creating recovery disks
I am configuring/personalizing a new HP Pavilion dv7-2173d with Vista home 64bit OS. I'm making recovery disks using bl...
system restore / recovery disks
Hello,I know (I think) what system restore points are. Happily I have never had to use them.I cannot seem to be able to...
slimtype dvdrw-ssm-8515s ATA Device Stopped Reading disks
Hi everyone! Maybe somone will be able to help me out! I have a aspire 5610z notebook with Vista on it! About a year ...
System Properties takes long time to display available disks
This afternoon, when I tried to activate System Restore, I didn't get a window. 2 minutes after activating System Resto...
What is "Msdia80.dll" doing in the root of my storage disks?
I am running Vista x64 Ultimate & other apps on a 150GB WD Raptor. Storage is taken care of by 2 x 1TB WD SATA2 driv...
Reinstalling from back up disks
I recenly had a problem with my system and was helped by a Microsoft Tech. He backed-up my files on one disk and my em...
Adding two disks raid0
Is it possible two add two new disks in raid0 on an existing windows vista home premium 32 bit installation and how?Tha...
Making recovery disks message:
How do I disable the message to make Vista recovery disks...?...
windows vista unable to complete the format of DVD disks
I have an issue on my Gateway Laptop computer model MT6832B which has an Opiarc ad-7530a DVD RW drive. I also have the...
one of your disks needs to be checked for consistency
I just reloaded my Vista OS on my laptop now I keep getting the following on boot up.One of your disks needs to be check...
What are all these removable disks in Vista?
Please be gentle. I am coming from XP after years. And just learning Vista. When I bring up "my computer" I h...
Vista 64 Bit - Cannot Boot With 3 Hard Disks
Hello,I have just installed Vista Ultimate 64 Bit (on my 500 GB Seagate hard disk, the main hard disk).Then, I added 2 m...
2 vista disks doesn't work?
I have a Vista and also a cloned vista for backup.After about 4 days something happened so I booted from the old vista. ...
SOT - Floppy Disks
Who still has 3.5" floppy's they can't bear to throw out even though their computer no longer has a 3.5" drive...
Can't play disks
When I try to open a disk, the driver ejects it and it says please insert a disk into drive. I tried uninstalling and ...
can not back up itunes or recovry disks
i ve tried a veriety of cd, cd.r dvd, dvd r dvd/r/w/ i have checked and tried to enable d.m.a. on the dvd burner and ...
no bootable disks after restart - BIOHD-3 error
was trying to copy data from a dvd to external usb when pc hung - i tried to cancel the copy but it was unresponsive - i...
WinPE & dynamic disks
This is just a general query about how WinPE handles dynamic disks.Let me explain the scenario...I'm using Backup Exec S...
ReRe Creating recovery disks
I was complaining a day or two ago that it's difficult to burn CD-R and DVD-R backups reliably, and that the shelf-life...
This PC is not supported by the System Recovery Disks.
I'm pretty computer savvy, but this one has me stumped.I have an HP dv9200 CTO. Vista Home Premium. For a long time I'...
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...
Putting my videos on disks. help me
Hey guys, im just wondering can i just burn my videos from my computer straight onto dvd-r+ discs and then they'll play ...
Defense Against Boot Disks?
I have several users that keep using a linux boot disk to reset the administrator password. Short of encrypting the ent...
CompletePC and Dynamic Disks
Does anyone know why CompletePC backup refuses to save its files on a dynamic disk? Can someone please explain this?Th...
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. ...
Re: Vista 64 Bit - Cannot Boot With 3 Hard Disks
How big is your power supply? It is possible that your system is having trouble getting all of the drives up to speed ...
Vista Corrupted To Near Unusability -- No Recovery Disks
My Vista Home Premium (SP2) is corrupted to near unusability. Proof?1. I click the Firewall control panel and I get an ...
Hard Drive Failure - no recovery disks - Do I need to purcha
Hello,I have a laptop with a license for Vista Premium Home Edition. My hard drive failed before I burned the recovery...
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 ...
Re: Dynamic disks no longer readable under XP
The solution is really simple (although not that optimal): in Vista/Windows 7 you assign the drive letter back to the vo...
Reformat without disks
I managed to lose the install disks for Vista and Microsoft Office 2007. My hard drive, for some reason unknown to me,...
Recovering PC factory condition with recovery disks w/ 64 bi
I tried running my HP Recovery Manager a couple of days ago and it kept freezing around 77% so I talked to someone at HP...
Vista Ultimate, Dynmaic Disks & Active Partitions
Pretty straight forward question, will the below work? ;)I hope to God it will for I've well already done it as you can ...
DVD RW not reading blank DVD disks, thinks no disk is in the
HiI have a Toshiba A100 laptop with vista home premium installed on it. I am trying to burn DVD disks on my laptop, and ...
hp recovery disks ploblems
i had this problem with the recovery disks. i did a recovery with my disks i made from the recovery manager i tried the ...
External hard disks
For use on my Windows Vista laptop, I am looking for a 1 terrabyte external hard disk, and I am considering between the...
Windows unable to complete format of DVD RW disks
I have an issue on my Gateway Laptop computer model MT6832B which has an Opiarc ad-7530a DVD RW drive. I also have the...
Dynamic disks suddenly offline in Windows Vista (can't react
Hi all first post and believe it or not. After much searching I cant believe how little information there is available ...
Default program for externala disks
hiwhen i put a usb flash disk or a external usb disk into my pc i get real player started as defualt program instead of...
Burnning DVD DISKS on Vista premium (problem)
I have a HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook and tried to convert and burn a AVI movie to DVD-R disk it runs on my DVD player in t...
Striped Volume on External Disks
I have 2 external eSATA drives which I have striped in Vista to make a large volume.If I reformat my PC can I add the v...
Formatting of CDR/RW disks compulsory?
Why does Vista format CDR and CDRW disks before they can be used? Is there any way of stopping this?...
cannot see external USB hard disks
hi,I have a Vista Business Dell D630 laptop. All of a sudden, I cannot access any external USB hard disks. When I connec...
Vista and external hard disks
I've been running my Vista machine with a Seagate hard disk. Works fine in paralell. I tried to hook it up with Firewir...
Vista home 32 bit recovery disks not labeled help?
Hi, My son sent me his Compaq laptop w/Vista installed and it wouldn't boot at all. Finally got it restored by using F1...