drive letter

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'm at the moment dual-booting Windons Vista as a primary OS and Windows 7 RC 7100 as a secondary OS. I'm facing problem with iTunes library. iTunes itself works fine, but cannot find a solution how I could use the same iTunes library with both OS's. If I point iTunes to use the Vista's...

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...

I am a photographer and have thousands of digital photos to store. I have two portable harddrives attached to my Dell laptop with USB connections. I periodicaly unplug the hard drives to make my laptop portable. The problem is when I reattach the hard drives, the one that is normally the E...

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...

Hi, im using a laptop that first had windows vista installed when i bought it. Then after a while i installed Linux Ubuntu and the only partition then that was changed to ext3 was the "C:" partition. The other where still NTFS and i had to boot them in linux to use them, then i changed from...

I wonder if this is a problem or if its the way it should work... Whats happening is I installed Vista first on C: drive and then installed Windows 7 on D: drive. Vista sees both drives correctly as C, and D but Windows 7 shows it is also on a Drive C: and does not recognize any other drive...

Missing optical drives OK so you have lost your DVD/CD drive after installing Windows 7 Beta. Heres how to fix it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Apparently it seems that this is an age old fix for even XP systems. If you...

1) i accidentally hit something in my music library and it isn't divided into folders anymore and i don't know how to get it back. it monitors the music on my local drive and the My Music folder on my Windows XP hard drive. now instead of showing it divided between folders, it shows it all as...

Hi, I have 3 drives. C, D, E, C -> windows Xp D -> Windows 7 E -> Just my files. once I login to windows 7, I cannot see my C:\ drive insted my D:\ drive is named as C:\ wot is the wrong there?