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    Windows 10 Missing "Reserved System" partition

    I wonder if anyone can help, please? [ Running Win 10 Pro [ 21H1 ] 64 bit + 8Gb RAM ] I am having persistent problems installing update “2022-08 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 21H1 for x64-based Systems (KB5012170)” It keeps showing Error Code 0x800f0922. Looking at potential...
  2. Windows 7 System and Boot Partitions...Combined?

    Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...
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    Windows 7 Another question about partitions

    I\'ve just had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Dell laptop and my hard drive is 298GB. After the reinstall that\'s divided as follows 100 MB OEM partition (from original setup) 9.77 GB Recovery partition (from original setup) 100 MB System Reserved (System, Active, Primary partition)...
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    Windows 7 How many partitions for W7 Pro reinstall?

    I have a 6 month old Samsung ultraportable that has developed Windows problems and I am trying to re-install Windows 7 Pro. The history is that Windows 7 Home Premium came pre-installed, and I upgraded to 7 Pro right after I bought it, with no problems. Everything has been great until the last 2...
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    Windows 7 Boot Manager is missing; after recovery using Acronis backup

    Hi All, I NEED SOME HELP of course... I used BCD and fouled up my system... I went back to a clean disk and created a primary partition using the whole disk space ( I used GParted from a linux bootable USB)... I'm running linux now. Using Acronis I restored my C drive with the MBR to the...
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    Windows 7 Reformat Question

    In Disk Management it show my hard drive disk 0 as No Name (OEM Partition), Recovery, and OS (C:), so my question is how do I format my hard drive, so that I do not have the recovery partion since I have the recovery disk, so I can get more disk space and reinstall windows? The reason I want to...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive Partition Manager

    When I go into disk manager I see 2 partitions listed: Noname which a status of healthy (OEM Partition), Recovery, OS (C[:]) My question actually 2 questions and they are: 1. Why do I have a partion on my hard drive and what does it mean by (OEM Partition) 2. Can I get rid of the recovery...
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    Windows 7 System Restore

    Hello All :) Ive been having this weird problem with system restore ever since i formatted and reinstalled Vista. Now ive upgraded to Windows 7 (new installation) and the problem still persists. If i go to system restore there are zero restore points, even though i have the option on for my...