I am building a PC for the first time and the assembly wasn't too bad. Every component is powering up and seems to be operating fine. I also installed my 2.5" Hard drive from my broken laptop that runs 32bit Vista Home Premium. So after the motherboard posts when i first started up, vista boots but is extremely sluggish.
I am a real novice when it comes to this sort of stuff, but i think the problem is that the harddrive hasnt detected the new components. Aside from the processor it still shows old hardware from the laptop like memory and video card and doesnt even register the second hard drive installed. How can i get vista to recognize all the new hardware? The reason i did this is because i wanted to get around buying another copy of vista if i could.
I have a copy of Vista which does not start properly in normal or safe mode. The desktop does not appear. When the PC boots I can sign on, but the screen with 'Windows' and a green background just remains and the disk light continues to flash. If I leave the PC long enough it goes to sleep and then will restart in this state. CTRL+ALT+DEL does not start the taskmanager. I can boot the PC using other operating systems. Is there anyting that I can do to make this copy of Vista start?
I am getting a 1TB external harddrive and was wondering weather I could basically copy the whole of my C: drive including the OS to it. I also want to boot straight from the external drive. I also do not really care if it is'nt recommended lol. If this is possible would it also be possible to dual-boot with XP? I have both install disks for Vista and XP and I am willing to buy software.
I was about to order a new harddrive since mine has failed. But then I decided to look inside one more time, and found that there are two harddrives in there. I never used he second one at all even though it was always there (i figured it was just one harddrive split in two and never needed the extra space). So I decided to switch the harddrive cords since one was hard to get to and because I have no idea which is the one I was using and which one I never used. I used my recovery disks on it and it seemed like everything was going fine. Then to test it, I shut down the computer then turned it back on 5 minutes later. Then I got stuck on the black screen with blinking "_", and eventually it says failed to boot disk please insert system disk.
so my questions are: *Did switching the cords make the secondary harddrive the main one, *Does this mean both harddrives have failed? *Are my system files corrupt?
i have a maxtor 250gb external harddrive, this morning it was workin perfectly now computer will not recognise it as being there even though the light is on, i have tried, unplugging and plugging back in lots of times but still not working,
I have used the same external harddrive for over a year but suddenly my computer cant se what on it. It has the letter "N" but shows as raw. Its strange becours it works fine on XP pro and it did work fine on this comp before. Anyone have a clue?
When I power on my PC running Vista and having a huge engine, the first approx. 30 minutes something is accessing my harddrive. It sounds as a program is constan tly reading and or writing to the drive, slowing down the entire system. I am using the avast virus protecting, but shut down what I don't need (I have no virus), the indexing I have also closed, and I am not running the Sidepanel (closed down a few days ago). Looking at the joblist I can see no processes using more than 2%, however the disk is used 48% (as shown in the sidepanel). Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to cure this? The PC is a Medion bought late last year. It is my first PC with Vista.
And i can hear the harddrive running all the time, even when the PC is doing nothing.
I have turned off indexing, that search thing, and auto defrag and also the superper frech thing but still it is running at 100%.
if i check the monitoring tools it shows it at 100% all the time.
i left the machine on for 3 days doing nothing, and still hd is running at 100%.
i cant do that much with the thing, it can take 5min to copy a 10mb file on the desktop to my documents folder.
I have done a totaly reinstall (and disbaled the above services), and again still running at 100% all the time the machine specs, are quad 2.6ghz, 3gb ram, 750gb hd.
i have also noticed that the avalible memory is 10mb when checking on task manager.
(i have also installed windows xp pro, and this works all ok, so i am guess it is something to do with vista)
Me being me didn't read the instructions properly on the fact on how it does auto backups. So I partitioned the drive in half, now I cannot get the full 1TB back. I have so far tried deleting it, and then tried to extend the first half of it back, but it keeps coming up with just unallocated space
I have attached a second Sata harddrive to my mainboard and vista cant seem to allocate the drive as it claims it is unreadable. I have tried this with 2 different new drives (both 1tb) and still can not allocate the drive.
