Computer Wont Boot / No Longer Find Hard Drives
Replies: 8 | Post Date: June 27th, 2008, 02:59 PM | User: Sacred | Forums: forums.devshed.comOk i've totally ruined my computer, messing about with it trying to get the internet to work better on it i decided to format the hard drives and install windows from scratch. Done this before in the office at work and it was simple enough. Anyways i did it and now when my computer boots it says it can no longer find my hard drives, so cant install windows or do anything. It just keeps going round in circles and every time ends up at the same point saying windows cant find any hard drives to install to and restarts. Anyone know what i can do?
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- Sata Hard Drives Boot Problem
- Win Xp Can Not Recognize My Hard Drives And Do Not Boot
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- Can't Find Boot Device - Mbr Is Bad On C
- Hard Drive Causes Computer Not To Boot
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- Windows Xp Setup Did Not Find Any Hard Drive
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Computer Wont Boot With Both Hard Drives
I was using my computer and everything was great (been using win7 rc for a few months now and it's been superb). Then had the hardest crash i've ever seen. Just pure lock up. Cursor working (moving) but couldn't click on anything, no blue screen, just hanging there. Turned off the computer manually and tried to reboot. Hung on the win 7 logo for more than an hour. Didn't budge. Just hung, tried to boot into safe mode. No dice, hung, i then tried to boot into win 7 dvd, hung on logo as well. Finally i unplugged my main hard drive (150gb raptor) and bam, booted into the dvd. So i'm thinking my main drive failed but on the off chance something else weird was going on i unplugged my 2nd drive (2tb wd) and bam, booted into win 7 dvd. So now i was officially confused. I kept the wd 2tb drive unplugged and tried to boot into windows and bam, booted just fine. So what's the deal? My culprits are ps, then maybe the wd 2tb drive, and finally the mobo.
Posted On: 09-03-2009, 07:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
I was using my computer and everything was great (been using win7 rc for a few months now and it's been superb). Then had the hardest crash i've ever seen. Just pure lock up. Cursor working (moving) but couldn't click on anything, no blue screen, just hanging there. Turned off the computer manually and tried to reboot. Hung on the win 7 logo for more than an hour. Didn't budge. Just hung, tried to boot into safe mode. No dice, hung, i then tried to boot into win 7 dvd, hung on logo as well. Finally i unplugged my main hard drive (150gb raptor) and bam, booted into the dvd. So i'm thinking my main drive failed but on the off chance something else weird was going on i unplugged my 2nd drive (2tb wd) and bam, booted into win 7 dvd. So now i was officially confused. I kept the wd 2tb drive unplugged and tried to boot into windows and bam, booted just fine. So what's the deal? My culprits are ps, then maybe the wd 2tb drive, and finally the mobo.
Posted On: 09-03-2009, 07:59 PM . View 12 Replies .
Set Up Did Not Find Any Hard Disc Drives
My pc has just developed a problem which i desperately need help with now as was covered by a savastore.com warranty!
When rebooting the machine from recovery disc message states that "set up did not find any hard disc drives installed in your computer".
Posted On: February 24th 2007 . View 3 Replies .
My pc has just developed a problem which i desperately need help with now as was covered by a savastore.com warranty!
When rebooting the machine from recovery disc message states that "set up did not find any hard disc drives installed in your computer".
Posted On: February 24th 2007 . View 3 Replies .
Multi Boot And Different Hard Drives
So i just built my computer, i have 2 hard drives, both 7200 rpm, one is 160gb and one is 500gb. So basically, i want to install and have both vista and xp, and will be doing alot of video editing and some gaming. So i was wondering what is the most advantageous way of installing these operating systems on my computer?
Will i want to partition one hard drive and put both operating systems on it, and use the other hard drive for data, etc? If i do that is it fine to save programs like adobe photoshop onto the other hard drive and then run it from both operating systems? Will i experience a decrease in performance?
Or will i want to install xp on one hard drive and vista on the other? I read for video editing it is good to have a separate dedicated drive for something, not too sure what they mean.
Posted On: 09-28-2009, 06:04 PM . View 1 Replies .
So i just built my computer, i have 2 hard drives, both 7200 rpm, one is 160gb and one is 500gb. So basically, i want to install and have both vista and xp, and will be doing alot of video editing and some gaming. So i was wondering what is the most advantageous way of installing these operating systems on my computer?
Will i want to partition one hard drive and put both operating systems on it, and use the other hard drive for data, etc? If i do that is it fine to save programs like adobe photoshop onto the other hard drive and then run it from both operating systems? Will i experience a decrease in performance?
Or will i want to install xp on one hard drive and vista on the other? I read for video editing it is good to have a separate dedicated drive for something, not too sure what they mean.
Posted On: 09-28-2009, 06:04 PM . View 1 Replies .
