Disk Management

Help with either problem will be greatly appreciated. 1. Is there a way to allow a standard (non-admin) account access drive management. Specifically with changing drive letters. 2. Is there any way to force Microsoft to assign the next available drive letter to a USB drive. Here is the...

Hello I have the yogapad 2 and it wont let me assign a drive letter to my 2tb external hard drive. When i plug it into usb 3.0 or 2.0 ports ot says the system will install the required drivers but it doesnt and the drive never shows in explorer the computer does recognize the hd but for some...

I am using CBL Data Shredder disk wipe tool to erase an HDD. The tool has been running for over 48HRs. There are three different clocks at the bottom of the screen. I have no idea what those clocks are telling me. At least one of the clocks is counting downwards. There is an accumulating %...

Hi learned friends. Yesterday I bought a brand new MSI GS70 Stealth from Overclockers.co.uk. It is a UK version with 8Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD. The problem is the Bios only recognises the 128Gb, both channels 2 & 3 appear to be empty. In Win 8, Disk Management only recognises the 128Gb...

I just bought the laptop yesterday and I wanted to confirm that my SSD drive is there but its not showing up in disk management It supposedly comes with a 8gb SSD drive used as cache memory I wanted to even know what it does, whether storage or cache or if that is customized here's a...

my sd card is write protected and it is not locked i've formating in though disk management but it does format fliping the lock up and down taping the lock noting workes

Need to shrink a Windows 7 C: (one 300GB drive, no other partitions) down to a size I can clone to another drive. Have been using Clonezilla and Gparted so please hold off on any other suggestions. The consensus seems to be that yes, 7's Disk Management can shrink an active, basic drive's size...

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?) I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the options. The only things that...