drive issues

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've been having tremendous difficulty backing up my drives. I keep getting the following atapi and volsnap source errors in event view - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. volsnap - The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure...

hi.... my usb drive is not showing any space or data. last time , i made it bootable of Windows 7. and then i copied the Windows 7 all files into usb drive. then i deleted that file and choose the eject option to making it off. i ejected it for 5 to 6 times. after that my usb not...

Hi, I had set one of my drives to start Encrypting using BitLocker and it was taking too long so I decided to cancel the encryption. This then started Decrypting my drive which was going well... Now I keep getting an error message from BitLocker on the bottom right next to the time saying...

I installed Windows 7 on my PC and now my DVD-ROM drive doesnt work. It shows up in My Computer, device manager says it's working properly, everything seems normal until I put in a disk, then it locks up My Computer and it's impossible to access any files from it. Every time you try to open...

Take a look at the screenshot below. You'll see that it's of my RAID 0 set-up and was benched tonight (Saturday). The problem is that they won't complete a full chkdsk and always gets stuck on 50%. Now obviously I'm thinking one of the drives is about to give up although the benches show that...

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...

So i was all happy with the first beta of Windows 7 worked perfectly for months then i said what the heck lets try the RC candidate and check the improovements. Then all of the sudden in 1 week i lots 2 of my SAS drives, both times while i was away so i have no idea how they died on me. I was...

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 have spent the whole evening looking for a solution to my problem but cant find one so i though i may as well just post it up. I have Windows 7 Installed on my laptop as a dual boot with XP. I installed it from my USB HDD and it all works amazingly well considering how rubbish the spec is...

hi there i have a toshiba qosmio lap top ( 2gb ram .... 1.6 gb processor ... 200 gb hdd ) i was using XP on it .. then i try to use windows 7 so i install it .. during installing it ask me ... upgrade or new copy ... i chose new copy ... then its work .......the problem : when i try the to...

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...

I have been using Windows 7 build 7000 for a long while without any drive issues. Today i did a clean install of build 7127, and now i randomly get this message: "Windows detected a hard drive problem" It shows the details as H:/, witch is one partition, on one of my drives. If there is a...

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...

i have a LG GSA H20N ATA DVD RW. im using windows 7 RC. and it worked fine for some time after installing the x64 OS, but suddenly from now the CD/DVD is not being read. Whenever i put a CD/DVD into the drive, the light blinks for sometime and goes blank. When i double click the drive in...

My Windows 7 is unable to read any CD/DVDs I put and I've tried several methods like uninstalling driver, reboot then let it auto reinstall again. Nothing works. My device name is optiarc dvd+-rw ad-5540a ata. Hope someone can help me :frown:

i had c, d,e, and f drives and i installed windows 7 on f drive and when i log on to windows 7 the drive tht was my c in my other windows isnt appearing on windows 7 but its still there when i log onto my other windows can any1 help me with this plz? thanks edit : nvm found the problem fixed it

I had a SG Barracuda 500gb SATA drive I just picked up about two months ago. About a month ago, I started getting SMART notices that the drive may soon fail. It finally did yesterday and kinda screwed up my RAID array as well. Seagate's support totally sucks with this issue, look at their...

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...