Sata Hard Drives Boot Problem
I am having a problem with sata hard drives. I had 4 sata hard drives in a computer. 2 of the drives where in the normal sata part of the motherboard, and the other 2 were in sata raid. The hard drives were not being detected by windows and so i decided to try and move the 2 from the sata ports into the raid to see if they would be detected by windows. The problem is now none of the drives will even boot. I put the drives where they were originally and now it wont boot at all. I am stuck. I have some very important files on there that i need to get off. I have tried putting them in another computer that has sata but it sais that they are just unallocated space and have to be partitioned. So i am stuck.
Posted On: March 29th, 2007, 05:52 PM . View 2 Replies .
I am having a problem with sata hard drives. I had 4 sata hard drives in a computer. 2 of the drives where in the normal sata part of the motherboard, and the other 2 were in sata raid. The hard drives were not being detected by windows and so i decided to try and move the 2 from the sata ports into the raid to see if they would be detected by windows. The problem is now none of the drives will even boot. I put the drives where they were originally and now it wont boot at all. I am stuck. I have some very important files on there that i need to get off. I have tried putting them in another computer that has sata but it sais that they are just unallocated space and have to be partitioned. So i am stuck.
Posted On: March 29th, 2007, 05:52 PM . View 2 Replies .
Win Xp Can Not Recognize My Hard Drives And Do Not Boot
My "back-up" pc (p4 1. 6, asus p4sdx, 01 hd ata-133 120 gb maxtor & 01 hd ata-100 40 gb seagate) is having a boot problem since this morning. The message is "disk boot failure-insert disk system. ". So, i put my mobo cd in my drive of dvd and i could access dos (only drive "a" - the program "called" my drive of dvd - normally named d by windows - as drive "a")), but i can not reach my 02 hard drives (as if they were "missing". ). Inside bios, within boot menu, i can not set primary master and slave, because they "disappeared" (appears only none inside this option. - As if i do not had any hdd. ) Very strange, as i didn't change any setting of my pc. Well, i need a technical help to solve this odd problem; what can i do to make my pc to recognize my 02 hd's, please?
Posted On: August 14th, 2004, 06:08 PM . View 4 Replies .
My "back-up" pc (p4 1. 6, asus p4sdx, 01 hd ata-133 120 gb maxtor & 01 hd ata-100 40 gb seagate) is having a boot problem since this morning. The message is "disk boot failure-insert disk system. ". So, i put my mobo cd in my drive of dvd and i could access dos (only drive "a" - the program "called" my drive of dvd - normally named d by windows - as drive "a")), but i can not reach my 02 hard drives (as if they were "missing". ). Inside bios, within boot menu, i can not set primary master and slave, because they "disappeared" (appears only none inside this option. - As if i do not had any hdd. ) Very strange, as i didn't change any setting of my pc. Well, i need a technical help to solve this odd problem; what can i do to make my pc to recognize my 02 hd's, please?
Posted On: August 14th, 2004, 06:08 PM . View 4 Replies .
Boot Cd Won't Recognize Hard Drives
I have a very serious problem i've been trying to solve for weeks now. I need to format my hard drive, but the problem is that when i try to boot from the xp installation disk it doesn't recognize the hds. This also happens with other boot cds i've tried. The drives themselves are fully functional when i boot from them. When i entered bios, i saw that there is no primary ide master detected (only the cd-rom as secondary), but when the computer boots there is an ide detection phase where i see that the hard drives are being detected. I also tried installing windows using the cd from within windows, but then when the computer restarts i get a blue screen. My computer is infected with viruses, so maybe that is related too. I tried updating my bios version but to no avail.
Posted On: May 4th 2007 . View 14 Replies .
I have a very serious problem i've been trying to solve for weeks now. I need to format my hard drive, but the problem is that when i try to boot from the xp installation disk it doesn't recognize the hds. This also happens with other boot cds i've tried. The drives themselves are fully functional when i boot from them. When i entered bios, i saw that there is no primary ide master detected (only the cd-rom as secondary), but when the computer boots there is an ide detection phase where i see that the hard drives are being detected. I also tried installing windows using the cd from within windows, but then when the computer restarts i get a blue screen. My computer is infected with viruses, so maybe that is related too. I tried updating my bios version but to no avail.
Posted On: May 4th 2007 . View 14 Replies .
Can't Find Boot Device - Mbr Is Bad On C
I just added a new slave drive to my old computer yesterday. The drive has xp on it, i just haven't formatted it yet. After i plugged in in using cs i rebooted and for some reason my computer booted from that drive, which is now called e:. My master drive is still there and looks to be fine. I went into bios and changed my boot options and hdd options so that it would boot my c: drive first. Now when it goes to boot the c: drive it gives me an error saying that their is nothing to boot. If i have my cd drive plugged in it tries to boot that but says nothing is there. So anyway, for some reason i think my mbr is bad on my c:. I really don't want to format or anything. What would be the best way to fix this issue? I have the ultimate boot cd, should i just pop in xp and fix the mbr? Last time i had this issue i think i ended up reinstalling xp which was a pain.
