storage issues

Hi, I assembled a new PC for our Movie and Video Editing Team. The configuration is : Motherboard ASUS P9X79 Pro Model Processor Intel Core i7 3930K Sandy Bridge-E 3.2GHz RAM Corsair Vengeance 8x4 GB kit , 32GB total RAM Boot Drive Crucial m4 256GB SSD Video Storage WD Caviar...

I have this problem with Windows 7 from time to time, and I finally want to find out the correct solution. Sometimes when Im done using a USB hard drive, and I've closed all applications saving to it (or copying from it), I can't eject the drive. I get an error message: "Windows can't stop your...

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After thinking that I'd fixed an error in the PrecisionX program for my new GPU, I find that it is not fixed. While looking to see that it was installed properly, I now find that all of my programs, including every game from Steam, is installed on both the SSD and the HDD. How did I mess up like...

Hi there folks and I just wanted to ask a question that has been pulling my hair out for the last months of Windows 8 being released. When Windows 8 was released I was eager to pay the £24.99 and buy it, so I did. Unfortunately though, there is one issue that is driving me crazy. This is slow...

I just installed a 750 GB internal SSD and migrated many gigabytes of data to that drive after initializing and formatting, and as part of this process I used Microsoft's "Relocate" option of the Music folder properties. This was a very bad decision. The interface options did NOT correlate to...

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I have a 3 year old Alienware desktop running Win 7 Professional (see my profile for more computer specs). I have never had any major problem including running weekly backups to a second internal hard drive using Windows backup. About 3 weeks ago the backup failed and produced the mentioned...

So, I have Unallocated space at the very end of my hard drive, even after the 25gb Recovery Partition, this is due to copying my old hard drive onto this new one via Clonezilla, and it automatically keeping the unallocated space at the end. Can I either move the unallocated space around the...

Please every body help me to restore my Drive wich lost after blue screen dumping. Data in drive that is very very important.

I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...

1. Until recently my laptop was working fine. 2. I frequently take backup of my "c drive" only by creating system images in my external hard disk. I did 3 or 4 times, it worked fine. 3. When I tried to create my system image recently I encountered this problem, "0x80780119" then I googled for...

I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...

Hi there, Today I wanted to create a system backup. I have 2 external hard drives, they are pulgged in. I selected one of them erased any files in there and also formated it. Then I started backup manager, didnt choose an image backup because the systme tells me that that particular drive is...

Have perused the topics but did not find a particular post specific to my concern. First of all, having trouble burning dvd's and that lead to the current issue. The process does not seem to be straightforward. Built a machine this past spring with 2 disc drives: Blu-ray Intel SSDSC2CW12...

Hi, I would like to thank you guys in advance! I have a 320GB External WD HD, I'm not sure what the problem is, but once upon a time, I pasted lots of files that it almost reached it's maximum allocated size, then the next time I plugged it in, it won't recognize it anymore. I can't see it in...

I run Win 7 on a Dell XPS M1530 running on AC power. I attached an Iomega USB 2.5" portable drive and booted up. This drive worked OK when last used with a desktop PC. I wanted to delete unused and old files from the drive, but can't. I also can't transfer them to the laptop. They do open...

I have an 8GB flash drive I got from my college. Half of it is filled. I plugged it in this morning and all my files are gone. But under My Computer, it says 4.64 of 7.50 is free. What should I do?

I have problem accessing my external hard drive , I am getting the message access denied. could anybody help on that please.

I have had a problem with my cd accepting different types of cd's. I purchased some 4x 4.7gb cd-rw disk that I was assured would work on my newer model HP laptop. I had trouble getting a new cd's to format at first, but somehow got one to format and select data. Now my cd works fine with the...