Nero Image Drive - won't load under Vista
I use Nero 7 for my audio and video editing but was a bit ticked off to find that 'Image drive' - a virtual drive allow...
Cannot access all folders in shared network drive
Hi, I cannot access all the folders in a shared network drive. When I try to open certain folders is says folder not av...
can not access shared drive with VPN
I have a vista computer and windows 2003 network. When I run the vpn wizard on my vista computer it connects to the net...
Complete Backup to Install Bigger Drive
If I do a complete backup on my Vista Ultimate laptop and do the restore to a larger hard disk, will it work?I have rea...
matshita dvd-ram uj-850s ata drive is not working
I have a toshiba satellite a200......the optical drive has worked likea dream until today. Only installed logitech keybo...
Reformatting hard drive
I need to re-format my hard drive. I am running Vista Home Premium and have the OEM VD. How do I do this? Thanks...
Recovery Drive
I need some help! I have a inspiron 530s computer, it has two hard disk drives. The os (c:) drive and the recovery (d:)...
recovering a system usb drive
hi.. this is a fault in my system. i uninstalled the usb drive for Mass Storage Device(USBSTOR.sys). but even when i cop...
Vista Ultimate 64Bit drive cloner
I found CrystaldriveInfo and my secondary drive (my Vista Ultimate 64bit drive C:) SMART status was read with a Caution ...
Copy music from hard drive to itunes
Can someone advise as to the best way to copy music from hard drive into itunes without having to search fro the file..c...
Can't Share Removable Drive
I have three PCs networked. All running WinXP Pro SP2. It's an all-wired network. I have an external hard drive conne...
DVD drive not working/missing
hi ok so i had not used my dvd drive in a while (oh yea it's a hp dv6824) and the other day i tried to open it and it wo...
how do I clean up recovery D drive?
I've been reading threads about getting the 'low on space' on D drive to find out how to clean up my drive after using ...
Hard drive crashed, bought a new one but...
I suck with computers so bear with me... My hard drive crashed, so i bought a new one but when i try to run the recovery...
1 TB External Hard Drive Problem
I got a large external hard drive today and it's instructions say to go to disk management and do format and partition....
Vista Will NOT Recognize 2nd SATA Hard Drive!
Just installed a Seagate 250 GB SATA hard drive in bay 2 of my HP Compac dv9000 series laptop. However, no matter what I...
Assigning a Drive letter for USB Port
How do you assign a permanent drive letter to a USB port in Vista or XP?-- Angelo Fernandez...
DVD drive splits into CD drive
This is a question of no major import. Just wondering. Usually, as long as it hasn't been used, my DVD drive shows as ju...
hard drive
i have two hard drives master and slave windows will not recognise the slave its there in the bios but can not access ...
CD Drive Problems
I had to replace my CD/DVD/RW drive from an Hitachi I think it was to an LG GH22. Windows Vista still thinks the old dr...
Toshiba M305D-S4830 DVD drive disappears
I just bought the Toshiba M305D-S4830 which has Vista Home Premium 64bit installed.The drive keeps disappearing. When it...
Import email from external hard drive
My computer died with Windows XP on it. I had the hard drive put in an external case and have found the message files.I...
Should Recovery Drive be Encrypted by Bitlocker?
My Dell does not have TPM. I am using bitlocker with a USB.I notice that the Recovery drive is neither protected nor el...
usb hard drive
I have a 64 bit HP Vista machine, a HP Pavilion a6567c PC and am wondering if the Iomega 150 gigabyte hard drive that i...
C drive full
I hope this is in the right section, my C drive went form 125gb free to completely full in about an hour. I did all the ...
i want to format my hard drive but i want to keep vista
ok one day i had about 9 gigs of sapce on hard drive c then the next i had 233 mb..... so i decided to defragment but as...
Moving boot files from one drive to another.
I have two hard drives (Physical drives). one drive was installed first and has windows xp pro x64 on it. I later bough...
Vista stopped to regognize DVD drive
Hi,I have a laptop with Vista Home edition on and Vista does not recognize the DVD drive anymore (it did up to a week a...
crazy emergency install that flopped drive letters
This is the weirdest thing. Wife's computer wouldn't work She had XP Pro.I tried Repair, no joy I tried fixing it via Sa...
ReadyBoost drive question.
Hello FolksPlease can someone verify this or not.If I were to purchase a 4 gig ReadyBoost enabled pen drive an plugged i...
Raid Mirror Drive Failure
First, my appologies: I tried a HW group first with this question with no response. I know some folks here are knowleda...
Hard Drive Recovery Software Experts
Hard drive Recovery Software ExpertsI'm Looking for the Best Hard drive Recovery software there is out there, Top of the...
Folder/Drive Permissions
Hi,Ive changed my permissions on a drive. (I:\) The permissions for my current user are all set to deny. I would like to...
How to burn image to the Flash drive
Hello,Is there a program that would allow to burn the bootable ISO image into the SDHC card or flash drive?My notebook ...
Extending C: drive
I am nervous about extending my C: drive. A wonderful one over on another forum directed me here. I have a vista recove...
copy email to flash drive
Greetings, What is the quickest and easiest way to copy all email to a flash drive? JS...
Cannot copy from second hard drive
HiI have formatted and installed Ultimate on my C: drive, I have a second Hard drive connected by USB where I stored so...
DVD RW Drive Problem
Hi Guys,I recently tried to burn a CD for the first time in a number of months. I'd always used Roxio software for burn...
Booting Vista from external drive violate MS EULA?
I imagine that a determined Vista user could find a way to boot Vista from an external hard drive.Question is, would it...
Drive Icons in My computer
I have just noticed that, in "My computer", icons for drives that are shared have a liitle symbol showing two ...
Flash Drive Question
Hi,I have a program on CD. I need to boot from it. The clients notebook is one of these tiny things with no CD drive a...
matshita DVD drive
whenI attempt to open this drive I get a message that states this device cannot start Code 10- my CD/DVD has stopped wo...
BIOS AND Vista Not Recognizing 2nd SATA Hard Drive
I have upgraded from Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Vista Home Premium on a Toshiba Qosmio G35-AVA600 which has two 80GB S...
Esata drive not recognized - Arnau
Is it the disk you see in device manager, or just the eSATA card? I bought a cheap Xpresscard that comes up in device m...
Won't Initialize External Hard Drive
I am having problems getting Vista to recognize my Western Digital My Book hard drives (both a 500 GB and a 1 TB drive)....
Put messages on flash drive
How can I put my mail messages on to my flash drive ? Thanks Dick...
D Drive
Hi I have a hp DV6000 laptop. It is showing that the D: drive has only 10% free space left. I have tried to transfer ...
RAID 1 after first drive Installation
MB P5DWH; Vista Ultimate; Hitachi DeskStar 300 GB.ANyone knows if its posible to "raid 2" on an Intel motherbo...
Problem with Vista locating a network hard drive
Hi,I recently bought a Western Digital 1TB Network Hard drive.With this bit of hardware you get a peice of software call...
Can't open mapped network drive
Hello,Well what happens is on My computer i have a mapped drive (P:/NAS) that is connected to another PC if i double cli...
USB drive or external hard drive
I have Windows XP and Vista.I always go through "safely remove hardware" before pulling off USB drive on XP. H...
hard drive data retrieval
I crashed my computer and had to buy a new one. All my email contacts are on the old computers hard drive which I kept....
verify the integrity of my hard drive
How do I check the integrity of my hard drive using Vista? Is it just chkdsk? Thanks...
Probelem opening .htm files stored on my hard drive
I downloaded some files from Wikipedia to look at when I'm offline, but I'm getting an error message when I double-click...
