hard drives

Thinkpad 755 hard drive install problem
Reboot to normal mode and see if the system will recognize the second hard drive. BTW, post the question here, receive the answer here. That way, everyone in the group benefits. I have been trying to install Windows 2000 Professional for several days now, and I've been having nothing but problems.

XP Q's after installing new (2nd) hard drive and XP on new HD
I have a 4 year old Micron Millenia Plus P133 with a SCSI hard drive. A month or 2 ago, I powered down the system for a couple of hours ... the first time it had been powered up in a long time. When I tried powering up, early in the boot process (often before reaching Win95), the system would hang with the red

Hard drive "disappearing"
Brad Greer jjh110...@yahoo.com rec music gdead On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:37:28 GMT, Avant Grape <avantnograpec...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: ba_ba_b0...@webtv.net wrote: I got a "hard drive" at the market and I am going to use it for back up storage. The one I got is about 120 gigs. I guesss I could store many hours of

new hard drive in laptop - questions
Folks With respoect to coexisting a regular hard drive and an ATA100 hard drive on the same IDE port I'm wondering if 1) it's possible? It works. 2) it's reasonable? Sometimes. I'm setting up a system with four hard drives and a CD-Rom and DVD player. I am using the first 15 GB hard drive, which is a regular hard

Mirror Imaging Hard Drive
This series came with a 10 GB hard drive. The late 2001 iBook G3 model with CD-ROM (also 500 MHz) would have 128 MB built-in RAM and a 15 GB hard drive, Other models in that series (up to 600 MHz) had 20 or 30 GB hard drives. In principle, any of these models are able to run 10.4 (if installed from CD,

Boot failure with 2nd hard drive connected
Megabrain megabr...@cyberdude.com microsoft public win95 general discussion Marty and Lola Lahr wrote: I've just bought a new SCSI hard drive. I have added a hard drive in the past -- and now have two chained together -- but the second one was an additional drive. Now I want to replace my original (boot) hard drive

Clone Additonal Hard Drive for Back Up
The reason DMA mode isn't enabled by default as well as reason for the warning when you attempt to enable it is that all hard drives do not support DMA mode. if you enable it, click past the warning, the only thing seen to happen is windows will simply disable it again if your hard drive does not support it. you

ATA100 and regular hard drives co-exist??? KT-7 RAID mb
I have Windows Vista Basic-I need to purchase an external hard drive for file back-up. I have had such bad luck with printers, etc since purchasing this laptop with Vista-anyone have suggestions on which brand of ext. hard drive to purchase that will work with Vista? Thanks so much! Jillmc, I use two WD My Book

Hard Drive Tweaks
All vendors around here are pushing sales of backward compatible fastest-available ATA cards, and memory, and drives. I'll probably buy a 2nd ATA100 hd to match them and for now put the two mismatched hard drives I have on separate channels with the faster hd on the primary IDE and the CDRW slaved right behind it

how to detect a dying hard drive
I may not have been very clear in my description but the hard drive was recognizable no problem before windows98 was installed. We had to use another machine to do a partial install and then do the rest in the Thinkpad. We just want to know if the drive is the cause of the install problems or maybe an

Hard Drives & tape CLEARANCE SALE!
The boxes are Pentium 100 -166mhz, with IDE CD-ROM's and SCSI hard drives. They are complete and in working order, except they lack an OS. The were running UNIX, which was deleted before they were donated. We are installing Windows 95. What I know about SCSI is that to have a booting hard drive, the SCSI card has

MyBook hard drive opinions
I am using an external USB connected hard drive for my system backups (making of backups are not scheduled). My question now is...should the external hard drive be plugged into the system at all times or just when it is in use? My concern has to do with the potential for my backup information of the external hard

acer not seeing hard drive
Key in the model number of your drive. I've keyed in the model of three various drives I have here and found many outfits selling new old stock or used drives at reasonable costs. And again, eBay is still your best bet. Plenty of used stuff on there. Especially failed hard drives that still have functional

how to fix hard drive
My 40 GB, backup, IBM, type 55 hard drive worked right up to the moment when I removed it from a Dell Dimension 4300 running Windows ME and reinstalled it in a Dell 4400 running Windows XP. Now it is a mostly, but not completely, invisible drive in Windows. Explorer can't find it, and Windows designates my DVD

Maximum hard drive upgrade
You may have supervisor passwords on the two hard drives that are different. The advice is to remove the password. It would be worth a try. -- Jim Walker Northern Va "Richard Kaplan" <rkap...@flyimc.com> wrote in message news:11ac6abbc91da1ea109267b9e09f8568@news.teranews.com.

Fujitsu Hard Drive Recall/Replacement)
A SATA hard drive on its own cable, b. An IDE 2nd hard drive with a DVD Burner on a shared cable. The OS is on the SATA drive (C) and has failed to boot (after a normal shut down). So far the following has been tried : 1. Booting from the CD and attempts to use the repair console. (Stuck in "examining C") 2.

ATA100 and regular hard drives co-exist??? KT-7 RAID mb
It was developed by a number of computer companies in a concerted effort to increase the reliability of drives. Quantum pioneered the effort in the field of hard drives, though many companies have been involved since. The SMART system does just what its name implies it does. It monitors the drive for anything that

Slow Hard Drive
op...@imt.ro microsoft public win98 gen_discussion microsoft public win98 performance Hard Drive Tweaking FAQ I never thought there would be a reasonable way to speed up your hard drive, except for the normal swap file tricks and control panel settings. Until recently, there wasn't too much to do with a hard drive,

Hard drive failure
BobDelaney BobDela...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp basics Most times when you buy a new hard drive, it comes with an application for copying an old hard drive's contents. If it were me, I'd copy whatever data you need to keep onto the second hard drive, install the new one, rebuild Windows and your

COMM Hard Drives
Let's say you have 4 different hard drives inside your computer. The first 2 hard drives are connected to "primary master IDE" as primary master and primary slave. The other 2 hard drives are "serial ATA hard drives" and connected to Serial ATA ports on the motherboard. Let's say the first hard drive on primary