internal drive

I just installed a new internal HDD. First, I created a system image using windows backup. Then I made a windows recovery disk on CD. Next I took out the old HDD, and replaced it with the new one. The new one is hooked up to a different port with a different wire because it is a sata 6.0 gb/s...

I had an old (6 months old) internal hard drive that I had setup as an external drive go bad yesterday so I replaced it with a brand new internal drive that I am trying to connect using my esata connector. It is the same exact setup as I had for my old drive that did work for 6 months. The...

I have a Gateway FX notebook. It has two internal hard drive bay. I am running Windows 7. I just bought a second hard drive and install it. It i showing up in the BIOS and in the device manager but not in MY Computer. What do I need to do to see the new hard drive in the My Computer section.

My pc was running Xp and I had 2 hard drives installed, 1 for system stuff and the other backing up. I removed the back-up drive and installed W7 on the main drive. When I reconnected the back-up drive W7 doesn't see my files, it just sees a blank disk 127GB capacity. I've tried to connect the...

Windows 7 Home Premium, Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600, 64 Bit I set up Backup to use a large external ESATA drive. It worked fine for weeks, until I swapped the port the drive was plugged into. Backup then could no longer see the drive, even though it showed up in My Computer and I could copy...

I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...

Hi, I have a mapped drive on my computer that links to a folder on one of my internal hard drives. It used to work fine and connect whenever i boot up. But now it only connects when i click on it, I have tried re creating a few times and always select connect at log on, but the issue remains...

I have an ATA internal drive I use as back up and it shows fine on windows 7 32 bit but not on the 64 bit? It shows in the listed devices as active and I can populate it but it won't show in explorer or my computer so I can access files on it. Thanks for your help.

this is a post i found someone else did, it was for an external drive but worked just great with my internal Sata drive Go to: control panel administrative tools computer management disk management scroll down the list of drives and your drive should be there. highlight the desired drive...

I intend to use the Win 7 East File Transfer when I upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Win 7 pro. I intend to use the clean install method. If I add a second physical internal hard drive, can I use that instead of a physical external drive? All documentation always refer to an external drive. I...

Had a very interesting experience trying to format an internal hard drive under Windows 7. This is a hard drive that was running Windows XP and then got corrupted. Rather than do a repair, I bought another internal drive and loaded Windows 7 on it. I then installed the old corrupted hard drive...

hi i want to boot windows7 from my harddisk which i am using . i mean to say that not from external hard disk drive. i will try to explain again, actually i have a pc on which i am working at this time (internal or primary harddisk drive of it ). i want to reboot my system and when its...

Windows 7RC1 I'm dual-booting XP and Win 7RC1. Each is on a separate hhd. In Win 7, drive "C" is the Win 7 drive and "D" is the XP drive. "G" is an usb external drive. I wanted to write my backups to "D", but "D" doesn't show up in the backup utility. It shows up in My Computer. Only "C"...

As the title of the thread states, I am having a problem with Nero 9 (the latest 2.2.6.0 version) in Windows 7. It will only burn at 4X speeds when the drive on my laptop and the external drive I have supports 8X and higher (for the external) burning speeds. I am not sure whether this is a...

My 3.5 Floppy, that worked on a couple of Linux versions and on Windows XP, will not work in Windows 7. Windows Explorer recognizes the drive, but doesn't recognize a disc when a known good disc is inserted. Does anyone know if 3.5 Floppy support been eliminated from Windows 7? :confused...

I was thinking about installing win7 on my desktop, however i only have one internal hard drive (and one external). Backup is not a problem, however i was thinking about just buying a 250 or 320 gig internal and using that to install win7 (that way i could keep my vista partition completely...