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DVD Player Problems
Are you using the SATA-controller connected to the motherboards chipset? I have a "Hot Swap" tray on the system so can readly swap HDs,which I do often, to run different operating systems. The manual states on page 2-29 to use SATA drive connectors 1/2/5/6 for master. I have my HD on one (1), and a seral DVD drive

Tried to install 2007 spring from a sata dvd drive
"SANTANDER" <santan...@microsoft.news> wrote: I want install second hard drive, but not sure what type of hardrive will better suit: Motherboard is You have two IDE controllers and no SATA controller. So get a second IDE drive. I assume that there's an optical (CD and/or DVD drive) on the second IDE controller.

Install 500GB HD
The last couple I got were Samsung Writemasters (SATA) is this a sensible choice? I'm more interested in reliability and reasonable speed than dirt cheap. I also want an external USB DVD (I may get an Asus eee) - any recommendations or ones to avoid? Finally I would like an ESATA external hard drive.

Newly built PC with a few problems.
The OP is apparently never getting that message from the Vista Install DVD, but messages from his new hard drive(s), that have no operating systems. a sony Dru830A 18x DVD drive, Asus p5k deluxe motherboard, intel quad core q6600 2.4gh processor, HIS Radeon 1650 pro graphics card and 2-500 GB Seagate sata HDD.

P4C800ED - After move to SATA connectors, cannot overclock ...
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. Installing a fresh WinXP on the 2nd hard

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
This means the BIOS does not see a bootable CD/DVD drive. If the BIOS saw a bootable CD/DVD drive you would have been prompted to insert a bootable CD. I have two Sony DVD burners and the BIOS boot priority is set to CD/Floppy/HD. Can't install after XP32 loads - prompt says must be installed from boot. Thanks!

DVDs are not playing or recognized
... my OS X installation partition with OS X 10.4.7 installed, with the latest updates), the Windows XP partition with XP installed, and the internal DVD drive. Basically, my machine is an Apple Intel iMac 17", with all stock options, plus a second 1GB stick and a 300GB SATA-2 HD replacing the stock 160GB SATA-2 HD

Hello Rod
Samsung SH-S203N SATA DVD Burner, Power Color 2600XT Video Win Vista 64 Bit Home Premium 400W "Mick Murphy" wrote: Go the the hard drive manufact's,and download the SATA drive for it. Put it on a Mem stick, and with your setup, try installing on just one SATA drive. When you install, it will prompt you for the

Desparate!!! please help BSOD on install
The manual states on page 2-29 to use SATA drive connectors 1/2/5/6 for master. I have my HD on one (1), and a seral DVD drive on six (6). Works fine with the other SATA drives I use. I'm using MB chip set SATA controller. The info on the 500GB SATA drive says for standard use you dont need any jumpers,

SATA II Int HD's
All Windowz need a new install when a new m/b comes into play. If above is not applicable read on...... Try to boot into XP after every step: - Disable Top Performance - Set BIOS to Safe Defaults - Fully unplug the DVD drive - Fully unplug the HP-CDR If still no success......... Get DocMem / Simmtester at

Tried to install 2007 spring from a sata dvd drive
Jesper Monsted wrote: mcmahoncr...@btopenworld.com (dave) wrote in news:9618ffec.0409251135.6f5de3ee@posting.google.com: <snip> 5, install cd/dvd drive on First the UDMA133 HD will burst at UDMA133 speeds even when a UDMA66 gadget on the same cable. Second UDMA66 will run most current HDs at full speed.

SATA and IDE Hard Drives Together?
soi...@hhotmail.com alt comp periphs mainboard asus On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:41:53 -0500, milleron <nos...@nospam.com> wrote: On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:45:30 GMT, soi...@hhotmail.com wrote: If I'm using a sata dvd rw drive and am installing a windows operating system using the sata drive, will the installation recognize

Asus A7N8XE-Deluxe - HD SATA install
Ok, so if I am booting primarily from the drive my XP resides on, then I will want to install the VistaBootPro program, onto XP and run it from there, .... I added a new sata hard drive, and installed Vista on it. Now, I do not get an option when I boot to choose wich OS to boot to, it only boots into Vista.

Clean Install Windows XP home Help Please.
The setup: Asus p4c800-e deluxe rev 2.00 motheboard Antec plus1080amg case Pentium 4 3.0c processor 1 pair of cosair twinx1024-3700 memory in blue slots Radeon 9800 pro video card Western Digital Raptor WD360GD Hard drive in SATA 1 Teac floppy Drive Toshiba DVD/CD-rom Drive set as master Sony DRU-510a DVD/RW drive

SATA DVD not recognized
I have just assembled a new PC: as follows: ASUS A8N SLI SE Athlon 64 3200+ 200GB Barracuda S150 SATA 1GB Kingston KVR400X64C3A/1G RAM HP DVD L/Scribe Gainward GF 6500 When copying, the DVD drive light would flash as it read some data, then it would sit there for minutes before there was any HD light activity.

ide disk not found on SATA port
Here is what I did: Step #1 1) I inserted the SATA CD into my CD drive. 2) I ensured that I had the proper device notification setup in my BIOS EX: 1) CD, 2) HD, 3) Floppy Drive. 3) I save this info in the bIOS 4) When the system rebooted, I pressed the spacebar when the System inquired about 'Boot from CD/DVD' 5)

probs with sata hd and win xp
Removed DVD install disk and rebooted, would not boot at all.. Placed DVD install disk back in DVD drive and rebooted, booted just fine.. Removed second hard drive (PATA), and completely reinstalled Vista to the only drive in the computer (SATA), and all went without issue again, but this time I could boot without

2008.0 on ECS AMD690GM-M2 motherboard - help!
This was using an ASUS A8N-E motherboard - 1gb Ram and 500gb SATA HD. This I built and installed XP Pro + SP2. All ran well and handed over to him the system. The only peripheral hardware is the DVD drive and a GForce graphics card. No PCI cards. My only other though is a BIOS virus Please can someone advise

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
First off, Machine specs Asus M2n32-sli deluxe motherboard, AMD FX-62 Processor 4Gb Corsair RAM Samsung 200GB SATA Hard Drive Pioneer DVD RW DL DVD Drive Nvidia Nforce 590 SLi Chipset XFX Geforce 8600 256 MB Graphics Card Here's the issue: I install, everything works great till windows decides to restart.

Uninstalling Vista problem
Obviously it has power but check the data connector at the drive and at the MB. Is the DVD/CD drive SATA? One way to tell is by the data connector. I have set my bios to boot from my DVD drive first to attempt to install a different OS or reformat the hard drive, but the system ignores me and continues right on