storage issues

Hi all, only found this forum today, looks very useful. I have a problem someone here might be able to throw some light on. I am trying to format an external 80gb hdd in fat 32, and it keeps stopping saying "hdd too large" i have tried different ways with no joy, anyone have any ideas ? thanks...

Hi, this is my first post, because I really cannot work out what is going on! I have a recently bought 500GB external hard drive (NTFS) which I want to partition to have a 100GB partition formatted to either FAT32 or Mac Extended Journaled. I have 228gb free on the drive, but when I go to Shrink...

Hi all recently i found that there's some folders in my 1 TB western digital HD that can not be copied, moved, access or even delete. these folders are from my friend i got long ago when i just click on them a single click the system hangs until windows explorer shut down and re-launched i...

Hello! I've moved tons of files to an external hard drive [Samsung external USB HD (FAT32)]. After that, I've tried to eject the device in Windows 7, via Safely Remove Hardware but Windows said that the device was in use, even though everything (applications and windows) were closed. I decided...

i am running windows 7 and about a 3 months ago i had to shut my computer down becouse it crash apon restarting i got a error saying "disk read error please press Ctr Alt Del to restart your computer", i would do this a few times then i would get a new error saying "An Unexpected I/O Error has...

Windows Live Movie Maker Versjon 2011 (15.4.3508.1109) Operativsystem: Windows 7 HEI! Jeg har redigert min film og er fornøyd med prosjektet. Jeg ønsker å lagre filmen. Jeg klikker øverst til høyre på "Lagre film". Etter lang tids lagring nærmer det seg 100%, og da dukker det opp et...

Hi guys, I Have a 200 GB hard drive. So far I had two partitions: 50GB System partition 150GB additional partition for various data I decided that I didn't want to keep the additional partition, so I used the Windows 7 installation disc to format and delete this partition. Then I extended the...

so i had a hd go out on me. so i order a new 1.5 tb hd and install win 7 fresh on it. when i try to access my old hd it just states it has drive I with no info and ask to be formatted before used. i want to recover my old files off of it. I really need them. Link Removed due to 404 Error

I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed in my Acer laptop. last day i was encrypting my external Segate 1 tb hard disk with "bit locker drive encryption". It started normally, after 20%, i stopped it. I then thought to decrypt my data back and to disable the protection. When I tried doing this...

When I look at hard drive properties (My Computer) C: disk space is correct but D: and E: show 100% as free even though there are many files on the disk that show up if you open the drive. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit ASUS BIOS Ver 1701

Hi, On my FreeAgent 250GB Hard Drive, set up as a network hard drive, I have a folder with 60+GB of movies (avi. mp4. etc) and all of a sudden in turned into a 0KB file. I would really like to fix this, anyone got some ideas? Link Removed

Hi, I just bought a new Asus G73JW laptop. I also picked up two new SSD's (Kingston SNVP325-128G), removed the two 500Gb OEM drives from the G73JW and tried to do a clean install on these new drives. I'm having some problems recognizing the second drive and I hope there is help for me. On...

Hey all, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my barebones system that I built. A physical descriptions is: Gigabyte GL-P945-PL-S3 Motherboard with an Intel Dual Core Processer running @ 2.3ghz Three (3) internal hdd. One (1) 1tb SATA, One (1) 250gb SATA, and...

Hello there I am attempting to shrink my C:/ drive in order to make another partition for Linux Mint. When I try to shrink the drive in Disk Management, only about 7gb are shrunk, while I have 50gb of free space on that drive, and I even defragmented it. I unfortunately do not have another...

Ok, i had a complete system running windows 7 and i just did a new build. I took my sata hd's out of the first build and used them in the new build. I had a 320g and a 1tb. I installed the 320g by itself and installed w7. Now i plugged in my 1tb drive with all of my personal files that i had...

My computer was running slow and I decided to do a pre-boot system assessment on my Dell computer and got this error: And I selected yes and continued the test and it asked it I wanted to enter the Dell Diagnostic program and I selected yes and it started the test and after a big I got this...

I'm in a panic mode. My files are supposed to be inside a subfolder within the drive. Now all the subfolders are visible but there is no contents inside. That is My Computer - DRIVE F - Subfolder A (visible) - Subfolder A1 (visible) - contents in Subfolder A1 (EMPTY). Now when I check DRIVE F...

hi! i recently installed kubuntu 10.10 version on my system giving it 10 GB of space which i think, it took from the default C drive (62 GB) on which my windows7 was installed.But then i removed kubuntu and deleted its 10 GB partition so as to free that space. But now when i have deleted...

Hello, I have a 150 GB SATA and a 70 GB IDE hard drive in my computer. When I ran XP, everything was fine, but since Windows 7 was installed on my computer a few days ago, it doesn't recognize my IDE hard drive. The XP had been on the SATA drive, and the Windows 7 is there now as well because...

I have a new Ford that has the Ford Sync. I've had trouble finding something to work with Ford Sync from all kinds of usb thumbdrives, to Zune, to portable usb drive. I want it to show the artist/song title on the screen and be able to use voice commands to play songs/artists, etc. The only...