Posted On: April 16th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
I just added a new slave drive to my old computer yesterday. The drive has xp on it, i just haven't formatted it yet. After i plugged in in using cs i rebooted and for some reason my computer booted from that drive, which is now called e:. My master drive is still there and looks to be fine. I went into bios and changed my boot options and hdd options so that it would boot my c: drive first. Now when it goes to boot the c: drive it gives me an error saying that their is nothing to boot. If i have my cd drive plugged in it tries to boot that but says nothing is there. So anyway, for some reason i think my mbr is bad on my c:. I really don't want to format or anything. What would be the best way to fix this issue? I have the ultimate boot cd, should i just pop in xp and fix the mbr? Last time i had this issue i think i ended up reinstalling xp which was a pain.
Posted On: April 16th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
Hard Drive Causes Computer Not To Boot
I bought a new pc and was swapping out hard drives when i put in an sata hard drive i use for backup and my new computer wouldnt boot. After a long time of trial and error i figured it was that particular drive and removed it. I sort of put it out of my mind for a few months but now i want to get my data off there. I have my older pc which it was originally in so i figured i could do some testing. The problem seems to be a short in the hard drive. The hard drive is a seagate baracude (sata). I need to use one of those sata power adapters to be able to hook up to my current power supply. Both computers i tested on boot up fine but as soon as i plug in the power cord to the hard drive and hit the power on butt the cpu fan spins like half a turn then stops. After this if i remove the power from the hard drive and hit the power button the computer still won't boot. I must then unplugg the pc from the wall and then the pc will boot. Is there any chance i accidently screwed somethign up during the move or maybe its the power adapter? I used the same adapter before so i'm hoping during the move maybe the adapter got screwed up. Anyone ever hear of this? Any ideas?
Posted On: March 25th, 2008, 01:13 AM . View 6 Replies .
I bought a new pc and was swapping out hard drives when i put in an sata hard drive i use for backup and my new computer wouldnt boot. After a long time of trial and error i figured it was that particular drive and removed it. I sort of put it out of my mind for a few months but now i want to get my data off there. I have my older pc which it was originally in so i figured i could do some testing. The problem seems to be a short in the hard drive. The hard drive is a seagate baracude (sata). I need to use one of those sata power adapters to be able to hook up to my current power supply. Both computers i tested on boot up fine but as soon as i plug in the power cord to the hard drive and hit the power on butt the cpu fan spins like half a turn then stops. After this if i remove the power from the hard drive and hit the power button the computer still won't boot. I must then unplugg the pc from the wall and then the pc will boot. Is there any chance i accidently screwed somethign up during the move or maybe its the power adapter? I used the same adapter before so i'm hoping during the move maybe the adapter got screwed up. Anyone ever hear of this? Any ideas?
Posted On: March 25th, 2008, 01:13 AM . View 6 Replies .
Three Ide Hard Drives In One Computer
I have an old (3 ghz with hyper threading)optiplex 170l on my network that is strictly for movies and is connected to my tv. I have tryed several times to put a third ide hard drive in but it wont work. I have tryed several different drives with the same result. I have also tryed to put three ide hard drives in my other computers with the same result. My question is, do i need a program to run a third ide hard drive in a single computer? Or is my only option to go buy a pci ide card?
Posted On: 10-14-2008, 11:01 PM . View 7 Replies .
I have an old (3 ghz with hyper threading)optiplex 170l on my network that is strictly for movies and is connected to my tv. I have tryed several times to put a third ide hard drive in but it wont work. I have tryed several different drives with the same result. I have also tryed to put three ide hard drives in my other computers with the same result. My question is, do i need a program to run a third ide hard drive in a single computer? Or is my only option to go buy a pci ide card?
Posted On: 10-14-2008, 11:01 PM . View 7 Replies .
All Hard Drives Are Not Showing Up In My Computer
I have 6 hard drives in my system, but only 4 are recognized and show up in 'my computer'. Bios was able to find all 6 and everest sees all 6, too. What could be the problem? All my hard drives are connected directly to the psu (880watt).
Posted On: 05-23-2009, 05:45 PM . View 3 Replies .
I have 6 hard drives in my system, but only 4 are recognized and show up in 'my computer'. Bios was able to find all 6 and everest sees all 6, too. What could be the problem? All my hard drives are connected directly to the psu (880watt).
Posted On: 05-23-2009, 05:45 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Wont Boot - Hard Disk Indicator Light Stays On
I have hibernation enabled on my computer. The other day i turned it on and it resumed normally. I used it for a while and then left it. When i went back and turned it back on it wouldn't boot. The hard disk use indicator light stays on. The monitor displays a no signal or cable disconnected screen. I listened to the hard drive and it does not seem to be doing anything. The dvd drive also does not eject. I have tried removing each component hd, dvd, and floppy individually to see if it is caused by one of them. This did not solve the problem. I have double check all of my connections and they are all in there firmly. Normally when i boot up i get a screen from the vid card that counts the ram. Then it goes to the asus screen where i can enter the bios setup. Then it goes to windows. Neither of the first two screens ever appear. I have checked my power supply. It is getting 120v in. At a 4 pin power dongle i get 12v dc out. I don't know what else to try.
