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• Cannot install windows XP it said hard drives are not connected & windows can not find the hard drives

  I got an asus computer notebook windows vista, upgrade from vista to windows 7, now I'm not able to do a clean install of windows xp, when I try to install XP, it says that hard drives are not connected & windows cannot find not the hard drives, so once again installed windows 7, is there a way to overcome this problem Why do I get the message windows xp does not detect hard drives? I even formatted the hard drive & tried to install Xp, but still, I get the same message.

  The answers will be appreciated...

  Thank you

  Because the Windows XP installation CD does not have the necessary disk controller drivers.  You will need a floppy drive to provide the drivers of controller for the installation program, or you will need to burn a CD of Windows XP with the controller drivers slipstreamed into the installation.  A CD of Windows XP with SP2 included may have the necessary drivers.

  John

• Seagate: the external hard drive is not displayed in my computer

  My seagate external hard drive does not show in my computer and also the Disk Manager but its shown in Device Manager. help out me. I have a lot of data in it.

  

  

  Nitesh salvation,

  Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Community forums.

  I understand from your description you have posted, that the external hard drive is not recognized by the computer of Windows 8.

  Before you continue with the troubleshooting steps, please answer the questions below.

  (1) have you checked with different ports or different computers?

  (2) remember to make changes before this problem?

  (3) you are able to detect the drive in disk management?

  I suggest to follow the steps below and check if the problem persists.

  Method 1: Run the troubleshooter of material and check out la.

  Follow the steps to run the Troubleshooter:

  (a) press the Windows key + C on your keyboard to show the charms.

  (b) type of Troubleshooting , and then click solving problems under settings.

  (c) now, type Hardware Troubleshooter in the option Search .

  (d) click on hardware store to run the troubleshooter.

  If you are able to detect the drive in disk management, I suggest you to assign a letter.

  Method 2: Assign drive letter:

  The disk management.

  To assign a drive letter if it has not already received, click Add, click the letter you want to use, and then click OK.
  To change a drive letter, click on edit, click on assign the following drive letter, click the letter you want to use and then click OK.

  To remove a drive letter, click on remove and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove.

  You can also check out the article below and follow the instructions.

  Why isn't Windows does not find my device?

  Hope this information was helpful, if you need help, feel free to post. We will be happy to help you.

• external hard drive is not displayed in disk utility

  I have a drive (2 TB) seagate desktop external hard, while the backup time machine HDD power adapter was pulled from the socket. Now the hard drive is not recognized (both on the utility disk and office) of my mac pro book works on os x el capitan, seeing the hard drive is disabled, but I can feel and hear the operation of the hard drive. Also when I hang up my iMac running os x yosemite on the hard drive can be used and seems to work very well.

  I tried to reformat the hard disk, but it has failed it is still not recognized on my mac pro book

  Hello amartnez,

  Thank you for using communities of Apple Support.

  From your post, I see that your drive external hard seagate was pulled from the socket during backup with Time Machine, and now it is not recognized by your MacBook Pro. I know how it is important to ensure that you are able to connect your external drive to your Mac. I have something I want you to try.

  Because the external hard drive seems to be working on another computer (iMac), please try a different USB port on your MacBook Pro and see if it recognizes the external hard drive on the desktop and in disk utility. If so, that means you have a problem with this specific USB port on the MacBook Pro.

  See you soon!

• HP Envy Ultrabook 6 t-1000 CTO: HARD drive is not displayed

  Hello.

  I had the Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) once or twice when using simple everyday applications on my Ultrabook. The results were either not different on Mode without failure. After awhile, I started having 'No Bootable disc' error while starting up. Recovery (press F11) will not appear so. I tried the HP Diagnostics (by pressing F2 at startup) and Test the hard drive as well as the Test of memory shows PASSED on the formats of short or long.

  I tried the following:

  1. I did some research on Google and entered in the BIOS/Insyde utility (by pressing F10 at startup), loaded default installation (by pressing F9), saved changes and did a restart, but I get the error again.

  2. I downloaded Windows 7 64-bit Microsoft store, created a boot USB and plugged. I was able to access the Windows Installation Page, but he wouldn't show my hard drive at all.

