drives

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

I have two hard drives each partitioned into two. Drives C:,F:,G:, and H:. After a clean install of 7 to C: will F,G, and H still be as they are? In other words can I back up all my stuff to F,G or H? Thanks :cool:

Hi, I find the task bar good, Of course i was use to have a really big Quick launch bar in XP. Anyway, i'm trying to Pin my Hard drives. I have like 6 HDD in my case, 2 Raids for the install, and 4 data, plus sometimes my USB key. I had in quick launch bar all my drives pin there. Tho it...

Hello everyone. I know there's a lot of threads about this, I had a look on them but I can't find a solution for my problem. So here it is: My pc had Vista installed on drive C. Then, I installed XP on drive D and used vistaboot pro to manage the boot problem. Everything worked fine. Now, I...

i M myself ADMIN in WINDOWS 7. i DONT HAVE any account other then only this 1 {& pls. dont tell me to make another acc. 'coz i dont like it.} i Want to PASSWORD PROTECT SOME DRIVES & APPLICATIONS. So that without entering password they cant access that drive or that application. For eg : There...

ok well I have a weird problem that I can not seem to get past. I installed an OEM version of Windows 7 as I am trying to solve a freeze/lockup problem with the RC and after getting it in I get the wonderfull bootmgr missing etc etc...previously if I had the DVD in the drive it would just boot...

I've been having tremendous difficulty backing up my drives. I keep getting the following atapi and volsnap source errors in event view - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. volsnap - The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure...

Hi, does anyone know why windows 7 randomly seems to keep on scanning for my network? Sometimes when i try to access the network drives, windows 7 seems to be scanning for the files on the drive, i notice a green bar going across at the top and it slows the pc to a crawl. I am using the final...

I recently enabled AHCI mode for my SATA drives. Now they show up in the Remove Devices app as ejectable. Is there a way to disable having them in there?

Ok guys, I have a Sony VGC-RC210G HTPC, it shipped with 2x160GB drives in RAID0 config. Yesterday I got 2 more 160GB drives and I want to add them to my config but can I do this without losing all my current data in the original configuration? I have the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, and checked...

Any software that will do this and have support for firewire drives?

Hi, when i try to install windows and reaches the part where i need to choose a destination to install on there isnt any, I have two hard drives each partitions to no less then 50gb but none of them show up. What could be the problem thanks

I have just installed Vista Ultimate and it works great, but my SCSI disks does not show up in Vista. They do show when booting the SCSI bios, and I have tried 3 different disks, and none of them show up when Vista have booted up. The driver for the Adaptec 29160N scsi controller card was...

I lost the use of both the Hp and Plextor dvd/cd-rom drives. could this be due to an automatic update?