backup to 7200. They WILL work just fine as a primary drive, they just won't be the fastest drive. I would look at getting a 7200 rpm or higher drive for the main drive and then using the Green drive as storage if you want to keep things faster. Depending...

Primary Drive 1 Not Found message on boot????. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () My wife's 4600 displays this message now upon boot up, after an unsuccessful attempt to install a SATA drive. "Primary Drive 1 not found. Press F1 to continue,...

remaining Primary partitions on the Primary IDE/Master drive (except Extended, if present.) After that come remaining Primary partitions on the Primary IDE/Slave drive, the one marked Active, if any, being first. And so forth for all hard drives. Secondary...

hard drive as my primary and replace my secondary. I would prefer not to have much down time. Is there a way that I can install WIN2K on my secondary hard drive have have the system boot from it so that I can format and install a new primary drive?...

boot the system with the utility disk, and prepare the second drive as the new boot drive... when the copying is complete power off the system, replace the primary drive with the new drive, and reconnect the cd drives... you should be fine. "lynnr" wrote...

for a while, but now I notice the same symptoms as before. The disc drive is stuck in PIO mode and this time deleting the IDE primary drive entry in Device Manager (and rebooting twice) doesn't help - the drive is still shown in PIO mode (with DMA if available...

Hard drive. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () Because MSFT dose not allow not full hard drive B/u on cd/dvd Can full hard drive be offloaded to say external USB Hard drive or Tape device for reboot disaster revovery? -- Thanks,...

2nd hard drive i put in it,so i had 2 versions of windows on the computer from the slave drive i used swissnife to format the primary drive and thought i had the slave now set to primary but nooooo.i restarted computer and now it says no operating system,and...

drive as the primary drive and reinstalling the system on that drive. I then backed up the fresh copy of XP on the Maxtor. Then I switched the hard drive back and tried to install a fresh copy of XP on that drive (I had a reason for doing that that...