  3. I find the support page of my product on the site HP and downloaded the latest drivers, put it in a USB device and booted up the system from the Windows Setup disc. On the page where it was supposed to show my internal hard drives, it showed only USB drives and there is an option "Load Driver" I clicked on and selected the driver files I downloaded from the HP website. Everything was going well until I chose iaStor.inf... this time, the system has hung up and the BSOD appeared with an error stating the file 'iaStor.sys '.

  My questions:

  1 if diagnostic Tests are passed, I can assume that the material is well?

  2. Although I already placed an order for HP recovery discs, I doubt if it could help because my HARD drive drivers seem to be missing. What is your opinion?
  3. is there a way to reset zero/reload drivers BIOS/Insyde utility?

  My system features:
  Laptop model: PC portable HP Envy 6
  Product no.: A9G58AV (the back panel laptop says A9G30AV)
  {Information}
  Processor: 2nd generation Intel Core i5 - 2467 M CPU @ 1.6 GHz + Intel HD Graphics 3000
  BIOS version: F.0D
  Total memory: 4 GB
  Operating system: Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
  HARD drive: 500 GB 5400 rpm SATA RAW 7mm hard drive with 32 GB WSSD faster reduction of the hard disk Cache

  Unfortunately at that I disagree with Paul and I think that you may be looking for a bad motherboard, but we would like first to try to remove the disc of WSSD 32 gig.

  Here is the Manual:

  Repair manuals

  See Page 40. Unfortunately, this model is a little difficult to disassemble, but measures are set out in the manual. If it is still under warranty, you can't do that. If the hard drive passes the test of F2 then I tend to think that it's not the hard drive.

• external hard drive is not displayed when connected

  I have a WD My Passport external hard drive. He pointed upward and it worked fine. Two days ago my MacBook Pro started acting strange and became UNBELIEVABLY SLOW. Now it is still slow with some programs, and when I plug in my external hard drive it won't even appear on my desktop or the finder. I restarted my computer - has not yet shown and I stop everything, everything, including the power cable disconnected, is to let it sit for a few hours, transformed, plugged return it in and still don't appear. It has pictures and that's what I use to store photos that I have him Add. I need help! I am a photographer and it is essential that it works! If anyone has any suggestions please let me know! Thank you for taking the time to read this and any help! Thank you!

  Does show in disk utility?  Have you plugged into another Mac?

  Ciao.

• Hard drive is not displayed full size

  Hi all... This is my first post in the forum and hope to share details on the problem that I am facing with my portable Smart Touch PC envy.

  My Lptop configuration is as follows:

  

  The problem started when I went to a recovery of windows from the HP Recovery Manager. Initially, before my C drive recovery showed as a space of nearly 500 GB.

  When I went for a recovery the first time she abandoned and then again started the recovery, which succeeded. But to my surprise, it gave me two options to start in one was Windows 8 and the other HP RM (ESP). As usual, I chose 8 Windows and the laptop started fine, but to my surprise I saw that my C drive was reduced to 80 GB instead of the 450 + GB of space I had earlier. I searched the net and found that HP RM (ESP) was another partition and I could delete it by typing msconfig and then switch to the tab startup and remove the HP RM (ESP) OS and just delete. It also worked well for me, but I am still unable to use the full of the hard drive I have. Support HP can tell me what I need to do to recover the complete HD drive.

  you need to expand your partition to occupy unused space.

  Run > diskmgmt.msc > enter

  This will bring up the Disk Manager. Right-click of the 80 GB partition and expansion through empty space.

• Install hard drive does not display complete space after failure bootcamp

  If this problem is shallow, but I did a ton of research, and I'm stuck.

  I tried to install Windows 10 with the BootCamp assistant and there was a mistake and restarted my MBP (mid-2015, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3, 1 TB SSD). Upon restart, the partition of windows seems to be there, but when I tried to start Windows (restart now option key), I found myself with only one option, which was to start in Mac OS X. Fine. So I started in Mac and went to the wizard bootcamp again and this time, I had the option to remove windows, so I did, which was good, because I was going to just to try new BootCamp assistant...

