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I installed a SSD drive (40 gb) to run my operating system (Windows 7 Home Premium) on. I used Paragon Migration software to copy the OS from my C drive (1 tb) to the SSD drive. I use the SSD as my boot drive so when I boot up basically all I have is an OS that is not able to launch any of the...

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Hi All: I have a Win 7 Pro installed on a 1-TB hard drive, with two partitions: 200-gig for "C:" and the rest for "E:" I have a separate 1-TB drive that I'm using to back up the entire drive using Windows Backup. Both drives are on an internal SATA-3 bus. I was thinking about improving the...

Came across this guide & FAQ which may be of some help to those running servers. CONTENTS: Introduction What's Too Small? But What About Upgrading? What To Move? Pagefile Exchange Databases SQL Databases Other Data Files Log Files Webs and Other IIS...

I had mt boot drive fail and replaced it with a drive of the same size, tried to use the disk image I created 2 months ago to recover my boot drive with and all I get is an error telling me there are no drives that it can use (not the exact msg.) to restore to. so it seems to be a useless...

Using Defraggler, I cannot get my 1TB boot drive below 30% fragmentation. Is this a problem? Regards, Jim.

I am thinking of buying a small ssd for a boot drive because they are so fast. However I want to keep all my data on my old hardrive because it will not fit on my new ssd. I was thinking if there was then a way of unistalling old windows from the old hardrive but keeping all the programs and...

I posted the stuff below to the ocz support site, as I think my hard drive is causing the bsod's. I thought it would probably be better to resolve the bsod's here. "I've been getting bsod's since saturday and have been trying to pinpoint the problem. Sooo the details.. The bsod stop code is...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

I bought a smallish but low priced 64GB SSD on SATA II. I have already changed over to AHCI successfully and initiated the TRIM command. I have a 640GB HDD. I have brought used space to below 59 GB(actual capacity of SSD). However when using Driveclone I cannot copy because it does not have...

Apologies if this is in the wrong forum, this is my first time here. If this post is too long, I can try and condense it. I usually leave PC in sleep mode, last night was no exception. I am used to it occasionally turning itself back on every few days (not sure why) so no surprise to see...

My system was/is running XP Pro 32-bit. Just installed Windows 7 Professional 64. Installation went fine. Cleared partition C and did a regular install. BUT, I'd like to turn on AHCI, which I found instructions for, so I'm up for giving that a try. My concern is the other partitions on...

so i have 3 big problems. background- my laptop's harddrive died, so i took the harddrive out of my external western digital passport and put it into my laptop and installed windows 7. i've never used vista before, so this jump from xp to 7 is quite annoying 1. so a lot files i can't access...

I have done a clean instal of Win7 RC on a new drive "G", Vista is still on Drive "C". Eventualy Vista will go and I would like Drive to Change Drive G to Drive C as my boot drive. At present I am dual bootuing, C or G I have tried using the Drive manager also Acronis Disk Director and had...

Now that I have used XP Mode enough to feel safe with it, I want to remove the dual boot from my system. My boot drive has two partitions. Drive C boots to Windows 7 and D boots to XP. If I format drive D will I still be able to boot up in Windows 7? Thanks in advance, Cygnus333 (Chris)

IMAGE 1 Link Removed - Invalid URL booting GRLDR.. Reseting the boot drive ... then IMAGE 2 Link Removed - Invalid URL Booting 'Windows Vista 'acpi Vista Loader 2.1.2 Done! fallback 1 find --set-root /bootmgr Error 17: File not found Booting 'Windows NT/200/XP' fallback 2 find --set-root...