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HDD External can't be recognized on office PC
So don't know what's wrong
Before it works fine
Now I can't access HDD external from office PC
I try to use 2 different PC not work(windows 10)
I try at home with my laptop it's work (windows XP)
WD 4 ...
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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Get hardware information from old HDD with Windows installed on it
Recently, I had store cleaning at my work and I found a quite old 40gb IBM HDD.
I was wondering what hardware was installed with it, i.e what CPU, mobo, PCI/ISA cards.
It has Windows XP installed on ...
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Trying to read an old hard drive: "One of the USB devices attached to the computer has malfunctioned"
I have an old external hard drive that was formatted NTFS (If I recall correctly) using a Windows XP machine. The drive stayed in storage for years, and I'm trying to read files off of it with a ...
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Dell XPS8100 Wont boot windows 7 - Error 0x0000007b & error code 0142
The computer froze and when restarted would not boot to windows 7. Several of the files start to load but when it gets to the AVG virus software it freezes. When I turn on the machine, the 'windows ...
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New operating system for a Dell Dimension XPS Gen 2
Neighbor was running Windows XP Home till last week, but when the computer became too sluggish, he backed up his data and formatted it. He tried installing
Windows 7 Home 32 bit(he got a retail copy),...
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How to read contents of a (previosuly Win-XP system) HDD when plugged as simple additional drive under Win-7,
Getting a new PC in 2010, I kept the HDD of my previous PC, in case...
And today it's the case: I'm looking for some old code I worked on in the past, then threw meantime because I thought it was ...
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formating old windows xp primary partition after windows 7 installation
I had an old Windows XP (Dual booted with Ubuntu) running on my computer and then I decided to move on and installed Windows 7 in another logical drive. Now the Windows XP is corrupted and I want to ...
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Booting an old XP HDD into a new computer
I am building a new PC and want to have my old PCs HDD in it as a second unit and boot to it whenever needed. I've heard that the odds of it actually booting are very low. But some say it can be ...
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Moving Hard Drive between PCs
I know there are duplicate threads with similar questions, but none hit the mark I needed, including the answers on them.
My question is as follows;
I have an oldish laptop that ran Windows XP. The ...
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Instead of Disk, may just BURN my computer [closed]
I have an old HP Compaq 6710B laptop which ran XP-PRO-SP3 32bit (x86) as sole OS. It has an un-bootable 160gb HDD and a HP (2008) Model No.UJ-861 HHC-A DVD=RW Drive.
I also have a Dell Latitude E6430 ...
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Windows 7 cannot access shared folder
Recently a Windows XP system's hardware got failed, so I put its harddisk to a new system which was working fine.
I have the windows 7 system from which I want to access that Windows XP's shared ...
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My hard disc makes a clicking noise while I'm working, I sent it to a service which found nothing
He said that there was no problem with the hdd. He checked it out with crystalnfo and it worked. But before I took it there,the pc wasn't turning on. He said that there was a problem with the system ...
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Hidden Folders on Windows XP partition
I have a 11 year old hard drive from where I want to rescue documents. The hard drive is connected to my Windows 7 machine over USB on D: . If I look into the Recent folder on:
D:\Dokumente und ...
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Reading an old XP Drive on a Windows 7 unit
I have my mom's old PC and I cannot get her old HD to show up when I connect my SATA read cables up to her hard drive externally. I am wondering if her HD died over night or if I am missing something. ...
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Why is my USB drive treated as an internal hard disk drive?
I have a 8 GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I just purchased a few weeks ago. I use two systems, viz Windows XP and Windows 7 Professional. When I connect my drive to Windows 7, it'...
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dual boot windows 7 with xp hard drive compatibility mode
I need to get a Compaq 620 laptop with Windows 7 to dual boot with Windows xp
I tried running the Windows XP setup CD, but soon after I get a BSOD error
This page says that I need to change the hard ...
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How to boot into Windows 7 after installing Windows XP on the same HDD?
I installed Windows XP in an unallocated space of a HDD that already had Windows 7 installed on. Installation completed, Windows XP boots, but Windows 7 won't. From the moment I press the power button ...
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How do I change the partition that Windows 7 boots from (the "system" partition)?
(I've searched around but most cases deal with having two hard drives, not two partitions on one hard drive.)
My 1TB hard drive has two partitions: one for Windows XP and one for Windows 7. The ...
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How to change logical partition into primary one?
Currently I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed as dual-boot.
I've been wanting to remove my XP installation for a long time (was waiting to buy an external HDD to backup the data) to get ...
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Drive Mappings Erratically appearing/disappearing - Windows Ent Domain
We are having a very strange issue!
Windows 2003/2008 Domain (2003 DCs / 2008 File Servers)
Mixed Endpoint Environment - Win XP SP3 / Win7 Ent
1300 Users over several sites within a single domain
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Windows 7 doesn't boot when second hard disk is connected
I have two hard disks, one SATA and another IDE.
I have windows XP and 7 on the SATA one, and Ubuntu on the IDE. Both of them boot and work, the bios recognizes them.
After I installed Windows 7, ...
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Windows Installation Errors
Since yesterday I have been trying to install Windows on a Laptop I have. It used to have it, but for some reason when I booted up, it wouldn't boot, and it wasn't recognizing the hard drive.
I ...
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Do you need special permissions to access an old internal HDD from another computer?
