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  1. R

    Windows 10 Windows 10 recovery drive on usb is only 512MB

    Hi, when I make a recovery drive on usb on my desktop it is 16GB in size. When I make a recovery drive on usb for a Lenovo laptop the drive is only 524MB in size. Both are for the same latest version of Windows 10 and I clicked copy system files in both cases. How would the Lenovo recovery of...
  2. Spirit789

    Problem with Western Digital Gold 10TB

    Hi guys, I bought two of these (between them about month). but I'm hearing sound of clicking from both (when I use it in some way), I don't know what the problem is. I don't think that both of them are faulty and don't know if the problem from the cables.
  3. W

    Windows 10 Random BSOD while playing games and browsing the internet

    Hi guys, My pc has been experiencing BSOD since 3 weeks ago. At first, I thought it was because of my old hard drive since the disk drive would spike to 100% every 20 seconds. However, I bought a new SSD and it still didn't fix the problem. On a daily basis, my pc would crash about 20 times...
  4. L

    Windows 10 Upgrade Problems

    New member here. Upgraded to from Windows 7 Home Premium over the weekend. I have a HP Pavillion (s5257c model#). After the "upgrade" Windows DVD maker no longer works and the disk drive no longer plays CD's or DVD's. Is there any way to rectify these problems? Any help would be...
  5. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 New Notifications?

    Hi Here's something that's been bugging me for a while. Every time I boot my computer I get the message, "Your computer needs to be rebooted to install updates", but if I do reboot I just get the same message again. Second, it always give me messages that say "Click Here", to do this or that...
  6. P Birla

    Windows 7 Unable to copy files to any USB device

    I having a problem with my windows 7 ultimate PC which prevents me from copying / creating any file / folder on any of my USB drives (flash & disk). My system details: Thank you for your help, Birla
  7. ussnorway

    dual boot question: Windows 8 and Ubuntu (moved here for screenshots)

    Snip... "Hi guys, I installed win 8, and Ubuntu (dual boot) in my computer. Now I don't want Ubuntu. I want to uninstall Ubuntu. I searched for it. They said find Ubuntu disk drive, and format it. I don't know Ubuntu disk drive. So I'm formatting disk drives sequentially, and deleting...
  8. A

    Windows 8 CDFS file not shown in windows 8.1

    Dear Team, whenever i connect my internet dongle in my laptop USB port,it does not show that any hardware is plugged in or not.. Thats why i am facing problem in connecting to internet. But the same i checked with window 7,it is showing 1 extra drive whenever hardware plugged in,The ptoblem is...
  9. News

    Disk drive numbers may not correspond to the SATA channel numbers when you install Windows on...

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  10. J

    Windows 7 Installing Win7 from usb loading files stuck

    Hello, My disk drive isn't compatible with my new mobo, so i've decided to go the flash drive installation route. I had to install an iso from the interwebs to use in the windows usb/dvd tool they have to offer to make a bootable drive. when using the drive to boot windows, I immediately get...
  11. jaygon

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Delays in disk drive and USB port

    Apologies if I am posting this in the wrong forum. I'm hoping that the below makes sense to someone. I'm not the most technical person when it comes to operating systems. My Samsung RV510 (Windows 7) is two years old and has always functioned perfectly in terms of speed, function etc. Very...
  12. J

    Windows 7 Where is my ODD gone?

    Hi all, I noticed that my DVD drive icon ( D ) is no longer present, in the explorer pane, when i click "my computer" The icon used to be sit between O/S hdd drive ( C ), and hdd drive ( E ) "see screenshot" Normally any files I need to write to disc would be dragged and dropped, and be ready...
  13. F

    Windows 7 Devices and printers not displaying correct icons

    Sup guys, I actually have a double whammy for you, first off, My Devices and printers isen't showing my icons properly, how can I fix this? Second off, My Computer ALWAYS tries to boot from the Disk drive. I have EVERYTHING but the Hard drives Disabled, but it still tries to to boot from there...
  14. News

    Disk drive numbers may not correspond as expected to the SATA channel numbers when you install Windo

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  15. zvit

    Windows 7 Burning image bluray problem

    Hey guys! I have had this problem for a few days now and I can't restore my computer for various reasons and I also hadn't had lots of time to research the issue so I'm using workarounds for now but if anyone might know a solution, I'd be glad to hear! (Wow, what a long sentence!) I use Adobe...
  16. News

    Relocation of the Users directory and the ProgramData directory to a disk drive other than the disk

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  17. S

    Windows 7 2 users both see 2 'My Documents'

    Hi, I have 2 users defined to my W7 computer, lets say Jack (administrator) and Jill (normal user). Both users have had their "My Documents" moved to a second disk drive E: as "Jack's Documents" and "Jill's Documents". Recently (I first noticed it on 26th August) both users started to see two...
  18. H

    Windows 7 nvstor64 error type 3 is causing my PC to hang repeatedly

    Bottom line up front - my PC is having repeated nvstor64 type 3 errors which cause it to hang and the only way to restart it is to hold the power button in until it shuts down. Help! Sorry if this is the wrong forum - I'm not sure where to post this since I really don't know what the problem...
  19. alebcay

    Windows 7 CD Drive is STUCK

    Hello, Today I was running a fresh OSX86 installation inside of VMWare Player, and using an actual installation disk in my CD drive, which was then tunneled to the VM. Since the installation froze up halfway through, I shut off the VM, and attempted to eject the installation disk, but the drive...
  20. J

    Windows 7 SSD Install Problem

    My HP laptop HD crashed, am trying to replace it with a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD. I do not have Windows installation disks, only have Windows Recovery Disks. All installation instructions I have found for SSD's is for cloning, which I cannot do since the HD is dead. I have installed the SSD...
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