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USB external drive causes Windows XP Home to freeze?

Description : I have a 200GB Western Digital HD with a USB-to-IDE external enclosure. Everytime when I plug the USB cable into to my Toshiba L25-S119 notebook computer, the Windows XP Home hang/freeze. The following are some information about my computer hardware, OS, and HD: Computer maker and model: Toshiba Satellite L25-S119 Hardware information (general): CPU: Intel Celeron M 370 (1.5GHz) 1MB L2, 400MHz FSB RAM: 768MB (256 + 512) PC4200 DDR2 533MHz SDRAM 1.8V SODIMM Chipset: ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Chipset Southbridge: ATI SB400 Internal HD: 60GB FUJITSU MHV2060AH, 5400RPM, EIDE (ATA-6) Optical drive: MATS.H.I.TA DVD/CDRW UJDA770 OS and BIOS information: OS: Windows XP Home with SP2 BIOS: Toshiba v1.80 (12/14/05) External USB HD: Western Digital 200GB HD (IDE)in NTFS with 2 partitions. (approximately 150 + 50 GB) External Enclosure: Metal Gear Box with AC-to-DC power supply. Other information: The external USB HD works fine with my another two desktop PCs: Windows XP Pro SP2 and Windows 98 SE (with NTFS for Win98 and USB driver). And, it also works perfectly with my friends' Sony and HP notebook computers (Win xp Home). My first thought was a driver problem. However, I checked the drivers it installed in this notebook were same as my other PCs. I tried Windows XP Pro SP2 clean installation on this computer, but the problem still occured. Therefore, it is not some problems with the Home edition of Windows XP. The external enclosure has a DC power supply, so power won't be the problem. I have tried all my three USB ports. All the three USB ports works fine with my SanDisk 1GB Flash drive. I did a CHKDSK using my desktop PC, and the disk was fine. I also uninstalled and reinstalled all the USB and disk drivers, but it still the same.(set DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES=1 devmgmt.msc) The only situation that it works with this computer is when I boot the computer from Knoppix Linux CD. So, I guess this is not a hardware problem. How do you guys think? Thanks in advance. I forgot to mention that both my computer and external enclosure are with USB 2.0 ports, and the drive works fine with other computers that have either USB 2.0 or USB 1.1. First, thanks for all the answers. One more thing... I took out my Maxtor 91531U3 15.3GB HD (FAT32) from my old desktop PC and put it in the same enclosure. Then plug it in this Toshiba NB. Guess what? It works. So, it should be some problems with this Western Digital HD, right?

Answer : I discovered a configuration mismatch CPU: Intel Celeron M 370 (1.5GHz) 1MB L2, 400MHz FSB RAM: 768MB (256 + 512) PC4200 DDR2 533MHz The clock frequency of the RAM may not be higher than the clock frequency of the FSB. Every manufacturer of a mainboard with FSB 400MHz would recommend RAM of the types PC2100 or PC2700. This might not be the reason for your hangs/freezes, but the timing of PC4200 DDR RAMs on a 400MHz FSB is critical anyway.

I need help removing Windows 7 and Installing Windows XP!?

Description : I have a notebook PC. I hate windows 7, slows it down. So I took out my old Windows XP disc into a external disc drive and changed the BOOT Settings to USB: CDROM in BIOS. I changed the HardDrive SATA Controller to IDE from AHCI. I booted from the CD and started Windows XP Installation. It worked fine until I got to the Formating. I deleted all partitions and chose C: partition 1 to install windows xp. It gave me 2 options, quick format, and normal format. I chose normal format. Waited for like 2 hours then when it was completed it said this "Unable Format HardDrive C. Please Choose a different Patition to install." WHAT DO I DO? I deleted all partitions! PLEASE GIVE INSTRUCTIONS!! I do not care about windows 7. I don't have anything on there. When I try booting without the CD. It says "ERROR LOADING OPERATING SYSTEM" I've read alot already. Windows XP IS WHAT I need! I do not want to buy anything if I can avoid it. Thanks for your help. Please read aditional details for any extra questions I might have.

Answer : I know I'm probably missing something, but why did you change the SATA Controller to IDE from AHCI? Change it back and see if it makes a difference. If it doesn't, download GParted and format it that way. Make sure you choose NTFS.

Hard Drive boot & OS question?

