SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is one of the most common bus interfaces for connecting mass storage devices to a computer system.
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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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SSD works in Bay 1, won't boot in Bay 2 (Dell Studio)
I have a Dell Studio 1735 laptop for which I just bought an SSD (Crucial M4 64GB) as an upgrade. The laptop has two HDD bays, each with a different connector. Bay 1 is the bay in which the stock HDD ...
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Why does my SSD disk on OSX work with USB-adapter but not over internal SATA?
I'm trying to replace the HD in a MacBook Pro (2009) with a Samsung SSD 830. The SSD has previously been used in a Macbook (late 2008, aluminium) without issues.
Since very little differs in the ...
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System won't boot if I connect SATA hard disk
I had an old PC with an Atom processor, two SATA hard disks with 40 GB and 160 GB each.
Recently I upgraded my PC, got a Gigabyte H61M DS2 Motherboard, 2 GB of RAM and Core I3 processor.
But ...
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How can I install XP on a SATA drive without having a floppy drive for the driver?
I have tried using nLite and downloading the "AMD SATA RAID/SATA AHCI Driver (Preinstall driver, press F6 during Windows* setup to read from floppy)" from the motherboard website and it still wont ...
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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboard or changing SATA mode
This is my first post here and was looking for a possible solution to my question.
I have been using sysprep generalize when upgrading motherboards, or switching SATA mode operations from IDE - AHCI ...
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USB mass storage device split to 2 devices
When I connect an Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 4TB hard drive in a Fantec DB-ALUE2e external SATA enclosure to a Lenovo T400 laptop using the USB 2.0 port, the hard drive gets split to 2 devices:
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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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Why boot fails with bios SATA Mode as AHCI?
In a nutshell, I am trying to figure out for some Jetway engineers and myself, why the custom bios they made me does not allow SATA devices to boot in AHCI mode.
Obviously, this is difficult to ask ...
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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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Can a TRIM capable SSD be used on a non-TRIM system and transferred to a TRIM capable machine for maintenance?
My current system has a slow hard drive, through a PATA interface. SATA interface is not an option. I am planning to replace the HDD with an mSATA SSD through a PATA adapter, though this will not ...
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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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Windows 8 Installation doesn't detect my SATA Maxtor 6V250F0 HDD
I've been using Ubuntu on a desktop computer I have in my house and I'd like to try to install Windows 8 and replace the Ubuntu system.
In the installation wizard of Windows 8 I get stuck in the ...
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Software RAID 1 resync's on SATA cable switch?
I made a mistake when I opened up my desktop removed a 2 disk RAID 1 and reconnected them, but with the SATA cables switched, such that sda became sdb and viceversa.
On boot, the RAID array started ...
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What desktop / consumer motherboards support SATA passwords / ATA Security extension?
I have a hard time finding desktop / consumer motherboards that support SATA / HDD Passwords or specifically the ATA security extension.
Does anyone know why this is and also, do you know of any ...
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quickly skipping SATA media errors
I had a head crash on a SATA HDD. Zillions of blocks are damaged, and I try to save the contents to another HDD using ddrescue on a GNU/Linux rescue system booted from a DVD.
The very problem is ...
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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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Installed Lion via SATA - USB, not recognized when plugged internally
Hoping to get some help on this. I'm running Lion 10.7 on a Macbook unibody A1278 - I want to upgrade my 250GB HDD to a 1TB. I plugged in the 1TB using SATA-USB cables, formatted it and installed ...
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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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Linux Ubuntu Server x32 not recognizing my hard drive
I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server x32 on my IBM eServer xSeries 365.The installator says it cant recognize my drive.I have 2 hot-swap Maxtor ATLAS 10K V 73GB Ultra320 scsi drives and both are ...
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Captiva SATA to USB 2.0 + Seagate Barracuda weirdness
We have got several Captiva SATA to USB 2.0 external enclosures which used to work fine with 1 and 2 TB Hitachi drives.
Now, Hitachi is gone so we had to switch to a different manufacturer and choose ...
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How can I ensure only one port/disk is booted (attempted to be booted) from?
I have a new motherboard (Jetway NF98), and unlike prior BIOS/boards I have had, I am unable to garuntee a boot priority list and lock the BIOS out.
Goal
Ensure only one disk/port is booted from.
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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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Lots of fun problems with RAID and SATA controllers
I bought a used 3ware raid card off of ebay a few months back and set up four 1TB caviar blacks in RAID5. The hardware raid could only manage about 5MB/s writing without write caching, and I don't ...
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Reatogo (~ BartPE) SATA BSOD: Either 0x0000007B or 0x0000007E
I'm trying to get Reatogo's PE Builder (a variant of Bart's PE Builder) to work with SATA drives.
If I put the SATA driver in the SCSIDriver folder, then it boots fine on SATA drives, but it gives a ...
