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Its a bit complicated to state my situation, anyways, I have 2 HDD, and the PC won't boot if I removed the old HDD even though I've formatted the old HDD and win7 is on the new HDD. I have 2 physical HDD in PC (1) 80GB old hdd and noisy. (not SATA) (2) 500GB SATA hdd and sexy. My...

My hard drive is not showing in my computer. I installed partition magic and it showed to fix some errors and i clicked yes it fixed 2 errors and then showed some problem.........and my laptop restarted and after it was reboot my two other drives not showing in my computer.......i tried to give...

i have a problem and i was wondering if somebody could help me. i have 3 partitions one is for ubuntu another for windows7 and the other is for my files, like pics, music software etc. in ubuntu i can see that drive open up pics and tunes, but when i run windows that drive does not show...

Hi, We are experiencing problems with Unattended instalation of Windows 7. Everything works fine except the <ProfilesDirectory> field which "change the location"/rename of USER and ProgramFiles folders from C:. First we try to move USERS do d:\ drive. < ProfilesDirectory > D:\Userss </...

I have a brand new hard disk on which I would like to install Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition). Unlike many whose posts I've read I actually want to install the OS to a drive other than C, let's say drive L, and I need some help in order to accomplish this. Up through Windows XP the following...

Hey hey! I'm new on the forums and also new to Win7. Just installed win7 on my new sweet i7 setup and everything went well with the installation and win7 is running really smooth. However, there seems to be something wrong with my hdd setup. All my hdd's but one are showing. When I checked...

Hi Guys, I had a test version of windows 7 installed on my Sata drive which had 3 partitions on it (c:40gb, d:40gb, e:220). This worked fine. I decided that i liked Windows 7 so i wanted to re-install it on a permanent basis so i went through the installation, formatted C: ONLY and installed...

Hello It happens for *most* of my USB key or HDD : when I plug them, win7 see them in diskmgm utility but don't assign a drive letter. I have to do it manually with diskmgm. please help thanks

I've got Vista 64bit Ultimate currently installed on EIDE 400 gb HDD. I bought the W7 Professional edition, because I won't use the features of W7 Ultimate. Therefore a custom install is indicated by MSFT. Bought a 1TB WD SATA drive I disconnected the EIDE drive from computer and did a clean...

Hello everyone, I came to this forum because I have some problems with my Windows 7 installation and i hope i may get here some good help First, here are some info about my Instalaltion process: My hdd is a 320 gb sata drive from WD, when i wanted to install Windows 7 i had to get some...

Hello, I'm using windows 7 Ultimate edition. but there is one problem that little annoying me. When I plug my usb disk, it detected and can R/W normally, but the name of my usb disk not show. It's little annoying cause I plug many usb disk in my pc. I hope anyone can help me out..

I can see the usb Hard drive on all the lists. my computer and the device manager but it does not show any volume and when I go to click on the icon to ppull it up the drive the task par just shows a very slow progress on teh green line and never stops searching. any clue on what to do? This...

Alright I have been using Windows 7 for a few months almost since it came out and I love it. I finally bought my retail version and am about to install it on my 500GB HDD. The only problem is that I use Windows 7 for gaming and high ram usage programs so I use the 64bit version. I also do a lot...

I did a clean install of Win7 to a partition from a running Vista system in another partition. The install assigned A: as the drive letter for the system disk. I built this installation up and it is my official installation. Things run fine but there is one confirmed application that thinks A...

[fixed]Windows 7 deleted my partition! i just reformated with windows 7. i have a 500gb hard drive. 132gb is for my main OS partition. the other one was for my downloads ect. i chose IN SETUP to only install on my D:\. BUT NOW MY OTHER PARTITION IS GONE!!!! IT DOESN"T SHOW UP IN MY COMPUTER...

I installed windows 7 on a temporary drive (20gb) wich in the bios is primary drive. I then booted from that and installed windows 7 again on the slave drive (120gb). I did this because the the 120 gb was un available at the time and i wanted to see if the disk worked before wiping my 120 gb...

Hi My HDD has the following partitions (all NTFS): Primary (Active) 50G Extended 200 G 50G 100G 50 I would like to install Windows 7 on the first Extended partition and have the drive letter as D: Although I am able to install Windows 7 on the above mentioned partition the OS...

Hi there, So I've been searching through the threads and probably missed what amounts to an easy answer. I just reinstalled Windows 7 after upgrading my mobo, ram and cpu. As it stands my internal Maxtor 300gb hard drive, is showing up in the Bios. In fact it shows up in the Device Manager...

I just installed win 7 7600 from xp... again... my 2nd hard drive is not showing up in disk managment ..it shows up in device manager & other programs... but not under my computer, also does not have a drive letter so its not accessible.. their both 80gb hard drives & I kept the other for...

Hi, I have Vista 64 on C: and Windows 7 RTM on F: running simultaneously. I've got Win7 to the point where I can abandon Vista entirely. I was wondering if I could image the Win7 F: drive -- I use Acronis TrueImage -- and replace it onto C: eliminating the Vista instance for the Win7, then...