hard drives

I have a Dell system with 2 internal hard drives. I have backed up all of my data to the second hard drive. When doing a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 will it reformat both drives or can I tell it which ones to format?

I have an IDE DVD multi reader/burner (Pioneer DVR-118L) that is showing up in the bios fine I think (I can select it as the first boot drice - it's listed with brand name and everything in the bios) However it doesn't appear in Device Manager or Disk Manager or anything in Windows 7. I have...

I am one of the very unlucky few who has Windows Vista Home Basic. I have A LOT of important files, and no backup discs whatsoever for backing up files. I have a huge problem here. I want to install windows 7 professional but I only have windows vista home basic. I have been told that I'll have...

Hello, I downloaded the student edition of windows 7 Home Premium, I am currently running Vista Ultimate so cannot do an update and have to do a custom install. I downloaded it fine, ran it, it opens up fine with the blue windows 7 opening screen, I select install, then select custom...

I set up a couple of 1tb WD HD's in a raid0 config and partitioned it into 2 chunks. 100gb for windows and whatnot and the rest in another chunk. It sees the 100gb part but wont recognize the rest of it. I can see it on boot and it says its golden but win 7 only sees the smaller partition. I...

So here's the situation: I have a 300GB IDE drive partitioned into three parts, and a new Western Digital 1 TB drive I just bought, along with a 500gb, and an 80 gb for my OS. Windows 7 recognized all of the drives, and all three partitions when I installed it, but after the installation was...

I am building a new desktop PC. At present my OS is Windows XP Professional 64bit. Is Windows 7 released as a full version (clean install) 64 bit Home Premium version? If so can you direct me to a web site where I can order this version? Also when I do a clean install do I format my OS...

Hi. I am planning on upgrading from XP to Windows 7. Right now, I have 2 hard drives on my computer (C: and F:). All of my files are on the C: hard drive (300GB) and F: (1TB) is empty. When I install Windows 7, I'm planning on installing it to F: , and later copying files over from C: instead...

I have two hard drives each partitioned into two. Drives C:,F:,G:, and H:. After a clean install of 7 to C: will F,G, and H still be as they are? In other words can I back up all my stuff to F,G or H? Thanks :cool:

I will be installing Windows 7 this week on a PC currently using XP. I understand that the XP to 7 upgrade path requires a clean install. And I assume with this a reformat of the system disk. This PC has two drives - C: and D:. These are two different physical drives. Not partitions of one...

Hi all. I'm becoming frustrated trying to install Windows 7 on my computer. I'm trying to install it on a raid 0 configuratioin i'm assuming. I have two SATA hard drives acting as one. I have an ASUS p5n e sli motherboard.. When I try to install windows my drive is not showing up. I've tried...

Hi all. I'm becoming frustrated trying to install Windows 7 on my computer. I'm trying to install it on a raid 0 configuratioin i'm assuming. I have two SATA hard drives acting as one. I have an ASUS p5n e sli motherboard.. When I try to install windows my drive is not showing up. I've tried...

Hi all. It seems that there's something going on with defragmenting that I'm not aware of. I use UltimateDefrag 2008 for defragmenting. I was able to use it only once, and then it simply didn't work. The program loads and when I click on Analyze or defrag, it simply says it is analyzing but it...

I just got Windows 7 last night from the Houseparty as I am a host, I installed it last night as well and attempted to get it all back to normal. Everything flows beautifully except one snag, my music. I do have 3 different hard drives (one 1TB, 1 250gig, and 1 80gig) all of my music is stored...

Why are some folders or files are not accessable in XP I have been using both XP on one hard drive and Windows 7 on another. Some of my folders in XP are not accessible. I have a USB backup and store files there from both OS's. I am wondering why some folder/files that end up in XP are not...

Hello, I'm trying to prevent my monitor from going into sleep mode when the computer is not being used. I changed the power options in Control Panel to never turn off monitor and never turn off hard drives then I went into the advanced options and changed the setting to never turn PCIe...

Hi there. I have 2 physical HDs and one of them is devided into two drives, so basically I have 3 drives: C: D: and E; I want to assign names to each of them and I could only do so to drive C:, but I seem to ran into this message that I need an admisitrative ability while I'm the...

hi all I need some advice on how to install windows 7 professional which i can get free from my college. ive put it on a DVD read to install but i need advice. my current OS is windows XP home 32BIT i have two hard drives a 149GB and the other 80GB Xp is installed on the 149gb and my...

Okay, i have two hard drives in my computer and one has Vista on it and now the other has Win7. Everything in Win7 is working great but i cannot boot up Vista off the other drive anymore, there is no option. I have tried to go into advanced system properties and see if i change the default OS...

i am looking to buy vista 32 bit home prem. with the windows 7 upgrade. 1. will i be able to get 64bit windows 7? 2. with windows 7 will i be able to dual boot both os's?? i will be anyt using two harddrives for this i need to get vista 32 bit so i can still use my laser printer that does not...