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    Windows 7 Where are SystemRestorePoint stored? Changing partition possible?

    As far as I know System Restore Points are stored in a system folder "SystemRestoreVolume" Ok, but on which partition is this folder? Is it ALWAYS on the same partition as the saved/monitored partition? I have a Win7 system partition C: and a (big) data partition D: Can I tell Win7...
  2. New Updated! EASEUS Partition Master 7.1.1 Now Supports Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 2008 R2 SP1

    EASEUS Software, the leading provider of affordable, scalable partition management, data recovery and backup utilities, has updated its Windows hard disk and partition manager EASEUS Partition Master More...
  3. Windows 7 Do I need to reinstall OS after upgrading my HDD?

    I currently have 3 SATA drives. 1.5TB x2 and 1TB x1 Drive partitions as following: C: 499GB D: 897GB E: 499GB F: 897GB G: 931GB I am installing a new 2TB SATA 3 drive, but on SATA 2 mode for now. New config of drives will be quite similar except for that I will be merging the partition of the...
  4. Windows 7 Free EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition! [24-hours only]............6/10/2010

    Today dotTech teams up with CHENGDU YIWO Tech Development Co., Ltd. to bring dotTechies a world renowned and respected partition management tool for free: EASEUS Partition Master Professional Edition! EASEUS Partition Master is a popular name when it comes to partition management tools for...
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    Windows 7 How to Delete Empty [data-1] Partition from bootres.dll in Windows 7?

    i found a way to edit the bootres.dll AKA the Windows 7 boot flag BUT modifing the bootres creates a [data-1] partition in the dll this contains info saying that the certificate is NOT VALID anymore i hex edited out this data contained in the partition but the partition remains there...
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    Windows 7 How to Format Hard Drive and Remove Recovery Partition for More Space

    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...
  7. Windows 7 How to Avoid 200MB Hidden System Partition From Been Created During Windows 7 Installation

    The small 200MB partition actually holds Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), which only available from DVD installation disc in previous operating system such as Windows Vista (see how to launch WinRE on DVD). The partition holds system files and bootable files that are essential to boot the...
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    Windows 7 Relocating a folder in my User Profile

    I have one application that insists on storing log files and profiles at: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local. When I try to moe it to my E:\ partition it gets hung with the error message: I have tried deleting all non-essential processes within Task Manager to no avail. Any ideas...
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    Windows 7 Dual Boot Help

    My system currently dual boots with Windows 7 RC (obviously the trial has ended so the system shuts down every 2 hours) and XP, with 7RC being the primary OS. I want to remove both operating systems and have my full copy of Win7 as the only OS. The last time I tried to install a single OS over...
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    Windows 7 Sharing a partition between Windows 7 and Vista. Sigh..

    I am really getting angry (nicely said) about getting my partition shared and working... Current setup: Home PC: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Work PC: Windows Vista x64 Professional Router: D-Link DIR-655 What am I trying to achieve; I want to share several partitions on both my Home PC as on my...
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    Windows 7 Windows doesnt start - DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

    i was using windows vista and then i installed windows 7 on a diferent partition. now windows 7 was on drive C and vista on E. today i decided to delete the vista partition and after doing that (with paragon partition manager) i got the "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"...
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    Windows 7 Standard User Accounts

    Hi everyone! I have a problem that’s making me want to pull my hair out, sorry if there is already a topic on this as the search function on this site would not work (database error) and Google returned nothing specific. I recently got a new PC with Windows 7, which is turning out to be a bit...
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    Windows 7 unable to find my existing Windows Backup

    Windows Backup doesn't detect my existing VHD file on the local hard drive I used Windows Backup to create a backup of my C: partition. Foolishly, I put it on drive D. Later, I realized that I shouldn't store it on the same physical disk with the C: partition, so I moved it to partition F: Last...
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    Windows 7 System freeze on repair attempt

    Well, I have stepped in it this time and boy could I use some help. Setup an XP/7 dual boot on two partitions on same drive. All good. Removed XP boot entry with easybcd. All good. Set 7 partition to Active. All good. Booting to 7 worked fine with the old XP partition still on the disk...
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    Windows 7 Move bootloader to another disk

    Hi, I recently installed Windows 7 home premium 64-bits. I upgraded it from a Windows vista business 32-bits. That was not trivial, but it worked fine. Problems came when a driver "classpnp.sys" made the system halt. Repair programs did not work until I copied another file over the driver and a...
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    Windows 7 help with changing from dual boot to single boot

    I have Vista installed on my c: drive and windows 7 is installed on another drive ans K: My system dual boots with 7 as the main system. I want to make windows 7 become my C: drive with no dual boot. I also would like to make the vista drive able to be seen in windows 7 so that I may transfer...
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    Windows 7 what about the recovery drive?

    Hey folks, brand new to this forum. Hope everyone is well this lovely Thursday morning. I have been reading article after blog after other forum threads on installing Win7. I'm almost ready to pull that trigger. I've got my Home Premium disc right here and have been juggling 32 or 64 bit. Most...
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    Windows 7 How to Mark Drive as Active

    Looks like what happened to me has happened to others. When I installed 7 it put it on my Recovery D drive. Then I installed it correctly on my C drive. Now when the computer reboots I get the screenshot that shows Windows 7 twice. Somewhere on this forum I saw someone post the procedure to...
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    Windows 7 Please help , i want to konw how can i delete win vista from boot list ?

    Hi everyone I have HP laptop with windows vista and i installed windows 7 on another partition (win 7 on d: 7 win vista on c:) i want to delete windows vista from boot list and delete windows vista finally without deleting windows 7 . i tried to delete windows vista by formatting c: but...
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    Windows 7 Large folder deleted, space not free

    Sooo I've never seen this problem and I don't really know where to start with it. I have two hard drives, Windows on the C and media on S, I decided to clear some space on S, as it was 4/5 full, and deleted a folder that was about 80 gigabytes. The weird thing is it went to the recycle bin...