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Got an interesting one. I have one PC left running Vista that has two sets of spanned volumes as follows: All drives are dynamic. Silicon Image 3124 SATA Controller Card: Port 0 - 1TB Port 1 - 1TB Port 2 - 500GB Port 3 - 500GB Marvell Controller on MB Port 4 - 500GB Port 5 - 500GB...

Hi, The Hard drive recently died on my laptop and would not boot. I was able to copy some of the data off it by booting from a Linux CD before sending it back to the manufacturer. I now have a new drive and Windows 7 installed. Is there a way to import my mail account details and address...

I am trying to backup to an external hard drive, 120gb. The backup starts fast and then hangs at 57%. I have let it run for several hours and still only 57%. I have a new hp p6350z pavilion computer with a 454 gb with 420 gb free. The external hard drive has been reformatted prior to attempting...

Hi everyone I have a problem with windows 7. I downloaded a microsoft update as I have it on automatic and it took ages to download. Shortly after my vaio crashed and I had to shutdown by holding the power button. It then gave me the option of starting repair or normally. If i select repair it...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

ok here is what id like to try if it will work im running 64 bit ultimate what i want to do reinstall windows on a 160gig hd leaving the file system intact on the 1 TB drive and erase the old install of windows and everything still work another words can i reinstall to a diff drive and still...

Hi, I have a backup server which is running windows 2000 and it needs full access (or access to all the files I need backed up) to my windows 7 pcs. I am lost. Can anyone help me? Thanks, Rusty

So after some days of playing around with Windows 7 I feel that it would be worth while building my new systems on Windows 7 rather than XP pro again. So a little advice on which way to go would be a great help please. Now I am a software developer that uses a lot of 32bit applications...

Hi. I have an evaluation version of W7Pro on my server, which has expired. The system comprises of a single 100GB HD, which has the OS installed, and 2 x 500GB SPANNED IDE HD's holding data. I need to revert back to XP Pro while keeping the SPANNED disks intact - is this possible? I...

Hi! I need to do a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate, again. (if you recall my last post, you know why :) ) I'm going to wipe the drive and reformat and then reinstall Windows 7. My problem is that I have some games installed which have rather large updates that I had to DL (took an hour...

I have recently installed W7 Pro 64-bit but I'm still playing around with it. I understand that M$ recommends 20 GB for x64. I would like to give it a generous amount of room to work, but I don't want to go overboard. I have 3.5 GB of system memory but plan to upgrade to up to 4 or 6, so I...

I had finally gotten windows 7 and decided to install it on my pc, so i bought some blank dvds and backed up all my data that is important to me. So i went through the normal installation process. After it formatted my hard drive it went onto expanding files at like 7% (21 on the next try)...

Section 1: Performing a Bare-Metal Backup Hello, this is Mike from Windows 7 Forums. In this video, I'm going to show you how to create a Paragon backup and restore image of a hard drive, using bare-metal backup and restore. What is a Bare-Metal Backup/Restore and Why Is it Useful? Bare-metal...

Guys, I've recently changed my home computer over from WinXP to Win7. On my WinXP system, I had a permanently mapped drive to my "My Documents" directory on my work laptop (WinXP Pro). Once I had plugged my laptop into my home network (and powered it up of course), all I would need to do on my...

Let me start by saying, that I do indeed love Windows 7. Even with less than 1gb of RAM, it performs MUCH better than Vista, and looks/feels very nice. Furthermore I've noted the stabilty seems even better than XP, HOWEVER: Recently I've ran into a problem of Video drivers. There is and will...

I was going to install Win7 Premium on an Acer T180 desktop.My 140 gb hdd is partitioned C and D of 70 gbs each.I was going to install Win7 on the D drive but I was afraid it might mess up my E recovery hidden partition.Does this sound like a good plan?I wish I had a way I could burn off my...

I've got a fair amount of computer savvy. But when I migrated to 7 last month I guess all that was useless. Anyway, I'm running a newer HP with enough power to handle anything, so far. I installed 7 and then put my apps on and about a week later upon rebooting I get the message that I can't...

Hello all, I just upgraded to W7 tonight and I have a question (surprise...). I backed up all my files onto my other hard drives, and made a little list of all the programs i might need to istall because I wanted to to a clean install. To be honest, I don't remember which way I upgraded it...

Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...