drive management

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    Windows 7 Trouble restoring / partitioning with Bootcamp

    These screenshots say the most: Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error I deleted a nearly full Windows partition using Boot Camp Assistant and reinstalled Windows, this time partitioning the drive (320gb) in half. During Windows installation it said the BOOTCAMP...
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    Windows 7 New Drive appeared well the icon anyhow.

    Hello guys, I have my HDD divided into two portions: C and D drive - both 250gb = 500gb total across the two. Now when I enter MY COMPUTER it shows C and D drive normally, but there is also another drive visible noted as (Q:) Drive, it has no allocated memory at all, and when you try to...
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    Windows 7 New hard drive installed with windows 7.... recovery drive full

    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???
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    Why it may be a GOOD idea to partition a drive.

    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...
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    Windows 7 Switch Between Partitions.... Without Restart

    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
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    Windows 7 Two hard drive boot

    I have two hard drives on my computer. One has Win 7 Ultimate 64bit (1T, default load) and the other Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit (500 gig). I want to be able to boot off the 32 bit HD to play my games, they run terrible on the 64 bit drive. I have gone to the msconfig boot tab and it does not show...
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    Windows 7 Slave Drives Not Detected After Install

    I formatted my HD in the spring for Windows 7 Beta (No Issues). Three months ago, I formatted again and installed 7RC (again, no issues). Today however, the following happened: After the computer rebooted to finish the installation, it rebooted once more (as normal to get into Windows)...
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    Windows 7 Dual Boot Vista32, Win764 on partition

    Hello all, I am new to the forum and searched for an answer to this question but couldn't find a definitive answer so here it is: I have Vista32 on my C: drive and Win764 on my K: drive which was partitioned for Win7. When booted to Win7, I believe Win7 is on C: and Vista is on D...
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    Windows 7 move users folder entirely

    Hello, I've been moving my docs, my pics, etc changing the location to another drive.... but is there a way to set it to use another drive and not have to move 1 by 1 all the folders? This way it's much easier to do a clean install destroying drive C each time I have a problem and have all my...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 over xp??

    Hi, news to the forums.Tomorrow i will be buying windows 7, i currently use windows xp because my pc is just for gaming, and i keep a separate drive for non gaming purposes. I just wanted to know(because i have heard) if i want to install over windows xp, will i need to do a full format? Just as...
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    Windows 7 Drive letters switched

    My computer had Vista Ultimate on Drive C, and XP Pro on Drive D (dual boot). I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7, and couldn't upgrade from Vista Ultimate to Windows 7 Professional (which is what the Action Pack CD is). I purchased Laplink PcMover Update and ran it on the XP installation then...
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    Windows 7 Problem with Installing Windows 7

    I recently received a copy of Windows 7 and by not paying attention, I installed it on the wrong Drive (D:\ instead of C:\). I have little knowledge in computers, but I believe I know the basics. I attempted to just transfer the files from the D Drive to C Drive, but it didn't work. My Plan...
  13. reghakr

    Windows 7 Hack to Remove 100 MB System Reserved Partition When Installing Windows 7

    I have never had one of these "reserved partitions, because I have always formatted first. For those of you who haven't here's how to take care of it. On a fresh (custom) installation of Windows 7, where Windows 7 is installed onto a new hard disk with unallocated disk space (no partition or...
  14. Chris Stewart

    Windows 7 Can I map my User directory to another drive?

    I created two partitions when installing Win7 RTM, a 65gb C drive for the OS and a ~800gb D drive for my applications. I didn't think about my User directory while doing this and where I'd store all of my music, pictures, and so forth. I like keeping everything in the User directory as it's...
  15. vyze

    Windows 7 UNINSTALL but can't FIXMBR for XP

    I installed W7 but needed to get rid of it (I did the 32-bit and I'm going to get 4 more GB to bump to 8GB of RAM soon so need the 64-bit) but I am stuck with the W7 boot menu and I can't get XP's back! I have a 500GB drive that I had 320 to XP and 50GB then the rest (about 75GB) unallocated. I...
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    Windows 7 Dual Boot Windows 7 EN with Windows 7 FR

    I'm a sadistic French student, so I'm attempting to dual boot Win7-French with Win7-English. Here are my speedbumps so far: The default boot menu just lists the operating system name, since both are called Windows 7, it's unclear. How can I rename the menu options to clarify? I would like...
  17. Qrusher14242

    Windows 7 Local Drive "Access is Denied" Error

    Whenever i try to access my 2nd HDD partition's, it says 'Access is Denied'. I have a dual boot of Vista, XP and Windows 7. All say Access is Denied when i try to access them. The weird thing is, i can still access some Shares from those drives. I noticed it when i used XBMC and i could still...
  18. zx6r1033

    Windows 7 is there a way to change the links in the start menu?

    The links on the right side of the start menu that point to music, pictures, etc... Is there any way to change them? My music is on a second drive, and I want that section to include my download folder. I can figure out how to remove things from being displayed there, but not to add new things.
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    Windows 7 Moving Swapfile

    Moving Pagefile I put Windows 7 64 bit on a SSD drive with the intention of moving my swapfile to my conventional D Drive. Seems that I no longer have that option. No drives show up in the drive box so I assume that it's either the C drive or nothing. Am I Correct? Thanks. Leon Guys.... Sorry...
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    Windows 7 Uninstall W7

    Guys, I would like to uninstall W7. I installed my W7 on Drive E in XP machine (drive C). For your info, Everytime I boot my computer, there are two choices of OS:, XP and W7. Unfortunately, in BOOT.INI in XP, there is no such a choice of W7 startup that I can delete. Any help will be...
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