Recognizes External HD
Jan 9, 2007shows the brand of hard drive and says that it has installed it and is working correctly. The drive shows up under disk management but when you go into "My Computer", it's not there.
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Doesnot Recognizes External Hard Drive - Drivres Corrupted?
Mar 14, 2006My laptop doesn't detect the external hard drive. It is strange that sometime the laptop can detect the external hard drive, but most of the time it doesn't.
I have tested 2 different external hard drive and both of them are not detected by the laptop too. When I tried it on other computer, both external cases work perfectly. I am not sure is it because of the usb driver is corrupted or what, but any helps is much appreciated. Thank you.
Recognizes My DVD Players Properly.
Oct 29, 2007I re-installed XP after having a mal-ware/spy-ware issue. The problem is my machine no longer recognizes my DVD players properly.
Both work working fine prior to the re-install. Now neither will recognize a CD-ROM (I have enabled CD-recording) and neither will burn a DVD. Further, one of them is listed under Explorer as a CD-ROM rather than a DVD-ROM.
I have tried delete both from device manager and having XP reinstall them on start up but no luck.
Recognizes Half Ram In System
Oct 21, 2006For the past few weeks, windows has been only recognizing half (256mb) of my total 512mb of ram. Something that makes this problem even more peculiar is that third party tools such as cpu-z and speedfan see the full 512mb, but the system properties and dxdiag both say 256mb. The bios also says 512mb, dual channel mode. I can also make any information about this system that anyone needs to help me with this.
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Mar 4, 2005I have a sony CRX320E and I was running windows 2000. After updating with Windows XP, my computer no longer recognizes the CD-rom at all? What can I do?
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Jan 5, 2005I have tried replacing the power supply-no change.I've tried unhooking cd-rom, floppy, replace ram & everything remains unchanged.Bios never recognizes a hard drive. I've tried several known good hard drives and the original hard drive works in another machine. It starts POST & I get HP splash then back to NO OPERATING SYSTEM FOUND, It doesn't find the CD rom drive either. What might this be related to? I've replace hard drive cable, floppy cable. The only cable I haven't replaced it the cd-rom drive.
The hard drive works as a slave in another computer. I am running virus scan and spyware on. But, why won't it work in the other computer? I'm thinking its somehow related to the bios and the fact that it cannot see the drive in the bios. I don't find anywhere in this particular bios where I can try to auto recognize the drives
Boot Can't On Suse 9.2 - No Recognizes Hard Drive
Feb 11, 2007I'm new to Linux and have been using SUse 9.2 and XP systems. Hard drive set up was as follows: Swap (502MB);C drive;Linux (4 Gig);E drive (contained XP OS). Using 37 Gig Drive, Athlon 800 mhz CPU. I used PartionMagic in Windows to set up the partitions and had BootMagic disabled and all worked well. System would boot to Grub and then from there I could go to Windows XP boot. Linux partion was my active partition. Everything ran just fine...but I wasnt using Linux often and decided to try to boot directly to XP.
I decided to make my Windows OS drive E active so that I could boot directly to Windows boot instead of Grub. But, obviously, Grub still booted first. I made the mistake, then, by enabling BootMagic in the hopes I could get to Windows directly without going through Grub. Well BootMagic hid my C:Drive which was viewable simultaneously with E:drive (which contained XP OS, another setup mistake I made when partitioning...but still worked). As a result Grub is gone and I also cannot boot to XP or Linus, even after trying to activate C:drive or activating E:drive containing my XP OS. I'm pretty sure that XP recognizes C:drive as home, even though OS is on E. I have not yet used 'fixmbr' for fear of loosing data contained in C and E partitions. I've considered using spare hard drive as a new boot drive and access files from original hard drive, save them, and then start from scratch with XP....
Installing On RAID System - Recognizes One Drives
May 17, 2007I have a RAID system setup as JBOD on both drive in my laptop and I formatted using DBAN... Now i boot with Windows XP Pro so i can install it and it only recognizes one of my drives. I loaded my RAID drivers. I go ahead and try to install XP on it anyway. I tried to format the drive again using FULL format, i tried a Quick Format, and I also tried leaving it as is. It will install the setup files and reboot my computer. So i take out the XP disc but then it doesnt recognize any disks. Does anyone know how i can reintsall xP back on this sysetm or how I can get XP to recognize both my drives even if i slipstreamed my RAID drivers in it already.
