device recognition

I have an ATA internal drive I use as back up and it shows fine on windows 7 32 bit but not on the 64 bit? It shows in the listed devices as active and I can populate it but it won't show in explorer or my computer so I can access files on it. Thanks for your help.

Hi I have tried to seek a solution without success so I am hoping that someone can help. Since installing Windows 7 I cannot see my External USB Hard Drive. It is a Astone 1TB External Hard Drive and the drive itself is a Western Digital WD10EAVS Hard Disk . In Control Panel / Devices and...

So every time I'm copying files to any of my USB drives and I run out of space the computer freezes up a bit then tells me it can no longer find the USB drive. The device still shows up under Computer in the removable devices section but I cannot access it. Removing it and reinserting it does...

I have Windows 7 Home Premium and have been using it on my Del 720 XPS with no issues for a month now. Today, while browsing, the screen flickered and the resolution dropped to 1024x768 and my sound stopped working. I have installed, un-installed, and re-installed all of the drivers from...

Hi there. I just installed windows 7 home premium today on a new system. I am having the strangest issue that i cannot figure out and have googled to the max and have found no answer. I have 3 front USB ports, i can put on a usb headset and it works fine, mobile phone and it works fine, but as...

My new D40x just came in the mail. I took a few shots, tried to connect to Windows 7. It makes the normal beep sound like a USB device was just connected.. but then that's it. No folder, no options, no drivers try to be installed. When I tried to update a driver, it tells me that the...

hi, i am having problems getting the microsoft elite keyboard and mouse for bluetooth working in WIN7. after alot of struggles, the computer recognizes the Microsoft Wireless Transceiver for Bluetooth 2.0 dongle. The bluetooth services are on. The discovery and connections boxes in the...

I need drivers for my usb memory stick,because windows 7 can't recognise the device.Are there any available?

Ok this is a strange one. I have two notebooks both with slimtype dvd burners in them. The first notebook is an old advent 7113 and the second is a brand new samsung r519. I have been running the RC of 7 on the old one for a couple of months and just after i had installed it the drive packed...

I would like to avoid reverting back to XP but this system originally had XP when i installed. Worked for a while then for some reason after installing and using DAEMON TOOLS, MAGIC DISK, and ALCOHOL 120% i have had some explorer.exe errors. Their is also CD/DVD drive that should not exist on my...

This is ridiculous. This morning my USB wired optical mouse failed. The pointer would not move but left & right mouse buttons worked !!! It is a standard MS Wheel Mouse Optical 1.1 USB & PS/2 compatible. It will not light up. It is plugged in direct not via hub.When I unplug & plug back =...

After I failed to find a sound driver for my sound blaster sound card (sb0680, too old apparently), I removed it and installed the driver from the link below to get my onboard working instead. After I installed and restarted, windows 7 still doesn't recognise any audio device connected. Any...

So i couldn't load Windows 7 from my LG Supermulti, so i used the clever USB trick to install it, the problem is that even when im in the Windows 7 OS it's still not recognized. I would assume that the problem would be the DVD Drive itself, but i am also running Windows XP and the drive works...

Hi All, Win 7 refuses to reconige my hf200 HDvideo camera wich i connect to my desktop via USB. When i try it on my vista laptop, it gets reconiged imidiatly. When i try it on win 7 its says usb device not reconiged. Funny thing is, when i first plugged it in, it DID show hf200 legria...

Here is what I'v noticed.... my usb motherboard ports work fine... as long as the device is plugged in when you boot. If you pull something out... and put it back in... it does not. Also, I have 2 front USB ports... of which one works.... (at usb1.1 speeds WHY!) and the other always just says...

I have a multi card reader which works fine in other Operating systems(xp & ubuntu) but for some reason win.7 turns off just before the system loads. I contacted the chip manuf.(alcor) to try & get firmware update or driver but was told none was needed. It doesn't show up anywhere so the system...

firstly running 64bit windows 7 rc fully updated. hey guys, i cant find a file eraser that works in windows 7 has anyone found one. i tried several including eraser my old fave. non would install, i got the beta of eraser to install at least but that wont work. ccleaner does work but its...

Hello, i have an hp laserjet 1020 and my windows 7 is not recognizing it. I tried to install it manually but during the installation process appears a massage saying 'make sure the printer is connected'. After that the installation fails.... can anybody help? thanks :(

I have a PCI-E X-Fi Extreme audio and cannot get my computer to recognize it. Microsoft does not load the drivers and it lists as an unknown Multimedia Audio Device. When I try to install the audio drivers ( both the support pack and direct download from Audigy drivers ) it says no supported...

So I have been trying to export HD footage to my Canon HV30 camera Through IEEE 1394. This is the first time I have done so under Windows 7 and what ever I try it will not work. Windows recognizes and installs the device as "Canon HV30 DV camera" even though it is and HDV camera. I have the...