drive management

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...

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.

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...

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...

Ive installed windows 7 onto a separate hard drive, which is named in vista as Drive Z, so that theres no risk of me damaging my main vista files etc. While windows 7 appears to load OK after selecting it via a dual boot option, i cant see or access anything from the vista disk/partition, as...

Ive got all my music on a drive that is separate from my OS drive. I am unable (through Itunes etc) to edit or delete those music files (all the fields appear grey under "get info") . I can however delete them through windows explorer. as far as i can tell, my user account has full access to...

In Vista, it was possible to change the location of My Documents, My Music etc. by adjusting the properties of those special folders, and pointing them to an alternate location. I could change the location of My Music by selecting the Location tab under Properties, and define a new folder. In...

Hello........I'm a newby and really ned some help. I did a clean install of Vista Ultimate which went on ok but things are not right, there are several things not doing what they should so I decided to put XP Pro back on. I've formatted again from the Vista cd but when I try to install XP I get...

Hi all, I have installed MS Vista on 50GB partitioned drive from an overall 74.5 hard disk space. I left the other half to install Suse Linux 10. After installing MS Vista, I could not see the other half of the partition drive I created using Vista partition feature during installation...