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Hi I'm trying to get the drive (Disk 1) back to one simple basic disk. It shows as 2 drive D:\s now for some reason, I have no idea why it appears this way. I have eliminated that other partitions that were on the drive but it won't let me format of delete the D:\ partition. How do I get the...

I have problem in windows 7 OS installation.Here are the details of the problems which i came across first of all for clean installation i deleted the existing OS and there is no existing OS in my laptop.I have 48GB of unallocated space but unable to use it to make a primary partition and I...

About a month ago my dell m6700 precision workstation got an error when I turned it on which said: "Unable to find operating system." This happened when I restarted the laptop. I still do not know what caused it to do it but for the last month I have been trying to fix it. In the end I couldn't...

I need help converting a Dynamic Disk back to Basic Disk without losing any data. I am aware that AOMEI PA Pro can do this but I don't have a pro version. Any other way I can do this? The disk I want to convert is just a data disk (1TB hd). My OS is on separate hard drive (SSD). Thanks. .

I tried to make a dual boot with windows 7 and windows 8, but when I made a partition, the hard disk drive (C:) changed to dynamic. Can I still upgrade to windows 8? how can I convert it back to basic disk? I have windows 7.

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Hello, I'm trying to install multiple operating systems on my laptop. Right now the primary OS is Windows 7 x64 with a second OS installed of Windows 8. I'm trying to install Windows Server 2008 as a third OS to boot to. I'm getting an error message saying the dick already contains the maximum...

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Hey guys, I would like to post my question here.I wanted to make a new partition on my hp laptop on the only disc it has.Unfortunately,because it came with already 4 partitions I accidentally turned the disk into a dynamic disk.Now its booting normally but I cant load the system Image that I...

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Hello, i recently bought a new hard drive to put my os on, and i stupidly changed my old hard drive type from basic to dymainic, and its not letting me reformat it or convert it back to basic. When i try it says "Windows cannot format the system volume on this disk." Does anyone know how i can...

I have a new computer build where I have Win 7 Pro 64-bit installed on a SSD. Then I have a pair of 1TB drives that I setup as mirroring drives in Disc Management. I proceeded to setup my windows backup to the mirrored drive, but it is giving me the warning: When restoring a system...

Hello All, Would really appreciate some help. I initially had 1 500gb dynamic disk, with one partition containing all my documents and windows files. I created a partition in the free space to copy my documents into so I could overwrite Windows keeping my documents intact. However I...

I have a 1 Tb external SATA HDD in a powered enclosure. Connection is by USB or eSATA. Win 7 disk management recognises the existence of the disk as basic online but thinks it is only 8 Gb. The disk does not appear in 'My Computer' and I cannot format it as a 1Tb disk or write to it...

I'm having problems creating new partitions on my hdd fro munused space I have on my disk. It is bit long story but I hope somebody reads it and knows how to help me. I got a new Acer computer (with Windows 7) which had 1 TB hdd. In the hdd there were C- (~500 GB), D (~500 GB)-drives and this...

running i7 920 with asus gforce295x on an asus p6t deluxe board with 2x1TB samsung hdd and 6gig g.skill ddr3 ram So I changed the harddisk type in bios to raid, I created 2 partitions in dos via the marvell raid controller program, where i set up both partitions to be raid0 Then I proceeded...

Hi everybody. Great to be part of this community. I have a problem with a Maxtor 6L200M0 SATA drive in Vista. Just installed the OS and the drive is not recognised in Computer. Disk management says that the drive is there but offline (small red arrow next to drive symbol). The drive is dynamic...