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    Windows 7 Windows 7 upgrade failed

    I failed to upgrade from home to ultimate because some driver error and now when i try to upgrade it says i don'y have enough space when i have over 400gb of free space. Also on a side note, i installed a wireless card that was corrupt and then bought a newer one and got ride of the corrupt...
  2. Windows 7 backup software

    I was using windows 7 backup feature for my system image backups. The problem I'm having is that each time it created an image backup to my (E drive -320 Gb, set to back up daily, my hard drive space kept getting smaller. A 320 gb drive reads at 298 gb then the backup created would be between 70...
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    Windows 7 Restricted Shrinking on a Partition

    G'day. Trying to shrink my C drive to 40gb for Windows 7. I'm restricted to having it at about half of it's original size. This excerpt copied from sevenforums explains the reason for this. The size of the available shrink space can be restricted by the amount of space currently allocated to...
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    Windows 7 What ARE all these files on my system drive?

    My system drive is 63GB - yes GB... All that's on there is Windows 7 64-bit, and my applications. Data is elsewhere, cache files are elsewhere..... At this moment there's 420KB free on the drive... So, I started looking for what honking big bunch of garbage is eating this thing. Searching...
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    Windows 7 Partition Problem

    I created a partition, and installed linux, I then deleted the partition, and now have a 103.07gb free space partition, when I select delete it says "There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation". How can I delete this?
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    Windows 7 Hibernation Issues. random start up.

    hi, when i hibernate my computer it works fine but then it starts it's self up about 7hours later. i am unsure of why this is. any help is appreciated. maybe usefull info: windows 7 ultimate 64bit 6gb ram intel i7 975 1gb graphics 10gb free hdd space thanks in advance. thanks glenn
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    Windows 7 Red Bar In Free Drive Space in Computer Window

    Would somebody please tell me what the red bar is under the D drive in the attachment? This drive is not in use and contains my old Vista OS. I am running Win7 Pro on the C drive Thanks
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    Windows 7 problem with cd rom drive disabling itself

    Operating system: Windows 2.6.0.6001 (SP 1) CPU type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P7350 @ 2.00GHz CPU Speed (GHz): 2.02 System memory (GB): 3.998 Graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M Graphics card driver: nvd3dum.dll Desktop resolution: 1366x768 Hard disk size (GB): 285.397 Hard...
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    Windows Vista Inexplicably full Local Disk (C:)

    Pretty much overnight, the amount of free space in my local disk (C:) drive went from almost empty to almost full. I have a feeling I have a virus, though virus scan does not reveal anything out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive size ridiculously far off, Disk Management shows full drive size

    Ok, I've searched all over every forum I can think of and I can't find anything anywhere. I apologize if this has been answered on this site; I couldn't find it. My C: drive has been displaying a size of around 60 gb with 40 free even though it's a 300 gb drive. I thought the issue would...
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    Windows 7 A couple Windows 7 niggles - looking for solutions

    Well, I'm slowly getting through the really big problems, and now looking for ways to solve smaller stuff... 1. WHERE is my free space on Windows Explorer status bar? I've seen a bunch of complaints that it's gone, but none telling me how to get it back....... It's REALLY annoying to have...
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    Windows 7 Installations, on D and C. Help get rid of one.

    Mistakenly installed Win7 on free space on D: Installed a second time on C: Now I can't tell which one is booting and I cannot delete Windows files on D; due to permissions. Is there a way to get my space back on D: and be sure that I'm booting from C:?
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    Windows 7 Minimu size to shrink for c-partition

    I got a new Dell Win7 computer with 640 GB hard drive. But free space for C-Partition in the new computer is now 555gb. For my XP computers, the size of C-partition is about 60 GB. So I tried to shrink 555 gb size to 60 gb in the Disk Managment. I could not shrink to that low but only...
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    Windows 7 Recovery drive c full

    How do I free up my C drive which is almost full?
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    Windows 7 Recovery full

    How do I empty my recovery drive in order to free space for downloads?
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    Windows 7 Device Stage Coding Help

    I am trying to create a Device Stage for my cell phone that is not supported. I only want basic features but would love free space and battery information if possible. I have followed tutorials and everything I can find from Microsoft as well as an old tutorial I found online but I am unable to...
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    Windows 7 Constant HDD Access by System PID 4

    This process is constantly accessing and writing to my HD. It will write to the NTFS: Free Space, volume log and MFT. Is this normal activity? I am running Win 7 on a Lenovo X61 Tablet PC. OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600 Other OS Description...
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    Windows 7 Even after clean install, still don't have free space?

    I have a 320gb hard drive, and just installed Windows 7 Professional to what I thought was a clean install, but to my suprise I still have the same amount of free space as I did with Vista. I booted from CD and did a custom install which I thought would clear off everything. I'm not sure the...
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    Windows 7 Large folder deleted, space not free

    Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...
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    Windows 7 where is my space gone?

    this happened with two hard disk drives. ill only talk about the one im using right now. i installed windows and some programs. i right clicked on the C partition where the OS is installed then properties. 97.9 space used 11.1 space available. Total size is 109 as you can see. thats right. I...