partitioning

  1. Windows 7 What to do with ever-expanding updates Win 7?

    I have a fixed-size partition C for my Windows 7 (I've given it almost 100 GBs and I don't download anything or leave it on C. I have Linux installed as well) and It's coming closer and close to being full. I'd like to hear your suggestions/advice on how you guys deal with this issue/problem?
  2. Windows 10 Has Macrium Made Things Worse?

    My win10 machine wouldn't boot. I tried system restore but it failed. Three or four restore points to go back to and none of them succeeded. I ran Kyhi's usb and found macrium on it. I thought I had a macrium image so I ran it. The Macrium image wouldn't restore. 'read failed 22 invalid...
  3. Unix/Windows can't boot (perpetual OS boot)

    Hi guys, I need some help. My laptop currently can’t boot any system. I will describe the order of actions which provoked the problem: 1. Win 10 installation 2. Drivers installation with Lenovo support web site 3. It was necessary to completely format the disk (ssd), there was only a USB...
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    Windows 10 How to Merge SSD Partitions and Expand OS Without Reinstalling Windows

    I had a SSD installed in my computer with the OS on it. This SSD became to small so I bought a 500Gb SSD. I made a backup of the SSD with the OS en put that at the new SSD. But now there are two partitions at this SSD, one with same capicity as the old one and an empty one with a different...
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    Windows 7 Mistake when reinstalling Win 7 - seem to have set 2 drive to System?

    I reinstalled window 7 on a computer that was having issues. I deleted the existing Windows partition/drive and ran the install to that Drive (c). After getting everything reinstalled I was going to image the C Drive. It appears to be linked to another large drive (3tb). That drive didnt show up...
  6. Can't boot to Windows 10 from RAID 0

    I got myself a Silicon Image 3114 SATA Controller which is capable of RAIDing two discs. I have two SSD sporting approx. 230 GB each. I wanted to enable RAID 0 (striping) to have one "virtual" drive of 450 GB. I followed the steps below: Installed the 3114 PCI card on my board. Connected the...
  7. Windows 10 Bootmgr is missing.

    SO I used Kali Linux live usb, and I thought live usb would not erase windows but it did. I need help and any solution by which I can use Kali Linux as a live usb and not getting Windows wiped out. Thanks!
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    Windows Vista How to create an image iso system without my personnel files?

    Hi! i want to make an iso image file from my Vista system but only the operating system + drivers, i don't want any of my programs files and personnel files! i tested a few softwares but the only choice i have is the complete "C" drive! How i can do that? i want a copy for trying my Vista...
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    Windows 7 How to install additionally Win 7 onto a system with Win10?

    Assume I bought or got a desktop/notebook with a pre-installed Windows 10 system. The hard disk is either MBR or GPT based and contains the typical partition scheme with Windows Recovery partition, Efi System partition, Microsoft reserved and Windows 10 main partition. Now I want to...
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    Windows 7 Need help creating Windows 7 install disk with usb3 drivers

    Computer: Motherboard: Asus Prime B250 Plus CPU: Intel i3 7100 I formatted a hard disk and am trying to install Windows 7 64 bit into the first partition. When I try to install it freezes where it says: "loading windows" From my research I think it is a problem with usb3 drivers. When I plug...
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    Windows 7 Help with (re)-Installing Windows 7 Ultimate 64 on Samsung SSD.

    Ok, I have received at beat-down trying to install this ssd. Where I am at now. So, put in the ssd, but left my existing hard-drive in (wd caviar black 1TB) as I want to use the ssd for booting and the hdd for storage, etc. I did a clean install from my dvd of Windows 7. The problem I have now...
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    booting to external drive

    For years I’ve used Clonezilla on external drives to create and manipulate drive image backups like this: First, using Gparted I make two partitions on an external drive, first partition 300MB fat32 for Clonezilla live boot, and the balance ntsf partition to store the images. Next I use...
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    Windows 7 For Any Mozilla Thunderbird & Eternal Septembers Users From Sr. Citizen, Please

    Hello, In my 80's now, so please bear with me a bit. Using Mozilla Thunderbird for eMails on my older pc running W7. Like it a lot, as do family members. Have just bought a new Apple iMac Have the following questions please, regarding transferring Folders and items from this W7 pc to the new...
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    Windows 10 Unallocated drive space - wont move into C: drive

    I want to provide a lot of space for a Linux Mint distribution to run on the windows pc, having first set up a dual boot system. I had a D: drive with 800MB of space not being used. I deleted the D: drive and that space became "Unallocated". Following the instructions, I should be able to click...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 broken after Linux install.

    Hi! I tried installing Debian 9 on my Windows 7 laptop this morning and have managed to break my Windows. I'd like to have it set up so I can choose which OS to boot from at start up. I used the Debian GNU installer to partition my hard drive and install. I am able to start Debian from GNU GRUB...
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    Windows 7 When you secure erase entire SSD; do you wipe out the whole drive or "System Reserved" is untouched?

    When you secure erase entire SSD; do you wipe out the whole drive (all partitions); or "System Reserved" partition is untouched?
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    Windows 7 Trivial question as i'm scared of partitioning D: drive.

    I'm scared of partitioning D: drive to install Linux. My most important files are backed up in the cloud but have loads of stuff i don't want to loose. The process went fine for my C: drive which already had windows 7 in it. Should i expect a similar scenario for my D: drive?
  18. Windows 10 Merging volumes to enlarge c: volume

    My Toshiba has had windows 10 replacing win 7 And my C: volume is running out of space ie[39 gb ][only 3gb free] This is how I purchased it I have tried to add space from an f:volume in disk management with no result only 34 gb free space which I can not add to c: My system is left to right...
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    Windows 10 secondary hard drive

    hey guys just purchased a Acer all in one running Windows 10. it's got a 120gb ssd and 1tb hard drive. now here's the problem I can't see the 1tb in my computer but I can see it in bios and device manager. how do I fix this so I can use the 1tb as storage? Thanks Sent from my SM-G930F...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 Newbie -- Image Creation/Restore

    going to install windows 10 for the first time once complete, will install office and some other applications. pull down any/all updates as needed at that point I want to make an image of the hard drive I have heard that Windows 10 comes with the ability to do this, store to an external drive...