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Do seagate 3 TB hard disk need special setup before usage?
Is it mandatory to install special seagate drivers
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
if you use a 3 TB SATA disk over external eSATA expressCard Adapter?
I have an old and a new ...
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Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive?
This morning CHKDSK ran on its own during boot. It scanned 1 out of 3 HDDs in my PC. Is it a warning sign that that particular HDD is about die?
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How do I disable the “SECURITY FREEZE LOCK” on my SATA hard disk?
I am sending ATA commands to SATA HDD using IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH in windows. IDENTIFY DEVICE (ECh) ATA commands returns 256 words of data.
Word 128, Bit 3 is set in the returned data, and according ...
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Can I reorder SATA port connections?
I currently have 5 SATA-Drives installed and Windows 7 installed.
I want to reorder the connections, ie connect alle the drives to different ports. Does this mess up anything in windows?
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3TB Seagate Barracuda causing freezing
Hi I have bought a brand new 3TB Seagate hard drive. I tried to copy data from my older hard drives to the new one, but it always stops copying selected data set after some time and the file manager ...
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Adding Serial ATA driver Windows 7 clean install for Dell Inspiron n5110
I want to try format my Dell notebook with Windows 7 Ultimate. But my ISO pack doesn't have any HDD driver in it. When I come to step 2 for installing Windows 7 the system says "You should have to ...
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Harddrive disconnects when I try to write on it
One of the four internal harddrives (SATA) of my computer is causing me some trouble.
This drive only have one NTFS partition. Everytime I try to copy a file on it, the copy eventually fails after a ...
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3TB WD30EZRX is only recognized as an 1.8TB Disk - GPT formatted, UEFI-System - what can I do?
Searched through the net for about 3h now, tested anything that seemed promising - but still no 3TB! And I don't mean no 3TB partition - the drive is actually detected as 1.8TB by various programs!
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Windows 7 Installer does not recognize my hard drive
I recently bought a PCI-Express card to add additional Sata ports to my desktop (this one).
Within my other SO the hard drives connected to the PCI-E card are recognized and working fine.
But, when ...
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How to move partition with Users to a new SATA controller?
Our current situation: X79 chipset. Windows 7 installed on SATA SSD running on Marvell controller. C:\Users contains just Public and computer-name folders, all the other users are created in E:\Users. ...
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How do I install a new driver in Recovery mode? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install RAID drivers on already installed Windows 7?
I need to install a RAID driver without booting the windows installation up (it bluescreens because of the ...
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Win 7 RAW file system, convert to NTFS
This all started wiht a rootkit virus, got a new hard drive, reloading everything.
Now i have the old C and F drive, both sata.
Got bitdefender running and comodo firewall, now.
Win7 system, using ...
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SATA Driver for Acer Aspire One D257
i have a Acer Aspire One D257. In this netbook the hard disk is defect so i bought a new one. Now i want to reinstall Windows 7. Im using an external DVD Drive plugged into USB.
The Windows 7 DVD is ...
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Windows removes its own drive from bios, but appears in Linux
I'm having a strange problem.
Some background:
I have two sata drives in this computer. The first one has a boot partition and two NTFS partitions (one Windows 7, one storage). The second drive has ...
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Make ReadyBoost use SATA instead of USB drive [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Enable ReadyBoost on a second internal HDD?
As far as I know, ReadyBoost only works on USB flash media. I have a 4GB SATA SSD, and I thought it would be interesting to ...
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Added extra SATA 6Gbit/s SSD drive, Windows 7 doesn't detect device, USB 3.0 device now runs slow
Added in an extra SATA 6Gbit/s SSD drive to my Windows 7 machine. Now two 6G/s SSDs - main one 64GB and this new 256GB. BIOS can see both. However when I run Windows 7 disk management tool it doesn't ...
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Windows 7 BSOD and missing SATA drives at reboot
I get random BSOD, then when my computer reboots my SATA drives are gone and it gets stuck at "verifying DMI pool data". By rebooting they sometimes re-appear.
Before this my computer has been ...
