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Windows 7 Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. On a CD-ROM
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...- DerekB72
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- access administrator cd-rom drive error files movies path security troubleshooting user account windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Can't see network drive
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...- Child777
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- connectivity desktop drive file sharing firewall laptop network remote access troubleshooting vpn windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 Seagate 750 Drive Detected in BIOS but Not in Windows: Next Steps?
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 ?- meicalnissyen
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- bios computer configuration drive hardware issues raid recognition seagate storage
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Syncing Folder Between Drives
I am looking for a free application for syncing folder between drives in real time, Windows 7 & XP :confused:- DirtRider
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- application drive folders free software real time sync windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 Boot Manager is missing; after recovery using Acronis backup
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...- niebling
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- acronis active partition backup boot drive boot manager disk disk cleanup drive error gparted hard drive lenovo linux mbr oem partition partition recovery system partition troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Changing a drive permissions?
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...- jon12
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- drive file access my computer troubleshooting windows
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Windows 7 portable device drves E: F: G: H: are cousing BSOD
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- hateingpc
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- bsod dashboard devices drive error media portable sd card usb windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Remove Drive Showing Up That Doesn't Exist
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- cgrim29588
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- computer disk drive external hdd printer removable remove storage
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Help Please! This is driving me crazy...
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...- GhopR
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- drive error icons pinning removable media shortcuts usb windows 7
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- Forum: Desktop Customization
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Windows 7 how do I find all files named xxx?
Hello everybody. How do I find all the file named "whatever.exe" in my comuter? And the drives and paths they are in? Like in window XP. Don Cole- don cole
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- computer drive executable file management file search find files path search algorithms troubleshooting windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Sata controller problem
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...- jackoab
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- boot bootmgr cable controller drive fault guidance home premium installation media center motherboard recovery sata technical troubleshooting tv card videomate warranty windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Symbolic links not showing in explorer
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"...- malenefri
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- administrator drive dynamic disk explorer file system file visibility lenovo mklink symbolic links windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows7 and NAS
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...- Amity
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- application drive error file access nas network security troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows 7 fails to recognize DVD+R, CDs in drive
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...- minotaur15
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- audio cd burning drive dvd firmware my computer recognition samsung windows 7
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Windows 7 How do I get backup to work properly?
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?- hg3300
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- backup drive error files space storage system troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Guidance Needed: Choosing a Blu-Ray Drive for Film Playback on PC
Hi... 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...- DaveHMCFC
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- avoiding issues blu-ray drive film playback guidance hardware media player recommendations storage
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Win7 not recognizing additional drives
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...- Tacky
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- asus bios data transfer disk management drive dynamic disk external drive file transfer formatting hdd installation partition pc build ssd storage issues tech support troubleshooting usb windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows 7 help
Hi all about 2 months ago i installed windows 7 ultimate on a trigem dreamsys which was running xp home.. no problems all activated 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...- carlos2009
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- audio issues community cpu drive hardware help installation noise partition pentium performance ram specs tech support trigem troubleshooting ultimate user experience windows 7 xp home
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Delete partition drive and revert it back to one partition drive
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...- fight2fight
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- data removal delete drive hard drive partition revert storage triple boot windows 7 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Partitioning Drive for Optimum Performance
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...- Mat
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- backup data safety disk management drive fat32 file system maintenance optimization page file partition performance reinstall storage swap file system setup temp files user data user experience windows windows xp
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support