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Hey guys, I'm so frustrated right now! These problems have been occurring since a month. I can't read any DVDs/CDs via DVD-ROM. My computer won't pick up any external-HDD, USB flash drives, nothing. This has been pissing me off since a month and I finally considered of reinstalling the Windows...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me. I recently installed a new MSI motherboard to my computer, and a new power source. Everything worked perfectly until I started noticing that the 4 external USB hard drives (On-Board Powered) where not being recognized by windows 7 after reboot...

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...

I have been unable to find an answer to this and I don't believe it is typical behavior of Windows 7. I am a new user to windows 7 and have noticed that when I insert a cd/dvd or a usb thumb drive, an icon for it appears on the desktop and then dissapears once it is removed. I feel this is...

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2 external Maxtor usb drives plugged in when booting I get this message "a disk error has occurred hit ctrl alt del" and the machine a dell xps9100 win 7 64bit will not boot. if I unplug the drives it boots no problem. if I plu either one in I get this message. I tried plugging the drives into...

Hi, My PC (Windows 7) has two internal hard drives (C & D) and "C" is reserved for the operating system;" D" for my Data. For some time, I have also had two external "USB 2" hard drives (250GB & 500 GB), which recently, I have replaced by two "USB 3" One TB WD My Book 3 Essentials hard...

Own a licensed/registered/activated win 7 64-bit disc. Wondering how to create a bootable usb thumb drive, in case of machine crash. Need insurance policy that is handy. I love usb thumb drives, and have a case to hold various. please advise. Do I have to use a disk. Do I need to buy a...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

Here are a few sites that may help in removing the "Write Protected" error received when trying to write, format or copy data from USB, Pen Drives or Memory Cards. Solution to remove Write Protection from USB Pen Drive - Tech Salsa Remove Write Protection On USB Pen Drive or Memory Card or...

Link Removed due to 404 Error PassMark DiskCheckup™ allows the user to monitor the SMART attributes of a particular hard disk drive. SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a feature on a computer's hard disk for providing various monitoring indicators of...

Alright, so my Windows 7 recently quit assigning drive letters automatically. I frequently plug in new hard drives to the system using various USB to IDE or SATA adapters and now when I plug in a new hard drive with any of these USB adapters, it does not get a drive letter assigned to the...

I use a custome made programm which works only when the system hard drive shows up as "Disk0" and the RAID-0 disk (based on PCI-E card) appeares as "Disk1". I've just upgrated my OS from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro (hardware configuration is the same). After the first reboot the system...

My laptop, an HP Pavilion dv7-1120em (Intel Centrino 2), originally running Vista Home and upgraded to Windows7 Home Premium (32 bits) in December, stopped showing my USB jump drives about a month and a half after the upgrade. In the beginning, I had only one jump drive and, when it became...

Hello It happens for *most* of my USB key or HDD : when I plug them, win7 see them in diskmgm utility but don't assign a drive letter. I have to do it manually with diskmgm. please help thanks

First - Merry Christmas to all! :) I have a Win 7 64bit notebook with 8GB of RAM already in place. I wanted to increase the RAM so that I could run a LOT of Win Srv 2008 R2 VMware (may do ESX within VMware workstation or may just go straight to VMware server 2.xx and work it like that) VMs at...

Link Removed The recently released Microsoft Security Intelligence Report highlights the vast improvements in security from Windows XP to Windows 7. Even so, no operating system is perfect. I asked security experts what they think about Windows 7 security and came up with a list of what...

So every time I'm copying files to any of my USB drives and I run out of space the computer freezes up a bit then tells me it can no longer find the USB drive. The device still shows up under Computer in the removable devices section but I cannot access it. Removing it and reinserting it does...

Hello. My network consists of a Windows 7 PC, A debian mythtv box, a Macintosh G4 10.3.9 and a Windows XP SP3 laptop. I like this combination (the laptop is a Via based unit which came with Vista but turned out to be way too slow, so I *upgraded* it to XP which runs - and has always run -...