I have downloaded the latest drivers for my gigabyte mainboard and i have gone into computer management to manage the disks but i get greyed out options. The most that i could do was set the drive to MBR. I have attached a screen shot
On every harddrive (and every partition) I have a situation like this. 160gig hard drive formatted NTFS of course is actually only 149 gb. That's not the issue.
I got a computer using windows xp, a laptop using windows vista and an external ethernet harddrive(Lacie ethernet disc mini) all connected to the same switch. From the xp machine I find my laptop and the harddrive on the network without any problems. But the Vista machine can't find the harddrive or the xp machine. Sometimes I've found them but then they disappered again after a couple of minutes. It seems very odd to me but is it my settings on my laptop or something with the xp machine and the harddrive?
I have just perchased an external harddrive. I am trying to share this between my 3 computers. When i go the the drive, right click and go to share, the share button is greyed out. I go to the advanced sharing and click share this folder - when i go apply i get the following error: An error occured while trying to share g. There are no more end points available from the endpoint mapper. I have tried everything in that folder (permissions, etc) and nothing works.
first off let me give you the spec of my pc, im running Windows 64bit, MSI Dual Quadcore processor, 8 gigs of ram, 2 500gb harddrives, 2 gforce 9800vid cards and creative soundblaster soundcard. Anyways this problem has happened last time after doing ALL these windows updates, service pack 2, the whole works. MY harddrive light stays SOLID now, even when idle, I jsut got home from work after an 8hour day, and its still on? What is going on? I ran virus checks with AVG free editon that came with my pc, I keep everything up todate on a regular basis. Is this normal? It even sounds like I can hear my harddrive running, this is really starting to freak me out.
My first post here .....Woohoo. I'm running Vista Business, and would like to know where to go and how to maneuver around in order to figure out the size of the harddrive.
2 Optical drive using a single flat ribbon primary/slave setup connected to the secondary IDE connectors black 2 SATA connectors Supports: Not in used but enabled by default in bios. should i disable this since it's not use. I'm thinking of getting a SATA harddrive since the price for both PATA/SATA is the same now but i want to find out how to configure a SATA harddrive. Can i use a SATA/300 Harddrive in SATA 150 connectors?
I have two optical drive connected on a single flat ribbon DVD-RW drive as primary and CD drive as secondary. the flat ribbon is connected in the secondary IDE connector in motherboard. Once i upgrade my harddrive to SATA do i remove the optical drive flat ribbon and place it to the primary IDE. Now both optical drive is connected on different IDE connector. So basically i have this setup harddrive connected to SATA connector, DVD-RW Drive connected to primary IDE connector, CD-drive connected to secondary IDE connector. is this the right setup or do i just leave the optical drive in the same connections.
The Vista machine wouldn't boot up. So I got an adapter that allows you to attach the Vista hardrive to the XP machine as a USB device. I want to do this to tyr to save the files on the Vista drive. So I have it attached right now. The XP machine recognized a USB mass storage device on startup. But I can't find the drive or files anywhere.. I read somewhere to check disk manager but didn't see it there either. I did see it in "computer managment" under disk drives.. but couldn't seem to access it.
-I had an Ipod shuffle attached to the XP computer. I read somewhere this might cause a problem. But I don't know how to dfix it if that is the case.
-will the XP machine read the files from the Vista hardrive?
- do I have to put jumpers on the Vista drive I attached to make it a slave?
Each time I reboot i get "BOORMGR missing , hit ctrl-alt-del". does this how do the OS installed on the hards drive. Im think that my hard drive has crashed any ideas on how to verify that the hard drive is gone.
My hardrive can show folders. But there's nothing in them all the files have been deleted! Before the breakdown i had to turn off the computer because it was stuck when i was trying to access my hardrive
EDIT: I cant see the files on there but it says that 365 of 465 gb is free so the data might still be there. When I try to make a new folder in there is says it can't find <%3NULL:OpText> and to make sure its there then i can run it. the problem is i have no idea what that is.
