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This morning I created a backup boot on a verbatim drive. When it finished it said the following: CopySingleFile failed c:\boot\macrium\\WinREFiles\media\Boot\boot.sdi One or more PE Environment files failed to copy to the USB device Should I redo this with the same drive and format before...

I have 2 hard drives one is my drive C with windows and a 2nd hard drive drive F where I put all my game, steam, origin ect. I was always able to create a system image of drive C and uncheck drive F All of a sudden now when I try to create a system image of drive c I cant uncheck drive F...

I'm in the process of testing PCClone EX Lite, that came bundled with my docking station on W7, but what I'm more interested in is using it on XP, because I don't want the expense of buying another license for True Image for it. During the backup, it lists a number failed operations, either...

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In Windows Vista, 7 & 8, there is a little be known defrag function that can drastically improve boot times under certain circumstances. If you open cmd and type defrag /?, you will see a list if available commands. However, there is a hidden one which is not shown and that is -b. This command...

I have 2 format programs recommended by GEEK, easus and mini tool partition...they will not allow me to do partition...The disk layout is C: system and files D: hp recovery data E:hp files...When I start I can do resize and get an allocated file, then on the allocated file I click create...

I have an old Macbook Pro that dual boots OSX Lion and Windows 7. Suddenly now if I try and boot Windows, I get this message: Non-System Disk. Press Any Key To Reboot I can't actually insert my Windows 7 disk because my cd drive is broken and at the moment I don't have an external disk drive...

Hi, I used to have Windows 7 which works flawlessly... I used to have linux Mint 11 dual booting with Windows 7, I recently upgraded to Linux Mint 12 and from that upgrade I cannot see the windows 7 option in the boot menu.. I tried to reinstall the boot loader of windows 7 from the Windows 7 CD...

I recently recovered my data from a biohd-8 error. Can someone please tell me which files can I copy back to a hard drive in order for my system to start again and make it useable again. I do not know if any of the files were damaged in the recovery process. 1) If I am able to restart my...

Past situation: Originally I had XP and win7 working in a dual boot with XP the computers original OS and Windows 7 added later and everything worked fine. This is on an SSD harddrive. Yesterday- I needed to use Gparted to make Windows 7 partition larger as it was getting a bit small. Gparted...

I recently installed an SSD in my laptop and moved the HDD to the secondary drive (I have room for two). I did a few of the prescribed steps for optimal SSD usage (moved user profiles to HDD, moved temp directory and page file, etc). Initially I was able to image only my C drive (about 30GB...

ive been testing superfetch ON OFF to see what performance gains/loss is like - i got some unusual unexpected behaviour in that turning it OFF in registry did not work, disabling the superfetch service works somewhat in that it still prefetchs stuff into RAM just not as much whereas before when...

I have Windows 2003 installed in C and Win XP in D......Then I formatted C and installed Windows 7, but after that I am not able to boot Win XP...... I have tried BCDEDIT & EasyBCD but didnt work for me..... And later I realized there are no files in D to boot Win XP( ie, boot.ini, ntldr...

Hi, I told W7 to install the OS in the C: HDD and it did, except it also decided to install the boot files in another HD for whatever reason. I bought a brand new HD because my old one (with XP Pro) was giving me problems. Now, I can run the new system without the old HD. I need to transfer the...

I was running a dual boot setup with two XP installations, and I upgraded one to Win 7. Stupidly I forgot to back up the boot info for the XP install and 7 wiped it. I'm trying to fix this and having a hard time with it. So far I have downloaded the 3 files (boot.ini, NTDETECT, and ntldr) and...

Hi, I am trying to install Windows 7 RTM from MSDN subscription on my new PC, it is Intel Q6600 2 GB RAM 200 GB SATA HD (2x100GB partitions) Windows XP has been running like a champ on the partition 0 for a long time, but when I try and install Windows 7 on patrition 1 (dualboot from same...

Hi All I am trying to get windows 7 to boot after installing it along side XP and Vista. The OS's are all on seperate HDDs, all SATA and Win 7 having the luxury of being on SSD. I have had the system on dual boot for about 2 years now and liking the flexibility, so I don't want to...

Hi, ok heres the problem I had a dual booting system with W7 RC 64bit and XP Pro 32bit on 2 separate HDs. When my copy of W7 Pro turned up I removed the HD that had the W7 RC install on and replaced it with a new 250gb HD. I installed the 64bit version of W7 Pro, when I restarted it went...

Hey guys, I'm a novice with partitioning and formating etc, anyway I originally had Xp as my only OS, now I have windows 7 and Xp on dual boot. I want to format Xp off my disk, and I understand that the boot files located in the active boot (xp) will be lost, and I understand thats not good. So...

I have never had one of these "reserved partitions, because I have always formatted first. For those of you who haven't here's how to take care of it. On a fresh (custom) installation of Windows 7, where Windows 7 is installed onto a new hard disk with unallocated disk space (no partition or...