storage issues

I have a seagate 120GB IDE HDD. when I first boot up win7 recognizes it, it shows up in the Bios and every where else, but after it sleeps windows dose not recognize it. :confused:

How do I control how much disk space my Windows Backup takes up? I have a 1TB external disk for backups and other files. My computer's HDD only has about 250GB capacity. I don't know why my backups file got so bloated. What should I do? I see that I can delete the older backup file: 22-Oct...

Hi all, I'm having a problem that seems to be shared by many other users based on the number of forum threads i've come accross related to this topic. I'll describe it in some detail to avoid the usual advice which hasn't worked so far so please bear with me. I am unable to move files onto...

After shutting down my computer for the night, and turning it on the next morning. My computer no longer see's the files located in my second HDD. If I click on the Icons, it will still load the program, and I can still open the HDD in "My Computer" under Games Galore(D:). The problem is the...

I have 4x2TB external hard drives in a raid5 configuration, I converted it to GPT disk using Disk Magagement in Windows 7. It showed basic disk, NTFS, 1 partition, 5.40TB, which is normal. It seemed pretty well at first. But after copying files >2TB to this drive, some files were lost and cann't...

I have two SAT HDD-s ones a 500 gb, the other is 1tb. I installed windows 7 32 bit on the 500 gig, made a new partition and installed windows 7 64 bit on the same HDD and left the 1tb for general use. After two days of use, the 1 TB HDD showed two out of four volumes available. Luckily, i didn't...

I unplugged my hard drive for a few days and when I plugged it back in, I get this message: Link Removed due to 404 Error Is there anyway to change the hard drive's file system without formating the drive? Data-recovery software recovers data from way back when, and nothing recent. I'm...

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...

Hi, I have a computer with Windows 7 professional. (it is the only OS installed) Today Morning when i logged in, my D drive was missing. Even in device manager, i couldnt find the drive. space was being shown as free space. What could have happened? the support guy came, created a...

Hello, I currently have 2 HD, one 160Gb SATA and this 80Gb IDE. I was using both normally, but since yesterday I can't access my IDE HD. The unit is gone in My Computer, as you can see in this SS: Imageshack - semttuloix.jpg But when I access Disk Management, there's the disc, labelled as...

Hi, I have an 500gb external that ive recently let alot of people use to download movies and tv shows onto their ipods and computers. My problem is that when I open the external all of my folders have been turned into shortcuts that do not open. When I click on properties for the file it says it...

i just upgraded to Windows 7 ultimate. I have 2 striped 250g sata running my OS. 1 IDE 150gb as back up and another 1TB SATA as back up. all my drives are reconized in my BIOS and all but my 1TB WD is showing up in my disk management and device management. All my drives have been formated and...

Hello, I am working on a shop machine and my employer is insisting on having four hard drives installed running Jbod (I have argued for two days about this and got nowhere) the problem is I can get Windows to recognize three of the four, one system and two running Jbod, the fourth is nowhere...

Hello I just installed a second hard drive but now when I boot my computer windows wont load unless i enter setup and tell it to boot from my main hard drive. BIOS won't detect this new hard drive and windows cannot detect it either.

Hello, I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit in Classic mode. My system specs are listed below my signature. Before installing a program today I went to create a system restore point. In System Properties > System Protection I see that in Protection Settings > Available Drives there are...

I have a new Toshiba laptop using Win7 Premium. Somehow, there are three user folders that contain the same files (photos, documents & music). 'Steve' is 2.93 GB, 'Steve_2' is 2.72GB and 'Steve_2.Steve_laptop' is 3.19GB If I delete 'Steve' & 'Steve_2', will the same photos, music etc. be...

Hi i had bought new laptop. At that i have two drives and i locked one of them with the bitlocker and later on i just deleted that drive from disk management. Now i cannot create partition, i have more than 160 GB and system does not allow me to install a fresh copy and neither it allows me...

Hello , My question is as followed : In My Computer , my drives initially had a designations like C: D: , now when I go into My Computer , they have miraculously disappeared > So now I can see my drives but none of them have a Letters next to them. Might there be any reason for this ...

Because of an issue with an external drive, i have to not allow the power saving feature for hard drives. Apparently my external (LaCie) doesn't support power saving and when W7 enacts the mode the drive stalls. The problem being i have a total of 6 hard drives. I'd like the others to power save...

Hello again , I was just wondering about a drive not showing in Drive Manager. I have three HDD and they show up just fine in the BIOS . The drive that is not showing in my Device Manager are the 400 Gig and 1500 Gig. But I am running my OS on my 320 Gig , which in neither in Device...