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    Extent less than minimum error when formating unallocated drive space

    After re-installing my OS I noticed that I had lost a massive amount space. It automatically set up a c drive with approximately 100 gigs of space and an additional d drive with only 9 or 10 gigs of space. I looked in the disk management settings console and noticed multiple entries with a disk...
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    Windows 10 Two W10 Systems with Bitlocker

    Hi, I am struggling with this installation and looking for help from somebody that already did it. I am using Lenovo ThinkCentre with my TV as primary "Internet" computer. Because I have almoust empty 1 TB Nvme drive I had the idea that I will shrink my boot volume (the only one on disk) and...
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    Windows 7 The drive disappeared

    Hi, I have window 7 and right now I having some serious issues with my computer. The main issue is that I cannot see my D: in My Computer. Background: Some hours ago I had three drives C, D, & E. I distrIibuted the space of E: into C & D using a partition software. But now I cann't see the D...
  4. Windows 10 80004005-2004 error and drop back

    I am helping a friend. Right now I am not at his place and have not all information in front of me, sorry for that. At some later time I will continue there, but now I am collecting all help and information I can get. It goes about this: The download of W10 completes, Preparing for Install...
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    Windows 8 Recover lost data

    I had to clean install yesterday and rightfully so, i lost all of my date from drive (D). Now, i would like to know how to recover any of this data after formatting? (How do i make my internal HDD become a slave and therefore readable and able to recover data?)
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    Windows 7 Can't find laptops with Windows 7 Ultimate - best solution?

    I hope somebody can help...... I want to buy a modest laptop but with Windows 7 Ultimate. (I am a one-man business, keep my business on my laptop and take it away on business every week and want good security: I have read that Bitlocker will give me that.) The problem seems to be that most big...
  7. Windows 7 WinPE Environment in Paragon products

    Link Removed Paragon Software is known to make backup and restore products for home and business users, as well as software designed to partition and alter hard drives. When you buy a copy of Paragon software, you have traditionally always been able to create a recovery disc that uses the WinPE...
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    Windows 7 What are all of these hidden partitions?

    This is a 1TB HD with Win 7 pre-installed on a 100GB partition (C:) and a remaining 809GB or 811GB depending on what I use to look at it on a second partition (D:). I would like to partition the remaining 811GB (D:) however I ran into a confusing snag. Even though Windows shows only 2...
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    Windows 7 W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image

    [SOLVED] W7 no longer boots after restored from Clonezilla image Hello After restoring an image made with Clonezilla that used to work, Windows 7 is unable to start. When prompted, I used the DVD, but it still fails with "Startup Repair could not detect a problem". When rebooting, it says...
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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?
  11. Windows 7 Do I need to reinstall OS after upgrading my HDD?

    I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...
  12. Windows 7 Missing bootmgr

    Here is my case on this particular problem. This is quite long so apologies ahead of time. This computer had windows xp on it for quite some time and I decided it was time to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate. When I did the upgrade it asked me if I wanted to override xp altogether, or create...
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    Windows 7 Need help to install Windows 7 to alternate drive letter

    I have a brand new hard disk on which I would like to install Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition). Unlike many whose posts I've read I actually want to install the OS to a drive other than C, let's say drive L, and I need some help in order to accomplish this. Up through Windows XP the following...
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    Windows 7 Windows is unable to install to the selected location. Error: 0x80300024

    Im trying to install windows 7 64bit on my 160gb SATA HDD but gets an error saying....WINDOWS IS UNABLE TO INSTALL TO THE SELECTED LOCATION. ERROR: 0X80300024 i can install windows xp just fine. any help will be appreciated,thanx...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Professional x64, GPT-formatted disk and Intel DG45ID

    Greetings, Yesterday a sudden disk crash got me new 512GB drive and I decided to use the mishap to play with GPT partition tables. In addition to the different Windows versions, I use different flavors of BSD a lot and on my systems I often feel a little bit limited by the number of bootable...
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    Windows 7 Booting issues and digital signature

    Right, i just got my hands on a 64 bit Win 7. In confusion about device numbering i accidently installed it on my secondary harddrive D: as my logic told me that Device 0 would be C: . Realizing my mistake, i installed it on C:, which contained an old Danish 32bit vista, which i removed through...
  17. Windows 7 Adventures with Win 7

    What an adventure!! I'm posting this in the hopes of preventing someone, somewhere some grief if they use a similar approach to setting up a new HDD. I just purchased a new, larger (Seagate Momentus 7200 rpm HDD,320 GB) to replace the 200 GB Momentus 7200 rpm drive I've been using for awhile...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 & Vista dual boot problem.

    Recently shrunk my Vista partition on my laptop to created a new partition for a Win 7 install. All is working great, able to choose either partition on start up with no problems. Now here's where my problems lie: I want to get rid of my original Vista partition (C:) and add the free space...
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    Windows 7 Deleting old Partition

    I am currently running XP as my main OS on one partition but I also have Windows 7 Beta on a separate partition on the same hard drive. Right now I cannot currently access Windows 7 when booting up, I have no clue why that is as I used to be able to do that. What I want to do is delete the...
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    Windows 7 Boot Partition size limitation

    Is there a limit to the size of a boot partition for Windows? Seems like Win 7 will only install on partitions smaller than about 2TB. If this is the case, what is the best way to make sure all the user directories and public folders are installed to a different drive rather than the boot...