Cd Drives Mulfunctioning
At our house we have 4 HP Compaq nx6325 laptops, they came with Win xp on them but have the windows vista capable logo ...
Combining Drives
HiI have Vista Ultimate, I have a second hard drive with two partitions D and E, I reduced the volume on D and now have...
Switching Hard Drives
Is there any way to switch Vista from one hard drive to another?I've recently purchased a new hard drive, considerably l...
Can't See DVD Drives in Vista Remote Desktop
I remote desktop into my Vista Ultimate system at home but can't see my SATA DVD drives. However, I can see my hard dri...
Indexing network mapped drives
Hi,I installed new machines at a client's location with Vista. Boy, do i regret that choice but that is a whole other s...
cd drives don't function
Please help me - both my CD rom and CD write stopped working. When I asked for advice from HP, I received the wrong in...
Drives
Would someone please explain to me what 'J' and 'K' drives are when using a jump drive. How does it work? 'J' drive app...
Two drives on SATA
Not being too familiar with Sata drives (I'm used to IDE) I'm asking if you can have two Sata drives on one connection (...
Network Issue Accessing Drives on One Machine
I have a home network of 3 machines and 1 laptop. 2 Vista Ultimate64, 1 Home Premium32 & 1 XP Pro all with the lates...
Installing 64bit Vista with SATA drives
Hi,I know this is probably a very newbie question but here goes....I have a new built machine that has an Intel DX48BT2 ...
After all, it is all about drives isn't it...
Creative caves; supports Dolby Digital, DTS in Vista driverhttp://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.ars/2008/08/01/creat...
Unable to format Seagate 1.5 GB internal drives
I have a Vista Ultimate 64 bit system using an ASUS striker II formula MB, Intel core 2 quad 2.66 mh CPU, 8 GB RAM. It ...
cd drives
Please help me find my two CD drives (CDROM & DVD) which do not function. When I asked HP for support, I received i...
Vista doesn't see my additional hard drives as part of a RAI
My system has been running fine for quite some time. I'm running Vista Ultimate on an ASUS P5ND2-SLI mobo. I just ...
Cannot do anything until drives spin
Whenever my computer starts, I can't do anything with it until my drives spin: floppy...CD...floppy, and then it immed...
Boot from 2 Hard Drives?
I have an Existing Vista install on HD1 and want to install Windows 7 on HD2.Was going to make HD2 the Primary Drive. I...
both dvd drives have vanished from bios and my computer
Hi there all Ive scoured the internet to find the solution to my problem and ive ran out of solutions to my problem so i...
hard drives showing in "safely remove hardware"
My disc drives are now showing up in the safely remove hardware icon of the task bar. How do i keep them from being ther...
multiple hard drives problem
okay so i just built this new computer, and i installed two 250 gig hard drives. the bios recognize both drives just fi...
Is there any way for shared drives connected to all access t
I can share a drive, no problem. No one can actually touch any of the data on that drive unless I specifically share ea...
USB thumb drives & Vista
I have noticed that even after being told it is "safe to remove hardware" the light on the thumb drive doesn'...
Flash Drives and IPOD not working properly after several Vis
After many updates were downloaded over the past 2 weeks flash drives and IPOD get the following message when plugged i...
Vista Install Won't Recognize Hard Drives
I am having a very hard time installing Vista Home Premium to a new hard drive -- I have tried on three different SATA ...
Network Drives
HiI am having this problem with Vista Business. My network drives were always mapped as \\SERVERNAME\foldernameSome days...
[Pony Help] Moving a Data Partition between Drives?
My Vista laptop came with a 200GB 7200RPM hard drive that was partitioned into two partitions: Windows and Data. This is...
Mapped drives on a workgroup?
I help out with a local womens shelter at their office. They have a workgroup network with a windows 2003 server based s...
Automatically Duplicate 2 Internal Drives
Hi,I am about to purchase a new Dell Vista 64-bit system. I originally intended to have a pair of 500gb to 640gb hard ...