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Booting Windows 7 from different SATA controller
I have a Win7 installation on a box where the on-board SATA controller died, so I've added a dedicated controller card, and now need to fix the Windows boot sequence that the driver is loaded with the ...
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How to find SATA controller version on custom built PC. Do I have SATA 2, or 3 (II, or III)?
I've got a custom built PC sitting at home with the following specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor (3.2 GHz Quad)
8.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 (4GB Graphics Mem)
64-bit Windows 7 SP1
466 GB ...
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formatted my dell and lost the sata drivers
i formatted my dell studio 1555 laptop hard drive and when i try to install windows 7 it shows up a message that says
" a required cd/dvd drive devise driver is missing . if you have a driver ...
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Installing 3TB SATA Hard Drive Messed Up My Computer
I just added a 3TB SATA hard drive to my Windows 7 x64 machine. After formatting it, it seemed to work for a couple of hours until I got a BSOD. 10 minutes later, another BSOD, this one saying memory ...
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How do I reset a disk to non-RAID?
I had a couple SATA hard disks in a RAID 1 array. I reset them to non-RAID in the Intel raid manager, and removed one drive.
Despite the raid controller saying it's not a RAID disk, and even ...
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Move an SSD with Windows 7 to a new PCIe SATA controller card
This is my current setup:
Abit AB9 QuadGT motherboard which has an Intel P965 chipset with Intel ICH8 SATA Rev. 2.0 controller
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB SSD which supports SATA Rev. 3.0
Windows 7 ...
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Win 7 - Serial ATA Controller driver missing, computer running slowly
After talking with a tech support guy, he diagnosed the slow performance of my computer as being likely rooted in the fact that I was missing a driver (classic...). I opened Device Manager, and lo and ...
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HDD Disappears after sleep mode
I recently purchased a HDD and it works fine except if I go into sleep mode. Every time my computers comes out of sleep mode the HDD disappears completely. I have literally tried EVERYTHING to fix ...
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Switching BIOS SATA RAID/AHCI setting causes BSOD at Windows Start - Why?
I just changed my disk setup from:
1 SATA HDD Primary OS Disk
2x SATA HDD Backup Disks in RAID 1
TO:
1 SATA SSD Primary OS Disk
1 SATA HDD Backup Disk
[No RAID]
Everything worked great, no ...
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how to get boot option menu with two diffrent os's on two diffrent hdd?
I know when you have two versions of windows or other OS's installed on the SAME hard drive, when you boot your computer you get an menu asking which OS you want to boot.
With my setup right now, I ...
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SATA Drive Order Scrambled on Reboot; Windows 7 / Asus P5Q MB
I've noticed that the drive order (when viewing through computer management) on my Windows 7 box is not consistent between reboots. More often than not, the drive order is maintained across a reboot, ...
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Windows 7 64 bits taking hours to load. Even the bootable Windows CD is behaving on the same way
I bought a wd5000aakx hard drive. It is one of that models that came with Advanced Format Drive.
I did a clean install of Windows 7. Everything was working fine, and loading fast.
But one time, after ...
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Windows 7 computer: Can I exchange the SATA cables of two drives without needing to re-install Windows?
Windows 7 computer: Can I exchange the SATA cables of two drives without needing to re-install Windows? this computer only runs windows 7.
what's happening is that i have some backup software that ...
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Trying to install OS to new computer; Won't detect HDD
Mobo: Biostar th67+
CPU: i3 2100
GPU: Radeon 6850 (using integrated right now)
PSU: Antec 400 Watts
HDD: 80gb Deskstar IDE + external Seagate
I am trying to install Windows 7. My problem is that ...
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How does one troubleshoot Windows hanging copying large files from external HDDs?
When I copy large file (for example over 4GB) from external WD MyBook USB 3.0 HDD to internal SATA2 HDD all of Windows just freezes. Copying files of any size on internal HDD is fine.
Today I copied ...
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BSOD STOP 0x000000F4
I have searched pretty extensively for a solution to this issue without resolve, so I was hoping that someone here could help me.
