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The drive information tag covers methods for retrieving hardware details about storage and optical drives in Windows, including firmware version, rotation speed, and disk management visibility. Discussions focus on using built-in Windows tools like Device Manager, Disk Management, and drive properties to access such data without third-party software. Topics include finding firmware for external USB DVD drives, detecting SSD drives by checking rotation speed, and ensuring drives appear correctly in Disk Management to avoid fragmentation issues. These threads reflect common troubleshooting and configuration needs for users managing drives in Windows 7 and similar environments.
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    Windows 7 How to get the current firmware version through drive properties?

    I have an external USB DVD drive connected through cable and want to find out the current firmware version. I want to use NOT a diagnostic program like AIDA4 but the Win7 internal methods. Therefore I right clicked on the drive in Windows Explorer then the "Hardware" tab, marked the drive and...
    • pstein
    • Thread
    • device manager diagnostics drive information external drive firmware hardware properties tech support usb windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Get Rotation Speed of Disk Sample Code

    Hi all! Im not really good at VC++ but does anyone have a sample code to get the rotation speed of disk in a computer. I have been working on detecting SSD drives and one solution from researching all day was to get the rotation speed and since SSD have 0 rpm this might be the only way to detect...
    • patadrian
    • Thread
    • data retrieval disk performance drive information hardware performance programming rotation speed sample code ssd detection vc++
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Programming and Scripting
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    Windows 7 Make sure that "Disk Management" can see your drives.

    Upon installation of Windows 7 check that your drives are visable by Disk Manager, if not you will have problems as time passes, most notable is the inability to do disk fragmentation either by the built in defragmenter or by programs such as Perfect Disk. The operating System will perform like...
    • JoeyC
    • Thread
    • computer management defrag disk management drive information drive visibility fragmentation hotfix installation dvd installation issues operating system performance issues reinstall storage issues system check troubleshooting usb installation virtual disk service windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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