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hi everyone, me and my boyfriend just built a new pc and everything went well except when we inserted the windows 7 dvd..the optical drive does not read it..it only gives us a readme file which says that i have the original copy. the new pc has: ASUS P5QL/EPU LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel...

Need help on determining if my Western Digital 2TB hard drive is compatible with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I have a HTPC with 5.5TB in total. One of my drives is a WD 2TB GP drive which after completing a fresh install of Windows 7, I can no longer detect the drive. I've reinstall all MB...

i recently just built my own computer and got windows 7, and when i try to install windows 7 it says there is not hard drive found to install it on. i know there are a lot of threads already about this topic but iv tried almost everything and nothing seems to work. my specs are- asus m4n78 pro...

My computer has two Western Digital Caviar Black WD5001AALS 500GB hard drives configured in Raid 0. As the ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 motherboard begins to POST both hard drives are shown on the POST screen but one of the two hard drives is in red letters with the message "Error Occurred (0)". Windows 7...

Hi my D drive icon has gone, the drive is working other than this, also to mention my Western Digital My Book can open folders but says all are empty when on vista and xp they are full. when i first installed windows 7 pro everything was fine but has updated about 50 updates since and now this...

Hi I have tried to seek a solution without success so I am hoping that someone can help. Since installing Windows 7 I cannot see my External USB Hard Drive. It is a Astone 1TB External Hard Drive and the drive itself is a Western Digital WD10EAVS Hard Disk . In Control Panel / Devices and...

Hello - Just finished my Windows 7 ultimate 32 bit HTPC build and install with following components: 1) ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI x 16 ATX Intel Motherboard 2) Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor Model BX80557E6600 3) CORSAIR XMS2 2GB...

I successfully installed Windows 7 on my computer this week, but the computer sometimes loses contact with my Western Digital Mirror 2 terabyte hard drive. When this happens, I restart the computer, and the drive usually reappears. I contacted Western Digital support, and they said this drive...

I recently bought a custom made machine off Ebay. The hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 750Gb SATA II 8.9ms 16MB cache. When I start Custom install for Windows 7 I am prompted for a Disk Driver so the install can see the drive. I couldn't find a driver for this HD on Western Digital's...

So here's the situation: I have a 300GB IDE drive partitioned into three parts, and a new Western Digital 1 TB drive I just bought, along with a 500gb, and an 80 gb for my OS. Windows 7 recognized all of the drives, and all three partitions when I installed it, but after the installation was...

Hey Guys, just trying to get some info. I need to change a HDD in a Vaio VGN-N130G The system came originally with a 80GB with a 1.6GHz processor I ve narrowed down the HDD to the following 2: ( to be honest mostly due to budged restraints!!) Western Digital Scorpio Blue (WD1600BEVT)...

Ordered a new WD5001AALS Western Digital Black 500GB 32MB Cache a week ago, received it Monday. its Nice-n-Fast. Results.

Hi, I recently picked up an external HD (Western Digital MyBook 1TB). When it's plugged into the USB port and then I turn on my Win7 machine I don't seem to get an internet connection on start up. I can get a connection after start up by going to "change adapter settings" and disabling and...

Hi, I currently have 2 HDD's 1 - Western Digital 640 GB (SATA), partitioned into 450 GB and 190 GB 2 - Seagete 160 GB (IDE), paritioned into 100 GB and 60 GB When I installed windows 7 (fresh install), all four partitions were recognized properly. Though the drive letter assignment was a...

I am attemtpting to install the win 64bit 7 RC on a brand new build. I am using a USB stick as my install media. The install boots, although it takes a VERY long time to get from when windows begins to load the setup files to the place where I have issues (about 15 - 20 minutes). Where the...

I recently purchased an External Hard Drive: The External HDD consists of: Western Digital 3.5" SATA II Caviar Green 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Link Removed - Invalid URL Welland 3.5" SATA To USB2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive Enclosure Link Removed - Invalid URL When I plugged into my laptop I...

As of August 3, 2009 these prices I'm about to qoute dropped to $460.00 (Last Time I Checked at New Egg) Here's the List: Video Card- Power Color AX4870 412 MB Price $ 175.00 CPU- Intel Pentium E5200 2.5 GHZ Wolfdale Price $ 71.00 Motherboard- MSI P43 Neo3 F LGA775 Price $ 90.00 Memory-...

Hi all. The last two weeks of my life have been very frustrating. I have bought a brand new gaming computer over eBay, with the following specs: CPU: Intel 920 2.66GHz GPU: nVidia GeForce GTX 295 RAM: 12GB G-Skill 1333 MHz HDD: 750GB Western Digial PSU: 750W Corsair Sound Card: Creative...

Immediately after POST the screen goes black and flickers a little. It's an intermittent problem, once in a while I can get the computer to power on completely with no problems, but it's very rare. If it does power on completely, it has no problems after that, I've completely reinstalled windows...

I can't get Windows 7 RC to get beyond the loading of the desktop wallpaper. I have burned the .iso image with Nero on 4x speed twice, finalized the disk, error checked it with no errors. Once the wallpaper loads nothing else happens. No menus error messages or anything. I am attempting...