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Intel SASWT4I SAS/SATA Controller
I want to assemble a cheap storage sytem based on the Norco RPC-4020 Case.
When searching for controllers I found this one:
Intel® RAID Controller SASWT4I
This is a quote form the Spec Sheet:
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Low 'Burst Rate' from SATA drive in HDTune?
I recently upgraded my laptop's v slow hard drive to a seagate momentus 7200. Everything is working fine, but I'm a bit confused by these benchmark results:
The burst rate is significantly less ...
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SATA harddisk is not detecting in PATA supported(having SATA compatibility with 2 slots) motherboard
I am using a 80GB PATA hard disk in my system.I recently bought a 1 TB seagate SATA hard disk.I connected it to the main board but my system is not detecting it.But the same SATA HDD is detected in ...
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Hard drive uninitialized when switching enclosure
I have a 3TB SATA drive which I've been using in an external USB enclosure. Today I upgraded the enclosure in order to take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds. However, in this enclosure I am unable to ...
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How many drives could I attach to a SiliconImage SiI3124 based controller using port multipliers?
Would it be possible to attach twenty disks to a SiliconImage SiI3124 based controller (Lycom ST-125NR) using four Lycom ST-126RM port multipliers?
Wikipedia suggests a single 'port' can support up ...
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How designate internal SATA drive as “removable”?
I have two spinning internal data disks that I seldom use and would like to leave them turned off and not spinning much of the time.
I want to "safely remove" a normal SATA internal hard drives ...
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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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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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Installing Windows 8 on late 2012 iMac 3TB SATA Disk
Yes I know installing windows on the new 3TB iMac through bootcamp is not officially supported, but after doing some research it seemed that it was quite possible to do so anyways. Twocanoes seemed to ...
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Linux, Marvell 88SE9123 SATA controller and ATAPI optical drives
I am building a new computer and have run into a wall. I am trying to use an old-ish PCIe SATA card with the Marvell 88SE9123 controller to connect a Samsung SH-224BB/BEBE DVD-RW drive, in order to ...
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AHCI on Windows if BIOS does not have the option but all hardware does support it?
Is it somehow possible to use AHCI on Windows if the BIOS does not have the option to enable it? This is a known problem especially on mid-old Laptops that have chipsets and drives that perfectly ...
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12V only PSU - HDD power from motherboard?
i have run across the concept of "12V only" PSUs where the motherboard holds a DC/DC converter to produce 5V & 3.3V (for PCI slots and HDD or ODD).
references:
fujitsu whitepaper
fujitsu ...
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Lenovo N100 and Samsung SSD 830, shouldn't this go faster than 100MB/s?
I recently upgrated my Lenovo N100 0768 with a Samsung SSD 830 - specified to support 520 MB/s read and 320MB/s write. However, having only SATA1 with max. of 150MB/s speed, it has to run in a slower ...
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Should I jumper my 6gb/s HDD to 3gb for raid-0?
I have 2x 2TB WDC green drives, but one is a 3g sata.
With a jumper I can turn it to 3 to make them more "even" but does it matter with Fakeraids?
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Can I defrag a Smart Response Accelerated Disk
I have a Sata disk accelerated by an SSD disk.
How can I defrag the Sata disk?
Because the acceleration takes place at driver level, there is no way for the defragmentation utility to defrag a ...
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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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unallocated partition when using windows 8 setup with BIOS in AHCI mode
My problem:
-BIOS is in AHCI mode for SATA drives (motherboard: ASUS P8B75-M LE )
-Windows 8 Pro 64 bit DVD reads two Maxtor drives as "Unallocated space" with 0mb dimension
Notable details:
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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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READ/WRITE DMA Errors with SSD. HDDs are working fine
I have assembled a custom PC, and installed Linux on it. I have tried using several different SSDs of the same kind, and I keep getting the following types of random Read/Write errors:
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BIOS wont boot (code 66) when Sata drive connected
When I can to one of my computers today it was showing Intel's splash screen (two intel logos, BIOS Settings: 'F2' and '66'.
The board is an intel dp55wb.
Pressing F2 does nothing.
However, when I ...
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Reset Disks to Non-RAID in Intel Matrix Storage Manager
I have a Gigabyte S-Series motherboard based PC that was configured with two SATA drives. The drives were NOT raided, but the RAID controller in BIOS was enabled - just no raid volumes created. ...
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Computer won't start when connecting SATA HDD
I just bough a new HDD some time ago and recently i bought another SATA cable to have both HDDs connected at the same time, to transfer all the files from the older one to the newer.
When i connected ...
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Cannot get Sata 6gbs: ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN 3, OCZ Agility 3 60g in Raid 0
Setup:
2x OCZ Agility 3 60gigs (2.15 fw) - On the 2 new sata cables that came with my new mobo connected to the two sata6 ports and verified in bios
ASUS P8Z68-V/GEN 3 (latest/only bios)
Bios ...
