to load the disc. Hi thanks for all the suggestions, i have it solved now as well as disabling the hard drive from the boot sequence there is another control in bios were i was able to disable and hide the hard drive, now it boots from the dvd drive so...

without a single crash. -CPU temps are also ok: CoreTemp says 42º, 36º, 33º, 31º -Its not a sound issue. (Tried with bios sound off, even tried with my SB 5.1 disabled.) -Its not a hard drive issue (tried with different brand ones) -Its not...

unplugging the hard drive cable from the system board and it will have to boot to the CD. Once it begins reading the CD, unplug and re-plug the hard disk. You could also try simply disabling the hard drive by turning it off in BIOS (and then re-enabling...

to do it through USB stick. Couldn't do it while logged on as virus won't let me run anything .exe So, in my wisdom, I was trying to get it to BOOT from the USB and so fiddled about with the settings. I can only assume that I have disabled the hard drive...

How to activate disable hard drive. I have 320 GB Hard disc with 3 partition i unable to see and use 3rd partion pl guide us. I have 320 GB Hard disc with 3 partition i unable to see and use 3rd partion pl guide us Please go to administrative tools|computer...

How can I make this hard drive always working if BIOS switched to ALWAYS ON, Savers on laptop are also don't allow to disable the hard drive or computer. What's going on there? Can this hard drive disable itself regardless the Windows XP Professional settings?...

i have two hardware profiles. I have disabled one of my hard drives in the second profile. My question is: can i turn of the power from this disabled hard drive, in this specific profile? Thx - cMan Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize...

You should have the option to format the hard drive. If you have the upgrade XP version you need your WinME CD handy. If you have the full version, you need to format/repartition the hard drive, therefore eliminating the win me problem. I don't believe...

in particular. Bad clusters contain physically bad sectors, and indicate the hard drive is failing at the hardware level. Listen up! For a cluster to show up as bad, it has to escape the hard drive's built-in defect "management". When the hard drive's...