computer management

backed up my files on a 250g HDD reinstalled win7 on 500g HDD During install, I ignored the 250 and partitioned the 500g HDD like I have done thousands of times before. Then choise one of the partitions on the 500G HDD to install wnin7. Install complete and win 7 is on the proper partition...

I've got an Asus T200 with a 32gb eMMC, 64GB sd card and a 500 GB hdd. My problem lies basically with the eMMC storage for which Windows seems to have conflicting data. The storage comes with approx 21GB assigned to drive C and 8GB assigned to a recovery partition. Computer Management and...

Various books and websites advise getting rid of certain administrative shares (usually FAX$ ,IPC$, & PRINT$) to better secure the OS. I've tried several ways to uninstall or disable, but every time I turn off the PC, these shares return. After a lot of searching, I found this explanation. Link...

I have a laptop that I set up as normal when I installed win 8, with my account as the only one. It has some personal files and data that I don't mind losing but I don't want to leave them on the laptop. I want to give it to my daughter and put her on as the main computer user/administrator and...

Hey all, I have a mac that I installed windows 7 pro (legit disc/serial been running for 2 yrs) on the partition running via paralells, no issues till very recently. It all started about 2-3 days ago I noticed firefox was saying every page in my bookmarks was untrusted, this was only on the...

Hey guys, not so sure if this is the correct section to post it in. But my HDD broke not long ago, it had windows 7 on. My friend gave me a HDD he isn't using anymore and it fits well into my laptop. The HDD he gave me has vista on it. I started up my laptop with my windows 7 CD and it came...

I have a Dell Inspirion E1705 laptop. It powers on but nothing on the screen and no keyboard response. Its old so all I want to do is get some files off the drive. Not worried about fixing the laptop. I took the drive out and plugged into my desktop as a second drive. It doesn't show up in...

Let me introduce myself: I'm a programmer, and computer tech. I am anal about everything that goes on, on my computer. I don't like when it does things without my consent, much less without the curtesy of an alert. I spent 3 month beating windows into submission, and now that I've "upgraded"...

my hdd works fine but does not show up in device manager or in computer managements. Shows up in explorer. The led also blinks ocassionally. Asus motherboard, Seagate 1T hdd. Windows XP sp3. Indexing is turned off. Partitioning and formatting was done with Partition Wizard v7. Could someone...

Thought I'd try to get some insight here -before- I drive myself nuts and spend hours troubleshooting why I can't get the device manager to start. I even went to the system32 folder and tried to run it from there. Also from the start menu, services, performance monitor, computer management...

My wife's laptop broke. Sony Vaio running windows Vista. I took out the hard drives. (It has 2 of them) I plugged my SATA/IDE to USB adapter to one of the drives and I got a message saying I must format the drive before I can use it.im running a toshiba laptop with windows 7 64 bit. I plug it...

I have never had this happen with any other operating system on any of my computers in any time of my computer experience, but this is what happened to me during the past 2 weeks. I had one laptop with me while I was out of town. I allowed it to update, and suddenly found that Windows was...

Hi, I've just tried to replace an XP Pro computer used as a P2P server for a 10 workstation network with a Win7 64bit computer. XP's connection device limit is 10 and in Win7 EULA it states 20 devices. But that doesn't seem to be true !! I have one program on each workstations which accesses 3...

Hello friends I just installed 2x4 TB disk from HGST. When I first connected them I only saw 1.6 TB per disk and I had to install a third party driver from HGST first. After driver installation I could see the whole 4 TB per disk. Since I wanted mirrored drives I went on and converted them to...

When I go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Storage then Disk Management I see this: Link Removed So my question is there a way to combine the volume that says "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" and "(C:) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dumps, Primary...

I would like to get more knowledge on system tools and computer management focusing only on how they can help in a troubleshooting. I was humiliated in a job test and so I am trying to avoid that it happens again .... In internet I found the standard things....I would like to get as much...

I have a computer with Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on a 750 GB HD. Along withthis I have a 3 TB HD that is working, formatted with 1 test file on. I removed the 750 GBdrive and in its place put in a 256 GBOCZ Petrol SSD I disconnected the 3 tb drive I installed Windows 7on a 256 GB SSD...

I tried posting this in another section but got no respnses, so hopefully somewhere here can help with it. I am accessing a remote computer through regular remote desktop. I have admin rights and all that good stuff and can schedule tasks. The problem that I'm having is when I select the option...

Hi guys. New to Windows 7 and have a question. It seems my test machines keep going into some kind of sleep/hibernate state that prevents me from VNC'ing to them. All I want is for the monitors to go to sleep after 15 minutes, but the machines to stay on. We do a lot of work during off...

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