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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...

I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) on my workstation, previously running Windows XP professional. My problem is that it is extremely unstable; It randomly restarts - my screen goes black and then it restarts. I have installed Windows 7 twice - on the first install. I had gotten...

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...

As the title suggests my DVD-ROM, a Pioneer 106S, is blue screening everytime I push a disk into the drive. I see that it tries to read the disk and then the blue screen happens.. Now as the drive is actually 9yrs old I'm pretty sure the problem is that it's come to the end of it's working...

Just like last year, my not so computer smart family, not to mention a couple of friends. Got new computers, for xmas. All but one got either a Dell, Hp, with the exception of one of my Uncles. He took my advice, and bought seperate componets. So guess who had to do the build me. Well that...

When I insert a DVD into my drive it automatically begins to play audio only. I cannot see any picture at all. The main problem is there aren't any programs open and I can't stop it from playing. Can anyone help me with this or had a similar issue?

Hi All, I hope you can help me with these problems. I have 2 problems that seem to happen around 2 months after clean install of W7. All my images in folders stop showing as images and only show as blank icons. My other problem is I have to wait for my drives to show in my computer,most of...

I have moved or deleted a file concerned with desktop and now when I boot up it displays a 'my computer view'. I can see all my drives and folders. If I select desktop it shows a listing of the icons that was on the desktop. Have tried creating a new user but same situation applies. Any ideas...

Hi All, I getting the error that i need permission to perform this action. I'm trying to delete a folder. It is a folder that had all my adobe software installs, its on a different partion to my OS. I reinstalled my OS on c drive and now want to install my adobe software again but want to...

Hellooooo peopluuh My beautifull litlle PC is having startup problems! oh noes! :O Well, I got only SATA drives, so I changed some registry value (yea i did that after windows install, my bad) and changed all Bios option that had anything to do with IDE or so to AHCI. It's runnning like that...

Windows 7 does not recognize drives on install Hi, I am trying to do a clean install from XP to Windows 7 on a home built system with a ASROCK AliveNF6P-VSTA Mother board, Athlon 64 6000 X2 AM2 CPU, 2 Mg Ram and a SATA hard drive. When I try to install Windows 7, it get to the install start up...

Is anyone else getting this error? Link Removed due to 404 Error After I upgraded and inserted a DVD for the first time it popped up a window saying that the dvd was region 1 and that I had to set a region. I set it to region 1 and now I get this error every time I insert any DVD. I tried...

i have WD Green Drive 2 TB But can someone tell me if windows 7 is not able to read 4 TB drive ? Link Removed

I recently installed Win7 Ultimate on the second drive of my main computer, but running XP Pro as the main OS. The Win7 partition was "G" in XP and when re-formatted using Acronis Disk Director. However, when booted into Win7 it is running in C Drive and the other partitions go up the...

How do I empty my recovery drive in order to free space for downloads?

This game takes 8 times longer to load in 7 than it did in Vista why? However there is an up side in that it will run without the disc in the drive which it wouldn't before.

Hello everyone! First, thank you for all great posts from here, they are very useful. Second..i have a big problem. I use Windows 7 Ultimate and today i tried to change file permissions for a drive from my HDD and removed the group "Logged in users" by mistake. Now my drive is unaccessible...