hard drives

I just rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I had thought to put My Pictures and My Music on separate Hard Drives from the Operating System and everything else; OR would performance be better with all on one hard drive and backing up the My Music and My Pictures to separate Hard Drives...

I have just builet and intel I 7 920 with 6 gigs of ddr3 and an ATI G Force 5850 DDR5 vidio card and 2 1 TB hard drives with a OCZ 400 watt powersuply in a thermotake black case. windows keeps crashing I was able to install linux on it no problems but when I tried to install windows 7 Ultamate...

Quick rundown of what happened: My desktop has 2 hard drives, 1TB and 320GB. I have Win 7 installed on the TB drive, and I use the 320GB drive for testing. I previously had a full installation of Server 2008 Enterprise on the 320GB drive. Yesterday I went and installed Server 2008 R2 on the...

The erorr i am getting is BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del -- the funny thing is i can boot from the cd. What i have done to try fix this problem is: Go into the windows 7 installation and go to the repair option and did a start up repair( didn't work) Also did the BootBCD.exe cmd...

My first hard drive, entombed in a 1988 XT clone, stored 20 megabytes and clicked and chugged almost as much as my dad’s Buick. Back then, I worried about preserving 30KB text files. Now, I have to preserve, well, everything. Perhaps like you, I’ve lost count of how many terabytes of capacity I...

Well, unfortunately I have a serious problem. To go ahead and get this over with. I'm not sure what kind of drives they are..GParted failed to boot [ "BootMGR is missing"] Anyway to figure this out? I'm installing via USB, due to me not currently having the disc. The USB is bootable 100%...

I've had my computer for about a year running XP with 2 harddrives in RAID (mirror). My motherboard, Asus P5NE SLI, has the RAID controller built in. These 2 drives are my only drives (other than an external USB drive). I wanted to get rid of RAID and just have 2 regular drives and install...

Somehow I've ended up with a "phantom" local disk Q showing in Computer. It shows as 0 bytes used and 0 free; it cannot be accessed. It does NOT show in either disk management or device manager. It is not my card reader which is removable drive F. I do not have an external drive connected of any...

So I have searched around and none of the solutions worked, but let me get to the basics: DFI LanPark DK 790 FX Motherboard 3.2 GHz AMD Athlon X2 64 bit processor 4 GB DDR2 RAM Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS Video card with 720 MB Ram Hard drives: Western Digital Raptor @ 70 GB (going to be used as...

Hello everyone and thanks for reading. I have looked through the discussions and thus far not seen anything related to what I am about to ask but if this has come up before I apologize. I'm looking to do a new clean install of Windows 7 on my work PC which doubles as a mild gaming machine...

Just for informational purposes I have been having a problem finding something that I could monitor my computer with. You know cpu, memory, hard drives and such. I am in kinda of a special group. I have extreme troubles reading widgets and gadgets. Including having troubles with white on...

I setup a redundancy using windows 7 for the time being until I can afford a decent RAID card. My question is whether or not I will have near double read speed by using it. I know that since only some software RAID has this ability, I bet I don't... but I have no idea how to tell. For...

According to Gartner beancounters, PC prices will jump in 2010 due to tight supply of key components. Recession woes and cautious planning on the part of manufacturers have resulted in a lower production volumes, causing component prices to go up. Memory prices have already spiked. DDR3 prices...

hello,can anybody tell me how to hide my recovery partition? It appears in my Mycomputer and shows i have 2 hard drives???i dont want to delete it by accident,this also happened when i was using the W7 RC,thanks

Hi ... I have 4 hard drives install on my computer , what I have done is basically installed windows 2000, xp and 7 on separate hard drives , each windows was done on itself without any other hard drive install . So basically one hard drive listed in the bios for each windows , yes I know I have...

I literally just want to RAID0 2 of my 4 HDDs (one being the system SSD) I don't understand why enabling RAID in BIOS causes BSOD halfway through Win7 booting... As instructed in the mobo manual, I enabled SATA RAID, and then went Ctrl+I to the set up the array. All groovy on 2 x SpinpointF3s...

Motherboard: GA-MA790X-DS4 I set up the raid and everything bios related but windows 7 (64-bit) cant detect the hard drives even after i got the most recent drivers from gigabyte's website, any ideas?

I've been using windows 7 ultimate 64bit for a few weeks. It's all good except; When i try to get in hardrives, folders etc. it waits 2-3 seconds each time. Forward-backward-shortcut any attempt on opening a folder makes me wait 2-3 seconds. When i check it on task manager, each time i click...

Hi, before you blindly answer this question, be aware that I'm "not" referring to "Arrange by type". That is "NOT" relevant to this topic. Sometimes I like to use my library to quickly open a file when I am using a program like adobe photoshop (example). By using Libraries, it makes it really...

Has anybody else had startup freezes after running Windows Update? I started having problems after the Oct securtity updates. It isn't always the same I had a fault on my built in card reader in device manager in external devices. I finally got that fixed then there was one from one of my 2...