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  1. Windows 7 How much drive space is needed by Win 7 ?

    I'm just curious. I have a local disc C: and two storage drives. The Win7 operating system and a handful of applications are on the C: The folders on the drive add total about 28G. Yet, the blue bar shows 85G used and 85G free on the C: Why is this? Thx.
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    Windows 7 How to fix this Problem..

    I do not know what I do but I have formatted a local disk C in my laptop and now I can not start the boot because the system has gone by I formatted a local disk C .. How do I solve this problem. Do I have to use DVD windows 7 because there are file boot. T.Q sorry my bad english.
  3. Windows 7 Swapping main hardisk? help!!

    I have formatted my Acer Aspire 5552 and Installed Windows 7. Previously, my ''main drive'' was my Local Disk (D: ) (450GB) and now it is Local disk (C: ) (20 GB) So there is no room for my programs, etc.. so how I swap them around? Have tried to save the programs on Local Disk (D: ) , but then...
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    Windows 7 Changing a Removable Disk to Local Disk?

    Hi Folks, I have created an encrypted drive (X) on my system (Windows 7 - 64 bit) and wish to store my emails there. I did this successfully in Vista. To do this I need to change X:/ from a Removable Disk to a Local Disk, please can somebody explain to me how and wehre to do this? OS Name...
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    Windows 7 drive d: problem

    I have 3 partition C, D, n E. After i install win 7 ultimate 32 bit in C, my local D: don;t show in windows explorer. All i can see just C: and my E: but write as Local Disk D: When i see in Disk Management, My Local Disk D: still there. How can i restore the D: so i can see that in Windows...
  6. Windows 7 please help me

    Hello. I have installed new windows 7,on my previous windows 7. Till that, i have saved my important files in Local disc D. Windows is installed on local disc C.But previous windows version moved moved to D disk. And my files, that were in D disk, have lost.What can I do for moving back my...
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    Windows 7 Hard Disk Problem!Please help!

    Please,help me.I don't know how this happened and it is really strange.Everything was good with my hard drive but now the last time I opened my pc I noticed something really odd.In ''My Computer'' folder my Local Disk icon had changed.Instead of being an icon that displays a disk,it is an icon...
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    Windows 7 Local Disk C: RENAMED ITSELF

    I clicked on My Computer and noticed that my Local Disk C: had been renamed and it now appeared as: TI105860W0F C: Additionally, when I clicked on it, it shows containing two files with unrecognizable names. (See attachment) Does anyone have any idea what happened here and how to fix it...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 wont detect external dvd rom

    Hey guys...newbie posting out of total desperation and needing help! I have posted in other forums with no luck... I bought a Samsung SH-D162D DVD Drive in a USB enclosure to connect to my Toshiba laptop via USB. I cannot get windows 7 to find it! When I plug in the USB cable the balloon...
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    Windows 7 C: is full and D: is empty; Can you help?

    My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...
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    Windows XP team fortress 2

    if i have 504MB of ram and have 23.0GB memory on my local disk(C:) will that be ok for me to get steam and team fortress 2 or get half life 2 deathmatch thank you to anyone who can give me the awnser
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    Windows 7 Chkdisk scan problem

    There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...
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    Windows 7 Local Disk D Icon

    I don't know why the Local Disk D has that icon, how do I fix it?
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    Windows 7 Complicated DVD-reader problem

    So. I've got a LG GSA-4166B, and I was gonna install Battlefield: Bad Company2, but it did not find the disc (neither on my or my dads PC, and both got this DVD-reader/writer so I went into device manager and uninstalled the driver cause I was gonna install the new one I found by googling...
  15. Windows 7 Phantom Drive showing in Computer

    Somehow I've ended up with a "phantom" local disk Q showing in Computer. It shows as 0 bytes used and 0 free; it cannot be accessed. It does NOT show in either disk management or device manager. It is not my card reader which is removable drive F. I do not have an external drive connected of any...
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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 Error when saving files: creates empty file

    Greetings all, I'm running the Windows 7 RTM and I've been recently getting this error in Firefox while trying to save images/files: "You don't have permission to modify files in this network location." These are files that I'm trying to save to local disk. Once this error message appears, a...
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    Windows 7 Access is Denied - Local Disk C:\ is not accessible

    Hi everyone, I have this problem in which, windows 7 basically locks up the hard drive. Start > Computer > Hard Disk Drives(1) > Local Disk (C: \ >"Location is not accessible - C:\ is not accessible - Access is denied." I can access other parts of the hard drive like c:\users\etc... but...
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    Windows 7 windows cannot access

    error code 0x800704b3 unable to access anything on the c drive or change any thing with the shield and the Local Disc (c:) have a 2 head item on the icon really need some help with this item Allen
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    Windows 7 External Powered USB drive not connecting correctly

    Firstly like to say Hi to everyone and thanks for the support forum has been helpful in the past already. Basically I have the windows 7 beta installed on a samsung netbook NC10 and must admit considering it is not a powerhorse machine I am impressed at how windows 7 is actually running. The...