  -BUT (here's the point of this post)-

  After the deleted bootcamp windows partition Wizard, my Mac partition was left on its reduced size, which is 901,34 Go (before "assistant" training camp, I got 999,35 GB, it's a 1 TB drive).

  I did a lot of things to try to remedy this situation, but nothing seems to work:

  -J' resized the partition in disk utility (which continued to give me errors, until I turned off FileVault), so now my SSD shows only a single partition to 1 TB in size.

  -J' tried to run first aid on both the disk (SSD Apple) AND partition (Sean HD), but which shows all go well.

  -I went through the Terminal to run the/dev/disk0 repairdisk diskutil command and it seems that the partition plan seems to be OK.

  I would avoid using testdisk, because I think I would mess something up, but if I have the right direction, I could predict the future.

  I DON'T want to format the drive and start over, because I would be really sad to have to reinstall/remake ~ 800 GB of things again (I am a music producer). And, Yes, I backed everything up, but again everything is too tedious (do once was quite tedious as it may be).

  

  You notice you have a recovery of 98 GB of HD, which is usually about 650 MB? What were the exact steps you have taken to address the issue that you have after that BC did not work correctly? Did merge partitions incorrectly?

• hard drives are not displayed except c:

  I was with win xp SP3 before the power failure.

  After a power failure and strongly fluctuating I fell from my PC and after when I turned it on, I think all good except local disk

  local drives except c: do not appear in my computer.
  I tried to see in disk management, but they are not shown here also
  then I tried to fix my version of windows, but there is nothing else that change for sp3 to sp2
  I tried to write F:\ instead of C:\ , but it says "file:///f:/". ' could not be found. Make sure that the path and the Web address is correct.
  Now, I am unable to use all of the data stored in the drives d, e, f
  But when I tried to download anything on the F drive (already together, without having to travel) by using the Download Manager it saved successfully but is somewhere in the c drive
  I'm tired out now... Can do you for me?

  Hi xdeeep,

  As readers do not appear in disk management, the problem is likely related material.

  Check if the drives are detected properly in the output system BIOS (Basic). If they are not listed, it is possible, that the discs are damaged.

  If the drives are listed, try to perform a system restore.

  System Restore can return your files system to a point in time before you noticed a problem, without affecting documents, photos, or other personal files. If the system restore does not resolve the problem, you can undo the restore operation and choose a different restore point.

  How to restore Windows XP to a previous state

  Additional reference on:

  System Restore Windows XP is easy to use

• How can I change the icon associated with an external hard drive that is displayed in my computer

  When I double click the icon my computer on my Seagate external desktop hard drive does not display the correct icon. It displays a blank page with the upper right handed with a superimposed replica of a small screen.  I really want to show an icon that looks like the real thing as stated in the icons folder.

  Hi PhilipRoebuck,

  (1) do you get an error message when you try to open the external hard drive?
  (2) where there are changes to the computer before the question?
  (3) is confined to a specific icon?
   
  See the following:
  Method 1:
  Icons change incorrectly in Windows
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2396571
  Important Before run you this difficulty, save your data and close the application. After you run the difficulty, your computer will reboot after 10 minutes.
  Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/322756
   
  Method 2:
  How to change the default icons for folders in Windows XP
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310192
   
  I hope this helps.

• No matter how much hard drive space or size is not displayed. It says hard drive is not accessible and the cyclic redundancy error.

  * Original title: hard drive problem

  No matter how much hard drive space or size is not displayed. It says hard drive is not accessible and the cyclic redundancy error. When I try to format it, it says windows could not finish.

  What just happened? How can I solve this problem?

  It says hard drive is not accessible and the cyclic redundancy error. How can I solve this problem?

  Sorry, you can not. A CRC error means that there is a serious problem with your drive. You need to replace it.

• lack of start up programs, did a search and all the files on the hard drive, just not where they belong, running windows xp with sp3, any help would be appreciated

  all programs and files on the hard drive just not here where they belong, on windows xp with s p 3

  Hi tessagourden,

  1 have you tried all of the suggestions listed in the previous post?

