Re: O.T. DVD/RW question:

On Dec 7, 9:40 pm, Robert <magine...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:33 pm, Bert Olton <artor...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Robert wrote:
Well this is where I'm at with it.

I have a Dell Dimension 8200 with XP, and have 40gigs with 17.5 gigs
free. I only have one game that I play on it so memory shouldn't be
an
issue. In addition, I have AVG, Comodo, Spybot and A-squard running
on
it.

Ok, this is the problem; I recently upgraded my computer by
installing
an LG DVD/RW drive and the installation and uploading of the drivers
apparently went ok after a few hitches. I ended up going into the
control panel and deleting each program one by one and that seemed to
fix the issue.

I also bought a Seagate Pata/100 Baracuda 3.5" Internal hard drive so
that I could upgrade my computer from 40gigs to 160gigs.

I took my time, and replaced the old interface cable with the one
that
came with the drive. I couldn't use the old one anyway because the
slave connector was too close to the master and couldn't reach the
new
drive. I made sure the jumpers were set to 'cable select' and
connected it to the slave connection on the cable (gray)and used the
P3 power connecter and felt that I did everything right.

The C:\ Local disk uses the P5 power connector and the DVD/RW drive
uses the P6 connector. Although I wouldn't think it shouldn't matter
since they are all power connectors.

When I powered up my system (with crossed fingers) it did detect the
new drive. I then inserted the Seagate Disc Utility and started to
install the Seagate Disc Wizard but halfway through it gave me a
message that said that it was interupted and couldn't finish the
install and to try again. I thought at the time it was because a
Comodo pop-up appeared asking if I wanted to give the application
access to the Internet. However, I have tried to install this 4 times
now and it does the same each time. Once it hung up and I had to
reboot the system but again it failed.

While checking to see if indeed the hard drive was detected I found
this:

A: 3 1/2 (I removed this drive since it was useless)
C:\ Local disk
D:\ Seagate drive

It doesn't even show the LG drive! I took the same cable connector
and
power connectors off the old cd-drive and put them on the LG DVD/RW
drive and set the jumpers exactly the same, so I don't understand why
it doesn't show it? Nor do I understand why the Seagate drive is
shown
as the D:\ drive? Nor do I undertand why it shows a removed 3 1/2
inch
on the A drive? Where is the DVD/RW?

So what have I done wrong? I would appreciate any help, advice,
comments, suggestions.

Robert,

On the one hand, I've got some ideas about what's going on with your
system, but on the other hand, those ideas go way beyond what's
tolerable even on an unmoderated pipe smokers news group!! <g> In other
words, take your machine to an expert and get it corrected. It doesn't
sound too bad so it shouldn't cost a lot, but it's kind of a complicated
mess.

Bert


After I did a System Restore and updated my computer I tried to
install Seagate Disk Wizard again. All was going well until I
recieved
the following message:

The software you are installing for this software:
Acronis True Imag Backup Arhive Explorer
has not pass Windows Logo testing to verify it's compatibility with
Windows XP.


Continuing your installation of the software may impair or
destabilize
the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the
future. (Yikes!) Microsoft strongly reccomends that you stop the
installation now (which I did) and contact the hardware vendor for
software that has passed Windows Logo testing. (I bought this through
Newegg on the only advice I got when I asked for reccomendations for
a DVD/RW and HDD drives ) So is Seagate and LG a piece of junk and
did I waste my money? I hope not, but If so, please offer suggestions
for a good, durable hard drive with something like 160Gigs of memory
that's Microsoft XP compatible. Or do I just need to purchase a
Microsoft compatible cloning software? CasperXP? Suggestions?


Thanks,
Robert



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