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IDE controller: Primary and Secondary
The SMART monitoring software in your hard drive has detected indications that the drive will fail soon. This is not a good time to nap - it's a good time to back things It says: "SMART Failure Predicted on Hard Disk 0:Maxtor 33073H3-(PM) WARNING: Immediately back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive.

St6r : SCSI troubles + IDE DVD troubles
So, rdisk is the physical hard disk. fdisk is a FloppyDisk. Where f is for floppy. I "think" that the path(s) in the boot.ini tells NTLDR where to look for any operating systems. From my boot.ini... multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS The Path is: Adapter\Controller\Peripheral\Partition\Filepath multi(0) is

2 wondows versions detected on pc startup?
Various degrees of "no hdd detected" errors. This is because windows systems tend to try and play games with the bits on the boottable at boot, I believe, using them to "hide" Now try marking the hard disk as existing in the bios, but give it a size of say, 2GB instead of 20GB, and see if you can boot.

USB or cam not detected ?
It will be re-detected (hopefully correctly) at bootup. On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 21:56:57 -0000, in <C_Vob.8$0C...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk> Lucy Nisbet scrawled: <snip> 2. In Control Panel, System, Device Manager, there is just one hard disk entry "Generic IDE Disk Type 55 - this is assigned drive d but the drive is

250 GB Hard Disk not detected by windows 2000 server
... X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1506 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 X-Spam: Not detected Microsoft Windows Vista 40-GB hard disk that has 15 GB of free hard disk space (the 15GB of free space provides room for temporary file storage during the install or upgrade.

Hard disk incompatibility
Get all software onto youir Apple II hard drive that you want written to CD. 2. Disconnect the hard drive. 3. Reconnect the hard drive to a Windows '95 or DOS machine with appropriate ASPI drivers. 4. Run DISK2CD. 5. Test the CD out on your Apple II =) Now I can use Copy II+ 6.5 to make disk images in an

Can't load an OS on my new computer
k> k> > You don't need a partition table on a hard disk. The BIOS wants one k> > and you need one for booting purposes and to have more then one file k> > system as a removable media disk, so it knows it k> > will have to check for a partition table at some future time (eg when a k> > disk change is detected).

Windows 98 not showing DVD & CD WR rom in my computer folder
I've been asked to run their diagnostic software which finds just one bad block on the hard disk. During a read test that checks every block it finds an unrecoverable data How can I find out whether Windows has detected the bad block that the manufacturers diagnostic software finds and reports as a bad block ?

Acronis Disk Director Server v10.0.2169 FULL +SERIAL (Vista Ready!)
John Patmore j...@nojunk.jpatmore.freeserve.co.uk freeserve help windows misc In article <20001120064322.01156.00000...@ng-cv1.aol.com>, sommerfel...@aol.com says... Bios Version: 1.00.12.DNOR 0032768 KB Keyboard Detected Mouse Detected Processor Speed 200 MHz MMX (TM) Techn. Detected Hard disk 0 Installed ST33232A

Windows 98 cannot recognize CD-ROM drive and crashes/freezes
I even read through my Kaspersky logs: It detected nothing and nothing was 'phoning home' that I didn't expect. I also tried Rootkit Revealer, which also found nothing. I defragged with a third-party defragger (free trial of PerfectDisk), ran the full set of diagnostics from my hard disk manufacturer (Seagate),

Definitive guide to dual-booting? (was - Re: So many problems ...
My Windows XP install hung or froze, I pressed the reset button to restart and the IDE disk was detected correctly but Windows XP will not boot, it just gets to the screen with the Windows XP logo and then reboots, I try safe mode and the same results, any help as to what could cause this to happen?

HELP! two blue screens of death!
Therefore, I used Windows disk defragmentor and it worked okay, althought, it stated that drive c; did not have any fragmentation. An error may have occurred during the hard disk setup process. Disk Doctor and Speed Disk will not run when these errors are detected to prevent damaging data on the disk.

Soyo K7V Dragon Plus! help?
It then goes to the Microsoft Windows 95 setup. It then will bring up a screen that reads: Formating Drive C. 0% Configured. Then I get an error message comes up that says: Setup cannot install Windows 95 on your computer. An error was detected while formatting your primary hard disk partition.

Hard disk problem : Update
Poster pos...@wallpaper.com microsoft public windowsxp hardware Hi Thomas, Check if you have formatted the other hard disk, Unformatted disk will not show up as a letter Drive. I just installed a new hard drive and it was detected by Windows with no problems but my second hard drive it gone.

corrupted cabninets on cd-rom
Image 1.2: (8KB .gif) 2) Virus Warning: (Image 1.2) If no partitions are detected, such as a new hard drive, the Windows Me boot disk is rather helpful in telling you this fact. At this point, do not be alarmed at the "virus warning" statement, as it is generic. At the "command prompt," in this example, A:,

reinstalling OE 5.0
But just recently for the first time I got a new BSOD upon startup which said the following: A problem has been detected and Windows has been shutdown to prevent damage to The second stop error is an input/output error usually related to the disk drive. If the hard drive is UDMA, are you using an 80 wire cable?

Blue screen of death and log files
I see that there is an not supported Hard disk controller (HPT). I press continue, it installs the neccessary files to load up w2k setup. Presto! Okay the computer reboots I get my choice of OS' I choose Windows 2000 Professional Setup. Okay Black screen "Windows is examining Current Hardware setup" now Blue

Hard disk dosen't recognise A: or C:
It is detecting only 233.76GB of the 250GB HDD. Where is the remaining 16GB going?? Will windows use the memory for any other purpose?? -- Thank you Praveen Balla "Vipul My Windows 2000 Server is not detecting a 250 GB hard disk. What is the maximum size of a hard disk that windows 2000 server can detect?

Setup hangs at hard disk check - always 61% - tried everything !?
This is particularly required for more reasons than with the later, NT-based Windows versions because Windows 98 still boots (and largely runs) off of a real mode DOS kernel, and must be installed in the first primary partition on the hard disk which is detected as the bootable disk by the BIOS at power-on,

installation
The hard disk controller in your computer was not detected by Windows. The hard disk controller was removed from the current configuration in Device Manager. There is a resource conflict between the hard disk controller and another hardware device. The Windows protected-mode driver is missing or damaged.