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DVD Drive & External ESATA Recommendation
HD is usually Device 0 and should say "Ultra DMA Mode 5". If your DVD drive is connected as Device 1, it should say "Ultra DMA mode 2" is most cases. Secondary IDE Channel My two HDs are SATA, so that, I presume, accounts for the first 2 ATA entries. So, from the above controller list, when I click on item 3,

Windows Vista Ultimate upgrade hangs on install
At the moment I have my 200GB SATA drive on SATA-1(IDE CHANNEL 3 master). This drive has windows installed on it, and is the only Hard drive in my PC. On IDE channel 1 master I have my DVD Drive. I need to install a 250GB IDE Hard Drive, for storage. I'm not too sure on which channel it should go?

Question About SATA DVD-RW And OS Installation
I only mentioned that cos FN specifically asked about using his old Hard Disk (which is a *Parallel* ATA Hard Disk) in a *new* Machine (which is likely to come with a SATA Interface - though it will *also* have a Parallel Interface (for the CD/DVD Drive(s), but if it has both CD & DVD Drives, then there may not be

Transfering old HD to new K8V MB ???
Tim Slattery Slatter...@bls.gov microsoft public windowsxp general "SANTANDER" <santan...@microsoft.news> wrote: I want install second hard drive, 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.

Linux on a USB External HD
which means I no longer have a DVD drive nor (direct) access to the Win XP install disk. I've tried to copy the install files across the network from my old machines DVD drive I've spent a lot of money on this computer and it's useless to me at the moment. Please help. Thanks, Ray Win XP 64 e660 2gig RAM SATA HD.

SATA and IDE Hard Drives Together?
My DVD drive seems to be fine because it's burning and playing files and all but it won't boot al the way through from CD or DVD. Assuming you have a living OS, do this: - bulk-copy files from CD or DVD to HD:\Dir1 - bulk-copy same files from CD or DVD to HD:\Dir2 - FC HD:\Dir1\*.* HD:\Dir2\*.

Windows will not install
PC posts, HD detects, memory detects, and DVD drive detects. So when I proceded to install Windows everything goes well. Boot to CD-ROM and blue screen comes up If you're using SATA controller you have to install SATA drivers from floppy drive just after installer starts. -- Regards Arkadiusz 'Black Fox' Artyszuk.

error "cannot find bootmgr"
Hey gang, Have received my Vista Ultimate , along with a new 320 gb sata hard drive, to install it on. I want to keep my current XP Pro 32 bit install as my primary OS, I just put in my new hard drive I got for Vista. Booted with the Vista DVD and told it to format and install on the new hard drive.

Problem Adding SATA HD to P5W DH
Now today I made some changes to the machine: - removed CD-RW and DVD reader and replaced with combo CD-RW/DVD drive (Samsung) - installed an PATA to SATA dongle to each of my hard drives to be able to connect them to the SATA connectors on the P4C I now find that I can no longer overclock my machine.

sled 10 p965 CD/DVD drive cannot be found
My guess is that your CD/DVD drives will be identified correctly. Maker sure you install the new harddrive correctly in BIOS. I have in my system now one sata,dvdrw,dvdrom,card reader. My question is when i add the 2nd HD what effect will it have on the drive letters that are already in use?

unable to re install windows
... T2080 1.7Ghz processor 1 GB DDR2 memory (2x512) 160GB 5400rpm sata hard drive 8x DVD Burner Wireless G 4-in-1 Media reader for SD cards, Memory stick/pro, 95%+ by AC power) Includes Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium with install/recovery media Also comes with the Power supply and a nice black carry bag.

P4P800 and SATA drive
Does the DVD drive you bought have IDE? You either need SATA to IDE adapters, a DVD drive with SATA connections, or a PCI IDE card. You might want to enter your service tag number and see what parts Dell says you need to install the second DVD-RW and then compare that to what you now have on hand.

New GA-81K1100 Board wont boot HD!! HELP! New GigaByte user!
cw c...@x-private.org alt os linux mandriva I tried to install 2007 spring x86_64 to my wife machine using dvd and cd media. In both cases her computer would just hangup with a black screen after selecting the install option. The machine is an AMD_64 +4800 x2 with one sata hd and sata dvd-writer drive.

Problem with sata raid controler on debain installation
XP is my default boot drive, it is installed on my first sata hard drive, and that is the boot order I have selected in the bios, which is what I want. .... Vista dvd you will get variation of the drive lettering (no real problem) and will have the boot menu after you install Vista on the second drive or partition.

Vista partition recognition / windows xp partition recognition?
You need to do a Repair install: http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/repaxp.htm In addition, if you are using any disk controller such as RAID (SATA RAID, only disk drive you have installed during the repair is the HDD to be repaired, the Floppy to supply drivers if needed and the CD / DVD drive for your Windows CD.

(OT) probs with win xp and Serial ATA HD?
In general terms there is no Sata master setting all sata drives are 'master' You could allways disconnect all drives, other than the new sata & dvd then install, This is lame. I want to take that old IDE hard drive out of the box. Here are my install screens: First screen: “Windows is loading files.

problem installing HD on IS7
Both SATA Ports are with one SATA Disk Maxtor 80 GB in use. No Raid. There are not any problems. I did not install any SATA drivers. But I assume this only refers to the IDE drives, and not the SATA drives. I tried changing this over, and put the DVD drive on the Secondary master, just in case the SATA takes

The Adaptec curse or why can'tI boot from an SCSI cdrom
I can only figure it doesn't like SATA drives (it claims it can't find the system drive) or something Western Digital did during it's install/copy (but I've .... And I've only installed Windows once (and this was when selling an old computer where all I did was wipe the hard drive completely then reload the OS disk

S-ATA & IDE setup help
Natéag n...@nowhere.ca alt comp periphs mainboard asus I just can not figure out how to get the system/HD up and running to install WinXP. Put your Windows NT/2000/XP CD into the CD-ROM/DVD drive, or the NT/2000/XP boot diskette #1 in the floppy drive if your system cannot boot from the CD. 3.

unable to re install windows
If you run Vista setup from the XP desktop and simply select your desired partition for installation your disk drive lettering will align between the two .... 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.