partitions

  1. M

    Windows 7 Windows 7 and Linux SUSE Enterprise

    I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. I just made 2 more partitions for linux enterprise, one being swap. Now everytime I boot up it takes me straight to Linux, gives me no option to go to Windows, yet when I look at the partitions through Linux I can see the partition that "should" have my windows on...
  2. B

    Windows 7 Uninstall os on dual boot

    I have a dual boot system with 2 installs of win7 one is onthe C: partition the other is L: which is on the same drive as the first, Iwant to uninstall the one designated C: both are active as far as I can tell, can I just go to disk managementand delete it or is there a better way? Will the...
  3. NarWhat

    Merge Windows 7 Partition with Ubuntu Partition?

    Hey guys, I have a question. I have both Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 13.04 installed on my laptop. Here's the partition details: Link Removed I wish to remove Windows 7, but keep all my personal data on that partition. I'm seriously done with W7 on my little netbook... it can't handle 2...
  4. J

    Windows 7 Another question about partitions

    I\'ve just had to do a fresh install of Windows 7 on my Dell laptop and my hard drive is 298GB. After the reinstall that\'s divided as follows 100 MB OEM partition (from original setup) 9.77 GB Recovery partition (from original setup) 100 MB System Reserved (System, Active, Primary partition)...
  5. S

    Windows 7 windows hangs while opening a drive

    i am using windows 7 home premium 64 bit. i have 4 partitions of my hard disk. one of them i mostly use to store music videos and pictures. now windows hangs whenever i try to open videos and picture folders in that drive (it doesn't hang when i open folders in it containing MP3's ). other...
  6. P

    Windows 7 Windows 7 64bit

    I am booting from windows 7 64bt disk, I have two partitions, but I am getting the message can not install on a gpt style. This laptop had windows 8 on it can anyone advise
  7. seekermeister

    Windows 7 RAID problem

    A problem that has been haunting me ever since I installed my current motherboard (ASRock 890FX Deluxe 4) is that my two external drives, contained in a Startech ESATCASE2, which connects to a SI RAID controller card (can't remember the model at the moment), causes the BIOS to hang on the last...
  8. T

    Windows 7 Set old hdd system boot/c drive as inactive for new ssd install

    Performing a clean windows 7 install on a new ssd and want to set the old boot/c drive as inactive so I can use the old hdd for storage. Going to unplug the old hdd to do the install but I want to know how to (unplug the new ssd drive and re-plug in the old hdd drive) set the old hdd boot/c...
  9. T

    Windows 8 how to repair win 8 instillation?

    i have a dell that has recovery partitions on it. it came with windows 8. i deleted the os partition....i was trying to install win 7 32bit on it and i get the error about different partitioning. at this point i am maily trying to get back on win8. if i do a dell system restore...factory reset...
  10. AgentLambda357

    Windows 7 The issue with partitions

    So in my disk management I'm trying to put my C:/ drive back together after a mishap with Ubuntu. I get here. I click "delete partition" upon right clicking the section labelled "Free space", and it tells me that "There is not enough memory on the disk(s) to perform this operation". What does...
  11. R

    Windows 8 32 vs 64 bit programs on secondary drives or partitions?

    32 vs 64 bit programs on secondary drives or partitions? I recently built a new PC and made a major jump from WinXP to Windows 8. I have been so used to organizing things my own way on my system by partitioning two different hard drives, with each partition used for different types of...
  12. R

    Windows 8 Windows and Drive Letters

    Greetings: Now, for some reasons I had to reinstall Win 8 Pro 9200, but my drive letters got AGAIN screwed up. Annoyingly, I had to set them all back again, and having 20 partitions, it is a disaster. If I am, God forbids, to reinstall my W8 once more, is there a way to KEEP the partitions...
  13. StefaNafetS

    Windows 8 On EFI systems Win cannot instal on MBR partion table disk only to GPT disks

    Encountered this problem when trying to install windows: I couldnt install windows in C ,neither to format that partition because of this message [Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks]...
  14. P

    Windows 7 Win 7 to Win 8

    Hello I copied this from my MS Word to keep for reference. Most of this is Win 7 that is why I selected this instead of Win 8 's forum. I am about to take the plunge but wanted to tie up a few questions so if someone had the time I would appreciate the help. I am going to install Win 8 in my...
  15. E

    Windows 8 Clean install of Windows 8 on a multi-boot computer

    I have 3 hard disks of 2 TB each with plenty of space for partitions. I run a multi-boot manager with a number of Windows OSs including Windows Vista and Windows 7, along with a number of Linux distros. I would like to install Windows 8 in its own partition, not upgrade Windows 7. I am...
  16. B

    Windows 7 Multiboot OS

    Hello, I'm trying to install multiple operating systems on my laptop. Right now the primary OS is Windows 7 x64 with a second OS installed of Windows 8. I'm trying to install Windows Server 2008 as a third OS to boot to. I'm getting an error message saying the dick already contains the maximum...
  17. R

    Windows 7 Should I dban and start over?

    Read some threads trying to find my solution ... and I'm sure it's here so sorry for probably asking a redundant question, but all I've discovered is that this site is way way over my head. I was able to reinstall Win7 Ultimate on my Dell laptop, Precision M6300 from a WIN7 disc I made...
  18. M

    Windows 7 Recover through system image

    I am not sure how to recover through a system image. Will I be given options to create new partitions (C and D drives) if this is necessary and then individually allocate my backup system image partitions to the partitions of my choice?
  19. D

    Windows 7 How many partitions for W7 Pro reinstall?

    I have a 6 month old Samsung ultraportable that has developed Windows problems and I am trying to re-install Windows 7 Pro. The history is that Windows 7 Home Premium came pre-installed, and I upgraded to 7 Pro right after I bought it, with no problems. Everything has been great until the last 2...
  20. mindfulhacker

    Windows 7 Grub Bootloader Upgrade

    Hello windows7forums community, i reacantly took a EQUIINET Cachepilot (Basic Version) Link Removed due to 404 Error and tryed to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate for a media center pc. When i boot (I have removed all of the partitions and volumes shown in windows disk manager) anyway when i...
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