drive letter

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 just installed a new 64 gig SSD in my computer. I also have a 2T secondary hard drive. The SSD is not big enough to contain all the stuff that will eventually be in "My documents", i.e. under "users" so I need to move the users directory to my secondary hard drive but have windows behave as it...

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...

When I currently llok at my WinExplorer then the drive letters appear NOT alphabetically sorted. Drive W:\ eg. comes above drive C:\ and D:\ How can I tell WinExplorer to sort the drives alphabetically? Peter

I'm doing a Windows 7 tutorial. In it I'm imaging a Windows 7 Virtual Machine. I rebooted the VM and booted from my physical WinPE CD. The book SPTK 70-680 (Ian McLean) gives pretty good instructions but I have different drive letters than what’s in the book. The book says to enter...

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...

First off I like to say I like this forum so Im posting here.:D I am having a problem with my network places being over crowd on winows 7, Vista, an XP machines. I woul like to get ri of all the broken an duplicate folders. Heres the story, I have a media server in one room. Over the years...

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...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

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...

Hello , My question is as followed : In My Computer , my drives initially had a designations like C: D: , now when I go into My Computer , they have miraculously disappeared > So now I can see my drives but none of them have a Letters next to them. Might there be any reason for this ...

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...

Alright, so my Windows 7 recently quit assigning drive letters automatically. I frequently plug in new hard drives to the system using various USB to IDE or SATA adapters and now when I plug in a new hard drive with any of these USB adapters, it does not get a drive letter assigned to the...

I use a custome made programm which works only when the system hard drive shows up as "Disk0" and the RAID-0 disk (based on PCI-E card) appeares as "Disk1". I've just upgrated my OS from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro (hardware configuration is the same). After the first reboot the system...