You may need to reformat the second disk. just go in and use partition magic or something like that and wipe the second one, then try and set up raid

He can't get to the OS, How is he supposed to check control panel? LOL

Have you tried running a linux live CD to try and acces the data on your Hard Drive?

You can load Knoppix into ram then...

when you formatted it you may have deleted the drivers that are installed on it from the factory. you might try downloading the original drivers from the manufacturers web site.

honestly for that big of an operation i would suggest going to dell and having them build you a server. they are fairly cheap and will provide Great technical support(For large businesses). Plus that...

IDE or SATA?

Im glad we can help.... good luck in your endeavor.
Just make sure you back everything up before you melt another hdd...

Yes it is pretty common place in the WD world. my company just bought like 40 of those little 160G WD Passports. only about 1/4 of them work. they didn't want to bother with fixing them so they just...

Lurk is right... SP3 has really been messing things up. the best way to fix it would be to go back to SP2. there are just too many bugs in it right now. re-load SP2 and wait for the next release of...

Your Bios should have a driver in it to where it will recognize the SATA drive. you can install vista to the SATA drive and then install the drivers for the drive.

at least i think that is what...

42 C should be fine i think 49C is the max operating temp for laptop hdds.

you can pick up a pretty decent cooling pad at walmart for about $20 and they work great.

Oh it was a 17" screen too

I recently bought an Accer aspire from TigerDirect.com I got a 2.4Ghz Dual Core 2G of ram and a Nvidia 8600 for $600. There are also really good deals on refurbished laptops.

have you tried un-installing the program or doing a system recovery?

Is your laptop stationary most of the time? if so you might look into a cooling pad. it is just a plastic thing with some fans in it that your laptop sits on and i cools very efficiently.

I think...

As far as drivers go SATA isn't really that different from PATA.

well the only way you are going to access it is if the give you permission to. sorry. unless you can get access to admin rights.

That is ok, that is what we are here for, to answer questions that we have prior experience with.

You will be able to recover all of the programs that are on your hard drive. If you have backed up...

if you want to boot multiple os's the easiest way is to make a couple partitions on your internal hard drive (use partition magic or something similar) and load each OS to It's own Partition. or...

What brand is the hard drive? some external Hdds will purposely not allow you to boot from it, these are meant for back up purposes only. they do this so you can back up your entire OS and so that...

It is always a good idea to back up before making any major change or running anything that you even think might erase data.

I have a 500G external hard drive that i back my computer up on i got...