Posted On: September 28th 2005 . View 13 Replies .
I have hibernation enabled on my computer. The other day i turned it on and it resumed normally. I used it for a while and then left it. When i went back and turned it back on it wouldn't boot. The hard disk use indicator light stays on. The monitor displays a no signal or cable disconnected screen. I listened to the hard drive and it does not seem to be doing anything. The dvd drive also does not eject. I have tried removing each component hd, dvd, and floppy individually to see if it is caused by one of them. This did not solve the problem. I have double check all of my connections and they are all in there firmly. Normally when i boot up i get a screen from the vid card that counts the ram. Then it goes to the asus screen where i can enter the bios setup. Then it goes to windows. Neither of the first two screens ever appear. I have checked my power supply. It is getting 120v in. At a 4 pin power dongle i get 12v dc out. I don't know what else to try.
Posted On: September 28th 2005 . View 13 Replies .
File Transfer Between Hard Drives Causes Computer Crash
I recently installed a new drive into my storage server (one of wd's 1tb green drives) and transferring files to it sometimes results in a computer crash. There were no issues before this latest drive was installed. Crashes have as of yet only happen when this drive is being written to, though i do not write to the other drives often so i am not sure at this point. Crashes happen much more frequently when there is increased disk activity anywhere else in the system. The system is built as follows:
Amd athlon x2 4050e 2. 1ghz dual core cpu
Jetway jnc62k w/ nvidia geforce 8200 mainboard
Os hard drive: hitachi travelstar 5k160 ata-6
Storage drives: 3x1gb wd10eads sata
Windows xp mce w/ sp3
Any suggestions where i should start troubleshooting? Does this sound like a problem you've heard before? I've run smart diagnostics on all the hard drives running wd's diag tools, and it's all come back just fine.
Posted On: 05-17-2009, 05:47 AM . View 5 Replies .
I recently installed a new drive into my storage server (one of wd's 1tb green drives) and transferring files to it sometimes results in a computer crash. There were no issues before this latest drive was installed. Crashes have as of yet only happen when this drive is being written to, though i do not write to the other drives often so i am not sure at this point. Crashes happen much more frequently when there is increased disk activity anywhere else in the system. The system is built as follows:
Amd athlon x2 4050e 2. 1ghz dual core cpu
Jetway jnc62k w/ nvidia geforce 8200 mainboard
Os hard drive: hitachi travelstar 5k160 ata-6
Storage drives: 3x1gb wd10eads sata
Windows xp mce w/ sp3
Any suggestions where i should start troubleshooting? Does this sound like a problem you've heard before? I've run smart diagnostics on all the hard drives running wd's diag tools, and it's all come back just fine.
Posted On: 05-17-2009, 05:47 AM . View 5 Replies .
Computer Suddenly Won't Detect Hard Drives
Ok, so i was installing a new dvd-rw drive i got and it was going good, windows xp recognized it, i was burning stuff. Then nero gives the error "connection interrupted". The drive was stuck and nero froze. So i open my case, make sure all connections are good and reboot. Only this time right after it checks the cd drives to see if it should boot from them, it suddenly starts showing weird symbols scrolling down the screen (like a matrix effect) i have disconnected everything, reconnected, reset cmos, but it still wont detect the hard drives!
Posted On: 07-21-2005, 05:06 PM . View 3 Replies .
Ok, so i was installing a new dvd-rw drive i got and it was going good, windows xp recognized it, i was burning stuff. Then nero gives the error "connection interrupted". The drive was stuck and nero froze. So i open my case, make sure all connections are good and reboot. Only this time right after it checks the cd drives to see if it should boot from them, it suddenly starts showing weird symbols scrolling down the screen (like a matrix effect) i have disconnected everything, reconnected, reset cmos, but it still wont detect the hard drives!
Posted On: 07-21-2005, 05:06 PM . View 3 Replies .
Computer Wont Detect Hard Drives When Raid Enabled
I've gotten them to work before in raid, recently i formatted my drives and i had set the bios to 'defaults'. Well, the drives are formatted. I can go to bios and my hds appear, i go to enable raid and save the settings only to return to bios and see they're gone. And when i hit f10 to go into the raid setup, it shows both of them but they are in red highlight. Ive been messing around in the settings see if i turned anything on last time but have had no luck. I've got a feeling its something simple i'm just not seeing. Edit: 680sli mobo|2x wd250 hd|geforce 8800gtx|2 gb corsair|core2 duo e6600
Posted On: 02-04-2007, 08:13 PM . View 6 Replies .
I've gotten them to work before in raid, recently i formatted my drives and i had set the bios to 'defaults'. Well, the drives are formatted. I can go to bios and my hds appear, i go to enable raid and save the settings only to return to bios and see they're gone. And when i hit f10 to go into the raid setup, it shows both of them but they are in red highlight. Ive been messing around in the settings see if i turned anything on last time but have had no luck. I've got a feeling its something simple i'm just not seeing. Edit: 680sli mobo|2x wd250 hd|geforce 8800gtx|2 gb corsair|core2 duo e6600
Posted On: 02-04-2007, 08:13 PM . View 6 Replies .
