hard drives

I have been using 7 since the 6000 builds. I just started using the RC1, and the data transfer rate is stupid slow. I can't get USB 2.0 above 19 MB/s and I can't get drive to drive above 10 MB/s! The fact that my USB is going faster than my two harddrives is absolutely rediculas. I have seen...

I did a clean install of windows 7 rc on a hard drive I had windows 7 beta on. The nvidia geoforce fx5200 video card worked great on the beta but it will not work on the rc. I did the windows update thing and it loads it than restarts and stays on the black screen. I have tried the vista driver...

I messed up completely... this is what happened. I was running Windows 7 and I decided to test out Linux Ubuntu so that I would know what I was talking about with the OS. The disc run was pretty bare bones so I decided to install it onto my system. Bad news is that it completely messed up Win7...

greetings all. i have been using windows 7 for a few months now, and love it, much better then XP and vista. but just today i ran in to a problem. for the past few weeks iv been using two of my hard drives in a RAID-0 array, and its been working fine. today, though, there was an update in...

Hi, I just installed Windows 7 build 7068. 64bit. I have an Asus P5WD2E-Premium mobo, and 5 Western Digital Hard drives of various sizes, all SATA. Windows recognizes only 2 of the drives, the c drive of course, and only 1 of two WD 400gig hds, which are identical. I know this may be a mobo...

I need help from somone, I have two hard drives installed in my computer, one is a vista 64 install, and the other is a XP home install. I have always gone into my bios and just switched the boot priority to change os'. Last night I installed windows 7 as a custom (not over) my xp install as the...

Whoops, typo in title :-( Hello world!, The situation: I have two hard drives in my computer, Each with two partitions. Hard Drive One has two partitions which are just used for storing stuff. Hard Drive Two has two partitions, first one is for XP, and second is for Windows 7 C: is windows 7...

Hi. I wish to change the icons for my drives on Windows 7. This can be done on harddrives by simply putting an autorun.inf file with a link to my designated icon, but this is not possible on removable storages, dvdroms and so on. I know on previous versions of Windows this could be done in the...

Hi all using build 7000 on following specs. C2D 2GHZ 2GB ram P945 chipset. I have 3 hard drives (sata II) Y=350GB used Z=550GB used backing up to a 1.5TB drive. I used windows backup and after 12 hours it was only at 51%??? I have tested copying files btw the drives and I...

I had Windows 7 installed and operating perfectly for over a month but I accidentally deleted it. I have a Dell XPS 630i with 4Gig ram which I purchase less than 6 month ago. I have three hard drives. XP Pro is on disk 1, Vista is on disk 2 and I have Microsoft Server 2008 on disk 3 partition...

Alright. I have two hard drives, C and Y. I installed Windows 7 on hard drive Y, and XP is on C. I want to boot and have the choice between booting between the two operating systems, but when I boot I only have the choice of Windows Recovery (Which doesn't work) and Windows XP Home...

Missing optical drives OK so you have lost your DVD/CD drive after installing Windows 7 Beta. Heres how to fix it: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11*CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Apparently it seems that this is an age old fix for even XP systems. If you...

I have 2 250gig hard drives in my system. I have xp pro installed on one(partitioned and first is primary and active drive(0)) and Installed Windows 7 on the second drive. After windows 7 is the only os choice on boot. I can use the bios boot option at startup and boot into xp so I know the...

Long story short, I have to get rid of W7 to go back to XP. I don't want to, but my office won't work, and I need to format anyways. I lost my XP boot disk, but found one to use later on. When I tried to boot, it said that it couldn't find any hard drives to install on. Anyone know if this is a...

I have windows vista and windows 7 installed on separete hard drives. Everytime I start my computer it starts windows 7. What do I have to do so that I can choose witch OS I want to boot?

Hello, new to this forum. I hope someone can help. I have been trying to install Windows 7 Beta onto an AMD machine and continously get a Winload.exe error. The error read as such: "\windows\system32\boot\winload.exe" "Status: 0xc0000098" "The selected entry could not be loaded because the...

My computer has 2 hard drives. One has XP and the other has Win 7. Both work great. Now, when I am on Win XP and brng up my computer, XP is labeled C and Win 7 is labeled F. So far, so good. I can see both drive c and F (XP and Win 7) But, when I am signed onto Win 7 and look in "my...

I have XP on one drive and 7 on the other. To change the drive I boot to I go into the Bios/Setup and move the XP or 7 drive up to the top of the boot list. Is there anyway I can get it to stop on boot up so I can pick my drive? Something like when you have two OS’s on one drive, each on...

I am having a really difficult time "renaming" or "labeling" hard disk drives (ide) and (sata) and (usb) When I right click the drive and choose rename, it does nothing after I type the new name in, I also have tried to go into Disk Management to label them, same efffect, does nothing. (also...

Hi everybody! Ok so here's the scenario: I have 2 Hard Drives. One is a Seagate Barracuda 500GB SATA2 and one is a Seagate Barracuda 160GB SATA2. Both drives were formatted and each has 2 partitions on it. The 500GB has an 83GB partition and a 382GB partition. The 83Gb partition on this...