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    Windows 7 Explorer now freezing

    Thank you for the help with my prior topic, but a new issue has arisen. I walked away from my computer for a while. When I got back, Chrome had frozen up, and it was so bad I couldn't even get Task Manager opened nor explorer responding in general. The other couple of windows I had open were...
  2. Windows 7 Confused and Frustrated

    So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...
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    Windows 7 I Can Not Install No Operating System

    Hello ! I tried to install a myriad of DVDs or USB sticks Widows 7 that in the pc of my friends all go perfectly, in my case initially installing it goes, but then I get the following message: "FILE OR DIRECTORY D: DAMAGED AND NOT READABLE. RUN THE UTILITY 'CHKDSK " If I install another...
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    Windows 7 HELP hard drive fail

    I got a western digital 1.5 TB hard drive and when i turn on my computer windows starts trying to repair the hard drive and i let it stand like this for 48 hours and its still trying to repair. What should i do? Picture down below my win language is Norwegian.
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    Windows 7 BSOD stop code 124 after replacing HHD

    I recently bought and installed a new HDD in my desktop. The HDD is a Western Digital 1TB Caviar Blue 64MB 7200RPM drive. After installing this new HDD and reformatting my computer I am continuously running into a BSOD. I myself am not extremely tech savvy, my computer knowledge is limited to...
  6. Windows 7 Computer freezing every few seconds/minutes

    I have the problem where my PC is stalling repeatedly at random. I was running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit before, but I formatted and reinstalled Windows today. I have run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware full scans on both my C: Drive and my D: drives after I reinstalled Windows, where I backed up...
  7. Windows 7 WD's PWL & Silkstream technologies

    The prices have come down to the point that I'm thinking of buying another 3TB hard drive for video archiving. I was thinking of the regular 5400 RPM green label drive, which is what I already have several of, but looking at the description of the WD30EURS, something caught my eye...Silkstream...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Won't Recognize USB HD

    I am pulling out hair by the hand full! I have an external USB HD that I have used in the past and it also works perfectly on a Windows 8 laptop. BUT, it is acting very strange on my Win 7 PC. Here is the story: It shows up in Control Panel > Devices and Printers as: USB mass storage device...
  9. Windows 7 Can't install Bluestacks..?

    I'm hoping someone can help me with this as I've been trying for hours now.. When I try to install Bluestacks the process gets to about 95% (creating app shortcuts) and then fails due to a Adobe Reader X (10.1.7) could not be installed 1603 error. I've tried deleting Adobe Reader, reinstalling...
  10. Windows 7 HDD formatting problems

    So Ive just gotten my PC back from repair; everything is working perfectly, except for a HDD. I have 3 drives, one being a SSD with the OS on it, the other two being WesternDigital 1TB drives. The problem is that one of the two HDDs is recognized, but not intractable. The repaired PC came...
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    Windows 7 My Book Live (western digital) cant be found

    hi, im tring to connect "My Book Live" WD network drive. i did as order by connect the network cable to my router and downloaded the setup software that has no option but clicking next after the cable connection. in the instruction it says that the drive light need to by solid green and...
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    Windows 7 Hitachi Touro USB 3 connection issues

    Hi, I brought a Hitachi USB 3.0 Touro Desk Pro external HDD a few months ago. It's never been smooth sailing with it, and I've finally given up and am asking for help. The drive I have is here: Touro Desk Pro | HGST, a Western Digital company The issue is that, when I connect it up, the...
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    Windows 8 Problem with Mapped Drives? Help, Please!

    So, I have a Western Digital My Book 1.5 TB hard drive connected to my Asus RT-N66U router, and it seems to be losing connection? Under Windows 7, it mapped perfectly, and was always accessible, but now after upgrading to Windows 8, it won't stay mapped. I'll restart my router and computer...
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    Windows 7 Is a 1 TB partition too big? Advice on re-partitioning requested

    On my 64 bit Windows 7 desktop, I used to have two Western Digital 500 GB drives, each with one partition (C: and D: respectively). But recently those two drives both started failing their self-tests; so I am replacing them with two 1 TB drives. So then I'll have two partitions, C: and D...
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    Windows 7 trying to restore win7 disk image stored on WD my passport drive

    Hi, I have a compac (HP) laptop (CQ61-41us notebook), running WIN7 home premium, 64 bit. Aside from the normal file backup via the western digital software, I have several windows 7 generated iso images of my laptop stored on my external WD drive. Using windows repair disk, my computer does not...
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    Windows 7 BSOD while running chksdk and scanning the HD for errors

    I have tried the western digital lifeguard tool, but it is unable to run the tests it simply crashes every time. The quick test throws up this error FAIL Test Error Code: 06-Quick Test on drive 1 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 97...
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    Windows 7 BSoD when Gaming - Windows 7 Pro

    Hi all, I built this PC about 8 months ago and have not had many problems with it until the last month or so. I am getting BSoD when playing Counter-Strike:GO, Darksiders 2, and also once while playing League of Legends. I initially thought this was an problem with my RAM, so this morning...
  18. Windows 7 Massive problems!

    So recently I had to purchase a new HDD due to massive BSOD's due to an unknown corruption or trojan. Today I installed a brand new Western Digital BLack Caviar drive and everything worked flawlessly until I started downloading files (specifically those for my security, i.e. avast, norton...
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    Windows 7 Problem with SSD and Sata Drive under Windows 7 (64 Bit)

    Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...
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    Windows 7 Gain Access to System Volume Information on an External Drive

    Part of my job involves taking images of many different computers using Norton Ghost and saving them to external drives. One of these drives is a Western Digital MyPassport that is soon being re-purposed. When taking one of the images with this drive I accidentally clicked on the System Volume...