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Nov 4, 2009I'm running a pc with a 975xbx board and an e6600 that has worked fine for 2 years plus. A couple months ago i replaced my computer case, power supply, and got some new storage hard drives, but my RAM, mobo, cpu, and optical drives stayed the same.I was running windows xp fine for this whole time....and then a couple days ago as I was surfing the web, the computer just shut off spontaneously. no warning, no nothing, just black screen and the computer was off.Now, when I start up, I'll get to the windows startup logo before I get a 0x00000007e blue screen crash.In BIOS, my hard drives, RAM, etc are picked up fine. Just for kicks i moved some ram around, dropped to one stick, unhooked the optical drives, yet the problem persists.Now, if i throw in my windows xp install CD and try to repair or just reinstall, it doesn't find the drive at all. but the bios does.
If i take a new formatted hard drive and insert it, the xp install again doesnt find it.I have 2 raid controllers on my intel board, and the floppy disks for both, but when I boot the raid controller screens pop up fine and recognize drives prior to the windows logo. If i throw my install CD in, however, and hit F6 to go to the raid controller install, the xp cd can't seem to read my floppy disks, as if they aren't even there. but the floppy drive light is on, powered, and the cables are plugged in.This is just really confusing, as if my computer just doesn't read anything but the CD drive.I'm at a loss. I'm willing to just do a clean install of windows on a formatted hard drive, but the windows CD install program won't detect the new drive (it is low-level formatted).I'm using XP professional and it's a full install CD, not just recovery.
AcomData External Hard Drive Vs Seagate External HD
Jan 7, 2007quality of AcomData External HD? Also, is this a well established company? Any info as to how this brand compares to a Seagate External HD?
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Jul 30, 2005I purchased a SIIG PCI firmware adapter. It has no drivers and says that it will use Win XP drivers. Well I installed the board and booted the pc, Win XP
recognized the hardware but could not find any drivers. I tried unplugging it manually, installing it in another card slot with no luck. I took it back to
my pc dealer and he plugged it in his system and had no problems. I decide to try another brand, an IO Gear GIC1394.
External CD ROM
Oct 22, 2005My HP pavilion xt973 CD ROM is nowhere in sight.not on "my computer" or in the BIOS...the HP tech say to pull the side panel and check the cables...my arthritis prevents this and the nearest repair shop is 80 miles away.My question is will windowsXP and my computer support an external CD ROM using a USB cable? I need to install a new printer and can't do that with a CD ROM.
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Mar 23, 2008If you get another hard drive cause yours is almost full and there fore messing with the virtual.memory. If you get an external harddrive is it better to move the pagefile to the new hard drive which is what I was going to do change the drive for the virtual memory, then I got thinking, in case you didn't use the external drive all the time hooked up for whatever reason they you wouldn't have a pagefile on the old one does that make sense? I thought maybe it would be better just to move a bunch of pics and music to the extenal drive and leave the virtual memory (pagefile) where it is on the old drive, or would it make any difference??
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Mar 9, 2009I have a Dell XPS with XP SP2 all patched up. I have 2 USB ports in the front of my system - in port 2 I have my external 500 GIG HD set as drive F:. when I plug in any USB flash drive tot he other port it makes my external HD go offline for a sec then they all come back up like nothing ever happened - Need help on this as I use my external HD to edit WWW sites and somtimes as a shared drive to my Ubuntu machine.
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Aug 22, 2008i've got a pc and use a 500gb external hdd. lately ive been thinkin of getting a mac so i was just wondering if there was any way to partition or use the external hdd on both platforms?
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Sep 6, 2008i have WD elements 160gb external drive, when i connect it to my desktop it say new hardware found and asks to install software for it but when i ask XP to install software automatically then it says no driver found.
the drive is plug and play so i don't have any software for it nor it is listed anywhere in the WD website.
However the drives is functioning properly in my laptop and on my freind's desktop as well....so seems like my drive's alrite.I can easily use 4gb pen drive and 30gb ipod on my desktop but not my external drive.
Installing From External ROM Drive
Jun 21, 2010way for me to install XP from an external DVD - USB drive I have no internal CD-ROM and need to get XP onto this machine somehow.
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Feb 15, 2007How can I boot from an external dvd drive? My internal drive cd/dvd and floppy in my lap top has expired so I purchased a hpdvd740.
