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Hi I have 2 days ago upgraded from windows 7 home . all went smoothly but now no matter what , i cant get Windows to recognize any of four usb flash drives . Mouse, keyboard , printer , phone cord all connect thru usb and work fine but not flash drives .What can I do? Message from windows is "...

Greetings everyone, I have an ASUS computer with an intel i7 Multicore processor, 16gb ram, and 3 internal drives installed (1 1tb HHD, a 2tb HDD, and a 128gb SSD). I also have 3 external drives available (1tb USB, a 750gb USB, and a 500gb USB). The 500gb USB drive is connected. I am currently...

You can now create your own installation media now that the official links have been made available by Microsoft. This media creation tool can be used to build USB install drives or get ISOs to burn on DVDs. read more Continue reading...

Hello. Previously I've had a computer that would randomly crash, as if I forced it to shut down. Unfortunately, that pc is dead. a capacitor blew in the power source. But my problem now is I have migrated to my dad's pc. None of the problems with my old pc occured until I started using it. So I...

My friend has a fairly new stand-alone (not network or domain) Windows 7 Professional desktop PC with MS Security Essentials as protection. Using a Win7Pro User account which has administrative privileges, when attempting to access any USB flash drive (tried using a selection of flash drives)...

I having a problem with my windows 7 ultimate PC which prevents me from copying / creating any file / folder on any of my USB drives (flash & disk). My system details: Thank you for your help, Birla

Can anyone please help, up until recently my laptop was fine and i know ive opened files up a few weeks ago, now my laptop isn't opening anything i attach. i have a card reader, every time i put my sd card in my laptop says i need to format this drive, and when i try to it says windows is...

I tend to keep some of my flash drives connected, simply because it is a convenient way to keep track of them. However a thought just crossed my mind, that since I have noticed that sometimes the activity light on my external SATA drives flash when they are not in use, perhaps that is because...

Hi, I am researching the autorun functionality in Windows and am coming across conflicting/confusing information. I understand Windows 8 automatically enables autorun by default - do you know which autorun keys, if any, are disabled (i.e. in Windows 7 only the label and icon keys are enabled...

Greetings! For the most part, I LOVE WIN7 64. However, I have had huge complications with my external hard drives that has made it essentially impossible to write to a 2 Terabyte external. I've googled and tried for hours various combinations of 'take ownership' and file permissions etc etc...

Consider the following scenario: You have a machine running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system with USB 3.0 port(s) You have attached USB drive(s) to USB 3.0 port(s) and are accessible within Windows When you try to enable BitLocker on... Link Removed

Actually we are using windows 7 Operating system in our small organization. As per requirement of our organization, i provide the rights to access usb flash drives in some of the desktops. In windows 7, can i restrict to copy the exe files from usb flash drive to any local drive (C,D Or E).

i have lost all of my removable drives and dont know how to get them back on the same machine i boot on another drive and they are there but i need them on my 64 bit windows 7 install. can any one please help tnx gene:o:o:o

Whenever I plug in one of my external USB drives, Windows automatically pops up a window asking me if I want to scan it for errors. Where do I change settings so that it does not automatically do this every time? Thanks

I've got a Lenovo z560 Ideapad. Any time I plug anything into one of my USB drives (two different external hard drives, Kindle) it prompts me to scan and fix (which never finishes when I try). Things I plug in constantly disconnect and reconnect, and are sometimes totally unresponsive. Chkdsk...

Hello all, I have a wierd problem. I am running windows 7 32bit, and every time that I reboot my pc one of my external usb hard drives its drive letter keeps changing. and its allways the same drive that keeps changing. can anyone please help, thank you very much

On Start up I get all my external drives 6 in total, all my thumb drives and camera connection show up as separate folders, I have to close them all manually to actually see my desktop could some one tell me how to stop this. See Image to see what I am talking about Link Removed

While we always considered Tony Stark and his Iron Man the fascist wanker of the Super Hero comic world, there is no denying the movie version of him is a lot less of a wanker. In fact, millions of people consider him a true good guy based on the films and actually want Iron Man themed USB...

All of a sudden, I'm getting BSODs whenever I insert a USB drive - any USB drive. How do I fix this? Any help is appreciated! Link RemovedLink RemovedLink Removed Thanks much! Link Removed - Invalid URL

More features of Windows 8 have emerged from discoveries in a liked Milestone 1 build. The OS is now known to have a "push notification platform" that would would send alarms and other notices from a remote server to the app in question, much as on iOS. References to "tiles" and "toasts" suggest...