Hard Drive Problem
Hi There Bought a 750 gig Hard drive in September and haven’t had problem with it until now.I’m about to install a fresh...
System crash on full backup to WD external drive
Hi, all. I posed this question to Western Digital's support people, but they were of absolutely no assistance, essentia...
(C drive: pq service) Disk full pop up when runing setup ple
hello...i reinstalled my vista as i had it rebooting continously..After reinstalling....the c drive shows full....when i...
No Drive letter for USB HDD - HELP PLEASE
Hi, Old XP computer failed to boot. As it had been slowing down and was over 6 years old, I purchased a new computer wit...
Can't view icons on network drive
I am using vista 64 bit to open a network drive and it will bring up the icons and start to display the pictures but the...
Your hard drive is corrupt and unusable
The Event Viewer of my friend's computer shows a lot of errors saying that his hard drive is corrupt and unusable. On e...
Optical Drive
When setting up my HP, it told me to create recovery files...I put one disc in and it started the process. after that di...
DVD RAM Drive Disappears From Windows Vista
HP Pavillion dv9500 notebook running Vista Home Premium. I installed a 2nd SATA hard drive in bay 2 og the notebook and ...
Copy DVD to hard drive
I'm trying to copy a DVD of my sons recent boxing match to my hard drive. When I insert the disc it auto plays. If I sto...
Hidden folders taking up my hard drive space?
Please help (or point me in the right direction).I've noticed most of my hard drive is full.[image: http://i36.tinypic.c...
Can't access external drive on XP - previous Vista Boot Driv
Hi.My notebook hard drive (Vista Home) was failing and I was unable to backup my files before it wouldn't boot anymore. ...
Optical Drive Hookup
I had a fried computer that had an optical drive I wtd to take out and put into my new computer running Vista. The dri...
UAC invoked when moving files on external drive
I have an external drive that will not let me save downloads, delete files or move them without getting UAC. I have 2 o...
USB hard disk error: "You need to format the disk in drive F
I was using my USB hard disk for a word document when suddenly, I was unable to save my file. When I double-clicked on ...
USB flash drive in Vista
When I try to use a USB Flash drive in a Dell Laptop with Vista, the computer asks for drivers. When I use the same US...
Problems with external hard drive in Windows Vista
I have a usb external hard drive (Freecom 80GB). Ever since friday I have been unable to access this drive. It doesn't s...
How to completely move my documents off of the C: drive
I've been curious about this before with vista. I remember theres a way through group policy to move my documents to a ...
problem with optical drive
hi i have a hp dv 6137tx and optical drive not burning dvd but reading it properly. when i try to burn a dvd using nero ...
Upgrade Hard drive
I have full version of windows Vista Ultimate installed on a 250gig Western digital hard drive and I want to upgrade to...
Partition Hard Drive
I just received a new laptop with vista ultimate, 200GB HDD, of which 175 is available on C:.When i go to shrink the 175...
DVD Drive Spins in Vista64
Fresh install of Vista64 with just Adobe and Microsoft suites installed and it seems that all DVDs just seem to hang and...
Drive Addition
Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced t...
Please Help! Messed up Hard Drive from using Partition Magic
I wanted to use Partition Magic to partition my hard drive, so I used the boot CD. When I loaded it up, it said that the...
Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but I don't believe my last posting sent...I lost my drive letter for my D recovery par...
how to move files on the same drive
Hii've got a directory A with subdirectories B, C, and D. I want to create a subdirectory A/E and move B, C, and D into ...
Hard drive resizing doesn't work...
Hi membersI have a persistant problem with resizing of my internal hdd. I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit on a ...
Drive invisible
After I resume from a Power Down (Hibernate), one of my SATA drives is not visible anymore, I have to Re-start to see i...
Change disk drive letter?
Ok well, overnight somehow my External Hard drive's letter (F:) Changed to G and moved to my Cd drive. I was wondering ...
Re-partition drive and install Vista
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 6920 which came with a couple of EISA partitions. I was wondering if I use another copy of Vi...
Cavairy external hard drive help!!!!!!
Hay, can anyone help me i just bought a cavairy 1 tb external hard drive. The instructions that came with it said that i...
32 & 64 bit vista on same hard drive??
i,just ordered a new dell machine. it comes w/vista 64 bit home pre.. i did not realize this was a "JUMP" of...
Loss Of Hard Drive Space
Hi, I have been rapdily losing my hard drive space, after having around 40 gig a few weeks ago, hardly installing anythi...
Mapping a Drive - Vista (laptop) to WinXP (Desktop)
I'm having major problems mapping a drive on my desktop (3 partitions on desktop - C-JCC1, D-JCC2, E-JCC3) to my laptop....
External USB Optical drive causes Vista to hang
I have a IDE to USB2.0 external optical drive and when I plug the USB into my Dell Vostro laptop, Vista Home Premium ha...
How to set default drive open location in Win Explorer
I right-clicked on the Explorer short-cut, selected the Shortcut tab and changed %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe shown in t...
Moving User Files to New Drive - Help Please.
I have found that moving User Files to my D:\ is a simple process if everything works as expected: "Start - Compute...
Securing a folder on a Shared Drive, as read only access or
I need to have a folder on our Network Share drive either set as read only, or password protected so that only the auth...
Permissions on Hard Drive
I want to set permissions for specific folders on my hard drive. Here is my question....If I set the permissions, and ...
Newer Dell DVD-Drive problems
I know I could contact Dell about this, but I've had several problems with Vista since I bought this computer, so I thou...
How to index network files AND not fill your primary drive
How do I do this:Due to company policy, my "Documents" folder gets relocated to a folder on our SBS server. A...
can't access second internal hard drive
just upgraded from windows XP 64 bit to Vista Home Premium 32 Bit and my second internal hard drive doesn't seem to be ...
Re: WD external drive works with XP, not with Vista
I have a very similar problem though not the same symptoms.I have a drive that works fine on XP machines, USED to work f...
auto login to network drive
hi all,i have a freecom network drive pro (1tb) and have got the drive all working. however when ever i log into it, i n...
Lost hard drive space
I am not sure why but for some reason my c drive is displaying incorrect information. When I view the total space for C...
Accidentally changed user folder to drive. Help?
Hello everybody! (names for things might be different in English. Sorry if I confuse)I just got Vista Ultimate x64 on my...
Re: DVD drive not working/missing
oh,, the missing DVD drive. have you tried loading the bios back to default just like f9 then f10?? if no go, try deleti...
C drive running out of space
Hi,As described in the subject line, i am facing a c drive running out of space problem. The following are the details ...
desktop refers to usb drive
Hello,I have vista on my laptop - and I have a removable usb drive for backing up to. I must have done something wrong a...
CD drive won't stay open - closes on its' own
Greetings, running Vista Home Premium 64-bit on a Dell system, has 2 optical drives (Blu ray burner, DVD burner). If I...
Mapped Drive connection randomly lost
I am running a small office network, 3 machines, using Vista Business, in a workgroup setting. One of the machines has ...
How to 'lock' drive letters to particular devices in Vista
I have 5 USB devices (2 external drives, 1 flash drive, one CF card reader, and 1 Sony walkman) that when connected sco...
DVD Drive: Successful burn, but no data, still blank disc
Hello Friends,I am on windows vista, my dvd writer is a TSSTcorp CDDVDW TS-L632N ATA Device. I tried to burn disc using ...
Can't copy files from server 2003 to 64 bit Vista hard drive
We just bought 2 Dells running Vista ultimate 64 bit and we can't copy files from our server to the hard drive. It allow...
How to list all files on C drive with DIR?