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Jun 8, 2006I did forget to mention that I had tried this external on 2 different pcs-- the other with xp home with sp2.
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Feb 7, 2008I need some help. My manager's HD in her Dell Latitude laptop (which lacks a cdrom) has caught a boot sector virus. The only solution was to take its HD out and put it into an external shell that connects to my computer via USB.I was able to install the first half of the Windows XP step, but when that was done and my computer restarted it did not complete the rest of the setup for the usb HD. Basically I am wanting to install windows using the Latitude's code then putting the HD back in hoping it we be as if it's a new install. Not sure if I have cleared up the entire situation, but hope soIf you follow and know what I am look for please help. If you would like to help and need more explaining I have all the time in the world. I appreciate any response, have a good one!
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Jan 31, 2009Thought I was putting a series of DVDs I bought on my external hd until my C drive told me it was full.
The USB port is recognized in the system tray, but when I go to my computer the external hd isn't there.
I also have a firewire connection for the ex hd, but there's nothing there either.
LG External DVD Burner. When Put DVD's Into The Drive
Feb 23, 2010I have an LG external DVD burner. When I put DVD's into the drive and then place a movie on the disc the computer will not reconize the DVD disc and will not burn it.Am I missing a driver for XP? I have never had a DVD burner on my computer. Or is there software that goes with the optic drive.
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Aug 28, 2005I am running XP sp1 Recently windows wants to run a checkdisk on my external USB drive.
This is done every time I start windows.Even though the checkdisk result shows no errors it wants do do it every time on boot up.I did a manual checkdisk ( full check) and it seemed to clear it up for a couple of days but now it had returned to the same situation.The disk is fairly new so I do not think there are any problems with it and
it runs fine.
External Monitor:no Desk Top
Jan 16, 2005Plugged external monitor into sony laptop with XP. Desktop background shows up on new monitor. Desktop icons do not. Monitor is enabled. Have checked the "show desktop" box.
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Apr 21, 2007I just recently had to do a system rescue on my hp machine. One issue i have run into is the computer will not boot up if the external HD is connected. This was not an issue prior. The drive is a fantom external drive and is connected by usb.
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Nov 7, 2008have a sony drx-830u external dvd recorder. when i go into my comp., it shows it as my f drive. when i try 2 open it, it says f is not accesable, incorrect funtion. when i hit properties + have a blank dvd in drive it says it,s full? when i go into device manager it says it,s working properly.
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Aug 3, 2007I have a usb external hard drive. Can I install windows os on this drive and use it.I am told that windows must be installed only on main hard drive 9i.e. drive 0).
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Nov 12, 2005I just purchased an LG GSA-2166D external DVD burner. It is a USB 2.0 and when I plug it into my Windows XP computer it does not recognize it as the correct drive. Initially the drive showed up correctly and I loaded the software that came with it, but started having problems so I uninstalled the software and must have deleted something I needed. It now just shows up as a DVD-RAM or CD ROM drive and will not see anything on the drive. It gives me errors when I try to access it.Any help on what I need to download and reinstall to make this work?
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Feb 22, 2007XP installed recently is working well, but there's a problem. Startup was taking a long time, and once the black screen w/ XP logo came up, it soon went away and just left a blank black screen. This time I waited, and window came up saying system would do a disk check. It did so quickly, and message said "F" drive (external Seagate 160MB HD), is FAT32. When installing XP, I chose NTFS. There are many docs & files on the external HD. In addition to installing XP, also installed Office 2003, a newer version than what the word & excel docs on external HD were created in. Previous OS was WinMe, current RAM is 512, 1 MHz processor, Dell desktop. Once system did the disk check, it stayed on that screen, so I shut down, turned off the external HD, and restarted. Everything came up fine, and very quickly. Is it possible to convert any of the files on the external HD to NTFS? Or is there a way to access, edit those files that won't conflict with my new OS?
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Mar 1, 2008Some time ago the cd drive on my HP pavilion ze4300 laptop failed. I went to an external CD/DVD writer. 6 months later, the hard drive crashed for good. I put in a new one, but I can't get the OS loaded. I thought the BIOS was looking for the internal cd drive, which doesn't work, and I tried to changed the boot order in BIOS to boot from removable device.It just says media device test failed, no OS found. Can I load te OS from my external?
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