hard drives

in windows 7 i hav created a new user(others) . i am the administrator and hav to restrict access of some hard drives like c:,g: from the user(others)..!! how to do tat and i had to disable the control panel,cmd prompt,run also..! 1) i went to group policies and try to disable the hard...

When I select the circle with Windows logo (bottom left corner) and select computer it use to flash up my hard drives, DVD, and other removable devices. Now when I select Computer it does not bring up my device layout instead I get a bar at the top labeled Computer with a growing green strip...

I have 4x2TB external hard drives in a raid5 configuration, I converted it to GPT disk using Disk Magagement in Windows 7. It showed basic disk, NTFS, 1 partition, 5.40TB, which is normal. It seemed pretty well at first. But after copying files >2TB to this drive, some files were lost and cann't...

Hi, I have 2 -500 gig hard drives, first and the original is a Vista 32 Ultimate, the second is Win 7pro 64 bit. I love the 64 bit win 7:D. The vista is too slow and takes forever to load:(. What I would like to do is create a RAID 1 setup where as the the two HDDs will be mirrored in case of...

Hey everyone, I'm new here and the thing that brought me here really sucks. I'm typing this right before I have to leave for school, so it's going to be short and sweet. Please ask any questions to fill in the holes. Here's the problem... I'm running Win 7 64-bit and I've been running a...

There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...

Hello all, About a month ago I moved into a new house with some friends, and before I moved everything was running perfectly. When I was unpacking at the new place, Windows wouldn't start up, it just sat at the Starting Windows screen (where the four lights come in and make the Windows...

I have 2 hard drives both 500 gigs. One currently has Win Vista 32 Ulti, the second Win 7 64 bit. I do not use the Vista because it is so slow. How do I set up a raid 1 to mirror my Win 7 64 HD and erase the Vista 32? Or will doing this erase both drives and start from new? Or do I have to...

I have now built 3 machines using Win7 and I noticed an interesting problem: When installing on a machine that has more than one blank hard drive Win 7 seems to write some critical boot files to the second hard drive. I noticed that later if there are any issues with the second hard drive or it...

Hello, I am working on a shop machine and my employer is insisting on having four hard drives installed running Jbod (I have argued for two days about this and got nowhere) the problem is I can get Windows to recognize three of the four, one system and two running Jbod, the fourth is nowhere...

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Because of an issue with an external drive, i have to not allow the power saving feature for hard drives. Apparently my external (LaCie) doesn't support power saving and when W7 enacts the mode the drive stalls. The problem being i have a total of 6 hard drives. I'd like the others to power save...

Alright, so my Windows 7 recently quit assigning drive letters automatically. I frequently plug in new hard drives to the system using various USB to IDE or SATA adapters and now when I plug in a new hard drive with any of these USB adapters, it does not get a drive letter assigned to the...

I bought special SATA pocket, and I use SATA hard drives like usb HDD or old floppy disk. How to mount and unmount it like in Ubuntu? I have to restart PC every time I want to change HDD.

I recently had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. I have 5 hard drives, 2 of which are on a RAID1 mirror, which happens to be where the OS is installed. For some reason, after installing the OS, I noticed that the Windows Boot Manager was placed on a different drive, apart...

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

Can someone advise please/ I have 5 hard drives in my system and I have installed windows 7 x64 on 2 separate drives and done this within windows. However a few times it booted okay but then started hanging on the post where it states verifying DMI pool data. Subsequently I tried everything to...

Seagate has confirmed that it is preparing the first 3TB hard drives to come to market later this year, but has warned that many users will need a new computer to take full advantage of this amount of storage. The drive maker said that its first 3.5in 3TB units are likely to be available...

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...

My hard drives have disappeared from Disk Management. Not sure when. Only the DVD drive remains in the list. Drives are still visible in Windows Explorer. Drives work normally. Disk Management >> http://i494.photobucket.com/albums/rr303/lyleisaacs/HardDrive.jpg Windows Explorer >>...