storage solutions

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...

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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...

Is there a way to create symlinks in Windows 7? I've got several external hard drives for Media, etc and all and I want to symlink them to the folders in my user's folder. Is there a way to do that? For those who don't know what symlinks are, it's a linux thing, just hoping there's a similar...

Hi, I have only one drive C:\ in windows vista and i want to do partition of it so i can put my data in different drives. How i can do partition of C:\ into different drives. Please help... I will be really thankful to you guys in this regards,

I have both a Sata (Seagate 500mB) and ATA Samsung installed in my computer. Vista installed on the Sata without problem and sees my ATA which I use mostly for backups. When I ran the install for Win 7 I installed on the ATA, install did not see the Sata. Now up and running I still cannot see...

Hi everybody. Great to be part of this community. I have a problem with a Maxtor 6L200M0 SATA drive in Vista. Just installed the OS and the drive is not recognised in Computer. Disk management says that the drive is there but offline (small red arrow next to drive symbol). The drive is dynamic...