partitioning

So, I have Unallocated space at the very end of my hard drive, even after the 25gb Recovery Partition, this is due to copying my old hard drive onto this new one via Clonezilla, and it automatically keeping the unallocated space at the end. Can I either move the unallocated space around the...

I just bought an HP laptop with Windows 8 on it. I cant stand windows 8 and wanted to put 7 back on but im running into some problems. When i finally boot from the cd and proceed to install windows, it asks me which disk I want to partition, there are five currently which are below. But i cannot...

I just received a new Dell Inspiron 15R-5520 64 bit laptop. I also ordered and received from Dell the Windows 8 OS DVD along with a Drivers DVD. I also own a valid Windows 7 OS with product key. I use Acronis True Image 2013 to backup and restore images of the OS. I wish to partition my HDD...

I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...

I got a new Lenovo i5 laptop with W8 preinstalled (no accompanying dvd) I a few days I have been experiencing several problems. 1) I couldn't partition the 1Tgb disk to 150 GB (only OS), using automatic utilities coming with the laptop. All I achieved was to get two partitions of 500...

So I am wiping my hard drive by booting with the Windows disk and going to command prompt. I successfully formatted drive C:, about 100 MB of system files and D:, about 500 GB or the bulk of my hard rive. These were the same hard drive, but separate partitions apparently. In Windows it just...

I had a dual boot on my computer which was XP and Windows 8 Beta. I put the Windows 8 upgrade on XP. Now I have two Windows 8 that I can boot into. My computer say that my C drive is my system, and Default drive. However my Windows 8 upgrade in my D drive because it has Windows old on it. Now...

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 laptop with Windows 8 installed. I wish to re-partition (into C and D), format, and re-install Windows 8 so that I can eliminate all bloatware. In order to accomplish this how do I accomplish the following: 1. Download and burn to DVD a copy of Windows...

I recently bought a dell inspiron 14r laptop. It came with windows 7 Home premium which was pre-installed. The problem with it is, the whole 640GB was allotted to a single drive C. I want to repartition the hard disk into 6 drives. But they didnot gave me the windows 7 installation disk or its...

You can customize the general behavior of a library by changing its default save location - not in my case. :confused: . I partitioned my hard disk into two logical drives Sys (C) and Data (D). I would like to use D:/Documents as the disk storage location for my Documents library. I can not...

[SOLVED] My Windows 8 Upgrade Odyssey Greetings. I am journaling my Windows 8 upgrade experience here in hopes that others can learn from the experience. If I am able to resolve the problem here in these forums, I would consider that a plus. But most of all, I am hoping to create some...

i cant install certain softwares (like autocad, corel draw, pinnacle, mavis beacon etc) on ma pc. i tried to partition the hard disk so that i can install them on the new partition. but all i get CONNECTING TO VIRTUAL SERVICE..... and it hangs there. Pls, somebody help me......... i am begging

On my 64 bit Windows 7 desktop, I used to have two Western Digital 500 GB drives, each with one partition (C: and D: respectively). But recently those two drives both started failing their self-tests; so I am replacing them with two 1 TB drives. So then I'll have two partitions, C: and D...

Hi guys, I've got a dual boot PC, with Windows 7 and Linux Ubuntu 12.04 side by side. I want to install Windows 8 over my Ubuntu partition. I know that just delete the partition with Ubuntu is not enough, so I'd like to know: If I just run my bootable USB with Windows 8 and use Windows 8...

First post here and need some help. I have an image on bootable media (DVD). The image spans 3 dvds broken down into SWM files. I have been able to combine the SWM's with imagex into 1 large wim. In viewing the contents the WIM contains 2 images (image 1 & image 2). During the initial image...

My Dell laptop with Win 7 home premium crashed and will not boot to the hard drive or system disc. I tried to reinstall Win 7 from the system disc and it apparently did install to a different partition as it now shows two W7 programs on the drive. However when I get to the part where the...

I wanted to reinstall Windows 7 without deleting all of my personal things(songs/movies etc) so I decided to partition the drive(C drive). I follow the steps, and partition half of my C Drive. During this I'm running youtube videos and a movie in the background and I got blue screened. When I...

Hi , since somes month i have installed Windows 8 consumer preview,everything working fine,o made another partition with xp installed ,everything works fine till today ,i power on my pc ,and before windows load ,a blue screen appear with a error saying that a device has been unplugged (but no...

I used to have a seperate Linux Partition on my Hard Drive. I no longer use Linux and uninstalled the Ubuntu Operating System from the partition and re formatted the partition in windows, but when i go to the Hard Drive Partitioning Utility with Windows wont allow me to re expand my main...

i tried to used pc disk clone x to clone my win7 to a smaller hard drive. now for some reason My Computer shows as 381 gig size instead of 682 gig here is a pic Link Removed tried to make the partition a couple megs smaller to make it realize the actual size and its not working. any ideas?