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• Want 750-103D: secondary drive is wiped clean on factory reset

  I've screwed to the top of my installation of office and had to do a factory reset. All my applications were in the main drive and no apps such as photos, music, documents in my secondary hard drive. As a precaution, I unplugged the secondary drive before I did the factory reset. After the factory reset desktop started successfully. Then I stop and plugged back the secondary drive but to my horror on 2nd boot my secondary drive had been wiped and all my apps not disappeared. I don't understand.
  
  What have I done wrong?

  I don't think that something was wrong.

  The new operating system is not reading secondary drive completely as the file system may be different.

  Assign a drive to secondary drive. Press Windows + R, type deskmgmt.msc and press to enter. Here, you would see a drive or disk space that would be unassigned. Right click on the drive and assign a drive.

  or

  Insert the image secondary drive in an external hard disk enclosure and connect an external drive and you should find the content.

  If you have disconnected the secondary drive there is no way of that new OS will erase the content, unless you asked.

• Windows XP on secondary drive

  Hello

  I installed my old hard drives from my old computer to a new computer running OS Windows7. I had a mother fail.

  Although I can see all the files on my old readers, I need to excess information under Windows XP operating system. Because Windows 7 will not work some applications, including Outlook Express.

  I was trying to use the my old primary drive where Windows XP is loaded, as a startup disk, folder Windows are still good... so I think.

  I tried to spent on the old drive as the main stand in the BIOS but Windows requires an activation code, I did not. I have a key to valid code, but Windows will not be exception.

  How to validate Windows XP on my old readers? and I can start up on Windows XP from my secondary drive?

  Is this possible?

  Hello

  1. have you set any password for the old hard drive?

  2. what happens when you start in Windows 7 and then try to access the old hard drive?

  3. you receive an error message that is related to the activation of the old hard drive?

  4. what exactly happens when you try to access the information under Windows XP?

  You can try booting the system with Windows 7, and then try to access the files on the old hard drive. The problem could be related to authorization, which could lead to access denied error message when you try to access the files on the old hard drive.

  In which case you get the access denied error when accessing the files/folders on the old disk hard when you started the computer with Windows 7, you can try the steps of troubleshooting provided in the link below.

  How to open an encrypted file if I am seen refuse access?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-open-an-encrypted-file-if-I-am-denied-access

  How to open a file if I get an access denied message?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/how-do-I-open-a-file-if-I-get-an-access-denied-message

  Please provide more information on the issue so that we can better help you.

• I still have to press F1 to continue when I start my computer it says secondary drive not found

  Whenever I restart my computer, I get this message "Secondary Drive 1 not found press F1 to continue, F2 to run the Setup utility" so I just pressing F1 all the time, can someone help me solve this problem, so I do not hit anything, so that the computer will go just directly on windows, I have a Dell Dimension 3000 and running windows XP.

  Thank you

  Hi smiley1958,

  1. Did you the latest changes on the computer?
  2. When was the last time it was working fine?

  Method 1

  Usually, this would happen if the system basic input/output system (BIOS) settings are incorrect.

  See the link on the Dell forums and try the steps mentioned, check if it helps.

  Method 2

  If the previous step fails, then you will need to contact Dell support to fix the settings in the basic input/output system (BIOS).

  Important: Change (CMOS) BIOS/complementary metal oxide semiconductor settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.

• Whenever I restart my Dell 3000 I get this message: "primary drive 1 not found; Secondary drive 1 not found. »

  Whenever I restart my Dell 3000 I get this message: "primary drive 1 not found; Secondary drive 1 not found. "Then, I received instruction to hit F 1 to continue, which then takes me by the beginning upward. I get as both "F 2 = Set up" and "F 12 = Boot menu." The latter I have looked but frankly have no idea what to do or how it might solve my primary problem. What should I do to simply go through the commissioning by turning on my computer?
  GRDavis

  * original title - starting problem *.

  This isn't a problem of Windows XP. But take a look here:

  http://forums.CNET.com/7723-10149_102-162197.html

• my computer says that my primary drive 1 not found, secondary drive 0 is not found. also allicating I/O bar for PCI device error.

