drive management

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)...

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...

I bought a new USB drive to replace a smaller one. I created a folder on the new drive and moved all files from the old drive to the new one. By moving the files, my old drive is now empty. I am unable to access the folder on the new drive as I get access denied. I am the only user on this...

hi i have installed win7 having 3 partitions each have sufficient amount of free space now i want to combine them to form single partition. how to do it . my friend told me about the extend option in the device management but it does not highlights when i right click on the drive to extend . an...

I get the subject error when I try to turn on System Restore to my drives. (HDD)

Because of an issue with an external drive, i have to not allow the power saving feature for hard drives. Apparently my external (LaCie) doesn't support power saving and when W7 enacts the mode the drive stalls. The problem being i have a total of 6 hard drives. I'd like the others to power save...

I've often heard that the OS should be on a drive (logical drive) by itself so that, when it gets a problem, you can just re-install a new copy of the OS on that drive. However, isn't the OS modified when you install programs? Where would you install them? Can someone explain the procedure...

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

ok so i hope this is the right forun or thread.. but i have a problem.. i have my lap top wich had two windows 7 installed. i did it... one on drive C: and other on drive D: ... now i erased the one on drive C: while on the other windows 7. on drive D:.... and i made it active then i...

In WinXP I created a shortcut to WinExplorer with the following parameters: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,D:\tmp When I do this in Win7 then the dir is opened on the right side of WinExplorer but on the left side the directory tree remains unexpanded. How can I tell WinExplorer to...