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    Windows 7 Corrupt/lost data on NEW external HDD

    Hi, Firstly sorry for long thread but i thought it best to give as much info as possible....... I recently purchased a Barracuda ST3000DM001 HDD for use as storage within an external Thermaltake 5G USB3 enclosure. I connected it directly to one of my PC's and installed Win 7 (32bit) onto a...
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    Windows 7 Startup repair failure

    Hi there, As a first note (I want to stress this), this problem didn't happen "once", but this is the 8-10th time it happened. I own a pretty decent HP laptop, "elitebook 8530w" with (apart from the HDD, which is 250 GB) the most high end options. First my computer seemingly becomes...
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    Windows 7 Can't reinstall XP after formatting HDD with Windows 7 RC Recovery CD

    So, I had the RC Build 7100 32-bit on my PC. This was installed over the top of 32-bit XP. It was expiring soon, got some issues and bluescreened every so often, so I booted the Windows 7 Repair CD I made and used cmd to format the C drive, which worked. However, when I try to load the XP setup...
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    Windows 7 Easy Transfer 64-32bit HELP

    Ive just finally upgraded from a BETA build of 64bit Windows 7 to the Final of the 32bit version, the reason I went 32bit was there were too many driver problems on the 64 bit (our printer doesnt have 64 bit drivers for instance) so I decided to use the 'Easy Transfer' wizard BAD move.. because...
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    Windows 7 Missing 19.6 GB?

    I installed Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trough Windows XP, but I installed on my non primary HDD to back up files. Once the files were copied to the new HDD I re-formatted my HDD. I have an issue with My Computer recording the space usage. It says I have used 553.GB of my 111GB Drive Link Removed Link...