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Windows 7 Windows 7 on an external HD??
I have a MacBook Pro computer and recently I purchased a 1TB Western Digital MyBook USB/Firewire external HD...I know there is a way to do this but not exactly sure how, how do i make it so the Windows installer will let me put Windows 7 on to a partition on the external disk?- letsmakeitwork
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- external drive firewire installation macbook partition usb western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Windows 7 not recognizing hard drive that works?
Hey all, i've installed windows 7 on my laptop successfully with no problems. now, i'm trying to install it on a desktop, but windows 7 does not recognize the seagate hard drive in either DOS installation mode, or windows 7 installation mode while in windows xp pro. it recognizes my western...- Cobra
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- ata bios computer boot computer issues data transfer desktop detecting drives disk management drivers file system hard drive installation laptop partition seagate system compatibility tech support troubleshooting western digital windows 7
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Some upgrading questions
Currently running Windows XP SP3 32-bit on an 80GB HDD (computer specs should be in sig or profile) I just bought a new 640GB Western Digital Black Caviar 7200RPM with nothing on it. I plan to use the 64-bit version of the Windows 7 RC. Will I need to make any changes on my current files...- hiimchris
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- 32-bit 64-bit caviar black hard drive installation iso upgrade western digital windows 7 windows xp
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Hard Drive won't show up in explorer!?!?
Hey everyone, I just got a Western Digital Caviar Black series 500 GB SATA II Hard drive, and put it into my computer as a slave drive. I have the RC and all drivers are installed correctly. The drive shows up in the bios, and in device manager, but when I go to computer, it does not show up...- SkyHawk 007
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- bios device manager hard drive hardware installation issues sata troubleshooting western digital windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Hard drive won't show up in explorer
Hey everyone, I just got a Western Digital Caviar Black series 500 GB SATA II Hard drive, and put it into my computer as a slave drive. I have the RC and all drivers are installed correctly. The drive shows up in the bios, and in device manager, but when I go to computer, it does not show up...- SkyHawk 007
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- bios device manager explorer hard drive installation sata troubleshooting western digital windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 windows 7 install error, I/O communications, SATA drive
hi guys, i need help. i am not sure it's windwos 7 problem or my configurations i tried to install windows 7 RC on the below setup (all new), but failed 1. SATA harddisk, WD Cavier 1T 2. mobo, Gigebyte GA-GM-785-S2H 3. SATA optical drive. LG-GGC... the last two components work fine if i...- pfreedom
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- bios settings cmos computer configuration drivers gigabyte hard drive i/o error ide mode installation optical drive sata drive system freeze tech support troubleshooting usb issues western digital windows 7 windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Won't Recognize External Hard Drive
I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize it...- mattjones16
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- device manager external drive hard drive recognition issues troubleshooting usb western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Windows 7 Won't Recognize External Hard Drive
I'm using the release candidate and whenever I plug in my Western Digital Passport USB external hard drive, I get nothing. It doesn't show up in device manager or in My Computer. The light on the harddrive comes on and the drive spins up, so I know it's working. Windows just won't recognize...- mattjones16
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- device manager external drive hard drive my computer recognition troubleshooting usb western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Build 7077 install freeze
When upgrading from 7048 to 7077 the installer freezes on the last step (copying files and settings) at 35% every time I've tried it. It suggested removing ATI Catalyst Install Manager and Control Panel, which I did, but it still hangs (although this time at 47%). I have tried several different...- moshee
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- amd phenom ati catalyst build 7100 configuration dual channel ram dvd drive file copy install freeze msi motherboard performance issues radeon hd4890 restore seagate system specs troubleshooting upgrade upgrade process user support western digital windows installation
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Windows 7 not recognizing hard drives
Hi, I just installed Windows 7 build 7068. 64bit. I have an Asus P5WD2E-Premium mobo, and 5 Western Digital Hard drives of various sizes, all SATA. Windows recognizes only 2 of the drives, the c drive of course, and only 1 of two WD 400gig hds, which are identical. I know this may be a mobo...- Guinnessblues
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- 64-bit asus hard drive installation mobo recognition sata storage western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Western Digital USB Hard disk not working properly on windows 7 build 7057
