partition management

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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...
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    Windows 7 Deleting a Recovery partition

    I am going to do a clean install of Windows 7. On my HD I have a Recovery partition that was installed by the PC maker. I have my Vista disk and do not need the recovery partition. My question is this: When I perform the clean install and at the Windows 7 screen that is entitled "Where do you...
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    Windows 7 where is my space gone?

    this happened with two hard disk drives. ill only talk about the one im using right now. i installed windows and some programs. i right clicked on the C partition where the OS is installed then properties. 97.9 space used 11.1 space available. Total size is 109 as you can see. thats right. I...
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    Windows Vista Win 7 Install - 100MB Partition Wiped Data Drive!

    I've been using the Win 7 RC for quite a while now, and really have enjoyed it. Ordered a couple copies of the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade for my wife and I. Got her PC all updated no hitch. Unfortunately, I've been fighting the process on my system all night long. It's just been one thing...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 doesn't boot after deleting XP partition

    Hello, I run Windows 7 for at least 4 weeks and I never had problems with it, so I decided to remove the now unneeded XP Partition. My Problem is that after this Windows 7 refused to boot. I suppose that either the Windows Bootmanager was on the XP Partition I removed. My Partition Table...
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    Windows 7 change default directory for porgram files

    Is there a way to change the default directory for storing program files in Win7. I would like to use a different partition from the OS partition.
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    Windows 7 Please help in recovering my lost drive

    hi friends,i have just now installed windows 7 rc on my computer,but during installation i have accidentally clicked Load driver button(at the stage where it asks for partition,format,new,load driver,etc) and then my D drive button and came back and continued with my installation.After complete...
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    Windows 7 How to remove XP/Vista from dual boot with Windows 7

    Didnt find such a tutorial if I installed windows 7 on a partition of my vista or xp and then removing vista or xp if I decided to keep windows 7 permanently. by trial an error I managed to get it done with the following steps. if you are unsure, do a full PC backup first before you attempt...
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    Windows 7 Need Windows 7 Boot Help

    Ok.. So here's the mess I made that I need help with. 1. I have 2HD's with one hosting Windows 7 x86 and the other hosting a Windows 7 x64 2. I finally got x64 up and usable for everything I needed so wanted to get rid of the x586 partition 3. I deleted the x586 partition using GParted 4...