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I have Windows 7 Home Premium, which has a C drive and a D drive. Two hard drives. I just want to know WHY there are two drives. Why was the choice made to have the two drives as opposed to one? I appreciate any feedback.

As the sibject already told I am seaching for a way to assign sharing permissions FROM COMMANDLINE for a particular user with particular permission. Something like defineshare -dir=D:\aaa\bbb -user=myuser123 -perm="full access" Is this somehow possible? peter

Hello and thanks in advance for your help, I have a Gateway desktop with two disk drives, C and D. I have been getting a message for quite awhile that I am running out of space on C. So I now try to download any software to the D drive, as there is over 900 GB of space on there. I have...

This is my first visit to the Forum and I find it to be a wealth of information. I have been in the situation the article describes with work files scattered about and knowing I have it, if only I could find it. Libraries sounds as though it will be very useful to me. Thank you for a very...

My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...

Hello, The size of my D drive is 397gb, it is currently showing that I have only 14gb free. There is about 20gb of stuff on my D drive which I can see, not including the roughly 46gb backup file. So, I can only account for 66gb of the 397gb. What should I do? I've ran ccleaner...

I have to drives C: and D: and on my D: i have only 32gb free space... and on C: i have 160 gb.... my D: are full and i can't install anything on it... how to change my installation on C: drive.. PLEASE HELP!!!

hi all i have shrunk my windows partition so now i have 2 partitions, the thing is can i format the c drive to reinstall windows and still keep all the programs and files on the d drive without losing then all, cheers paul.

Hi I have been having problems with Windows Search, it finds files that are not there, and won't find some files that are. This relates mostly to a program that was uninstalled and then reinstalled in a new location on my D:\ drive. It has a lot of texture files etc. that go with the...

Hi All, Alright heres the deal I have A Dell Inspiron 1564 laptop its got ~400 gig of HDD space. Now those idiotic people who installed my O/S thought 50 gig would be enough for anyone.. anyway My C: has my OS installed and I just have 4 gig of space after installing stuff on it and I have...

Hi All Does win 7 run (see) on fat32 file system ? If not, I am in good luck. I have installed dual boot with win xp and win 7 on c and d drive respectively. Both of them are ntfs. Now, what happens, most of the device driver softwares for win 7 install by default on drive c: So, if I convert...

I have installed some updates to my win 7 pro. After restarting I try to rename, move, copy and so on, and in every action pops up a window with "Try again" and "cancel". The main title of the window is "Item not found". Then, there is "Could not find this item. This is no longer located in...

Here is the story. I was running windows 7 ultimate 32 bit version. I decided to install the 64 bit version so i formated my c drive and installed the 64 bit version. All well and good except now i cannot access my d drive. I get a message "access denied". When i was using the 32 bit...

When I click on my personal folder icon on right side of start menu, I see a listing of all that is located in my C:/Users/Personal folder, PLUS 4 additional My Documents folders. I have my HD partitioned so my documents are on D: One of the 'My Doc' folders refers to the empty folder on my...

Hi, I need to remove xp from my C: Help plz..... i installed XP in C: (primary partition) and Win7 in D: I need to remove the XP. I cant format that drive...:(:(:( what should i do to remove that??? In Run->msconfig->Boot tab it shows 1ly win7...i cant delete xp.... PLZ HELP.... Thanks in...

hi i need an urgent help regarding dual booting.but just for some info,i want to tell u that i have windows vista ultimate x64 and windows 7 ultimate x64.Both are retail version,to which i apply crack to activate it.which works. this is the case in single OS installation. but i want to install...

If l do a clean install on my c drive will l lose the data on my d drive ?

Would somebody please tell me what the red bar is under the D drive in the attachment? This drive is not in use and contains my old Vista OS. I am running Win7 Pro on the C drive Thanks

so i installed windows 7 and it made a backup of my windows xp folder when i installed. me being stupid though forgot to decrypt some files i have on my d drive. so i'm wondering is there anyway i can get them decrypted?

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. My C drive has xp on it. I want to do a clean install with windows 7 on the 2nd harddrive and make it my primary drive. I believe I will have to reformat the drive, it is a fat32. I want to keep xp in the machine and boot from it when I need too or be...