disk recognition

  1. IDONTKNOWWHATIAMDOING

    Windows 11 M2.NVME 4TB is no longer displayed after unsuccessful data transfer

    Hello everyone, I have a problem with NVME hard drives, 3 of them by now. I work with Windows 11 Pro, Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz and I have done the data transfer with EaseUS Partition Wizard Pro. The NVME's are installed as follows: 1 x directly on the mainboard (MACHINIST...
  2. Matheus Tecchio

    Windows 11 ISO cannot recognize my Hard Disk.

    Hi guys, I have a 2023 Dell laptop (Inspiron 14 5430), and I'm trying to switch from Linux to Windows 11 again. But the ISO, that I downloaded on the Microsoft website, do not work properly, it can't find my disk. What can I do?
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    Windows 10 Can't reach main c:drive

    When i start the pc i get reboot & select proper boot device , which has been happening quite often lately . I restart and keep the sata cable in to help i load , it works today all i get is reboot & select proper boot device . I tried my other hard drive which s where i am now , i tried...
  4. D

    Windows 10 Troubleshooting Acronis Cloning Issues with Secure Boot on New Laptop

    Hello. I do a lot of cloning on all my machines, so far so good. I recently planned ahead and got a new laptop, to be able to go to W-11. Of course, I got one with Secure Boot. I am unable to do a clone any more as Acronis tries to boot from its USB media disk. I succeeded in getting rid of...
  5. L

    Windows 7 Disk not recognized

    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...
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    Windows 7 Formatting woes: disk recognition problem

    Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...
  7. C

    Windows 10 How to Locate Missing D and E Disks in Windows 10

    I have a computer with 3 disks C: windows 10 D: en E: met data I have Windows 10 and i don't see the disks D and E How can ik find them?
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    Windows 8 Quickie little question:

    I have an HP 20 All in One desk top. I use two HP Pocket Media external drives, plugged into USB. Suffice it to say that there have been many Win8 updates in the year I have had it. And changes with some other problems too. Mysterious things happen from week to week, month to month. Some have...
  9. D

    Windows 7 CD/DVD Drive Won't Work

    I have a Toshiba Satellite C655 with a DVD RW drive that won't play some DVDs or video games. For example, I put in a new Sim City game I bought today and a yellow light briefly flashes but does nothing after that. When I go to the Computer folder and click on the DVD RW icon, it spits out the...
  10. RobThaRobba

    Windows 7 HDD formatting problems

    So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...
  11. S

    Windows 8 CD/DVD not recognized unless disc inserted before boot

    Greetings, I hope that this thread is acceptable in this forum. After upgrading to Windows 8 my CD/DVD unit (a Samsung - TSST corp CDDVDW Sh-S223L) will not be recognized unless a disc is inserted before boot. Then disc can be removed and new one inserted later. Any assistance appreciated. Stephen
  12. S

    Windows 7 Internal optical drive used as external

    Hello, I took out my internal optical drive from my Sony Vaio F13 laptop and put in SSD. Now I bought USB/SATA cabel and I connected the optical drive to the laptop, it is recognized in windows but it is treated as a hard drive (or removable disk). When I double click it in My Computer it says...
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    Windows 7 no dvd drive

    Hi, I have a little/big problem with DVD drive :frown: ...with upgrading from Vista to Win7 the DVD drive DVD drive not being recognised.... Device manager or My computer. However when a disc is inserted into the drive, the drive then shows up. It is exact problem like was described in this...
  14. pleasantvalley

    Windows 7 Media Player 12 Won"T Recognise Ant Discs!!!!

    Please help!!!! Media Player12 is not working properly. All drivers are up to date and windows says all should be working. Have 32 bit Dell Home Premium desktop. Seems the E drive is unable to read any disc I put in. I get pop-up saying insert media. I have tried store bought CDS and DVDS and...
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    Windows 7 DVD drive can't read or write disks

    OK so since I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on this computer ( it is the first operating system installed on it) I can not write any DVDs .A strange fact is that I can write and read CDs and also read DVDs, but not every time.I got an original CD Album and it's still not recognized by...
  16. K

    Windows 7 PC doesn't even recognize my hard drive anymore?

    In an attempt to make more space for my media files, I created a new partition on my computer and simply moved all of the files from my previous 40Gig partition into my new 100Gig partition. Everything was done using the built-in software that came with Windows 7 Ultimate. Things went fine for...
  17. C

    Windows 7 USB drive not recognized in Windows7, problem with services

    I have two external USB drives, one independently-powered, one USB-cable-powered, both with NTFS and linux ext2 and ext3 partitions. Under Windows7 both drives show up under Device Manager with the Property: "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be...
  18. Q

    Windows 7 HDD dissapers after computer sleeps

    I have a seagate 120GB IDE HDD. when I first boot up win7 recognizes it, it shows up in the Bios and every where else, but after it sleeps windows dose not recognize it. :confused:
  19. tcm5025

    Windows 7 New HDD Problem

    I just installed a new internal HDD. First, I created a system image using windows backup. Then I made a windows recovery disk on CD. Next I took out the old HDD, and replaced it with the new one. The new one is hooked up to a different port with a different wire because it is a sata 6.0 gb/s...
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    Windows 7 DVD Drive Not Recognized After Installing Roxio Pro on Windows 7 Laptop

    Hi I installed Roxio Pro creator 2010 on my win 7 pro laptop But when i put empty dvds it the laptop fails to recognise it i could not find the softwares(drivers) for my laptop as it was preloaded with vista hp pavilion dv6735ee help sought:|
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