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Hi while i was installing Windows 7( 32 bit) in my PC having 320 GB hard disk in 5 partation each about 65-70 GB size. during windows installation i formatted one partation ( It was a logical device) to install windows inside it. but after partation it show it as EXTENDED device. and...

Hello and good evening. Recently I installed windows 7 on computer, every thing worked great and i was enjoying windows 7 BUT there was a RAW space on my hard disk so i decided to make them 2 primary partitions, let say that my OS partition (Drive C) was about 30GB and there was 119 GB raw...

Hello I recently had much trouble with my computer and was reinstalling OS many times! XP and win7. When i was installing windows 7 there were 3 virtual drives one about 400 mb named windows reserved and 2 others each (300gb) the 3d one was backup I formatted first 2 deleted partitions, made...

I am still quite puzzled as to how are you supposed to install the Windows 7 OS without an actual CD? I've only done it previously with XP home edition and I had a CD so this is new to me and would appreciate some clarification. If you still do not understand what I mean, I'm confused on how...

Hi folks, I've been using Clonezilla-Live for awhile now to create images of my Win 7 and other OS installs. Clonezilla provides the peace of mind that only a bit by bit image backup regimen can provide (IMHO). It does have a learning curve however. I've created a guide to using Clonezilla...

Got an interesting one. I have one PC left running Vista that has two sets of spanned volumes as follows: All drives are dynamic. Silicon Image 3124 SATA Controller Card: Port 0 - 1TB Port 1 - 1TB Port 2 - 500GB Port 3 - 500GB Marvell Controller on MB Port 4 - 500GB Port 5 - 500GB...

Urgent...Please help me.....help for mac on vmware Dear respected mods and members.... i need ur serious and kind help in this case....as i am stuck somewhere,i am myself advanced user but i cant sort it out.... i have mac osXLink Removed 10.5.6 dmg (retail),i converted it to iso with ultraiso...

I am trying to install XP Professional onto a friends laptop and I have caught a little snag. I installed it from the hard drive with a setup.exe. I went through the setup and it restarted a couple of times and I think I am done until after a restart I get a pop up saying...

OK guys hope you can help me I just bought son a new pc installed windows 7 ultimate and keep getting these bsods, anyway a bit of background, I did have a gtx260 installed but I have removed this as I thought this was the cause and I was gonna rma it, I have tested the ram with memtest86+ , the...

Hey folks. I've had Windows 7 ultimate 64bit (retail) for about 7-8 months now. Just recently put together a new computer rig a few weeks ago and lately, its been notifying me to re-activate my windows 7 for some reason. And when I type in my key, it says "The product key you typed cannot be...

Hi All, Alright heres the deal I have A Dell Inspiron 1564 laptop its got ~400 gig of HDD space. Now those idiotic people who installed my O/S thought 50 gig would be enough for anyone.. anyway My C: has my OS installed and I just have 4 gig of space after installing stuff on it and I have...

Hello guys, new here with a great hope to get help for a brand new problem I’ve never been facing before which is driving me crazy for many hours ‘till this very moment am writing down these words. I’m running a single Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OS on my laptop and it used to work very well ‘till...

Good day, I just got a new laptop with Windows 7 and am getting ready to set everything up. I've run into a small roadblock on the partitioning front. The machine has a single drive of around 450 gb with a C: partition and two others. One is named "System Reserved" and the other is blank, but...

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

Hi all, I can't boot Windows XP anymore. I have two OSs on my system. They are both on the same disk in different partitions. I have XP and Windows 7. I first installed Windows Vista, then Windows 7. Since I don't like Vista, I will return to Windows XP. So I reïnstalled Windows XP on the...

Ok, so long story short my hard drive died. I had to get a brand new one, but I don't have any OS disc since they never included the disc with my PC. I 'got' windows 7 home premium 64 bit edition, went through the install, got to completing installation, then just as it finished it told me some...

Hi, I recently bought a new PC specs: Gigabyte 770T/USB3 ATI Radeon HD 5670 AMD Phenom II X4 ( Quad Core ) 3.2 Ghz ( Stock speed ) 2 Gig Generic Ram Gigabyte Superb PSU 550W 500G HDD ( Unsure of brand ) When I tried to install Windows from a CD it froze and different parts every time I made an...

I have a brand new hard disk on which I would like to install Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition). Unlike many whose posts I've read I actually want to install the OS to a drive other than C, let's say drive L, and I need some help in order to accomplish this. Up through Windows XP the following...

I've been researching how to relocate the User profile to a different partition. I've actually tried 3 different methods I discovered online. So far, none of them has worked despite repeated attempts. I would like to hear from anyone who has actually done it under Windows 7. I start by...

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...