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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Windows 98
- Hi, I've just installed a new hard drive with Windows 98 on it on my PC. The hard drive is 20Gb but only 2Gb is showing for the C:. There is only the one partition and I performed a clean installation. Any idea what happened to the rest of the...
- Tags: BIOS, Gurps, hard drive, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 98
- Q&A 2004-10-10
- 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
- Sata Hard Drive Problems?
- Hi all, just setup a computer with windows xp and have installed a 20 gig ide hard drive which has OS on it but also have a hitachi sata hard drive installed.now my problem is that windows see's the sata drive under device manager and also disk management.It says the...
- Tags: jamesverrico@...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-04
- Switching Harddrives
- My current primary hard drive, a WD400eb OEM,and is reaching the end of its MTF. My secondary drive is a Diamond mas plus9 6Y080P080GB ultra133 7200RPM 8mb. Obviously a larger drive and about one and half years of use.My question is that I intend to still use theolder drive so...
- Tags: jamescr@..., hard drive, New Hard Drive, cable
- Discussion threads 2007-03-15
- 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
- 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
- using of two hard disc
- procedure, how to configure/install, use a two hard discAre these SCSI or IDE?Is a RAID card involved?You can connect one or two hard drives to the primary IDE connection on your motherboard. To determine which connection is the primary connection you will need to refer to the manual that came...
- Tags: disc, hard drive, jumper, marlon_balido@..., master, pin
- Q&A 2005-03-17
- 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
- Mirroring Hard Drives
- I have windows server 2003.I had two hard drives mirrored and one went bad and the other is on its way. It has been able to be recovered and I would like to mirror it with another new hard drive however it will only sync to about 42% and the...
- Tags: hard drive
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- how to install os using external usb cd rom drive
- well want to know really how to install an bootalbe os using an external cd-rom drive. Reason is that, I have a laptop with no cd-rom suport and wanting to load windows xp. now when ever i try to boot from the external cd-rom is hard to take from there...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, USB, karlincurrent@..., CD-ROM, CD-ROM drive
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- how can i move all the files to the beginning of my hard drive?
- i want to partition my hard drive on my windows vista notebook but for some reason there are some files in the middle of my hard drive. how can i move all the files to the beginning of my hard drive? in doing so i will be able to partition...
- Tags: dirtybirdphoenix@..., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-25
- Install 3rd hard drive in Dell 4600
- I'd like to install a 3rd hard drive into my Dell 4600. The hard drive I'm installing is a Western Digital IDE. It looks like I should be able to install 4 drives total. I'm confused about how to configure the primary/secondary and master/slave s
- Tags: hardware, don.winn@..., hard drive, cable, new Hard Drive, CD Drive, Dell Computer Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-12-26
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