Hello Forum,
It's not a hardware issue, so I'm posting it here.
Seems I'm not the first one but it seems to be a recurring issue which is slightly different for everyone.
I cannot access external HDDs connected via USB.
The Device Manager shows a device. Under "Properties, Volume, polulate"...
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I have joined this forum in the hope i can get help and advise in deploying windows 7, I have been deploying windows 7 for the last 7 months as a contractor for two different clients.
Both clients have had different ways of doing the deployment, however both have the same concerns about data and...
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Almost an year ago, I bought a WD 500gb external HDD to use it for backing up of my personal photos and videos. Howere, last week when I tried to move data from the hdd, it reported I/O error and refused to copy the data on my laptop. So I decided to format the HDD, with almost 300gb of data in...
Dear Windows 7 community, :confused:
I have searched for weeks, and read at least a half dozen threads on the common problem of the system hanging when offloading large files to an external hard drive.
I have tried all the common recommendations (taking ownership / 'everyone' permissions /...
When I try to download pictures from my camera's SD card my PC no longer recognizes it. When I am finally able to open My Computer (There is no longer a My Computer button) there is not a listing for the SD drive and it acts like it is not even there. How can I get my computer to import pictures...
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I'm trying to move my pagefile.sys to a separate hard drive, but to no avail. Let me be clear up front: I know what I'm doing. I don't need a list of ethics on why it's bad, or not bad, to do so. I don't care about one's opinion on whether or not it should be done. I'm going to do it. That being...
Windows 7 Ult. (X64 bit), "Programs and Features" reports Money 2007 as 100 GB; I only have a 60 GB hdd, and it shows 20 GB free. So why is it showing as 100 GB?
I went into the x86 program folder and it shows as being 81.2 MB's.
So why is it being displayed as 100 GB's in "Programs and...
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I just installed a WD Caviar Black last week as a second internal HD. I've had a couple of pleasant surprises. The first was moving my virtual machines there improved the performance of them. The second was making a drive image with Acronis there it takes about half the time of doing on one of...
I find myself in a real pickle and would appreciate any help. I've lost all my usb drivers and windows will not connect or recognize any usb device when I install it. Here's the message I get from device manager:
Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be...
I have a Desktop Hard Disk, and i want to install a win7 on it from my laptop. I have the DvD and the part where it says which driver you want to install, my Deskop Hard Disk is not there. Is it because I'm using laptop? Is there away to install it from my laptop?
and if you are wondering...
I put a new hard drive in my ThinkPad T500 and installed Windows 7. I put the old hard drive, which has Vista installed into an external USB box. I can mount the drive, but there are some folders that I can't access. I also cannot seem to give "Everyone" access, or to take ownership. Is...
External hard drive salvaged from computer running Windows XP
Encased, plugged into USB on new computer running (not by choice) Windows 7
(Know where this is going?)
Given every permission and ownership to new computer to have its way with docs on external drive.
Can't copy docs from external...
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I'm running Windows 7 64 bit... it is not OEM. I installed it fresh over a clean hard drive a few months ago. The laptop is a Gateway P-7811fx. It's about 3 years old and it a gaming laptop with a dedicated GPU.
Since the issues began I have run extensive MemTests, DriveSweeper, and...
Hey everyone
so i was initially having a problem with my computer booting, it was a "missing operating system" issue...i trouble shot this in every way i could think of but nothing worked, i assumed i fried my drives, so i decided to do a clean install because all of my important files are on...
Hey Chaps n Chapes's
I have a 120Gig USB drive that plugs into my pc (Win 7) and works fine. I gave it to a friend as it is surplus to requirement, but when i plugged it into there laptop which has also has Win 7 on, the light on the drive lights up but it doesn't actually connect. :(
Does...
Hi All
I've been suffering from random BSOD's for a good while now (before I OC'd it, before you say anything :P) but they've recently gotten more and more common (1-3 in an evening), and it's getting a teensy bit annoying :P
It started getting worse after I went from Vista to 7/XP in August...
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Hi, i've currently disabled the autoplay to no action for all the options set in the autoplay options in control panel however whenever i connect a external storage like external hd thats split into 3 or 4 partitions i get 4 pop up options on what i want to do & its really annoying. Is there...
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Hi,
My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data.
For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...
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Hello, I just got my brand new computer today, it replaced an ancient HP Pavillion that was new around the time XP came out. My new computer is a Dell Studio XPS, and it has this Windows 7 on it, and I have a problem, so here I am.
What my problem is is that I have this iPod, 5th generation...
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