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How to see contents of hard drive that Windows 7 thinks is blank?
I have a Windows 7 PC (call it New7) that I built about a year and a half ago. Initially, I moved the hard drive from my wife's old PC (call it XP32) into New7 as a second drive. I also had a new ...
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How big is PATA throughput on original Macbook Air (Rev A)?
I still have one of the original Macbook Air's that I use sometimes. It's got 2Gb of RAM and whenever it's filling up and starts paging, the whole things becomes barely responsive.
I've heard SSD's ...
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Can I plug a single hard drive into the “SATA RAID1” socket?
My (6 year old) motherboard has 4 PATA socket, 2 SATA socket, and one socket labelled "SATA RAID1". Since I (sadly) have 4 PATA devices (including dvd-r), 2 SATA hard drives, and have just bought ...
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Is it possible to mount an IDE HDD to act as a boot HDD on a virtual machine?
Is it possible to mount an IDEE HDD to act as a boot HDD on a virtual machine?
My computer has a SATA drive, and I have connected an IDE (PATA) HDD. Now I need to set that IDE HDD as a boot drive on ...
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Can't mount old IDE hdd using an USB adapter
I have an old IDE hard drive that has some data I must recover, so I bought an usb adapter to plug it to my new pc and copy everything.
But Windows installed the drivers when I plugged it in, but ...
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Putting a hard disk in disk drive slot
I have an Intel D845GVSR motherboard:
This motherboard does not support SATA drives, but I have a spare SATA drive with me which my father unknowingly bought without remembering that the ...
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New hard disk making noise
I bought a 250GB SATA Seagate hard disk 15 days ago for 70 $ . After formatting for 2 times [I had to for faulty installation] the disk read/write speed have dropped significantly. It's also making ...
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Sata Drive in IDE Motherboard
I have an old Dell desktop computer that I'm trying to turn into an Home Media Server. The original hard drive is only 80GB so I recently bought a second Hitachi 1TB Sata drive. I also bought a ...
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Does it affect performance if I re-use IDE Hard Drives with a SATA convertor?
I'm planning to assemble my PC.. but want to re-use a little from the old one. I just want to know if it will hamper the performance. I have two 250GB IDE hard drives.
Will it drastically affect the ...
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Software to perform RAID on different drive technology (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SSD)
May I know if there is any software (in Windows) that can perform RAID on different type of drive technology in a single computer?
From my understanding, Hardware RAID card is needed to perform RAID ...
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SATA III SSD drive on IDE controller - Runs in UDMA 6 is OK but slow transfers 80MB/s - expect 133MB/s
I have bought a OCZ Agility 3 SSD drive to build into my ASUS laptop. Because the drive is a SATA (III) drive and the laptop has only IDE connectors, i use a Fevi/Apple Second drive Caddy to put it ...
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“No IDE Fixed Disk Present” After Hard Reboot But Not Soft Reboot
BIOS displays the following two lines upon hard reboot (i.e., cold reboot, cold boot, or cold start):
The following configuration options were automatically updated:
CD-ROM: HL-DT-ST R/W/DVD ...
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External IDE-to-USB drive reads in bursts
External IDE hard drive formatted FAT32. Connected via an IDE-to-USB adapter. OS: Windows XP
Tried two different adapters (different manufacturers), same results. Reads fine in bursts of ~500MB, then ...
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Why have SATAs replaced PATAs these days?
It seems to me that the general trend in computers is going towards parallel architectures wherever you go. But I've noticed that the term 'SATA' appears much more often than 'PATA' these days...
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I just installed Windows 7 onto an IDE hard drive and everything looked good. But it won't boot
I just installed Windows 7 onto this IDE hard drive and everything looked good. It went through the entire process until that regular last boot after "Completing installation...".
But it won't boot ...
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In BIOS, what does “SATA Controller” with the ability to select either IDE or RAID mean?
In my BIOS, I've got a setting called "SATA Controller" that can select either IDE or RAID.
