drive issues

Hi my D drive icon has gone, the drive is working other than this, also to mention my Western Digital My Book can open folders but says all are empty when on vista and xp they are full. when i first installed windows 7 pro everything was fine but has updated about 50 updates since and now this...

I encrypted my laptop drive with bitlocker a couple of months ago. I'm having some major problems with my laptop right now and have tried everything to fix it and have decided that the only way is to reinstall Windows. I have Win7 RC1 btw. I have to disable bitlocker on the drive before it...

Hi I'm installing the full copy on the partition. that previously held the RC, which I formatted but when I select to install there, Win 7 install just constantly says it can't find a partition or drive suitable for installation. Given this is absolutely the ONLY partition I want to install it...

Had a very interesting experience trying to format an internal hard drive under Windows 7. This is a hard drive that was running Windows XP and then got corrupted. Rather than do a repair, I bought another internal drive and loaded Windows 7 on it. I then installed the old corrupted hard drive...

I have installed Windows 7 (the trial version) As a users I can see all the drives Ok, but when other users log on (they are set up as administrators) they cannot see 1 of the drives (the G drive) I have shared the drive, then the other users can see the drive as part of the network, but not as...

I'm having trouble installing Windows 7. Problem: During the installation process, it stays at 0% for over five minutes, and then jumps to 4%. The longest it's stayed there is about twenty minues - that's the longest I've let it sit. The computer's specs I'm trying to install it on: AMD...

Ok I was having problems with one of my 1tb drives so I thought I would try and go to dynamic when I was fooling arround with it I took it off line now it does not appear in disk management anymore I am not worried about the data I just want the drive back. Does anyone know of a tool to recover...

I recently installed a problem called EnhanceMySe7en and tried a few tweaks however things didn't really turn out as I had planned. I made a system restore point before I made the changes, but then when I tried to restore it back, it says there were no points available ... Thats wierd coz...

Im running Windows 7 RC1 on my Toshiba Laptop with built in Memory card reader, and when i insert my 1gb sandisk SD card nothing happens, as if i didnt put it in at all. I had no problems with the card reader when i was running Vista (which came already installed) Even if i go to My Computer and...

Hello there. I'm trying to install Win7 RC x64 (build 7100) in my desktop but not success so far. When I try to install, I get the following message: Setup was unable to create a system partition or locate an existing partition. Error: 0x80300024 My hardware involved: - a 160GB Sata HD...

Hi, I just installed Windows 7 build 7000 succesfully with no errors at installation process. I am running Win7 on Sony VAIO FE41S. I installed Win7 on clean drive with no upgrades etc, at the installation I selected C: drive as windows location. Everything went great but when i first...

My screen saver on the windows 7 drive F will not work The screen saver on windows XP drive C works fine Any ideas and help would be appreciated:) Ian Radford

Can any help resolve the following drive problem I have :- After installing windows 7, I had the following 2 drive issues: 1. My original C: drive , hence boot, the drive did not appear on explorer. I have since resolved the problem by assigning a drive letter to it other then c: drive...

Hi -- I'm trying to add a paging file on a drive besides C:, but my other drives (all of which are working fine) aren't showing in the virtual memory window. (see screen capture in attached file.) This is very odd: a few hours ago, I was seeing all of my drives there, and now they're gone. So I...

I installed Windows beta on my F drive. For some reason the following folders are unaccessible: F:/Documents and Settings/BillD/Application Date/Local Settings/Cookies/ My Documents/Recent/Start Menue and a few others. The pop up box says that the folder is not accessible and that access is...

I have 3 partitions on 1 drive. My OS partition, 2 for just files and what not. Well the OS partition is fine (clean install on that partition), My Drive D is also fine, it just has pictures on it, but my Drive E (which was F before) is where the problem is. It shows that it has 40 GB left out...

Hi everybody. Great to be part of this community. I have a problem with a Maxtor 6L200M0 SATA drive in Vista. Just installed the OS and the drive is not recognised in Computer. Disk management says that the drive is there but offline (small red arrow next to drive symbol). The drive is dynamic...

After installing Vista this mourning, I have 3 Hard drives, 2 partitioned, I have one hard drive, i call it My Documents, when ever i click on it, i get: Location not available, F:\ drive not accessible Access is denied This is the only drive that i get this. I need this because my software...