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• Windows 7 is not looking for files on my physics extra internal hard drive (d :)) why not?)

  On the Microsoft Web site at: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows7/products/features/windows-search

  It says on the page, , "a few people store all their files in a place these days. If Windows 7 is also designed to search for external hard drives, networked PC, and libraries. Overwhelmed by your search result? You can instantly narrow them by date, type of file and other useful categories. »

  Why, then, can't I search for files on my internal additional physical hard drive D: I know are there, and yet I can see and open them in Windows Explorer?

  I would debate that from what I see, by default, Windows 7 is not be indexed files on anything other than his main boot partition.

  Is it possible to change Windows 7 to enable indexing of other readers, or force a periodic re-indexing?

  If anyone has an answer, it would be much appreciated.

  Try (see - http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/improve-windows-searches-using-index-faq#1TC=windows-7 )

  It will be useful.

• Reference Dell E1505 laptop - not recognizing external hard drive

  I bought a Dell Inspiron E1505 year last with Windows Vista and just bought an external hard drive laptop ( http://www.toshibastorage.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/ConsumerStorageProducts/NewUSBPortableExtHardDrive ) from Toshiba a few days ago.

  My Inspiron E1505 does not recognize the drive.  I went to the Device Manager and the Toshiba drive does not appear.  However, the Toshiba portable external hard drive is recognized by my new laptop Dell XPS with Windows Vista.  I called Toshiba tech support and they said there is a problem with the operating system does not recognize the hard drive.  Anyone know how to solve this problem so that my Inspiron E1505 will recognize the Toshiba portable external hard drive?  The drivers are built into the Toshiba external hard drive so tehre are no drivers to download.

  
  

• Inspiron 1545 - hard drive replacement, new drive SATA not found 'internal hard drive not found ".

  Hi all

  I'm trying to install Win7 in an Inspiron 1545 with a new SATA hard drive that has been purchased. When I insert the disc, I get "Internal hard drive not found." I checked the drive does not appear in the BIOS, I already tried to reinstall the drive several times. In addition, I tried to load the chipset drivers, drivers SATA, etc. of the Dells, the Reader site still does not appear in the installation of the OS when starting on a DVD or in the bios.

  I do not think that there is a problem with the new drive, I plugged the new drive in another Dell laptop model and it recognizes the drive in the BIOS, also I can always start on the previous in this laptop without problem hard drive when I plug it in.

  Is there a specific driver, etc. should I use for the drive to be recognized or have other thoughts?

  It's strange - either the new HDD has a rare compatibility with your embedded controller problem (I use a 500Gbyte in my 1545 no probs)) or it is a mechanical problem. I look at the physical dimensions and compare your original hdd by the new. Watch the video (even if it's on a 1525 (similar to a 1545) and a SSD hard drive)-go to 02:20

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• Windows 7 backup and restore not recognizing external hard drives

  My laptop recognizes the drives external hard and other storage devices and I can read and manually copy files, etc for them. But the backup and restore told me that nothing is connected when I try to run it. Also, when I connect the external hard drive to a USB port, the menu that is displayed does not include the option of backup of the device just connect. Is there a setting I need to change in the backup and restore program? Or is there another solution that everyone is aware of it please?

  Hi Sally,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I understand that the backup and restore does not recognize the external hard drive, but Windows doesn't. I'll be happy to help you with your query. Let me ask you;

  1. Is - this happy with all external hard drives or individual?
  2. What kind of backup are trying to create, auto or manual?
  3. You did it recently no specific changes in the computer?

  There may be several reasons why backup & restore does not recognize the external hard drive. Let's check out the steps below.

  Step 1: Connect the device to a USB (Universal Serial Bus) and a different test.

  Step 2: You can check if the services responsible for the backup of restoration & work or not.

  Volume Shadow Copy and backup of Windows service.

  To check the services, you can follow the procedure.

  (a) click Start.

  (b) in the Search tab, type Services.msc , and then press Efriendship.

  (c) now in the services window, locate Windows Backup service and Volume Shadow Copy services. Check if they are started.

  Note: Check the services separately, and then close the Services window.

  Step 3: Run the next Fixit and check if the disc is recognized.

  Click here to launch the Fixit.

  Step 4: You can try to temporarily disable the security software of the computer and check with the question. Later, re-enable the security software.

  See: , disable the anti-virus software

  Important: Antivirus software can help protect your computer against viruses and other security threats. In most cases, you should not disable your antivirus software. If you need to disable temporarily to install other software, you must reactivate as soon as you are finished. If you are connected to the Internet or a network, while your antivirus software is disabled, your computer is vulnerable to attack.

  Hope this information is useful. Please feel free to answer in the case where you are facing in the future other problems with Windows.

