drive management

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

ok so i hope this is the right forun or thread.. but i have a problem.. i have my lap top wich had two windows 7 installed. i did it... one on drive C: and other on drive D: ... now i erased the one on drive C: while on the other windows 7. on drive D:.... and i made it active then i...

In WinXP I created a shortcut to WinExplorer with the following parameters: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /n,/e,D:\tmp When I do this in Win7 then the dir is opened on the right side of WinExplorer but on the left side the directory tree remains unexpanded. How can I tell WinExplorer to...

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...

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...

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???

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...

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

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...