I was trying to copy files from a friend's damaged laptop. The hard drive still works, so I simply put the hard drive into a 2.5mm enclosure and connected it to my laptop via USB. The drivers ...
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How to install Windows XP on acer
I have an Acer laptop core i3. When I try to install Windows XP on my computer, the installation does not complete and a blue screen is displayed with the follwing statement:
Check for viruses on ...
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Barbarism: WinXP Drive Transplanted to Win7 Hardware
I am contemplating doing something barbaric.
A computer, with obsolete / discontinued software that requires a Windows XP 32 bit environment, lost it motherboard. As a short term fix a Windows 7 64 ...
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Desktop PC with 2 Hard Drives?
I have a PC with Windows XP.
Somehow my uncle has connected another hard drive from my older PC into the current one. The 2nd hard drive contains a few files. I was wondering whether having 2 hard ...
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No dual boot screen with XP and Seven
I want to install different version of Windows on a PC.
I installed Windows XP on a first harddrive.
I add a harddrive (HD) on my PC, split it in three part
Since I have only one SATA cable, I ...
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What happens when windows runs out of drive letters? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What if the hard disk is partitioned into more than 26 sections in Windows?
What happens when windows runs out of drive letters?
I searched Google and got no definite answer.
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Hard drive not correctly recognized on a new Windows 7 installation, but works correctly on Windows XP
I'm having problems configuring a hard disk in a brand new, clean Windows 7 installation. System specs:
Hard disk: WD VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX (600 GB, 10000 RPM)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
BIOS ...
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Two harddrives, Win7 on one and WinXP on the other
I currently have a PC with a single drive, with WinXP installed. I will soon be adding in another drive to this PC, which had Win7 installed on it (while it was in another machine).
When the PC ...
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Hard drive issues when installing Windows XP or 7 on HP m1150.uk
I have received a HP Pavilion m1150.uk (part of the m1000 series), which was wiped with Boot and Nuke before being given to me (ex-work machine). I've tried installing both Windows XP and Windows 7, ...
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Is it possible to install WinXP side-by-side to existing Win7 and access my data from both?
My dad has Windows 7 64bit installed on his computer. He had, on his previous Windows XP-running computer, an arcane piece of software that does not work on the newer OS, no matter what we try with ...
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Incorrect disk size reported for internal drive after attempting to boot from external drive
I wanted to run something off of my old Windows XP install, so I plugged it in as an external hard drive and attempted to boot from it. The machine blue screened on me. (I now know this is a bad idea)....
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Migrate HDD XP to SSD Win7
I have 32-bit Windows XP installed on two HDDs in Raid 1. My end goal is to install 64-bit Windows 7 (to increase RAM to 8GB) on a single SSD drive and use the 2 HDDs (maintaining Raid 1) for user ...
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How can I force an internal hard drive to power on or off when I want?
Obviously there are power management settings which Windows uses to determine when to power a hard drive off, and when to power it back on again. Powered down I assume doesn't mean absolute zero power,...
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Why does my drive show as 180GB used, but copies only 40GB?
My computer crashed, so I removed the drive (with Windows XP Professional 32-Bit) and put this drive in another computer running Windows 7 64-bit.
Booting with Windows 7, when going to My Computer ...
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How do I access my old XP hard drive from my new Windows 7 system & hard drive?
I have two hard drives, a new one with Windows 7 and an old one with Windows XP. I booted the new system with Windows 7, which is installed on the new C hard drive. I can see my old Windows XP hard ...
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Windows 7 turns hard drives with data to hard drives with unallocated space after they are used with XP/Vista
This question was asked by a user on Microsoft Answers website las year, but it had no answers so far (unsurprisingly). I am facing the exact same issue.
Here are the steps to reproduce this problem ...
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Hard Disk marked as Unallocated on Windows 7
I had an XP System and I installed Windows 7 on another Hard Disk so now I have a dual boot. However, when I boot windows 7, the hard disk where XP is installed does not always show up.
This started ...
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Windows 7 to Windows XP Network Drive
I had my Windows 7 computer connected to a Windows XP network drive before, but it is no longer working for some reason.
My Windows 7 machine can see the drive within the homegroup, but every attempt ...
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Will Windows XP work on a Hybrid Hard Drive?
I'm looking into getting the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive, and I'm planning on dual booting between Windows 7 and Windows XP. I know 7 and Vista have native support for taking advantage of ...
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Advanced Format Drive?
Bought a Samsung HD204UI today and downloaded/installed the Samsung Align Software as recommended by them for use with my XP. But the tools don't recognize my HDD as advanced format. Do I have to ...
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How should I format disk for a future Windows 7 install?
Just bought a 1Tb drive, to go alongside my 60Gb, 250Gb, and 1Tb drive collection. Eventually I'll get a new machine and install Windows 7 (currently XP). So how should I format the new drive, ...
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3 OS computer, Hard Drives Corrupted, Any way to save the data?
I have a computer. Its a pretty amazing computer. I built it myself. It has 3 500gb hard drives in it, all with different OS's: XP, Vista, and 7.
Some how, it seems ALL 3 have gotten corrupted. one ...
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Swapping hard disks of systems with different configurations
I swapped hard disks of two systems, Windows 7 installed on both. Here are the configurations:
(1) Intel 845 chipset, Celeron processor 1.60 Ghz, 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard disk
(2) Intel 945G chipset, Core ...
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