usb drives

The title says it all really - woke up this morning, switched on the laptop, and Windows 7 is showing my logical (D) drive as a disconnected network drive... I can still access it ok, but all shortcuts to any folders in it that are on the desktop now have something (can't make out what) on top...

RUNNING WINDOWS 7600 RTM. acer m5641- q6600 4gig ram-ati 4650- all drivers are installed. Everything works except flashdrives. I plug the drive in and windows detects it and seems it as a flash drive- yet media player 12 only reports it as u3 not as the flsh drive, for some reason windows media...

I want to go back to Vista Home Premium x64! Windows 7 disappointed me and actually gave me a harder time than Vista did when I moved from XP to Vista. \ I checked an instructions document out about how to rollback to Vista from an upgrade to Windows 7. By using the windows.old folder located...

Dual boot - Windows 7 RC1 7100 64bit / Vista Ultimate 64bit / USB2 External Drives I'm posting this problem history for the benefit of others who may be having the same or similar problem. I have several 500GB USB2 external drives that store seldom used image and video files. I opened a...

Can't use two of my internal hard drives fo backup. only offered Win 7 Drive which I don't want to use

Hi, I am running Windows 7 64-bit Build 7100 on a Gateway DX4640 (Intel Core2 Duo CPU/4 Gb RAM). I have two internal HDD (Maxtor and WDD) that are working fine. Operating System has been running well since the beta release. I am having a strange problem with all USB HDD (Seagate FreeAgent...

Hi, I've problem in doing a copy of large files (ISO image of 4 Gbytes) to/form external USB drives. I've tried two different disks with the same result. After copying 2 Gbytes the system freezes and I have to power cycle. I've seen that CPU load goes to 100% before freezing. I've Also...

i purchased a verbatim 16 gig usb drive, that had readyboost signatures on the box. once i got it home, i tried to reformat it from the default fat32 file system, to ntfs. why it comes with fat32 on it is something i don't quite understand anyway, but that's beside the point... anyway, windows...

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Hi Dose any know the maximum size USB storgae that the Bit-Lock on windows 7 can encrypt.

Hello, I am faced with a real big problem. Recently I've lost all my data due to a RAID problem and had to use a full system image backup I was able to make before the crash. Here's the catch: I use a Core2Quad with 2 SATA drives on RAID 0 and Vista 64 ULTIMATE. I have the windows installation...

I don't know what Microsoft changed but i am unable to see the USB Storage plugged into my Linksys WRT610N. I can see it when i go into router setup but don't see it when i try to map it. I wanted to find out if it was really this build or not so i have the 7000 Build on my laptop. I installed...

Hi guys This post doesn't relate to W7 per se but I'm putting it here since it could be of use whilst you are testing. Hopefully everybody is making backups and I know some of you use large USB external drives. These are generally formatted with FAT32 and the problem now arises if you want to...

Recently we have had a few posts to do with flash drives and the like, with some being better than others. So having noticed this 'buyers' guide I thought I'd post it in case anyone was interested... Link Removed

Hello Everyone, I can no longer boot into vista. After installing backup software that came with my new USB HDD, it hasn't worked. Oh, by the way, I do have an operable WinXP OS still working. Dual boot XP / Vista worked fine for months up til the above installation. I have been working on...

I've had this computer since december, and have only ever had Vista on it. I got a new hard drive thats about a month old. Its been working fine as my storage, but when I try to use the search feature, no files show up. I'm computer literate, and know I am searching correctly. I also check to...