Mapped Network Drives not connecting over VPN
I have a rather perplexing issue involving a Vista machine trying to map a network drive over a VPN. First, the environ...
Creating a recovery disk that will work on SATA drives
Enviroment in useVista Home Premium Compaq Presaio CQ40 Laptop 200+ GB Sata Drive (I think) 4GB MEMORYI am trying to cre...
Can't share some drives?
I have a Vista PC with 2 USB hard drives attached. I can share 1 but not the other and have no idea what to do to sha...
want to enlarge C and decrease D drives in Vista
I ahve a new notebook that came with Vista Ultimate installed and the HD partitioned into C and D drives. I want all my...
Accessing hard drives
I am currently running Windows Vista Ultimate x32. I have three hard drives. Drive-C: is the system drive; Drive-D: is M...
Stalling on boot when mapped drives inaccesable
I have a few laptops part of our domain. They are connected to a few network printers and mapped to a few shares. Whe...
Vista will not read flash drives using FAT
When the drives are inserted, Vista will request to format the drive. If FAT is selected for the formatting, the formatt...
found a solution to get my flash drives/card reader/usb port
I was having a hell of a time trying to get my Vista x64 system to recognize all of my card readers and my usb hubs. Fo...
Cant' Access USB External Drives
The 2 USB drives I have (one Maxtor One Touch and one WD external) worked fine until last week when I upgraded to SP1. ...
dual hard drives/dual desktops
I have a new laptop with Vista and my old hard drive with XP plugged in via a mobile hub. How can I set up a desktop du...
Re: Internal Card Reader Drives Disappear
I too would be most interested in any solution to this particuler issue. I also am running Vista (HE Premium 32bit, SP2...
Mapped Drives and Remote Desktop
I do not understand this.1. I have a Vista Ultimate installation. 2. I set up a user id and configure a desktop (color, ...
Hot Swap drives
I'm getting some hot swap drives so that I can use different OS's on the same computer and understand I can use boot sof...
Can't map networks drives over VPN on Vista host
Hi all,This problem is driving me nuts. I've been researching it for weeks now and can't find a solution. I have a Vis...
Using external hard drives formatted in MAC OS
I recently bought a MAC book, and have an external hard drive that I formatted on the MAC using the MAC extended format...
Hard drives
I have hard drives from both Win 98 SE and XP machines. I currently use a system with Vista 32. Is it possible to hook ...
Vista /XP Networking:can't open external drives
I am using VistaHP laptop and XPHome desktop wirelessly networked. All sharing is on and I have admin privileges. On XP...
LaCie External Hard Drives
Does anyone have any experience with LaCie external hard drives? Good, mediocre or bad? Thank you in advance for your a...
Lost CD/DVD Drives Problem......Again
I have the problem where I cannot access 2 of my CD DVD drives on my system. I have in total 3 drives - 1 CD writer and ...
Extending partitioned drives
Hi all Can anyone help me? I have a 250 gig hard drive sectioned into 3...
DVD-ROM drives suddenly stopped working
I recently installed Vista x64 in a dual boot config with XP Pro. A couple of days ago, I turned on my computer and boo...
2 boots drives, want one.
I had a 320 Gig Vista as master drive. This drive started to give me grief. I installed a 1TB drive with one 250G parti...
Installing Vista and Windows Xp On Two Separate Drives
I have Windows Vista Home Premium installed on my C drive. I want to add a new hard drive, but intall Windows XP home on...
A,B,C,.... Disk Drives
Hello,I find it mildly annoying and somtimes confusing that my hard drive is split into C: and E:, and an external driv...
Mapped Drives Not Accessible
All,I have Vista Ultimate (32-bit) installed with SP1 and all the latest patches. The computer is in a Windows Server ...
Mapped drives...
I've got a client with a small office with a couple of Vista machines, one Home Basic & the other Home Premium. The...
