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    Windows 7 Combined Hard Drives

    I have two 1TB HDD"s combined into one for my D:\ totaling 1.81 TB. I have 88GB free space left. What would happen if I uncombined this drive or would it allow me to at all? I can deal with a few problems like it not knowing where a program is. I just don't want the drives to crash and need...
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    Undelete files on NTFS

    Hello, I just accidentally deleted 4400 text files (1.5GB) on an NTFS volume that's probably heavily fragmented, although these files were created in a particular sequence. The files contain long columns of numerical data. If the undelete program takes one cluster from one file and another from...
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    Windows 7 My hard drive is full but Windows wanted to install updates. Help?

    My hard drive got full with just about 400mb of space left. I started the back up process and when the backup was done going onto the external hard drive, windows told me it will be installing updates (I have Windows 7). I postponed the updates and closed my laptop and have not used my laptop...
  4. Windows 7 Folders are being displayed differently

    So, this is hard for me to explain but: After inserting data stick into usb drive and attempt to open it says "Application not found". After research I set my auto play settings back to default by hitting the reset button. I can now open my data stick. But it looks different. If you view the...
  5. Windows 8 Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.

    I go this error when doing sfc /scannow and was wondering what is was about. Any help greatly appreciated. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. Details are included in the CBS.log. windir/logs/CBS/CBS.log. For example C;\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log...
  6. Windows 7 What happens to a file when you 'save' and 'copy'?

    Hello everyone here on this lovely forum! I have some questions regarding the file system in Windows 7 that I really hope you can help me with. File A This file is created in 2010 and modified in 2012. File A Created: 2010 Modified: 2012 Accessed: 2012 File B This file is a copy of file A...
  7. Windows 8 Can't move/rename folder in 8.1

    So i was redirecting some of the default folders (music, photos, doc, etc) from my SSD drive to my HDD drive. But I accidentally named two of my drives (doc and downloads) D:/ . Now They both have the same files and are both unrelenting in changing back. I tried to change location of it, but...
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    Windows 7 PST file corruption??

    Hello, I use a single PST file as my main information store between home and office. The file is 100MB and has recently been compacted. At the office, we have an Exchange Server, and at home I interface with my POP. Ultimately evertything gets filed in this PST file which I carry on...
  9. Windows 7 External drive deletes files randomly

    Dear everyone, I've tried to explain my problem as good as I could, please do not be afraid of asking for more informations :) I hope you guys can somehow help me out. TLDR My external harddrive randomly removes files after installing new motherboard + processor. Some of the files can be...
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    Windows 8 Missing files after CHKDSK no found.000 folder

    I hope I'm in the right place. A while back I was copying some family files over from some (a few ancient, like 1990s) hard drives on my Ubuntu rig over to a new external 1TB NTFS HD formatted in Windows 8, nothing special. I was using the Ubuntu rig cause a few of them wouldn't initialize in...
  11. Windows 8 I somehow renamed my downloads folder to desktop and now my desktop and downloads folder are linked.

    I have no idea how i did this, but while I was trying to change my downloads folder location, I managed to make my desktop the downloads folder. then when I tried to move it back, I somehow linked two folders... Here's a screenshot of my directory folder: If someone knows how to fix this...
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    Windows 8 System videos and music folders screwed

    By accident I have screwed up a pair of user system folders. In moving their locations from the system drive to a second drive, I carelessly managed to point the system 'Videos' folder location and the system 'Music' folder location at the same folder. The two system folders are now totally...
  13. Windows 7 Option To "Extend Partition" Grayed Out In Disk Management (SOLVED)

    I guess I'll start with what gave birth to this problem: I was curious about OpenSUSE so I thought I'd try it out, I dual booted Windows with OpenSUSE and everything was fine, I gave it a go, exactly what I wanted to do, and then I was done with it. In the process of installing OpenSUSE however...
  14. Windows 7 How to decrypt jpg file at win 7 encrypted by win xp sp2

    Accidentally the user had checked the encrypted file option in properties of file/folder located in the C and D drive. After that, the system (C drive ) was formatted and the users' encryption certificate and password file was deleted while formatting. Now I am using windows 7, but unable to...
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    Windows 8 drive is not accessible after extend using partition wizard 9.

    Drive E 'main data partition which contains all my important files' becomes RAW (not NTFS) after extending OS Drive C using partition wizard 9 software which finished successfully without errors! (all details available below): MY HARDDISK WAS RUNNING WITHOUT PROBLEMS BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE...
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    Windows 7 WinExp does NOT show BlueRay content - All other tools do!

    I have a problem with WinExplorer under 64bit Win 7: I inserted a BlueRay or DVD media and want to see the content (approx 12 big zip files) in Windows Explorer. But WinExp does not show them (on the right side in details list). If I click on the drive in WinExplorer nothing happens. Only the...
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    Windows 8 Externall HDD problem

    Right, firstly, new here, so apologies if this is poted in the wrong place/ section. Having a problem with an external HDD. When connected to a computer, windows will recognise it, but when I try to open it to view files, I get the following message: F:\ is not accessible 'The volume does...
  18. Windows 7 cant shrink windows partitions enough

    hello to all! i am trying to help someone who commented on one of my YouTube videos on how to install Ubuntu. I have a step which involves shrinking a partition to make room for Ubuntu, and he has over 50GB of free space, yet can only take away 3000MB... if anyone could help that would be great...
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    Windows 7 Deleting Windows Folder

    Hi there, I need to delete a Windows folder (which is not in use and not on the C-drive) but every time I try to do this I am informed that I do not have permission to do so. I have tried changing the owner of the folder to Administrators/my user name in explorer, but then when I try to delete...
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    Windows 7 symbolic link to a folder not working

    I attempted to create a soft symbolic link to a folder, but the link is not working. In Explorer, the "keybrd_lib" link does not look like a folder (screen shot below). When the link is double clicked, an "Open with" dialog opens. Here is how I made the symlink from the command line, run as...