Hi All, I have installed Windows 7 build 7057 on my desktop.There is an problem with my external hard disk(Western Digital 160GB). Before the drive was formatted and partitioned in to 4 parts and I am having data on all drives.On WIndows 7 I am able to see the first partition . Through disk...- madhu201814
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- data recovery device not recognized disk management drive letter error alert external drive partition storage western digital windows 7
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Windows 7 WIN 7 does not openWestern Digital 750 external USB Drive
I have three USB drives but windows 7 Ultimate build 7068 does not see the 750MB WD essential edition external usb drive. System says its not accecabile. The other 2 drives are fine. (1 WD Essentail Edition 500G and 1 WD Home edition 500GB). The 750G drive does appear in disk manager but I...- jrleny
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- access issues disk management external drive storage issues usb usb accessibility wd essential western digital windows 7 windows vista
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Windows 7 WD WorldBook Net drive does not show in Networks
Hi Chaps, I have just upgraded from vista ultimate to Win7 and all seems well accept that my Western Digital Net drive doesn't show in the network window. I can map it using the ip address but otherwise no show :mad: Can any shine a little light on what might be the problem please. :D...- Basher
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- file sharing ip address mapped drives network drive network issues troubleshooting vista upgrade wd worldbook western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Networking
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Windows 7 BSOD win 7 dual boot w/xp
This has just started in the last 2 days. Till then it ran great. I have the following hardware: MSI p45 neo 3 motherboard E8500 3.16 ghz wolfdale proc 4gb corsair xms2 6400(800mhz) 74gb western digital raptor visiontek radeon 4850 vid card I have xp as my boot on the main disk and windows 7...- dave99
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- boot manager bsod clock corsair driver issues dual boot e8500 graphics card hardware motherboard msi performance radeon 4850 raptor system crash troubleshooting western digital windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 External esata HDD not recognized
I just got a western digital 1tb esata/usb external hdd. i tried it in vista and it works perfectly. booted into 7 and its not recognized at all. any ideas how to fix this? Thanks- outy565
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- disk management esata external drive hardware issues not recognized storage issues usb western digital windows 7 windows vista
- Replies: 30
- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 Windows 7 consfuses HDD 0 and HDD 1
i have two western digital black 320gb 7200rpm 16mb cache hard drives in my Dell Studio 1737 laptop with a Core 2 Duo 2.5gh 6mb cache. When installing Vista it seems my two hard drives correctly. It sees the hdd1 as Hard Drive 0 and HDD 2 has Hard Drive 1. However if I delete all partations...- dzuchowski
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- beta configuration core 2 duo dell dual drives error hard drive hdd installation master-slave partition system confusion technical issues western digital windows 7 windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Promise 378 Driver for Windows 7 64 bit
I just bought a new Western Digital VelociRaptor 74 gb hard drive. I have an Asus A8V deluxe mobo. I was able to install Windows 7 32 bit fine using one of the promise 378 driver that I have but, when I tried to instal the 64 bit version I could not find any driver that worked for the promise...- fsfs
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- 64-bit asus a8v compatibility detection drivers hard drive installation issues mobo problem promise 378 storage technology update velociraptor western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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Windows 7 boot.ini or BCD manager
downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...- bikertom
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- bcd manager bcdedit beta boot.ini clean install computer setup dual boot easybcd formatting hard drive imgburn installation iso microsoft partition reformat sata drive western digital windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Win7 and XP dual boot questions
I downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer...- bikertom
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- bcdedit beta boot manager burning software clean install computer shop dual boot easybcd expiration formatting hard drive installation iso partition sata upgrade western digital windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Low Hard Drive Experience Score
I have a 250GB SATA 3GB/s Western Digital HD with 2 partitions, one of 30GB for 7 and the rest for my XP install. I have used HD tune to verify data transfer rates in the mid 75MB/s area at all times and yet, on the experience rating in Windows 7, it lists the HD experience as a lowly 2. Is...- mp3sgt
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- data transfer experience score hard drive hd tune partition performance sata storage issues western digital windows 7
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Windows Help and Support