drive recognition

Hi, here is my issue. I have an HP 17-cp3047nr laptop it came with Windows 11 Home installed, I immediately upgraded it to Windows 11 Pro. Computer worked fine. I have had it for about 4 months. I was using easeus partition master to format an SD card. The computer all of a sudden reboots and...

I have Windows 11 pro OS . Until rtecently I have had a Crucial external SSD connected to mt Router, which I used for data trasnfer between several computers. I have now dispensed with this method of sharing data and wish to use the external SSD on one of my Windowss 11 computers. When I...

On my GMKTEC M7 I have two USB ports. USB pen drives work fine but NVME USB enclosures do not, drive not seen in disk management or explorer. I have tried several drives with several enclosures, they don't show on my PC but do on other PCs. If I assign a drive letter in Diskpart the drive is...

Hi, When I woke up this morning I turned on my computer and it had an error message, unfortunately I didn't look at this error message and continued to start up (computer updated, see attached for list of updates). When I loaded up I noticed many different programs weren't accessible anymore...

I'm hoping someone in this community can help me with a hard drive problem. Recently, I replaced my old laptop (it ran a Linux/Ubuntu OS). Before getting rid of it, I removed the laptop's hard drive with the intent to repurpose it into a portable hard drive. I then encased it within a plug...

Not sure whats going on but for some dumb reason windows 10 is not recognizing my 3TB Hitachi UltraStar 7K3000 as a HDD it insists its a SSD. My 850 evo has to go back to samsung so they told me to clone the c: onto D: then change boot order. Perfect sense, same as always so I do so and now not...

I can't get my Wondows 10 PC to boot up because I made a big mistake. Everything was fine, no problems. I had an old pc and wanted to get some things off of the hard drive, so I put the old pc's hard drive into my current pc. It was recognized as drive H, I think. I was able to copy stuff off...

Hello, ok so I built a pc today and im running a ssd and a hd and its showing them both in the bios. I installed windows 10 on the ssd and i selected custom ant it showed both drives there also. Now that windows is installed and i want to install programs to the other drive it isnt showing...

So I bought an external hard drive because you never know when your computer may need to reset. So I plugged it in and it did not come up. I went into disk management and I dont know what to do from there on out.. I posted an attachment so you can see.

I've recently installed a second DVD drive, and it's not appearing when I open File Explorer. I see it listed in Device Manager, Disk Management, when I click on My Computer, and the drive works fine. Everything is fine except for its absence from File Explorer. Any ideas as to how to add it to...

When attempting to burn ISO files from Windows Explorer, Windows Disc Image Burner takes an extremely long time to do anything then errors out saying: The disc image didn't burn successfully because an error occurred. (Error code: 0x8007045D) I have attempted to use Imgburn but it will not...

An external drive of mine that is attached via USB suddenly does not show up in Explorer. When I connected it to a different machine the driver installed OK and the drive was ID'd correctly as ST3160021A - but doesn't show up in Explorerer on that machine either. Looking at the drives' LED...

Hi I have tried to seek a solution without success so I am hoping that someone can help. Since installing Windows 7 I cannot see my External USB Hard Drive as external device. It is a PRO 1TB External Hard Drive . In Control Panel / Devices and Printers I can see it under Devices USB to...

I'm trying to create a system image on an external hard drive using the Win7 software (i.e. STart>Control Panel>System and Security> Backup and Restore). I understand that the external HD must be connected directly to the computer so I disconnect the internet and connect the HD (using a...

I have a two TB WD External HD (MY Book) that when I go into Computer I don't see it but I see all my other drives. However I can go into Disk Manager and right mouse click the drive and open and there it is. I can access it but why can't I see it in Computer with the other drives?

Have perused the topics but did not find a particular post specific to my concern. First of all, having trouble burning dvd's and that lead to the current issue. The process does not seem to be straightforward. Built a machine this past spring with 2 disc drives: Blu-ray Intel SSDSC2CW12...

From a fresh start up of the computer, I can get my thumbnails to generate any where on my computer, the NAS, or the USB attached to the NAS. However, after a short period (not specific, can be 5 mins or 30 mins), the USB drive attached to the NAS will no longer generate thumbnails, however...

I am running Win7 32bit Professional on an Acer 8930 notebook. I have various USB storage solutions - including a 32MB flash stick and 2 usb external drives with 320mb drives - all of which work with no problem. I also have a media player which uses an internal 2GB Western Digital hard drive...

The SHORT of it: Upgraded from Windows XP to 7. When I plug the camera in, Windows Explorer "sees" it as "Canon Powershot A540" instead of "drive J:", so the Autoplay does not start. Sorry if this has been answered elsewhere, or if this is in the wrong thread. If so, please point me...

hi all. need some help, so hope someone can oblige. have used ATI for a long time with no problems on various machines, including my Windows 7 Ultimate, x86 computer. this machine has a WD black caviar sata lll 500gig hdd, but is connected on sata ll (mobo doesn't support sata lll). have just...