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Something curious that I noticed while defragging my new installation of W7 is that System Volume Information is divided into 5 folders, while the old installation is only divided into two folders, even though far less programs are installed on the new (65GB vs 165GB). As far as I know, this...

Hello everyone, I do not know how to explain this thing: I have 2 hard drives from 80 GB on a secondary ide channel and the other of 300 gb on the primary channel. in these 2 hard drives are installed respectively in fat32 windows 2000 and the second hard drive windows xp, vista and...

I'm trying to shrink my primary Windows partition because I want to create a partition to install Linux Mint on. Well, when I go into the Windows Disk Manager and try to shrink the partition, it doesn't let me shrink it more than 32MB. I need quite a bit more space than that. After a little...

I have recently installed W7 Pro 64-bit but I'm still playing around with it. I understand that M$ recommends 20 GB for x64. I would like to give it a generous amount of room to work, but I don't want to go overboard. I have 3.5 GB of system memory but plan to upgrade to up to 4 or 6, so I...

Hi all.. Just wondering, is there any system tool i can use to backup MBRs / MFTs of NTFS partitions ? I mean not third party tools.

This process is constantly accessing and writing to my HD. It will write to the NTFS: Free Space, volume log and MFT. Is this normal activity? I am running Win 7 on a Lenovo X61 Tablet PC. OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600 Other OS Description...