Problem:
After having used my new PC since May of this year, I ...
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Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Stas BAD, Back up and replace
I have an laptop top hard drive I was trying to use to my new media computer. The case is small and can accommodate for 2 2.5" drives, no 3.5" drives. I had been using the hard drive as storage hard ...
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WD20EARS 2TB Compatibility Issues
I have a system that runs the Asus P5Q Pro mother board and I recently added the 2TB WD Green HDD (WD20EARS). I formatted it NTFS with MBR. The system has been running for a week now without any ...
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What could be blocking my cloned drive to boot?
I just finished cloning my disk to a new SATA drive of the exact same model using xxclone. I used the copy volume Id and created boot record info using the options in xxclone. However, now that I ...
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How do I create a RAID 0 volume on Dell Optiplex ICH7R?
I just bought a second-hand Dell Optiplex 330, Core2Duo 2.2GHz with G31 & ICH7R, which has a fresh installed Windows 7 Home Premium. The specifications sheet from Intel said ICH7R supports both ...
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What could cause a computer to boot from a secondary SATA drive instead of the primary?
I have an SSD with Windows 7 on it as a primary drive, and a secondary HDD with an old Windows XP install still on it. This system has been working fine for a few weeks, but suddenly the computer ...
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Changing SATA mode To IDE mode to solve Ntldr Is Missing Error after installing XP on Windows 7
I have Windows 7 Home Premium on my machine and want to install Windows XP as well.
When I run through the Windows XP installation, it copies all the required files and restarts - I then get an NTLDR ...
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Why is transfer between two SATA HDDs so slow?
I have plugged in my Macbook Pro's SATA hard drive into my PC, and downloaded MacDrive in order to access it.
I'm trying to copy about 100GB onto my PC's hard drive which is also SATA, the slowest ...
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Windows cannot boot after configuring sata to RAID mode
I have recently set up a new PC System, and still have issues configuring the harddisc raid.
Here is the detailed description of my problem:
The relevant components are
an ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Sockel ...
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Windows 7 - SATA drive not showing up in Explorer
I recently installed an old HDD of mine to recover some files in Windows 7. The problem is that the drive doesn't show up in Explorer. It's enabled in the BIOS and it also shows up as functioning in ...
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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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Windows 7 setup doesn't recognize my Intel SSD 320 series drive
I have replaced my hard drive with a Intel SSD 320 Series (120Gb) and changed the SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS. But the Windows 7 setup doesn't recognize the SSD drive. I tried to install a driver ...
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Check HDD connection mode (SATA or ATA)
Is it possible under Windows 7 to check whether a particular disk is
recognized by Windows as SATA or ATA?
I've installed Windows 7 on an old HP laptop with SATA drive. Laptop's
hdd in Device Manager ...
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SATA3 (P67 Chipset) VS GSATA3 (Marvell 88SE9128)?
I just bought Gigabyte P67-UD7-B3 and it comes with SATA2 SATA3 and GSATA3.
I have 1 SSD, and 1 HDD.
I dont know which SATA should i connect them too, i dont wish to make a RAID cuz i think it will ...
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OK to use Windows while a RAID array is building?
I've just put together a nice clean, fresh install of Windows 7 x64, and my two primary harddisks are building a software RAID1 array in the background while I type this.
But I want to move over ...
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How to boot Windows 7 SATA disk if IDE disk with boot info is removed?
I had an old IDE hard disk with Windows XP Installed.
Then I switched to Windows 7 but that was installed on another drive, this time SATA and then I reformatted the drive with Windows XP.
However, ...
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Software RAID-1 on Windows 7 doesn't work as expected
Because of problems with the RAID config on my motherboard, I've decided to go the "easy" way and use software RAID.
So I made one big mirrored partition on my two identical hard drivers. I copies a ...
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Adding RAID to my existing PC
I am currently running a Dell Precision T5400 (Intel Xeon E5420 @ 2.5GHz / 4GB RAM).
I am looking to add disk mirroring. I presume I will require a RAID card and two new fast SATA hard drives.
I ...
