Problem finding drives. i am trying to find a CD/DVD burner that will work with my motherboard the only problem is that it comes with a SATA wire and a power plug when i put SATA into newegg and tigerdirect it only came up with versions of the CD/DVD drive...

moments ago finished installing, initializing and formatting an Hitachi 500GB P7K500 SATA drive. The board is SATA I (1.5Gb/s) and the drive is 3Gb/s. The drive seems to work fine...so far. The worst problem I had was finding the right size screws to mount...

my cd rom. The CD_RW Rom worked previously. I think the problem was the >> result of downloading Media Player 9 which I have uninstalled. I switched >> CD-RW rom with one that is working in another machine and had the same >>problem, so I know it...

in the drive) Unknown Disk (there is no disk in the drive) Both of which worked perfectly fine before formatting the drive. And they also work fine under linux, its the WinXP install that is having the problem finding the drives. Even the BIOS on startup...

I was thinking of a project, the name of which escapes me, that attempted to store a vast amount of data for future generations. The problem was that the computer they used was some proprietary thing that died out, and they are rapidly running out of hardware...

on black screen, tried installing xp, error. I researched and found others with similar problems finding the cause of the failed installion is an HDD error. Have you resolved your problem? ...

seems to be fine. I now remember that I reset the BIOS settings to the default, which may be causing problems with finding boot devices. I've had problems with the Promise Ultra ATA-100 before in that it doesn't seem to get detected by the BIOS, but it has...

my girlfriends laptop friday, and now here at work today I am getting the error also. So I came to believe that something is seriously wrong with the jump drive. I've tried several different fixes for this problem that I could find on forums online, including...

Restore CD, I went for broke. FDisked the drive, deleted all partitions, reset one active partition, formatted FAT32, for the whole drive. Or so I thought. The drive is 30GB. Somehow it's only showing as about 20GB. I'm wondering now if this disparity...

this is what i'd try: Unplug the Hard drive and then throw in the Vista Dvd into the Dvd drive, if your bios is set correctly, it will look to boot to the HD (and not find it) then boot to the DVD drive (and start loading vista and with it USB drivers) To...