  We had a power outage about 2 weeks ago, it burned my hard drive. My neighbor put a new disc in for me, now my computor is said primary drive 1 not found, O secondary drive not found, and 1 secondary drive not found. I do not know how to solve this problem, can you help me?

  Hi camicannon,

  Check out the wire link such question and check if it helps.

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-system/XP-primary-hard-drive-disk-not-found/c98f8205-78d8-4e6a-A603-8c4fae852690

• Restoration of secondary drives that are not not in my computer after XP

  After the restoration of XP MCE 2002 SP3, my secondary drives are not listed under my computer.  They show in the management of disk as disk 1 and disk 2.  Both have the following status in disk management: Basic, online healthy (active).  When I right click on disk 1 or disk 2 the only option is to 'Delete Partition '.  I saved my data files on these disks before you restore XP (in C :).  How XP to assign the drive letters on these discs and to recognize in my computer without risking the data that is on it?  Thank you!

  I don't know why or how, but now my secondary data disks have drive letters and are listed in Explorer / my computer.  I tried to use PartiionMagic of Norton, but that provides no way to assign drive letters.  It's probably a coincidence, but I've also reinstalled Norton GoBack, although I disabled it immediately to run PartitionMagic.  The key is that I have now both of my back of data disks and I am on my way to restore my data!  YES!

• Need help to replace a physically C drive on several computer disks. I can't LOOSE the data on the secondary drive.

  I got 2 hard drives, a small disc with XP Pro and a big drive for storage and memory intensive programs. The disc is dead - physically (he's grinding wheels), not because of software problems. I managed to boot from the XP disk and copied as much as possible on an external drive to install on a new hard drive. Externally will not take the backup file. After that I restarted depui the XP disc, my secondary drive is no longer recognized. I copy the contents of the C drive on an external drive. Here are my questions:
  1. can I ghost the info on a new hard drive and skip the installation? Reason I have CS3 on drive F, but it components installed on the C drive (where CS2 was before I upgraded). I do not have my Adobe CS3 here records because it allowed multi, and my records are currently out of State with the other licensee.
  2. If I install the new disk, starting from the old drive with XP disc, can I ghost? (I have a tour customized for several readers) When I started the drive C before - he tried to install on my F drive. I have not installed (I can't lose the files on drive F), and now the computer does not recognize the drive. I bought a Seagate drive and they have great software for installation - so I'd like to ghost it. The XP disk reduced to nothing the new drive hard as he did the F drive?
  and finally, question 3. When the new drive, I get up and running, can I sign out the F drive, plug it back and Windows will see it? CS3 & Quark will still work if I have to do a fresh install?

  1. can I ghost the info on a new hard drive and skip the installation? Reason I have CS3 on drive F, but it components installed on the C drive (where CS2 was before I upgraded). I do not have my Adobe CS3 here records because it allowed multi, and my records are currently out of State with the other licensee.

  2. If I install the new disk, starting from the old drive with XP disc, can I ghost? (I have a tour customized for several readers) When I started the drive C before - he tried to install on my F drive. I have not installed (I can't lose the files on drive F), and now the computer does not recognize the drive. I bought a Seagate drive and they have great software for installation - so I'd like to ghost it. The XP disk reduced to nothing the new drive hard as he did the F drive?
  and finally, question

  3. when the new drive, I get up and running, can I sign out the F drive, plug it back and Windows will see it? CS3 & Quark will still work if I have to do a fresh install?

  Hi jdohugh,

  Thanks for posting. If I read your post correctly your hard drive with your operating system on it died, so you lost your operating system and do not have to reinstall but you try to get down the important data before the reinstall.

  1 Q: can I ghost the info on a new hard drive and skip the installation? Reason I have CS3 on drive F, but it components installed on the C drive (where CS2 was before I upgraded). I do not have my Adobe CS3 here records because it allowed multi, and my records are currently out of State with the other licensee.

  A. Si your drive with your operating system does not work, I do not think you can ghost it and reinstall as the image would not work. With Adobe CS3 disks, you will need to contact Adobe and get them to perform the installation of additional supports. Simply copy the files likely will not work to reisntall the application.

