Portege M400: Windows XP does not recognize the 160 GB HARD drive

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  I replaced the 60 GB IDE HDD in my laptop Toshiba Satellite A55-S106 with a 160 GB one of Western Digital.

  I've restored a Ghost 10 image to the new drive on a hard disk external. The computer still recognizes only 60 GB. Belarc and HD Tune to see a 160 GB drive, but show the volumes as being only 60 GB.

  Disk management Windows show 93,16 GB as unallocated.
  I am running Windows XP SP3.

  Someone at - it ideas? The BIOS can be crippled somehow? I can't find anything in the BIOS that seems to address hard drive size.

  I started directly on the Ghost recovery CD after installing the new drive. Should I have formatted, it firstly somehow? Here I used the original recovery CD to recover everything first and then restored the Ghost image?

  I put a 160 GB drive in an old 1999 Dell desktop running Windows 98 and no problems like that. It is hard to believe that a laptop from 2005 would have this problem. It is, however, my first attempt at using a version of Ghost Windows hard drive recovery.

  > I started directly on the Ghost recovery CD after installing the new drive. Should I have formatted, it firstly somehow?

  Yes, I suppose the HARD drive was not formatted in NTFS file format.
  This is why I would recommend booting from original Toshiba Recovery CD and then check if the HARD drive has been recognized correctly!

  Please check first!

• HP 6120 t BIOS does not recognize the second IDE hard drive connected via IDE-SATA controller

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  HP 6120 t (vista) BIOS does not recognize the second IDE hard drive connected via IDE-SATA controller. The other SATA disk and the DVD player came with the machine.

  I hooked my old 200 GB Hitachi drive via the controller. I also put the jumbers in the present as a slave. I also took the original WD drive and just connect the IDE hard drive. BIOS do not show any drive at all.

  I would try something possible at this time I have a lot of my data on the old disk.

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  Try to enter the BIOS and I believe under change of Advanced menu of SATA to IDE or Enhanced.

  You need to do when you install Windows XP or you will get a blue screen and it does not start.

  Don't forget chang back when you put it in your drive home hard sata.

• Historical files Windows 8 will not recognize the new external hard drive

  I just bought a new laptop (Sony Vaio) with Windows 8Pro (System op 64-bit, Intel I7, 1THD).  One of the reasons is that I have approached Win8, is I liked the concept of the new 'File History' backup utility  I started to use the computer with an ext WD My Guide of the HD and the history of the files seemed to work.  Then the drive external hard went wrong and I just bought a new WD My Passport 2 t ext HD.  Historical files will not recognize this drive.  He keeps asking the old drive.  When I attached the new drive and go to the screen "Select drive", it says "no usable drives are detected.  Please connect a drive... "I know that the drive is there because I see under 'My computer' and I can copy files to it.  But the history of the files do not recognize.  WD, I called and they helped me to update drivers and even made a update firmware on the drive, but nothing is done.  I tried several fixes suggested in a few links Microsoft 'how file history works... '. «, «What to do if the file history works more...» ", etc, but all without success. The tech also remote BestBuy Geek squad my computer and tried EVERYTHING and could not get it to succeed.  BTW, it's not the HD post because put us on another computer to WIN 8 and Hx file found immediately.  Tech people thought that it was a deep registry with Win 8 problem and their only suggestion was to reimage my computer with the original recovery disk.  But who is going to cost me an arm and a leg.

  I'm not very tech savvy, so I know there must be something very simple, I'm do wrong or overlooking and I hope that some dear soul on this forum or someone from Microsoft can give me an idea or two.  Thank you very much

  I was having this same problem, but then noticed a presentation text easy to miss in the historical files tool that says that the disc "cannot be a part of a library" or something like that. In my case, I had files on my external hard drive that have been included in several libraries... and none that I really used, so I removed the files (and deleted the libraries for good measure). A fast system restart later, and my player does not appear.

