multiple drives

I've been working for a company for about five months from home and things are well. I installed their web based and other programs on my Dell. Today I was notified they want to install a 3rd party app for support that will need admin access. In my Dell I have a number of drives so I plan to...

I try to back up my files using Windows 8.1 file history in System and Security>File History. The default drive is to one letter belonging to a USB stick. I am not able to select another drive. The USB stick does not have the storage required to save my back up files. How am able to change...

Hello everyone. First of all, I'm sorry if this has been addressed already, but I've had a good look and couldn't see a solution anywhere. I currently have Windows 8 installed on my ssd (drive C) with program and user files on drive E where there is more space for large documents and software...

I did a stupid thing I have windows 7 installed on my 1gb drive and have a second 2gb drive so I thought I could install windows 8 on the second drive but did not unplug the windows 7 drive anyway the windows 8 installation completed but would not boot up. So now I have to unplug my backup...

I want to install Win7 on 2 H/Ds is there anything that I should be aware of before I start? One drive is PATA and the other is SATA I think I must select which drive to boot from in the BIOS' I realize I cannot run 2 instances of the same Win 7 at the same time and the end goal is to reduce...

I have now built 3 machines using Win7 and I noticed an interesting problem: When installing on a machine that has more than one blank hard drive Win 7 seems to write some critical boot files to the second hard drive. I noticed that later if there are any issues with the second hard drive or it...

I will be installing Windows 7 this week on a PC currently using XP. I understand that the XP to 7 upgrade path requires a clean install. And I assume with this a reformat of the system disk. This PC has two drives - C: and D:. These are two different physical drives. Not partitions of one...

i had c, d,e, and f drives and i installed windows 7 on f drive and when i log on to windows 7 the drive tht was my c in my other windows isnt appearing on windows 7 but its still there when i log onto my other windows can any1 help me with this plz? thanks edit : nvm found the problem fixed it

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...