drive issues

hi, i had a major issue last night with my machine (home brew) and had to reformat and reinstall w7. I have two sata drives, plus had one ext plugged in. after the install, i can see the second hd (i disconnected the ext after this problem i about to discuss started), but i can't access the...

I'm having issues burning my movies to DVD's. I have used several different kinds of burning software, I've used different disks, I've tried different movies and different movie formats. All have the same problem, once encoding is done and begins to burn, it stops and finishes and doesn't give...

For some reason my dvd drive is not reading discs. It has been working before, and now it doesnt seem to read any discs i put in the drive. It also doesnt make any noise or any sign that it is in. My problem is is that the dvd drive isnt recognizing the dvd's i put. Even if if put a disc in the...

HI , I am unable to burn any image using window simage burner or roxio burnerwhen ever i write any image or any other thing to dvd. i get this error cuz i always verify after burning image or etc.i get this error :The disc image didn't burn successfully because an error occurred. The write...

Like the topic title says, in 2009 had upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. This weekend my hard disk crashed after about 6 years of good service. While I downloaded the upgrade, also got a backup disk sent that allowed me to do a full install of Windows 7. So, after installing a new hard...

Hi, I just finished running chkdsk with switches /f and /r on an external drive because Windows backup/restore couldn't use it to store a system image and recommended that I run it. It took a couple of hours and then the program exited with the message 'Insufficient diskspace to fix volume...

I have recently got my Sony Vaio VPCSB19GG which runs i7-2620M Memory4Gb with Solid State Drive 256GB which comes with Windows7 Professional (64-bit). i have been using it for around 2 weeks and from the first day i had divided my SSD into 2 partitions C and D, and recently this problem occur...

Hp came with two drives. vista 64 set it back to factory specs and installed win7 64. seem okay. just noticed that the other drive is empty - correct. but properties says there is 43GB there! it is set up to show hidden files. how do i tell win7 64 that hey! the drive is empty. thanks

My setup: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on ThinkPad T510. 1HD, two partitions (C and D). I just reinstalled my system and encrypted C; however, there is absolutely no option to encrypt D. I've tried accessing the drive from admin account and still nothing. When I open BitLocker management, it only...

When installing Windows to a drive greater than 2.2TB you receive Error 0x80042468. This will occur if you install Windows 7 and manually try to create one partition using “Advanced Drive Options” during setup. Link Removed

I cannot transfer files to an SDHC mini card when connected to my Windows 7 computer; no problem on my Windows Vista computer. I've tried changing the drive letter because the drive shows "unallocated", but that didn't work. The drive is showing up in My Computer. I get an error message...

Okay so whenever I need to remove my USB flash drive after updating some excel files, it won't allow me to remove it safely. It tells me that the device is currently in use and that I should close all programs but there aren't any programs opened. I can only remove it by going into the library...

Hello, I have just purchased a new 3XS system from SCAN computers (Vengence). The system has a 120GB SSD and a 1TB HDD. The SSD is used for the OS and programs and the HDD is supposed to be data. The SSD seems to be working fine and Windows 7 agrees. The same can be said for the HDD, however...

I am in desperate need of help! I have a month old Toshiba Portege that worked fine for only a couple of days. It is running on Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit. I can trigger a BSOD by clicking the Eject button in dbpoweramp, or by setting it to automatically eject after completion. This...

Hi.. I've been trying to format a RW cd throught the usual right click format option in my DVD/CD- RW (E): drive but I notice both format options (quick format & create and MS-DOS startup disk)are greyed out _unlike what used to be accessable in my previous WinXP OS. the command dose run for...

My computer froze so I was forced to shutdown by holding the button for 8 seconds. When I started the computer I got a boot error, I thought great!! I have had a similar problem before so I figured partition table might be broken. I took the drive and plugged it into an enclosure to a Windows...

if you go to "my computer" you will see your hdd status has a blue bar that displays what data is used up and how much free data you have left. anyway i renamed by external hdd and the blue display bar is gone. i still can right click on on my external and at the bottom it shows up the status...

Hi! Ever since a botched encryption which resulted in me having to format a drive (not the main c drive), everything I download gives this message when I try to open it - "ShellExecuteEx failed; code 2. The system cannot find the file specified." I've tried changing the download location to...

My computer was stuck at the logging off (while shutting down) screen a few days ago, so I had to do a forced power off (pressed power button for 4sec). When I tried to turn the computer back on, it would now stuck on the Windows 7 loading screen, without HDD activity. After several tries...

alright. here's my problem. i originally had windows xp. i had tons of trouble installing windows 7 64 bit on a windows xp 32 bit system. i took out some ram as i saw that having more than 2g of ram on an older motherboard (i have a nvidia 750i). then i was told to make iso's of all this...