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    Windows 7 Iritating problem (can't do nothing about it!)

    Hello Everybody! i have got an error/bug/whatever you want to call it, every time i try to open my c:drive it says following: C:/ is not available acess denied. and not only the c:drive, when i try to open a program like steam it says something like network connection didn't work and shows...
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    Windows 7 something filling up my OS Drive. Please Help

    Hi. for the last 3 weeks something has been filling up my C: and I don't know what it is. when I reboot the lost space is back to free space. I have to reboot every 12 hours or so. I have a Sysinternals ProcMon Log for anyone to look at and tell me what the culprit is. WinDirStat doesn't help me...
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    Windows 7 File Not Found

    Hello I wrote an application which installs the data files in a folder in c:\ So far the installations worked fine, but on the latest one, for some reason I cannot explain, the program cannot acces the data files altough they all exist in the data folder stated in the path. Any help is much...
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    Windows 7 about re installation of widow 7

    during the re installation of window7 can i formate the system reserved drive of 100 mb along with c drive? or system reserved should be left as it is? please help me regards
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    Windows 7 Pending HDD Failure - Need assistance with procedure to change C: to alternate internal HDD

    Hi guys, I am running W7 64 on a raid0 setup with two 74GB raptors as my C: Recently their performance has begun to wane significantly and now I'm being spammed by S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring saying failure is imminent and to back up immediately. I am not a system builder and while I'm plenty...
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    Windows 7 Windows Not Completing Backup

    Windows has stopped completing backups. A few weeks ago, I bought an external HD and began doing regular backups that completed with no problems. Now I get a message that Windows backup did not complete successfully. Message also says that the drive that Windows is installed on needs at least...
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    Windows 7 Disk Space after uninstalling programs

    Prior to uninstalling several programs, the unused space on my C DRIVE (3 25 GB SSDs in RAID O), was 12.8 GB. After uninstalling around 1.5 GB, the unused space was REDUCED to 11.9 GB. How does this make sense?
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    Windows 7 Repartitioning hard disk space back into the C drive

    Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to get the 233 GB of free space back into my C drive? Link Removed
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    Windows 7 Randomly lettered and numbered file showed up in my C drive today...

    Actually, this was the exact file name: 452923516fa61b0698feabf31478 Now I'm a massive noob when it comes to these things, but when I was loading up my computer I noticed it was loading EXTREMELY slow today. Slower than usual when its start to desktop speed is usually 20 seconds. Steam was...
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    Windows 7 Need help switching D Drive back to C Drive After Computer Crash

    The computer I'm having a problem on is a HP G6- 635 DX Windows 7 x64. About a week ago I decided to disable a few startup items because my computer took too long to load up. I think I disabled something that I shouldnt have because the next time I restarted I had gotten stuck on the "Starting...
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    Windows 7 Upgrade from Vista to 7. I lost 300GB of hard drive

    I have a dell inspiron 1521 originally running Vista home premium. Laptop was acting bad, not running properly etc. so I backed up my files and did a factory reset of Vista. All was working well, I had access to nearly all of my 600GB HD. I installed Windows 7 upgrade and downloaded...
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    Windows 7 Switch C: drive

    I have a home-built system with a Gigabyte MA74GM-S2 M/B & 2gb memory. My C: drive or drive #1is connected with an ATA and I have a second SATA drive # 0 H/D . My questionis since my Win 7 O/S is installed on the ATA drive can I designate the SATAdrive for the O/S? Thanks, Bob
  13. Windows 8 W8 Download & Install

    For some reason my cementmixer (brain) told me I could set up W8 in the following manner BUT it was a failure. I used this procedure over 30 years ago on large IBM mainframes. The following was my logic: On the C drive I only have 1 partition which is used for W7 files etc. I used diskmgmt...
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    Windows 7 C:Drive memory on CRITICAL / 'My Documents' got deleted

    I have Windows 7 Home Premium, 32bit laptop. So this started with my accidentally deleting the 'My Documents'. At the time of deleting, i think it showed, My Documents is too large for recycle bin. That's why i can't find it there. (I have tried 'Recuva' to recover deleted files, but...
  15. Windows 7 WIN7 C and D hard drive - oops!

    I reinstalled windows 7 on my mother's computer, and just followed prompts throughout. Seems that I partitioned the hd with C and D drives. The C drive is where all files are at and seems to be the startup drive, and it's only 15 gigs. It is now full. D has 180 gigs and nothing on it. So - how...
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    Windows 7 Need to reformat drive after trojan attacks

    Ever since I recovered from the virus/trojan attack in December, my PC hasn't been the same. I keep getting a pop-up from malware-bytes and spy-bot about a smitfraud c.generic and svchost.exe problems. Needless to say, there is something happening that I can not put my finger on and realize...
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    Windows 7 Will Windows Backup & Restore work on a Raid array ?

    I was contemplating using a Raid 0 array as my primary C: drive with OS. I understand all the issues with that and do regular daily backups. I used to use Acronis which had no trouble with a raid array. But on this new build I was wondering if the built in backup tools would be able to image and...
  18. Windows 7 Changing Motherboard without reinstalling Windows...

    I have an Intel Motherboard which I am changing to a Gigabyte one. If I were to do this myself, I would take proper steps to insure that Windows will boot with the new hardware. I would update my Intel Sata controller driver to a Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller. Then, SHUTDOWN the...
  19. Windows 7 administrator priviledges problem on external drive

    I have an issue pertaining to admin permissions and read-only files. It seems all my files and folders are read only, and when I remove read only it automatically reverts back to read only when I check again. I am administrator with full privileges. Sometimes I get a prompt saying 'i need admin...
  20. Windows 7 I didn't know that it worked this way...

    Hi I posed a few days ago someplace that I found that defragmenting my C:\ drive gave me a real increase in read speed. From about 3 Mbs to 30. I defraged my B:\ drive (a partition of C:\) and today I tacked D:\ it was a long haul, mostly because it has the compressed back up of C:\ on it...