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Hey guys...newbie posting out of total desperation and needing help! I have posted in other forums with no luck... I bought a Samsung SH-D162D DVD Drive in a USB enclosure to connect to my Toshiba laptop via USB. I cannot get windows 7 to find it! When I plug in the USB cable the balloon...

My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...

if i have 504MB of ram and have 23.0GB memory on my local disk(C:) will that be ok for me to get steam and team fortress 2 or get half life 2 deathmatch thank you to anyone who can give me the awnser

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 I am wondering if anyone else has seen this before where when you try to save a file to a hard drive (not on a network, just local HD - which is not even a Sata Raid) I get the following error" And when I click OK, and try to save again, it allows me to save but it also tells me that the...

I don't know why the Local Disk D has that icon, how do I fix it?

So. I've got a LG GSA-4166B, and I was gonna install Battlefield: Bad Company2, but it did not find the disc (neither on my or my dads PC, and both got this DVD-reader/writer so I went into device manager and uninstalled the driver cause I was gonna install the new one I found by googling...

Hi everyone, I'm currently using windows 7 and I have configure the options of remote desktop connections to see my printer and local drive (I'm able to see my local drive). I'm having an issue viewing my printer. My printer is on a wired network and I've been reading that its not being...

Hi, Ive pretty much exhausted every option to try and fix this and I hope someone here can help me. I have recently installed some windows 7 operating systems onto our company Domain. The Domain consists of primarily XP PCs and a few Vista Machines. On ALL the installations of Windows 7 the...

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...

Pretty much overnight, the amount of free space in my local disk (C:) drive went from almost empty to almost full. I have a feeling I have a virus, though virus scan does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?

Firstly I am glad to find I can switch Messenger off & use Winmail Live as a normal email client with my emails archived on a local drive. I was beginning to think from the write-ups that I might have to use a 3rd party email client instead. Anyhow, if I select my font size & then apply...

Greetings all, I'm running the Windows 7 RTM and I've been recently getting this error in Firefox while trying to save images/files: "You don't have permission to modify files in this network location." These are files that I'm trying to save to local disk. Once this error message appears, a...

Hi everyone, I have this problem in which, windows 7 basically locks up the hard drive. Start > Computer > Hard Disk Drives(1) > Local Disk (C: \ >"Location is not accessible - C:\ is not accessible - Access is denied." I can access other parts of the hard drive like c:\users\etc... but...

error code 0x800704b3 unable to access anything on the c drive or change any thing with the shield and the Local Disc (c:) have a 2 head item on the icon really need some help with this item Allen

Whenever i try to access my 2nd HDD partition's, it says 'Access is Denied'. I have a dual boot of Vista, XP and Windows 7. All say Access is Denied when i try to access them. The weird thing is, i can still access some Shares from those drives. I noticed it when i used XBMC and i could still...

I am currently testing out Media Center and trying to add a shared library folder for Music off of another networked machine. This machine's hostname begins with a ".". So, it looks like "\\.host\shared folder". When I try to connect to this share, Media Center will report "A valid shared...

Firstly like to say Hi to everyone and thanks for the support forum has been helpful in the past already. Basically I have the windows 7 beta installed on a samsung netbook NC10 and must admit considering it is not a powerhorse machine I am impressed at how windows 7 is actually running. The...

Hello there, I am running Windows 7 on the partition that I labeled "Win7Beta". The drive letter appears in Windows Vista as "W" drive. (I am running Windows Vista and Windows 7 Beta on the same computer, but different partitions.) Also in Vista, the Local Disk appears as "C" drive and the...

hey everyone, i'd be interested if anyone had a thought as to why i can access a secondary local hard drive using my XP install, but WIN7 says that access is denied. can't view storage stats, can't run any diagnostics... etc. thanks so much! carl.