logical partition

I am in the process of cleaning and neatening up my PC. My PC has 6 drives: (C:) - Primary - M.2 - 1TB O.S. Drive - 3 Win Install partitions (D:) - Primary - SSD - 1TB Installation Drive - 1 Partition (E:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1 Partition (F:) - Primary - HDD - 2TB Data Drive - 1...

Hi, What I'm looking for is not to simply change the whole userdata to another drive, but to create separate drives for each users, and have their application data, my doc, etc folders on their own drives. Sadly, from looking at environment variables though I think it's not possible.. What do...

I'm getting a new Lenovo G510 (or possibly Z500) in a few days, and was trying to decide how to manage the operating systems I'm going to install. What I would like to do is: Primary Partition - Ubuntu or Mint (Most Frequently Used) Primary Partition - Storage Extended Partition 2 logical...

Using the program called Eraser, I erased the free disk space of drive D: which is a logical partition on my only physical drive. Apparently the program overwrote the Master File Table Records and as result, I do not see the content of the D: drive. When looking at the properties of the D...

I have a WD 500GB drive. I installed W7 - cloned from a 2TB drive that has 4 partitions (100MB, 78.03GB, 363.20GB, 1.39TB(logical)) with the first 3 partitions. I then extended the last partition with disk manager to 387.63 which was all the unallocated space left. So the 500GB drive = 100MB...

It has come to light, that a UEFI installed system, will fail to boot if a secondary drive is attached which contains logical partitions. This would have to be an MBR configured drive, of course, but if it has at least one primary and one extended partition, it will stop Windows 7 and Windows 8...

Earlier I had two partitions, D(logical) and C(system). Now, I have added a new HDD and I've made two new partitions, B(logical) and S(system), now I want to format C and install Windows in S partition. What's the best way to do it? I hope you can help me guys!

Hi In Windows7 SP1, I noticed that the ACLs of the root directory of a logical partition (D:) formatted NTFS are different from those of the root directory of the system partition (C:): C:\Windows\system32>icacls c:\ c:\ BUILTIN\Administrators:(F) BUILTIN\Administrators:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F)...

HI I have Windows 7 SP1 and I should only move the users profiles (without the default profile) and the public folder in a NTFS logical partition. I should modify the ACLs of the root directory (\) of the logical partition to still have a coherent and stable system or not? If so, how should I...

In my Sister's laptop, running Windows 7 Ultimate x86, all of a sudden, while she was working on the computer, the "E drive" went missing which was a partition on the hard disk (I don't remember if it was a logical or primary partition). She tried restarting the system but to no avail. So, I...

new here so firstly, hi to all. i need some advice please, so hope some can help and am posting in the correct place. will try to describe the issues below. if i am not clear enough, let me know and i will do my best to explain better. anyway, i had win XP and win 7 installed as dual boot on one...

I creatrd a partition using Spotmau Partition Genius for backup until I could get an external hard drive. When I click the partition in the program ti says "Unallocated". I can't do anything with the partition and it is not visible in Windows. I would like to know how to delete it and create a...

I made a mistake in letting Partition Magic 8 "repair" my HD. now I have lost my partitions except my C: D:, E:, F:, G: are gone and I can't even access them in Windows 7 disc management. When I tried to assign drive letters to each partition, I receive an error message "The opreation failed to...

Hello everyone, I want to thank this community for such a well maintained website. It is really helpful. I want to let you know that EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition v 5.0.1 will not create partitions out of the unallocated disk space I made in my hard drive using this application. When I...

Hi I had Ubuntu for a brief period of time on my pc as my mine OS and now I'm trying to upgrade to Windows 7. When I get to the partition section of the installation and cannot get any farther. My partitions are as follows: Free Space Type Disk 0...

I've been going at this all day searching, trial and error, and it's all very frustrating at this point. I wanted to try Windows 7 since it has been released in the RC status (because I had aquaintances try 7000 beta, and no one liked it). So I want to have it on my machine to tinker with and...

Hi, I had an xp windows, then i installed windows 7 on a separate partition. Now i want to delete the xp partition and to stay only with windows 7 (without the current dual boot), but i dont know how to do it right. (Currently the xp is on active partition and windows 7 on a logical one)...

Need a bit of help here. I've been trying everything I could think of for the past 3 days but nothing is working out for me. I'm trying to set up W7 on my laptop, which already has Vista installed as the primary OS, and Ubuntu as a second OS. I was hoping the set up W7 as my third, but I've...

i used an acronis bootable flash drive to help partition and set up my windows 7 partition and when i did this without realizing (please tell me if this is even a problem) i made the partition logical instead of primary and it is not set as active. this partition is about 30gb along with an...