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    Windows 7 Unsolved BSOD

    Hello, greetings to all. I have some problems with BSOD. About one month, month and a half my PC started freezing and BSOD errors were shown to me. The problem was i couldn't do anything on the PC, 'cos it crashed sometimes even when playing Spider Solitaire. The freezes and BSOD were random...
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    Windows 7 Random Screen Freeze / Intermittent and varied BSODs

    As per the title, I am suffering from recurrent system freezes and intermittent and variable BSODs. I've attched the necessary images and system spec. Many thanks for any help, The system is: Item: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Licence and media - 1 PC - OEM - DVD - 64-bit -...
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    Windows 7 3 tb drive with windows 7

    i have an internal drive in one of those hard drive enclosure. its a 3 tb western digital drive. when i plug it in, its only 750 gb thats showing up. i have converted the disk to gpt but its still showing only 750 gb. i have windows 7 64 bit. how can i get this to show as 3 terabytes?
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    Windows 7 Computer will no longer detect my HDD

    My computer is reletivly new, here are the specs. AMD Phenom II 840 Quad Core(x4) 3.2Ghz ASUS M4A78LT-M LE 8Gb Dual Channel DDR3-1333 Seagate/Western Digital 1TB SATA II Liteon 24x SATA Dual Layer DVD Writer Nvidia Geforce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5 Basically the problem first started yesterday after...
  5. Windows 7 Western Digital to buy Hitachi disk division for $4.3B

    Western Digital announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST), the disk drive arm of Hitachi Ltd., in a cash and stock transaction valued at about $4.3 billion. Western Digital is the leading supplier of hard disk drive...
  6. Windows 7 Trying to install Windows 7 on a New Hard Drive and Intel Bad Axe 2 Motherboard...

    Hi, guys. I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a computer with an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard and brand new, never used Western Digital 2TB (WD20EARS) hard drive. Problem is, I am getting a ton of errors; when I set the hard drive up with RAID I get array errors (and I will be...
  7. Windows 7 Troubleshooting Random BSODs Post-Windows Update: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Errors and Chrome Issues

    I have been having some random BSODs after a (mostlikely coincidental) windows update. I will get BSOD when I log into desktop, sometimes it's a System_"something" (I've only gotten that one once or twice) or more commonly IRLQ_less_or_equal. Sometimes, my desktop freezes and forces me to...
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    Windows 7 B.S.O.D. After Hours of Being Turned Off!

    Hello I built a computer back in January of 2010. Ever since I would get a blue screen on the computer after it had been turned off for awhile. Like I'll turn it off for the night (using shutdown in the start menu), go to bed, then come back from my college classes the next day, then I turn it...
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    Windows 7 Trouble installing SATA harddrive

    I am about to tear my hair out so before I do that, maybe somebody here can help. I am working on building a home server so I am trying to install a second hard drive in a Compaq desktop running Windows 7 Ultimate. The drive is a 2T Western Digital SATA WD20EADS. I have also installed a Sabrent...
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    Windows 7 6TB external drives (Raid 5) can't be recognized after copying >2TB files

    I have 4x2TB external hard drives in a raid5 configuration, I converted it to GPT disk using Disk Magagement in Windows 7. It showed basic disk, NTFS, 1 partition, 5.40TB, which is normal. It seemed pretty well at first. But after copying files >2TB to this drive, some files were lost and cann't...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Erratic Recognition of External USB Hard Drives

    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...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 64 bit and NAS

    I have a NAS (Western Digital MyBook World Edition) and recently I've upgraded my OS to Windows 7 64 bit (from 32-bit Vista) and I'm experiencing strange problems with NAS presently. When I start it up while Windows is working the system discovers it and allows access, but when I shut the...
  13. Windows 7 WMP12 vs External Hard Drive

    I've recently decided to play my music from my computer to my Xbox 360; so I begun to acknowledge that they were both connected accordingly, and establishing a connection. After attempting to play music from the computer and also with Windows Media Center, I found that it did not play my music...
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    Windows 7 HD Diagnostic Tools By Manufacturer

    Partial acquisition from; http://www.pcstats.c...eid=1583&page=6
  15. Windows 7 western digital my book essential 500gb

    I just puchased this external storage unit for creating a backup of my laptop. I use W7 HP and a amd 64X system. I use about 200GB so my brain tells me this device will be adequate for my needs. Am I on the proper sheet of music here. Thanks
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    Windows 7 windows 7 driver power state failure caused by ntkrnlpa

    Hi, I wondering if someone could help. I finally managed to install my Western Digital MyBook World Edition but now it takes 20min for Win7 to shut down and I end up with a BSOD. I run the latest version of Win7 and all software and driver are updated...
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    Windows 7 BSOD a couple of minutes after power up, then stable after BSOD until power down. HELP!

    Im getting BSOD some time after power up, dont know what to do When my computer restarts it works fine and are stable. It started this behavior when I installed a SSD disk. It has been 6 month stable. With SSD disk the POST prompted HT Transport failure after BSOD and the data on the SSD disk...
  18. Windows 7 Western Digital Cavier Black with 64mb cache

    I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 plays games fine, except huge lag in sandbox and open world games

    Hey everyone, I just got a new really nice PC for gaming. I first noticed the problem when i started playing Prototype. The game's graphics run completely fine, but every 30 seconds or so the game will freeze and then play again. I figured it was the graphics so it turned it completely down. and...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 won't see Western Digital HDD

    Hey guys, I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the...