250Gb Harddisc In BIOS
Mar 15, 2006
My hard disc is a Samsung 250Gb disc and it is recognised in the BIOS. As soon as I attempt to install Windows XP, when formatting, it only recognises 127Gb. I installed it anyway and ran some Windows updates from the MS site, thinking this might fix the problem. It didn't. I also accessed the Disc Management window (saw this advice in one of your threads) to no avail: it says that this device is working properly, although only showing 127Gb. If this is important, my CPU is an Adlon 64 Venice 3000+.
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Jun 14, 2010
where can I find .inf SAS hardisck drivers. I have a z800 workstaion that needs to have XP reloaded on it. but everytime i get to the window to install it gives the error of no hard disc.
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Aug 13, 2007
I have recently re-installed XP onto a 250GB hdd but it is only seeing 127gb drive. I have service pk1 and service pk2 installed and the bios on the system is seeing the 250gb drive.
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Mar 5, 2008
Ongoing USB problem. WinXP Pro system new Dell Vostro. Finally able to split the drive to 2 partitions. When 1st installing the drive the windows found new hardware and assigned letters. Worked great. At end of day i logged off the Vostro unit and turned off the USB drive. Next morning at sign on the USB drive was not functional until several connect and disconnect attempts. The device would show in the hardware manager and sometimes have yellow triangle and other times would appear as this device is working properly but no assigned letters.
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Jun 20, 2007
have a duel boot system with a legacy windows 2000 installation and a Windows XP Proffessional(SP2),I am able to access a 250GB second drive thru the windows 2000 installation but not with the XP.The Boot drive is 80Gb WD drive, and usually runs with another 80Gb WD drive. All drives are NTFS.I have SP2 installed with XP and understooed that access to large hard drives was set to default with the install of SP1.I have tryed to use the support pages at M$ which state that I need atapi.sys drivers (non existant in my XP), But the fix which they give won't install due to me having SP2 already.I think i just need to install latest atapi drivers and change the registry to enable large hard drives but i'm perplexed as to why they arn't already there.
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May 8, 2009
I've had a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250GB for about 2 and half months now, and its been working pretty well until now. The small light will come on only if the plug in the port on the EHD is being held in the right position, and the 2 plugs in the computer ports are fine. The light is on, but the computer is not reading it. It also makes a small beeping noise as the light goes on and off. Is it possible to fix, or at least get files off?
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Jan 6, 2008
I bought the drive came home and installed in on a PC with XP SP_2.Stated the machine and it took forever to load up windows ( not normally like this )Went to start to transfer files over , and no disc to be found anywhere (?)Start/MyPc/properties/hardwareTab/device manager/ and there is nothing to indicate there is a USB hd connected to my machine .right click mypc/manage/discManagement and still no disc shows up in the menu .(?)restart the PC .NOW for the first time ever my pc takes forever to shut down and restart .when the pc restarts repeat the above and still no disc to be found anywhere .while plugged in and connected to the machine i unplug the power to the drive and plug it back in , now outta nowhere XP says it has found a new Seagate drive . YAY right , wrong. i restart my machine and the slow shutDown and restart is still happening (thumbs down )when the pc restarts ( finally ) i check the shortCut i made for the HD on my desktop , no hd icon just a grey box with a Question mark . so i unplug and plug the power cable as i did before and bang there it is again ( the hd).
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Feb 9, 2005
I have recently fitted a Hitachi Deskstar 250gb Hard drive(model:HDS722525VLAT80) to my computer.After Re-instaling windows (xp) the drive was showing as 125gb.I have been told this is because windows xp will only support 125gb without service pack 2.I have now downloaded SP2. but it still shows as 125gb.
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Feb 23, 2006
Hi Folks, I have a Dell Optiplex GX240 running Windows XP Pro with 512MB memory. I currently have a 40GB hard drive in there. I want to know if it can handle a 250GB hard drive. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I'm considering the Western Digital Hard Drive.
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Jul 17, 2009
These two folders appeared some time back on my 250GB internal storage drive. The names of the folder are 15 characters long and are alphanumeric and have one subfolder in each named i386. And are ?0? in size. I first tried shift delete, ?Can?t remove access denied? I download and tried Erase. First with 1 pass, nothing? Not even an error! I went all out and did the Gutmann, 35 passes. Nothing and no error! The file just remains. For convenient sake I renamed the main folder to 1 and 2 and booted into the recovery consol and tried to delete it from there. Same thing! ?Can?t remove access denied? What the!!
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Nov 30, 2004
My daughter and I installed her new 250 GB hd yesterday and installed XP; everything seems fine except the computer says 230 free of 232 GB, and it is a 250. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4300, 1.7 Mhz Intel Pentium 4, 700 RAM (512 + 254?).
