drive issues

Hi all, I recently changed my DVD Region setting to Region 2 to play a PAL DVD from Europe, and now it won't change back to Region 1. Everytime I try, it gives an error saying the drive needs Region 1 media to make this change so please insert Region 1 media and try again. I have Region 1...

hi! I used the windows defraggler but it shows me a drive that doesn't exist.i have only C,D E and F which is DVD drive.But while i try to de fragment it shows me a drive like \\?\Volume{66ff1bc3-b24e-11df-9755-806e6f6e6963}\.I would like to know where this drive is located.If somebody...

just the last month both drives give burning faults I have tried different burning prigrams and swaped drive and eben uninstall both nero give a cant find seek or cant perform end of disc other program just caomes up with failed If It was just one drive I would simply buy a new one...

I have a Delta Studio XPS desktop with Windows 7 operating system. Recently I purchased a Seagate Free Agent - Desk, external hard drive and hooked it up. I want to back up my files. It seems to be working. It's listed as Free Agent Drive J on my computer menu, has 465GB capacity and 124GB...

When I have the drive plugged in, Windows gets to the to the 'Starting Windows' page, hangs, and then restarts after about five minutes. Unplug it, and everything works normally. This drive has all of my movies, pictures, and of course: my entire life. Does anyone have any bright ideas on how I...

My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...

So I sucessfully recreated my raid as a 250 mirrored instead of 500 striped. windows now seems more stable without the freeze up mem 3 issue prior to the change, I used the win7 maintenence backup utility and made a repair disc, did an image, and backup to my 750gig sata drive now this...

I recently bought a 2T WD My Book with their Smart Ware because I didn't know what it was. It's a really crappy backup program with minimal controls. On top of that there is a VCD that is impossible to delete or format. Before you buy one on sale do some web searches and see the problems and...

hi, I have a had problem for a few weeks now with my pc, I am getting Blue screen crashes at very random times, it may not happen for a week, then i suddenly get 4 in 1 hour and then it will be fine again or sometimes it happens every day, I would be so grateful for any help on this as I am...

This is a strange problem I have on one of the XP systems at work. I'm sure changing the whole drive would solve it but I'm curious if someone knows why this is: When a CD is inserted in the tray, going to My Computer and RIGHT clicking in the DVD\CD drive and clicking Eject, doesn't eject the...

Hello, I have had Windows 7 Pro for about a month (upgrade from Vista Ultimate). I installed some Win 7 updates this morning and after the desktop restarted, I lost an entire external drive. The dialog box told me that to use the drive I would have to reformat it. I attempted to see if it...

I don't know why the Local Disk D has that icon, how do I fix it?

90% of the time clicking on any drive C:\ D:\, cdrom drives, or even my network drives, opens up 2 new windows of that drive. I find it very annoying to have 3 open explorer windows when I only wanted 1. If I open a drive then close the two windows then open the drive again only one window...

I am running windows 7 on a 32 bit system, Dell Inspiron. The CD/DVD stopped working. I can see it in the installed hardware in contorl panel, but when you select it, it opens drawer and says install a CD. I bought another CD/DVD and installed it and it worked for a short time and then dd the...

I had recently installed Win 7 Ultimate x64. I found that the cd drive would not read DVD DL. I tried all methods(incl all KB articles) and finally decided to go back to x32 hoping that the change would cure it. No chance. It reads all other types of DVD ok and writes too. I have tried several...

Hi, First posting. I am trying to figure out why my Win7 Home Premium system doesn't have any restore points, and I seem to have found the problem. "System Protection" is not turned on for the C: disc. When I go to the "System Properties" / "System Protection" tab, under available...

I'm running windows 7 (Release candidate) and I have a usb that is requesting a format and certain occurred as a result of the usb getting an electric shock. How? I had the usb plugged into my laptop while it was switched on and I plugged in an ethernet cable to the laptop. It happened as I...

New Windows 7 64 system build. I860 Asus P7P55 Corsair 4 GB Cooler Master 650w GTX 275 video card I just built the above pc and am having trouble connecting to a network drive. When I initiate the connection it works for awhile then out of no where it just stops. If I try and access the drive...

I was just trying to keep a fresh up-to-date copy of the OS ready in case my working hd crashed. Is this possible? I'm currently experimenting with this as I've already installed it on the two different drives, but the second clean install won't validate? Is this a restriction by Microsoft, is...

Hey guys, I have a problem :frown: Has anyone played with bitlocker? I have encrypted my drives and made a usb key. This works great but thought I need to duplicate the key - just in case... When I go into "manage bitlocker" I put in another USB stick and click "duplicate the startup key"...