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- Dynamic drive in XP
- Hi,I installed a secondary hard drive in to XP SP2 as a dynamic drive. Later, the motherboard went down and I ended up replacing the mb, cpu, ram, graphics and primary hard drive. After all was working again I plugged in the dynamic drive only for windows to tell me...
- Tags: brian@..., Microsoft Windows XP, Primary Drive
- Discussion threads 2007-10-24
- find & reset admin. password
- awhile back i read an article here at TechRepublic about how to find and erase/reset Win XP'S Admin passwords from C:windows. I thought I printed it for future referance but now can not find it! I am building a new pc with HDD'S from my old pc which booted right...
- Tags: Formatted Drive, hard drive, HDD, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, password, PC, Primary Drive, software, wino460@...
- Q&A 2006-03-25
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- Make new drive primary / master
- My kids are using a Dell w/ a 120Gb drive and it is slowing down considerably. I have purchased a 320Gb drive but would like to make it primary. What is the least painful way to do this without moving files/programs from the current primary drive?No easy wayThe...
- Tags: Cable
- Discussion threads 2006-08-13
- Ghost image of primary drive
- Can I make a backup image of my primary drive using Norton Ghost onto a secondary drive without Windows XP Pro giving me the option of starting of either drive? This would only be used as a backup Done once per week in case of main drive failure which would...
- Tags: Backups, backup
- Q&A 2005-07-20
- Pioneer DVD declares itself primary master
- Hi all,I replaced an ASUS cd drive with a PIONEER DVD on my ASUS laptop. When booting it declared itself primary master and does not detect HDD. I've tried to change the Primary Master in BIOS and set it to HDD but it still won't let me do that either...
- Tags: zlobnymurzik@..., hard drive, primary master, BIOS, Pioneer DVD, DVD
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- New Hard Drive
- My current HDD is showing signs of failure (new Windows XP 5 times this year) but the partitions have been sound. I have a second HDD with Windows XP on it, but it's Disk 1 not 0. How do I make new HDD the primary bootable? It is on...
- Tags: Serial ATA, caladan607@..., hard drive, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- NTFS hard disk now recognized as 'RAW'
- My Windows XP was recently corrupted and my hard disk was password protected. In an effort to retrieve my old info I slaved my hard disk to a friends PC. I changed the permissions on my old, slaved drive and all was well. I then installed a secondary 250 GB...
- Tags: NTFS, darksound_@..., primary slave, slave, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-07-14
- Computer boots to slave HDD unless Windows XP CD is in drive
- This computer has two hard drives, a 40GB primary drive and a 120GB slave drive. The main user of this computer installed the main version of Windows onto the slave drive, and left a somewhat corrupted version of Windows on the primary drive. When the computer booted up, there would...
- Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, daniel_braykovich@..., Microsoft Windows, hard drive, computer, CD
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- Internal IDE Hard Drive Issue for Dell 8100 Dimension Desktop Computer
- Ok so here's the issue, I redid my comp from scratch and I've never had this problem, but my main hard drive isn't being recognised.In the bios menu it's recognised and set under primary hard drive (drive 0) but when I go to normally start the computer a screen pops...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Desktops, Dell Computer Corp., desktop, deyesonlya@..., computer, desktop computer, IDE
- Discussion threads 2007-05-27
- XP doesn't recognize drive at boot-up
- Hello, I just recent added a Western Digital 250 gb internal hard drive to my Dell 8300 (XP SP2 with Pentium 4 and 2 GB RAM) at work, and now when I try to start it, it goes to a black screen, beeps twice, and tells me it can't...
- Tags: Network technology, treborsnikwad@..., cable, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-10-12
- How to change primary drive
- We have a pc at work that has 2 hard drives. One is 40gb and the other is 5gb. For some reason, the 5gb is the primary, and now we are having problems sending large emails since the pc wont process them. Is there a way to swap primary drives?...
- Tags: Desktops, xzased@...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- How to change primary drive?
- We have a pc at work that has 2 hard drives. One is 40gb and the other is 5gb. For some reason, the 5gb is the primary, and now we are having problems sending large emails since the pc wont process them. Is there a way to swap primary drives?...
- Tags: Desktops, xzased@...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-03
- My DVD Drive Slows down my Computer When It's Connected as Primary Master
- Hello guys, i have a problem with my pc that started about a week ago, whenever i tried to access my dvds/cds or burn new copies my entire system slows down to a crawl. Initially, my dvd drive is connected as master device on the primary IDE channel, the second...
- Tags: Serial ATA, joneski25@..., Connected Corp., computer, DVD-drive
- Discussion threads 2007-08-20
- boot meun
- How do i change the boot meun in the BIOS? i have a hard drive that is coming up unknown and i want to boot from the other hard drive. I also put that hard drive into another CPU to see what is on it it came unknown.The BIOS boots...
- Tags: BIOS, boot, burnsidedawn@..., hard drive, hardware, jumper
- Q&A 2004-11-23
- How do I connect a 3rd eide drive to my pc.
- I have a new hard drive to replace my old. I need to ghost the old 10g hardrive, but to do this I need to temporarily connect the new drive a third to my motherboard? How do I do this? I cannot find any eide cables...
- Tags: BIOS, Development tools, gmcroskey1@..., IDE, IDE-channels, slave, ghost, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-04-20
- 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
- Dell Dimension XPS 4550 not detecting Primary IDE drive
- Hi, I just got this Dell XPS 4550 pc, the only problem with it, it has no HD. I took the working HD off my old pc and tried to see if it would boot up on the dell. I put it in power it up and gives me an...
- Tags: Desktops, Dell Dimension, lrm1980@..., Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-04
- primary and recovery(backup) drive switched what do I do?
- The C: drive on my home computer with 100 gb has been made the recovery drive, and the H: drive,a partition with 4.44 gigabytes has been made the primary. The computer always says system memory low so I can install new programs or run programs that require lost of memory....
- Tags: phila17@..., backup, memory, primary partition
- Discussion threads 2007-04-25
- How can I expand the primary partition.
- I need to expand the primary partition, "C" drive on a machine running Windows Server 2003. The primary partition is currently at 20gb in a 149gb disk. Is there a way to easily and safely expand this partition?partiotion magicYou can download a trial version that will expand the partition a...
- Tags: primary partition, msmith@...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-17
- External Drive with same Win XP installed
- I would like to install the same version of Windows XP onto a newly bought external drive enclosed in a metal container.Purchased an external H/D connecting via USB port, my PC has C: and D: two separate physical drives, as well as two LG DVD Drives. Hence my External drive...
- Tags: C/C++, Programming languages, shounig@..., Microsoft Windows XP, C, External Drive
- Discussion threads 2007-10-18
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