Missing hard drive in disk management

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• When I try to reduce my main hard drive in disk management, I get an error: "access is denied".

  Separated from this thread.

  I also have the problem of access is denied.  I use an admin account in Vista Home Premium.

  Separated from this thread.

  I also have the problem of access is denied.  I use an admin account in Vista Home Premium.

  Other attempts reveal:

  Despite the informed retractable utility Go 70 was available for this operation, when I tried 65Gb, 60GB etc. the message was 'Access denied'.  However when I asked only 50 GB the process completed successfully!

  If 70 GB information (in a partition which was ~ 200 GB free) was available was false or error message should have been some such more meaningful instead of "Access denied" or "ask too much."

• New hard drive - recovery disks

  Hello

  I have a HP Pavilion dv6-3230us running windows 7(64 bit). I was thinking of upgrading my hard drive to an SSD and I was wondering if I could use recovery discs to reinstall Windows 7 and all drivers. I have a new copy of Windows 7 Professional I could use and went to the site of HP driver but don't know what all that I have to download to get everything to work. I saw that there is an option to order recovery media and I was wondering if that would do the same and bring the computer back as the first day I bought it without having to use my copy of Windows 7 Pro me.

  Thank you

  Hello:

  Unless you buy the same size (in GB) SSD, as your original hard drive, recovery disks do not work.

  What I suggest to users in your situation is the following:

  Copy the your C:\ drive SWSetup folder to a portable storage device.  Take a look here because it should contain all the program and driver installation files to install on your PC. Some of the installation of the program files will not be considered on the assumption of your laptop and driver page.

  If you have trouble finding drivers, just click on all devices that appear in the device with a little yellow Manager! mark.

  Then after material ID for them, and we can let you know that you need to install drivers.

  If you don't know how to find the hardware device ID, please read the info at the link below.

  http://www.DeviceDriverFinder.com/blog/device-drivers/how-to-check-the-hardware-ID-for-a-Windows-device

  If you don't want to lose your windows 7 license pro on your PC, you can make your own drive of W7 premium family if you can read the product key of MS 25 characters on the bottom of your PC.

  Here's how:

  If you can read the Microsoft windows 7 25-character product key, you can download simple Windows 7 ISO files to burn on a DVD for the version of windows that is installed on your PC, and which is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker on your PC case.

  Burn the ISO with the option to burn the ISO on your DVD burning program and burn it at the slowest possible speed that will allow your program. This will create a bootable DVD.

  Or use the installation of Windows 7 USB/DVD tool to compile the ISO file that you download from Digital River. Link and instructions below. You need a 4 GB flash drive to use the USB compilation method.

  http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/HTML/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool

  Use 25 characters on the PC product key to activate the installation.

  The key will activate a 32 or 64 bit installation.

  Then go to the support of the PC and driver page to install the drivers you need.

  Link to downloads ISO of W7 is below.

  http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-Windows-7-SP1-ISO-from-Digital-River/

  Paul

• To install the new eSATA / SATA to USB 2.0 hard drive in an external enclosure but the computer does not recognize the drive in disk management

  I have an old computer with installed Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and 3.  I bought a new hard drive and also a new external hard drive for her case.  I have correctly installed the hard drive inside the enclosure, and I think that I have installed correctly (in the motherboard SATA port) eSATA port, according to the manufacturer's instructions.  I plugged everything... first eSATA, then power and power switch.  I restarted the computer, and I chose to analyze disks in disk management.  However, the new drive is not recognized.  The SATA port on the motherboard could not work or did I buy the bad, perhaps, hard drive enclosure for my system?  Or something related to the software?  Thank you.

  Hi Donnadream,

  Connect the hard drive to another port and check if that makes a difference

  Step 1: You can follow the steps mentioned in the article below, which deals with a similar question

  A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB, an Apple iPod flash drive or an external hard disk drive

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925196

  Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  How to back up and restore the registry in Windows
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/322756/

  Step 2: Download and install the latest drivers from the chipset of the computer or the manufacturer of the motherboard and check

  Step 3: Hard disk can be turned off in the BIOS; You may want to enable

  Important: Change BIOS (Basic input output system) /semiconductor (CMOS) to complementary metal oxide settings can cause serious problems that may prevent your computer from starting properly. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the configuration of the BIOS/CMOS settings can be solved. Changes to settings are at your own risk.

  If the problem persists, it is a hardware problem, contact the manufacturer of the hard drive for a more specialized help

  Thanks and greetings

  Ajay K

  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer

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• external hard drive not in management of disks and in my computer. Hard drive is not grateful. Hot to get the content

  Hi, I am trying to connect my external hard drive, but it is not visible in my computer or disk management. But the disk is running, can you please let me know how to make visible and removes the content. Thank you

  If its not visible in disk management, the drive does not work, your way of connecting a player to your PC is defective or if only a usb connection, the usb port does not work (check for brands of yellow warning device manager)

• MISSING hard drive volumes (D / & f /)

  I got 4 partitions on my hard drive(C, D, E, F). but now I can not find D & F readers 

  Windows displays C & E readers. readers D & f are missing.
  
  also, when I attach my USB, windows displays the USB in the D drive under devices with removable storage

  How can I find the 2 lack of readers back?

