storage devices

I have four internal drives and an external Drobo drive. The internal drives are my concern in this query. All are working well and I could just leave well alone, but my sense of order requires me to get all these different descriptions into conformity with each other. Active/Not Active...

I have 4 network external drives attached to my home network via router and 2 Linksys network storage link devices. My PC's that are connect to the home network are 3 in number. Two run XP and one is running Win7. The Win7 PC is the one with this problem. Randomly the network drives on the...

Whenever I plug in one of my external USB drives, Windows automatically pops up a window asking me if I want to scan it for errors. Where do I change settings so that it does not automatically do this every time? Thanks

I use a lot of different usb hard drives in my shop. I have two basic enclosures, a generic one that uses pata drives on a usb 2.0 cable and an Apricon USB SATA 2.0 adapter. Suddenly when I plug in a new drive device manager does see the drive and installs it in device manager. I can see the...

I use a Goflex 2Tb external drive for daily backup. Unlike it's eSATA predecessors it doesn't have a power switch and Win 7 doesn't cut USB power upon safe removal. There is no point in it being on all day, but to cut the power properly I have to unplug it from the back of the PC and that's a...

Every time I insert my SD card, this annoying error pops up on my screen. I never have removed my SD card while files were being written to it, and yet I continue to get this message. So I've tried scanning the SD card for any incomplete files and it always turns up with no results. Why does...

Okay I have been having this problem for the past two months or so where my BIOS and/or Windows 7 is only sporadically recognizing my two optical drives and my external HD. I can't seem to find a fix! First, here are my specs: OS: Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 445 Motherboard...

Using the options available from the command line version of the Windows 7 defragmentation utility you have much more control over the maintenance of your storage devices. Link Removed

Very strange thing happening. When I plug my compactflash card into my memory card reader a window opens showing a new drive(G) but it shows the contents of my second hard drive(D). My external hard drive loads correctly as does my ipod. I am using windows 7- 64 bit any ideas?

suddenly I cannot open my DVD drives. I get an error message that says cant find the path or you do not have permission. I have googled the problem and tried various fixes to no avail/ they are shown as working ok in device manager. any advice will be most welcome please

Good day mighty experts, I do have a question regarding the way Windows 7 handles network shares. I have a few NAS servers on my network (mapped to local drives on my pc), some of which using power saving techniques. As a result, they stop their hard drives after a few minutes idle time. This...

Link Removed - Invalid URL USBDeview - View all installed/connected USB devices on your systemView any installed/connected USB device on your system Link Removed The article discusses some of the artifacts that a USB storage device leaves on a system when it has been plugged in, how...

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of a problem here which is driving me INSANE. All of my Removable Storage Devices (Flash drives, External HDD) do not work with my Windows 7. When I connect them, I hear the beeps but the device sometimes show up, sometimes not and sometimes they appear after a long...

Study finds the task to be very difficult; overwriting or crypto-erasure seem the best methods for sanitizing SSDs Until a university study emerged last week, few experts suspected that it's more difficult to erase data stored on solid-state drives (SSD) than that on hard disk drives (HDDs)...

How well do the PCI type cards for USB 3.0 and eSata work on PCs with motherboards that don't support USB 3.0 and eSata? I see WD has new externals and people are posting issues of slow transfer speeds and loosing conections. I suspect the above may be a big part of the problem. Joe

I upgraded from XP to W7 Pro. I can burn CD-ROMs but not DVDs. My two optical drives are SONY DVD RW DW-Q28A ATA. They worked fine in XP. I've tried updating and uninstalling the drivers from Device Manager, no good. The odd thing is that both Roxio 2010 and Windows DVD Maker will encode...

All my trip photos were on a DVD. I put the dvd in the computer and went to open it from MY COMPUTER. It asked me if I wanted to treat the DVD like a USB FLASH DRIVE and I said ok. Then it started formating the dvd and since usually formating a disk causes all the data to be erased I aborted the...

My computer suddenly, and for the first time since i got win7(x64) in nov 09, BSoD'd on me. My bios wont recognize the drive (OCZ vertex SSD) anymore, and when i loaded win7 repair disk and it wont recognize it either. I then loaded win7 onto another disk and put the problem disk on as a...

My hard drive is not showing in my computer. I installed partition magic and it showed to fix some errors and i clicked yes it fixed 2 errors and then showed some problem.........and my laptop restarted and after it was reboot my two other drives not showing in my computer.......i tried to give...

The model number of the external hard drive is: PA4096-1HF4 Its a 3.5 inch, 640GB external drive from Toshiba with USB 2.0 interface. The OS is Windows 7 Home Ultimate (64 bit). As per this URL : Windows 7 Compatibility for Storage Devices: Hard Drives, External Hardware: Download Device...