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hello. i've installed a new internal drive without any problem. i named the new drive using an available letter and then copied my entire data drive onto it. what i'd like to do is rename the new drive to the drive letter i am currently using for my data so i don't have to remap all my...

I had this crazy problem whenever I renamed a folder, no matter what drive, I would get and error like in the picture but when I clicked "Try Again", it would rename the folder with no problem. Link Removed Here is a registry fix that after you run it, all is good again. No need to restart...

Reformat the hard disk error 0x80070057 and cancels the installation of Windows 7. More...

Hello everyone, I have to make a few copys of DVD's, I do own them. I looked into a few dvd copying software programs but the problem is that I only have one dvd drive so I think I need a program that will have two steps to it, one to copy the dvd and put the files on the desktop and the other...

When i go to set permissions to a folder that i had set up to accept edit and everything before i did a system dump im no longer allowed to edit this folder. It looks like this when i go to edit them: Link Removed Any suggestions how to fix this w/o formatting the drive?

Here is my problem. Got a Dell M5150 laptop, and all seemed well. Until I had to install a large auto cad program, and it told me I didn't have enough space. Seems whoever installed it thought a little 60 GB OS drive would be best. So I looked into it, and figured I'd expand C: to remedy...

all of a sudden my 2 cd-rw drives are recognized as cd-rom. what can i do to fix this?? no new programs have been installed. i have win 7, 64 bit

Every time I stick a DVD (game/movie) into the drive it comes up with an autoplay box with 1 option, to open the folder to view files. In Explorer the DVD shows up just as a generic DVD - basically as if it were just a blank disc for burning. If I 'explore' the disc there are no playable files...

Hi, I recently purchased HP laptop which has 2 drives. In "D" drive mainly meant for HP support assistant and back up. Can i format that drive and use it as a normal one. I usually take back up with my external hard drive frequently. Thanks Joe for your reply. Its a partition drive ( D drive)...

when i click format a 150 gb partition space in disk management option i recieved the following message "An unexpected error has occurred. Check the System Event Log for more information on the error. Close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk Management or restart the computer". and...

Troubleshoot issues where your Disk Drive, USB flash drive or CD and DVD drive is not shown in Windows Explorer. Link Removed

I have just formatted a new 1TBye drive and tried backup. It reports it has failed and the help area merely tells me to go to the settings. The windows error logs for backup indicate it worked. The drive has an 105MByte image on it but no files or folders. This is pretty useless given that as...

Hi all, I have a problem with my ZyXEL NAS221 network drive. I have had it running on the network for about 6 months at the location M:\location\share without a problem. At the weekend I took it to a family members house, as it has a static IP set it was easy to find on their network. Since...

Fixes an issue in which a solid-state drive is not displayed in Device Manager in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2. This issue occurs after you hot-swap the drive to another slot on a PCI-E switch. More...

Hi I have 6 (2 internal, 4 external) hard drives, 2 CD DVD drives and one of those drives that read every kind of media card. My external drives don't show in Widows Explorer unless they are turned on and they are always off unless I'm using them. So it normally shows my 2 internal drives and...

Hver gang jeg vælger et nyt drev i stifinder, tager det lang tid inden drevet vises, det virker som om det skal opdateres hver gang - kan det ændres. Det samme er hvis jeg i et program skal gemme en fil på et af mine drev, så får jeg meddelsen "Drevet svarer ikke", og først efter nogen tid, kan...

I'm running Windows7 Ultimate 64-bit. I went in to the control panel/System Protection to turn on Protection on the drive that contain my documents so I could use the "Restore Previous versions". When I attempted to do so I got an error stating "Could not apply settings for the following reason...

Hi All, After installing 7 32bit over Vista, 250GB HDD, 7 does now not recognise,patition3 which was "ACERDATA-D" 107GB + "ACER-C" O/S 111GB. Windows tools allow me to do nothing,however i have found a program that can find and mount "non visible Partitions" I have tried formating this...

I recieved a Dell Insipron 1545 about a year and a half ago, with windows 7 pre-installed on it. Unfortunate circumstances have led me to have to reinstall windows 7 on my laptop. When I did (With the installation disks that came with my laptop) It kept sending me notifications that my recovery...

I have a Dell Studio 1535 with Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit, the DVD-RW drive is Optiarc 7640s. I have read that there are a lot of people having problems with that particular DVD-RW drive. The problem is: it is not detecting DVDs; it detects, reads, and writes cds satisfactory. I have used the...