Using Command Prompt on Vista...I wanted to do get a listing of all the files on my drive so that I could save it to a t...
xp 64bit on drive D
hi. i have two drives C and D, i have a vista 64bit on C and i tried to install my 64bit xp to D , but when i put in the...
Mapped drive "...does not have a program associated with it.
Hi guys,I have a 64-bit Vista Ultimate SP1 workstation that has mapped drives setup at login by a script coming from SB...
Drive "not accessible"
The primary os installation (Vista) on one of the my computers' drives is no longer accessible, either to boot from or ...
Problem with DVD/CD RW drive
I hope someone can help. I have tried many times to do a backup and each time it tells me to put a blank disc in the dr...
My Docs on E drive, not C drive
Hi, I'm running Vista on a PC that has a hd that has been formated into 3 discrete drives.Vista is loaded onto the C dri...
Increasig Hard drive Space
I have a 2 disk, dual boot system.drive 0 has Vista Business installed. I'm dual booting Server 2008 Standard which is...
can small cds or dvds be used in optical drive slot?
I just bought a 13in laptop for travel. can small software cds and dvds be loaded in the optical drive slot. I have a de...
CD/DVD-rom Drive is Completely gone!
I don't know what caused it, and quite frankly, I don't know how long it's been gone- but a couple of days ago I popped ...
Reinstalling on corrupt drive.
My main hard drive went down thanks to a bad SP1 download and now I have to wipe it and reload windows. For some reason...
Is it Possible... Help with C drive.
I'm running Vista Ultimate SP1. I have a non-encrypted C drive that is not on a raid. with very low space. I have a new...
d drive is full
my recovery d drive is full.what files Should be on this drive...what is safe to delete. I'm sure I have been using tha...
Hard drive arm keeps going back&forth
My computer is not reading my second HD. It keeps making a clicking sound, when I opened it, the drive arm (actuator) ke...
Vista Install will not recognize my hard drive
My Vista PC crashed and I had to format my hard drive. Now I can't get Vista install to see the hd. It shows up in the...
Problem with external hard drive
Hi there i'm wondering if anyone can help me? basically my hard drive on my old pc stopped working so i bought a hard dr...
FYI: AHCI and NCQ on Vista (hard drive stuff)
AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) NCQ ( Native Command Queuing) (puts commands to HD in order)Got a new drive (...
a required cd dvd drive device driver is missing
I am trying to reinstall Vista Home on a formatted hard drive but keep getting the error message:"a required cd dvd...
External hard drive not recognized by Windows Vista
My laptop was stolen recently and the new one has Vista Home Premium, while my old one had XP. Most of my external devi...
"Please insert a disc into drive D:" error message
I have a new Gateway MD7820u laptop computer running Vista Home Premium that is now asking me to "Please insert a d...
DriveImage XML (Free Drive Imaging Software)
I would like to share this bit of information. A free alternative to Complete PC Backup. I have not tested it yet, but ...
New computer using old hard drive with Vista
I have recently finished building a computer, and one of the hard drives used came from an older computer of mine that h...
RAW hard drive
Recently bought a PC with Vista Home Premium. Have a lot of little questions I may post here if I can't find the answe...
Thumb Drive Storage System
If I copy files to a thumb drive using Vista Home Premium what file storage system is used.Thanks...
Incremental backups = full hard disk drive (sooner or later)
It seems to me that Vista's built-in backup supports only 1 model: a full backup the 1st time, and incremental backups ...
Red Marked drive C:
Hi , I have a Toshiba laptop Satelite A215-S6816 (just bought) .Now just yesterday it restarted when i was copying some ...
Lost space on Hard drive
HiI have Ultimate SP1, I keep a check on hard drive available space, following a recent Format and reinstalling of all ...
RAID array degraded - "missing hard drive"
Hi guys,I have an Intel RAID array on my PC with 3 750Gb physical drives. I have checked all the connections in the box...
Vista mapped drive problem
I have mapped a network drive to a domain controller other than the DC that my machine account belongs to. Both DCs ar...
DVD drive problem
When I insert a CD or DVD into one of my two drives, it will play but I can't get it to eject. The physical drive butt...
Vista C: Drive & Data E: Drive
I find that I am frequently running low on space on my VISTA C: drive. I have used the disk clean up and still could ...
DVD rw drive not reading!!!!!!!!!!
Help! Suddenly its reading nothing. I put in a music CD, blank CD to put photos on. It reads nothing.... anyone out the...
Need to "unshare" drive
Running Vista Home Premium on a desktop into which I've just installed a new drive . . . and I'm trying to restrict acce...
External USB Hard Drive
Hi all.I have scoured the forums here and elswhere to a problem that seems to affect many but the solutions seem just pl...
Access XP data drive using Vista Ult (XP drive=slave drive o
I have already taken ownership over what I was able to via the "Security" tab of the XP data drive and it doe...
Sharing External USB Hard Drive
I am trying to enable sharing on an external hard drive. I have sharing and permissions enabled. When I try to access th...
Drive Icon
Hello, one of my hard drive icons has vanished, from windows explorer. Any info on how to recover it would be greatly a...
DVD Drive E: Drive disappearing from Vista Home Premium 64
I have two SATA Liteon DVD drives, E: DVDRW LH-20A1L and F: DVD SHD-16S1S. Starting yesterday,drive E: disappeared from ...
Question about Recovery Drive~
I was just wondering if you can xfer files to recovery drive, then wipe harddrive to its factory condition, and still ha...
Can't reduce size of drive C: enough
Hi,I have just bought a new computer with vista and a 750go hard disk. I now want to reduce the c: partition to a minimu...
Main Hard Drive Size Won't Change
Earlier today I copied a 19 something gigabyte set of files to another folder on my main "C" drive where Vista...
1.5 TB drive formatting errors
First off, thanks ahead for any and all help. I just stepped into the Vista world and built a couple of PCs to play with...
Flash drive flashing like crazy when plugged in
HelloI have a question about my Attache flash drive and my Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop running Vista Home Premium.When I ...
How to be Sure if a Hard Drive Is Blown
I got a new HDD the other day so I did some file moving. I cloned my OS from one of my 320GB HDDs to the new one then I ...
System Freezes During Hard Drive Error Checking
Hello, I have tried to run "Error Checking" on my Windows Vista Laptop (used to be called "Scan Disk&quo...
XP/Vista - installing apps on a common drive
On my personal workstation, I have always used a separate drive partition for data and a separate drive partition for ap...
unable to view external hard drive in my computer
i have a toshiba laptop running windows vista home premium 32 bit and have just recently bought a my book western digita...
Change Drive Letters
Hi, I POSTED an earlier not about collapsing a Partition and redistributing the disk space to another Partition and als...
Can't find back up files on external hard drive
Can anyone help me? I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 and set up Vista's Back Up and Restore feature so that every Sunday it...
CD drive always perform (aks) format
Guys,... I've unusual phenomenon.......:cry: My CD drive always treat the CD-Files as a blank! So I can not open/read th...
Add a secondary backup drive?
Vista Ultimate 64bitI have a 720GB internal drive that I've maxed out with automated weekly backups. I have another dri...
Drive missing
Vista home premium SP1. . . I created a new account, and applied a password to it. I then went to make a password reset...
USB Flash Drive Memory
When I insert my new 2GB Crucial USB flash drive in the slot, I choose ReadyBoost. But a dialog box appears saying &quo...
Unable To Load My Os After Installing A New Hard Drive?
I have just installed a 2nd hard drive and after I formatted it my os wont load? I can see the partion and all the files...
Copying Folder to External Hard Drive
I frequently backup my Documents folder (which I have relocated to a folder called DataFiles) to my external hardrive. ...
