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Fixed it. I had a USB thumb drive do the same thing, my 2nd machine wouldn't recognize it in a file explorer, so I experimented with it. All it took to fix both the unrecognized USB thumb drive and the USB portable drive was to assign both a drive letter. They then both began to show up in...

Yes, I find it in there. I don't want to do anything that might cause the loss of data though. Is it missing a label?

I have a 700GB external disk drive that my Dell x64 used to recognize when I plugged it in. W7 will no longer recognize it. I can plug it into another like Dell W7 machine and it recognizes the disk. Does anyone know why this problem is happening and anything I can do to rectify it? (It may...

Thanks. I had already deleted it, but my system would always boot to a button that said Owner, which I had to then click to continue. I just found the answer though: Get rid of having to click User button upon boot: Press windows & R for run box type "netplwiz" or "control userpasswords2" -...

Every time I temporarily install Anydesk, it installs a sshd server. This also creates a new user account. After I un-install Anydesk, my W7 starts requiring me to click on a single User button to finish booting. How do you stop this? I am the only user on my machine. Before installing...

I have found with Disk Investigator scores of urls and passwords on my disk that windows7 has somehow put in the clear on my C drive. I have tried using HxD to overwrite the passwords, but windows7 gives me an 'Access denied' message when I try to save the changes. This write is supposedly...

Appreciate your reply. Agree with everything you said. For some reason, everything is resolving OK now. I didn't do anything except I had to do a complete restore of my system with Paragon for other reasons. Apparently just something weird going on.

Wonder if someone can tell me what is going on here. As a result of out in house DNS server setup, I need to go to this site www.swpc.noaa.gov by way of its ip address 140.172.17.21. But when I try to do that, I get the following page...

I have to use 'System Restore' from time to time to restore my computer. The instructions says: System Restore helps you restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. It's a way to undo system changes to your computer without affecting your personal files, such as...

That does make since and would be the reason why the bins show up only when the disk is connected.

Thanks. I didn't understand how that was working. It all goes to the main recycle bin. I guess I had never looked at the recycle bin when the portable disk was connected (TrueCrypt disk) or just didn't notice the different drive letters listed.

I discovered what is called the $RECYCLE.BIN on a SimpleTech portable disk drive I use. It does not show up in the disk folder/file listing, but I can scan for it in the 'Find' routine (*recycle*.*)). What I am concerned with is that it may contain deleted files that need to be purged, but I...

In the System Restore window, it says: "System Restore does not affect any of your documents, pictures, or other personal data. Recently installed programs and drivers might be uninstalled. Is this process reversible?" I have had a problem since Vista of System Restore deleting some personal...

The problem is that the format autorun box pops up doesn't ever pop up. Maybe your right. It can read the existing 700 cd's but can't format new ones.

I have had a problem with my cd accepting different types of cd's. I purchased some 4x 4.7gb cd-rw disk that I was assured would work on my newer model HP laptop. I had trouble getting a new cd's to format at first, but somehow got one to format and select data. Now my cd works fine with the...