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  1. Saltgrass

    Windows 7 Warning - UEFI install and secondary hard drive with Extended/Logical partitions.

    It has come to light, that a UEFI installed system, will fail to boot if a secondary drive is attached which contains logical partitions. This would have to be an MBR configured drive, of course, but if it has at least one primary and one extended partition, it will stop Windows 7 and Windows 8...
    • Saltgrass
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    • boot issues data recovery extended partitions installation logical partitions mbr secondary drive uefi windows 7 windows 8
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Converting a dynamic disk to basic without data loss

    Hello All, Would really appreciate some help. I initially had 1 500gb dynamic disk, with one partition containing all my documents and windows files. I created a partition in the free space to copy my documents into so I could overwrite Windows keeping my documents intact. However I...
    • Bollard
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    • acronis backup basic disk data integrity data loss data recovery disk conversion disk format diskpart dynamic disk extended partitions file backup file system hex editor os recovery partition management partitioning sector change windows files windows installation
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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