I hate Microsoft
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It would appear that other people have had similar problems with 64 bit Win7 here.[^] especially with WD external drives personally I haven't but then I'm running 32 bit Win7. One of the solutions seems be to reinstall the device driver; uninstalling the driver (device manager – under USB controllers, look for usb mass storage, right click, and uninstall the driver, reboot the computer when asked for restart (before rebooting also shut down the disk), so reboot, when windows has restarted restart the disk, the driver is reinstalled.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
I'm using W764 with 3 different USB external drives, and a usb memory stick and have never had a single problem. Of course none of the drives is made by WD...
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Partion Magic is not compatible with Weven 64 bit yet. Windows does not work. It can see my drive but won't give it a letter, doesn't give me any sort of useful info. It just sucks, as usual. How can a simple thing like an external drive not work with Weven ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Is the drive offline? Launch the disk manager and see of it appears in the list. My guess is that since it has many partitions it appears offline. You have to bring it online using the disk management mmc console, I have had this issue a few times.
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Partion Magic is not compatible with Weven 64 bit yet. Windows does not work. It can see my drive but won't give it a letter, doesn't give me any sort of useful info. It just sucks, as usual. How can a simple thing like an external drive not work with Weven ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
Try Partition Wizard[^] instead, it's free for personal use.
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Is the drive offline? Launch the disk manager and see of it appears in the list. My guess is that since it has many partitions it appears offline. You have to bring it online using the disk management mmc console, I have had this issue a few times.
That's what I was using to try to map the drive, and it didn't give me any options that were useful, they were all greyed out.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Partion Magic is not compatible with Weven 64 bit yet. Windows does not work. It can see my drive but won't give it a letter, doesn't give me any sort of useful info. It just sucks, as usual. How can a simple thing like an external drive not work with Weven ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
It's a feature...
Will Rogers never met me.
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It's a feature...
Will Rogers never met me.
Yeah, I didn't need that data, anyhow.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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That's what I was using to try to map the drive, and it didn't give me any options that were useful, they were all greyed out.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
if (user == CG)
{
GreyOutEverything(); //Bwhahahaha
}There are some really weird people on this planet - MIM.
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Partion Magic is not compatible with Weven 64 bit yet. Windows does not work. It can see my drive but won't give it a letter, doesn't give me any sort of useful info. It just sucks, as usual. How can a simple thing like an external drive not work with Weven ?
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
If "I Hate Microsoft" could be a political party, I can almost guarantee that they'd never win a single seat in an election. I only qualify that because the ones we do elect don't seem to give a damn about us, either... Go figure.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I was unaware Partition Magic existed beyond Win XP. Most of what I need (creating and resizing partitions on a disk, modifying drive letters) can be done with "Computer Management", which is part of Windows. It works fine on Vista and 7. The one thing I'm not able to perform is a REAL defragmentation, where files are not only defragmented but also moved to one side of the partition so you can shrink a partition that has been in use for some time. :) PS: your subject line was not informative, it did not tell anything new.
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For moving data to one side of the partition you can try My Defrag[^]. It uses the Windows API's for defragmentation, so is very safe. -Saurabh
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For moving data to one side of the partition you can try My Defrag[^]. It uses the Windows API's for defragmentation, so is very safe. -Saurabh
Thanks. I'll give it a try. :)
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Memory sticks with more than one partition are not recognised by Windows either, which sucks badly (it finds the first partition but thats it)! Linux has no problem finding them :|
See if you can crack this: fb29a481781fe9b3fb8de57cda45fbef
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I'm curious. Why would you want multiple partitions on a memory stick?
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I'm curious. Why would you want multiple partitions on a memory stick?
Software Zen:
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Fold With Us![^]The same reason for partitioning a hard drive ;P It makes having more than one OS on a bootable memory stick much easier too :)
See if you can crack this: fb29a481781fe9b3fb8de57cda45fbef
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
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The same reason for partitioning a hard drive ;P It makes having more than one OS on a bootable memory stick much easier too :)
See if you can crack this: fb29a481781fe9b3fb8de57cda45fbef
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
It makes having more than one OS on a bootable memory stick much easier too an even bigger Single Point of Failure.
Memory sticks don't live forever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Lloyd Atkinson wrote:
It makes having more than one OS on a bootable memory stick much easier too an even bigger Single Point of Failure.
Memory sticks don't live forever.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
That's why I have several ;) It's mainly rescue systems and bootloaders I have on them anyway :)
See if you can crack this: fb29a481781fe9b3fb8de57cda45fbef
The unofficial awesome history of Code Project's Bob! "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."