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So i bought a 1T Western Digital hard drive from Best Buy today and copied the contents of my old hard drive onto my new one using Acronis Disk Director. It was running fantastic afterward, so I decided to add another partition to dual boot on. After coping the data and restarting the drive it...

I asked this question here and i was suggested to ask on a windows forum. I want to uninstall Ubuntu, so i need to delete its partition. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management in Windows: So can you tell me please which are the Ubuntu partitions? edit: They answered me that the Ubuntu...

This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot. Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help: - booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard - booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers - random...

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Hello ! I have a really wired problem. If I right-click->properties LocalDiskC it says 48GB used. If I open LocalDiskC and select everything than right-click->properties them I get 38GB size on disk. Can someone please tell me what are the rest 10GB occupied by ? Screenshot: Link Removed...

Hello people, I have a Windows XP Computer. I only have 20 GB of space, but my hard drive is bigger than that. It is 111 GB. I want to use the 91 GB left of space so I can store more stuff. Can you please tell me how to use Disk Management becuase I am not that good at partitions. Thanks in...

I have recently bought a Samsung ativ book 9 lite. Generally I'm happy with it but not at all with the bad usage of the disk space it has. It is supposed to have 128GB but: 1) It has a recover partition which takes up to 18GB (I think I should remove this one, what do you think of this?). 2)...

Occasionally I do some data file backups onto DVD and BlueRay medias. My burning program offers some media file systems (even in combination): ISO 9960 - Joliet - UDF Which one should I use? Is it correct that understanding the file system is a matter of the appropriate driver of the...

In many burning software programs users can chooses which file system they want to use on their DVD/BlueRay media disc. Is UDF (v1.02) ALWAYS bettern than ISO 9660 resp. Jolliet format? If not: What could be a disadvantage of UDF? I want to burn big (archive) files. No special audio or...

Hi, I'm currently at a point were I'm stuck on this error "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port". I am trying to install Win 7 onto my External 1TB Samsung M3 HDD, I want to boot Win...

Hi, I am new here. I installed an SSD and relocated some various temp folders to an SDHC card to minimize write operations on the SSD (although I understand this is not necessary). Anyway, I purchased a 16GB class 10 Polaroid SDHC card to be exact and it gets corrupted constantly. In...

I don't know what's wrong with my baby but he's doing something crazy. The SSD that someone bought me is screwed. Meaning, it's slower than both of the HDD's that I have. I've since reformatted the SSD and I'm in the process of removing it from my computer. However, the 500GB isn't doing too...

I assume I have a trojan which replaced a certain windows core DLL by a modified version. When I list all files in a directory (e.g. C:\widnows\system32\) in Windows Explorer then certain files are not visible. Yes, I checked unhide hidden files on unprotect system files in WinExp options...

I have a folder I've been trying to delete for some time but I am unable to. I am using cmd prompt and get the message " the directory is not empty". I know it's not empty but it needs to get deleted. Please help. D:\>RMDIR /s m m, Are you sure (Y/N)? y...

After a while of working and a reboot I notice always these newly created folders with the name e.g 3ad8fd84262526c399f/Sandbox Which prgm creates these folders? Whats the purpose and can I let AUTOMATICALLY (!) delete them after usage? Thank you Peter

I have a Win7 64-bit system and have been successfully using Windows backup on an approximately monthly basis. I ran it before going to bed last night and woke up to a "The backup failed." when I tried to create a system image of both of my hard discs. The error is "Incorrect function...

No changes were made since last boot. Attempted to follow instructions posted here: windows 7 bootmgr is missing-- resolved using WinRE - Microsoft Answers Method 1: Message states a fix was made.Root cause found: The partition table does not have a valid System Partition. Repair action...

I installed a 3TB drive but my system only sees 1.99TB what could I do to fix this, I think it should be about 2.75TB using Windows 7 U, Don't know the computer type, it's been rebuilt a few times it's the C drive i'm talking about Thank you all so much Frantheman7

Hi guys, I Have a 200 GB hard drive. So far I had two partitions: 50GB System partition 150GB additional partition for various data I decided that I didn't want to keep the additional partition, so I used the Windows 7 installation disc to format and delete this partition. Then I extended the...

ok, so i listen to music.... A LOT of music. the problem i'm having is that every month or so, a folder (i have it set up as c:\music\artist\album) disappears. (c:\example\example wouldn't be so bad, but it's always the higher c:\example so it deletes ALL albums!) this is insanely frustrating...