  2. Q. If I install the new disk, starting from the old drive with XP disc, can I ghost? (I have a tour customized for several readers) When I started the drive C before - he tried to install on my F drive. I have not installed (I can't lose the files on drive F), and now the computer does not recognize the drive. I bought a Seagate drive and they have great software for installation - so I'd like to ghost it. The XP disk reduced to nothing the new drive hard as he did the F drive?

  A: as I said in question 1 if your operating system drive does not an image would most likely fail or be corrupt. If read correctly the other part of the question you the system tried to start installation on your f:\ that matches your drive program and now you cannot access the files on it? With the last part of this question, you will need to contact Seagate to see what makes their software, I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish by using.

  3. Q. When the new drive, I get up and running, can I sign out the F drive, plug it back and Windows will see it? CS3 & Quark will still work if I have to do a fresh install?
       
  A. Si you reconnect an extra drive to XP, the operating system should see it regardless of what it was connected to previously. With regard to your programs, if it is a new operating system you load then Yes, you will need to reinstall these applications on the operating system, and they should work with no problems provided that the drive is working correctly.

  I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any additional questions.
  Shawn - Support Engineer - MCP, MCDST
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• boot from secondary drive after the failure of the primary

  I have a desktop Dell XPS 8500 1,5 years.  Already, the motherboard had to be replaced.  and now the main internal hard drive hasn't apparently - according to the dell diagnostics.  When I got to the computer, I installed a secondary hard drive and set up a periodic back place... If all goes well, which worked all along.  My question is, what is the best way to recover?  I can't boot from the secondary drive... I guess there is no SYS file there and no Windows 7 installed there.  The only disc I can find from dell for this computer is Dell Drivers and Utilities disk.  I don't remember ever having a Windows 7 installation disc.  It is available for download at dell?

  Hi Ajbuch,

  The best way to recover the system is to install a new hard drive on which you can install Windows 7. You can not install Windows 7 on the second disk since you already have the files it contains. I have a link below a nice OS installation guide which includes instructions for the preparation of a disc to install Windows 7 from a downloadable file (or FlashDrive if you prefer).

  Since your 8500 is quite recent, you can consider a SSD drive, which gives you great performance boost.

• Solid State Drive SSD how to store the user accounts on secondary drive

  I installed windows on a SSD and I want to use a secondary drive for all my data. How to configure windows (explorer) to do this? Thank you, DM.

  Move the users directory and directory ProgramData on one drive other than the drive that contains the Windows directory Warning Using the ProgramData parameter to redirect folders to one drive other than the system volume will block your ability to upgrade to later versions of Windows.

  By changing the location by default of the user profile directories or folders of program data to one volume other than the system volume, you cannot service your Windows installation. Impossible to apply updates, patches or service packs to install. We recommend that you do not change the location of the user profile directories or files from program data.

• Just reinstalled Windows, permissions on the secondary drive are bent now

  My 320 GB hard drive that has Windows 7 installed on it crashed. I also had a secondary drive of 1.5 TB of storage. I bought a new 500 GB drive and installed Windows 7 fresh top. Now, I think all permissions on this secondary drive are confused because they were originally from the previous installation. At first, I was getting errors in the programs that I couldn't because I don't have permission to write files, so I said the drive to give me ownership of everything on it.

  That seemed to work for a while, but now - and it is perhaps even more boring - when I try to move or copy files, even if I am the owner, it keeps popping up that box (which NEVER happened on the previous installation, incidentally) tells me I need administrator permission to move the files. The first time I saw it, my account was created as an administrator, so I was like "What the heck?" but I hit the little 'yes' with a shield next to him and the files will move as I indicated.

  After spending a ton of time to search the Internet for more information on this subject, it looked like whenever someone asked something similar to this, they would immediately get said, before all else, that they shouldn't be on the admin account, so I thought it was probably a good idea anyway, and who knows maybe it will solve the problem so I did an admin account, logged in it and the value of my main account to a Standard user. Now, logged into my account as a Standard user, when I try to move the files in the same way, the same box appears, except that now I have to enter the password of the Admin account to move files, too!