It's currently set to IDE.
What does this setting mean, and will bad things happen if I change it?
My ...
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Is there a reliable IDE to SATA converter?
I got a cheap PATA to SATA converter on eBay because my box doesn't have any SATA ports left for the SATA Blu-ray writer I recently purchased. It only half works, which of course is worse than a ...
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What's the difference between ATA, PATA, and IDE?
If I am not mistaken these names all referrer to the same technology. Are there any differences between them? If not, why does this technology go by so many different names?
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Jerryrigged power supply for temporary powering of Pata devices for testing
I have a bunch of old hard drives (molex/pata), and a test system with a PSU that's SATA only. I also have a older PSU with no sata power plugs from a system that died ages ago, which i know works - ...
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How can I connect ST-157A-1 to my laptop?
I have an ancient ST-157A-1 45mb hard drive. I want to connect it to my computer and copy the data off of it. I purchased a usb-ide adapter, however it seems like the computer is completely unaware of ...
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Why does my motherboard not pick up PATA HDD using a SATA adaptor?
I've connected the adapter to the PATA drive (40 pin).
Powered the PATA drive using standard Molex.
Slotted the small 4 pin cable (branches off the Molex cable) into the adapter - I believe this ...
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Are there any SATA HDD to PATA Docks?
I have an oldish laptop (Acer Aspire 4710) with a SATA HDD. I wanted to extend the life of the laptop by adding an SSD drive. But I don't want to keep my data on the SDD (since it will wear out the ...
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Hard drive is intermittently detected in the BIOS
I am running into a problem where my computer will occasionally restart itself (No BSD) and during the boot up it won't detect the hard drive. Usually turning the computer off and then back on will ...
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Converting FAT32 to NTFS
I am using Windows 7 and my hard drive has four partitions. One of the partition, F, contains all my source code of projects. Over time, this partition has become fragmented and slow. This partition ...
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is a sata DVD burner really worth the extra cash [closed]
My computer has a old school PATA (ide) DVD burner that works fast and great, really it is the only thing I've not updated over the years. is there any advantage to upgrading to a Sata DVD drive.
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IDE Motherboard to Boot from a SATA 1T Hdd
I want to use my SATA HDD with my very old ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard (made in 2003). I intend to buy a cheap adapter for this, something similar to this one:
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Internal HD not detected via IDE/SATA usb on Vista
I was viewing some files from my old hard drive taken from an XP machine, on a Vista machine via a IDE/SATA usb cable and accidentally dropped the hard drive (about from a knee height), which landed ...
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Trying to get data off busted ide drive
I have an old IDE drive that is getting corruption errors and will not boot in its own box. I can boot safely in safe mode with command prompt. I decided to move the drive out into my own box. I ...
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Force slim DVD and laptop HD on desktop motherboard to proper master/slave setting
I'm trying to add a slim DVD to my file server. The motherboard is a JetWay JNC81-LF, but I doubt the specific model is relevant, just that it's a desktop Mini-ITX board. I'm using a Chenbro ES34069 ...
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What do the “ATA/IDE Configuration” options in ASUS motherboard BIOS?
It appears that I'm not the only one with such question, but Googling revealed nothing.
For many contemporary ASUS (maybe other manufacturers too?) motherboards there is a setting in BIOS called ...
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Changing motherboards, avoiding bluescreens - Windows 7
When I used to have Windows XP and upgraded the computer, I got bluescreens at boot, usually due to a changed IDE controller. How do I avoid this? I am now upgrading windows 7 to windows 7 changing ...
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How to identify an SMPS can power both SATA, and IDE devices?
I have
an old P4 with 2 UDMA HDD (totalling around 300G of storage, with a decent amount of real-estate yet to be used)
purchased a replacement m/b + processor for my upgrade
intend to move one of ...
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Convert to 2.5 IDE laptop using SATA drive
I've got an older laptop that I'd like to soup up with a sata ssd that I just have happened to have lying around. Is there anyway to squeeze it in there? I believe they are both 2.5.
