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Hi, I have a backup server which is running windows 2000 and it needs full access (or access to all the files I need backed up) to my windows 7 pcs. I am lost. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Rusty

Xbox 360 Gets USB Storage Support by Paul Thurrott On Tuesday, Microsoft issued a software update for its Xbox 360 video game console that adds an interesting new capability: Users can now connect up to two USB storage devices to the console to supplement the Xbox 360's hard drive. But...

Hello everyone, I want to thank this community for such a well maintained website. It is really helpful. I want to let you know that EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition v 5.0.1 will not create partitions out of the unallocated disk space I made in my hard drive using this application. When I...

I just rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I had thought to put My Pictures and My Music on separate Hard Drives from the Operating System and everything else; OR would performance be better with all on one hard drive and backing up the My Music and My Pictures to separate Hard Drives...

Hello folks! I am using the windows 7 usb dvd tool to attempt my next install from my flash drive The problem is when I guide the tool to my windows 7 ISO image it claims the ISO is invalid How can I put my 7 on a flash drive?

Hi, I'm using the Win7 Backup utility and no problem with incremental backups.Let's call this Backup #1. However, I wanted a separate backup task for all my photos to a separate backup drive about once/month (Backup #2) as opposed to once/week for Backup #1. I looked around for trying to do...

In a recent Link Removed as the second most exciting type of product that has hit the market. There is no doubt that SSDs have gained a lot of market share with enthusiasts and even mainstream notebook users, and 2010 is going to be a big year for the technology. As SSDs continue to gain...

I am running Vista Home Premium 64 Bit and Windows 7 64 Bit. I am duls booting. I went to import Bookmarks(Favorites into Win 7 from Vista. When I browse for the file and find my Vista Favorites while in Win 7.I click on it and get file has to be htm. Favorites in Vista are just Favorites no...

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...