So a couple months ago, I noticed that my secondary HD would randomly disappear. Going into Disk Management and performing a "Rescan Disks" would get it to see it again, but would randomly go away again. I figured the disk was going bad, plus I wanted more storage for recording. So I bought a new drive, worked great for about a month. Now it does the same thing. Only now, doing a "Redcan Disks " isn't working.
Edit: Resolved by swapping power cables with one of my DVD drives, now the DVD drive doesn't work. Off to Fry's for new PSU.
2 weeks ago i replaced XP with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on my PC and since then my D: drive randomly disappears. I have been using the PC which has 3 internal disk drives with XP for the past 3 years never having problems with the disk drivesSince i installed Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, the D Drive is dropped from time to timehen i look under device manager the disk is completely gone, and also if i go to command, diskpart, list disks .... it does not show up.
I have an IDE hard drive as my secondary drive used for backups or misc files. I also have an external. But for some reaosn on Windows 7 x64 the IDE (labelled as D randomly vanishes. BIOS sees it fine allt he time. Any ideas or suggestions aside from replacing it as it is still good.
I have two optical drives on it one internal and one USB external.For some reason the external drive sometimes disappears from the computer. I can't find it anywhere then a few days later it pops back up. I have tried replacing the cables and checked to power and still the problem continues. I also tried reinstalled the system and sometimes it works.
I have a 2nd hard drive and somewhat frequently it disappears from Windows explorer like it doesn't even exist. Then once I reboot the disk is back and perfectly fine and intact.I ran the Seagate tools against it and both the short test and long test passed just fine and it says that SMART has NOT been tripped.I did a lot of googling and found similar reports from others. But the things they suggest do not apply. For instance some reports are related to the driver disappearing after waking from sleep. In my case I can be actively using the drive and then it disappears. Also someone suggested disabling power management on the drive, but when I checked the drive is already set to Never power down.I am thinking that perhaps the SATA cable is buggy or not connected solidly. I'm going to open it up and try changing the cable. I really do think the drive is perfectly fine.
When i connect a sata hard disk which is loaded with windows 7 as a secondary to another windows 7 system to take the data backup it is not showing the drives but i can see it in the device management in windows 7.
I have a two HDD setup with a newer Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB as my secondary drive. It stores all my bigger files such as video games, videos, and so on. Whenever I try to optimize that hard drive using Disk Cleanup or Disk Defragmenter, it doesn't seem to execute the program. The hard drive is running and DC and DD have it on their list but when I use DC it would just come up with 0 mb to clean every time and DD always run a lot faster than the smaller primary drive which is also Western Digital. Is there somewhere in Windows 7 configuration that I need to change to enable the disk to be optimized?
ok so if i go into my computer and click on my c drive then highlight everything in there it says that i have 56gb space taken up but when i click on the hard drive itself and go to properties it says 66 gb is taken up. i have hidden files shown so i dont know where this 10 gb has gone. this happed after i turned on restore points and gave it 10 gbs but i deleted that in the screen and turned it off at the same time and it is still gone?
Running Win7 64 bit, built this computer back in December, has worked flawlessly until now. Last few days - operates fine for an hour or so, then freezes, goes black, crashes and reboots itself, only to stop at the loading OS screen due to 'Boot Disk Failure' Happens regardless of what I am doing, or even if idle. Have updated windows, ran virus and malware scans.
GIGABYTE GA-Z68XP-UD4 LGA 1155 (it was slightly bent on the end with the USB connectors and headphone jacks, but installed fine) GIGABYTE GV-R697OC-2GD Radeon HD 6970 Antec EarthWatts Series EA-750 Green 750W Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz 64 GB SSD 8 gigs Ram
All Critical errors are event 41, Kernal Power - but I'm sure thats from me hardbooting on the disk failure.
I have been going through the SSD optimization guides in the forums and had a question when disabling services like Superfetch, and Prefetch. Will this affect the performance of my secondary HDD? I am using me SSD for Windows 7 and programs and using my HDD's for storage.
