IDE

I've hit a snag while trying to clone an old Windows 2000 PC's 40GB IDE drive to a 'new' 80GB IDE drive. I'm using Clonezilla from a live USB for this task. The new drive, connected via a USB-to-IDE adapter, seems to clone successfully, and the file structure checks out okay. But, I'm stuck...

Hi, I have an old system that I built in 2013. The system specs are as follows: Windows 10 Home 64bit Intel Core i7 4770k Asus Tuf Z87 SABERTOOTH PNY 250 GB SSD Corsair Platinum 16GB 1600mhz Dram Asus Dual OC RTX 2770 8GB Corsair 500w gold plus PSU Sama Mid Tower Case The system had been...

Okay, so I got an old Windows XP system that has an MB800V-R Motherboard. It only has IDE ports and no newer SATA ports. I need a backup drive in case the original was to fail, so I tried cloning the IDE to a SATA and am unable to boot from the SATA. This is the adapter that I have for...

There is a adaptar for use a usb as internal IDE hard disk? Or i can use the existant IDE to USB in reverse? I need it for install SO to a PC without USB boot support.

Please I need someone to save me because this is making me go insane. (I'm using Windows 10 Pro 21H1) I'm no computer expert but recently a friend suggested I buy an SSD and install my OS on it to improve my PC's performance. He works in tech so he helped me set everything up by sending me the...

I have this old IDE disk from 1997 which still works. When I plug it into a more recent motherboard (ASUS P5Q3 from 2008-9) it does the "Detecting Drives...." and it shows up there but the name flashes red a couple of times, with the size and all that and then the boot proceeds as normal. What...

Which valuable parts can a used functioning IDE/PATA drive have? I discovered a working Toshiba MK2018GAP HDD2164 drive (similar to http://hood.de/auktionsdetails.cfm?auctionID=91399293 , probably the same) at home, and some folks (who disappeared from my view and whom I cannot ask any longer...

Hello, For the past couple of days, I've been trying to copy information from an old Windows 98 PC to a modern day system. Long story short, this computer was found alongside custom-made control circuitry for an antenna system, and the configuration files and software for this custom-made...

Dear Tom's Hardware, Please, is there something for programming C on Android with the same functionality as the old Terminal IDE, which is free/open-source/no ads, but Google removed it because it hasn't been maintained since 2013. The most important features: Comes with a C compiler Easy...

the problem is as follows: for quite some years i've had the intent to somehow gain access to my oldest hard drive, which i used in my first laptop until it broke about 10 years ago. now i've been occupied for a good while but i finally started looking into it again and it seems there are quite...

What type of connector is on this 2.5" HDD? And what kind of toaster do I need to connect it to a pc? Thanks :) Images

I have little experience with legacy hardware, so please excuse my confusion. So long story short, I don't want to buy a new DVD drive. I'll never use it and it's not worth my investment. I do have an old, legacy Sony DVD ROM (circa 2006). The older DVD drive utilises an IDE connector (of...

During windows installation an error shows "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enable in the computer's BIOS menu ". I was try to do windows installation in PATA drive (IDE) on ASUS...

So i just bought an ssd ofr Rs 4100 to give a new life to my old pc .But only saw slight improvement as oppose to the reviews online. I did some googling to speed up my ssd and downloaded samsung magician software in which trim is activated but AHCI is shown deactivated. Did some googling again...

hi , i would share my problem with you guys maybe i got the solution , so i have a second hard disk western digital 500 gb when i put it in the first time it work normaly but when i try to delete some folder in the hard , the hard disk want work again it show me in the dsk management : disk...

I installed Samsung 850 evo 250 gb and i have other 3 hard drives of 1 TB , 500 and 250 and also cd room. All are sata. Optical hard drives are of Seagates. I want to run my system in achi mode but when i used the option during the boot screen got black and windows cant run. I am using sata 3.0...

i have a problem, my pc is rebooting all the time and try to fix reapir etc and hang's and does not want to start win10. it's the new drivers for ide/sata/ahci from 2017 ! the one's from 2006 worked fine... I found out that if i update pc with driver booster from iobit, it finds new...

I used to have 2 HDDs. 1st :- 250GB (boot drive) 2nd:- 1 TB (secondary drive) Recently I replaced my 250 GB HDD with Samsung 860 EVO 250 GB as a boot drive. Before installing windows, I disconnected my both HDDs and switched from IDE to AHCI in bios. After successfully installing windows, I...

I recently built an older computer and have been trying to get Windows booting for a couple of days now. First of all, I ran into the problem that I couldn't install Windows onto the disk because "This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk." I tried creating a thread for that...

I just built a computer from some older parts earlier today, and have been pulling my hair out because of this error that occurs when trying to install Windows. Here's the error: So far, I've tried changing some settings in the BIOS, such as changing from IDE to AHCI as some guides have...

