Computer Type: PC/Desktop System Manufacturer/Model Number: dell pentium 4 OS: windows 7 ultimate 32bit systeam CPU: intel 3.20GHz Motherboard: atx Memory: 2 GB Ram Hard Drives: c and d HHD 250 or so
I have a Toshiba 500 gb had that I currently use as storage 4 things like my music my pictures important documents and the last 3 years of my college education. Anytime I plugged it into my laptop the device manager listed it as a disk drive and it was found with all of the other drives listed...
Windows 7 OS with admin rights (group policy not installed)
Hello to the forum, I would apprechiate some help.
Q.
How to stop external hdd OS writing to a drive (without express permision or blocking totally) and controlling overal access.
Or needing the windows admin password to access...
Hello,
my SSD drive was suddenly inaccessible after a reboot, so I put my backup spindle drive into my laptop to get it started.
Because I have important files I need to access from my ssd I put that into a case and plugged it into the USB port.
Now windows explorer just hangs forever...
(I apologize in advance if this post isn't in the correct category. I couldn't see where to put it.)
Problem: Win7 laptop cannot access drive from WinXP machine via USB drive dock.
Background: I have a WinXP desktop machine with a hard drive that may have a virus/trojan/rootkit/etc. ...
In the limited research I have done with the problem posed in post #56, I believe the reason the user is unable to use the drive is it is GPT and is protected. Is there a way to reclaim the drive and data in Windows 7?
I am unfamiliar with GPT and do not know how to get Windows 7 to give access...