Drive renaming problem/DVD not working
Hi there, My DVD player has been working on and off for about a year now. I've finally decided to sort it out, and have ...
No password protection on a removed hard drive?
I am going to have some hardware repairs done on my laptop. In order to make sure I will not lose any data, I removed t...
Re: external hard drive does not appear anywhere on the comp
in start menu type in cmd right click cmd.exe and run as administrator -- truthkid...
Vista Canot find Hard Drive
My System Spec:-1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600 2) GIGABYTE GA-MA780G-UD3H 3) 4GB Memory DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) 4) ...
Hard Drive Error in Vista
I have a new Gateway Laptop which someone decided to try and put Linux on. It would not run it so now they bring it to m...
Need External Hard Drive Recommendations
I want an external hard drive at least 1TB in capacity. I have been reading the reviews and they are all over the place...
Change Name Of Users Folder In C Drive - Is This Possible?
Hi,When I got a new PC, I changed the username in User Accounts to my own name. However, in C:\Users, there are 2 folde...
Vista doesn't recognize remote hard drive?
I have a Wolverine 7000 remote hard drive that previously worked just fine on my XP machine.It is listed as a drive on ...
IDE drive not recognized.
I have an Ultra ATA 100 drive that will not install in BIOS or Vista 32 ultimate OS. I have support on my motherboard f...
Cannot copy or save file onto a network hard drive
Hey Y'All,My home network consists of a desktop (XP Home SP3) and a laptop (Vista Home Premium SP2 ). The desktop is w...
space on hard drive
i use vista ultimate 64 bit. One of the problem that I see is uncontroled grow of unused files. Microsoft creates lot o...
2nd hard drive disappeared from "Computer"
Hi, I had two hard drives, both 120gb and HHD(D:) just disappeared with no reason. [image: http://img171.imageshack.us/...
Drive partition
I have an Acer aspire 5715z series which as its hard drive partitioned into two 30gig partitions. I would like to know, ...
Problem mapping drive
Hello,Hope someone can help me. I have a home netowrk set up and all the harddrives are shared so that they an be acce...
Drive/Controller Stability Tests
Hello,Does anybody know of any tools (available for Vista x64) that can test the stability of a hard drive or drive cont...
USB thumb drive read only
HiI have Vista Ultimate SP1. I seem to have locked myself out from writing to USD thumb drives. I have tried several US...
Old hard drive permission to open files on Vista
My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try openi...
lost files on my HD-CEU2 Buffalo 1tb drive
i have a laptop with vista home basic installed, i recently bought a 1tb buffalo HD-CEU2 external hardrive, i simply plu...
lost DVD drive
When using windows DVD maker it would not finish disc. I clicked on cancel and when it finished the drawer would not ope...
Setting 'System managed' page file for d: drive causes high
Hello! Setting 'System managed' page file for my d: drive (EIDE Samsung SP2514N on JMicron JMB363 PATA and SATA contr...
Partitioning Hard Drive
I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. When is it advisable to partition a hard drive? Where can I find ...
U3 Readyboost flash drive problem
2 SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB U3 Readyboost flash drives are on their way to me from Amazon, which at £9.99 each post pai...
Searching a back-up drive
I have a question concerning Windows Vista. I am trying to recover an e-mail I received in Microsoft Office Outlook and...
DVD drive disappeared
My DVD drive in my laptop has disappeared again Last time i removed the upperFilters and lowerFilters as described here:...
D:Drive to C:Drive
Hi everyone I have a Samsung r60 plus with windows vista premium.Reading the post’s about d:drive which is my backup p...
Installing 7 and drive Letters
I want to install Windows 7.I have 2 Hard drives, both are portioned in 2 .If I install windows 7 by booting into Vista,...
How clone a 2 1/2" laptop drive
I want to use Acronis to clone my disk (laptop). How do I choose a disk and plug it in to my laptop (which only has one...
Installing a second hard drive - problem
I have just inserted a second hard drive - 1TB which has been previously installed on a friends computer, as far as I k...
eSATA external drive no longer visible under Vista
After a few Windows updates (*not* SP! which is *not* installed), I no longer see the external HDD connected through eS...
Problem with DVD-RW Drive
Ok, so i have a Samsung SH-S223Q drive. It was working fine for a while, then suddenly it won't read any cd's or dvd's....
Floppy Drive won't recognize disks
Vista shows my floppy drive as drive A and the device manager says that the drive and the drive controller are working ...
Transfering from XP hard drive to vista Hard drive
The old XP machine fried the mother board but the hard drive survived. So I am trying to transfer files from the old hd ...
so i put in a new hard drive and that fix it.
hp dv6000 BAD_POOL_CALLER so i put in a new hard drive and that fix it....
External Hard Drive backup
I bought a Dell XPS 420 desktop with 750GB (TO which I added a 1 TB HD). I was assisted to partition the 1TB hard drive...
dvd-cd drive doesn't recognize certain cdrom disks
I'm using Vista Business Service Pack 1 upgrade, and certain games or software on cd do not get detected on my laptop. ...
BIOS AND Vista Not Seeing 2nd Hard Drive
I have upgraded from Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Vista on a Toshiba Qosmio G35-AVA600 which has two 80GB SATA hard dri...
Connecting an old hard drive to a new computer
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices I ...
WD external drive works with XP, not with Vista
I have a WD 250GB external hard drive, the MyBook. It works absolutely fine on a HP laptop running XP, but on another ...
vista x64 will not boot from hard drive, restore, or from dv
I had a problem with my dvd-r/rw (tsst ts t633a dvd-r/rw) not being ID'ed in device manager. I used the troubeshooting ...
Vista Full Back Up to Network Drive Requires User Name & Pas
I have a 3 computer home network, 2 desktops are Win XP Pro and notebook is Vista Ultimate x 32 machine. Have administe...
Problem reconnecting offline files when mapped as a drive
I have vista business, sp1. I use offline file a lot, and it works well most of the time. But I have found that when ...
format a second drive that has vista on it
I am using a hard drive from a failed computer as a second drive on a Vista Home Premium 64 bit computer. I want to remo...
How do I format the E Drive without erasing the data?
I have a built in E drive on my laptop that is intended for a memory stick. When I first got the laptop, I was able to ...
Files from news articles kept on Drive
I was searching for some files and came across this.C/User/App Data/ Microsoft/windows live mail.comThere is a copy of m...
"Do you want to format" question on drive from old XP PC
Hi,new PC, VISTA installed with one master SATA drive.Have installed drive from old PC, PATA/IDE, which is recognized by...
Growing Hard Drive
I have a Gateway laptop running Vista Home, 2 gigs RAM. The volume on the hard drive grows constantly, even after delet...
change drive letter -- the parameter is incorrect
Hardware: 256MB Kingston USB flash drive. When inserted into a Windows XP SP3 platform the Manage/Disk Management/Chang...
USB Drive can't be removed
I use a ZIP USB drive for my music collection. When I finish hearing music, I try to remove the USB and get a message a...
noise and BSOD on USB drive stop command
On a new Dell (64bit) when you click on the tray icon to remove a USB thumb drive there is a static sound in the speaker...
Changing a drive letter
Hi, I'd like to change a partition drive letter in Windows Vista.I tried using "Disk Management", but I receiv...
Can't install dvd program on drive I want
I have a DVD program and when I go to install it automatically wants to install in "F" location. I want to ins...
Vista, Drive Size Issue
Hi,I posed some issues in another post, but there have been some changes. I have an Xtrastor external enclosure with 2 ...
D drive (recovery drive) is full
How do I empty it????Thanks...
Vista does not recognize a valid drive...Urrrrgh!
I did not want this issue to be a dead end for some folks, like it was for me. Most other threads were absolutely corre...
