Recent content by keoniT

Thanks for the replies, but I guess I didn't make it clear. This is a DOS issue. I am booting a computer into DOS, not Windows, not Linux, DOS. The computers do not have floppy drives; one has a CDROM, the other doesn't even have that. I use Spinrite because it doesn't care what the...

This is a basic DOS question, but it's been awhile since I've had to mess with DOS. I've created a bootable USB drive so I can boot a laptop. The drive boots as C:, that's the same drive letter as the HDD. I'm booting to DOS so I can perform maintenance, Spinrite, on the HDD. How do I force A...

>>Does your SATA Controller support over 2GB Storage? I don't think that's the issue. Are you confusing the controller with the NTFS size limit of 2TB per volume? I have four volumes, the largest is 1 TB. >>Why the hell do you even need so much storage? I have a large collection of LP's and...

A better answer: The only IDE drives attached to the onboard PATA controller are two DVD drives. All the IDE HDD's were attached to the Promise controller. Are you suggesting that I convert the SATA drives to AHCI or RAID? If so why does it boot when I keep the total capacity under two...

>>After replacing my IDE drives with SATA, the computer hangs at "IDE Bus Master Enabled." The boot drive has always been the 250 GB SATA drive. The ports default to IDE and I never changed the setting. I use a removable IDE drive to clone the system with Acrtonis.

I'm starting to suspect a manufacturer incompatibility between Seagate and Wester Digital, but I can't find anything in my web searches to confirm that. After replacing my IDE drives with SATA, the computer hangs at "IDE Bus Master Enabled." If I disconnect the power on one SATA drive the boot...