Windows Cannot Find The Hard Drive During Installation
I have the compaq presario v6ooo. It has a 100gb sata hd. I want to format the drive and put my win xp pro and other programs on it and get rid of the trial programs that are on the drive, including the os that's on it. But when i try to do a clean installation with my windows is stops the installation and tells me it cannot find the hd. The laptop works reads and loads perfectly, but my win won't complete the install because it can't find the hd. Does anyone know how i can resolve this issue?
Posted On: November 29th 2006 . View 2 Replies .
I have the compaq presario v6ooo. It has a 100gb sata hd. I want to format the drive and put my win xp pro and other programs on it and get rid of the trial programs that are on the drive, including the os that's on it. But when i try to do a clean installation with my windows is stops the installation and tells me it cannot find the hd. The laptop works reads and loads perfectly, but my win won't complete the install because it can't find the hd. Does anyone know how i can resolve this issue?
Posted On: November 29th 2006 . View 2 Replies .
Windows Xp Setup Did Not Find Any Hard Drive
When i am trying to install windows xp, it can not find my hard drives. My motherboard is gigabyte ga-8i915p duo pro
My cpu is p4 3. 2 lga 775
My hard rives are seagate 80 gb and seagate 160 gb these are serial ata. I think to install xp my drivers, i must use a floppy disc to show my drives. But i can't !
I have motherboard cd, but which file must i use.
Posted On: August 15th 2005 . View 14 Replies .
When i am trying to install windows xp, it can not find my hard drives. My motherboard is gigabyte ga-8i915p duo pro
My cpu is p4 3. 2 lga 775
My hard rives are seagate 80 gb and seagate 160 gb these are serial ata. I think to install xp my drivers, i must use a floppy disc to show my drives. But i can't !
I have motherboard cd, but which file must i use.
Posted On: August 15th 2005 . View 14 Replies .
How To Find Specs Of My Computer ?
How do i find the specs of my computer? I want to find out so i can see if its good enough for star craft 2, it is a compaq laptop and has windows 7 that came with it. I think it fairly good because i can run call of duty 4 call of duty 1 and oblivion.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 4 Replies .
How do i find the specs of my computer? I want to find out so i can see if its good enough for star craft 2, it is a compaq laptop and has windows 7 that came with it. I think it fairly good because i can run call of duty 4 call of duty 1 and oblivion.
Posted On: 1 month ago . View 4 Replies .
Can't Format Or Find External Hard Drive
When i plug in my external hard drive i get a message saying usb mass storage device found. I have installed drivers and the device manager says that it is working fine but it will not show up in my computer. I am told that it will need to be in fat 32 format for this to happen but if it doesn't show up how can i format it?
Os = windows 2000
Posted On: May 23rd 2005 . View 5 Replies .
When i plug in my external hard drive i get a message saying usb mass storage device found. I have installed drivers and the device manager says that it is working fine but it will not show up in my computer. I am told that it will need to be in fat 32 format for this to happen but if it doesn't show up how can i format it?
Os = windows 2000
Posted On: May 23rd 2005 . View 5 Replies .
How To Find Webcam On Compaq Computer ?
How do you find the webcam on your compaq computer?
Answer:- on a laptop, the webcam is usually a black circle located at the top of the lcd panel. On a desktop, the webcam is usually sold as a separate unit and is plugged into the back of your computer and placed anywhere near the screen (or on top of the screen).
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 2 Replies .
How do you find the webcam on your compaq computer?
Answer:- on a laptop, the webcam is usually a black circle located at the top of the lcd panel. On a desktop, the webcam is usually sold as a separate unit and is plugged into the back of your computer and placed anywhere near the screen (or on top of the screen).
Posted On: 2 months ago . View 2 Replies .
Can't Boot From Sata Cdrom And Can't Find Sata Hd
Last night i built my dad a new computer, with two sata dvd-drives (but can only connect one with one of my sata cables. Apparently the motherboard manufacturer only likes to include one sata cable. My fault for ordering oem and not checking on the cable quantity. ), A wd sata hard drive and an ecs nforce 570 slit-a motherboard. Anyway, when i boot up with the windows xp cd in the dvd drive, it won't detect the drive and boot from the cd. Ok, i thought i might have that problem (never dealt with sata drives besides hd's), so i just plugged in an ide cdrom, but now it won't find the hd.
I've put raid drivers from ecs on a disk as well as wd sata drives on a disk and hit f6 when prompted in the winxp boot screen. The ecs drivers did nothing for me and the wd drivers said something about it being corrupt or something of the sort (sorry, can't remember exactly. So i've had no luck. I've also tried plugging in the original ide hd from his old computer but it immediately restarts when it should start loading windows. I had to go to sleep because i have work today, so i didn't fiddle around with it too much more than what i've explained above, and that's where i am now so i won't get to try anything for awhile.
Posted On: 2007-02-01 . View 10 Replies .