I have 3 new drives - NOT
Vista Home Premium Recently installed a program. Not going to stake my life this is related to the new program, but no...
Re-Allocating Disk Space and Re-Letter Drives
Hi, I used the (Administrative Tools) Disk Management to Partition a 500G "C" Drive into a C, D, E and F Driv...
Network drives dropping out
Vista Home Premium PC, "Server", has 2 shared folders. Another Vista Home Premium and a Vista Home Basic have...
Movies copied or pasted to external drives get corrupted
My friend has a Dell Desktop and connected various SATA drives via USB. When she tried to back up some movies, they kept...
USB Flash drives
Have you had any problems with USB flash drives with Vista?I saw articles saying that Vista doesn't have "Safely Re...
cd drives don't work
posted a question re cd drives which stopped working, and received an e-mail that someone replied to my question. I ca...
Hard Drives Grinding
Sitting at the PC I notice my hard drive is reading for a second every second for as long a 30minutes at times. grunt/gr...
exclude removable drives from indexing
Hi all, is there a way to generally prevent USB drives from indexing? I know how to de/select drives and folders in the...
Scripted netwrok drives not appearing
Hi,I'm new to Vista (used to XP) and playing around a bit. I've logged on to a Server 2003 AD domain and the mapped dri...
Computer not detecting USB Flash Drives
I recently rebuilt most of my computer and upgraded to windows Vista and now my computer won't detect my USB flash drive...
Vista Explorer won't remove Drive Icons when Drives Dismount
My Vista Explorer won't remove drive icons once a drive has been dismounted. Even if I physically remove a drive from th...
VHDmount doesn't see multiple drives?
I backup my two physical drives C: + R: with Vista backup. The problem is that when I mount my backup file with VHDmount...
Any limits on how many flash drives you can use in xp,Vista,
Any limits on how many flash drives you can use in xp, Vista, W7?Another words, if you have a lot of flash drives, wil...
Dual boot: Vista and Vista on 2 Hard Drives?
There are many articles on how to dual boot Vista and XP, but I want to dual boot Vista and Vista, with an existing inst...
While disconnecting External drives P.C. reboots
Hi all I tried searching for an answer in the forum because I'm sure people had this problem before, While Disconnecting...
readyboost drives and performance for other files on the dri
Hi,My understanding is that a readyboost drive is a drive that windows dumps data to as its faster than dumping data to...
Can I create some sort of raid disk with two usb drives in
Hi,I want to have two flash drives working in like a raid mirror.I can plug in one of the usb flash drives and get say a...
No drives were found.
I'm building my first computer, and I'm getting very frustrated. When I try to install Vista it stops at a screen saying...
Open dialog does not show network drives.
The standard open dialog does not show network drives in some applications. It does in notepad/office apps. Is there s...
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...
Vista backup using two hard drives
I can't believe Vista backup. The simplest thing is apparently not possible.I have a system with two hard drives. I alwa...
Mapping network drives - JSF
I have seven computer in my home, all networked. The computer all played nice when everybody was running XP.The problem...
Searching network drives?
Hello. Still trying to figure out Vista as my work computer was recently upgraded from XP. In XP if I wanted to sea...
Mapping drives
Using Vista Buisness 32 I'm mapped to a cloud server drive Z//books. But when I try to map another letter to a subfolde...
please help
hi there,my sony laptop ( vgn-fz70b ) shutdown with no reason, all of a sudden when i try to restart i saw a blue screen...
Vista Backup using two external hard drives
I use two Lacie 250GB USB drives for "double-safe" backup purposes. On my XP machine, a 2004 Dell desktop, I u...
Error-Checking (chkdsk) and multiple drives
You can't schedule an error check with chkdsk with multiple drives.If you have multiple NTFS hard drives on a system tha...
Network Drives connect but I cannot see them anywhere
Hi forum, I have recently loaded Vista Business Premium again here at our company. I have placed the workstation in our ...
