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I'm dual booting XP and 7 on my laptop and ran into an issue. It installed fine and I'm happily using it, however Windows 7 can only see the partition that I installed it on, it can't see the other partition that has all the XP data and all my other files. This in and of itself isn't a huge...

I have installed win7 beta on a 2nd hard drive called drive letter W: I have Garmin MapSource programs and map data on the main drive in drive letter C: which were loaded under XP. When I am running win7 and try to run the MapSource.exe program that is on C: I get an error: MapSource could...

im dual-booting windows vista and 7. i partitioned my hard drive so I now have recovery (D) (it came with the dell), OS (C) and the partition I installed 7 on, called Partition (A). When I boot into Windows 7, it recognizes Recovery as D, and Partition as C. My actual C drive, OS, is not...

Hi, I installed Windows 7 64-bit on my computer which has only 1 hard drive (640GB). I partitioned it using XP to have 4 partitions: 1) XP Partition 2) Linux Partition 3) Linux Swap 4) Windows 7. The problem is Windows 7 cannot detect any partition besides it's own partition, so I...

tell me frankly, if you disagree… for my part, I am still disappointed with Windows 7 almost like I was with Vista. It’s those virtual folders… why not just keeping a simple “My Documentsâ€Â￾ folder whose position (and partition) I can determine by myself like in...

I've had this computer since december, and have only ever had Vista on it. I got a new hard drive thats about a month old. Its been working fine as my storage, but when I try to use the search feature, no files show up. I'm computer literate, and know I am searching correctly. I also check to...

Hi First of all, apologies if this is in the wrong forum, but i need help from somebody. I recently bought a new laptop that uses vista, i want to use my western digital external hard drive with it but it doesn't recognise it all the time. I have used the external drive on my old laptop...