Last night i built my dad a new computer, with two sata dvd-drives (but can only connect one with one of my sata cables. Apparently the motherboard manufacturer only likes to include one sata cable. My fault for ordering oem and not checking on the cable quantity. ), A wd sata hard drive and an ecs nforce 570 slit-a motherboard. Anyway, when i boot up with the windows xp cd in the dvd drive, it won't detect the drive and boot from the cd. Ok, i thought i might have that problem (never dealt with sata drives besides hd's), so i just plugged in an ide cdrom, but now it won't find the hd.
I've put raid drivers from ecs on a disk as well as wd sata drives on a disk and hit f6 when prompted in the winxp boot screen. The ecs drivers did nothing for me and the wd drivers said something about it being corrupt or something of the sort (sorry, can't remember exactly. So i've had no luck. I've also tried plugging in the original ide hd from his old computer but it immediately restarts when it should start loading windows. I had to go to sleep because i have work today, so i didn't fiddle around with it too much more than what i've explained above, and that's where i am now so i won't get to try anything for awhile.
Posted On: 2007-02-01 . View 10 Replies .
How To Find Out Maximum Ram Capacity For Computer ?
I'm trying to add a little memory to my in-laws computer. It's an intel board, model d845glly. It's got two slots, 133mhz fsb. I would post a link to intel's page on the board, but apparently i'm too new of a member. So if you go to intel.com, slash support, slash motherboards, slash desktop, slash d845glly slash sb, slash cs-012825.htm, you can see it ;-). On their info page it states that the maximum memory capacity is 2gb, which is what i'd like to stick in it. But on the chart on the same page, it lists 512mb as the maximum capacity per slot, and there are only two slots. Alternatively, i went to crucial's site, and did their evaluation, and it says the same thing. It states that the board can take 2gb of memory, but each slot can only hold 512mb. So what's the deal? Can i put a 1gb stick in each slot, or am i stuck with only being able to put 1gb total in it? It needs more memory desperately, currently it has 256mb total. Or do you think that 2gb of ram would be overkill on this system? It's got a 1. 7ghz celeron in it, so would there be much of a noticeable difference from 1gb to 2gb? Maybe i shouldn't bother trying to get 2gb in there?
Posted On: August 5th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
I'm trying to add a little memory to my in-laws computer. It's an intel board, model d845glly. It's got two slots, 133mhz fsb. I would post a link to intel's page on the board, but apparently i'm too new of a member. So if you go to intel.com, slash support, slash motherboards, slash desktop, slash d845glly slash sb, slash cs-012825.htm, you can see it ;-). On their info page it states that the maximum memory capacity is 2gb, which is what i'd like to stick in it. But on the chart on the same page, it lists 512mb as the maximum capacity per slot, and there are only two slots. Alternatively, i went to crucial's site, and did their evaluation, and it says the same thing. It states that the board can take 2gb of memory, but each slot can only hold 512mb. So what's the deal? Can i put a 1gb stick in each slot, or am i stuck with only being able to put 1gb total in it? It needs more memory desperately, currently it has 256mb total. Or do you think that 2gb of ram would be overkill on this system? It's got a 1. 7ghz celeron in it, so would there be much of a noticeable difference from 1gb to 2gb? Maybe i shouldn't bother trying to get 2gb in there?
Posted On: August 5th 2007 . View 2 Replies .
Are Two Hard Drives Better Than One Large Hard Drive ?
I got asked a weird question by someone i know, are two hard drives better than one large hard drive, i really don't know if the difference can be seen because i have 2 hard drives so. I have a 75gb raptor and a 400gb ide but i've never thought of that before, the lady who asked me said she was going to buy a new pc and does alot of work editing videos and had the choice of a pc with 2 sata hard drives or 1.
Posted On: 12-18-2007, 11:51 PM . View 13 Replies .
I got asked a weird question by someone i know, are two hard drives better than one large hard drive, i really don't know if the difference can be seen because i have 2 hard drives so. I have a 75gb raptor and a 400gb ide but i've never thought of that before, the lady who asked me said she was going to buy a new pc and does alot of work editing videos and had the choice of a pc with 2 sata hard drives or 1.
Posted On: 12-18-2007, 11:51 PM . View 13 Replies .
Cannot Boot From Hard Drive
If i put a windows xp disk in the cd drive and both the hard drive and optical drive are connected, it will boot past post and then stop with a flashing cursor. If i disconnect the hard drive, it will boot past post, read the cd and run setup. No matter what, if a hard drive is present, it will just stop after ide detection and flash the cursor. I've check the bios and the hard drive is recognized and it's setup to boot from cd first. I've tried another known good hard drive, tried changing cables and ide slots. Even cleared cmos. I've pretty much tried every configuration that i can think of. Nothing seems to work. Has anyone ever encountered this issue? I'm thinking mobo but am confused as the optical drive works on both the primary and secondary ide channels.
Posted On: 18-03-2008, 08:19 PM . View 2 Replies .
