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    Windows 7 AHCI and SSD's

    According to a bulletin on the OCZ site; With AHCI on; my drive score went from 7.1 to 7.3, but my computer became unusable from the same symptoms quoted in the bulletin. As for my overall WPI score; it is limited to 4.4 because of the over emphasis on Aero Performance. I have not invested...
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    Windows 7 Win Backup problem here

    I seem to have two complete backups being created here. Both at 30.48 gigs what do I do here. Love the win hate this. Or is it something I have done during the set up. The drive it is accessing is meant only for my Docs. Please help :eek:
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    Windows 7 New Sata Drive

    I just bought a new SATA drive... I alread have two, a 500g and a 1TB... I installed in into my tower but windows will not let me access it... When i goto the devise manager, It sees the drive and says the driver is up to date and working properly. Even my bios says its there but when I goto my...
  4. Windows 7 eSATA Drive No Longer Found

    Today I got an eSATA cable that I ordered. I plugged an external drive into my machine with it while Windows 7 (7100) was booted and it recognized it without any problems. It found all of the files and all seemed to be good. I then used the Hardware Removal Tool to remove the drive, and shut...
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    Windows 7 Cluster

    Hello, Here's the problem. I can't access the blue ray drive on my HP D7 laptop with Windows 7. Clean install. Tried installing WinDVD from Corel and that didn't work. I need to get office on this laptop but I can't load it from the disc. I tried doing it from online (I'm in Afghanistan)...
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    Windows 7 Burning DVD ISO's causes random reboot

    Hi there, I was just wondering if anyone else was having this problem. I've attempted 4 different ISO's three times each using Windows 7's native ISO burner and each time, burning the image casues my computer to randomly shut off. I have Linux, Hackintosh and Windows XP all available to me...
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    Windows 7 SSD Drives

    Can all you poast your ssd scors here ? We are looking for the best bang for the buck. Thomas :cool:
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    Windows 7 windows 7 install error, I/O communications, SATA drive

    hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...
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    Windows 7 Can not burn disc images

    This may already have been discussed in this forum, but with all of the posts, it makes it difficult to find answers when doing a search. My problem is, I can't burn any image, with any program on any media. I have tried it all. The burn begins and then hangs on writing lead-in. Then I have...
  10. Windows 7 Win7 and SSD's

    So Ive got a bday coming up and am lucky enough to have a 60GB Apex series solid state drive in the mail. I dont have a problem with it yet. Was looking for some feedback on someone who is running one of these 1st gen drives with Windows 7 x64. I understand XP do not mix well with these and they...
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    Windows 7 Sharing Software

    Some advice needed please. I have WinXP (SP3) installed on Drive E. I have Win7 (RC1) insaleed on Drive C. All my software for Win XP is installed on Drive D. My question is this: If I install software on Win7 that I already have on WinXP, into the same folder for both operating systems on...
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    Windows 7 Will Windows 7 Install delete existing files on my partition?

    I have 3 seperate drives in my system. I want to dual boot Windows Vista and Windows 7 RC1. Vista is install on the first drive (C) I want to install Windows 7 on the second drive D but there is currently files on the drive (some Videos and music etc). If i choose to install Windows 7 custom...
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    Windows Vista healthy primary partition NOT accessible anymore

    Hi, i can no longer access my healthy primary partition F/: where i keep my documents etc... seperate from the OS C:/ drive which is booting normally and working fine. any ideas how I can access my drive again? Disk management is recognizing my F/: drive, i just get error message whenever i want...
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    Windows Vista Writing Data To DVD+RW

    MY Slimline desktop features a double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW drive. The PC has Cyberlink DVD Suite Deluxe installed. I'm planning on using DVD+RW to back up my music, photos and documents. As I understand it there is no need to format this type of disc, just uncheck the "Close" box and I can...
  15. Windows 7 Bitlocker

    Is anyone else using this? I used it to encrypt a drive that I had just laying around the house, and then, when I went to unlock it...it would stop responding...every time. Good thing I didn't have anything important on that drive.
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    Windows 7 CD/DVD drive

    I'm using a Vaio laptop, vgn-fw170j, i had windows vista premium before. My computer isn't detecting any drive other than disk C: I've tried going to the sony esupport website to find a driver for this, but I didn't see anything that would fit:( Any suggestions?
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    Windows 7 laptop sata controller broken, boot from esata?

    i have an acer aspire 5050, it takes a 2.5 sata drive, but it just wont detect them in bios, there's nothing i can do.... what i was hoping was to get a esata card and plug the drive into that, and install/boot win 7 from there... right now i have xp booting from a usb key but i can't figure...
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    Windows 7 Can win7 run programs that are on another partition?

    I have installed win7 beta on a 2nd hard drive called drive letter W: I have Garmin MapSource programs and map data on the main drive in drive letter C: which were loaded under XP. When I am running win7 and try to run the MapSource.exe program that is on C: I get an error: MapSource could...
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    Windows 7 CD/DVD Missing from computer

    Hi Guys, Please help me out, i don't know what happen, but i can't see my cd/dvd on my computer. if i put any cd on the drive nothing happen. Thanks Kenn
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    Windows 7 CD / DVD Emulation on Windows 7 x64?

    Hi, I'm trying to find a disc drive emulator for Windows 7 x64, I've tried Daemon Tools but that doesn't work as it's installer seems to think SPTD isn't installed when it is. I've even ran the SPTD x64 installer separately... Any ideas? Thanks!