  Help, please...!

  Hi John,.

  -You have all four partitions on a hard drive? Or you have several hard drive installed in the computer?

  -Since when are you facing this problem?

  -Don't you make changes before this problem started?

  This can happen if you have several hard drives on your computer and if you lose the connection to one of the hard drive.

  First of all I suggest you to check if you have several hard drives and check the connections.

  You can also go to disk management and check if the hard drive and partitions are recognized in disk management.  To access the management drives follow the steps below:

  1. Click Start.
  2. In the start menu search box type diskmgmt.msc and press ENTER.
  3. In disk management, check the reader connected to the computer and the partitions.

  Post back the result, after checking with the hard disk in disk management and by checking your computer for several hard disks.

  I hope this helps. Post back and let us know the status.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Srinivas R Microsoft Support.

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• Install Win8 on new HARD drive using disks of recovery on HP Envy M6

  Okay, so I have my hard drive crashed a few months. So, I ordered a set of HP recovery disks. I finally get around to retrieve Win8 on the new HARD drive. However, I follow these instructions and it does NOT work. I get to the Boot Manager and nothing is there - at all. So, I went back to the BIOS and disabled secure boot (just in case). Yet, nothing. After several hours, I dropped...

  Flash forward to today. I have enabled the legacy starts, moved DVD player y up in my order of start and stuck in a Win7 disc, I have here. One immediately recognizes the disc.

  I finally decided to try to install recovery using USB thought which may help. So, I had on my desktop and tried to rip an .iso of the disks. Both PowerISO and IMGBurn rise "IO error" partially through the period of inquiry.

  I'm starting think that the discs are bad... That would not explain why can't I see my optical drive in the Boot Manager however.

  Thoughts?

  It was records. I downloaded a copy of Win8 and it began immediately.

• Difficulty to install Windows XP because of the missing HARD drive driver

  Hello

  I recently bought a P200-1 and I try to install Windows XP instead of Vista.
  I bought Windows XP Home Edition. Installation was first arrested for lack of HARD disk drive.
  Classic message: «Setup didn't find any hard drives installed in your computer»
  I downloaded Toshiba support "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" (pilot: ICH8M_32bits).

  The contents of this directory was extracted to the root of a disk.
  I restart my PC with XP CD-Rom and floppy drive connected. Setup download SATA AHCI floppy driver (press F6, and then later S key).
  The installer can read disks and partitions and offers the choice of a partition for the installation of XP system.

  After you have selected a partition, the installation begins and the installation program asks to insert "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" in drive A.
  Here's the problem: floppy drive not responding, disk is not read and XP installation stops.
  Ask for a second time to insert the floppy is suspect because he thought the driver drive HARD has already been read successfully.

  What can I do now?

  Thank you for your help

  JR

  Hello

  The problem might be that you have formatted the HARD drive (partition) or created a new partition after the installation of the Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
  In this case the formatting removes the driver from the HARD drive.

  Another possibility is the use of software called nLite. This software allows to include the SATA driver in the XP installation CD.

  Simply search for nLite and you will get lots of useful details.

  Greetings and good luck

• 12 GB of missing hard drive?

  Hello, I have a t61, which has 160 GB hard drive. I installed windows xp from the CD recovery and after installation, the capacity of the hard drive fell to 143 GB... I know there is a place where recovery is stored on the hard drive... but why it takes 17 GB of space? I checked the recovery partition in disk management and taking 5 GB of space... then where the hell is my remaining 12 gbs of space?

  Do not forget that drive manufacturers measure the capacity of the disk in powers of 1000, but Windows uses the powers of 1024 i.e. Windows will always appear to show less space that the makers say.

  For an explanation look detailed here:

  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements

  Or use the basic rule of wikipedia:

  «A rule to convert quickly the capacity of the drive by the manufacturer to the ability of Microsoft Windows in standard format is 0.93 * less than a terabyte hard drives manufacturer HARD drive capacity and 0.91 * capacity of HDD from manufacturer for HDDs equal to or greater than 1 terabyte.»

• Can WRT1900ACS use an external hard drive with disks in RAID 0, 1, or JBOD?

  Hello

  Happy new year.

  Is an external drive with more disks RAID 0, 1; JBOD compatible with WRT1900ACS?

  I have this idea to tie a big (6-8 TB) external drive and use the DLNA feature as an alternative to a computer as NAS and DLNA server. The external drive could be four 2 TB Western Digital hard drives in RAID 0, 1; JBOD. The boxes can be:

  - Western Digital my book Duo.

