drive letter

Hi all, My sister just got a new laptop with 7, then accidentally installed a friend's version of 7 on top of it, thinking it was Microsoft Office. I'm trying to restore to factory settings so she doesn't lose all the software that came with the computer. I know the recovery partition is on...

Hi guys, I had non-system HDD which was F:. After reinstaling the system I want to assign the "F" letter to this drive, but in diskmgmt.msc it offers me all the other letters except that F:, which i used before reinstaling. The HDD works, data are OK, there are no other F: in the system, but...

I stuck a compact flash memory card into my computer and it wouldn't see it. Somewhere I saw that the computer sees memory cards as drive K. It so happens that some time ago I set up a partition on the hard drive as K. I went into Disk Management and changed the letter to R, restarted the...

Hi. I'm hoping someone can help as I've spent many evenings on this problem and getting nowhere! When attaching a flash drive: 1. The autoplay pop up doesn't appear; 2. The device does light up initially; 3. The device doesn't show up in "Computer" 4. The device doesn't show up in Disk...

hello. i've installed a new internal drive without any problem. i named the new drive using an available letter and then copied my entire data drive onto it. what i'd like to do is rename the new drive to the drive letter i am currently using for my data so i don't have to remap all my...

Hello. I had a Mac laptop that MB crashed. I had a 3rd party turn the HD into an external drive for me so that I could access the data from it. However, when trying to hook it up to my Windows 7 pc, it is not showing in Win Explorer. After reading a few posts, a lot of people are recommending...

Soo.. just build a new computer, its running windows 7 x64 business.. and whenever i use my sd card reader it wont work unless i change the drive letter.. OR I've booted the computer with the SD card already in the reader . I've tried multiple readers all known to be working, and multiple...

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Hello and thank you for taking the time to read my post. I hope someone here can point me in the right direction. I am using Windows 7 64 Bit. I have a Thermaltake BlacX eSata USB Docking Station. I will from time to time put a 250GB Seagate drive in this and use it to back up photos and random...

Hi Guys...asked a similar question back Link Removed with no outcome. 1 This time another brand new computer, Win7 Professional, 64Bit with SP 1, 1TB HDD with 2 partitions...one system and an OEM recovery partition. 2 Decide to shrink main system partition to create two equal sized partitions...

I am trying a fresh install of win 7 ultimate after installing a new hdd (it is compatable). After a period of time the following error pops up: error code 0x8007045D win 7 I am trying to run chkdsk ?:/f on a PC that has windows and is running using an usb connection to the disk that I want to...

Hi, My new Windows 7 computer has been made unbootable because I tried to change a drive letter. What can I solve this problem ? How can I prevent the same thing happen again? I will explain what happened. Yesterday, I booted my Windows 7 computer and as it was booting I plugged in my camcorder...

Hello all, I have a wierd problem. I am running windows 7 32bit, and every time that I reboot my pc one of my external usb hard drives its drive letter keeps changing. and its allways the same drive that keeps changing. can anyone please help, thank you very much

I have an SSD installation question. I am installing a new SSD in an HP Pavilion Dv3-2157cl laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium currently installed on the hard drive. I put the SSD in a HDD Dock (USB), then used EseUS "Partition Clone" and cloned the main partition of drive C to the SSD (I...

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...

Hi Guys....been a long time...busy busy. Bought a new computer for a group member....Win7 Professional, 64bit, and was setting it up when I decided to partition the HD (1TB) using Windows own 'Disk Management' (DM) tool....just divided in two, worked fine, assigned me a new drive letter, all...

I recently replaced a Freeagent Pro with a Goflex Desk. Both the new and old drives were permanently assigned drive letter H and the new drive fitted in seamlessly about a week ago. The old drive is not used My Synctoy backups (run via Task Scheduler) all worked fine daily from 28th July...

This mess started after I had been playing Sims 2. The computer froze and BSOD popped up, in disbelief I didn't get any of the info from BSOD. I do remember it dumping memory or something. After the shutdown/restart Windows failed to load/start. After some investigation and a similar issue...

I just formatted and installed afresh Win7 Ultimate N on a WD1000GB. Since setup screen it recognized only 3 of 5 disk drive (all of same HDD). Before that I resized two of the drives with `EASEUS Partition Master 8.0.1 Home Edition` but I did so for the drives he actually recognized. (I...

Hi: I run the backup program, SyncBackSE which among other things backs up files on a thumbdrive. SyncBackSE has been configured to see the thumbdrive as F: but occasionally Windows decides to name it G: and SyncBackSE then fails. Is there a way to tell Windows to lock it to F:? Thanks. Pete