• Peripheral USB is not recognized (external hard drive)

  I have a western digital external drive who worked originally on windows XP Edition family, unfortunately this computer crashed and had to reinstall everything. After ending, I went to retrieve some data off the drive and it keeps giving error usb device not recognized. I looked on a lot of different 'solutions' to nothing does not. I can connect to other computers running the same operating system and he shoots very well if it is not the drive. It seems as if a driver is missing, but I checked with Western Digital, and they say the questions is a mistake of operating system, all updates and service packs have been installed. Ive tried all online of the easy solution like just unplug the computer and the drive and restart, remove and reinstall the drivers in the OS System. In Device Manager its reports as an unknown device under the USB bus controllers section. I need to get this to work by car no matter either if it needs to be reformatted or repartitioned, but I can't even pull up on the drive to reformat so don't know what to do. any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

  The problems detected as "unknown".

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314464

  WD Firmware Updater. (May be necessary since you have reinstalled the OS)

  http://www.wdc.com/wdproducts/wdsmartwareupdate/?ID=wdfMyPassport&OS=win&FW=1

• Satellite 1800 is not recognizing the hard drive of 80G

  I recently bought a store and save 2500 80 external to free up hard drive space on my laptop. Deliberately, I bought a disc that was backward compatible with my USB 1.1 (assuming) ports. When I plug it in, the external drive turns on and it beeps constantly but is not recognized by my PC. I tried the drive in a desktop computer and it works fine - so were excluded from the unit malfunctions. I uninstalled the USB drives and re-installed, etc, but no luck.

  Any ideas of what I can do?

  What form factor is this player 'record and store? It's a 3.5 "or a smaller as 2.5"? And how the HARD drive is powered? With two USB connectors or an external AC adapter?

  It would be useful to know some information about everything that solve your problem.

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• PC not recognizing external hard drive

  Hello

  I have a HP Pavilion P6635UK (using windows 7 home) that I have used with an external drive WD successfully for several months.  Now, he does not appear to recognize the external hard drive.

  When I connect via USB and then go to 'Start/computer' it does not appear. If I go on "Devices and printers" it appears and indicates that the device is functioning properly. If I open "Devices and printers", it will allow me to "safely remove hardware & eject media. What gives the beep when I do. I tried to use different ports USB (the Pavilion) but the result is the same.

  He also appeared in the "Device Manager" as working properly. Using the "convenience store" it is said "Troubleshooting couldn't identify the problem." Other devices using the same all the USB ports work correctly

  I also have a Compaq Presario notebook in which the WD external HD works fine.

  Any help would be appreciated

  Cyprien

  I think I can solved this problem by myself (with a little research in the WD support forum)

  Go to start, right click on computer, select manage, select disk management. The next column on the left will show all readers with their corresponding letter. My external hard drive doesn't show any letter entrusted to him. Right-click on where the drive letter should appear and select the path and change the drive letter. Select any letter you wish to call, and then click OK.

  Now admittedly. But why it happened in the first place when he was working very well before I have no idea.

• My new laptop is not an internal hard drive. Can I download a version of LR3 and use my product code for the version that I bought?

  I bought a new laptop and not a don't watch to see that it has not built in disk drive to install my software for LR3. Is there an online version of LR3 online that I can download and activate with my product code?

  Goto keeping updated in Lightroom

  Download v3.6 using your registration number.

• How can I locate the folder where my backup files are stored on my internal hard drive? I want to delete all backup files

  operating system is windows vista laptop.

  I went into system restore settings and couldn't find how to locate my saved files. I think they take a LOT of space, I deleted all other unused files and I have more than 6 GB of free space out of 67 concert. Help, please? I don't know much about computers at all.

  Hello

  Follow the method of deleting a file of older backup using sub steps and check later if the problem persists.

  (a) open backup and restore by clicking the Start button, click Control Panel, click system and Maintenanceand then clicking backup and restore.

  (b) click on Manage space. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  (c) to delete older backups of files under that data backup file, click on view backups.

  You can then select the backups of files that you want to delete, which will free up disk space. Remove an entry in the list will not affect the other backups. If you think that you don't need one version of your files from a certain backup period, you can delete that backup. We recommend that you always keep the most recent backup.

  Backup and restore: frequently asked questions:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions

  Should what backup settings I use to maximize my disk space?

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/what-backup-settings-should-I-use-to-maximize-my-disk-space

  Hope this information is useful.

• I can't access my external hard drive with windows 7. How can I get my music out of her files? My pc with xp operating system can access it without problem. but my new pc with windows 7 does not see the hard drive.

  I bought a new pc to replace my old hp 14 months as the motherboard fried in. I bought a case of disk external hard to rocketfish to put the hard drive of my Windows 7 pc in. burned does not see the hard drive. my old pc with xp can access all the items on the external hard drive.

  Check that the drive appears in Device Manager.

  If so, go to disk management and assign a drive letter.

• When you try to re - install Windows XP, it does not detect the hard drive.