  I don't know why MS did not propose it again for this thread as the more obvious thing to check, but there you have it. Something simple and quick to check that could save you some frustration.

• Vista does not recognize the 640 GB hard drive

  How can I get Windows Vista to recognize my Western Digital 640 GB with 640 GB hard drives instead of 596?

  On Friday, June 11, 2010 21:35:17 + 0000, Freebird-52 wrote:
   
   
  > How can I get Windows Vista to recognize my Western Digital 640 GB with 640 GB hard drives instead of 596?
   
   
   
  Sorry to tell you that everything you have * is * acknowledged. Although
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• Tecra M9 - does not recognize the 320 GB HARD drive

  Hello @ all,

  I tried to install the HARD drive, but it seems to be not recognized by the BIOS. Any chance to get this problem resolved?
  With Acronis Disk Man. I get an error message: No. HDD installed!
  BIOS version is 1.80, HARD drive is a Seagate ST9320421ASG (Momentus 7200.3 320).

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  Hello!

  Have you tested the HARD drive in a laptop or in an external enclosure? Maybe it s faulty.
  Or you test another HARD drive in this notebook.

  Normally a 320 should work in Tecra M9.
  There is a new version of the BIOS on the Toshiba, but I doubt that the problem of the article, but try to update.

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• my computer does not recognize the WD external hard drive

  I use WD My Book external hard drive in my laptop (Vista) DELL for extra storage space. But all of a sudden I don't see in my computer!

  When I looked at , , info., (in addition to the "OS" & "Recovery") I saw "'unknown disc', so I tried see its properties by right-clicking, then I saw"WD My Book external hard drive"name in it and she said"working properly "; but when I played with it, I must have done something wrong, this name of 'unknown disc' missing from the list in my computer. How can I make my WD get work again?

  Hello

  Thank you for posting.

  I suggest you to contact the manufacturer of the device. They should be able to help you.

  Check out the link

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• LG C500-G. AEE5GE1 with Windows 7 home prem OA MEA have been formatted. But despite giving the product key and Windows registry does not recognize the activation. Help, please

  LG C500-G. AEE5GE1 with Windows 7 home prem OA MEA have been formatted. But despite giving the product key and Windows registry does not recognize the activation. Help, please

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  Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601

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  This is the real kick in the teeth: Microsoft won't support me. The OEM of Windows 8 version is the same as manufacturers, such as Dell or HP. Support told me I had the support of the manufacturer. HA! I am the manufacturer. Either that or upgrade from an earlier version of Windows. This means that any that a new construction machine will get ZERO assumption of Microsoft. All just great.

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  Once, there may be no other [HDDs] not connected to the SATA ports.

  Install Windows 8 Pro now.

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• Portege R700 - Autocad 2011 does not recognize the graphics card

  Hello

  I have toshiba Portege R700 with 64-bit win 7 installed.
  I need the computer for use with autocad 2011.

  For some reason any auocad does not recognize the graphics card installed on the computer.
  I suspect it because very little memory is allocated for the graphics card.

  How can I change with the memory allocated for the graphics card, or perhaps, can someone show me where can I find a driver that supports autocad.

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  Hello

  What Portege R700-xxx you have exactly?
  As far as I know the graphics memory cannot be assigned manually.
  Everything is controlled by the graphics driver and you have no influence on this

  You can try updating the graphics card driver maybe it would help.
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• Qosmio F30 - 112 - Windows XP does not recognize the HARD drive

  Hello.

  I have a Qosmio F30-112.
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  Just a question:
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  The fact is that your notebook has a SATA controller and you need a SATA (Intel Matrix Storage Manager) driver.

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• Windows 7 does not recognize the installation discs

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  I have a problem, and I don't know if there is a solution, but here goes.

  My laptop is a HP DV6-7029WM Windows 7, 64 bit.

  The hard drive was dead, and he was replaced last month.  I sent it to HP.  C is the hard drive, and was originally the recovery on D. Removable media were on E, and when I connected a USB stick or memory card reader it would on F.

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