drive issues

  1. carsten ibsen

    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 cant see cd-rom drive

    hello everyone from zealand copenhagen. i was about to rip some new cds when i discovered that my cd.rom drive is gone,i have tryed to search for it,and i will bring to your attention that i am a newbie,so if you want to help me please do so i can understand. regards
  2. C

    I have a question about copy to another hard drive

    My Brother brought a computer home and said the hard drive went bad but I am not exactly sure which Windows is on it and how do move Windows from the bad hard drive to the new hard drive
  3. C

    Windows 10 I need some help with a hard drive

    I am not sure how you post to do this here but the main hard drive is going bad in my computer that has Windows 10 how do you replace a hard drive and keep Windows 10 on the computer
  4. GTXPlayer

    Windows 10 Missing folders and driver errors

    Hi. In the past few days I've been getting errors for my secondary (D:) Drive (HDD) from Windows. So, windows keeps telling me to restart my PC to fix drive errors. But when I restart, it does nothing, so I just ignored it because everything seemed fine... until recently... Ok, so about 2 days...
  5. mindzipper

    Windows 10 issue with 'Quick Access' panel on folders

    I really didn't expect this. I had a 3tb drive that was partitioned into two smaller drives. I decided to dump both and bring the drive back into a full drive, obviously losing one drive letter. The problem now, is I neglected to delete all the quick access shortcuts. I use these quite a bit...
  6. M

    Windows 10 Unable to create a recovery flash drive

    I have been attempting to create a recovery flash drive but each time I try it fails with the message unable to complete – I have tried three 8 GB drives and one 16 GB, I have tried both the front and rear usb sockets on the desktop. Maybe it is significant – I have had more BSODs since I...
  7. C

    Error on one of four drives, cannot format or read

    I'm having weird problems with a small SSD drive, F: (120GB). C:\Users\Administrator>chkdsk f: The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives. Server management shows F: drive as healthy status, yet I was unable to create a text file in that drive in...
  8. M

    Windows 7 The drive disappeared

    Hi, I have window 7 and right now I having some serious issues with my computer. The main issue is that I cannot see my D: in My Computer. Background: Some hours ago I had three drives C, D, & E. I distrIibuted the space of E: into C & D using a partition software. But now I cann't see the D...
  9. H

    Windows 10 Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off

    After inserting a hot swap drive, Windows Anti-Virus turns itself off. What causes this?
  10. H

    Windows 8 Problem with software install

    Hey , I had a problem installing some softwares such a google chrome on a drive but not the primary one winfows used as preferred (c:) My os is 8.1,i need to have the on another partition... Sent from my GT-I9500 using Tapatalk
  11. J

    Windows 8 Scanning and Repairing Drive 100% hanging

    Hi everyone, first time poster here. Was in the process of a system restore to help fix a windows office 365 install problem. Windows told me I had a drive error that needed fixing before I could continue. So I accepted and the PC restarted, now it is hung up on 100% the loading symbol is still...
  12. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 10 Right clicking on any drive in Windows Explorer minimizes.

    Hi This is a weird one, I'm pretty sure it wasn't doing in the morning. If I right click on the root of any drive it minimizes Windows Explorer. It doesn't crash, just minimizes to the task bar. That stops me from looking at properties etc. I can right click on any other folder or file just...
  13. J

    Windows 8 drive is not accessible after extend using partition wizard 9.

    Drive E 'main data partition which contains all my important files' becomes RAW (not NTFS) after extending OS Drive C using partition wizard 9 software which finished successfully without errors! (all details available below): MY HARDDISK WAS RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE...
  14. ussnorway

    Seagate central has 2 nas issues

    1. These drives are semi-legally sold in Australia and that creates a small problem for professional users because the users agreement is void… this means any info stored on them isn’t covered by insurance and governments, school etc can’t use them without opening themselves up to litigation if...
  15. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 8 Can anyone tell me why my D:\ drives show as 2 drives?

    Hi I'm not really having a problem, but I don't understand why my D:\ drive shows as 2 drives in Disk Manager. I got this way when I tried to move space from what was my Windows 8 C:\ drive to the D:\ partition. If you click Properties you get the same information for either one, which show it...
  16. blksith0

    Windows 7 Unkown Local Disk Question Mark

    I'm scared and confused after I see this mysterious local disk appear in My Computer. Opening it gives this error: How do I kill it? What do I do?
  17. D

    Windows 7 Windows Software Raid 1

    So I have a 4 TB drive mirrored to an identical drive. My question is, if/when a drive fails, how will I be notified? Will something popup in the system tray? Or will I get some error message or what? I assume there is something that happens.. otherwise this software RAID would literally be...
  18. PotatoChip

    Windows 7 C: D: drive both dirty/corrupt/cyclic redundancy check

    fsutil dirty query returned both C: and D: drive as Dirty. Desc of the problem and other information: First started off about 6 months ago, my pc has 2 drives, C: and D: with D: being empty, nothing stored, not used for anything. started storing files and within some time there was about a...
  19. rahul kumar

    Windows 8 my laptop is not booting window hd

    my laptop is not booting properly. while installing window it shows it is lock first unlock it. and in diskpart there is only one drive ( disk 1) which has 22gb. but my laptop has 2 drive disk 0 which has the main window. but its not showing there.
  20. Prestigebumps1

    Windows 8 EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE -> Cant select "Change drive letter and paths"

    I tried to change the drive letter because it wont appear, but it didnt work. I have tried the CMD method with the volumes but the volume did not show up. All I know is that its a G-Technology hard drive. I tried formatting it to NTFS but that wont work. Basically I tried everything and nothing...
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