....especially because this Acronis abomination came under the covers of Maxtor. The folks who made my new hard drive. Here is the link:...
Found this thread which makes me a feel a little better as in misery loves company but I am still hung. I did back up the original drive AND made...
So now, with only the original hard drive attached as it originally was I get as far as seeing the "Microsoft (in tiny letters) Windows XP"...
Pata. This has become a real struggle slash 'learning experience'. I have used XXClone exactly as advertised for cloning a hard drive and it has...
Thanks Ski. I will get Acronis and give that a try. Is there a way to tell if there is a MBR on the drive by looking at the files on it? Thanks,...
Boot.ini files differ I am not sure how these will format but I will paste my two boot.ini files below. The first one is from my c: drive (which...
Thanks Ski52. It does not boot with the original drive (now D:) unattached. Which puzzles me because when I go into CMOS setup I see "Boot...
Hi all,) I have added a bigger/better hard drive to my desktop and I have cloned the 'old' single drive to the new drive with system files. I...
My DVD was real generic so I had no idea who made it. Fortunately Windows XP found it somehow. Can you see who made your drive and ask them for...
Forgot to add one more USB flash drive question. What are the requirements for using USB 3.0? I understand that Windows does not supply drivers...
Hi all, I am looking for about a 16gb USB thumb drive and am puzzled at the range of prices. For example on one web page in OfficeMax the...
Windows must have provided it because I don't even know who the manufacturer of the DVD drive is though I am sure I could find out if I had to. I...
Got it! Window actually gave me the correct advice which was to uninstall, then reinstall the device driver for that USB port. Coattail...
Got 2 out of 3 dvd drives working. I wish I could tell you confidently what I did to get them working but I do not know. I did clean the lense...
Hi all, I have a dvd drive drive that attaches through a USB connection and it works perfectly on two laptops that I have (one xp, one Windows 7)...
Thanks Wildfirae. So ATA (and 3.5 ") is all I need to keep in mind? The other thing I was considering was if the E-IDE will play nicely iwth my...
Do I just need to look for a disk drive that is "Ultra ATA/100" or are there other considerations? For example would this drive work? Thanks...
Hi, I have a Compaq Evo D510 with a very slow 40gb drive. The drive options are described as this on the HP site: 20-GB 5400 rpm SMART...
Also.......how do I put the 'Resolved' sticker on this thread?
Turned out to be users error in that I ordered the wrong kind of memory. I just learned about 'high density' memory. That is what this stick is...
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