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Hi all, I'm having a problem that seems to be shared by many other users based on the number of forum threads i've come accross related to this topic. I'll describe it in some detail to avoid the usual advice which hasn't worked so far so please bear with me. I am unable to move files onto...

Hello im hoping someone can help me. I was cloning a Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit install HDD on my HP Laptop and when it was done i removed the usb without safley removing it in the system tray. Now when i boot up (with the original HDD) i get an error: Windows failed to start. A Recent hardware or...

Hello and good evening. Recently I installed windows 7 on computer, every thing worked great and i was enjoying windows 7 BUT there was a RAW space on my hard disk so i decided to make them 2 primary partitions, let say that my OS partition (Drive C) was about 30GB and there was 119 GB raw...

Dear all, I have a desktop pc running windows 7 ultimate, i hosted a software raid 1 by diskpart, I don't know why i am not able to transfer file to portable harddrive/usb flash drive, It just show calculating for long long time, sometime even handed However, i tried to clone a harddisk image...

So, got a new OCZ Vertex 2 120 GB over the weekend. Installed it, everything went fine. Blew away my old install (backed things up of course), loaded raid drivers during install. Formatted both, installed on SSD with my D drive as Games/Music/Etc. Now everything seemed fine on first boot...

Hi there, I've just built this computer GA-H55M-S2H MOBO running the Intel i5-750, 4 GB (2X2gb) DDR3 1333 PNY. Here's the problem, when loading Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, like alot of people it seems to take forever, but in my case I only get to the starting setup and after 6-8 minuter there...

Hi Guys. I hope this is in the right Forum. Briefly. I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so i ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, i formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under...

In the last couple days I've been trying to install Windows 7 over Windows XP (clean installation). Unfortunately I'm having a problem pretty early on in the process. Whenever I try to press "Next" on the screen that has you select which partition you want to install it on, it says for me...

I've got 2 usb keys - I can copy files from them, but unable to put anything on them. I've tried the regedit trick and I've tried to format using CMD - diskpart - list disk - select disk * - clean - create partition primary - select partition 1 - active - format fs=NTFS But it doesn't seem to...

If you have visited my web page or read my blogs and messages, you'll probably know that I stongly discourage using partitions on a hard drive... mainly because if the partition table gets corrupt you lose EVERYTHING. However, check out this: Why it may be a GOOD idea to partition a drive...

Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...

Basically while I was running Windows 7 I wanted to clone my 149GB Hard Drive to a 500GB partition on my 1TB HardDrive, with Ubuntu taking up the other 500GB. I coulnd'nt clone using Windows tools because I always had an error of some sort. I then tried cloning using various Ubuntu tools on the...

Note: Back up the files from your USB drive, as it WILL get formatted in this process and all data on it will be lost! Run CMD.EXE and type the following. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as "disk 1". you should double check that by doing a list of the...

I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Professional Edition. (The real thing, not the beta. I got it off the MSDNAA.) My system is dual booted between Linux and Windows, and I have an NTFS data partition for sharing files between them. But when I try mounting the volume in the Computer...

My Company is a microsoft partner and I have recently installed Windows 7 x64 RTM and its working well. My company is soon to be deploying Windows 7 to all new workstations and laptops. I am researching the best Imaging tool/software to take and deploy Windows 7 and Vista. I have researched the...

Hi, I have a new (3mnths) Compaq running Vista 32. The HD is split into the usual two partitions - C for Data and Windows and D for Recovery D is has now only 1.3GB free and I need to increase the size. I have tried to do this through the Vista Disk Management Console but the extend volume...