  Hi all. I tired to do a reinstall of Windows XP today. It seems to take a lot of time, and then I did a very stupid thing. I turned off the laptop that I had to go. Now when I try to start the laptop on the cd, I get as far the screen where I have to press on enter to install Windows XP pro on the system or press R to repair. The problem is that there is now no facilities to choose from in the box below and the system is not recognizing the hard drive. I can't even as much as the screen to format the drive. When I press ENTER to install windows xp, then I get a blue screen telling me that the system shuts down to protect my pc. Is anyone able to tell me what to do to solve this problem please. Thank you very much in advance for your help. Noel

  original title: I did a stupid thing... Windows XP Pro

  Sounds like a hard drive problem then. Your drive is maybe defective. First of all, you can use the partition of diagnostic Dell (F12) for its determination.

  In case there is a SATA problem, press F2 to enter the BIOS and change the setting of hard disk SATA to legacy. (Might as well try this first.)

• Satellite A205-S4777 - XP does not recognize the HARD drive

  Hello!

  Recently I buyed a new satellite Toshiba A205-S4777 with Windows Vista home premium installed
  and I noticed too many errors in Windows Vista and the pc is very slow so I decided to downgrade to XP

  I want to directly install Windows XP but the installer does not recognize the hard drive or more exactly controllers!

  I nLite Sata drivers in Windows Xp Sp2, I bought on the microsoft.com site!

  Everything worked well.
  The Installer recognized fine hard and Setup finallased!

  But here's the problem when loading windows and try to pass on gorge yourself sort of blue screen one unreadable!

  And restarts and let, it does all day the same thing!

  I'm afraid that I have not nLite the right drivers.

  Is there anyone Heve downgraded this model?
  Thanx

  Hello

  Maybe you did not use good SATA driver?  :| Who knows
  The point is that there are two different versions of Intel Matrix Storage Manager supports different chipsets.
  I put t know what chipset is in charge of your laptop but you should check this and must also check the description of the Intel Storage Manager and check what chipsets are supported.

  In addition, you should have a look here in this doc from Toshiba:
  [How to integrate a SATA AHCI driver into a Windows XP installation CD | http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/TSB85017Z0000R01.htm]

  Good bye

• HP Pavilion s5715: replace the internal hard drive and windows 7 & OEM

  Hello world.

  I use a PC HP Pavilion Desktop s5715 with windows 7 Home premium x 64. The internal hard drive is a Seagate (ST1000528AS SATA/300 7200 RPM). I recently received messages when windows starts by saying that "the hard drive failure, is imminent. Check the disk with CrystalDiskInfo told me he had a problem with the reallocated sectors count & number of events of reallocation (with the values 1, 1, 36).

  So now, I want to replace this with a Western Digital Black 1 TB internal drive, and I want to have Windows 7 onto the new drive. I had 3 HP recovery disks (burned on DVDs). I also had a D drive that says "HP_Recovery.

  1. can I replace the Seagate SATA/300 with a WD SATA/600?

  2. my HP Pavilion s5715 does support the new internal hard drive?

  3. how to install windows 7 on a new hard drive? Can I use the HP recovery discs? Some forum posts on the internet say something OEM Windows 7; I have no idea what it is and if I got it. Or should I use a program like Acronis to clone my hard drive to the new? What should do? Thank you

  When you request support, please provide the number full name or product model of the HP computer in question. HP/Compaq made thousands of computer models. Without this information, it can be difficult, even impossible to help you solve your problem.

  The information requested above are on the side, back or bottom of the computer. Please, do not include the serial number. Please enter the product/model information in the HP Online Support page for consumers , and/or post it here for our review.

  1. can I replace the Seagate SATA/300 with a WD SATA/600? YES

  2. my HP Pavilion s5715 does support the new internal hard drive? YES

  3. how to install windows 7 on a new hard drive? Can I use the HP recovery discs? YES, you will need to use your HP recovery disks to return the computer to a factory State.

  If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

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• Setup did not find any hard drives installed in my computer

  HI -.

  I own a laptop Presario X1015US and recently bought a new hard drive for her (Western Digital Scorpio Blue PATA 160 GB) but when I insert the operating system CD it goes through the entire process until it gets to a page where it says:

  Family Windows XP Setup

  
  

  Setup did not find any hard drives installed in your computer.

  
  

  Make sure that the hard disks are turned on and properly connectd to your computer, and that any hardware configuration of the drives is correct. This may involve a diagnosis provided by the manufacturer or the installer running.

  
  

  Setup cannot continue.  To quit Setup, press F3.

  I'm not sure of what I am doing wrong and hope someone can help me.  For example -.

  -J' checked the Bios and I do not see where the drive sits - have I missed something?

  -The drive I bought compatible for this model - electronic Fry told me that it is.

  Thank you

  Charles

  If the bios does not see it, installing XP will ever either.

  Some older laptops have a problem with the largest hard disks (more), I return the drive and see if they have a 120 GB model.

  Can also be that you just got a bad.