Recent content by Conrow

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    IDE controller 1 / HDD stuck in PIO mode

    Hi, thanks for the reply. In the rush to explaining some of the more complex stuff, I keep forgetting to say that I did indeed uninstall the driver, several times. It did not work. In fact, I just tried a repair installation of Windows, this didn't work either (unsurprisingly). As for...
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    IDE controller 1 / HDD stuck in PIO mode

    I have 2 IDE controllers in Device Manager, one defaults to UDMA 2 mode, the other PIO. The one that's at UDMA2 lets me right click + disable, whereas the PIO mode one will not (no option). PIO mode causes ridiculous CPU usage (takes up the whole virtual thread on a HT processor when I try...
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    Virtual drive being recognized as a physical drive

    Delete the registry entry under HKLM/System/MountedDevices. Personally, I would kill for my virtual drives to be recognised as such.