drive configuration

Dell just installed a new hard drive on my computer and the D: recovery drive is already full. Apparently everything is getting saved onto the D drive instead of the C drive. How do I get the computer to use the C drive as the primary drive???

Hi all, I hope some clever bod out there can help - I don't know what I'm doing so consequently am not getting too far. I have a PC with a hard disk that has 3 partitions - Windows 7, WinXP and documents. Each partition was getting a little full so I want to upgrade it. I bought a 1Tb...

I have 3 drives C:\Windows7 D:\Stuff - Windows Easy Transfer backup X:\WindowsXP External SATA backup I have installed Windows 7 twice and I cannot get it to boot from C:. I get errors saying the boot manager is missing. I have to boot from X: and select Windows 7 from the boot manager. I tried...

I have an odd issue installing 7100 on SATA drives. Here's my drive configuration: SATA 0 - WD Raptor 36GB (Operating System) SATA 2 - WD 250GB (Program Files) SATA 3 - WD 250GB (Data / Media libraries) SATA 4 - CD ROM I want to install the OS to the 36GB drive. In the Windows...

installed with sata off by accident now won't boot with sata on I had sata off in my bios, installed windows 7 rc no problem. Now if I turn on sata in my bios, windows 7 won't boot. Any ideas on how to make it boot with sata on? thanks

Hi all i need some help. I have 3 partitions on my drive 1 with windows 7 1 with my pics and all that shit and 1 spare. The spare one is empty but comes up as system active primary partition. I need to make it into a logical drive. How can i do this?

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...

I currently have 3 hard drives and one Disk Drive (DVD). I installed W7 on Drive 3 (disk 2). Drive 1 (disk 0) has windows XP on it, but it wont boot due to some odd windows\system32\config\ folder missing or corrupt. My power went out when windows was loading and Kaput. I want to be able to...

This is a long message, beware. I recently installed build 7000 on my machine, but I've been having trouble with the built-in backup software. The short version of the issue is that backups of C:\ no longer work. The long version: Windows successfully creates a shadow copy, but then...