drive letter

Very strange thing happening. When I plug my compactflash card into my memory card reader a window opens showing a new drive(G) but it shows the contents of my second hard drive(D). My external hard drive loads correctly as does my ipod. I am using windows 7- 64 bit any ideas?

I got pop up in utorrent says a directoy is corrupt, I start to run chkdsk on that drive. in this case in have drive letter E. I click on computer, then go to the drive, right click, properties, tools, check now. it says the drive is need to to forced to dismount. I click on ok. then in...

I need to move the sata connection for my drive "D" on the motherboard, however after moving it Windows 7 won't boot. Hi, I am looking for some assistance in resolving this issue, thanks for any help in advance. Gateway LX6820, 8GB Ram Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM 64 bit Drive "C"- Intel...

I have solved this issue I think. If I am mistaken I will be back:-).

I have dual boot, win 7 and win Xp. Every time i use Win XP, my restore points on win7 are missing. I changed the drive letter on win 7 partition in win Xp with diskmgmt.msc, but still is the same problem. What to do?

I have a external Wester Digital drive plugged in to my PC via USB 2.0. Earlier today i did a clean OS install on my machine. Before the clean install, I was using the same windows 7 installation and the disc was accessible. Its listed in this picture as disk 6. Its marked as active. I tried...

I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and...

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a newly formatted scsi drive that carried designator "D"(the existing "C" was a smaller SCSI that I wanted to get rid of) I removed the old "C" drive and installed another new scsi(identical to the new boot drive). The second drive was recognized but did not get...

I have an *.iso file on my hard disc. What is the easiest was to map this Ü.iso file to a (free) driver letter (e.g. M:) ? I don't want to burn it on a DVD and access it in my DVD drive Is there a Win7 built-in way? Peter

New to the forums but I have no clue what is going on here... I am using Win 7 Pro x32. When I use RDP to connect to another computer, I noticed that on the remote computer (sometimes) as well as on my local machine (always), it creates a "Z:" drive. It isn't like a mapped network drive though...

Here is the situation: I installed windows 7 to my inspiron 1720 which had Vista, everything was fine installing the new operating system. The problem starts when installing any program the computer set as default installation path the Recovery disk D which has my operating system. But...

After shutting down my computer for the night, and turning it on the next morning. My computer no longer see's the files located in my second HDD. If I click on the Icons, it will still load the program, and I can still open the HDD in "My Computer" under Games Galore(D:). The problem is the...

Hi, i used to have ubuntu on my pc but as a gamer i allways use windows too,i have 2 maxtor 250gb and one 500gb WD which i want to use only for data,so first i installed ubuntu 10.04LTS on one maxtor i formated the WD as "FAT(Visible to windows)" - that's what ubuntu said.. and then i...

Hi everyone, I recently installed the Office 2010 trial and it insisted it wanted to be installed in drive Q: (a networked drive) but it had no writing privileges. The only way to coax the installer into installing was to remove Q: from the list of connected drives. After the installation, I...

Hi, I'm having a problem not being able to access 2 out of 3 partitions in an external HD. Samsung HD753LJ (USB) 700GB Partition 1: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 2: 200 GB / NTFS Partition 3: 300 GB / NTFS I once had a dual-boot Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows 7 Professional...

Hi! I'v recetnly reisntalled windows 7, because a bad virus... I was happy when I got my newly installed super-fast windows 7. But when I opened Explorer I realized that one of my partition had disappeared. I tried looking at Disk Management: Link Removed due to 404 Error I see that it...

My hard drive was showing up as having a lot of Seek errors so I decided to do the SMART thing (sorry!) and replace it before it failed completely. I took a full backup and created a system image that I then restored to a new disk using a rescue DVD. On restart the system wouldn't boot...

Hello everyone, I will cut straight to the chase: I have two raid arrays, one stripe (OS) and one span (or JBOD, which is where I store data). The problem I am having is Windows will not automatically assign my data drive a drive letter upon starting up the computer. I have to manually go into...

I've just installed Win7. But first I created a new partition with Partition Wizard and cloned the Vista partition into it giving it a new drive letter and calling it 'Vista'. Everything went great except Win7 won't recognize the new partition calling it 'free space'. Partition Wizard won't...

I am running Win7. My 4yr old got an interactive Dora doll that I couldn't get working. After hours on the phone with Dora support and researching others experience, I decided it just wasn't getting along with 7. I decided the easiest thing to do would be just install Xp and dual boot. With...