Vista x64 eating up my C:/ drive!!
Ok this is really annoying, I have a 30GB C:/ drive and Vista keeps expanding by the second, the WINDOWS folder is 20 GB...
DVD Drive Issues in x64
I hope I stuck this in the right section. Been having a little trouble with my system and thought I would post here. I'm...
My Book World Edition II External Drive Hangs When Opening T
Having a very odd problem. Installed the My Book World Edition II external hard drive to my Windows Vista about a year ...
E: drive wont open
yes i have tried going to my computer and opening it that way and yes i have used the pinhole underneath the opening...b...
Firmware update for my DVD RW drive?
Hi, I am having some sound issues when burning dvd's and have been told to update the firmware of dvd drive. I have loca...
External eSATA Hard Drive Issue
I have a Seagate 1TB SATAII hard drive that I put in an external enclosure. The enclosure allows for USB and eSATA conne...
system backup on external hard drive
I have a 160 gb western digital external hard drive with a backup of about 55 GB of the same OS that i am running now (...
slow connection times/ d drive full
i recently got my computor rebooted by pc world, it is back to factory settings. I did this as my internet stopped work...
Need help with Windows search, indexing network drive
I'm running Vista Home Premium.I've installed the search add-in for network drives, I've added mapped shared folders on...
installing vista onto second hard drive
i have two 320 gb sata hard drives the first one i have installed has xp running on it i want to install the second one...
PLease help with sataII hdd drive install
Hi all,Just brought a 1tb hdd samsung for my dell inspiron. I replaced my original wd 250gb hdd port space with this on...
USB drive conflict
I have a drive letter that's mapped to a network drive by default. When I insert a USB drive it tries to assign itself...
Mount o/s from second hard drive.
I am not sure if this is possible but just thought of putting my thoughts across and see if this can be done.I got a bra...
Windows Vista disk drive icon changed, can't fix it
I recently purchased a Seagate FreeAgent Pro external hard drive and used it to move files and settings from my old com...
Defragging a RAID drive
How do I defrag my RAID drive?Thanx...
Slow USB flash drive on Vista
Hello group members,After installation of some software on my fresh install of Vista x86, I have trouble reading and wri...
Can't remove USB external hard drive
I just purchased a USB hard drive to use for backup purposes. Ran complete image backups on the internal hard drive, no...
New hard drive, shall I bother moving?
Hi,I currently have 2x 120Gb HD (6Y120P0 ATA Device, http://computers.pricegrabber.com/hard-drives/m/636724/)I ve had t...
messages to flash drive
How can I put my messages on my flash drive....
Cannot access drive after Vista Scandisk fixed errors
I have 500GB drive I use to store files. I normally use it on an XP laptop. I got a new Vista Home Premium Compaq Lapt...
DVD/CDROM drive
I have a Dell Studio Laptop 1535 with Windows Vista OS. The optical drive does not recognize DVDs. It plays music disks...
advice on hard drive mirror image please
Hello,Can someone pleasse advise me on how to backup my entire hard drive, registry & all, so that I can recover if...
Wiping D Drive
I recently restored my computer back to factory settings with the system recovery discs, and I thought it would wipe my ...
No removeable drive F
hi, i have Windows Vista and my removeable drive f has dissappeared from under 'my computer' - this has never happened b...
CD Drive available at boot, not in Vista
We have a Dell Inspiron 1420 laptop running Vista Home Basic.The DVD burner is not recognized by Vista...it has a yellow...
add a drive to windows vista backup
I'm using Windows Vista Home Edition. I have added an encrypted drive (called drive M:\) to my C:\ drive.How can I pro...
eSATA External drive keeps vanishing
Vista 32 ASUS P5KC Mobo Intel Q6600 CPU Antec 650 W PSU Two SATA 320 GB internal drives connected to SATA slots 1 and 2 ...
External Hard drive
I have two WD My Book 500GB firewire external drives. They are less than one year old and the button on one of them has...
Hard Drive ?
I have 4 separate HDsdrive 1 - Ultimate 64 bit drive 2 - Home Premium 32 bit drive 3 - files drive 4 - Windows 7 32 bitV...
Multiple Hard Drive problems
hello all, ive been using vista x64 for a few weeks now and i love it. installed with new 160gb hd that was part of my b...
Erasing 2nd Internal Hard drive
The manufacturer of my PC provided me with a New Imaged Hard drive. My old drive was working fine except it had some p...
System restore and hard drive with two partitions
Hi, i have an Acer 8920 laptop which has a 320 Gb HD. In computer this capacity shows up as 2 drives (c: acer and d:dat...
DVD drive causes computer to turn off
Dell Studio Hybrid... Vista Uultimate 32 bit http://snipurl.com/gp163 All drivers are up to date. Nothing in the event v...
Can I image my hard drive with an MS utility, and where woul
Can I image my hard drive with an MS utility, and where would I find it?Box Emachine T5224 PS ...
Moving the Vista equiv. of "My Docs" to "F" drive
I've just been instructed on how to move the XP "My Docs/Pics/etc." to a different drive, away from the OS, w...
USB Memory Stick Drive Letter
I have been using a usb memory stick for some time. Vista assigned drive letter I:. I safely removed that stick and a...
Finding the Drafts folder on the Hard drive
I have a bad sector on my hard drive and Vista will not boot. I bought another computer and would like to retreive wor...
dvd drive has ! mark in device manager
hi, my dvd drive has an ! mark in device manager.whe i tried to update driver,message show best driver is installed.i wa...
CD Drive will not read certain disks
Hi everyone.I'm having a problem with my CD drive (FYI, I use the term loosely meaning "that thing into which I sti...
USB Drive Blue Screen Partmgr.sys
I know there are threads around on this and similar topics, but they don't help me and I should like to at least identi...
Unhide vista c drive
installed windows xp as a second os installed Vista Boot all went well until vista boot say that the drive that vista is...
Can't see external hard drive in Windows Explorer
I am connecting an external hard drive (Acomdata 250G drive - pretty standard) via USB to my HP laptop running Vista. ...
Restorable copy of my hard drive?
After I get my system all set up I'd like to make a "one time" image of the hard drive (programs / configurat...
USB flash drive installation
Wanting to install windows 7 or windows vista from a USB flash drive. Here is the starting point to do so. Some things y...
Problem with Sony optical Drive
I have a Sony optical drive wich also has Blue Ray playback capability. Playing music from a CD worked fine until I ha...
Delete volume external hard drive
Hi, I have an 500gb wd external hard drive I was trying to format it for my ps3, but unfortunately I deleted the volume ...
Install Vista from IDE DVD drive to SATA HDD (with pics)
Hello all, first post here but have read quite alot on the forum.Built a new pc.. Only took around 3 hours, but getting ...
linux usb drive
I have a usb drive that is from ubuntu (Linux) & would like to access it from vista but i get access not permitted....
How to set default 'My Documents' drive
I use a separate drive for 'My Documents' folder. How do I set it as the default location? - Thanks for your help - IM...
SATA Hard Drive Factory Full Capacity Restore - Vista 64Bit
Western Digital SATA Hard drive - 640GB Vista Home Premium - 64Bit Gateway desktop.Would someone know of any utility or ...
usb hard drive cannot find driver
I have iOmega 750GB FireWire® 800/FireWire 400/USB 2.0 - which worked perfectly until I had a problem with a Lacie us...
Non-removable drive letter assignments
Hi,Given an internal drive with multiple Vista installations how do I change the drive letter of the boot drive of an i...
Memory problem with D Drive
My D drive shows that 0% memory available. Calling a recovery D drive? 173 mb of 9.99 GB available. Tried disk clean ...
