drive recognition

Hi, When I woke up this morning I turned on my computer and it had an error message, unfortunately I didn't look at this error message and continued to start up (computer updated, see attached for list of updates). When I loaded up I noticed many different programs weren't accessible anymore...

Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...

I can't get my Wondows 10 PC to boot up because I made a big mistake. Everything was fine, no problems. I had an old pc and wanted to get some things off of the hard drive, so I put the old pc's hard drive into my current pc. It was recognized as drive H, I think. I was able to copy stuff off...

Hello, ok so I built a pc today and im running a ssd and a hd and its showing them both in the bios. I installed windows 10 on the ssd and i selected custom ant it showed both drives there also. Now that windows is installed and i want to install programs to the other drive it isnt showing...

So I bought an external hard drive because you never know when your computer may need to reset. So I plugged it in and it did not come up. I went into disk management and I dont know what to do from there on out.. I posted an attachment so you can see.

An external drive of mine that is attached via USB suddenly does not show up in Explorer. When I connected it to a different machine the driver installed OK and the drive was ID'd correctly as ST3160021A - but doesn't show up in Explorerer on that machine either. Looking at the drives' LED...

Have perused the topics but did not find a particular post specific to my concern. First of all, having trouble burning dvd's and that lead to the current issue. The process does not seem to be straightforward. Built a machine this past spring with 2 disc drives: Blu-ray Intel SSDSC2CW12...

From a fresh start up of the computer, I can get my thumbnails to generate any where on my computer, the NAS, or the USB attached to the NAS. However, after a short period (not specific, can be 5 mins or 30 mins), the USB drive attached to the NAS will no longer generate thumbnails, however...

I am running Win7 32bit Professional on an Acer 8930 notebook. I have various USB storage solutions - including a 32MB flash stick and 2 usb external drives with 320mb drives - all of which work with no problem. I also have a media player which uses an internal 2GB Western Digital hard drive...

The SHORT of it: Upgraded from Windows XP to 7. When I plug the camera in, Windows Explorer "sees" it as "Canon Powershot A540" instead of "drive J:", so the Autoplay does not start. Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, or if this is in the wrong thread. If so, please point me...

hi all. need some help, so hope someone can oblige. have used ATI for a long time with no problems on various machines, including my Windows 7 Ultimate, x86 computer. this machine has a WD black caviar sata lll 500gig hdd, but is connected on sata ll (mobo doesn't support sata lll). have just...

I have a cd with pictures on it from my holiday. When I got home I tried the disk in my ps3 and all the pictures were there I then tried it in the e drive of my pc but it doesn't recognise the disk at all. I have since tried it back in the ps3 and now that doesn't recogise it either. Am...

OK so since I have installed a fresh copy of Windows 7 on this computer ( it is the first operating system installed on it) I can not write any DVDs .A strange fact is that I can write and read CDs and also read DVDs, but not every time.I got an original CD Album and it's still not recognized by...

I just bought an ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO motherboard with Lite On SATA 6.0Gb/s DVD-RW and Blu-Ray drives. Everything seems to be connected to the right ports, and when I turned on the computer for the first time and went into the BIOS, it detected my clean/bare Hitatchi SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD, and the two...

I have a WD My Book 110 External Hard Drive and when I plug it in and go to my computer to access the files on it the drive doesn't show, but if I go to the start menu and type b: in the search box it shows the files and the drive also shows in Disk Management, so why isn't it showing in My...

Hey all, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my barebones system that I built. A physical descriptions is: Gigabyte GL-P945-PL-S3 Motherboard with an Intel Dual Core Processer running @ 2.3ghz Three (3) internal hdd. One (1) 1tb SATA, One (1) 250gb SATA, and...

I have a new Ford that has the Ford Sync. I've had trouble finding something to work with Ford Sync from all kinds of usb thumbdrives, to Zune, to portable usb drive. I want it to show the artist/song title on the screen and be able to use voice commands to play songs/artists, etc. The only...

Hi, My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data. For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...

Hello, I am working on a shop machine and my employer is insisting on having four hard drives installed running Jbod (I have argued for two days about this and got nowhere) the problem is I can get Windows to recognize three of the four, one system and two running Jbod, the fourth is nowhere...

I have a 1TB hard drive divided into 2 partitions of 500GB each. On one partition I have installed windows 7, and on the other, windows vista. Several days ago I started getting a blue screen when trying to boot the windows 7 side. It occurs almost immediatedly after the splash screen. The...