  - IB-3640SU3 - external case of JBOD 4 x with eSATA and USB 3.0 for disks 3.5 "SATA hard.

  I hope someone can help clarify if I have misunderstood something.

  Concerning

  Jan Rouvi

  Hello. It is not recommended to use this type of enclosure with the WRT1900ACS, since most of this is managed by software that are installed on the computer. The software will not be able to detect hard drives, whether they are connected to the router and the router does not have this capability to configure drives in RAID 0, 1, or JBOD. The configuration of the router storage tool is just very basic. If you really need to configure RAID 0, 1, or JBOD in terms of network, you must obtain a SIN.

• Second missing hard drive

  After installing Windows 7 on one of the two hard drive (HD) on my computer, the second HD does not show anywhere. How to recover this HD? W

  Do you mean you upgraded to win7 on an existing system that had two drives running or do you mean that you clean installed win on a new system that had two news readers and unused?

  What is shown in disk management, appears the second disc?

• MISSING HARD DRIVE

  Windows 7, 64-bit Windows Home Premium

  I received answers to my problem, BUT he's still not left aside and then I'm lost. I need a step by step solution. I had a second hard drive installed to use for backups.  The HD has worked well for about two months and then he disappeared.  No letter (F) is presented as before.  Can be seen in 'My Computer' or Device Manager or any where.  I want to avoid computer stores so that I can learn to do things myself.  I'll be 72 in June... Hurry a response.  Thank you, Joseph

  Open the case and check that the cables for power and data of the drive are secured at both ends.

  If the drive is still not in the BIOS, or anywhere in Windows, it failed. If you need the data on the disk, send it to a recovery specialist: this will be expensive. Otherwise, make a guarantee claim on the manufacturer of the drive.

• Part off missing hard drive

  Hello

  I have a mac os el capitan with 10 windows bootcamp on my macbook pro. below you can see my hard drive partitions.

  

  The thing is if you calculate that a part of the hard drive missing about 70 GB. Can someone tell me how can I format or get back so I can add it to the MACOS partition without having to reformat the entire hard drive?

  Thanks in advance,

  Suraj

  Please after the release of the following OS X Terminal commands?

  diskutil list

  Cs diskutil list

• Satellite Pro A40: Is it possible to format the HARD drive without disk

  I am passing on a Satellite Pro A40 to a brother. It is in very good condition, but has slowed down over the years. I want to get rid of my data (I have on a new machine) and speed up the system by formatting the hard drive.

  The machine didn't come with a disc for Windows XP, or a recovery CD (just a CD "tools and utilities"). I'm sure the drive HARD will be partitioned, and I can format the drive without such a disc.

  If this is true, how should I do?
  Thank you.

  Hello

  I can't believe that you do not have recovery media.
  The laptop must be supplied with recovery CD, Tools & Utilities CD, and WinDVD.

  But back to your question;
  If you insert a new HARD disk, you will need to use the Toshiba Recovery CD or the original CD of Microsoft Windows to install the operating system.
  The new drive is not partitioned HARD and doesn't have any OS pre-installed!

  If you n t have the original CD of Microsoft OS you can contact the service provider allowed in your country and you can order it.

  I hope I could help

  Good bye

• MacBook Air missing hard drive space

  I noticed that the free space on the hard drive on my Macbook Air has been quickly disappear even if I had not been adding lots of new files, certainly not enough to account for the 10s of gigabytes that disappeared last week. I cleaned it of useless media files, which gives him another 20 GB of space. The status bar it reflects accurately at first, but when I started the computer this morning, it had lost 30 GB of this adjustment.

  After you run WhatSize DaisyDisk, I see that they have both claim that my Air uses Go 296, which is in agreement with the about this Mac, but when you look at the size of the actual folders, there is no way that they measure is added to this amount.

  Using Get Info, I got the following:

  14.43 applications gb

  Users 42,45

  System of 7.77

  Library of 8.95

  That all adds up to about 74 GB of used space. WhatSize actually gives me different numbers. Where in the world are the other 220 or so lack of gbs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  (Note: although I typed this out, I noticed that about 8 GB of free space have disappeared in the status bar)

  Here are a few screenshots of WhatSize and disk utility. Of THE claims that 'other' includes 283 GB, but I can't understand what is included in whatever measure it as 'other '.

  

  

  

  If you want more accurate stats from the about this Mac, then to re-index your drive: Spotlight - how to re - index folders or volumes - Apple Support.

  Free space on hard drive

  1. see Lion-Lion/mountain/storage of the Mavericks display.

  2. you can remove the data from your file except for the folder/Home/Library /.

  3. visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the free space on your hard drive.

  4. also see release space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

  5 see where my disk space gone?.

  6 see the storage view.

  You must empty the trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.

  You should consider to replace the drive with a larger. Check out OWC of readers, tutorials and boxes tools.

  Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are.