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xrust
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Posted : Oct 21, 2006 21:06
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hard disk burned(only the windws fortunatelly).i found another hard disk,SATA,with windows allready installed.but my pc can not see it.i suppose that i have to format it,and install windows again.i have already made a SATA disc,but it didnt helped.anyone knows????
thanxx in advance 
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orange
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Posted : Oct 21, 2006 21:57
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xrust
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Posted : Oct 21, 2006 23:38
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hey atropa
i know that it is gonna b a nightmare,but if it works i will be able to format it,so there wont be a problem!
anyway,i go monday morning morning to buy another one and solve the problem
thanxx anyway man
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xrust
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Posted : Oct 22, 2006 13:10
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but i also want to know something else..lets say that i have my pc working fine,and i have an extra hard disk,with windows already installed on it.and i want to erase the windows from the extra hard disk in order to use it as an extra storing disk..what do i have to do??
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vstDOG
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Posted : Oct 22, 2006 15:02
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just format the extra hard disk and leave in blank...
but...you might have to do it offline (via some bootCD like Acronis, Partition Magic, etc..)
when you have 2 hard disks with windows installed on both it's sometimes difficult to "tell" the computer from which to boot.
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l337
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Posted : Oct 22, 2006 18:34
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ok this is really simple problem to solve...
i had to go about this the hard way when i wanted to install a legit copy of windows on my pc after years of cracked windows...
windows itself makes it near impossible to format the drive which has windows on it (the actual operating windows), however if there are two drives both with windows , it isnt too hard to format the drive which isnt your OS (assuming you have told the computer which is the boot drive)
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quite simply
when i wanted to format my OS hD befor einstalling legit windows, i took my harddrive out, and used my brother computer...
i slaved my OS drive on my brothers computer (open the bios and insure that the computer knows which drive to boot off)
then all i ddi was using the windows format function (r-click...format) i wiped my OS drive
dont worry about fucknig the computer's OS that you are doing the format on cos, windows itself wont let you format the drive which the computer is currently running off
and then from there you can do a windows reinstall....or just keep it blank...
you just have to make sure the drive is slaved and the pins are set to slave....
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orange
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Posted : Oct 22, 2006 21:11
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windows itself makes it near impossible to format the drive which has windows on it (the actual operating windows), however if there are two drives both with windows , it isnt too hard to format the drive which isnt your OS (assuming you have told the computer which is the boot drive)
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i never ahd any problem formating my drive and it has always windows on it! and i format my drive using original wondows every 6 months at least!
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mk47
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 08:24
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formatting the system drive is a real bitch .. everytime i formatted , iv had to reinstall all the plugs , progs again coz the registry gets wiped .. anyone know a workaround ?
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 10:46
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l337
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 15:50
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On 2006-10-22 21:11, orange-atropa wrote:
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windows itself makes it near impossible to format the drive which has windows on it (the actual operating windows), however if there are two drives both with windows , it isnt too hard to format the drive which isnt your OS (assuming you have told the computer which is the boot drive)
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i never ahd any problem formating my drive and it has always windows on it! and i format my drive using original wondows every 6 months at least!
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so reinstall windows every 6 monthes? or to mean various slave drives?
al;so what i meant was ...format the drive containing windows clean... is that what you mean? |
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xrust
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 16:14
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i just bought a new hd guys,thanx for your replies anywayz
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 17:07
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Having done this dozens, maybe hundreds or times, let me add some info that might help:
1) You can Create/Delete/Format partitions during a windows XP install. No need to format the disk first, since you can do it during the install.
2) Use NTFS (file system) unless you really need FAT, because NTFS tends to corrupt less in my experience.
3) If you are using SCSI, RAID, or SATA, make sure you have the drivers on a floppy disc. Yes, it has to be a floppy disc, because the windows XP install will not look anywhere else. Quite an oversight in my opinion, since most computers don't have floppy drives anymore.
4) If you have the drive space, create disk images/clone! Like sideFXed pointed out, you can create full backups that will save the registry,etc. I've been using Norton Ghost for years. After I get windows installed with all the drivers I'll create a ghost backup. Then I'll install my essential programs & make another ghost backup. I keep these 2 backups, so that I can always go back to 'the beginning' if I need to. I then create ghost backup each month (keeping the last 2 or 3), so I can always roll back to 'a month ago' if needed. I will also create a backup before doing any major installs. It only takes me about 8 minutes to restore a 20 GB ghost backup. Even doing this for a living, a manual install of XP with drivers takes over an hour, then add another 1-2 hours installing software....you see my point.
This backup system works well for me, because I have several hard drives, and store my data files (like cubase projects, samples, etc), on seperate drives, with their own seperate backup schedule. You only need to create a drive image/clone for the partitions that windows is installed on. Traditional backup programs are no good at backing up the registry & system files in use.
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xrust
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 21:53
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On 2006-10-23 16:14, X_RUST wrote:
i just bought a new hd guys,thanx for your replies anywayz
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ok,i am desparate.i am trying to install my new hard disk(SATA 1,western digital 80 gb) for 6 hours and my pc cannot recognise it.i tried everything,i made the floppy with the sata drivers from my motherboard but still nothing...i plugged the hard disk in another pc and it recognises it in startup but then i go to "my computer" and it is not there...
in the control panel it says that "the device is working properly" but when i go into "system,it does nto recognising it as "western digital 80 gb ...." but as "disk unit"....i went my pc to a technician and he told me that propably my motherboards sata plugs are destroyed..
I AM DESPERATE,PLEASE HELP
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diskonekt
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Posted : Oct 23, 2006 22:35
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Did you make a new partition on the disk ?
Control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> storage -> right click on the new disk -> create partition
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xrust
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Posted : Oct 24, 2006 00:47
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it was just a jumper(though it was not supposed to be the problem) but finally i made it,instaled windows and creating partitions.thAnx age_of_panic and the rest for the help 
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