external drives

Hello everyone, I just purchased a HP HPE 180t computer (specs below). I have reformatted and reinstalled the operating system three times now, twice using HP's stuff and once using a clean install from a Windows 7 professional CD. After about a week of using the computer sometimes 3 or 4 days...

I am trying to use a ThermalTake dual external bay that allows you to use 2 internal sata hard drives externally. I was able to get it to work fine with XP PRO Sp2. It would see both drives in the bay and i could access each. now i have connected it to my Windows 7 Ultimate...

I know this seems like a question that has been asked many times, but none of the solutions I have found have worked. Recently, all of my folders on my hard drive have become read only. Even new folders I create are set to read only. However, all of the files remain unchanged. I realize that...

I can not believe that Microsoft has managed to mess this up again! I have never been so annoyed with an OS in my life! I did a clean install of windows to a brand new drive on my pc. I have about 7 other drives hooked up to this thing, that all worked fine when I was running XP. Install...

Heya, I'm having some trouble coping with Win7's harddrive protection or whatever it is. I have 2 external harddrives and every time they go to connect with another computer I'm told I need admin priviliges to access the folders there. Is there a way to, once and for all, disable this wierd...

I'm not sure what the solution is, but whenever I open various windows, such as My documents,My Computer or even open my external drive.. I will not be able to switch back to the other windows. I can click them, but they do not light up and I'm not able to close them. The only way around...

When I had Vista, I could open up windows explorer and visit recent files or folders simply by cicking on the little down arrow up in the address bar area and then clicking on a recent location. It is basically the same as visiting recent urls in internet explorer. It would list, apx 10 to 15...

This is going to be a very detailed description and i apologize ahead of time for its length. Since 12/12/09 I've had my first freeze (i had to go back and track everything) I recently had a memory problem which caused me to upgrade my mobo and my ram and come to find out it was just my ram...

I've seen a few posts and some solutions to a similar problem where the driver signing was the issue. My problem has similar symptoms but is not a result of signing and can't be fixed by deleting the filter keys in registry. symptoms: new Acer Netbook. New LG External Super Multi DVD...

Hi, I have a WD 1TB external drive, and I keep all of my media on that drive (movies, pics, music). I have set all of my libraries to point to the folders on the drive where I keep all my media, however, Windows Media Player will not load anything, and when click on organize, manage libraries...

I have several drives in the Windows 7 box, both IDE and SATA. They all work fine. I put a drive that was working fine into a USB enclosure and plugged it in. Rebooted the system, and although I couldn't see the drive in the BIOS (it goes by too fast), but I presume it's getting found because...

Hi. Ok ..i installed the seven.All ok. I have two network external hard disks.Use for storing files. But i can see them.I mean i can see them at network and see the folders or the files i have in them. I did like i was doing to the xp or vista.What is wrong?I tried the last 3 days to fix it but...

[SOLVED] 0xc00000e9 After Install Wow... This install is driving me nuts. I've never had this much trouble installing an operating system. Here goes.. I'm trying to get Windows 7 64-bit installed. First I was getting an error about corrupt files during extraction, so I swapped out my RAM and...

mainly valve cause thats all i really play. ok well ive had this problem before and i had fixed it, came down to it being my caviar green 1tb drive, then went out and got a caviar black 1tb, and that had fixed it for a while. now its sort of back. this time it happens once in a blue moon. and...

HI im glad i can get info for Windows 7 here. I see a lot of people here complain about the Firewire connection in Windows 7 i heard Vista and W7 don't recognize any firewire you actually see the adapter only but not the HD in device manager and none of my hard drives can or be turned on or...

Hello. My network consists of a Windows 7 PC, A debian mythtv box, a Macintosh G4 10.3.9 and a Windows XP SP3 laptop. I like this combination (the laptop is a Via based unit which came with Vista but turned out to be way too slow, so I *upgraded* it to XP which runs - and has always run -...

I have my new Vista laptop with Windows 7 (32-bit) on a seperate partition. Just bought 2 new external 1 Terrabyte drives (USB 2.0) for backups, etc. One is going on my Mac G5 and one is for my laptop. I'm normally a Mac user so I'm not sure about this Windows backup stuff. If I want to...

This is a very serious error for users of WIN 7 64 bit only. I have read hundreds of posts about this problem an not a word about it from MS. We have tested this problem on four different computers and three different external hard drives using Win 7 Ultimate. If you connect "Any brand" external...

hi I imagine there must be tons of questions and complains about these admin privileges in win7. I tried to figure it out on my own but I'm just going bananas!! windows 7 keeps asking for all kinds of administrator permissions all the time.... but I AM the administrator!... I'm the only user...

I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...