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Recent content by Seedubs
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Hard Drive Woes
Many thanks Freestone! I have never used the Disk Management tool before, as I have never formatted/managed a disk from within Windows, I am initialising and formatting it as I speak, hopefully it will be fine. One more question, would you think the initial failure of the Raptor was a simple...- Seedubs
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
The only option within the SATA Bios is for a low level format, which I have done, there is no other way to access the drive to carry out any maintenance such as installing a file system etc?- Seedubs
- Post #11
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
Well I have sorted some stuff out. Unforunately my BIOS does not have those settings Ski, but I downloaded the latest SATA Silicon drivers from ASUS, and reinstalled both at installation of windows and once installed within Windows, I managed to get the Backup SATA drive to be recognised and...- Seedubs
- Post #9
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
Right did a full scan of the Samsung, no errors and then rebooted it and all appears fine with that drive, XP installed Now when I run the DOS Diag HUTIL prog from SAMSUNG, it picks up the SATA Drive (any of the two I have) and I then get an access violation on the DOS utility and it crashes...- Seedubs
- Post #7
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
Many thanks for the link, once the Samsungs download centre is up again I will download the utility, but one thing I did notice now is that I cannot boot the primary drive with the SATA drive connected as I get the HAL.DLL Missing or corrupt message on startup? I will run the diagnostic and...- Seedubs
- Post #5
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
Sorry but your link errors on me? Is it a Samsung drive tool of some sort?- Seedubs
- Post #3
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Woes
Firstly Hello all! I have a scan of the forums and some info pertained to this problem but others didnt so I am still a little confused as to what is the problem. Its a bit of a long one so I would appreciate the effort! Firstly the machine in question is: XP3200 (32 Bit), ASUS A7N8X Deluxe...- Seedubs
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