drive recognition

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...

Greetings all! I have one computer here, started off as a boot loop issue, couldnt get into safe mode. I plugged into another computer, it would show up as a disk, but disappeared and reappeared every 20 seconds asking for a format, when I tried to format, it failed. I used my motherboards...

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...

Hi, Am setting up new VAIO PC (rescue discs already made so DVD worked), and changed the partitions (resized C: down and added two more) on my hard drive with Partition Wizard, went easy, using the "default" drive numbers offered, E and F, I assumed that D was not available as the DVD was using...

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...

Hello again , I was just wondering about a drive not showing in Drive Manager. I have three HDD and they show up just fine in the BIOS . The drive that is not showing in my Device Manager are the 400 Gig and 1500 Gig. But I am running my OS on my 320 Gig , which in neither in Device...

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...

Hi, We use a Sony Vaio laptop and everything was Ok... but all of a sudden a problem occurred. Neither DVDs nor CDs could be played. We used Microsoft's Fix It (Automated Troubleshooting Services) and it fixed our CD problem and we can play CDs now but now DVDs . "Fix It" reported there...

Hi Guys. I hope this is in the right Forum. Briefly. I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so i ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, i formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under...

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...

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...

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...

Hi. I have 5 hard disks on my computer (four SATA internal + one external). I was able to get disk management in W7 to work one time. It reported one of my hard disks incorrectly, telling me I have a 2 Teribyte drive when I do not have it. I attempted a reformat (NTFS, default). Anyway, after...

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...

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...