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I think this experience may be useful to Win7/8 users who build and maintain home and small business systems. I regularly clone and swap drives keeping at least one spare at the ready per system at all times. I was shocked to discover that under certain conditions Win7 installation creates a...

Hi all Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I would like to *safely *expand *by magic or something a D drive.. (* obligatiory) I'm using something that is eating space on D, and we've already configured the server that there'a nothing left to give from C. I need to run some processes...

This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot. Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help: - booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard - booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers - random...

Any risk in losing anything by running both an internal and external disk check via this method? Thanks

I've tried for the past two days issuing everything I know to get a copy of Windows running on my computer. Things to know: -I'm planning on dual-booting with Linux. -It is a desktop. -I have access to a Linux machine that is currently running. -I have the Digital River copy of Home Premium x64...

The drive in my HTPC failed and I'm going to RMA it. Nothing unusual about that, but with this one I can't find a way to access it for data erasure prior to shipping, and that bothers me. The system partition doesn't contain anything too sensitive...that I remember, but it does have additional...

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?)

I've got an out of warranty drive that has a bunch of bad sectors, which I'm going to replace with a new drive. The fact that the drive still works (after doing chkdsk) raises a question in my mind about a program called Hard Drive Regenerator. I understand that there is more than one reason...

When Windows is reinstalled from the disc (from the "F8" boot window), is the hard drive reformatted automatically? If not how can I achieve this?

I just used the folder sync function of TI to move a few hundred video files from one drive to another, it worked as expected except that when checking the target drive after completion, it was highly fragmented, and it looks as though it is going to take many hours for defragging. I only used...

I discovered what is called the $RECYCLE.BIN on a SimpleTech portable disk drive I use. It does not show up in the disk folder/file listing, but I can scan for it in the 'Find' routine (*recycle*.*)). What I am concerned with is that it may contain deleted files that need to be purged, but I...

Hi everyone, I have been reading through many forums online, with many different solutions to this problem, and I have tried some of them, however I am still stuck with the same error. It might be helpful if I tell the whole story about the hard drives I am trying to boot. To begin with,my...

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Describe how to use check your hard disk for errors in Windows 7. More...

Win 7x64 Start>computer>tools>error checking: When I run error checking as Windows starts, it says it is scheduled to run then says cancelled. Please advise. Peter

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...