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May 4, 2009
I have a Toshiba Satellite A205-S5000 with Vista home on it and it works OK, but I bought a larger HDD and I thought that I would put Windows XP PRO on it, I went from a Hitachi 160GB 2.5" SATA drive to a 250GB drive, same Manufacturer, the only difference in the drives is the original was a SATA 1.50 and the new drive is a 3.0, BIOS see's the drive and the XP disk does al the usual stuff, then it asks if you want to Install windows on it, so I click OK and then it says the windows cannot detect any HDD and aborts the installation, I know that the 2 SATA's are compatible and the only draw back is that the 3.0 may operate in the 1.5 mode in the worse case scenario, but windows doesn't see the drive at all.
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Aug 14, 2008
once the on button was pushed, it came up with the BIOS screen asking for the password.I removed the CMOS battery, which allowed me to change the Password so I can get onto BIOS now. However, when I boot now it just comes up with the BIOS screen.I set HD to boot first, aswell as setting the clock and date. I then ask it to save and quit, after which it shut's down, and reboots, only, BIOS keeps coming up. And I need to get this sorted asap
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Oct 21, 2009
I have had windows XP Pro installed, updated and running fine until about a week ago. I was away from home for about a week and left the machine plugged into the mains but powered down. When I returned home to boot up, it kept doing things like constantly hanging on parts of the bios POST screen, eventually booting up after thirty or so complete restarts. It finally booted into windows but after the last shutting down, it will now not boot up at all. I have replaced the bios battery and reset the bios several times.
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Apr 7, 2007
When I turn on my computer, it does the bios check, then goes into the bios screen on its own. I have checked all of the bios settings, and see nothing set wrong. The only way I can get itno my xp pro system, is to use "F8" during the bios check, the select my hd from there, then it seems only half of my programs work, and it also seems to be randomly changing the programs that do not work, when I do this.
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Aug 10, 2006
Got a bit of a problem with my housemates pc.A friend gave him some extra RAM, i checked it out and it was crucial 512mb pc2100 CL2.5, and although it didn't match his exsisting RAM it seemed to me that his mobo would only run the FSB at 200mhz anyway so i went ahead and fitted it.It worked fine I then noticed his system temp was running a little high (60-65 degrees), so i took his heatsink off and cleaned the dust and refitted it with some new thermal compound.I added too much and the temp went up. To nearly 90 degrees.I shut it dwon as i didn't want the cpu to pop, cleaned it off, reapplied less compound and figured this would work fine.Now we have the problem. Most of the time: Power on and nothing happens. No bios, no beeps. Occasionally: Power on, i jump into the bios, the temp looks fine (30-40 degrees) and then it freezes right there in the bios after about 30 seconds to a minute.This sounds like a heat issue, but the last temp reading before freeze is 33 degrees.?I've double and triple checked that the heatsink is on properly and thats fine. I followed the official guide on how much compound to use (a blob the size of an uncooked short grain of rice).
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Sep 10, 2005
Im new to PCs and since my motherboard is three years old is it a good idea to upgrade? I contacted the maker of my motherboard and they say an upgrade is available and sent it to me for { DON'T CRACKUP} $49.00. I already read that you can really mess up your PC if you do one thing wrong when upgrading. Am I a fool for buying the upgrade? Please let me know as I can send the Floppy discs back.
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Aug 18, 2008
I have ibm thinkpad R51 2887 nq2 series .My system has been crashed as it is not starting.The whole system gets hang after showing the first ibm screen. The bios utility setup is not getting opened through access ibm button . In safe mode it shows that system BIOS and video BIOS is not working and it has been shadowed.sometimes the system gets started ,but after one minute ,it stucks and the whole system paused and nothing happens.It may be the virus attack on BIOS and it also changes the time and date configuration of BIOS. so what should i do .And how i can install BIOS driver to the system.
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Jan 23, 2007
I just flashed/upgraded my BIOS for my motherboard, and now XP doesn't even boot up.
After the BIOS load, I get a "MBR error 2" message and it just stays there.
My board is an Asus P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe. I used the Asus Update Utility to flash my BIOS.
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Feb 26, 2010
i have a problem with my Acer Aspire 4732z. Press <F2> to enter SETUP).i must press anykey twice to load the window(i'm using window xp pro).i think it cause by System BIOS shadowed, i want to disable it..but there is no option.
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Feb 26, 2007
My Sony Vaio laptop running XP Professional suddenly one morning wouldn't boot up. Ctrl-Alt-Del will restart but goes no further. I can enter BIOS during this process, but nothing else responds. Can I get to a command prompt through bios in order to attempt a restore?
