external storage

My CD/DVD drive isnt showing up in my computer or in the device manager. My drive is an Optiarc DVD RW AD-750A My computer is a Lenovo ideapad-Y710 laptop I have had this problem for a while. I finally just backed up to an external and re installed windows. but still the problem...

Hey guys, Kinda new to windows 7. I've tried to install a slave sata hard drive in my machine. Im running an Asus G50 laptop. It has a slave drive bay and all and is being found in the bios but not in windows. It's not being found via diskmgmt.msc either. The hard drive is a 160 gig Seagate...

Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...

This is an important question to bring up, I think (sorry if it's been brought up before), but, as I've said previously, I've been having issues doing the in-place upgrade for Win 7. It's BSOD'd on me four times now (fourth time I even uninstalled everything it said for me to) every time it gets...

The topic should pretty much explain the problem I'm having. When I turn on/restart the computer, the desktop itself has two hard drives in it (250GB and 1TB, 1TB is not the one the OS is on) When I put the computer to sleep, and then wake it up, the 1TB is not active, and to access it I have...

Hi guys, I have a two bay BP-ESATA232UESR ( Link Removed due to 404 Error ) that I threw two 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 drives into it. I configured the DIP switches for RAID-1 and the SteelVine software reported that it built the raid correctly. I should have a ~1.3TB volume in the disk...

I got nasty problem with USB Flash Drives (mass storage). The stick works perfectly with other computers. Other USB 1.X devices works perfectly(mouse and keyboard). USB WLAN stick also have issues, so that it breaks up the connection from time to time. I have tried several different drivers with...

I have been reading about these external RAID enclosures and have been wondering whether to get one or not. The idea of a RAID 1 +0 appeals to me for the sake of security but does it give a better performance or is it just a lot more to go wrong and a waste of money. Anyone care to enlighten me...

Dual boot - Windows 7 RC1 7100 64bit / Vista Ultimate 64bit / USB2 External Drives I'm posting this problem history for the benefit of others who may be having the same or similar problem. I have several 500GB USB2 external drives that store seldom used image and video files. I opened a...

Well I just upgraded my PS3's stock 60gb HDD to plump 250gb one, the installation was simple just plug&play. So now I got a spare 60gig HDD just lying around so I'm thinking of putting it into my laptop and use it as a backup disk since my current backup HDD is a measly 10gb. So what I'm...

Every time I plug in my thumb drive or iPod it pops up this dialog saying that there are errors on the drive and it should be scanned and fixed. Well, the first couple times I humored it but now I simply ignore it because it pops up every single time I put in some external storage device. Is...

alright lads ive managed to install 7 on my aspire one 1.5 gb ram 8gb ssd i now have 4.15 mb of space does anyone know a way around this, on linux i put a ssd card in the slot and it showed up as 16 gb as the harddrive, maybe there is a way to either install programes on the external ssd or boot...

Hi, I've problem in doing a copy of large files (ISO image of 4 Gbytes) to/form external USB drives. I've tried two different disks with the same result. After copying 2 Gbytes the system freezes and I have to power cycle. I've seen that CPU load goes to 100% before freezing. I've Also...

Today I got an eSATA cable that I ordered. I plugged an external drive into my machine with it while Windows 7 (7100) was booted and it recognized it without any problems. It found all of the files and all seemed to be good. I then used the Hardware Removal Tool to remove the drive, and shut...

Hi guys, as i didnt find any real answers about this, i will ask in my own post. From my experience with win7 x64, for me the best version was 7000, no doubt about it. Since i installed RC1 x64, on the same system, i get unstable system. Sometimes windows explorer stop responding, for...

Hi, I am new to the froum adn I tried searching but couldn't find anything like my issue if there is im sorry but here goes. I have a 1tb buffalo hard drive Link Removed The problem I ahve is that when I connect it to my PC running windows 7 7100 it detects the drive fine and I can...

I am a photographer and have thousands of digital photos to store. I have two portable harddrives attached to my Dell laptop with USB connections. I periodicaly unplug the hard drives to make my laptop portable. The problem is when I reattach the hard drives, the one that is normally the E...

Chkdsk deleted all my files. COmputer: Toshiba Satellite 4GB ram OS: Vista Ultimate I have a 1 month old 0.5TB USB external drive that I use to backup all my data, work, personal stuff, etc - 10 years of my life. I am running vista ultimate. WHen vista starts and the usb is plugged in it...

Hi guys This post doesn't relate to W7 per se but I'm putting it here since it could be of use whilst you are testing. Hopefully everybody is making backups and I know some of you use large USB external drives. These are generally formatted with FAT32 and the problem now arises if you want to...

Hi, I´ve got a Problem: I want to install windows 7 on a external hard disk, but when I want to choose it in installations menu, there appears an error message, that it in not possible to install windows 7 on a externat usb medium. I´ve got a notebook, so I can´t integrate the external...