external drives

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...

..... -Jazmac

Hello I'm having a problem with win7 not seeing files on thumb drives or any external hard drives? I do have the updated driver for for Nforce 2 chipset it does pick up all my input devices no problem, but not mass storage devices.

Is there a way to create symlinks in Windows 7? I've got several external hard drives for Media, etc and all and I want to symlink them to the folders in my user's folder. Is there a way to do that? For those who don't know what symlinks are, it's a linux thing, just hoping there's a similar...

I have a Dell Vostron with Vista. Frequently, I get an error box (actually multiple ones) that says "Microsoft Windows" - clicking on the box, it says it wants to "scan and fix" one of my two external hard drives. The "autoplay" box will also be there multiple times. I do not believe...

Well i had a virus ruin my copy of xp so i decided to try 7. And i must say i love it. But i have a external hard drive that i have backed everything up to. And i cant get 7 to see it. I was using eSATA and even tried usb, but neither worked. The usb works as it sees my iphone, but i cant seem...

I've had this computer since december, and have only ever had Vista on it. I got a new hard drive thats about a month old. Its been working fine as my storage, but when I try to use the search feature, no files show up. I'm computer literate, and know I am searching correctly. I also check to...

Hi all Just got a new laptop (Dell XPS M1530 800Mhz, 4GB memory, 250GB hard drive - sweet machine) with Win Vista Ultimate. On my old machine I had attached 2 external hard drives to hold photos/music/etc. Transfered the USB cables over to the new machine expecting them to just work. My Seagate...