which cloning software should I use? I see many listed on wikipedia. The disk is now reformated and ready to go! The computer keeps trying to boot on the Samsung. I cannot figure out a way to change the boot number of the drive, besides doing it manually every time I start the computer.

I GOT IT!!! The registry change was the problem!! I changed it back, went into the boot menu and now everything is named correctly and it is booting on the WD. I'm re-formating the Samsung right now. I'll need to image it later on tomorrow. Just maybe I can fallow one of your methods above and get a...

I'm still here! I connected the Samsung to SATA 1 and went into the F2 menu, turned on SATA secondard, ESC, save and then I windows starts loading on the now screwed-up drive!!! I don't get why it would automatically load on this drive?? When I get into Windows, I check to see the drive labels and s...

anyone know why this driver won't update?

You are currently booting from the WD drive (PATA). This is now called drive "C". You also have a second hard drive, a Samsung (SATA). This is now called "E". The computer boots fine and runs normally without the Samsung attached. Is the above correct? YES! You got it! I got so mad at the the Samsu...

please don't give up on me!

anyone? I didn't touch anything today.

I have entered BIOS. That is how I've been turning my drives off and on. I physically removed the Samsung from my computer to see which drive I was booting on and everything works correctly. Since the registry change all my programs and shortcuts have worked correctly, so I must have changed the boo...

I'm trying to format drive E and it says it cannot format because drive E is currently in-use??? I'm beyond confused at this point! It asks do you want to force a dismount? Yes or No? Should I say yes. I think this comes back to drive data name. Is the computer running booting on both drives somehow...

I did what Microsoft lists below. Is that registry or BIOS? I thought it was reg.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/223188

I got confused as you made some unnecessary (to my point of view) registry changes. Which of the two OS did you tweak with the registry change? I changed the registery when I was booted on the Samsung. Note that there is no such thing as "second partition of disk C." There is no such thing as disk ...

In the my-computer/manage/disk management menu it says "System" is still on the second partition of the Samsung, which is now disk E. "Page File" is on the second partition of disk C. WHY??? Doesn't this mean something? Why is the computer saying the system is now on Drive E and not drive C??? Than...

When I click on the icon in the system tray and hit "update" the program will go out to their sever and come back and say please download the new update. I hit download, it downloads, then asks to restart. I restart. The SAME error pops up again!!! I check to see if there are any new updates and it ...

So how do I erase the Samsung and start the entire process again? I cannot figure out how to erase a disk? Can anyone answer my other questions above?

I'm in trouble now!!! Someone help!!!! I posted over on the Dell forum. They said the error was caused by me connecting the drive in the SATA 0 port. They said to move it over to SATA 1, erase and start over. Problem was that the computer had already renamed the new disk as C:. It would only boot on...

I'm getting an error upon loggin in saying that "SLI multi-GPU rendering has been disabled." It pops-up from the system tray. How do I turn this notice off?

yes, a folder pops up.

I should mention that this new drive is installed on SATA port 0. Is that bad? I get an error on start-up saying "secondary SATA port 1 drive is not found".

Put the disc in and Office10 (D: ) pops up. There are 9 options to click on. Which one do I want? None of the options seem to reinstall! What should I do?

how do reinstall over the old corrupt software? Just pop disc one into the drive it will start?

Went into control panel-> add or remove programs -> remove "Microsoft Office XP Pro" and I get a pop-up error saying "This patch package could not be opened. Verifiy that the patch package exisits and you can access it, or contact the application vender to verify that this is a valid Windows instal...

Went into control panel-> add or remove programs -> remove "Microsoft Office XP Pro" and I get a pop-up error saying "This patch package could not be opened. Verifiy that the patch package exisits and you can access it, or contact the application vender to verify that this is a valid Windows install...

I will try the control panel method first! Stay tuned closely so you can help. I'll keep posting updates.

The new drive is SO quiet and a whole lot faster! I like it!

Update: I deleted all the manual partitions and let the WD software do the work. It partitioned the drive and copied all my files/OS over. It then set-up the new drive as drive C: and the old as drive E:. It set the new drive to boot first and I'm running on the new drive right now. I think I may be...

alright, I found how to partition the drive and am formating it right now. I took the jumper out and it seems to be working fine. I copied the factory drive partition. 31mb FAT (un-named), remainder 149.02GB NTSF (named as drive E:) Is this good? Should I run the WD duplication software that was rec...

put in jumper as Samsung sheet said and Windows still doesn't allow me to save to the drive. BIOS sees it. Why doesn't it appear alongside my WD C: drive on "my computer"?

UPDATE: I got the drive in the case, figured out how to connect everything up. Went into the set-up menu upon start up and the BIOS sees the Samsung drive. There IS a little plastic jumper with the thing! On the old WD that is the primary drive has the plastic jumper is pre-installed but not in-use ...

One thing I don't understand how it works, but it does, is the sound transmission to my sound blaster 2 ZS audio card? On my old ATI 9000 Pro there was an external sound connector from the video card output down to the audio card input. There must be something on the motherboard or am I'm missing so...

mini1, I could've sworn I typed a post here the other day. I don't know what happened to it. :oops: Just intall one drive at the moment and yes, you can do it now before you upgrade. Did your HD's come with a jumper (little plastic piece)? If so, install it as seen here: http://www.samsung.com/Prod...

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone on here! I got the new 7600GS installed and said goodbye to the noisy ATI 9000 Pro. Wow!!! This card is great and makes no noise at all! The software/drivers that come with the card are 150 times better then anything ATI could write!! I purchased two sticks of...

jackylman wrote:Did you ever upgrade your HD? How'd that go?

No, not yet. I've got the two Samsungs 160GB (and many, many other computer upgrade parts) under the Christmas tree. They will be installed on Tuesday or Wednesday.