  Add the previous suggestions, you can also try the system restore to the point before the attack of viruses and to check if it helps.

  How to restore Windows XP to a previous state

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/306084

• Problem with installing Windows on a hard drive, HARD drive does not get detected after installation

  Original title: help with hard drive of the computer.

  Flow of the problem:

  My aunt tried to install windows 7 on the previous copy of windows 8. Needless to say that it doesn't work and it has messed up the hard drive. So, I bought a vacuum. I formatted the hard drive using my other windows computer to have 2 partitions: a boot partition and system partition, and then used the program WinToUSB to install windows on the hard disk. The reason I did it is, because no matter how many times I changed the BIOS in my laptop of aunts, it wouldn't boot from the DVD player to load the windows software. After a few hours, I found WinToUSB. Once windows has been installed, I plugged it into the laptop. For a few hours, I didn't know what to do, because the computer does not recognize the hard drive (he said: "Not detected"). I decided to start from legacy, and then the screen deals

  «intell...» »

  and a bunch of dates, etc all the stuff on the screen to load legacy if you know what I mean.

  He said "not plugged in the media. Check the power cord.

  Then quickly changed screen before I can read almost anything and it goes to the normal windows screen black (with 4 colors). I said to myself, how can he be loading if the hard drive is not detected... Once it is loaded, he brought me to the blue screen (blue screen of death, if you want) I turned the computer on again, always noticing the hard drive was not detected. I ran all the recovery/repair options I could and turned off the laptop. I came back a few hours ago and I loaded the computer again and went into the BIOS.  He said that the hard drive has been detected and said the news about this, as usual. However, at the start of the legacy of windows loading screen, it said still not detected.  I then started to windows to see since it is now detected if that fixes the blue screen. Yet, there is no. I tried to go to the normal windows and screen remains blue. any ideas?

  Hello Chris,

  Thank you for visiting Microsoft Community.

  According to the description, it seems that Windows was not properly installed on the hard drive. I'm not sure how to work the software from third-party manufacturers WinToUSB and reliable installation process is. Microsoft does not recommend using any third party tool to install Windows on your computer, the use of these third-party tools can cause serious damage to your computer.

  I would say to format the hard drive once more and try to install Windows through normal Windows installation process.

  Refer to the section "using the installation option custom if no operating system is installed" in the thread below.

  Installing and reinstalling Windows

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/installing-reinstalling-Windows#1TC=Windows-7

  If you are not able to install Windows on the hard drive at all, I suggest you to contact the hard drive manufacturer to obtain a diagnosis of material performed on the hard drive.

  Do not hesitate to write back for any further assistance with Windows, we will be happy to help you.

• Seagate external hard drive is not recognized in Windows 7

  I have a 1 to Seagate disc ext I used since February 2011, I changed my computer since then and only recently, it does not recognize the drive. I couldn't find any free software to download, and the drive did not come with CD. Please help? Thank you.

  You can also follow step proposed in this link & check if the problem persists:

  Seagate Expansion Portable 500 GB external hard drive does not work on my windows 7

• Toshiba canvio 1 TB portable hard drive does not work with windows 8

  The drinking Toshiba Canvio 1 TB hard drive is compatible with Windows 8?

  Hi Michael,

  Welcome to Microsoft Community and we are happy to help you on this question.

  According to the description of the query, the Toshiba Canvio 1 TB portable hard drive does not work on the computer.

  I ask you to answer some question in the context of this question:

  Do you have an error message when you try to access the hard disk on the computer? If Yes, what is the exact error message you get?

  I would like to inform you that the Toshiba Canvio portable hard drive is compatible with Windows 8.

  You can check the link to verify this compatibility with Windows Compatibility Center:

  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/win8/CompatCenter/ProductViewerWithDefaultFilters?TempOsid=win8&Locale=en-us&TextSearch=Toshiba%2Bcanvio%2Bportable%2Bhard%2Bdrive%2B&Type=Both&CurrentPage=0&TotalPages=1&ShowCriteria=0&SortCriteria=Relevance&Compatibility=Unknown&LastRequested=14

  Please answer us with the required information on this issue in order to help you.

  Let us know if you have other Windows related issues.