partitioning

Hi, My 1Tb non-system disk has been giving trouble recently, so I bought a 2Tb replacement, fitted it, Robocopied the files I wanted over, took the old drive out and rebooted. What happened was a Windows 7 OS recovery was attempted and failed. I couldn't boot the computer. I installed...

Hi, I've got a Seagate 2TB external drive for backup. When I backup files and click on the drive it just says 'this folder is empty'. However, if i search for a file or directory it appears. I did read something to the effect that Windows 7 fails to show the files if a drive is very large but I...

Dears I bought asus notebook From 5 months installed windows 8.1 on it then I get partition recovery to my usb drive And formated my hard then I restored my hard but it know deactivated what can I do please

Good Morning and hello to all, I have recently purchased an Asus with the following specs: Windows 8 x64 build 9200 Asus X102BA 1.0 SER and cHASSIS :DANocx509191425 Boot Mode UEFI with successful Secure Boot Windows 8 (x64) (build 9200) Install Language: English (United Kingdom)...

I have a new Lenovo computer with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit. I'm going to partition it into drives C, D, E and F. It has a 1 Terabyte hard drive (actually 918 GB) I need to allow sufficient space in the C partition for the W7P operating system PLUS Virtual XP, which I plan to install...

Hi all Apologies if this is a stupid question, but I would like to *safely *expand *by magic or something a D drive.. (* obligatiory) I'm using something that is eating space on D, and we've already configured the server that there'a nothing left to give from C. I need to run some processes...

I have a Sony Vaio Fit laptop. It is my main working (and only btw :p) laptop. So I thought I'd just dual boot Windows 10 with 8.1. So, I created a 40GB partition on my hard drive. I downloaded the x64 version of Windows 10 and burned it to a USB drive with Windows 7 DVD USB tool installer. I...

Hello. Now I have two internal HDDs and one IDE 160GB and one SATA 2 500GB. I'll buy (for personal reasons) one SATA 3 of 1 TB. Questions: 1. Given that my motherboard only supports SATA 2, I'll be able to use (certainly not at the highest performance) the 1 TB HDD? 2. Do you recommend that...

Hello! I'm using Windows XP 32bits(original)(in C:\) and i'm trying to install Windows 8.1 x86(original)(in D:\), but i'm trying to do without using flashdrive or dvd. So, to do that, i did what read in internet: 1- Copy the following content from your Windows 8 disc or ISO to D:\ 1.1- Boot...

I have problem in windows 7 OS installation.Here are the details of the problems which i came across first of all for clean installation i deleted the existing OS and there is no existing OS in my laptop.I have 48GB of unallocated space but unable to use it to make a primary partition and I...

Last year, after installing the Windows on my computer, I had divided my computer internal drives into four partitions. But, unfortunately, recently, there was only below 1GB of free space left on my C partition. Moreover, in this morning, when trying to install a video editing tool there, a low...

Traductor de Google: http://translate.google.es/m/translate Nota: si no puedo hablar en español en este foro lo siento Mi problema: Bueno yo estaba en w8 y pues me canse de estar en el y decidi instalar el w7 que es el SO original de mi ordenador, como no encontraba el disco original tube que...

have a dual boot dell vostro 1500 8.1/old 7 lap, upgraded from vista to 8 to 8.1. has always been flaky on 8. numerous fails/crashes for various reasons. i no longer use w7 partition as i moved 7 key to another pc and am reluctant to do a fresh install of 7 (painful update process). can i...

Hi, On XP Drive 0 I have C: with XP and have another couple of drives as well. and Drive 1 is F: Primary and G: Extended each about 37GB. I have Drive 2 D: 80GB Extended partition... I want to join both F and G together as 1 partition mainly the G: one. Though Disk Mgmt Storage...

Hi. I have been given a computer with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit installed. I would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, but without interfering with Vista. The reason I need to do this is because the PC I was given has Microsoft Visual Studio on it, (installed on Vista) and I...

Hello everyone I will be getting an SSD tomorrow so I've been looking around a bit, but nowhere could I find what I really wanted: what I want is just to install Windows 8.1 on my SSD and then remove my 2 HDD partitions and make them 1 again, and format it so it'll be clean again. I don't...

I am working on a Toshiba Satalight laptop. The HDD is starting to show bad sectors. I have a new HDD and would like to ghost all the info and partitions to the new drive. So it will have all the tools and the rescue image. Question what is the best utillity to use for this job? Sent from my...

Hi there, this is also posted in the Apple forums, as I'm running Windows and Mac OSX on separate partitions on a MacBook Pro, but it was suggested I might get more help here as it's a pretty specific Windows problem. Whilst editing the msconfig setup on my Windows 7 64bit partition (which I've...

I'm getting a new Lenovo G510 (or possibly Z500) in a few days, and was trying to decide how to manage the operating systems I'm going to install. What I would like to do is: Primary Partition - Ubuntu or Mint (Most Frequently Used) Primary Partition - Storage Extended Partition 2 logical...

I have a new Lenovo G710 Laptop with UEFI bios and Win8 Pre-Installed. I want to make a clean installation of Win8 so I can change patition C & D sizes and get ride of all un-wanted pre-programs. My Qs are: 1) where I can find Win8 ISO file to download? (Microsoft and Lenovo) didn't wand to give...