disk drives

I am having a problem recovering an HP ML110 G6 which is being replaced by a dell T20. I was thinking I could just use a VSS backup in the Windoes server recovery during the server 2008R2 install. The ML110 G6 has 4 drives in it. C: E: F: and :G. The new server only has a single RAID 1 Volume...

When reading some config recommendations always two different hardware features are mentioned: AHCI and ACPI What is the difference? Both seem to be power-saving-related. Is one for hard disks and the other for CPU only? Is one in BIOS-only configurable the other from WinOS configurable? Peter

Windows defender detected an attack and after it has been removed I am unable to access "my computer, my documents, folders I have created etc". I still have access to things such as icons on my desktop that are for games and programs but anything for file access and viewing that I get that I do...

Hello, i just bought a new PC. I have 4 disk drives 2x Samsung 840 PRO 128gb in raid 0 and 2 Seagate 6gbps 7200rpm 1TB in raid 1. I went into bios and made the 2x samsung ssd's in RAID0 (success) Then i couldnt make Raid1 with the same method =/. So i went into windows 8 in disk managment and...

Hi Everyone. I am trying to re-instal a fresh copy of Win 7 64 bit on my comp. I am currently running Win 7 64 bit, which seems corrupt. It has the following problems Control Panel right click doesn't work any more Windows update doesn't work any more Unable to upgrade IE 9 to IE 10 Net...

When I want to delete something, my recycle bin icon is missing : Link Removed - Invalid URL After a Windows update, my disk drives went corrupted as well : Link Removed - Invalid URL Any fixes? Please help!

hi all. need some help, so hope someone can oblige. have used ATI for a long time with no problems on various machines, including my Windows 7 Ultimate, x86 computer. this machine has a WD black caviar sata lll 500gig hdd, but is connected on sata ll (mobo doesn't support sata lll). have just...

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

I just formatted and installed afresh Win7 Ultimate N on a WD1000GB. Since setup screen it recognized only 3 of 5 disk drive (all of same HDD). Before that I resized two of the drives with `EASEUS Partition Master 8.0.1 Home Edition` but I did so for the drives he actually recognized. (I...

Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...

I'm doing a Windows 7 tutorial. In it I'm imaging a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I rebooted the VM and booted from my physical WinPE CD. The book SPTK 70-680 (Ian McLean) gives pretty good instructions but I have different drive letters than what’s in the book. The book says to enter...

I had an old (6 months old) internal hard drive that I had setup as an external drive go bad yesterday so I replaced it with a brand new internal drive that I am trying to connect using my esata connector. It is the same exact setup as I had for my old drive that did work for 6 months. The...

Hi, I just got Windows 7 Home Premium OEM on a brand new computer (Fresh install). Install went without a hitch. However, I started noticing that whenever I startup the computer, the "Performance Options" Window pops up on startup. I believe it has something to do with the virtual memory. I...

Light Peak is the code-name for a new high-speed optical cable technology designed to connect your electronic devices to each other. Light Peak delivers high bandwidth starting at 10Gb/s with the potential ability to scale to 100Gb/s over the next decade. At 10Gb/s, you could transfer a...

OS disc drives inaccessible (not solved, but fixed) i have been running windows 7, build 7100, just fine for quite a while on my desktop. i recently restarted my system. upon boot both drives on the disc the os is installed on became completely inaccessible. the os boots fine. the system...

I have two disk drives. One that uses SATA and an old IDE drive. I was only able to install Windows 7 via the SATA drive and had to disconect the IDE drive to even install. After installing; I hook my IDE drive back up. Windows will detect it, but the drive is unusable right now. Does anyone...

Heres a nice review on disk drives compared on Windows Vista and Windows 7 As you can see, Windows 7 is much more efficient when it comes to making use of a solid state drive's speed. While under Windows Vista, our X25-M SSD averaged between 171 MB/s to 206 MB's, whereas under Windows 7...

i installed windows 7 in my computer with little problems that i have solved. the problem is that i have a external hd and it was showing up in device manager but not in my computer. after triying the drivers that came with the enclosure still wont show up in my computer.after triying for a...

Hi All, Since the Libraries function is able to be pinned onto the taskbar, I was wondering if anyone has managed to pin the my computer link onto it. So what I mean is, you could click an icon on the taskbar and it would launch my comptuer where you would then be able to view your harddrives...

I have both a Sata (Seagate 500mB) and ATA Samsung installed in my computer. Vista installed on the Sata without problem and sees my ATA which I use mostly for backups. When I ran the install for Win 7 I installed on the ATA, install did not see the Sata. Now up and running I still cannot see...