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So i tired to boot from a cd and my computer no longer will boot from a cd. It has worked flawless for several years. I have no idea why as my drive is fully functional and ive tried 3 different bootable disks that I am positive work as I have used them all several times. I have noticed that my...

i have a problem i am trying to do a recovery from my recovery drive. But its not there so i tried to just reformat my computer using my window 7 cd. when i get to the part that has you pick the install drive its listed right there. so is there another way to get to it like f11(wont work for...

I was trying to move the Documents folder from the default location to a folder on another drive. I accidentally moved it instead into the root of the drive. Now I can't move it to another folder because of the System Volume Information folder on the drive. The message I get when I try to move...

Hi all, Just upgraded to Win-7-Utimate 32bit from Vista 32bit, on 2 machines the 1st being a Toshiba L300, the 2nd being another Acer 6530G that i have. Both upgrades seem fine and all is working on both machines except, that my Acer only shows C:\ drive as being present and only show 111GB...

OK so here's my issue, i'm getting the following error when attempting to access my DVD-ROM to play a movie. This is a recent development, i haven't installed any new software on my system. Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have appropriate permissions...

Running Win 7 home premium on 2 new computers, 1 desktop in office, other is laptop. VPN connects from laptop to desktop. While in office and during testing at several off site Wi-Fi's I was able to access shared folders on the desktop. Now that I am several states away in my home/office I...

Hey all so I threw my bucket drive in today, segate 750, bios sees it, along with the optical and raid my computer does not list it next step ?

Hi All, I NEED SOME HELP of course... I used BCD and fouled up my system... I went back to a clean disk and created a primary partition using the whole disk space ( I used GParted from a linux bootable USB)... I'm running linux now. Using Acronis I restored my C drive with the MBR to the...

Last night I started to change the permissions on my D drive, there was a lot of files though so I cancelled it halfway through to do it another time. Now I can't do anything with the drive, open it, view files, change the permissions, all I can do is see the icon in My Computer view. How can...

When I go into my computer I see: OS (C:), DVD RW Drive (E:) and then the drive that doesn't exist Removable Drive (G:) and I don't have an external HDD attached just my printer and that has never shown up for my printer. Link Removed

I'm wanting to "pin" an Icon of my USB flash drive to my taskbar in Win7. I click on computer>Kingston(I: ) >create shortcut. When the shortcut appears on my desktop it's an icon of a removable drive (which is what I want), but when I try to "pin" it on my taskbar it changes to an icon of a...

I am having a problem with Windows allowing me to open/use/burn DVDs and CDs. I have a Samsung combo DVD/CD burner which operated just fine to install Windows and other programs, but when I attempted to burn my first DVD, windows failed to recognize that a disc was even in the drive and asked...

The first time I used backup, it worked fine. The second time, I had to reempty the drive and start over. Now backup is once again telling me that the drive doesn't have enough space on it again. Why can't the damn thing fix itself?

Hi, sorry if this has been posted already. i have partitioned one of my hard drives to have 2. now i want to delete it and revert it back to just one hard drive, can this be done??? please note that i had vista installed on the main hard-drive first then i created a partition drive to install...

1. if i put my page file swap file temp folder on its own partition, is it best to use fat32? if i remember right fat 32 is fastest just isnt the best for space usage. 2. does reinstalling windows after time (1-2 years) create better performance? im not sure what it is but windows xp and...

sorry if this is annoying, sure you must be getting many of these... but i was wondering if anyone has any tips i could follow to help lock my drive in DMA mode... I have done everything others have told me and yet every time i do anything on my 2nd drive (1st primary is SATA and slave is IDE)...

Hello everyone, First of all I'm not 100% sure this is ONLY(or at all?) Win7 related but since a lot of my questions involve changing or moving my OS i figured i should start here) The problem I am having consists of my RAID volume( that I use for OS + data) has recently come back with an Error...

Hi, I'm using the Win7 Backup utility and no problem with incremental backups.Let's call this Backup #1. However, I wanted a separate backup task for all my photos to a separate backup drive about once/month (Backup #2) as opposed to once/week for Backup #1. I looked around for trying to do...

Hi all. I would like to know what is the difference between Backup and creating image. I encountered a strange problem when I wanted to make an image, as well the same problem when I want to make a backup with image. From some reason, windows thinks that drive E is system related, which is...

Hi I have set up a VPN connection to my work computer which is running 2003sbs. I have no trouble connecting (as long as I disable packet filtering on my PC Tools firewall). However I am unable to access the drives. When I go to 'computer' the network name does not appear and if I try to...