Are you formatting the disk using windows or linux?

if your using windows you should be able to format it by right-clicking on it and click format and select FAT.

Did you format this disk to...

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Which drive are you refering to?

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Have you set the jumpers to the correct setting on the drive connected to IDE cable?

If you double click on the device with the exclaimation mark what is the error description?

Are you after just windows 7 on the PC or after XP and win 7?

You say you have the Vista recovery disc. Use that and then upgrade that. This should work if you only want windows 7 though if you...

I honestly can't see the point of wanting to do this. Who knows what is goning to happen to what ever OS you are using. Considering How much it costs to buy vista you may aswell keep it.

- If you...

You could try a linux live cd or Recuva (http://www.piriform.com/recuva). Did you delete the partiton?

Have you made any hardware changes recently?
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I would format the entire drive and leave it without a file system(unallocated space). Then insert your system restore disks and reinstall the OS.

You say that it boots into the unknown...

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Perhaps try reordering your boot order via BIOS.

Put the hard drive with the OS at the top.

If you ever need to boot from another device put that at the top of the list. i suspect...

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perhaps give this (http://www.piriform.com/recuva/features) a try. I have not used it before but have used other software from them and its free. Can't hurt too try.

Are you saying no matter which computer you connect the hard drives too they can't be read?

Try going into disc management and tell us what is there for the external hardrives.

I would...

Did you try this drive in another PC?

Do you know if it shows up in BIOS?

Have you tried changing the data cable , perhaps it's damaged?

Does the usb stick work in other computers?

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Is this hard drive external or an internal one?

What type of format did you try quick or full?

Which file system NTFS or FAT?

Can you access the disk contents? Does it open...

If you go into device manager is the device listed there?

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I'm not sure it can be done but I would say it is better to have the units separate incase one fails. I would use the 20GB HDD for files that you don't want too lose. I store videos and...

Did the disc need to be finalised?

Have you tried DVD+R?

I would recommend getting some DVD+RW and copy them onto your PC. Then you can edit the movie cut ads etc and burn to disk after.

I have also had this problem. With me I can't burn bootable cd's with 'phillps' brand yet can burn movies.

Have you tried lowering the burn speed?

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Did you burn your own dvd like from here (http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/default.aspx)?

If you are after one particular part say Visual C++ have you tried downloading that individual...

Rik from RCE is right.

Each SATA drive has is own cable so there is no master or slave for that cable.

Go into BIOS and set the segate drive as the second in the boot and the other drive...

That is business GB compared to Computer GB.

1,000,000,000 bytes is one Gigabyte. You hardrive should have about 500,000,000,000 bytes. But Windows calls a Gibibyte a Gigabyte. A Gibibyte is...

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You could run checkdisk. Open command prompt and type chkdsk /r this should fix errors on disk. Bad sectors should then be ignored and not used.

Can you give us the full system spec EG ram, mobo, cpu etc...

You may need that driver.

According to this they need formatting, and yet they work fine inside a computer. Strange.

Have you just bought this?

Are you after transferring data over from them or just use them for extra...

Looking at this blog, have you connected it before turning on your computer?

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I would say if you want no more than 4 partitions on a drive then format it as primary. Otherwise if you want more than that then format it as logical.

I would advise formating as...

You can have four primary partitions on a hard drive. Which means you can have up to four primary partitions on each hard drive.

Is their no recovery partition on the hard drive?

A complete format of the disk should get rid of whatever is on their.

What are you trying to do a complete system restore or just a repair?

I agree, SATA is Serial transmission and ATA is parallel transmission you would need a converter. This would be okay for a PC but a for a laptop I don't think so.

Sorry you are going to have to...

Can you roll back the driver to a previous one?

Is it PATA? are you using more than one? have you set it to master/slave?