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    Windows 7 Partitioning question

    I created an extended logical partition on my HD using Paragon Partition Manager 10-64 bit (I'm running 64bit Win7 Home). In the creation process I left 121.x GB on the C: Primary partition (also left untouched the 2 unlabeled partitions for the system). And created an extended logical...
  2. Windows 7 Suddenly there is lots of extra hard drive space!

    I have an extra logical drive (separate from C: ) that holds my personal data, you know, pictures, home videos, personal documents etc. This drive, E:, has for the last year or so always shown up in explorer with red a red disk space indicator bar. (There was about 20GB of free space left)...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 - Setup was unable to create a new partition

    Hello !! Recently I want to install Windows 7 as my previous OS was Windows xp... Now, I am unable to install windows 7 as , when I start the install and click on install it shows that setup was unable to create a new partition or locate an existing system partition... I have 2 hard disks ...
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    Windows 7 Drive labeling confusion in Disk Management

    I have four internal drives and an external Drobo drive. The internal drives are my concern in this query. All are working well and I could just leave well alone, but my sense of order requires me to get all these different descriptions into conformity with each other. Active/Not Active...
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    Windows 7 regarding dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu

    i have hp pavilion dv6 laptop with windows7 installed in it. i want to install ubuntu but it has already 4 primary partitions. which drive should i convert to logical.pls help. system -199MB c drive -450 GB recovery- 15 GB HP tools -99 MB
  6. Windows 7 Partititioning Windows 7 HP/ Extended ??

    I'm back with a new problem. Today I tried to create a new Logical partition on my laptop by taking 1 of the 4 Primary partitions, (It was the 13 gb Arcade partition) and making it logical. I then resized the C drive partition to leave 75gb of un allocated space which I was going to use as a...
  7. Quick Tip: Create a new partition with Windows 7 tool

    Use the Disk Management Tool in Microsoft Windows 7 to add a partition to a hard disk volume so you can create a new logical drive. More...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 - headwrecker!

    Hi lads, Got really big problem myself. Basically I have two partitions on my computer. C- active, system, primary partition D- boot, page file, crash dump, logical drive On both of them I have win7 installed. The problem is that I want to have only win7 from partition D working...
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    Windows 7 OS on a logical drive by itself?

    I've often heard that the OS should be on a drive (logical drive) by itself so that, when it gets a problem, you can just re-install a new copy of the OS on that drive. However, isn't the OS modified when you install programs? Where would you install them? Can someone explain the procedure...
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    Windows 7 Lost secondary logical drive because of bad sektors

    Once I restart my computer-Suddently The partition D was invisible. I gues it's because of bad sektors. There are many softs for XP to solve this like active partition recovery, partition disk doctor and so on, but I couldn't find any soft for win 7! Do I need to instal WINDOWS XP as secound...
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    Windows 7 How can I get my boot partition configured

    I have a problem. On my hard disk I have 2 OS's intstalled, Vista and Win 7. The win 7 partition is a 50GB logical drive. Vista is a primary partition. I want to get rid of the vista partition and extend win 7 to that now available space. Problem is, only Vista is marked as 'System' and i'm...
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    Windows 7 Getting Windows 7 to boot again

    Hi guys, I really hate having to ask for help but this time I feel I have no choice... First of all, I know I screwed up, bad. My problem is that I need to get my old windows 7 partition to be read as a system and/or boot drive again. I have two hard disks. Primary Slave - "Media" has no OS...
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    Windows 7 Remove Vista in dual boot leaving Windows 7

    I have a dual boot of Vista and Windows 7. Vista was install first, I partitioned my hard drive and then installed 7 (clean) on the new partition. I have installed my programs everything runs great on the 7 partition. When booted to 7 Disk Management shows the partition of 7 as C: (Boot,Page...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Thinks Logical Drive is Disconnected Network Drive

    The title says it all really - woke up this morning, switched on the laptop, and Windows 7 is showing my logical (D) drive as a disconnected network drive... I can still access it ok, but all shortcuts to any folders in it that are on the desktop now have something (can't make out what) on top...
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    Windows 7 How do I make a Logical Drive on Windows 7?

    Hey all, I am just wondering how I can make a logical drive in Windows 7 as it seems to be a little different than XP. So far I have created one partition while installing Win 7 ( C:\, Master) and left the rest of the HDD unallocated during the installation. Now, when I go to the Disk...
  16. Windows 7 Setup installs to two partitions?

    (Note: Linux knowledge not necessary, but possibly helpful.) I just installed Windows 7. I keep my laptop with several partitions, because I like to experiment with different operating systems. I had one partition in use (Linux), and several open. Partition 2 was already NTFS, Partition 3 was...
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    Windows 7 need help with partitions

    Hi all i need some help. I have 3 partitions on my drive 1 with windows 7 1 with my pics and all that shit and 1 spare. The spare one is empty but comes up as system active primary partition. I need to make it into a logical drive. How can i do this?