drive configuration

I tried all kinds of formulas to phrase the search in Google but I couldn't get too close... Hence I am here now... Link Removed So I have about a dozen drives in my win 10 system. And sometimes I need to swap them to get clones or images or what not. The problem I have is even when I put...

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...

By accident I have screwed up a pair of user system folders. In moving their locations from the system drive to a second drive, I carelessly managed to point the system 'Videos' folder location and the system 'Music' folder location at the same folder. The two system folders are now totally...

I have a new Lenovo computer with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. I'm going to partition it into drives C, D, E and F. It has a 1 Terabyte hard drive (actually 918 GB) I need to allow sufficient space in the C partition for the W7P operating system PLUS Virtual XP, which I plan to install...

Hi, On XP Drive 0 I have C: with XP and have another couple of drives as well. and Drive 1 is F: Primary and G: Extended each about 37GB. I have Drive 2 D: 80GB Extended partition... I want to join both F and G together as 1 partition mainly the G: one. Though Disk Mgmt Storage...

Hello! This one should twist your head a bit if you’re anything like me! I have a Pavilion M6 1045DX laptop and the HD crashed. It was 750GB so off to eBay I went to buy another one. I decided to buy a NEW SEALED HD so I bought a blue label WD brand new. (March 2014) Just for grins I wiped and...

Win7 x64 SP1 PRO Office PC Win7 x32/x86 SP1 PRO Media Center PC Issue: How to adjust NAS drive(s) spin up frequency, check to see what is causing them to come out of sleep mode. NAS's are set to power down currently @5mins. Trying to figure out what is causing them to "Wake-up" and how to...

Sorry, if this should be in the hardware forum... I am doing a fresh (bare metal) install. I am experiencing a weird problem with Win7 not remembering drive letter. I am hoping that someone has run across this problem and has the answer. I tried "Diskpart automount enable". It did not work...

I have four internal drives and an external Drobo drive. The internal drives are my concern in this query. All are working well and I could just leave well alone, but my sense of order requires me to get all these different descriptions into conformity with each other. Active/Not Active...

Hi, in my PC there are some drives with RAID0 arrays and from little time I have bought a SSD for Operative System (Windows 7). My question: in your opinion (on the BIOS) is it better making the Boot with SSD or with another drive with RAID0? Thanks for your suggestions

I am getting into an area that I haven't tried until now. I would like to put windows 8 consumer preview on an USB external harddrive. I am told that I can't do it because my computer is not set up for it or something like that. I have changed my bios First Boot: CD, Second Boot: USB-harddrive...

I have 2 drives in my computer 1 is windows 7 2 is debian linux I have WIN7 drive set as slave and Linux drive set as master. But when i try to boot, it boots right to windows. When i disable/unplug the WIN7drive it just gives me a black screen and a white line.

I added a solid state drive last night. I then used Norton Ghost 15 to copy my old drive to my new one. I started the copy process and went to bed. When I woke up the next morning the PC was off. I unplugged the old hard drive and turned the PC on. I then saw the BOOTMGR is missing message. I...

I have recently acquired a new Toshiba laptop. The HDD is divided into: C drive D drive (Data) SYSTEM RESERVED (not sure what this means - only viewable in defragmenter) Q drive (Office 2010 Click to run (protected)) E drive (DVD) The D drive has the files: HDD Recovery R16067NH.tag I was...

Hi, I've successfully installed a 100GB IDE drive that was successfully being used as a secondary 'slave' drive in an older Win98SE system (it had to be partitioned into 4 25GB partitions, to deal with 98's inability to handle large HDDs). I want to preserve the data in the drive (it's just...

I have just taken delivery of a new PC and instead of configuring it as I needed: Drive C: 500GB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB Blank Drive E: 1TB Blank, The supplier has installed Windows as: Drive C: 1TB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB blank Drive E: 500GB blank Is there a way to remove Windows 7 from...

I’m adding a 10x Internal Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive to my computer. Is there a preferred socket I should connect the SATA cable to on the mother board or can I use any empty socket? I'm running Windows 7 (64-bit) Thanks Jessie

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...

Hey guys, I hate to ask a question right on first post but this is rather an frustrating issue. Out of a sudden on a random reboot one day after installing new video card drivers for my ATi HD4830 card, it went "Operating System Not Found" or something similar to that. So I thought, weird...

I'm having problems creating new partitions on my hdd fro munused space I have on my disk. It is bit long story but I hope somebody reads it and knows how to help me. I got a new Acer computer (with Windows 7) which had 1 TB hdd. In the hdd there were C- (~500 GB), D (~500 GB)-drives and this...