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    Windows 10 Windows Boot Manager installed to other harddrive with windows on it.

    I am trying to figure out what happened to my system to prevent it from happening again, and how to fix it. I had an old hard drive that I got from my family member after I upgraded their hard drive to an SSD for more speed. My plan was to slave it to my computer and format the hard drive, using...
    • malak2004
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    • active partition bcd bios boot manager boot time command line disk formatting drive management hard drive hardware upgrade installation media m.2 os partition performance issues repair storage system issues tech support troubleshooting windows
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    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Error code 0x81000033 when using Win 7 backup

    I have a 3 year old Alienware desktop running Win 7 Professional (see my profile for more computer specs). I have never had any major problem including running weekly backups to a second internal hard drive using Windows backup. About 3 weeks ago the backup failed and produced the mentioned...
    • Docdrew
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    • alienware backup backup issues data doctors disk space error hard drive issue resolution os partition partition performance recovery storage issues system reserved system specs tech support troubleshooting user experience windows 7
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Windows 7 Question - Using a seperate Data Partition

    My HD has 2 partitions, one for the OS (c: drive) and a second (unused D: drive) data partition. Just installed Windows 7 Professional on the OS partition - works great. My Questions - I had planned to put all my applications on the data partition but now I'm reconsidering and may want to put...
    • alex1997
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    • application data partition disk management hard drive installed programs os partition partition storage system setup windows 7
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 How do you change the location of the user folders

    I'm trying to work out how to change the location of user folders both for existing users and for new users. Basically, I have a OS partition with OS and programs, and a data partition that I want to store all data on! Please help, as so far I'm stumped! I also want to completely remove the...
    • charlie1105
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    • avast clean install configuration data partition disk management existing users file location file path new user os partition settings storage user folder user management windows 10 windows setup
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support