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Mandrake 10.1 installation hell (Help wanted)
Hi all, I upgraded my seagate 40GB IDE drive to a Western Digital 8mb cache 80GB IDE hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP home. I've just finished getting everything Most likely you didnt have ACP enabled in the bios before installing XP. By default it's enabled in the S1 state. S3 is the alternative.

Adding extra hard drive
... 8830 Sound | Realtek 8139 | empty x2 IDE: Pioneer 104S DVD @UDMA2 | Teac W58E CD-RW @MW2 | IBM 34GXP 20GB @UDMA4 Seagate Barracuda IV 40GB (AAM=Performance) installing winamp, updated geforce video drivers, installed all xp critical updates my system is: athalon t-bird 1 gig, abit kt7-raid (no raid setup),

Barracuda IV Corrupts A 9.1 Install on a Yosemite G3 (Blue and ...
I have just one Seagate Barracuda 40GB IDE drive in this SGI 320 workstation, with the following partitions: C Drive/NTFS partition - 29 GB (holds Windows If you are installing from a CD, you may want to get an update disk from the nearest FTP mirror. You should be able to boot with "linux update" from the CD,

Installing cd-drive question:
Seagate and Maxtor supply wonderful software CDs with their retail packaged Hard drives. They allow you to boot up into Windows and use the CD to format I know nothing about installing hardware etc. so bear with me. Basically, I thought I could make the current 40GB hard drive a 'slave' and install the new

problems installing W2k Pro on SCSI drive
The BIOS detects the IDE and CDROM drives. The installation programs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Knoppix 3.9, and Windows 2000 Pro, have detected the IDE hard drive and CDROM. The motherboard is a Tyan S5101. The CPU is a Pentium 4 2.4Ghz. The Hard Drive is a 40GB Seagate Barracuda ST340014A.

Hard Drive Failure?
I have installed a new SATA120gb Seagate Hard Drive (partitioned into 10gb primary and the rest extended) alongside my 2 exisiting 40gb IDE drives. After changing the relevant BIOS settings I managed to boot from it and install Windows XP (along with pressing F6 and installing the RAID driver when prompted).

Can't get my new Computer To Boot-Solved
Computer: Athlon XP 2600+ / MSI KT6V-LSR MoBo / 512MB RAM / NEC DVD+-RW / Samsung CD-RW / Maxtor 40GB IDE HDD / Seagate Barracude 7200.7 160GB SATA HDD / and SATA is controlled by onboard VIA VT8237 chip So normal installation hangs on "installing VT8237 drivers" (please note that I'm not installing Linux on the

Partition Check Hangs
This portable `suitcaseŽ PC has a 40GB drive. Even if you don't do #2, defragmenting the hard drive is essential. This is especially true if (a) you have I didn't see much fragmentation from installing FSX or do I get much from spending a couple of hours running FSX. Not sure what's going on there.. the 120GB

Write cache enable delay on disk drives under XP Pro
Stuart Sutherland nob...@nowhere.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 22:09:42 -0000, "Big Al" <a...@sausse37.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: I have Windows XP Professional running under an old 4.3Gb Fujitsu IDE hard drive. I've just bought an IBM Deskstar 40Gb

Can't get my new Computer To Boot-Solved
I have tried installing 95, 98, ME, and xp pro. Nothing will take. I have deleted both partitions, and now when I try to format, it gets to 65% and it says there is errors, Am I looking at a dead hard drive here? Or should I be looking at something else, like a messed up motherboard/ide controller?

Hard disc recovery
If the problem comes back after installing a device, program, driver or utility then you know the cause... BTW - not only does removing the replies from your .... Sec Slave UDMA Auto Init Display First PCI Slot IDE HDD Block Mode Enabled Onboard FDD Enabled Onboard Serial port1 Enabled Onboard Serial port2 Enabled

Unmountable Boot Volume on some hard drives
... BH2 <(NO SPAM)furnes...@hotmail.com> wrote solved the problem at last, I doubt it yet. tried everything, even installing another version of window on it to no avail. I then decided to change the W/Digital IDE HDD 320Gb to a spare on I had, a Seagate Ide HDD 40Gb. I have and had windows Xp SP2 installed on it.

kt7a-r and lg52X
The only problem with installing the capacity limiting jumper in that case would be how to get fdisk to deal with the extra cylinders (beyond 65535). _Remove_ the hard drive entry form the CMOS settings (ie Go in to the BIOS and tell it that there is no drive installed on the IDE channel).

Transferring to new hard drive under Windows XP
Decided to buy a 80Gb seagate the next day as I wanted a larger hard drive anyway. Formatted and instralled winxp. Both the liteon and pioneer burners were now working. But on boot up I started to get that message. ****** Cannot install this hardware. There was a problem installing this hardware: Universall Serial

busmaster-drivers for win98 available?
Once the IDE drive is removed, the SATA drive does not boot. Here is my system info, Dell Dimension 4600 (there are two SATA connections on board) Primary Master Drive: WD IDE 40GB (two partitions: partition 1 Dell Utility, partition 2 XP) Primary SATA Drive: Seagate SATA 320GB (1 partition; SATA 150 mode with the

What is the Best config for SATA and IDE
Okay, I need to try the resolution outllined in KB817472 which entails installing a new version of atapi.sys (pre-SP5) and making a change in the registry. Here's the story: I had a 40gb Maxtor drive in my Win2000 (SP4) computer running in UDMA Mode 5. I bought a 160gb Seagate, cloned the drive using Norton

ATA-33 speed on ATA-100 disk
Right clicking this file and installing it will remove any IDE devices from the registry and the driver database and have Win98 redect them. Check the WWW page for the MB, and the IBM and Seagate pages for utilities for your HD's. "mich" <pub...@transysth.de> wrote in message news:390A2C82.896F78FE@transysth.de

Connection of Drives and Motherboard change
I should admit that I also switched out the IBM 75GXP 30GB drive for an IBM 60GXP 40GB drive and changed the IDE cable. The old drive is now the slave, and I don't see problems on either drive. I really do suspect the BIOS, but am not willing to experiment by installing the 0426 or 0515 version.

PLEASE HELP!! - XP "stuttering"
... E:\ = DVD Drive (Primary Slave) IDE2: D:\ = Seagate 40GB HD (Secondary Master) F:\ = Liteon CD-RW Drive (Secondary Slave) I can copy files to the hard disk (c:\) Replacing the IDE cables. Running disk utilities. Formatting both hard disks and installing Xp pro from scratch. Please, please If anyone has any

20GB drive w/Warp 4?
The IBM PC/XT had an internal hard disk, however, and this started a trend toward buying "bare" drives (often by mail order) and installing them directly hard drives * usb hard drives * hard drives northwest * used hard drives * seagate hard drives * ata hard drives * ide hard drives * portable hard drives * 2