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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 loaded a retail version of 7 this morning (at home). No problems it seemed. I already had 3 partitions, two of which had operating systems, one XP Pro 64 bit and the other the rtm of 7 and one was strictly for files (the windows section had been removed previously). When the new os...

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...

My computer had Vista Ultimate on Drive C, and XP Pro on Drive D (dual boot). I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7, and couldn't upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional (which is what the Action Pack CD is). I purchased Laplink PcMover Update and ran it on the XP installation then...

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...

RUNNING WINDOWS 7600 RTM. acer m5641- q6600 4gig ram-ati 4650- all drivers are installed. Everything works except flashdrives. I plug the drive in and windows detects it and seems it as a flash drive- yet media player 12 only reports it as u3 not as the flsh drive, for some reason windows media...

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...

For some reason now I cannot find my drive letters in windows explorer. Something got changed and I have no idea how to see them again. Anyone know how I can see them again?