Access rights on drives and folders
I have 3 user accounts on Vista Home Premium. One is an admin account and the other two are limited accounts. How can ...
Can i use one of my hard drives as my backup?
I need to re-install Vista but i also need to back up about 200-250GB before i do that.Rather than transfer all of that ...
External Hard Drives
Hi All,I'm looking at getting some external storage to manage backups etc and am looking into getting an NAS so I can a...
SATA Hard Drives
I'm about to tackle my first addition of a SATA drive. I think I read somewhere that SATA drives do not have Master - S...
how to set up 2 floppy drives in vista unlitmate 32 bit vers
yes i have an older p4 computer i just upgraded to run win vista and i have an asus p4b with a 1.6ghz northwood p4 cpu a...
Some USB-connected devices don't show up as drives
I have Vista Home Premium SP1.When I connect some devices like an iPhone or a Digital Camera, it doesn't show up as a dr...
More drives than A-Z on Vista32?
I have a quad-core development/test box (running virtual machines). I've got a built-in multicard reader, multiple DVD ...
Using Files/Programs on Network Drives - Vista F%$&in Secur
How can I shut off Vista's moronic behavior of blocking 50% of what's on my local network shares for "security"...
Drives magically write protect themselves
I recently upgraded from Vista 32-bit to Vista 64-bit. I did this reformatting my C drive then performing a clean instal...
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...
Can't Install 1TB Hard Drives
I have tried unsuccessfully to install two different 1 TB hard drives -- a Samsung and a Western Digital; and each time...
DVD Drives Won't Burn Anymore
I have 2 DVD RW drives... one's internal and the other a USB drive... There's a lot of "data" below, but the ...
Why do I not see Share options for my Vista 64 Hard Drives
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OS installed on system with Two Hard Drives
Hi, Vista HP was installed on my system on Drive "A" which I Partitioned into "C", "D" an...
turning hard drives on / off
I have 2x 1TB hard drives and would like one to be a backup of the other. I could set up a RAID0 array, or something, b...
cannot access my additional drives d:\ is not accessible
Hey everyone i am a nubie however i have scoured the sight and not come accross my exact problem or a solution to it. i ...
dual boot dual drives
I currently have Vista Ultimate and am looking to install Windows 7 on a 2nd hard drive to create a dual boot PC. Is t...
USB Drives
How do you assign a permanent drive letter to a USB port in using Vista or XP operating system?ThanksAngelo...
S3 Resume hard drives dissapear
This is probably a coincidence but since SP1 about a month ago S3 resume occationaly a drive will dissapear with huge ev...
Unable to check drives for errors on restart
I am running Windows Vista Business on my Dell Inspiron 1501. I am no longer able to check my drives for errors since a...
Cannot Connect to Network Drives
Although this has pretty much worked for months, today (and a couple of weeks ago), I double click on a network drive i...
VISTA on boot ignores all optical drives
I am wondering if my BIOS would keep the boot up from recognizing the optical drives and allowing the optical drive to b...
Can't see network external drives
I have a 2 laptops and a desk top networked. They are all running Vista, and can see each other. The one laptop has 2...
Drives not found in System Restore
I'm working on a Toshiba Laptop Vista home premium sp1. When I open system restore and click on to create a restore poi...
Vista 64 freezing when I plug in USB drives after resuming f
Hello,I am having this problem with Vista 64 bits and an HP dv5t laptop that came with the OS pre installed.When I plug...
Explorer 8 drives machine onffline
Working with Vista Ultimate. I now find error messages in explorer suggesting that one can correct this in "Tools...
External drives
Hey everyone, i just got my 500gb Seagate drive back after it bricked from the little firmware issue they had. I also ju...
A Limitation with USB Flash Drives
Hi, If you use a USB flash drive ("thumb drive") and you can't copy another file to that drive, with an er...
non removable drives
for some reason vista think my non removable drives are removable? was working fine then for some reason it just started...
