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Hello, I've been moving my docs, my pics, etc changing the location to another drive.... but is there a way to set it to use another drive and not have to move 1 by 1 all the folders? This way it's much easier to do a clean install destroying drive C each time I have a problem and have all my...

This is an important question to bring up, I think (sorry if it's been brought up before), but, as I've said previously, I've been having issues doing the in-place upgrade for Win 7. It's BSOD'd on me four times now (fourth time I even uninstalled everything it said for me to) every time it gets...

I installed Windows 7 to see how the install went. I have an unallocated space, and my options are New Simple Volume New Spanned Volume New Striped Volume New Mirrored Volume. can someone explain these options and recommend the best choice.

Hello all, I have a Verbatim 2TB 2-disk RAID external hard disk, which can connect via USB or eSATA. In Windows 7 I can connect using USB but am unable to get an eSATA conection, which is a pain because of the transfer speed. I asked Verbatim support whether a new driver would be offered for...

Well Well, Let me explain my experience of Disk Management in Windows 7! To start off I ordered a brand new hard drive, installed it into my pc. I booted up win7 "at the time with the current hard drive I was using for win7" , at first windows 7 recognized the new drive but asking for "Win7" to...

So, I'm doing system image backups over a 1Gb/s network. The system being backed up is a Sony notebook (FW285D) with a 500GB hard drive. The backup runs at a steady 4-5MBytes/sec transfer which seems slow (I should note that a scheduled Win7 backup bursts at 24-45MBytes/sec), and as a result the...

It's a long story, guys, so I'll spare you. Suffice it to say that I no longer have the .iso file of Windows7 that I downloaded from Microsoft. And as you all well know, Microsoft is no longer offering the download. What I do have is a .vhd file of this. Im not sure what exactly it is...

Hi All, I have seen alot of people having issues with NAS devices and Win7 Libraries (including myself). I have already posted this in response to a query on the subject elsewhere in the forums, but thought I would stick it here as well - hope no-one minds. This relates to people who are...

Does Windows 7 support tape backup hardware? software? Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Hi I'm really confused about what I should do. I recently wiped my HDD after getting a new box, installed XP then W7RC. When installing XP, I made 2 Partitions, C:/ and D:/. The C:/ drive was ~100 GB on which I installed the OS, and the D:/ Drive was ~130 GB. What I then did was copy the...

LG GGW-H20L not handled on Win 7 x64 works perfect in Xp Pro x64. I have a split 500g drive with Xp on one partition and Win7 on the other. Using another SATA drive for file dumping, and LG using the 3rd and final SATA port on the Dell P490 I am using. Device manager recognizes the drive...

Background: Windows 7 RC patched, new Dell Vostro 220 2GB RAM, 75GB HDD C:, 250GB HDD I:, 80 GB external HDD, optical (CD/DVD-RW) drives, floppy drive, lovely new Kodak ESP5 All-in-One inkjet printer, etc. Because the C: drive has everything on it, it is quite crowded. (It contains W7, W2K Pro...

I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...

I had my main XP set up on a raid 0 layout. I then installed win 7 on a different hard drive non raid. All went well but now in windows 7 it sees a hard drive but thinks it needs to be formatted. It is a fully functioning NTFS RAID 0 set up in Windows XP. I have the vista raid drivers for my...

Windows 7 and HFS+ (Mac OS X extended File System) [SOLVED] For anyone who may have stumbled upon this: I solved this and directions for accessing HFS+ partitions using MacDrive are posted at the bottom of the next post. I'm not quite sure where to put this, so please do move it to a more...

been trying to get rid of these for a few. I live on the south side...and have no use for them. You'll have to make arrangements to have them picked up. I will post a pic of them in a few...they must be gone asap. PM if you do..Forum seniority counts for"this limited time offer!"

Hello, Is there some usb key that i can plug in my LaCie USB external hard drive, witch key would make it possible for me to reach from my Laptop? Or is it possible to reach that usb HD by wifi and not by USB? thank you! Pascal

Hi All, I have installed Windows 7 build 7057 on my desktop.There is an problem with my external hard disk(Western Digital 160GB). Before the drive was formatted and partitioned in to 4 parts and I am having data on all drives.On WIndows 7 I am able to see the first partition . Through disk...

I am a photographer and have thousands of digital photos to store. I have two portable harddrives attached to my Dell laptop with USB connections. I periodicaly unplug the hard drives to make my laptop portable. The problem is when I reattach the hard drives, the one that is normally the E...

Firstly like to say Hi to everyone and thanks for the support forum has been helpful in the past already. Basically I have the windows 7 beta installed on a samsung netbook NC10 and must admit considering it is not a powerhorse machine I am impressed at how windows 7 is actually running. The...