If i put a windows xp disk in the cd drive and both the hard drive and optical drive are connected, it will boot past post and then stop with a flashing cursor. If i disconnect the hard drive, it will boot past post, read the cd and run setup. No matter what, if a hard drive is present, it will just stop after ide detection and flash the cursor. I've check the bios and the hard drive is recognized and it's setup to boot from cd first. I've tried another known good hard drive, tried changing cables and ide slots. Even cleared cmos. I've pretty much tried every configuration that i can think of. Nothing seems to work. Has anyone ever encountered this issue? I'm thinking mobo but am confused as the optical drive works on both the primary and secondary ide channels.
Posted On: 18-03-2008, 08:19 PM . View 2 Replies .
Xp Does Not Boot From Hard Disk
I have bought a new hdd (ata), with jumper on master. I did installed xp professional sp2 (genuine licensed) once, this morning, everything was ok. After installing xp, i have booted from hdd without problems and even i did some small disaplay changes (resolution, colors, things like that), but i have installed nothing else). I've closed the os, closed the pc and went out for about 1 hour. When coming back the system refused to boot again from hdd. As i had nothing else installed on hdd except the xp, i decided to boot from cd, format again the partition and reinstall the xp. Surprise: the hdd is visible (bios sees it), is to be formated, xp files are copied on the c: partition as normal, no errors, but when first time the installing program needs to re-boot, it can not re-boot from hdd, and keeps booting from cd again and again. Any ideas?
Posted On: October 22nd, 2007, 09:17 AM . View 7 Replies .
I have bought a new hdd (ata), with jumper on master. I did installed xp professional sp2 (genuine licensed) once, this morning, everything was ok. After installing xp, i have booted from hdd without problems and even i did some small disaplay changes (resolution, colors, things like that), but i have installed nothing else). I've closed the os, closed the pc and went out for about 1 hour. When coming back the system refused to boot again from hdd. As i had nothing else installed on hdd except the xp, i decided to boot from cd, format again the partition and reinstall the xp. Surprise: the hdd is visible (bios sees it), is to be formated, xp files are copied on the c: partition as normal, no errors, but when first time the installing program needs to re-boot, it can not re-boot from hdd, and keeps booting from cd again and again. Any ideas?
Posted On: October 22nd, 2007, 09:17 AM . View 7 Replies .
Cant Boot From My Xp Hard Drive
I have two hard drives, one with vista and one with xp. For some strange reason, all of a sudden i cant boot from my xp hard drive. All i get is a blank screen after post with a blinking cursor like in command prompt (though i cant input any commands). In bios, i cant select that drive as a bootable one. The drive shows up in vista's device manager, but i cant access the drive (it doesnt turn up in "my computer". Its like the drive exists, and it spins up, but its not there. File recovery programs cant work because they dont pick up the drive. Im not so much worried about recovering the windows install etc than i am getting some of my crucial files off it. Anyone experienced this before or have any suggestions?
Posted On: 06-25-2007, 07:51 AM . View 24 Replies .
I have two hard drives, one with vista and one with xp. For some strange reason, all of a sudden i cant boot from my xp hard drive. All i get is a blank screen after post with a blinking cursor like in command prompt (though i cant input any commands). In bios, i cant select that drive as a bootable one. The drive shows up in vista's device manager, but i cant access the drive (it doesnt turn up in "my computer". Its like the drive exists, and it spins up, but its not there. File recovery programs cant work because they dont pick up the drive. Im not so much worried about recovering the windows install etc than i am getting some of my crucial files off it. Anyone experienced this before or have any suggestions?
Posted On: 06-25-2007, 07:51 AM . View 24 Replies .
Hard Drive Causes Xp To Freeze On Boot Up
I have an older dell system (by older i mean over 3 yrs) and i installed a wd 160 gb hard drive in it about a year ago using the supplied controller card, with an ntfs format to the drive. The drive (which has been my main data storage drive since i installed it) worked fine for that year. Resently i was installing a program off of a cd that was scratched up pretty bad on to that drive. After multiple cleanings of the disk, and crashing of the installer the computer totally locked up. I couldn't even get the num lock lights to function. So i hit the reset button. When the computer tried to come back up it froze at the blank (black) screen after the windows xp booting screen. After some intenstive trouble shooting of the attached hardware i discovered that if i removed the 160 gb drive from the system (either physically, or by disabling the controller card) the system booted fine. I also tried the drive connected directly to the eide controller on the motherboard with only the boot drive as the only other device and it was connected to the other controller, this also caused the system to freeze in the same spot. Trying the drive on another xp machine, and a windows 2000 machine resulted in simular issues (the windows 2000 machine stoped at the windows splash with the scrooling blue bar. )
I even moved all of the data off of one of the other drives, reformated it, and reinstalled windows xp, and service pack 1 on that drive. When i connect the 160 gb drive up it does the same thing. Also trying to reinstall windows with the drive attached causes windows to freeze at the point that it tries to check that drive. Now here is the real puzzling part, running the western digital diagonstics (it's called life gaurd or something like that) it doesn't show any bad sectors or anything on the drive (i did the extensive test that also does a phsyical scan of the drive, looking for damage to the platters i assume), and running ntfs-reader allows me to read, and copy the files off of the drive, unfortunitly i don't have enough combined space on the two good drives (a 20gb. And a 9gb) to copy off the mission critical stuff i have stored on the drive (about a years worth of video editing of old vhs tapes that i was transfering to dvd for my inlaws. ) Any suggestions other then reformat, and re-edit the vhses?
