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...
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...
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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...
I am using 7/64 4g ram with a media dashboard. When I use it to read an sd/usb drivices it will open drives E-H. If I do not uninstall them, on my next bootup within 5 mim consistently I will get a BSOD
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.
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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 installed a Videomate E750 TV Card without any software as I intended to use it with Media Centre in Windows 7 Home Premium and afterwards the computer refused to boot eventually coming up with "Can't find BOOTMGR" so I uninstalled the card but was left with the same problem, tried running...
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Running Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit. Two disks in computer (lenovo laptop) second disk (D) is dynamic. We create symlinks using mlink. We create links on D:\. An example is:
mklink /D "S:\DriverAPI.Duplex" "%GBROOT%\DriverAPI\Duplex\bin\main\debug"
and
mklink /D "T:\DriverAPI.JTalk"...
I have an issue I cannot resolve. I just installed Windows 7 on one of our computers and everything went great. I can connect to all my network drives and my NAS but when I try and run an application file I get an error “The parameter is incorrect.” I can copy this folder to my local drive or my...
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?
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Was hoping for a bit of guidance please.
I'm looking to add a Blu-Ray drive to my system, simply to play films on my PC.
I've heard that not all Blu-Ray drives actually do this, and that some drives are purely just for data storage and access etc.
Can anyone recommend a drive...
Hi all,
I just built my first computer - I'll try to be as detailed as possible, but if I miss something please feel free to ask. I am using an ASUS P7P55D-E Motherboard, Intel X25M 80gb SSD, and a WD 1Tb HDD. I do not have an optical drive, so I installed Win7 + ran other installation CDs...
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about 2 months ago i installed windows 7 ultimate on a trigem dreamsys which was running xp home..
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but now i think its the CPU or the drives that are making a revvving noise and its quite noisy sometime starts and stops and sometimes continuoius my specs are as...
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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...
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