DVD Drives not being installed error 39 - driver corrupted o
Hi,I have 2 dvd drives one TSSTcorp SH S203BSATA and Liteon DH-20A4P IDE. Both cannot be connected or work with Vista.T...
Lost CD/DVD Drives and Drivers
After reading this newsgroup, I haven't found a solution. Therefore here goes.My desktop machine recognizes two CD/DVD ...
remove mapped drives permanently
I had some network shares mapped but they are no longer available. I've disconnected them but each time that I reboot, ...
Help with removable drives and autoplay
hello,i have a dell inspiron 6400, vista home premium 32-bit. for some reason all my removable disk are all named the sa...
Cant connect to network drives in vista but can on xp
I am having a problem. Up until today, I have had 7 computers networked together, sharing multiple drives off of a winx...
Drives for HP 940C and J5700 Printers
Bought a laptop with Vista Home Premium and am attempting to use subject printers connected to XP Machines via home netw...
Red X on network drives - drive not available
Ok, this is really for windows 7 however I didn't see a group for that yet. We have replaced our old XP machines with ...
What is going on with my hard drives?!?!?!
I recently installed Vista and I'm noticing something that I can't seem to remember from XP. My hard drives are going ...
Windows Vista SP1 - Explorer Not Refreshing CD/DVD Drives
Background KnowledgeI have Windows Vista Ultimate with Service Pack 1 with the following optical media drives. The syste...
Mapping Drives Between Vista and XP
I have a computer with XP Home and another that I just built that has Vista Ultimate.I am trying to map hard drives bet...
Unable to connect to any network drives and printers.
Hi any one can help me with my problem.I am unable to connect to any network drives and printers. I used to be able to c...
64 bit compatible drives/are there any?
I, for one, am finding it very difficult to find any Firewire drives that have 64 bit drivers available. As it stands ...
Disk drives
From Ray.C.Why do I have three removable drives on my computer F.G.H which I don't use and then when I plug in a usb fl...
Lost CD/DVD drives
Hi this keeps happening every couple of months,running vist basic with a pretty new Dell inspiron 530.it entails a full...
Card Reader Drives Showing in My Computer - Too Many
I installed a card reader with slots for everything. I only use SD. I don't want to see drive letters for every drive...
Lost my CD/DVD drives 2
Lately I seem to have lost all of my CD/DVD devices even my ImageDrive. And that causes me a lot of trouble. I have did...
Permissions on USB drives in Vista
Whenever I put a storage in my USB drive, when I try to access it, it says Access is denied. I looked it up on google an...
installing drives problem
hi! i have a big issue, recently i tried to reset my computer to factory settings but a failed. when i was installing th...
reading network drives as "full" when not
Hey,I work in a small office and am the only one currently running Vista. Vista is reading both of the office network dr...
accessing drives via wireless network
As I am sure you will see i am a newbie to this whole wireless networking thing. Here is my problem. I have an external...
My Documents & Personal Drives
Hello,Since moving some of my users to Vista, I've noticed a strange thing happening in regard to changing the path of ...
highly unreliable connection to network storage drives
Until yesterday network consisted of 5 PC's (3 running XP Pro, 1 XP Home - a little netbook, and 1 Vista Home Ultimate)...
Transfer files between two external drives?
Hi, I have two USB harddrives and I want to transfer some files from one to the other. Attempting to do so makes Vista i...
Access from XP denied to optical drives on Vista machine
Trying to setup a new netbook running Win XP Home SP3 to access the optical drives installed on the Vista Biz SP2 linke...
Timeout uploading to ftp through network drives.
I keep getting time outs when i upload to my website. I set my website folder as a mapped network drive, so now its acc...
Vista and XP on 2 hard drives on same computer
Is there any way to have 2 hard drives hooked up to one computer with Vista on one and XP on the other. I have...
vista indexing slow network drives?
I'm running Windows Vista Business SP1.I browsed to a file share on a samba server that is at a remote site, reachable b...