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Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary...

Hello guys! One day, I wanted to format my pc with Windows 7, but when formated it, it got two windows 7, one on each disc partition. Now, I want to format the pc and delete both windows 7, but I want to save one of the partitions... How can I do it?

hi everyone. i use win 7 ultimate sp1 x64. i wanted install windows 8 and make dual boot on my machine. before my c: volume was 267 gb the D: volume was 605gb and E: volume was 59gb. so i began shrinking. on c partiton i had less free space so i thought i could shrink volume d and i did it. new...

Dear Forum, I have long been aware of drive imaging. I once used Acronis, had a "starter disc" and drive images, but the restore was erratic so I gave up. I am wondering if someone will help me through setting up imaging or point me somewhere.. I have 3 partitions:- C contains windows and...

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Hello, I have Win 7 for a year now. Yesterday I noticed that my C:/ partition where Win 7 files are is almost full so I deleted a lot of other programs. When I check free space in C:/ partition there is only 7 gb left, but when enter and mark all folder there is 10gb less used space ? I...

This tutorial explains how to setup and run Linux from a USB Flash Drive (Stick). The tutorial has 5 chapters: · Chapter 1 - Installation of Linux on the stick · Chapter 2 - Create a Data Partition · Chapter 3 - Setup of Mint Mate · Chapter 4 - Space Management · Chapter 5 - System...

Here it is: got a laptop with win 8 on it and want to get rid of it.Downloaded win 7 from online,is there a way to install 7 on laptop and still keep 8 just incase 7 doesn't work? Can I and how can I make another partition to install 7 on?

Hi Before upgrading I had 4 partitions for my UEFI Windows 8 install, the main partition for the system, and the three others it created during install. After upgrading to Windows 8.1 it has reduced the main Windows partition by 472MB and created a new 472MB recovery partition. I have not yet...

I'm desperately trying to find some help with this. I recently upgraded from Windows 8 to 8.1. I really didn't want to, but I just wanted my computer to stop bugging me about upgrading. I finally did, and when it was all said and done, it looked like my D Drive wasn't recognized. I sat with...

I have a Windows XP SP3 computer with something strange going on that I've never seen before (see attachment). Windows explorer shows two drives C:\ and E:\ That wouldn't be particularly strange except there is only one physical drive with a single 1 terabyte partion on it. Disk Management show...

Hi I'm trying to start over on the creating a recovery capsule thing. I have turned the old one into unallocated space. I can add it to drive C:\ that's not a problem, but I'd like to add it too the D:\ partition and it does't give me the option to do that. Here's the image, check out disk...

Hi I thought that some people might be interested in this. Yesterday I upgraded my Paragon backup software to the 2014 edition. I was surprised to see that there is quite a change from the one I used previously. Instead of asking you to choose a location the save a backup file to (you can...

Hi there guys and girls. So I decided to try Windows 8 on my Windows 7 PC so I went ahead and try dual boot. I entered the W8 setup screen and when I got to the part where I need to select a partition I wasn't able to because I was told I needed a GPT partition so I went ahead and opened a...

I haven't had any hard drive problems except for accidental partition deletion, etc. I got this message last night from 1 of my drives and also a boot-up warning telling me which drive is failing. I've already moved out all my data from it. I also run a DPS Self Test which gives me a Code 4...

Hi, Just switched out from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit Full Edition and I have to say I am a little confused about Windows 8.1 Recovery. So upon a clean install, three visible partitions are created, Recovery (300mb), EFI (100mb), and the regular Windows partition. (I understand there...

I haven't tried this yet so I don't know if it will work or not. I have a separate partition for my automatic backup setup using Windows' native utility called Backup and Restore. The question is, is it okay to hide a partition even though it is in use as a destination storage for my backup...

I'm having trouble I replaced my motherboard installed windows vista basic everything worked fine until I attempted to install windows 7 home 32 from a usb. It installed more than once and would only boot from the recovery partion and it worked fine then I tried to reinstall it to the c partion...