partitioning

any chance of this being remedied with a smart phone and a dumb guy? i forgot to partition hd and then loaded sony acid pro twice on accident. shut 'er down posthaste.

I was instaling win8 in a laptop that had previoselly win 8. It is a 64bits. I have 1 hdd with 2 partitions, the C that has the os and the G that I use for backup. During istalation I selected the drive C to install win8 and formated. But I didnt show the option next was greyed out. And and...

I plan to soon upgrade my OEM Windows 7 to Windows 8 and then Windows 8.1 I believe my main operating system will then no longer be OEM and be able to be transferred to another pc. I also own a full version of Windows 7. Once I upgrade OEM Windows 7 to Windows 8.1, how can I use the full...

The drive in my HTPC failed and I'm going to RMA it. Nothing unusual about that, but with this one I can't find a way to access it for data erasure prior to shipping, and that bothers me. The system partition doesn't contain anything too sensitive...that I remember, but it does have additional...

Hello folks, This time require your extreme help and knowledge. This has to do with my daughter's computer and her whole life is in the machine and it is messed up. All her data was on a Win 7 computer and i offered to install windows 8.1 on it for her. So I first uploaded some of the files to...

In the early days of Win7 it was usual to install one Win7 system on a partition (say A) and let it be called during bootup from the partition independent MBR from the hard disk directly: MBR ---> partititon "A" (with Win7) Then it became more and more popular to install two different Win 7...

I know I went the wrong way about this....but can anyone point to a SIMPLE solution? So I have an Athlon 64 as my spare PC and it runs XP perfectly on 4Gb Ram. And after building my Haswell i7 and upgrading the SSD to the Samsung EVO 250Gb, I had a Samsung Pro 128Gb spare; and a copy of...

hello everyone i have installed windows 8.1 clean setup, i have erased windows partition and then created it for some weird reason it would show me boot screen whether i have to decide to choose between Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 XE Loader how do i get rid of that? please help me, its annoying

Hey everyone! Some background info: I built my computer ~2 years ago and it worked fine for about half a year, until it crashed. Since then I've been unable to reinstall Windows and I kinda forgot about it... which sucks! So please help me get it up and running again :) Motherboard: GigaByte...

Hi Windows community, I would greatly appreciate some advice for fixing my dead Lenova G505 notebook. I am downgrading the factory Windows 8 operating system to a new version of Windows 7. Through my attempts, I have rendered my notebook useless. I turn on the notebook and see the "Lenova"...

Guys, Windows 7 Pro SP1 64-Bit with an ASRock P67 PRO3 (B3) MoBo that has a UEFI BIOS, i5-2500K and Corsair Vengeance 16 Gigs. My C, D and E partitions are on a 120 GB NTFS SSD with a MBR. My present STORAGE HDD is a 2TB Toshiba with a MBR. I recently purchased a Toshiba PH3300U-1I72 3TB...

I am using Dell Inspiron N3521 Laptop. I am trying to install XP in my laptop. But I am getting BSOD( 0X0000007B ). I have changed AHCI to ATA from my BIOS but it didn't help. And didn't find options like IDE or Comp mode in my BIOS to try. I have deleted my hard drive ( I mean now It's...

Hello everyone, i just recently joined this forum because i wanted to seek the solution to my problem. Recently i just bought Lenovo G500 Notebook with Win8 64bit OS but i wanted to replace it with Win7 64bit for the reason i am more comfortable to use win7 ultimate OS and also some of the...

my hdd works fine but does not show up in device manager or in computer managements. Shows up in explorer. The led also blinks ocassionally. Asus motherboard, Seagate 1T hdd. Windows XP sp3. Indexing is turned off. Partitioning and formatting was done with Partition Wizard v7. Could someone...

I am now on my 4th time downloading this upgrade. When I ran it, it told me "Something went wrong..." and an error number 0x80004005. So I turned off virus scanning. I removed my dual booting and linux partitions. I made a bootable usb stick and rewrote the MBR, just in case. No change. I...

My IBM ThinkCentre M52 has a small (3.46GB FAT32) partition labeled IBM_service (EISA Configuration) placed after the C: partition. Exactly what function(s) does it serve? The drive that it is on is quite small (80GBs), so I'm considering replacing it with a larger drive, but I'm wondering if...

Hello I have two Internal Hard disks in my system. First one is partitioned and used for system. i don't have problem on this hard disk. My second hard disk is 500 GB, and is not partitioned. I m using this drive for storing movies and music. The problem I faced is two of the folders are...

In a nutshell - got a new Samsung ultra laptop, don't like the way the disk is structured and lack of facility for creating recovery disks so wiped the 500gb hard drive which is formatted to gpt, repartitioned to give me a 50gb partition for win8, 50gb partition for win7 and the rest reserved...

Hi All, I have windows 7 installed on a separate SSD, then I have the main storage as another drive. I have just partitioned part of the storage drive and installed windows 8. However where as I can access and use Microsoft office software whilst logged into windows 7, I cannot access any of...

As of a few days an external drive connected via USB has generated this error message: Link Removed popping up every few minutes, despite the disk being recently wiped, repartitioned and fomatted and working well. Why is this? It stopped being fun a long time ago...what can I do? (Windows 7...