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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...

Using WMDM I have created a small application to read portable device information, my application works fine on vista and XP but has one problem on Win7. Problem: I am not able to get drive letter of USB device. I am calling GetName of IWMDMDevice interface, on XP & VISTA this API returns...

I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional Edition. (The real thing, not the beta. I got it off the MSDNAA.) My system is dual booted between Linux and Windows, and I have an NTFS data partition for sharing files between them. But when I try mounting the volume in the Computer...

Hey, i was on windows XP and i installed windows 7 RC ( not upgrade, a fresh copy). on windows i had two hard drives on the computer. ( internal) disk0 and disk1. when i installed windows 7, on the computer, i can only see local disk C: ( the hard drive which i installed windows7 on). . when i...

I have a partition on my hard drive: C & D. My "C" Drive has good old Windows XP and "D" drive has Windows 7 release 264 pre-RTM (activated). I have not used XP for six months. I got the Win7 RC and kept upgrading all the way to release 264... compliments of ... WZor Question: I want to...

I just installed WIndows 7 Ultimate RTM on my machine. My hardisk has several partitions. The primary partiton is C. But it was of only 10GB, so I decided to install the Windows 7 on D drive. Everything is done smoothly except that, after the installation the i can't see my C drive. And all...

I have done a clean instal of Win7 RC on a new drive "G", Vista is still on Drive "C". Eventualy Vista will go and I would like Drive to Change Drive G to Drive C as my boot drive. At present I am dual bootuing, C or G I have tried using the Drive manager also Acronis Disk Director and had...

I tried partitioning my ext hard drive and I get this message Link Removed due to 404 Error No matter how much I do I refresh rescan or restart I always get that message when I'm trying to give the drive a Letter, this drive works perfectly well in XP so I dont understand why it wont in 7

Hi there i need some help iff any one knows how to solve this problem i recently installed a new hard drive and moved some of my drive letters arround when i was sorting out all the stuff i have :). so the problem..... i had WMP 11 all set up with media center an what not :) after i moved...

Hello, all - brand new member here. Good-looking forum, looks like it has a lot of useful info. I did a search for this, but didn't find anything exactly like what I'm experiencing (found a couple of things that were close, tried those solutions, no dice). I just installed W7RC into a...

I posted this with no results in another w7 forum. Perhaps I'll have better luck here. I have a small C: drive with too much stuff on it, and a new 250GB i: drive that is nearly empty. How can i interchange these two drives so the big one is c: and the little one is i:? I will rebuild w7 rc...

Win7, build 7100 IBM x206 server with 74GB primary (boot) SATA drive on channel 1, and 640GB SATA drive on channel 2 The 640GB drive "disappears" from view after reboot. It drops the drive letter and I have to manually reassign the letter and the shares. Drive is formatted as NTFS, not...

I'm running Windows 7 with dual boot to Vista. My C:\ and a couple of other partitions come up fine, but some are missing. I go into Disk Management to assign a drive letter to these parititions but I get an error. "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view...

I recently bought a maxtor 500 gb external hdd and i just cant get it to work with windows 7, i got a computer at home where i want to keep it that has windows 7 rc , I have tryed everything i can think of to make it work but nothing does, I cant see it in my computer or with the explorer, but I...

I put 7100 on a second partition on my p.c. so I could test it out since I have had to revert to 7000 paritition on this machine on all builds after 7022 due to internet loss bug. However I have solved the problem and am now ready to move the second partition over onto the first one, which I...

Hello, I have Build 7068 and when I try to install some software I get an error. The error states "Invalid Drive Letter P:\", then the install closes. I am in a Domain environment. This error does happen both when I install the software from the Network share or move it locally and try to...

Hi All, I have installed Windows 7 build 7057 on my desktop.There is an problem with my external hard disk(Western Digital 160GB). Before the drive was formatted and partitioned in to 4 parts and I am having data on all drives.On WIndows 7 I am able to see the first partition . Through disk...

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...

I have three HDDs, C: 500GBs D: 80GBs E: 250GBs. I previously had Vista running in the drive with 250Gbs. At that point it was labeled my C drive. So I went through numerous formattings to get my largest HDD to be the C drive. Now that I have the letters in order, I would like to remove the...