My first hdd is the ssd and i dont want stuff installed on that i just wanted the os on it and now everything i install goes straight to the ssd anyway i can move it to my secondary 1tb hdd
So basically, a couple days ago, I installed a new ASUS Mobo, Intel CPU and Vengence RAM. But when I tried to boot into Windows 7, it would act like it was loading just fine, and then get a BSOD so quick that I couldn't read it, and fail to boot (I do not have an OEM copy of Windows). With not many options, I decided to reinstall Windows to fix my problem. And in that install screen, it listed all of my HDDs, without letters. I was like "uh-oh, which one is it?" So, I pick one, and it's the wrong one. But, instead of removing Windows from what was my D drive and now is my C drive, I'd like to just remove Windows 7 (the still corrupted one) from my now D drive. Is that making any sense? lol So anyway, I know that you can't just "uninstall windows", and I've read about just deleting the file folders... but that I have to give myself permissions to do it. Of course, I can't seem to do that. I have several to choose from, including "trustedinstaller" "creatorowner" "System" "Administrators" nothing seems to work. They even have full access and permission, and when I try to delete the Windows folder, it says "you must have permission to continue" I click okay, it continues, and then says it can't delete the folder. When I try to give permission to one of those names, it denies access for the Windows folder.Oh, also, formatting is really out of the question, as this D drive has all my precious files on it that I can't lose. But, I do have enough space to maybe partition it, copy it all over, and then format the windows partition?
I just instaled a ssd and im usen that to boot from and have another drive as slave what do i need to do to play games from that drive? Also can i install games to the secondary the slave and play from that to save space on my ssd?
I am not sure if this is a Windows 7 "issue" but I assume it is because I never noticed it in XP.
I have 4 drives in my PC. 1 for the OS, 1 backup, 1 data and 1 backup for the data drive.
What I have noticed the recently is that while the PC is running I can hear a drive power down and slowly stop spinning. If I trry to access the files on that drive it powers back up and I get to the files just fine.
While it is not a big issue I don't like having my drives start and stop all the time just because of the wear on the motor.
Is this a setting I am not aware of or anything I can do to change this?
I am currently using a laptop connected to my tv. The tv monitor is my primary display and the laptop screen is my secondary, they are extended to each other.I am planning to add a third monitor and was thinking of making it touch screen. Would this work? Everything I have read says that if you use a touch screen it has to be the primary display.
I have an hp dv5215us that I have been running off a power cable with no battery for quite some time now, hooked up to a secondary display, a Dell E151FPp. Every now and then I will unhook the secondary display and take the laptop with me to work without issues. Last night I popped my Win 7 install disk while running XP to install, clicked what I needed to, and let the install disk run. Now that Win 7 is installed, I am running into the following two issues:
1) When the secondary monitor is unplugged, the computer will not power on, let alone boot. No blue lights, nothing.
2) When the computer is on and I unplug the secondary display (I learned the hard way), the laptop powers off instantly, as if I unplugged it from the power source.
I looked in device manager under monitors and it only shows one. I am getting mirror screens now, and under the display options, the resolution options available to me look like those for the secondary monitor, not for the laptop monitor. I installed Windows 7 with the secondary plugged in.
I bought a new battery for the laptop online last night. I know it sounds like a hardware issue rather than an OS issue, but the laptop and secondary display didn't move anywhere since it was running without issues in XP, so unless there was some kind of short or something while the installation was taking place, I can't think of why this would be happening.
I have seen a couple dual monitor problems on this forum, but no solutions for my issue. I have Windows 7 32 with dual 4850 cards and CCC installed with Crossfire configured. I am using 2 20" LCD monitors, my primary works fine. Windows detects my second 20" monitor and I have set the resolution and that it should extend my desktop but there is no display.
When windows is loading both monitors display the Windows 7 splash page so I know the signal is getting there. Also I have tried resetting the drivers, uninstalling them, etc. At no point have I been able to get windows to display on both monitors. Any ideas?
I just placed an old hard drive into my computer to use as a slave. After I booted up on my current hard drive I went into disk manager and tried to format all the partitions. I formated one easily but the other won't seem to format. The option to format or delete volume are both greyed out.I then tried to boot from my Windows 7 disk to format the drive that way but it said it could not format dymanic drives. I can't change the drive to basic without deleting the last simple volume.
I am unable to use the Windows 7 image backup program because it doesn't see my second internal hard drive. I can see the drive in disk management. ( it shows up as SDATA1 D drive) and has plenty of room left 400 gigs out of 700 gigs.
I recently installed a second HD. Everything worked fine until I tried to restart it this morning. I unplugged the second HD and started up my PC and the same thing... "Loading Operating System ..., Boot from CD/DVD :, DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"I went into BIOS and changed the boot priority to HD and changed the order. Same thing. Luckily, almost everything I wanted to save I had transferred to my secondary HD. So if I have to do anything drastic I'm not too worried about it. But I'm still gonna lose some stuff.