MSI board with a Ryzen 7 2700x. I picked up some G.skill F4-2933C14D-32GTZRX but I cant find anywhere if it will work well with my mobo.

MB: Asus Prime X470-Pro RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16GB Kit (2 x 8GB) 3000MHz - schwarz GPU: XFX Radeon RX 580 GTS XXX Edition - 8GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X (3.70GHz / 16MB) - boxed What do you guys think? Im Happy about suggestions to improve it but without overpricing it too much! thanks ;)

Hi all, As the title said. I'm a little bit confuse right now. My gaming rig is old, and I'm thinking for upgrade. But my budget is limited. So I'm thinking about partial upgrade. The problem is, I don't know which part that should I upgrade first That said, my rig parts is : CPU : A10 5800K...

Hi guys building this new PC : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bf8bTB The only thing left to buy is the PSU, now the " Seasonic Focus+ 650W 80+ GOLD PSU" and "Thermaltake 650W Toughpower Grand RGB 80 Plus Gold ATX Power supply" Are the same price. which one is better ? Im not sure which one to...

Hello, As the title suggests, my laptop fan takes a long time to start actually cooling down the laptop resulting in high temperatures (70-90 degrees Celsius). This problem started occurring about 3 days ago. The fan takes about 30-50 minutes to start and when the fan works, about 2-3 hours...

Its been 1 year to my rig and now the 5.25 inch (DVD cage top right in the attached photo) started bothering me as I don't use any DVD writer/reader. But unlike the Hard Disk cage it doesn't have screws which I can open easily. I tried to open it as its riveted but it is made up of very weak...

I have done a reset and also had the 99% for hours so I switched off computer. Turning on computer I get a message that says “computer stopped and restarted I expectedly or encountered an error. Windows install can not proceed. Restart computer and then restart installation.” When I press OK...

so after some thinking I've decided to put together a new PC. I'm using it for mediocre gaming (27" 1080p 60Hz). Please suggest if I should make any adjustments. CPU: i5-8600k MB: Asus prime Z370-A RAM: G.Skill DDR4 16gb (2x8gb kit) 3000Mhz - not sure yet if Ripjaws or Trident. Advice(s)? ;)...

Installed windows 10 half a month ago, great OS, suddenly, my start menu won't open and the system was very sluggish, ran sfc scan, i got the message: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log %WinDir%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log I...

So I just got Marvel vs Capcom Infinite and i've been playing it for awhile with no problems along with pubg. Now starting as of September 22nd I haven't been able to play either game without it restarting my whole laptop. The screen looks like something similar to this...

Hi, I want to get wifi on my computer but I can't seem to get it can anyone help me please

My HP laptop has been going slow as hell lately and it's less than a year old! Ive been trying to troubleshoot this fo awhile. heres the issues I will get either random cpu/ram/disk spikes. Have defragged, registry cleaned, removed alot of programs etc. What could be causing this? I have a pic...

Hi guys. Recently I moved in to my new home and after I installed my PC, it started to show awful screen tearing. Some games show little tearing (Dark Souls 3), and some show a lot (MGSV). Mafia 2 showed tearing only in cutscenes. My Rig: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 8gb RAM DDR2 800mhz MoBo ASUS...

Can use the recovery media dvd of win 7 to install it after upgrading to windows 10? And will I require a product key? P.S. i asked about the product key since, though my laptop came with a digitally signed windows my brother again activated it with kms and now it says that the license will end...

Hi Guys, I have this strange issue which I cant really understand. I use my pc like normal and watch movies ect.... from my internal 2tb HDD, after that a Quick access list is created of all the movies, folders with movies in them I have watched and looked at. I connect my external hard drive...

Hey guys, starting today I have been getting BSODs for my custom build, and after searching the web for different solutions, it has become apparent that I cannot run any diagnostics without a BSOD restarting my computer. Luckily I have a laptop I can use until the problem is resolved, but my PC...

Hello, I currently have an ASUS CG8480 (prebuilt - I know I was dumb back then) that I bought a long time ago. Its current specification can be found here: https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Tower-PCs/ROG_CG8480/specifications/ But in summary here is what I have -> Motherboard - Intel Z77, Video card -...

hi, i have a gaming system that i have been using in its current state for almost 3 ysrs, it is a i5-2400 on a z68 gigabyte motherboard, with a galaxy gtx 660 gc gpu, 8 gb ram a 256 samsung 850 evo and a 1 tb hardrive where all my games are installed, running on a fresh install of windows 10...

What HZ is this monitor? I can't seem to find it anywhere

I bought some parts for a build a month ago and two days ago the computer will not display an image, no speaker beeps, and will not POST. I remember troubleshooting everything, and found out the the power supply was not the cause of the issue (the power supply powered another system in the...