filesystem

Setup: Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) I've been accessing the same couple of mapped drive shares, that reside on a linux host thru several versions of windows, XP, Vista and now Win7. I continue to get a rather ridiculous error message that only happens on win7 (I no longer have a Vista OS...

This problem is hard to describe: when opening a new window explorer (to see the filesystem - not the explorer internet browser) the files always appear by default in a very narrow frame\pane\view. how can I change it to be larger? the easiest way to understand the problem is just too look at...

Hi, I'd really appreciate some help here! I'm desperate. Thanks! Yesterday my computer was going slow, so I restarted it. When it wad shutting down, it said that it was applying updates to Windows (it was an official Windows Update screen, ie "configuring updates" etc). Then on starting up...

I've built my own application that searches for files and have set it to run as administrator, however it won't read/detect most of the sys files in c:\windows\system32\drivers. I did some checking and most cygwin EXEs also have the same problem. For example, if I cd to that directory and do...

for the last while my computer has been acting up. for the last few months my computer had been giving me problems. i had mandriva linux setup on a partitions with windows 7 as my main. i got locked out of windows because of a partition problem that i couldnt solve. my dad paid the guy at the...

True Crypt Downloads Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows 7/Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux Main Features: - Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. - Encrypts an entire partition or storage device such as USB flash drive or hard...

Not paying much attention - I just noticed the top line in the right pane as "UNSPECIFIED (xx)" in MOST but not ALL folders. What is this referring to????????????? ALSO, when I rt clk on a folder and do properties I get the "Read Only" box filled. I believe that means that some...

Hello, I'm new here and glad to be here. I have a Dell Studio XPX8000 with a WD 640GB Hard Drive. About a month ago I started noticing, in Event Viewer, the following message: "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume OS." It is...

These screenshots say the most: Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error I deleted a nearly full Windows partition using Boot Camp Assistant and reinstalled Windows, this time partitioning the drive (320gb) in half. During Windows installation it said the BOOTCAMP...

Hi, using Windows 7 Home Premium, Installation ist about two weeks old. Problem: I have media files (films, to be precise) on a hard drive. Often, I want to change their location (e.g., move films that are lying around in root to a common folder with the name of the director). 80% of the...

I tried searching around for this but couldn't find any info. How would you go about disabling the scandisk during the boot process? thanks

I have a raid 1 system drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 had XP64 on it, partition 2 is a logical partition and is just storage, and partition 3 has XP32 bit on it. I got my copy of Windows7 and went to install over the XP64 install and it worked great. Now I can't boot into XP32. These...

Hi Have i7 with Hardisks. Disk 1 has Windows 7 installed successfully. The other 3 disks are data disks. 2 of the 3 data disks are fine but 1 has somehow messed up. The problem is the data disk which is/was 200gb seems to have converted itself to a RAW disk in data manager and in the...

I recently fixed an Acer laptop for a friend of mine. The disk was almost full, and the registry was corrupted - this laptop was running VISTA - so this problem may be a part of both vista and 7. The registry was no hope for, so I used a Linux live CD to copy some files (backup) to an external...

I just installed win7 64bit rc1, had win beta 32bit earlyer, i chose too install this on my newer hdd, so the windows folder from win7 32bit is still on other hard drive. Im haveing issues deleting those files. getting permission error. Tryd tioo edit premission and stuff but that didnt do much...

Is there a limit to the size of a boot partition for Windows? Seems like Win 7 will only install on partitions smaller than about 2TB. If this is the case, what is the best way to make sure all the user directories and public folders are installed to a different drive rather than the boot...

It shows that my hard drive is 40gigs which is already almost full. I just recently installed Windows 7 after formatting my C drive. It is also not showing another my recovery drive which I also used for saving. The other drive, I can't find at all. Please see screen-shot to see what I'm...