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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...- bucktrice
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- boot issues bootmgr c drive command prompt d drive disk management file recovery hdd enclosure partition management program files startup system restore troubleshooting user files windows 7 windows recovery
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- jallen2000
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- backup c drive d drive data recovery dell disk issues disk management factory reset firefox hard drive lost space partition system restore troubleshooting upgrade windows 7 windows upgrade windows vista
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- chapmoreno
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- c drive d drive disk space file management hard drive migration partition reinstall storage windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- KSW
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- accessibility corrupted drive d drive data recovery disk management file system format issues storage issues troubleshooting windows error
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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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...- MikeHawthorne
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- b drive backup c drive d drive defrag drive speed external drive fragmentation optimization performance read speed storage
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- MikeHawthorne
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- 3d video backup c drive computer help d drive data management defrag drive transfer efficiency file system fragmentation hard drive performance speed improvement storage tech tips user experience windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- Cresty Jay
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- backup c drive custom install d drive data loss file management hard drive installation usb drives windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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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...- dooley888
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- c drive computer setup d drive default location disk management download location file deletion file management file saving hdd migration performance program files ssd storage optimization system tidy up user folder user help windows 7 windows settings
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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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...- MikeHawthorne
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- 64-bit customization d drive default location file explorer file management help library folders my computer performance remote access settings shortcuts tips tweaks user experience windows 7 windows vista
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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?- neophyte
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- c drive d drive data preservation drive management formatting partition single drive windows installation
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Windows 7 Simple Hard Drive Question
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.- mhawk12
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- c drive d drive file management hard drive partition storage windows 7
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Windows 7 How to declare (from command line !) folder D:\aaa\bbb shared for User myuser123 with full access?
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- pstein
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- command line d drive file sharing full access security shared folders sharing user rights windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Problems with hard drive allocation - no space on C drive but can't install to D drive
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...- ElizabethD
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- acrobat c drive d drive desktop disk management file destination gateway hard drive installation itunes pop-up errors quicktime software installation space issues storage storage optimization tech support troubleshooting user help windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Relocate Library folders from C:/
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...- JoeDon
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- configuration d drive data management file location file size libraries ssd storage user questions windows 7
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Windows 7 C: is full and D: is empty; Can you help?
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...- Fred T
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- c drive capacity computer issues d drive data optimization dell disk space drive management file management hard drive local disk partition performance storage tech support user files windows windows folder
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 D Drive Appears to be Full When it Shouldn't
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...- Questionlol
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- avg backup ccleaner d drive defrag disk check disk cleanup disk space file management free space maintenance malware microsoft support security software software recommendations storage troubleshooting virus detection windows
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Windows 7 How to Change Installation Location from D: Drive to C: Drive on Windows
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!!!- gamer88
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- c drive d drive disk management drive file system free space hdd installation storage windows
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 7 formating shrunk partition
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.- Paul W Wignall
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- c drive d drive data recovery files formatting partition programs reinstall storage windows
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 7 Is there a way to make window re index the files system?
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...- MikeHawthorne
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- d drive file location file system locate32 reindexing reinstall search issues texture files uninstall windows search
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Windows 7 Questions about the recycler folder
Hi all i have a RECYCLER folder on my "D" drive and it contains 5 folders inside these folders are about 12 GB size (and by the way i've only 2 drives on my hard disc) i've read that each RECYCLER folder when i enter these folder i found them empty so where comes this disc space (12 gb)from? ...- forzaredz
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- d drive data recovery disk cleanup disk space file deletion file system folders hard drive recycler storage system files user questions windows
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support