disk manager

I have a two TB WD External HD (MY Book) that when I go into Computer I don't see it but I see all my other drives. However I can go into Disk Manager and right mouse click the drive and open and there it is. I can access it but why can't I see it in Computer with the other drives?

Hi, Firstly sorry for long thread but i thought it best to give as much info as possible....... I recently purchased a Barracuda ST3000DM001 HDD for use as storage within an external Thermaltake 5G USB3 enclosure. I connected it directly to one of my PC's and installed Win 7 (32bit) onto a...

I have a WD 500GB drive. I installed W7 - cloned from a 2TB drive that has 4 partitions (100MB, 78.03GB, 363.20GB, 1.39TB(logical)) with the first 3 partitions. I then extended the last partition with disk manager to 387.63 which was all the unallocated space left. So the 500GB drive = 100MB...

Have just today wiped my RAID 0 array and secure erased both my OCZ agilty 3 SSD's, decided to not run in RAID again (kinda unstablke at times) so have reinstalled Windows 7 64-bit on a single SSD (only had one hooked up during install to prevent windows 7 install partitions getting split...

A link to Windows 8 Forums has been added to the menu of Windows 7 Forums and vice versa. The Facebook-integrated versions of both forums are fully functional and back online. True Facebook fanatics and loyalists should be happy, as you can use the entire Windows 7 Forums/Windows 8 Forums...

First post - please be gentle :) My desktop PC (Win7 Pro, 64 bit) has 2 SD Card readers. One built in to the PC itself, the other, a slot on the side of my Dell monitor. Both of these - until last week - would read and write to my SD cards with no problem. Cards ranging in size from 1 to 16Gb...

I've had a major crisis this morning using Acronis to reclaim an empty 8gb partition. The hdd from left to right, in disk manager was: 8Gb Empty (formerly page file) || D:\Data 210Gb Data || R:\Recovery 80Gb Recovery Using Acronis I expanded the 210gb to include all the 8Gb so now it would...

Hey everyone, I'm new here and the thing that brought me here really sucks. I'm typing this right before I have to leave for school, so it's going to be short and sweet. Please ask any questions to fill in the holes. Here's the problem... I'm running Win 7 64-bit and I've been running a...

I had used it before with this computer, for a backup in January probably, but I went to use it to back it up again recently, and it did not work. It does not show up anywhere on the computer, though the drive lit up and started. It's a Seagate Expansion 500 GB USB 2.0 Portable External Hard...

When I go into disk manager I see 2 partitions listed: Noname which a status of healthy (OEM Partition), Recovery, OS (C[:]) My question actually 2 questions and they are: 1. Why do I have a partion on my hard drive and what does it mean by (OEM Partition) 2. Can I get rid of the recovery...

Hello I've run into a problem, my Disk0 is disappearing in windows 7 after I wake my computer from sleep mode. At first I thought the problem was caused by lilo (a linux bootloader for those that don't know). I disabled lilo by running bootsect for my Winodws 7 install disk. It turns out lilo...

I have an IDE DVD multi reader/burner (Pioneer DVR-118L) that is showing up in the bios fine I think (I can select it as the first boot drice - it's listed with brand name and everything in the bios) However it doesn't appear in Device Manager or Disk Manager or anything in Windows 7. I have...

I've got Windows 7 RC 64-bit installed on a 2.53 GHz MacBook Pro (dual boot using Boot Camp) with an ExpressCard slot. I also got a FileMate SolidGO 3FMS4D48M-WR 48GB ExpressCard SSD; the drive works beautifully under OS X, but is not recognized at all by Windows 7 when it's in the ExpressCard...

I have done a clean instal of Win7 RC on a new drive "G", Vista is still on Drive "C". Eventualy Vista will go and I would like Drive to Change Drive G to Drive C as my boot drive. At present I am dual bootuing, C or G I have tried using the Drive manager also Acronis Disk Director and had...

All, Im trying to setup a Soft RAID 5 on my Win7RC install. Disk Manager hates me, it takes forever to connect to the Virtual Disk Service, and then it sits there and never loads the disk information. When and if it ever loads I cannot create a RAID 5 set even though I have upgraded by 3 500...

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...

I have three USB drives but windows 7 Ultimate build 7068 does not see the 750MB WD essential edition external usb drive. System says its not accecabile. The other 2 drives are fine. (1 WD Essentail Edition 500G and 1 WD Home edition 500GB). The 750G drive does appear in disk manager but I...

In the disk manager tool, I tried to partition (create/name) a new partition out of free, unallocated space. but the virtual disk service blows up and the partition is "created" but it gains no letter drive and is not usable. i tried rebooting and trying it again, no luck. same thing happens...

Hi there, I'm using Build 7000 of the Windows 7 beta... I had Vista as my main operating system... my HDD was already split into 2 partitions (plus I had a separate physical drive, for 3 drives total)... I installed Windows 7 on the other partition of my main drive (dual boot). Everything...