partitioning

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...

My laptop hard drive failed and the local repair shop couldn’t salvage it so I had them install a 120GB SSD. Everything worked great. Thought I could DIY and install a 2nd 1TB HD to hold all my media files, keeping SSD for system files and favorite programs. I got it up and running but not...

ello, I've run into a problem with my Windows 7 install. For context, I originally had Windows XP dual booting with Windows 7 because I wasn't sure if I wanted to make the upgrade at the time. Windows XP was on my old 300 GB HDD, while I had Windows 7 on my 1.5 TB HDD (with 83GB allocated into...

Ok so i had a dualboot setup with windows 7 and ubuntu. I decided to remove the ubuntu partition to install windows 8 instead. I used Easybcd to change the bootloader from grub to windows 7 bootloader, and i then deleted the ubuntu partition. I also deleted my windows 7 recovery partition to...

Hi All: I have a Win 7 Pro installed on a 1-TB hard drive, with two partitions: 200-gig for "C:" and the rest for "E:" I have a separate 1-TB drive that I'm using to back up the entire drive using Windows Backup. Both drives are on an internal SATA-3 bus. I was thinking about improving the...

Hello everyone, I thought I'd make this one easy to read. I basically am stuck inside a boot-loop. My actions: I thought I'd speed up my computer by getting rid of all my partition on my system drive and moving my windows 7 partition at the beginning of the the disk, as it was previously...

I have 3 internal partition in my laptop C:,D:,E;. However, i wanted that only Specific Folders from D: are mounted and not entire D: partition .I was wondering is it possible? And i can control which user, which folders should be mounted.:devil_smile: I have window 7 home Premium can i hide a...

I have a WD 500GB drive. I installed W7 - cloned from a 2TB drive that has 4 partitions (100MB, 78.03GB, 363.20GB, 1.39TB(logical)) with the first 3 partitions. I then extended the last partition with disk manager to 387.63 which was all the unallocated space left. So the 500GB drive = 100MB...

Hello. I have a dell dimension 9100. I have two drives on it, a ~160gb drive that came with it with xp, and a 500gb drive with win7. I put the win7 in myself and had been using that. Finally, I decided to erase the old drive with xp on to install linux on it. After erasing the old drive, my...

Link Removed I felt like mentioning this cause maybe some Folks aren't realizing it. People might hear about Clouds Services & off-premise data storage; to most average users/consumers would mean little, if anything. Some people have more than 1 drive or partition in their machine & may or...

I unwittingly purchased a dodgy copy of Windows Ultimate a few months back - Microsoft just informed me a week ago. So I have now purchased a good copy of W7 Pro thinking I could just replace one with the other but on researching this, it doesn't appear to be the case. I have backed up all my...

Hello Forum. I already have Windows 7 (Pro64Bit) Installed on a 500GB Drive, I would like to Add a RAID0 Volume with 2 other 1TB Drives I have Gone into My Intel Raid Manager on my (ASUS P6T SE mobo) and selected to configure Sata as RAID and then added my 2 1TB drives as a RAID0 I Have also...

Sorry, if this should be in the hardware forum... I am doing a fresh (bare metal) install. I am experiencing a weird problem with Win7 not remembering drive letter. I am hoping that someone has run across this problem and has the answer. I tried "Diskpart automount enable". It did not work...

Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on Toshiba Qosmio - I've been experiencing random folder deletions. Today I was deleting a single video from a folder when I got the msg "too big for recycle bin - permanently delete?" I clicked yes and the entire folder disappeared. This happens maybe once every...

I tried to make a dual boot with windows 7 and windows 8, but when I made a partition, the hard disk drive (C:) changed to dynamic. Can I still upgrade to windows 8? how can I convert it back to basic disk? I have windows 7.

I have a 3 year old Alienware desktop running Win 7 Professional (see my profile for more computer specs). I have never had any major problem including running weekly backups to a second internal hard drive using Windows backup. About 3 weeks ago the backup failed and produced the mentioned...

Hi all, I'm new around here so, if you've seen this before, please bear with me. I have a computer with 3 hard disks in it as follows: - Patriot Pyro 120 GB on Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (installed first) - WD Velociraptor 450 GB on Windows 8 Pro x64 (installed second) - Samsung something 2 TB...