Verify TCP/IP address for shared drive
Hi, I have a shortcut to access a local network shared external drive. It shows an address of \\192.168.1.4 This shortc...
After automated updates (Vista 64bit) - no more eSATA drive
I have a dual boot machine (Win Vista 64bit and Win XP32bit). Until a few days ago, there was no problem seeing and usi...
removable hard drive
hi Please can anyone help, i brought a mass 500gb exturnal hard drive, which connects to my computer by usb, (i am r...
Drive permissions
I'm trying to change permissions for a pocket media drive (HP), which is considered a internal hard drive, and I'm a li...
CD DRIVE NOT WORKING
Last week my CD drive was working perfectly. Today I inserted a disk (which I have used before) and the drive doesn't ...
Keeping updates and installing them manually from hard drive
Am I able to keep all the updates I downloaded via Windows Update in a directory on my hard drive for the next time I i...
CD Drive Disappeared!?
Hi all, Im a newbie. Just purchased a brand new Toshiba Satellite L510, 1.8 Ghz Processor, 2 gb ram, Windows Vi...
create a virtual drive with subst
Back in the days of XP I used to create a virtual drive from the command prompt (or a bat file) using the subst command...
Cannot format D drive
HiI have a Vista Ultimate PC with a C and D drive, the C drive carries the operating system.I am the only user on the P...
Can I Swap A Drive?
Hi all,I purchased a new computer last year with Vista installed. I removed the HD from my old computer (a Gateway Pro...
Supposed Hard Drive Failure
Vista keeps telling me that one of my hard drive is faulty. I know for a fact that the hard drive is not....... How d...
Interpretation of ReadyBoost drive activity
I have a new Gateway cpu i7 920 Desktop with Vista 64 and 3G Ram. When I borrow my FAST flashdrive from my portable and ...
Vista SP1 and USB drive - Computer not responding
When I connect a USB drive (SATA, 120GB) to a Vista Home Premium system (SP1), and Computer is selected, the Computer wi...
CD/DVD RW Drive Disappears, not a filter issue
Hello,I have been having problems with my CD/DVD RW drive randomly disappearing since January. The odd thing is that it...
Phantom CD Drive
G'Day All,Since installing Vista HP (about 6 months ago), I have had a 'phantom' CD drive (always drive Letter E).I hav...
Cloning Boot drive
I have vista Pro on a software raid and and mow installing a larger hardware raid card.What is the best software to clo...
Only 10% space on Drive D
Hi All...need some assistance or HELP (lol)I have an HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook with an AMD Turion 64x2 Processor with...
Hard drive running
I just got a new PC with Windows Vista home premium. The hard drive seems to be running allot. Is this normal for Vista...
This will drive "andy t" crazy (Windows Speech Recognitio
Let me tell you folks, you will get nowhere if you think that Windows Speech Recognitions built-in "Help" wil...
external SATA drive unomunts?
---HP Pavillion dv9700z notebook, Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit---Hi, I bought a Metal Gear Box 3506uas SATA 3.5" en...
Import backed up emails on external hard drive
I backed up to an external hard drive my complete laptop. Now I have a new laptop. I need to know how to copy all my em...
Does the Hard Drive access ever stop in Vista?
I have applied all of the usual ways to stop disk thrashing. However, the disk is still be accessed almost exactly onc...
Lost drive space?
Problem: drive filled up - remaining space about 4G. Dumped the recycle bin, deleted a bunch of other files - about 20...
how does copy files from a flash drive?
I have a desktop w/2000 and write HTML into Notepad to create web pages. I frequently load them into folders and copy (s...
Copying Files to External Drive
Folks,I'm running Vista32 on my laptop computer. I have a 1TB Western Digital external drive. I recently copied about ...
External HDD drive write protected on vistax64
Hi,Is there anybody who can help me please? A few months ago i bought a new HP Pavilion Elite m9530.be desktop computer ...
can i repair vista using external hd or usb drive?
Hi, I have dell inspiron 1520 and my vista installation has got corrupt. It shows \BOOT\BCD error and to add to my probl...
Use Complete Restore to backup drive with Vista, but not dri
I have 3 drives installed in my computer. XP Pro on one drive. Vista Ultimate 64 on a second drive. And no O.S. on the...
Change a Dynamic C: Drive to a Basic Drive
I have only just installed Vista Business 32 on a Dell Vostro 32 that I purchased second hand. After the install I shru...
DVD-R Drive not burning above 6x
Hello there. I just upgrade my system from Windows XP SP3 to Vista Ultimate x86. But one thing I've noticed is that nei...
Icon of hard drive in My Computer has changed (Vista HP)
I suddenly noticed that icon of My Book WD external drive has changed. Also in " Windows Help and Support" i...
A new MBR and boot sector on Vista boot drive
I've got a system that has XP on an IDE disk (the primary boot drive), and I've got a copy of Vista on my SATA second d...
USB CoreMicro Flash drive hangs system
When I plug a 2.0 GB flash drive in my USB port it virtually hangs my machine. Eventually it will respond, maybe 5 - 10 ...
Dvd drive always missing after reboot
:shock:MY DVD drive DS8A1H ALWAYS MISSING AFTER REBOOT. I HAVE TO CLICK CHECK FOR HARDWARE CHANGES EVERYTIME I HAVE TO U...
CD DVD drive problem
I got an Acer laptop last year. I used it without tweaks, all defaults (system settings, bios etc...). Now, I can't inst...
New Hard drive name
I purchased a new hard drive and named it NEW-BACKUP. I did a exact disk copy from my old BACKUP drive. My wife uses t...
USB drive Initialization error
::I am running Vista Ultimate 64 bit version. :: ::I have an external USB drive – Maxtor OneTouch 2 that is workin...
Can I transfer the available 10GB on my D drive over to the
[ F O N T = I m p a c t ] [ S I Z E = 4 ] * [ F O N T = P a l a t i n o L i n o t y p e ] H e l l o , [ / F O N T ] * * ...
Vista Drive Letter Changed
I have a Triple-boot system running Windows 2000, Windows XP Professional and Windows Vista Ultimate; all full retail v...
CDDVD Combo Drive Question
Hello, I've had this problem with my CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for about 2 weeks. I can write/read DVD's just fine. When I put ...
USB external hard drive problem.
I had 3 Lacie 250GB USB hard drives connected to my Vista Home Premium HP Quad system, along with USB Hubs and a printe...
Re: CD Drive available at boot, not in Vista
the specific owner would like XP this is far more common than you can even imagine "Information" wrote in me...
Geting terrible performance. System chugs on hard drive a f
Got a new Vista laptop last year which was a terrible mistake. I have not been happy with it at all. My problem is th...
strange Q drive
Hello, I noticed in my explorer there is a Q drive. local disk When i click on it it says access is denied I have no us...
CD/DVD drive not showing up in my computer
hey i removed a program the other day and then when i restarted comp the dvd and cd drive were not showing up. I tried ...
Can't map network drive
Please bear with me. This isn't my core comp area...I'm on a Vista Ultimate box. We have a remote win2003 server that ...
Lost USB Drive After Safely Remove Hardware used
I have a Portable drive F attached via USB and had another device (TomTom) plugged in another USB port. Went to the sa...
Size on drive mystery
When I add up all the size of all subdirectories such as Program Files, etc. (by right click/properties), I get 100 GB....
DRIVE LETTER QUESTION
I have a new Dell computer (Vista) with a built in multi-card reader.The computer automatically assigns 5 drive letters ...
Clone a laptop drive
I want to clone a laptop drive that's larger in capacity than the one in my laptop. The original has two logical partit...