  I really don't want this obscene level of security on a single user's computer, but I tell myself that all this has something to do with the previous installation of Windows and system files on the secondary drive.

  Long story short, I want the nagging box go away, and I'm out of ideas.

  I solved my problem, I think.

  First: I deleted this user, who, after researching online, I found was just as I thought, an old rest of the previous installation of windows. Remove from the list of permissions of the folder seemed to work well and removed everything.

  Second: drive D right click, entered the security, hit advanced, tap on change permissions, open my standard user and deleted permissions. I hit OK, checked the box on the next screen to replace all child object permissions and click OK. It took some time to change all the permissions, but then I checked the various folders and files to confirm that the standard user was on the list.

  Third: once this was done, I did the same thing AGAIN. Right click the D drive, entered the security, hit advanced, tap on change permissions, open my standard user and he gave TOTAL CONTROL. I hit OK, checked the box on the next screen to replace all child object permissions and click OK. It took some time to change all the permissions, but then I checked the various folders and files to confirm that the standard user was on every list with full control.

  Fourth: I changed to the standard user account and tried to move one of the files previously not moveable, and it worked very well.

  MY THEORY OF WHY THIS HAPPENED: when I reinstalled windows, I chose the same username of the main account again. This may have confused the file system, so I need to get rid of all remnants of the old installation. My username and the name of the computer being the same, I just need to trash the permissions for the old compname/username and then reset again for the compname/current user name.

  I could be WAY OFF with this theory, but it seems to have worked.

  A bit of research I could do, but I'm not going to do, would be to reinstall Windows again and choose a different computer name and the user name to see if the same issues that happened, or if the new permissions set correctly. Or heck, even if the old permissions were still there, but once I took control at the start, it would work. But I'm not going to reinstall Win again, so I don't know who.

  Basically, I think that when you have a situation like mine, it is maybe just tell Windows to appropriate the entire disk is not good enough, and you must make sure that all the old stuff is removed before this. (If your username and compname are the same thing again.)

  As how young Win7 is, I guess the percentage of those who have reinstalled as it is still quite low, so it's probably a problem not frequently encountered. You can have people from MS to test on this!

  Thanks for all the help, I'll be sure to check if there are other problems and let you know!

  -Gary

• Failed to create the paging to a secondary drive file

  I recently installed a secondary hard drive in my laptop, and I'm trying to move the swap file to this drive to increase performance. However, for some reason, the system is unable to create a swap file on the secondary drive (d). To be precise, this is what happens:

  1. I go to system properties > advanced > settings > advanced > change and together an exchange of files on drive d (I tried to do "managed system" or setting a specific size, but that makes no difference). For now, I keep the pagefile on the C: drive as well.
  2. I click on save and see 'total size pagefile for all readers' increased appropriately.
  3. I navigate to D:\ and see that pagefile.sys has been created successfully.
  4. I restart my computer.
  5. D:\pagefile.sys has disappeared; "all readers of the total paging file size" shows the old value (i.e. not counting the pagefile on D :).)
  I did some research and have already tried the following:
  1. Running 'sc config afs start = disabled' - there is no such service on my computer
  2. Setting the size of page on D: "management system" file - it is always not get created
  3. Check the permissions on the d: - both COMPNAME\system and COMPNAME\Administrators have full control access. drive is owned by system
  4. Also tried disabling the pagefile on the c: completely - what makes Windows generates an error message "Windows created a temporary swap file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer". The system creates a temporary pagefile on C:, but none on D:.
  5. Finally, I ran sfc/scannow, and he finds no errors.

  What Miss me? What is the problem with my D: drive? It is formatted in NTFS and has 30 GB of free space.

  Tips, links, wild guesses is very much appreciated.

  P.S. The system chart: HP 6930p (Core 2 Duo 9400), 3 GB RAM, Windows 7 Enterprise 32 bit.

  1. it is not dedicated in the pagefile, but as much as I know this isn't a requirement, right?

