storage drive

I recently installed windows 7 from an OEM disk. During the drive selection screen, I entered the "drive options" screen and deleted the vista partition, created a new partition encompassing the entire drive capacity, and then selected "format." I then installed Windows 7 on this empty...

hi all i've finally joined the windows 7 bandwagon so pardon my n00bness. i've been tryin to figure out how to get a WEI score (which yes, I know some will say it's pointless), but i just want to have it. the problem i'm running into is this error with the disc performance. 9245882 (3804) -...

A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...

Hi guys, I have two hard drives, one which was running my old OS and the other i was using as storage. I got a virus which affected the OS and forced me to install a different version of windows on the second drive (the one i was using for storage). I ended up installing Vista and then...

hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows. here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash. i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes...

Hello everyone, I will cut straight to the chase: I have two raid arrays, one stripe (OS) and one span (or JBOD, which is where I store data). The problem I am having is Windows will not automatically assign my data drive a drive letter upon starting up the computer. I have to manually go into...

Hey guys, I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, this is my first time here. If this post is too long, I can try and condense it. I usually leave PC in sleep mode, last night was no exception. I am used to it occasionally turning itself back on every few days (not sure why) so no surprise to see...

Windows 7 upgrades fail because of Intel driver The best laid plans of mice and voles By Link Removed - Invalid URL Friday, 27 November 2009, 09:49 MICROSOFT MUST BE FURIOUS after software upgrades from Vista to Windows 7 failed on some machines because they had an Intel storage driver...

I have a raid 1 system drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 had XP64 on it, partition 2 is a logical partition and is just storage, and partition 3 has XP32 bit on it. I got my copy of Windows7 and went to install over the XP64 install and it worked great. Now I can't boot into XP32. These...

Hi everyone, I'm new here :) I'll admit I'm a bit of a noob, so bear with me and ask questions if I'm babbling. I just installed the beta of Windows 7 on my freshly repaired PC, and the installation had a few hitches but everything went alright. I chose to install Win7 on my 200gb harddrive and...