External USB drive not recognized by Vista
I recently purchased an HP laptop running Vista Home Premium Edition to replace a desktop machine running Windows XP th...
Can I set up a web page for my network drive?
Network devices such as printers and routers will redirect you to a web page on their hardware when you connect to thei...
insalling xp on 2nd hard drive
Hello, i was thinking about installing xp on to the 2nd hard drive D on my 64 bit vista system. The drive is labeled dat...
Wrong volume is in the drive
I have seen a couple of other posts on the following behaviour but no fix so thought I would post it again.Mail has sudd...
How to unsync drive (or how to get mobsync to not run)
I recently had to reconfigure my server computer, and this required me to delete my drive mappings to the server drives...
Application can not use mapped drive when launching from RDP
1. I have a Vista Ultimate installation on PC1. 2. I have mapped drives (from Server1 - SBS2008) automatically generated...
Vista OS - Renaming User in Drive C
I would like to rename the User from drive C. At this time, I have two Users, one that I want to rename and then "...
Can't UNC drive map to network PCs
I have a new laptop running VISTA Home Premium. My home network consists of 3 PCs running Win XP Pro, 1 PC running win...
save msg's in flash drive
I plugged in a flash drive and chose export,msg's., & it wanted to know what folder to store msg.s in. All I could ...
How do I get Vista to install software from DVD drive?
VISTA: HP Media Ctr PC less than 2 years old has two DVD drives. Sager notebook PC has one DVD drive. HP high end not...
Cannot access files in Vista hard drive
HII bought compaq laptop which has vista home premium installed.Laptop got problem and its not working. My Hard drive ha...
Adding IDE Drive to New System with ATA / SATA Architecture
Finally got a new system, made my buy, no problem with Vista [ Hitachi HDP725 SCSI 160GB HD ], (new drive). Added Maxtor...
USB hard drive and flash drives not recognized in Vista 32
In Vista 32 I had USB drives working (flash drive and external hard drive). They are no longer recognized, and don't sh...
External Hard Drive Not Recognized
Hello folks. I have a problem. I use an external hard drive, to keep a lot of stuff on it. I regularly back up my mail o...
Recovery Drive Gone
Hi-- After some major problems with my system, I had to perform a complete reinstall of Vista. The folks from Dell talke...
USB Flash Drive doesn't work
My Transcend JetFlash V60 doesn't work on my recently installed Windows Vista SP1. When I plugged it for the first time...
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA drive failure
Hello,My name is Mike and I have a Compaq Presario F560US notebook PC w/Vista Home Basic and my dvd drive does not work....
Decrypt/Unencrypt External Hard Drive
I was beta testing Windows 7 and encrypted both external drives. I placed the password/key on one drive only and I also...
DVD drive uninstalled??
Greetings:I'm running windows Vista on an HP Pavilion. Recently, I went to use my DVD ROM and discovered the icon was m...
NAS drive recommendation
Can you recommend a NAS (Network Attached Storage) drive for my home network? I need ... - 1 or 2 TB - RAID 0 or 1 (5 w...
Need Help Mapping Drive
Running Vista, I have made a VPN connection to a remote PC over the Internet. I can then use Remote Desktop Connection ...
Can I transfer the available 10GB on my D drive...
[ F O N T = I m p a c t ] H e l l o , M y l a p t o p o n l y h a s a b o u t 7 0 G b o f t o t a l s p ...
How can I recover files that were on my backup D hard drive?
I screwed up and accidently deleted all the files that were on my backup hard drive (D:). Is there a way I can recover...
Setup doesnt see drive BIOS does o_O
Hi fellow Tekky's [image: http://www.vistaforums.com/Forum/Skins/VistaForums/Images/EmotIcons/Smile.gif]Well Ive come to...
tool to identify processes accessing hard drive
Vista Ultimate SP2 Toshiba Satellite x205-sli4I need a tool that will tell me which processes are accessing the hard dis...
Having trouble adding IDE hard drive to SATA setup.
As the title suggests, I am having trouble getting Vista to recognize the IDE hard drive I am trying to add. I have Vis...
Dual boot Vista and XP - make XP "appear" as C drive
Is it possible to setup up dual booting Vista and Xp so that when XP boots it then appears as C drive?Currently my XP i...
PC not recognising new internal hard drive
I've added and extra hard drive because I'm always low on disk space but I can't get the PC to recognise the new drive. ...
Access is Denied when trying to shrink hard drive
Hello, I'm trying to partition my hard drive so I can dual boot Vista with the windows 7 RC. Yet, when I go to shrink th...
Raid drives not seen when third drive is added
I have been able to install vista ultimate 64 to a mirrored raid drive setup. On the bios - asus m2npv-vm (nvidia) - I h...
C: Drive almost full
I have a 105GB internal disk drive that only has 5.96 GB free. I don't know what is taking up so much space. I think it ...
Remove partitions on external hard drive
Vista SP2I have an external hard drive that's divided into 2 partitions. I want to reformat the drive and eliminate the...
Trying to convert external drive from Fat32 to NTFS
I need to convert an external hard drive (500 GB) from Fat32 to NTFS so I can save large files. I have Vista Home Premi...
Unable to rename C drive
Hi there,afetr installing RoboForm2GO which renamed my C driver as RoboForm2Go, I would have liked to re-rename it to V...
Windows mail - transferring files from bad hard drive
Hard drive died, replaced, reloaded Vista Premium x64. I can read the files on the bad hard drive, have attached as an e...
more hard drive failure
i have a new system(see info below) 1.5 months oldmy wd 500 gig sata 11 is failingi have been running into problems inst...
how can I make my drive smaller?
I have vista and its too big, how can I make my drive smaller?...
Hard Drive Help
Hi can i do this and if so can someone tell me the steps please as im a newbie .:geek: my hard drive is a sata 300 GB cu...
Ready Boost Flash Drive 4 gb from 8 gb Drive
Hello, I am using Vista 64 Home Premium with 8 gb ddr2 ram. I use an 8 gb flash drive formatted NTSF. The Readyboost ...
Drive reads DVD's not CD's
Not sure how long this has been this way but recently noticed that DVD games and movies will play fine on the drive, bu...
Un- mounting a USB drive twice
I have a 8G USB stick that's formatted with NTFS file system. I always need to use "Safely Remove Harware" *T...
CD drive help
ok, so i gotTSSTcorp CDDVDDW TS-L632H ATA Deviceand it has stopped working. my computer originally came with vista, but ...
utilizing second hard drive
my system has two hard drives. is it possible to improve performance by utilizing second (D) drive. there are times w...
Vista won't reconize external hard drive
So I just got a new computer, a HP Pavilion running Vista, and I have a older hard drive that I want to copy data from. ...
DVD Drive Dissapeared! Help Please!
Alright, here is the problem, my DVDRAM GSA T20L ATA drive has mysteriously disappeared! I have tried to fix the problem...
C drive and Admin Account
I am have 2 errors 1 is "Windows can't access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriat...
Creating A USB boot drive
I have Vista installed on my computer but, I want to update my bios for my motherboard and would like a create a bootab...
How to Hide Drive in Vista and Still Be Able to Use it.
In XP I could use TweakUI to hide a disk drive from the kids and was still able to use the hidden drive. There is no T...
Re: CD-Rom Drive Missing from My Computer
If the Upper and Lower filters are showing up in the registry key that is described in the MS KB ( http://support.micro...
help configuring SATA USB hard drive
My 2 year old toshiba laptop died and I removed the HD and got a USB encolsure for it and have tried to connect it to my...
external drive (old Laptop) & Vista permissions
My old Win Xp Laptop broke so I'm using the hard drive as an external for my new Vista Laptop, but whenever I try openi...
not recognizing IDE drive
Not sure if this group is the right one to be addressing this issue as I haven't come across any UseNet windows 7 group...