  2. I expected to be able to create a pagination on the D: drive, even if it has other files.

  3. I tried it both ways - with a nominal pagefile on C: (different sizes) and without it. In all cases the paging on D: file not be enabled.

  1. a dedicated partition is preferable. Swap files mixed with other files, unless the minimum fixed = maximum, increase in the rate of fragmentation of other files and free disk space.

  2. what pagefile parameter you try to apply?

  3. advice on swap files made with Windows XP in mind. Increase in RAM memory and the pagefile is used may have changed. Of course, there are different views on the defragmentation from Microsoft programmers today. Personally as a user I have reservations about evolution.

  Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

• What are the causes of "secondary drive 0 and 1 not found.

  my pc says "secondary drive 0 and 1 not found. What could be the cause.

  Hello

  Method 1:

  You can check the primary and secondary transmission in disk management and check if they are healthy.

  (a) open computer management by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, clicking system and security, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-click computer management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  (b) in the left pane, under storage, click disk management.

  (c) in respect of each hard drive, check the status.

  Method 2:

  Note: Update of the BIOS can be a complicated process, and if an error occurs, your computer could be rendered unusable. Be sure to observe the instructions of the manufacturer.

  Step 1:

  You can check in the BIOS Basic Input Output System () if the drive is detected correctly.

  Note:  Perform the step after you restart the computer.

  Step 2:

  If the drive is detected correctly during the restart in the BIOS, update the chipset and BIOS drivers. Visit the manufacturer's Web site to do the same.

• Can I use my secondary drive with operating system installed only on the primary drive?

  I want to install simulator FSX on my secondary drive, I heard that it will pick up the pace. I install Win 7 on my secondary drive in order to make it work?

  Primary-Seagate Barracuda 1 TB Win7

  Secondary-WD VelociRaptor 10000 RPM

  Thank you

  Noobie

  I run my sim card on a Sharp 70 "Led 1920 X 1080 p, its so rude, but I like it. I recently got the GTX 590 to find FSX hate double GPUs.Another lesson learned the bad sense, lol. (soon gtx 680)  Also I saw FSX does not play well with the RAID. The sim card is dependent on almost all CPU but with mem cpu and mobo upgrades I should;(better!) See a significant difference. I see a drop in FPS on such a large screen, are there tips to improve?

  Thanks a lot for your answer.

  (24 gb 1866 mhz mem, Asus p6t7 Mobo, intel i7 975 happen soon.)

  Oh yes, I am running an i7 - 2600 K on an Asus P8Z68-V mainboard with memory 32 GB GSkill, Yes, I use a lot of memory, but my performance is excellent, no bottle no necks here. I read that my favors 1600 MHz cpu, with a card mother dual channel is to have triple or quadruple channel about the latency of memory and cache. I think you should run an i7 - 2600 k or even an i7 - 3770 k and at least a card mother with a Z68 or better (Z77) chipset, I also think that FSX could benefit from the technology of fast storage Intels. In addition, I think you should consider at least a 32nm, otherwise a 22nm CPU. Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge CPU are pretty hard to beat. I use my system for games, photo editing and a few VMs running via VMware 8.0 and I'm quite satisfied with the overall performace, with 32 GB of memory, I'm not even under a swap file. In any case, you need to re - consider your choice of material. I have always a way to upgrade with my CPU, hard drives and the GPU.

• I have a SSD C drive and a larger secondary drive. Where to install the products. What is the best for performance?

  I have a SSD C drive and a larger secondary drive. Where to install the products. What is the best for performance?

  installation on your SSD will give better performance, but can consume a lot of disk space.

• I'm not able to create a catalog on a secondary drive in beta LR5

  Using the Mac version of the LR5 beta, I tried to create a Lightroom catalog on a secondary drive (the same drive my LR4 catalogs are on), and I got the following error:

  Lightroom can't create a catalog named 'photos-5' volume ' / Volumes/Lightroom/photos-5 "because Lightroom is unable to save changes to this place." Lightroom catalogs not opening on volumes network, removable storage, or read only volumes.

  The drive is not a network, removable storage volume (it is a SATA on a Mac Pro), or read-only.

  Looks like you need to repair your permissions.