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Hi my D drive icon has gone, the drive is working other than this, also to mention my Western Digital My Book can open folders but says all are empty when on vista and xp they are full. when i first installed windows 7 pro everything was fine but has updated about 50 updates since and now this...

My Documents folder is on my D: When I add it to my library I lose the abilty to search it. If I remove it from the library I can add it to the index and all is fine. But I want it to be searchable whilst it's part of my library otherwise the Documents link on the start menu won't work Am I...

Mistakenly installed Win7 on free space on D: Installed a second time on C: Now I can't tell which one is booting and I cannot delete Windows files on D; due to permissions. Is there a way to get my space back on D: and be sure that I'm booting from C:?

I recently upgraded from XP to OS 7 on a computer. I have all my programs on a seperate D: drive. How do you associate them in the Program files? I really don't want to reinstall all of the programs.

Hi My HDD has the following partitions (all NTFS): Primary (Active) 50G Extended 200 G 50G 100G 50 I would like to install Windows 7 on the first Extended partition and have the drive letter as D: Although I am able to install Windows 7 on the above mentioned partition the OS...

Hi there. I have 2 physical HDs and one of them is devided into two drives, so basically I have 3 drives: C: D: and E; I want to assign names to each of them and I could only do so to drive C:, but I seem to ran into this message that I need an admisitrative ability while I'm the...

I’m currently running Windows Vista Home Premium (upgrade from XP) 32 bit and planning to upgrade to Windows 7 64 bit. I have 2 drives C&D, OS is on C. I understand that I will need to do a clean install to go from 32 bit to 64 bit. My question is: Since I have a lot of programs on the...

Greetings, this is my first post and I hope it is an easy fix for you, it is not for me :(. I had a problem with Homegroups on my previous installation of Windows 7 that I could only resolve by reinstalling Windows 7 RC Ultimate. My computer has one hard disk that I partitioned to C: and D...

It looks like I'm almost there but I'm missing some setting. The computers can see each other, but I can't actually access one from the other. when I try to access the vista computer from the 7 computer, I click on it and it just goes to a blank page. With Vista I can access the d drive on the 7...

I had 2 partitions on the same hard drive, and I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional, but for some reason I can't access my D drive, I belive it has something to do with the Security Settings. I had important file in it. Is there a way I can access my files? I tried running...

Hi, I have a dell that came with Vista, I was given W7 for grad school and when I up graded it went to the smaller "D" or "recovery" drive and not the "C" Drive. The weird thing is that I still have the original files on the "C" drive. And now when I reload MS Office 07 it goes to the "D"...

First I did this: 1. In the Control Panel, select System. 2. Select System Protection. 3. In the Protection Settings section, select the D drive. 4. Click on the Configure button. 5. Enable Only restore previous version of files. 6. Set Max Usage to 50%. 7. Click on the OK button. 8. Click on...

Hi, I'm using Win 7 Ultimate and I recently created a system image that I now want to restore it. I have 1 HDD that has been partioned into 2 drives and when I system imaged, it believe it only imaged my C: which has Win 7 on it. Now, I just want to make sure before I restore the image that...

I would like to avoid reverting back to XP but this system originally had XP when i installed. Worked for a while then for some reason after installing and using DAEMON TOOLS, MAGIC DISK, and ALCOHOL 120% i have had some explorer.exe errors. Their is also CD/DVD drive that should not exist on my...

hi i want to boot windows7 from my harddisk which i am using . i mean to say that not from external hard disk drive. i will try to explain again, actually i have a pc on which i am working at this time (internal or primary harddisk drive of it ). i want to reboot my system and when its...

Once I finished loading WIN 7 RC this past weekend - I attempted to copy some files from an old XP Pro Drive via USB Ext HDD to my new DELL Studio XPS machine. The XP machine died a couple of weeks ago. I am able to see and access the files from the old C; drive but when I attempt to connect...

hi is it possible to merge disks in windows 7 c: and d: my dad was able to do this somehow on vista but i am new to windows so dont know my way about it yet could any one point me in the right direction please

I've just installed Windows 7 on my Acer Aspire 5920. I have 2 partitions: C:\ D:\ I installed it on the C:\ drive. On the D:\ partition, the folders display, but the files do not. I've tried a few things such as Permissions, and Windows 7 cycles through the files as if it is changing the...

Hi I have my hard drive partitioned into two drives c: & d: For some reason the icon is ok for c: drive but the one for d: has lost its icon and has the default icon - I can't seem to find where in the registry where I can recreate the icon for this - can anyone help? Tony

I've got a dell studio xps desktop with a 1TB Samsung HDD. I want to shrink the C drive and expand the D drive but I can't do it with either windows or Paragon Partionmagic. I get an error message in Partition magic that it won't work on a 64 bit OS. Anyone any ideas? Tom