I am running Vista Ultimate on my laptop which has a 50gb internal harddrive. I have less than 500 mb of memory left and was wondering could I move the entire content of my C: drive ( including the vista ultimate ) to an external harddrive, then format my C: drive and boot up from my external harddrive? Also if this is possible could I dual boot with Mac OS X Leapord? If this is possible can you please tell me how.
Can anyone elaborate on the HDD SMART feature? Such as can it cause any problems being enabled or does it cause more cpu usage. And why is it disabled by default? Just wondering.
I am looking for the recommendation of utilty erasing data from harddrive. I need the utilty which: 1. Will NOT stop on errors (disk write errors) but it will continue until all disk is done or 2. Will allow me to choose sectors to overwrite.
I've just installed Vista x64 and some applications to work. The the system and the applications are "fresh", proper installed and I would like to create an image of all system (all matrix RAID 0+1) on external harddrive. What software do you suggest for this purpose? Can I do it via ghost.exe from DOS level?
My Elements 500G external hard drive has worked fine for years but recently it stopped showing up in "my computer" as a drive. I have windows vista and it recognizes that the elements drive is there (the safely remove hardware icon shows up and it appears in device management). I wouldn't be surprised if the drive was dying as I've had it awhile but since it's still recognized by the computer I was hoping there was some way to access it and salvage the files. Any one have any suggestions? (and I'm not particularly hardware savvy so anything that involves taking apart the drive is probably right out)
I bought a Fujitsu-Siemens laptop with preloaded Vista Home. I've found it to be terribly unstable (receive Microsoft Visual C++ errors and continously restarts the internet while surfing etc.) I want to reformat my hardrive and reload Windows XP PRo (genuine software with license) from my previous laptop (which is no longer in use).
I insert the cd and boot from it - it does it's Setup checks and loads the necessary files - I chose to load a fresh version of Windows, press "F8" to agree and then when it comes to chosing the partition, it tells me "No Drive found" - it doesn't display any harddrive at all. When pressing "ESC" to cancel, the dreaded "blue screen" comes up and says there has been a "fatal error". Any ideas why this is happening and why I cannot reformat the harddrive with Windows XP Pro?
I can't get it to work. I tried running as administrator and no luck. I have a Asus G2 series gaming laptop-OS Vista Home premium 32 bit. The game installed great, but as soon as I click on the shortcut from the desktop it will flicker a black screen and just return me to my desktop. I tried putting my computer in a 800x600 resolustion and still didn't start it.
I want to rename /Desktop/Linux_Mag_Bugs.eml to /Desktop/Bugs.txt A right click on the icon does not give me the opportunity to change the suffix. Question: How can you change a file suffix?
my vista home edition 32 bit hangs on the loading screen and does nothing. iv tried doing the start up repair thing but that didnt work, iv done a virus scan but it has come up with nothing. this problem is really annoying
I've just started having boot problems with Vista. I've had no problems in the past, but earlier this evening it would restart itself while loading Vista (the green bar loading stage). I used the Startup Repair option from the Vista install disc, and the log shows it successfully repaired a corrupted system volume (exact wording may have been different). Now it boots as far as loading a black screen and the mouse cursor, but doesn't get to the Aurora (blue-Vista-Windows-logo-loading thing). I have tried subsequent Startup Repairs, CHKDSKs, Memory Diagnostic checks, all with no errors to report. Unfortunately, I disabled System Restore a while back... Something I now regret doing! At least I know what I'll be doing as soon as I get it running again! My system is an ASUS M2N-E motherboard, AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+, Corsair 2x1GB XMS2 RAM, Sapphire ATi Radeon 3850... And so on and so forth. I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit as well.
I just purchased a machine with a 64 bit OEM. I have created another partition because I want to install 32 bit on there. However, it is not working so I was wondering if there was something I am not doing right here. I want to use the 32 bit for internet access and itunes and the 64 bit for gaming. I do not have any discs with the 64 bit OS on it either everything I have here is 32 bit.