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Jun 20, 2005
My problem is my OS, which is XP home is seeing my master HD as a 20gb drive when it is actually a 40gb drive my slave is a 20gb drive and it sees it as 20gb. The BIOS sees the master as a 40gb drive and the slave as 20 gb.
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Mar 1, 2008
I keep trying to access BIOS by tapping F2 or DELETE or F10 but the boot continues like no keys were tapped. Except for that, the computer functioning normally. Can someone tell me how to change it back to normal.
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Apr 9, 2009
I have a dell workst precision 470 dual xeon, 3gb , 160gb maxtor hd sata 150 with win xp pro.created the floppy with PROBABLY THE RIGHT CONTROLER driver and pressed F6, then it was only one option in the list so i did that then, CONTINUW with an oem cd win xp pro spk 2, then at the WELCOME TO SETUP screen, i selected the "TO SETUP WINDOWS XP now press enter" then i got on the screen this Message: "Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your comp. make sure any hard disk drives are powered and properly connected to your computer and that any disk-related hardware configuration is correct this may involve running a manufacturer-supplied diag or setup program.set p cannot continue to quit setyp press F3".I have tested the hd with dell diag. tool and al test pass, i believe has to be that the mate boot record has been corrupted or a virus, the thing is i can not even run R console or the Repair/install cause of the above message, is there any suggestion to add this hd to another computer and be able to check the boot.ini and see what is wrong, this is a hd with only one partition, but the problem i have or the one that was created is cause i had a laptop hd that i could not make boot in the laptop so i took it and added to this comp. to the ide 1 controller and then i ran defrag on it, this one has two part c and d so c was the os and d was for other applications, i ran the defrag on it , then i did not remove from the device manager i just simply turn of the dell machine and Physicly remove the laptop hd, then when i was trying to boot the dell 470, i got the the stop error:"STOP: 0X0000007B(0XBA4EB524,0XC0000034, 0X00000000, 0X00000000)", so i think the Boot.ini file is corrupted, the machine is confused or the sata controller driver got corrupted, i am wondering of any sugestion about modifiying the boot.ini file or FIXMBR how in my case, i don't want to reformat the hd .
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Oct 18, 2007
I dug around some before posting, but I couldn't find anyone having the same problem as me, and I'm hoping this is the most appropriate forum. I apologize for the length, but I wanted to post everything I thought might be pertinent. I was playing Guild Wars when my GeForce 4 Ti4400 died. I got a working Radeon 9700 from a friend (he was using it up until the moment I got it, and I ran AquaMark 3D on it) and ran into only a billion problems. When I performed certain actions involving the online video game Guild Wars, my computer would suddenly reboot with no warning. I adjusted "reboot on error" in the system properties. It no longer rebooted, but instead, I got a solid blue screen (no words, just a blue screen), and I had to hold the power switch down to turn off the system. I suspect that troubleshooting this BSoD problem and putting my system through that repeatedly probably messed up some settings or something. The last thing I did to my computer was install the ATI Catalyst 7.8 display driver only (I was testing out the various driver releases one-by-one to see if any of them fixed my BSoD problem). It installed, asked me if I wanted to restart, I clicked yes, it began restarting, froze at a black screen (not the first time I had that problem since all my video card/Guild Wars problems), I once again held the power switch down to turn it off, waited a few seconds to turn it back on, and since then I have had the error described under the "Current Problem" heading above.
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Mar 2, 2005
Hewlett Packard PC. Hangs on start up at HP Logo window so I planned to reformat/reinstall XP Home Edition.
Pressed F1 to get into BIOS and it displays the words..."entering Setup." but it just hangs there never lets me into the BIOS.
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Dec 3, 2004
Since I have had my comp (going on 4 months), when I boot i get a message saying BIOS is not installed, which i find very hard to believe, but this never affects anything. today when i boot my comp, it starts loading and its:scaning IDE drives then it says something about BIOS not being installed (but it was a slightly different message, i didnt have enough time to record it). then i get some weird screen, it gave me the option of entering setup by pressing F1 or loading default settings by pressing F2. i rebooted, again the same message, so i just chose to load default settings, and everything loaded, but when i got to loading windows, i loaded it and then it crashed, the comp just rebooted. then i followed the steps again and loaded default settings and it loaded fine. i know i cant give details about the error screens as i didnt have time to record them, but what should i do if this happens again?
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Apr 15, 2006
i bought a ASUS motherboard about 8 months ago its a A8V Deluxe i believe and when it boots it says detecting BIOS then a bunch of. then it says BIOS NOT FOUND!
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May 13, 2006
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Jul 27, 2005
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