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    Windows 8 Changing User Directory (C: to D:)

    Hey all, i\'ve upgraded my win7 yesterday to win8. But in win7, i\'ve chaged the user directory from c:\\users\\NAME to d:\\users\\NAME, creating in c:\\users an alias from d:\\users. But I dont know how can I do it in win8. All my files are in d:\\ and the partition c:\\ is only 17gb free, i...
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    Windows 8 Upgrading From Win 7 SP1 - Asked to rename User folder

    I was going to upgrade today, but before it go going it (install program :tickled_pink:) asked me to change the name of the "User" folder or file name. I'm assuming this is because I set up Win 7 so that the "User" folder was located on my "D: drive". I would like to keep my system in this...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 clean install problems !!!

    ok... i have a toshiba qosmio G50. windows 7 ultimate 32 bit..... for weeks now i have been posting on forums for help on re installing my windows office .... in the end i was advised to do a clean install. so, this morning after backing up everything i began ..... let me just say , on my comp...
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    Windows 7 Folders don't display properly on HD?

    I have all of my folders on my D drive set to be network accessible by everyone on the network, mostly so I can share them with my laptop. It's not very secure, but that's not the problem I'm having here. I recently changed some of the organization of the folders on the drive, which included...
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    Windows 7 Formatting

    Hello. Tomorrow I want to uninstall windows XP and install windows 7 64 bit. My question is . When I go to the partitions I have to delete all of them and have the huge one 500 GB then I should format the 500 GB or first split it to 2 different partitions ( because I want to have C and D )...
  6. Windows 7 Internal Hard Disk disappears randomly since install Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

    Hello, 2 weeks ago i replaced XP with Windows 7 Pro 64 bit on my PC and since then my D: drive randomly disappears. I have been using the PC which has 3 internal disk drives with XP for the past 3 years never having problems with the disk drives. Since i installed Windows 7 Professional 64...
  7. VIDEO Back up Problem On D: Drive

    It says Backup encountered a problem while backing up file D:\Pictures. Error: (The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)) Backup encountered a problem while backing up file D:\Pictures\Nani's home. Error: (The system cannot find the path specified. (0x80070003)) Backup...
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    Windows 7 Access denied D drive. How to get access back?

    Hi I created a guest account. I didn't wan't the d drive accessable to the guest account. Some how I now can't access d drive at all.
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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 D drive and E drive not able to open

    I am trying to open my hard drives of my dell windows 7 laptop, but unable to open and the error continuously going on. I think it is badly affected with virus. But my anti-virus is still running, can any one suggest me what should I do to access my drives again?
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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...
  13. 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 D drive not accessible

    A while ago my computer froze up and I couldnt do anything, so I had to restart it. When it came back up my D drive wasn't accesible. If i try to open it it says I need to format it to use it. If I click cancel it says D:\ is not accessible. The volume does not contain a recognized file...
  15. 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...
  16. Windows 7 How much difference does fragmentation make?

    Hi I know that fragmentation makes a lot of difference. I've had times when the difference between having fragmented files vs un-fragmented files would determine whether some processes would complete or not when generating 3D video. If the files were fragmented it would just hang up after a...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 custom installation

    Hi, I was wondering if the custom installation option would delete my files that are located on hard drive D, I know that it would totally wipe out C but does the same happen to the other hard drives ,cuz I really have a lot of files and their size is more than 100gb :/ how many usb's am I gonna...
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    Windows 7 Changing default save locations for everything

    Good afternoon Summary: How to I change the default save location of any saved file from C drive to D drive? How to delete current user and program folders on my C drive? Info: I am trying to tidy up my computer and need some assistance with default save locations. I have 2 drives, A 60gb...
  19. Windows 7 I found this helpful!

    Hi I ran across this tweak, and I liked it. I'm told that you should not do this in 64 bit Vista? It always annoyed me that Windows Explorer always opens to the Libraries folder with all the folders expanded, it just makes it look too busy. . I never ever put anything in the folders there...
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    Windows 7 Will the shrinked drive be deleted after formating C: drive

    There is single drive in my laptop i.e. C drive and suppose I shrinked that drive through disk management and made two partaion (C drive and D drive) Now, if i have to format the C drive to install new windows , will the D drive remains or it will also be deleted?