Another way to fix this is to disable checking floppies on shutdown in your antivirus program. (incase someone else has this problem too)

I did a little more research about sata drives and the pin settings, and i found out that some drives have pins while some others will not. The ones that do not have pins are auto sensing, so there...

...opps, yes i do. thanks for the correction

Yeah, it needs to be formated, but he said it couldnt be formated/seen in there. Anyways on the other question, sataII operates at 3.0 mb/s transfer speed while sataI operates at 1.5 mb/s speed. A...

It took it a long time to boot and it wouldnt be seen in windows at all. It took me a while to realize that there was jumper settings on the drive for that. Once i put the jumper in, it booted fine...

I thought so too...before... my motherboard only supports sata150 but i bought a sata 2 drive (thinking for future upgrades), and i thought it would just run at sata150 speed. Well, it turned out it...

Are you sure your computer is sata2 and not sata1? If its sata1 you will just need to use a jumper setting on it.

Woa buddy, dont get your panties in a twist. Have you formated the drive in windows yet in the disk manager? (right click on my computer and go to manage and you should see the options in there.)

New mobo :)

I know ghost has been around for ever, as far as i know it was one of the first. Im sure there are others out there now, but I used ghost because of its networking capabilities (you could pull images...

I dont know of any freeware utilities. Mostly imaging is used in corporate and buisness environments. I use ghost at home and we used to use it at work. Now we use novel's zenworks for our imaging....

It very well could be. However, what would deterimine that is if you were asked to put in the date and time everytime your computer is booted. Is this the case with your dell?

it is dieing. i recomend never getting anything less than a 3 yr warrenty with any computer purchased. back to your problem though, your hd is dieing, and it should be replaced.

btw, what kindof...

You might see a slight improvement of speed by putting them on 2 seperate hard drives. However, it wont be huge, becasue lots of the files have to get written to the main os drive no matter what. I...

Could you post what you did to solve this so others with a similar problem could see it? Thanks

Did you try using a different cable?

It could be the power supply not having enough power for that whole system. Thats what i would make out of it.

Don't just look at the speed (rpm's) look at the drive's cache! 16mb cache 7200 rpm drives perform nearly as well as 10,000 rmp 8mb drives.

The 3 companies that goldeagle2005 presented are in my...

This posting wasnt intended to promote piracy, just merely a way to back up your cd's. I cant tell you how many cd's ive lost because they have got scratched so bad from bouncing around in my car. ...

I am truely shocked at how this could have worked on a raid 0 "striped" array. Can anyone explain to me how its possible?

Yeah, sorry to say it, but you are sol.

There is no way possible to recover files even off of the good hard drive. So you will have to format both drives, and reinstall windows.

Here is what i...

I forgot to add this. A way to know which you had is if you had 500gb available you had raid 0, and if you had 250 available you had raid 1.

What kind of raid array do you have set up. Is it a raid 0 which is for speed where it strips a file across both hard drives so it can access it faster. Or do you have raid 1 which is redundancy, it...

The hard drives are pretty generic and easily interchanged but cd drives are a bit different. The answer is that there are only a few models of sony cd drives that you can use (not sure which ones)...

Awesome choice of drive it is very nice. The only think i have to warn you of is since it says its oem it means you will only get the drive in a static bag. No cd, no sata cable. This shouldn't be a...

Ok. I looked up your computer and it shows me that you can only have sata drives, and a max of 4 of them (which is pretty nice). You could go ahead and purchase any sata drive of any manufacturer and...

If you could give the exact model number like dimension 9300, I could tell you exactly what your options are. Or you could open up the case and look at the existing hard drive and the motherboard's...

What kind of computer do you have? is it a laptop, desktop, and tell us its brand/model.

There is no formating to cd's, no matter what brand they are (they are all basically the same give or take some maybe a tiny bit higher quality than others), the computer does all formatting for you...

Is your second hard drive new? Did you format it yet? If not, you can use the maxtor utility that came on the cd with the drive to format it. You should see it then.

Well seeing that i am a computer tech for 12 schools, i would have to tell you that what you are doing is wrong, and no one here can legally tell you how to do this becaue it is against the law.
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Typically when a hard drive dies, it is usually not possible to fix it. However, if it is, it will be much more costly than to buy a new one. Hard drives usually only last a few years (less if...

sounds like it died. You could open up the case, and stick in a regular computer hard drive in there and it could save you a few bucks over getting a new external hard drive.

I have a feeling that there was a primary partition on the drive and a secondary partition. The primary got corupt or got deleated and therefore the computer only sees a secondary partition and can...

It may just be formated wrong. A program called partition magic should do the trick for you.

Did you have the sata drive connected when you reinstalled the new os on the new hard drive? Is it completly plugged in right now? Is the drive disabled in the bios?

I hate to say this, but it honestly sounds like it is dead. How come data backups were never made? BTW, HD recovery places are very very expensive.

However, i do know an old trick that may work...

if they are on seperate channels, the cdrom should be set to master as well as the hard drive. The master/slave option is only really used for items allong the same ide cable. If this does not fix...

Just plug in the new sata drive, and double check the bios settings to make sure that the boot order checks your old hard drive for the master boot record and that it is not checking the new sata...

Yep it can be done easily. The only thing you have to do is take the "bad" hard drive and unplug it from your computer, then on the side where the plugs are, there should also be jumper settings (ie....