CD/DVD Drive
I think my driver is only for DVD's. It will play and rip CD's but it will not burn them. Is there a way to fix this?...
Sharing a Hard drive over 2PCs
Vista PC- Vista 64. New 1TB drive I want PC2 to be able to access. This machine can see all the drives on PC2 XP PC - ca...
Resource constraint in C:\ Drive due to winsxs folder
I have been using Win Vista since last 1-1/2 years. A matter is disturbing me that every time I look at the C:\ I find t...
Something may be wrong with my Ram,motherboard,hard drive or
Alright when i start up my laptop it goes into the HP invent screen and shows the F keys at the bottom. Than after a lit...
Change drive letter fo0r external usb Floppy from B to A
I have an external USB floppy drive that got assigned the drive letter B when it was plugged into one of the usb ports o...
IE8 Send Link as Email Causes Crash When Flash Drive in USB
If anyone has any thoughts on this curious issue, I'd be most appreciative of a response.I have noted that when I have ...
DVD Burner Drive problem
My external DVD burning drive was working fine the other day as a matter of fact I had burned 3 DVD's but when I tried ...
Need help, please: Searching network drive
I'm running Vista Home Premium, using (I think) Windows Search Ver 4. (How do I find out which version is running?)I've...
Help with Hard Drive Stand By / Turn Off / Spin Down
Hi, I am looking for a way to force an external hard drive into stand by mode / turn off / spin down. Any help would be ...
Re: USB drive Initialization error
Found the problem. The drive was password protected. Put it back on the XP machine, disabled the password and whoala, it...
USB drive has become read-only
I have an Imation usb drive that has been working flawlessly for almost a year and has never touched XP until recently. ...
TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-L632H ATA drive
My cd rom icon is missing. I cannot use cd rom to reinstall my system. The current operating system is Vista. Hope anyb...
sharing a RAID drive problem
Hi everyone,Since I have vista64 I have a problem that I have identified to be related to RAID drives, I.E :When I share...
saveing computer to an external drive!
I have a 500GB Desktop hard drive and want to know how I would go about backing up my entier conputer to it.Thanks -- ...
Hard drive question
Hello,I just added two new 1TB My Book external USB 2.0 hard drives to my system. They come formatted and partitioned, ...
format hard drive
How do you format the hard drive?-- Walt...
CD-DVD drive disappeared...
Hi. I have an HP Pavilion dv6700 Notebook with Vista Home Premium. The computer is just over a year old and the Pioneer ...
Forgotten Password Wizard won't recognize my CD drive
I'm running Vista Home Premium. I want to create a password reset disk using a CD. My CD/DVD/RW drive is E:. Windows Ex...
Copying files to a 'full' Linux drive
I have just got a new laptop, with Vista on - first time I have used it properly :eek: It looks great... but it's ashame...
Slave drive problems
I have bought a new system with Vista Home Premium and I am trying to install an IDE hard drive as a slave. These are ...
trying to add a second sata drive
i have tried everything said in 'this thread' (http://www.vistax64.com/vista-general/68796-trying-add-second-hdd-vista-h...
Partitioning a drive in Vista
New to Vista and want to repartition the drive in my HP machine to utilize a C, D and E partition (OS, Data, 3rd party ...
access denied to external hard drive
Folks, I am trying to access my external hard drive, but keep getting "F:/ not accessible, access is denied". ...
Clean Install on New Hard Drive
Due to a mobo & cpu meltdown, had to get new puter that included a 160GB Sata HD.When installed Vista Ultimate, HD s...
Re: "Please insert a disc into drive D:" error message
dcf2000;1234751 Wrote: I have a new Gateway MD7820u laptop computer running Vista Home Premium that is now asking me to...
Hard drive accessing constantly while in screen saver
Good Morning,I recently installed Vista Home Premium X64 on my machine, and this started happening. When I awaken the PC...
Making the DVD ROm drive the Boot drive?
I've got to reinstall Vista. My only BIOS settings are CD-ROM, no option for DVD drive. Bios is latest avaliable. Is my...
Vista cannot install to SAS drive
I got a new HighPoint RR2680 and attached a MAX3073RC Fujitsu 73GB SAS to it.When I install windows Vista the first stag...
My dvd drive on my dell studio 17 is no longer seen by vista
I have a Dell studio 17 laptop that no longer reconise the dvd drive, I was told that a solution existed on the Microso...
How do I change the icon for a specific folder or drive?
I would like to set some key folders to have icons that identify what is inside. So my Windows install folder would sho...
external usb disk drive
Hi,I have Windows Vista, and I like to make my external usb hard disk stay at D: drive even after I reboot the system. W...
Disappearing DVD drive--not an upper or lower filter issue
OK, I am trying to help a couple guys out both suffering from this same issue on Vista installations.On both computers ...
Default Boot Drive?
Okay, so I got a new system (AMD Athlon Dual Core, 3GHz, Vista Home Premium, 500GB SATA HDD), installed a new SATA driv...
Must i partition my c: drive
Do i have to partition my c: drive into two or more so as to seperate the portion occupied by the o/s from that used in ...
Vista & Verbatim hard drive backup puzzle
After using Windows backup onto a Verbatim hard drive I cannot access any files although Windows claims that the backup...
unable to complete backup to pocket media drive
I have Windows VISTA Home Premium. When I run "back up files" to a pocket media drive inserted into the compu...
Printer as mapped drive
Hi all,I have a couple questions.First, these are actually for Windows 7, but it doesn't appear MS has made newsgroups ...
Can't start Windows Vista (hard drive isn't recognized?)
Hi.Suddenly, my computer freezed (just like it has been doing for some time now). When I restarted it, the computer aske...
Pen Drive
Trying again with this one. When I insert my pen drive it insists that it needs to "scan and fix" it. Well it ...
Hybrid Hard Drive
I have a Dell Latitude D630 with the hybrid hard drive. I'm not sure how to even tell if this thing is on or how to tu...
My local drive c have only 20GB
I use Windows Vista Home Premium and a Sumsang 320GB hard disk. My local drive c have only 20GB and thus all are in use ...
Where's my drive?
I installed more memory (RAM) on my system. The only problem is that now my USB drive (J) has vanished. And when I plu...
Gaining Access to Files on Additional Hard Drive
I had problems with my registry so I bought an adapter for my harddrive to convert it to usb. I got everything setup and...
Where does Vista hide my docs/settings when taking drive out
Hi guys, I think Vista does some weird complicated thing with user data - today a tech installed Win 7 on a new hard dri...
Extending a Primary Drive in Vista.
Hi I am running Microsoft Vista Home Premium, and for some reason the primary partition is only 20gb, (although the ful...
USB pen drive
Hello Everyone,Recently, I get the "Code 10-This device cannot start" error when I insert my USB pen drive in...
Disc Drive Cannot Read ISO
I have an ISO image which I tried burning into disc. When I try to burn it, both Nero and ImageBurn report that the burn...
Mapped Network Drive versus Folder Shortcut
Please discuss the differences/advatages/disadvantages in refering to a shared network hard drive folder by mapping it ...
Can't access primary drive
My laptop hdd failed. Last time that happened, i connected the hdd to my other computer, ran scandisk and started workin...
network hard drive
hi , i have just added a network hard drive to my home network every thing seems ok but i cannot download directly to t...
Can't deselect drive in Complete PC Backup
I have a 1 TB Samsung hard drive divided into 3 partitions of C:, E:, and F: When I try to run Windows Complete PC Back...
Need help with DVD/CD-RW Drive (E:)
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