2007-01-18

Boot from SCSI not IDE

I have a SCSI and an IDE drive. It boots from the SCSI drive, but when I adjust the jumpers so that it sees the IDE drive, it wants to boot from the IDE drive. I need it to boot from the SCSI drive. What do I...

Tags: BIOS, IDE, SCSI, Super_IT_Mom

Q&A 2004-11-30

IDE to SATA conversion.

I recently built a new system for a client of mine. Of course this system uses SATA interface. I atttempted to setup his old IDE drive as a slave using an IDE to SATA converter. The drive will not be recognized, not even in BIOS. Tried different configs. Any solution?...

Tags: hard drive, IDE, it management, jfrank54@..., Serial ATA

Discussion threads 2007-02-18