I'm considerin ...
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Is it safe to switch between disk controllers
I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed on my laptop. XP needs the IDE disk controller. While 7 needs AHCI. I have to switch between these 2 modes before I could use one of them. Does it have ...
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Copying Windows to a new hard drive
I have a SCSI drive(C:) with Windows XP on it and I want to copy windows to a partition(F:) on an IDE drive. So far I have used clonezilla to copy Windows from C: to F: and I can boot to F: while the ...
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Installing Linux, IDE or SATA?
THE QUESTION:
Is there an advantage to installing Linux on a SATA or IDE drive? I'm hoping to stream media from this server so would it be best to keep the faster SATA disks for that data?
FURTHER ...
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What type of 2.5" drive is this, is it ide?
Trying find out what type of drive I have in my laptop.
Is just died and I'm keen to find out what sort it is ?
Heres a photo...
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PCI IDE Controller
I have a suspicion that the onboard IDE controllers may not be working. Every disk I use to setup this machine reports as damaged (using a win xp installation to test, since it gets to partition setup ...
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What currently available hard drives are compatible with ATA100
I have to replace a dead hard drive in a friends computer. It's a pretty old machine with a parallel ATA100 interface on the motherboard. Will currently available PATA drives be compatible?
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PATA to SATA convertor for FW400 enclosure?
I have a decent USB2/FW400 HD enclosure with an old 250GB PATA HD inside. I am using its FW400 interface. I would like to reuse the box with a newer SATA drive but I wonder if the SATA-PATA adapter ...
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Can you help me understand my SATA/RAID options?
I've a gigabyte GA-M720-US3 motherboard. Recently, I noticed the following during boot:
IDE channel 0 Master (none)
IDE channel 0 Slave (none)
IDE channel 2 Master (my hdd)
IDE channel 2 Slave (my ...
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Windows XP: is DVD drive connected to master or slave on the IDE port?
I'm running a German Windows XP Professional and want to know whether my IDE-DVD-drive is connected to the master or slave without opening the machine. The device manager shows Ort: Pfad 0 (0) (in ...
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Why sometimes Windows 7 cannot see IDE disk?
We have two internal hard drives; one SATA and one IDE. Windows 7 (x86) sees both of them. But sometimes when we boot the computer IDE drive fails. After restart everything behave normal. Every 1 boot ...
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Sata drive overiding IDE?
I recently just bought a Sata Hard drive and hooked it up and installed a OS. I am making it my Primary hard drive. What I had before that though was 2 IDE hard drives that I used. One of them was my ...
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Is it safe to use an IDE to SATA power adapter for an extended period of time?
I just bought a computer from HP and they failed to include SATA power connectors with the power supply other then the one HD and DVD drive. Meanwhile I have two IDE to SATA power adapters that came ...
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ASUS P7H55-M doesn't detect IDE optical drive [closed]
I have purchased a pre-overclocked Asus P7H55-M motherboard / Intel i3 540 combo. I am going to use one SATA HDD and one IDE DVD RW drive. The motherboard only has one IDE sockets and several SATA ...
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Switching IDE to SATA with VirtualBox and Windows 7
After reading various tips on how to increase performance with VirtualBox, I am attempting to switch from an IDE disk to SATA disk (in my particular case VirtualBox w/ an IDE disk is an order of ...
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What are the differences between slave and master hard drives? [closed]
What are the differences between slave and master hard drives?
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SATA Hard Drive problems
I have a 80GB IDE hard drive and few months back I bought a new 320GB SATA Hard drive.For almost two months everything worked perfectly but now suddenly I'm having problems in my SATA drive. When I ...
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Unable to boot from secondary IDE HDD when DVD burner connected as master
I have a (as it seems to me) strange problem with my DVD burner (Sony AD7540A) which I would like to use as master device on a IDE bus. There is a HDD on the bus as well that should be (is) the slave ...
