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How to switch from IDE to AHCI after installing Windows Vista [duplicate]
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Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a technical standard defined by Intel that specifies the operation of Serial ATA (SATA) disk controllers. When it is supported by your ...
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How to access NAS files when disk moved to tower PC as second HD
Hopefully someone can help.
My NAS Lacie Networkspace2 has (almost) died.
I took the drive out of its casing and placed it as a second drive in a Dell XPS tower with Windows Vista (I know... but try ...
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How do I copy the Recovery Partition to a USB and make that a bootable drive, in order to reinstall the OS?
I have copied all the data in a hidden OS recovery partition from a hard drive. This partition was provided by the laptop manufacturer to restore the laptop to its original factory Vista installation.
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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 can I restore my Windows system after the PC is booted into DOS from USB drive?
My PC with Windows Vista failed to boot. The screen showed that the boot device was not found. I think the boot area of the hard drive was damaged. Then I created a boot USB drive with DOS system, and ...
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How to transfer OS from failing hard disk to new external drive?
I have an old Vista Laptop whose hard disk is failing. For various reasons I must have the same exact system back again.
I copied the entire OS on the C drive over to a new external drive and made it ...
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Can I delete this partition?
I have an HP Laptop that came with an OEM version of windows vista. I have set it up to dual boot with windows XP. Therefore there are 2 primary partitions. There is also one more primary partition ...
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Changing hard drive from dead computer
I have a Windows Vista Basic with intel processor that died with an extremely important file on it and I'm changing to a Windows Vista premium that uses AMD.
I have understood that as I have a ...
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How to Factory Reset Toshiba Satellite a215-S7416?
My question is almost exactly like this one, except:
1) I know my BIOS password and I just want to factory reset
2) I have a Toshiba Satellite a215-s7416 (Vista)
When I get past the "Enter Password",...
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Can I DOS copy windows vista to a new Hard Drive?
I have a Lenovo IBM T60 laptop which I use for running my small business, the current hard drive is only 60gb and i want to copy/clone the entire current 60gb hard drive onto a new 250gb Hard drive, i ...
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How to migrate user files from hard drive of dead vista system to w7?
I have the good hard drive from an otherwise dead Vista laptop ( I'm looking at you, HP Pavilion DV6700!) connected to the USB port of a good windows 7 system.
To clarify, the drive from the old ...
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Error 80070570 when installing Vista
First some background:
I'm trying to upgrade the hard drive in an Advent 5301 laptop. I've already tried cloning it, but I couldn't get that method to work. So now I'm trying to install Vista onto ...
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Diskpart Clean, thus unable to boot
I booted my Dell Inspiron 1525 on a Vista Recovery DVD (not installation disk), ran the Command Prompt, and did like following:
diskpart
list disk
select disk 0 # which was the only hard drive I ...
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Cloned hard drive will not boot Vista
The system is an Advent 5301 laptop, and I'm trying to swap the hard drive for one of a larger capacity (120 -> 320 GB). I used Clonezilla to directly copy the original drive to the target drive, but ...
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BSOD after cloning data hard drive Windows Vista Ultimate
I have an issue with my current system not running properly after I clone my data drive to another, bigger hard drive. I have tried Acronis TruImage as well as a couple of other programs that I cannot ...
