drive management

Why is it that so many Western Digital products suck at what they do? Every time I tried using a storage device by WD it's been acting up. One time a drive wasn't even being detected by a computer (or other computers I've tried it on) and now this new 1 TB external drive is not wanting to...

Ever since I recovered from the virus/trojan attack in December, my PC hasn't been the same. I keep getting a pop-up from malware-bytes and spy-bot about a smitfraud c.generic and svchost.exe problems. Needless to say, there is something happening that I can not put my finger on and realize...

No changes were made since last boot. Attempted to follow instructions posted here: windows 7 bootmgr is missing-- resolved using WinRE - Microsoft Answers Method 1: Message states a fix was made.Root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action...

Hello, About 6 months ago I set up a new machine dual boot using GParted with the following configuration: /dev/sda1 ntfs (Windows 7 system reserved) 100 MB /dev/sda2 ntfs (Windows7 C: drive) 99 GB (includes 4 GB of preloaded page file space) /dev/sda3 ntfs (Shared drive - Windows7 E: Drive /...

I find it folly to install my applications on the C drive, especially the larger applications. Doing so makes the C drive so large that it is cumbersome to make the image backups that I think are necessary to insure an easy recovery from any problem causing a failure to boot. In WinXP, there is...

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

Hello All, As a matter of habit, I tend to reformat my machine on a fairly regular basis (every 6 months or so). The last time I did a clean out, I had the problem below. I am about to clean out again, and would like to know if there is any way to avoid the problems I had last time. My...

I have several external Drives Thumb Drives plugged in at all times on my computer, about 8 of them.. Every time I boot into my version of mint the latest stable version. All my plugged in drives start up after I boot in to the oS. My Question is how do I stop this? All answers will be appreciated.

Hello! I've moved tons of files to an external hard drive [Samsung external USB HD (FAT32)]. After that, I've tried to eject the device in Windows 7, via Safely Remove Hardware but Windows said that the device was in use, even though everything (applications and windows) were closed. I decided...

There is single drive in my laptop i.e. C drive and suppose I shrinked that drive through disk management and made two partaion (C drive and D drive) Now, if i have to format the C drive to install new windows , will the D drive remains or it will also be deleted?

Hello all, I'm brand new to windows 7. I just installed last night to a Crucial c300 SSD (drive c:\). I want to have everything else go to my 2TB Seagate Barrracuda HDD (Drive b:\). I'm sure it's just a setting in disk management somewhere, but how can I set it so that the default installation...

Configuration:Disk 0 - System [C] - [special library folders pointed to D] Disk 1 - Data [D] - [changed to X for volume encryption process] Disk 2 - Copy Data [E] - [mirror of D] I have used truecrypt system encryption to encrypt Disk 0 I changed the drive letter of Disk 1 to X as I want...

I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and...

My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...

Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...

First time poster: I installed a Seagate 1TB drive in a usb drive enclosure using Windows 7, and I am denied access when I try to save anything on it or change permissions. The drive shows up in my drive manager. It even let me initialize it, reset the drive letter, and format as NTFS...

I have a laptop with a pair of 500Gb physical HDDs, each drive has 3 partitions. For the past 18 months I have been successfully running Vista (my original OS) on C: and Win 7 Home Premium installed on my G: partition on the 2nd physical drive. I think that Vista is irrelevant now and want to...

I have been unable to find an answer to this and I don't believe it is typical behavior of Windows 7. I am a new user to windows 7 and have noticed that when I insert a cd/dvd or a usb thumb drive, an icon for it appears on the desktop and then dissapears once it is removed. I feel this is...

Hello from Mexico. Issue is this. I have a USB Wireless "Token" (USB=Token down here). It is from Movistar. That is like Verizon or ATT. I used it with no problem on a mac for about 3 months and now have it on a new HP with Win7. I could not get the tech people at the Store to even get the...

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...