Update: I have a legit copy of Windows 7 Pro installed and it was all working fine last night. This problem just arose this morning. Luckily I found a System Recovery disk I made a while back and I'm trying that now. But if anyone has heard of this before and there's a simple/obvious solution I'd be very happy if you could help me out.
I used DiskPart to partition and format the second HD. The second disk had a previous Windows System installed on it from my previous PC, XP I believe. I'm hoping my primary HD didn't get formatted somehow. When I loaded the system recovery disc no current OS was listed that I could choose from to repair/restore. I tried to re-image my system but Windows says it cannot find a system image.
2nd update: So I used the system recovery disc to automatically repair startup (Can't remember exactly what it said). But now it booted up correctly.
3rd update: So after I ran the startup repair on the system recovery disc I restarted my PC with the second HD unplugged. Booted up just fine. So I shutdown, reconnected my second drive, and then started up. Went into BIOS, made my primary drive the first HD to boot from, and then it started up just fine. I'm wondering if somehow the MBR or something else possibly got changed during this whole ordeal.
Instead of installing programs on the main OS Drive and installing on a secondary drive or partition, I should still be able to run the programs if I decide to format the OS drive and reinstall Windows. If so, the problem I'm seeing is that Windows won't know those programs are installed (like using the search bar to find programs or the program list) since whatever registry entries the program installer made will be wiped. Is there an easy way to back it up?Or is it advisable to just reinstall everything when I reformat?
I recently baught a Clevo Metabox P170EM laptop (the Australian version, i think the US version is by Sager), and it has a 128gb SSD Crucial M4 and a secondary 750gb HDD. I am not actually sure what kind of harddrive it is, all I know is that it is 750gb 7200rpm.I baught the laptop without an OS, as I had a Windows 7 disk already, and I had to go into drive management to format the secondary HDD. That all worked fine, I got it up and running, and was copying data across for a day. I also installed a couple of games (Crysis 1 &2, Dragon Age Origins if it matters) and played them from the secondary drive without a hassle.While playing, I got 122 Windows Updates which required a restart. So I let them install while I worked on clearing up my old laptop.Next time I booted the new one up, all of the icons for the previous games were blank and the HDD was unavailable. It doesn't show up in My Computer or Disk Management or even the BIOS (is that normal?)It also seemingly uninstalled some of my drivers - my nvidia GTX 670M wasn't recognised til I reinstalled the driver from the CD. I tried reinstalling every driver but no luck for the HDD.
When I turn ON (cool boot) I get a message that says "SATA secondary drive 0 not found" press F1 to continue or F2 to set the BIOS. Either way I choose the drive always show up in the Device Manager and works fine, except that I always get the same message when turn ON the computer. It never does it during re-start.
I have a windows 7 Pro OS running which was loaded with one HDD attached. Windows was running fine. I installed a secondary HDD to allow some backup; it was able to be installed, fully formated and was healthy. I tried to backup but was told by windows it was not large enough so I uninstalled by accessing device manager from inside computer management and clicking uninstall and confirming device removal. There was then, no visible indication that the secondary drive was installed. I shut down and physically removed the secondary drive and tried to reboot but all I could get was "A disk read error occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart". So I reconnected the drive and it boots fine. My question is, what do I need to do to be able to disconnect the secondary drive without getting that error?
I am an IT professional however cannot figure out this issue on my my machine and its driving me nuts
I have Win 7 64 Ultimate on RC build 7100 and everything runs fine, however since next week the OS will expire and my machine will reset every 2 hours therefore i upgraded to the official Win 7 64 Ultimate and the blooming machine gives me a BSOD every time I try and install something on my secondary drives (d: e: f: )
Thought it was an AVG issues or access privileges since my other drives where formatted on other previous OS`s (c: for windows, d: for games, etc.) However it now even seems to be doing it if I try and install stuff on C: - now I have a hunch it might be AVG FREE causing the issues, dunno, any suggestions would be appreciated.
I just did a clean install and created 2 partitions.... C and D. I meant D to be the Windows partition and C be my main. Well I messed up I guess lol. I made 2 partitions C being 30gb(supposed to be 450gb) and D being the 450gb(supposed to be 30gb). How do I switch partitions? Make C become D and vice versa?
Also, how do I make everything I download and install in the future use
