partitioning

I've posted a couple of questions in the past regarding hard drive problems, but not quite like this one. Due to the fact that my Windows 7 installation has become especially sluggish lately, I've been looking at a number of possibilities for dealing with it, including a clean installation of...

I have bought a brand new HP Pro 3330 Microtower model recently. I had ordered it with 500GB hard disk and it had come with Windows 8 Pro OS. OS was installed in the C drive having all the space (465GB) available. I would like to have another disk as I don't want to save my data in the same...

Hello guys/gals. This is my first post to this forum, but I am sure not my last. I am usually apt at finding solutions online myself but this one is evading me. My friend has a automotive shop and a scanner that he uses to pull diagnostic codes out of the ECMs. It is a very expensive scanner...

Working on an older Dell desktop for a friend of my son. It was her Mom's and she had it passed on to her. She usually uses a Mac but has been using this Dell because it has Office and Quickbooks on it for her businesses (she does home cleaning and also photography). Anyway she brought it to...

Hello all, I recently installed a fresh copy of Win7 64 on a new PC. The way I have my system set up is that I have separate partitions for OS, Program Files, and Data (C: D: E: respectively). After installing the OS and partitioning the drive I went into RegEdit to change my ProgramFilesPath...

I created an extended logical partition on my HD using Paragon Partition Manager 10-64 bit (I'm running 64bit Win7 Home). In the creation process I left 121.x GB on the C: Primary partition (also left untouched the 2 unlabeled partitions for the system). And created an extended logical...

Hello, So this is a bit of an interesting situation that is a tad long and I think it is best to start from the beginning. It started when I received this error when running with my Seagate HDD: Link Removed I got a new 1TB WD Black and used Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate on to my new...

Currently on my (new) computer there is only a (pre-)installed windows 8 In detail there is a 300 MB big active system partition (I guess with the Win8 boot manager). and a 200GB parition with Windows 8 Now I want to create a new partition (with 50 GB) and install Windows 7 on it. Is the...

resolved & thanks! can't find a method of showing problem solved in subject line I set up a new TB 6GBs HDD to hold and play games. When naming the partition, I used the Letter "G", which seemed appropriate for games. The Windows operating system apparently didn't like this and added F:\ to...

Hi, Firstly sorry for long thread but i thought it best to give as much info as possible....... I recently purchased a Barracuda ST3000DM001 HDD for use as storage within an external Thermaltake 5G USB3 enclosure. I connected it directly to one of my PC's and installed Win 7 (32bit) onto a...

I just built a system using the Asus M4A79XTD EVO mobo. An AMD Phenom II X4 965 CPU. An XFX Radeon FX-777A-ZD graphics card and a Seagate Barracuda 3TB hard drive. I reused an older 500G hard drive with a clean install of Windows 7. I also added an LG Blue Ray rewriter. My problem is Windows is...

When I go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Storage then Disk Management I see this: Link Removed So my question is there a way to combine the volume that says "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" and "(C:) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dumps, Primary...

I have a brand new HP Envy dv6 with windows 8 on it from the factor. I have some software that is only available in Windows 7 with upgrade to windows 8 versions 6 to 12 months off. I figured no big deal, I've done dual boots before. Well it's different now. I made a partition, formatted it...

I set up a dual boot on a 500 GB SSD. Cloned Windows 7 from a smaller SSD then installed Windows 8 on a second partition. It takes a full 60 seconds to reach the dual boot screen. It then loads very quickly. Here is what I've done to try and correct the problem: 1. Refreshed windows 8 2. removed...

Ok, so i've had my current PC for about a year, and everything has gone smoothly until last night when I started to get some data error when unzipping compressed files. I googled the issue, and learned that this problem can be remedied by running a disk check for errors. So I tried, hit a snag...

I added an SSD to my PC yesterday and have managed to get windows installed on it. As I didn't remove my old HDD with windows on it before there was a little messing around to get windows installed on the SSD and I've somehow managed to end up with the 100Mb of unallocated space that would be...

Hi, So my dad got a "trusted" co-worker who is a computer guy to build our home computer for us while I was away (for a price). For the most part he has been helpful. However, he seems to have fractured the HD into some peculiar partitions arranged as follows: DISK 0: 465GB (mostly empty)...

I have a computer with Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on a 750 GB HD. Along withthis I have a 3 TB HD that is working, formatted with 1 test file on. I removed the 750 GBdrive and in its place put in a 256 GBOCZ Petrol SSD I disconnected the 3 tb drive I installed Windows 7on a 256 GB SSD...

I am a bit stuck. Friend detests windows 8 even after i enabled the start button for them. I figured id help them out by installing win7 on it for them....should be easy no? nope. i deleted the OS partition and it now wont let me install my win7 32bit oem disk on it. i get the cannot install on...

Hi, This is my system: win7 prof 64bit installed. Motherboard: Asus P8H67 CPU Sockel: LGA1155 RAM: 8 GB Intel-RAID-Controller RAID1 configured with two 2TB HDDs Single 2TB HDD (or additional backups) The Win Instalation resides on a RAID1 partition (100GB). My new SSD ist a Samsung...