Description : My desktop will not boot up. It doesn't have a recovery partition. So my first idea was to reinstall Windows by booting from the disk drive. That won't work because I don't have the Windows install disk and I can't make one because the RW drive on my notebook is broken. So my second idea was to put the windows install image on an external drive and attempt to boot the desktop from that. Again it did not work. I removed the HDD from the desktop and connected it via USB to my notebook. I am able to view the contents of the drive and it seems to operate fine. I attempted to boot the notebook with the desktop's HDD and it allows me to do it, but isn't capable of loading. I believe this tells me that the issue is with Windows XP and the boot command not executing properly. I want to install Windows XP on the desktop's HDD while it is connected to the notebook. The windows install image file is on my notebook. I know when you install an OS such as Windows it will ask you what volume you want it installed on, but when I begin the installation disk it asks me "what I want to do?" and "Install Windows XP" is greyed out so I can't select it. Should I format the drive as an NTFS or FAT32 and put the Windows XP install image on the drive and try to boot that way? Or will that not work because then windows will have to format the drive it is reading from. I'm not sure if you can write the thing you are reading from. Is there a way to install Windows on one drive from another using the same machine? How do I do ir?

Answer : It soulds like your boot sector is messed up. Check out the link below for a possible way to fix it. Specifically the commands and their usage BOOTCFG, FIXBOOT, and FIXMBR. Some of these commands can wipe your partitions, so use carefully!

Sata problem in windows instalation on laptop ACER 6791?

Description : the problem is the same with motherboard ASUS P5RD1VM, they need sata driver or the SATA hardisk wont be recognize in windows installation, so i download from asus website, and copy the driver needed to a diskette 1.44, connect a floppy disk, put the diskette in, and load the driver and so the hardisk detected. i ve seen this also on notebook/laptop but most of them have an option in bios , which u can choose as native or IDE mode, and the installation will run okey, but i experience this ACER laptop is so weird, the bios only shows system info, password, boot, and device such as infrared,serial,usb and NO SATA option detected, such a minimum bios, nothing can be tune.. i wonder why acer always makes thing difficult for user to reinstall their desktop station / laptop , on their desktop product the problem is the same. what im asking is, should i search for the laptop sata driver controller ? are the same solution works? i install vista and no problem at all, but i prefer in windows XP.. is there someone knows about this, thanx :)

Answer : If you have an Acer OEM Windows XP install disc use that. Most OEM companies will slipstream in drivers so you do not have to do anything to reinstall off of the restore discs. Otherwise get an XP disc and use a program called Nlite to add in service packs and drivers so that you can create your own custom windows XP install disc. That way you can just go to the acer website, download the SATA controller driver, extract it, and then during the Nlite process point the program to the location where the Windows XP 32 bit drivers are.

Dell Mini 10 Installation Help?

Description : I have Dell Mini 10 Notebook/Net-book It had Windows XP I installed Windows 7 (Upgrade) via USB bootable I am now selling Mini 10 but the customer wants Windows XP on it. I have the real disk, and real key. I created a bootable .iso on a USB stick, but it doesn't boot from it. Can I boot from EXTERNAL CD/DVD Drive?

Answer : Yes you can. Also you should be able to boot from a bootable USB drive.

How to change AHCI to IDE mode on Acer Aspire One AOA150 to install WinXP?

Description : Hello everyone, I've got a serious problem with my Acer aspire one notebook computer which caused my PC to be almost dead and totally useless. The OS (WinXP home) was deeply corrupted and and the worse thing was the recovery partition which that has been also corrupted cause when I pushed Alt+F10 after the system rebooting each time I got an error message that one of the files that is related to eRecovery is missing and consequently the recovery partition is unable to recover the system. anyway I decided to forget about recovery partition so I formatted whole the disk completely and tried to install the Windows XP with an external CD-Rom and after the blue installation page appeared and loaded several basic files to the disk I received a blues screen of death that I should run chkdsk/f to fix possible disk problems (which I did several times) right after that and it stop installing the OS anymore. I tried more and more but nothing changed. I did google the problem a lot and almost found no solution even until this moment. I've learnt that I should change the HDD mode from AHCI to IDE through the bios menu which such option is totally unavailable at all !! or probably is locked by the manufacturer to prevent installing any OS independently but using the acer's own recovery program (as I heard from someone else). I even downloaded the some recovery ISO files which seemed to be fake because none of the could work as a bootable program when I copied the files to my USB flash drive to boot. know all I want to know is that how to bring this dead PC back to life once again and install a new OS on it. Any helps or slightest idea regarding to fix this issue is much appreciate. Thank you so much! My problem is not how to get into the bios options !, the issue is that I only DO NOT see an "AHCI / SATA to IDE" option in Acer aspire one AOA 150 in its bios menu to change it to be able to install windows xp OS. thats all I need to know or since such option is not available I assume there's at least a software which is able to make this change for pc which is unknown for me and dont know where to get such software.

Answer : i doubt they locked it. never seen that in my life. dont use acer so cant say how for sure, but every brand is diffrent on opening bios. normaly it tells you what to hit when u turn on system while u still have black screen.it may flash really quick, so look close. just depends what your setting are. its probly going to be tapping delete, or escape, or f10 while computer is booting up. but may be diffrent. if you cant find where it says what to tap, try one of those 3

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