I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread.
I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...
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I wanted to make Windows 7 recognize my second hard drive. Following online instructions I went to
control panel --> computer management --> storage.
when the window opened it asked me what filetype the drive is. I accdentally/stupidly clicked CDFS.
now storage manager sees the disk, but...
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So I've been running Vista Business until today. My dvd drive has worked fine until I finished the Win7 Pro (32 bit) installation, and now my dvd drive is not listed in "my computer" or "device manager" at all. I installed windows 7, so of course it works outside of windows...and I can still...
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So here's the situation:
I have a 300GB IDE drive partitioned into three parts, and a new Western Digital 1 TB drive I just bought, along with a 500gb, and an 80 gb for my OS. Windows 7 recognized all of the drives, and all three partitions when I installed it, but after the installation was...
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windows 7
I've spent quite a few days trying to install Win 7 in a dual boot enviroment with an existing Vista operating system. Vista came pre-installed on a large SATA HD that I reconfigured into 2 partitions (Vista on the 1st). Unfortunately, the OEM cabled the drive to one of the middle sequenced of 6...
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I've been going at this all day searching, trial and error, and it's all very frustrating at this point.
I wanted to try Windows 7 since it has been released in the RC status (because I had aquaintances try 7000 beta, and no one liked it). So I want to have it on my machine to tinker with and...
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I have XP Pro (32bit) on my C partition (Disk 1), Win 7 32 bit on my F partition (Disk 2) , both are SCSI drives. I also have two WD sata drives 120gb and 640gb.
XP recognizes all drives, win7 does not recognize the 640gb hard drive.
Suggestions please (in addition to uninstall Win 7...
i installed windows 7 in my computer with little problems that i have solved. the problem is that i have a external hd and it was showing up in device manager but not in my computer. after triying the drivers that came with the enclosure still wont show up in my computer.after triying for a...
I have HDD installed on slot SATA_0, and stat disk drive installed on SATA_1. Bios doesn't recognize HDD, but it will allow me to install an OS. I'd like to see the HDD in BIOS....any thoughts.
i've alreay moved them to SATA_1 & SATA_2 with same result
I have setup a Ramdisk with Virtual Hard Drive Pro and would like to install Windows 7 there, but when I run the installer it does not recognize the drive. Can someone help? Thanks.
Hi there,
I'm using Build 7000 of the Windows 7 beta... I had Vista as my main operating system... my HDD was already split into 2 partitions (plus I had a separate physical drive, for 3 drives total)...
I installed Windows 7 on the other partition of my main drive (dual boot). Everything...