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Performing a clean windows 7 install on a new ssd and want to set the old boot/c drive as inactive so I can use the old hdd for storage. Going to unplug the old hdd to do the install but I want to know how to (unplug the new ssd drive and re-plug in the old hdd drive) set the old hdd boot/c...

i have a dell that has recovery partitions on it. it came with windows 8. i deleted the os partition....i was trying to install win 7 32bit on it and i get the error about different partitioning. at this point i am maily trying to get back on win8. if i do a dell system restore...factory reset...

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...

I have a netbook whose harddrive has crashed. It has no CD/DVD drive and does not supports booting from USB flash drives but does support booting from USB floppy or USB CDROM drives. The problem is that I don't have neither a USB floppy nor a USB CRROM drive. Therefore the only viable option...

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I have two boot drives in Windows 7 and need to change it to one. Is the right section of the forum.C is my main boot drive. D drive is bootable but it holds information to boot C drive . How do I change that D drive to function as indicated below. I want to keep C drive as the boot drive...

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...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...

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...

Hi, I've just upgraded from Windows 7 64bit to Windows 8 64bit Professional. Now everytime I switch my TomTom Go 930 off it freezes Windows 8 for 60 seconds then reboots Windows saying inaccessible boot device. I've read it's where Windows 8 thinks my TomTom Go 930 drive is a Windows to go USB...

First off, I am using a Samsung NP305E5A-A07US Laptop with Win 7 Home Premium. I have been using EaseUS Todo Backup for awhile now, and I really like it, because it is so simple to make partition images, and then to restore them. This morning, however, I went to restore my last good image...

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My computer just went out and left me with a message on ablack screen saying “Reboot and Select Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selectedBoot device and press a Key” So I put my Windows 7 disk in and it wants me tore-install or load the divers and I don’t know what drivers it wants. Help?

Hello! I've been having a problem installing Windows 7 64BIT on my HP Inspiron, I've tried a Dell Startup disk and the regular Win7 disk. When It gets to the completion, it restarts, then for 5-7 minutes it does Completing Installation then it goes black, then comes back 'completing...

So, I have been browsing the internet lately for a solution to my problem for installing Windows 7 Home Basic for Netbooks via a 16GB SanDisk Flashdrive formatted in FAT if im not mistaken. I have a copy of the ISO on my DataCenter, and I have used my MacBook Pro (2.66 GHz 8GB RAM, 500G HDD...

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...

Hello everyone!I purchased a new laptop over Christmas, and it's an Acer Aspire 7560 with DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 PC3-8500 RAM, 640 GB HDD, an AMD Radeon HD 6620G graphics card with 512MB of graphics system memory, and an AMD quad core A8-3500M processor. Since the day I bought it, brand new, I...

I;m trying to install Windows 7, but instead of loading the windows disk it just says "reboot and select proper boot device" I already told the BIOS to boot from disk. Help?

I checked out another thread with a similar BCCode and it was a page file issue, I recently replaced my HD, and the week that I installed it (a month ago at least now if not 2 months) I had no boot device found issues, etc etc, I think its the mini sata connector thing, the way the cord crunches...

My first post on the Forum! I recently installed a 90GB Kingston Technology SSD and then created a shadow copy of my previous hard drive (which was 62.4GB), meaning that currently I only have access to this amount of space on the new hard drive. Can anyone confirm (or direct me to) a step by...