removable disk

  1. Windows 7 I need to know the HD controller card mfg and model &...

    1.The system's hard disk controller card manufacturer and model number. 2. And the system's hard disk drive manufacturer and model number. Use to have a program that gave me all that info...I think. Trying to use Spinrite on another computer and they need info cause I can't get the computer...
  2. Windows 7 Removable Disk and empty files problem

    I have a kingston 15GB USB and when i plug it in it shows me instead of usualy KINGSTON, it shows me Removable Disk. It also shows that it is not empty: 60,08MB free of 15,0GB. But when i click on it, it says Empty folder. I allready look for hidden folder option but nothing. Is there any...
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    Windows 7 Internal optical drive used as external

    Hello, I took out my internal optical drive from my Sony Vaio F13 laptop and put in SSD. Now I bought USB/SATA cabel and I connected the optical drive to the laptop, it is recognized in windows but it is treated as a hard drive (or removable disk). When I double click it in My Computer it says...
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    Windows 7 Annoying pop-up: “Do You Want To Scan And Fix Removable Disk”

    A webpage in the Internet describes a way to get rid of this unnecessary and disturbing pop-up whenever you connect an external drive. It is to disable the service Shell Hardware Detection. I did, but the pop-up still comes occasionally. Is there a more effective way?
  5. Windows 7 PC will no longer read SD Card

    First post - please be gentle :) My desktop PC (Win7 Pro, 64 bit) has 2 SD Card readers. One built in to the PC itself, the other, a slot on the side of my Dell monitor. Both of these - until last week - would read and write to my SD cards with no problem. Cards ranging in size from 1 to 16Gb...
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    Windows 7 Changing a Removable Disk to Local Disk?

    Hi Folks, I have created an encrypted drive (X) on my system (Windows 7 - 64 bit) and wish to store my emails there. I did this successfully in Vista. To do this I need to change X:/ from a Removable Disk to a Local Disk, please can somebody explain to me how and wehre to do this? OS Name...
  7. You cannot access an RDX removable disk that you formatted by using NTFS in Windows Server 2003, in

    Fixes an issue in which you cannot access data that is stored on an RDX removable disk that has no partitions. This issue occurs after you format the disk by using the NTFS file system. Link Removed
  8. You cannot access a 1 TB RDX removable disk that you formatted by using NTFS in Windows Vista, in Wi

    Fixes an issue in which you cannot access data that is stored on a 1 TB RDX removable disk that has no partitions. This issue occurs after you format the disk by using the NTFS file system. Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Avery Wizard

    I am attempting to install Avery Wizard 4.0 but apparently there are still traces of 3.1 somewhere because when I try to install 4.0 I get the message "The feature you are trying to use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available, insert Avery 3.1 disk. I have no such disk so...
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    Windows 7 How to change the view /layout of usb stick / flash drive

    Hi At some point the view/layout of my usb sticks has changed ie everything is in file type view...? How can I change it so that the contents appear altogether like c drive...? I have attached a screenshot of the unwanted layout. I have noticed that in my computer the usb stick shows as...
  11. Windows 7 Disappearing removable disk

    Not sure how to phrase this. Have a built in flash media reader that shows in windows explorer when I first start. After using it with a memory stick pro and then remove it using "safely remove hardware and eject media", device no longer shows up in widows explorer and doesn't see the next...
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    Windows 7 mass storage device

    hi there , i have went from XP to windows 7 and the difference is amense but i am having 1 problem just now and it is putting files ( nds games ) on to my mass storage device , when i go to my devices there is a mass storage device , when i click it and click browse files theres nothing except...
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    Windows 7 Change system partition drive letter?

    I did a clean install of Win7 to a partition from a running Vista system in another partition. The install assigned A: as the drive letter for the system disk. I built this installation up and it is my official installation. Things run fine but there is one confirmed application that thinks A...
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    Windows 7 How to get drive letter of USB device on Win7

    Using WMDM I have created a small application to read portable device information, my application works fine on vista and XP but has one problem on Win7. Problem: I am not able to get drive letter of USB device. I am calling GetName of IWMDMDevice interface, on XP & VISTA this API returns...
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    Windows Vista How to Save Files to Memory stick

    I am using Windows Vista Home on a Toshiba satellite 350 Can anyone tell me how to save a file on to a memory stick . I find the correct file then right click on the file and try to 'send to ' memory stick I then get an ' Item not found box ' popping up saying this file is no...