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Hi When I bought my computer I got 2 1 TB drives. I installed Windows and all my software on drive C:\ all my data is on Drive D:\. Almost 2 years later I've only used 102 GB of Drive C:\ but Drive D:\ is a little over half full. I'll probably never run out of space on it but I'd like to...

Hello, Im currently running a Dell XPS, using windows 7 64 bit. I just bought a new external hard drive, the Iomega Ego Portable Hard Drive. Im trying to backup my pc to this drive. Whenever I backup, I get the error 0x8078002a I've searched the forums using the code but not found anything...

I'm back with a new problem. Today I tried to create a new Logical partition on my laptop by taking 1 of the 4 Primary partitions, (It was the 13 gb Arcade partition) and making it logical. I then resized the C drive partition to leave 75gb of un allocated space which I was going to use as a...

My computer froze so I was forced to shutdown by holding the button for 8 seconds. When I started the computer I got a boot error, I thought great!! I have had a similar problem before so I figured partition table might be broken. I took the drive and plugged it into an enclosure to a Windows...

After seeing a YouTube video on bare metal backup with this program by a "Mike" from this forum, I downloaded it and created the recovery disk. But my screen when booting from the recovery disk does not look like that in the YouTube video. I cannot select my entire hard drive like Mike does, I...

I Upgraded My Windows7 Starter To Ultimate Recently And Everything Was Going Fine, But I Wasn't Happy With The Disk Space Because I Had Ubuntu As Second OS And I Wanted More Space For Win7. ( Ubuntu Was In The same Partition As Win7 C: ). I Searched For Ways Of Increasing The Size Of The...

I will try to make the long story short : system : Dell xps 1645 HDD: Seagate ST9500420ASG SATA PGP full disk encryption - including the boot sector I installed Windows 7 Manager Utility - I accidentally disabled AHCI feature from windows. => permanent BSOD STOP 0x0000007B I tried to set...

Having multiple problems im trying to resolve after installing windows 7 pro. The back story is this computer had xp on an IDE harddrive. Then i wanted to upgrade my harddrive and windows os to windows 7, so I bought a sata 1tb hdd and got win7 and installed the hdd (while still using xp) then...

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Hello everyone, I want to thank this community for such a well maintained website. It is really helpful. I want to let you know that EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition v 5.0.1 will not create partitions out of the unallocated disk space I made in my hard drive using this application. When I...

In Win XP one could place the cursor over a file name on a optical drive file name and by slowly clicking twice that file would light up and you could copy the file name only (not copy the file itself). In Win7 for the life of me I cannot get that feature to work inside Win 7 explorer. Is is...

My drive is partitioned up into 3 sections: 1)STORAGE 2)MINE 3)HERS Does anyone have the answer as to how I can make it possible to switch between the partitions without having to restart my computer

Hey, I recieved my Sony Vaio Windows 7 disks today, put the first one in and it started doing some install thing for supplement disk (said 1/12) but then froze for ages, so I tried closing it. When I attempted to start the installation again, I now receive this error: "The supplement disk...

Hi all. It seems that there's something going on with defragmenting that I'm not aware of. I use UltimateDefrag 2008 for defragmenting. I was able to use it only once, and then it simply didn't work. The program loads and when I click on Analyze or defrag, it simply says it is analyzing but it...

Are there any apps that can provide a 'Shred' option to the right-click context menu? I'm currently using 7600 RTM build of Windows. I was using Tune-Up Utilities for this and it was very useful as I could switch deletion methods on the fly depending on how sensitive the file that I wanted to...

Okay, So three weeks ago I installed Windows 7 RC, and I was happy with it. So happy with it, in fact, that I proceeded to install quite lot of applications on it. Anyway, last night I was installing the Dreamweaver CS4 trial, downloaded officially from their website. All of a sudden my PC...

One of my external storage drives hangs on the explorer when I click on it. On windows xp I used scandisk to check and repair errors, but I can find no such animal on windows 7 Could some one advise please? Thanks :confused::( 111

Windows Vista Recovery Disc Download — The NeoSmart Files Hi!! This looks good to me, but I'm not sure how to integrate it.............see below (Can't download from my thumbnail- Sorry)