Posted On: April 22nd, 2004, 10:35 AM . View 6 Replies .
I have an older dell system (by older i mean over 3 yrs) and i installed a wd 160 gb hard drive in it about a year ago using the supplied controller card, with an ntfs format to the drive. The drive (which has been my main data storage drive since i installed it) worked fine for that year. Resently i was installing a program off of a cd that was scratched up pretty bad on to that drive. After multiple cleanings of the disk, and crashing of the installer the computer totally locked up. I couldn't even get the num lock lights to function. So i hit the reset button. When the computer tried to come back up it froze at the blank (black) screen after the windows xp booting screen. After some intenstive trouble shooting of the attached hardware i discovered that if i removed the 160 gb drive from the system (either physically, or by disabling the controller card) the system booted fine. I also tried the drive connected directly to the eide controller on the motherboard with only the boot drive as the only other device and it was connected to the other controller, this also caused the system to freeze in the same spot. Trying the drive on another xp machine, and a windows 2000 machine resulted in simular issues (the windows 2000 machine stoped at the windows splash with the scrooling blue bar. )
I even moved all of the data off of one of the other drives, reformated it, and reinstalled windows xp, and service pack 1 on that drive. When i connect the 160 gb drive up it does the same thing. Also trying to reinstall windows with the drive attached causes windows to freeze at the point that it tries to check that drive. Now here is the real puzzling part, running the western digital diagonstics (it's called life gaurd or something like that) it doesn't show any bad sectors or anything on the drive (i did the extensive test that also does a phsyical scan of the drive, looking for damage to the platters i assume), and running ntfs-reader allows me to read, and copy the files off of the drive, unfortunitly i don't have enough combined space on the two good drives (a 20gb. And a 9gb) to copy off the mission critical stuff i have stored on the drive (about a years worth of video editing of old vhs tapes that i was transfering to dvd for my inlaws. ) Any suggestions other then reformat, and re-edit the vhses?
Posted On: April 22nd, 2004, 10:35 AM . View 6 Replies .
Failure To Boot From Hard Drive
I have two hard drives. I tried installing windows vista business on the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with windows xp which was on the second hard drive. Well, the vista installation worked fine, but when i went to boot into xp, i found vista's boot loader hadn't recognized windows xp. Clearly frustrated, i tried several different things until i finally decided to format the first hard drive. It was horrible i lost my entire data from the hard drive. Vista made my data vanish. I hate it. I tried using repair tool and many recovery software, but it did not work.
Posted On: 17-02-2007, 04:06 AM . View 3 Replies .
I have two hard drives. I tried installing windows vista business on the first one to use in a dual-boot configuration with windows xp which was on the second hard drive. Well, the vista installation worked fine, but when i went to boot into xp, i found vista's boot loader hadn't recognized windows xp. Clearly frustrated, i tried several different things until i finally decided to format the first hard drive. It was horrible i lost my entire data from the hard drive. Vista made my data vanish. I hate it. I tried using repair tool and many recovery software, but it did not work.
Posted On: 17-02-2007, 04:06 AM . View 3 Replies .
Hard Drive Fails To Boot
I have a diamondmax plus 9 which i store in an external case and it connects to my computer through usb port. It currently has 2 partitions on it. Ever since i made a third partition on it: ntfs 32k cluster size, it has seemed to have screwed up and fails to boot each time. How do i stop the 3rd partition from booting up or get rid of the 3rd partition without affecting the other 2 because of valuable data?
Posted On: October 22nd, 2004, 08:10 PM . View 8 Replies .
I have a diamondmax plus 9 which i store in an external case and it connects to my computer through usb port. It currently has 2 partitions on it. Ever since i made a third partition on it: ntfs 32k cluster size, it has seemed to have screwed up and fails to boot each time. How do i stop the 3rd partition from booting up or get rid of the 3rd partition without affecting the other 2 because of valuable data?
Posted On: October 22nd, 2004, 08:10 PM . View 8 Replies .
Can Not Boot Into Windows When External Hard Drive Is On
Ever since i installed my sata hard drive when ever i reboot the computer and have my external hard drive connect and powered on the system hangs and does not complete the boot up. What is the cause of this? Can you disable and options in the bios this way if i have any usb device it will not interfer with the boot up process?
Posted On: 11-30-2005, 09:45 PM . View 0 Replies .
Ever since i installed my sata hard drive when ever i reboot the computer and have my external hard drive connect and powered on the system hangs and does not complete the boot up. What is the cause of this? Can you disable and options in the bios this way if i have any usb device it will not interfer with the boot up process?
Posted On: 11-30-2005, 09:45 PM . View 0 Replies .