partitions

At this moment I have a dual boot system with 2 Windows 7 installations on 1 HDD. Windows 7 is on the C-drive and on the K-drive. There's also an E-drive voor data. These are all partitions of one HDD. I like to change my installation in a dual boot system divided over two seperate HDD's. I...

Hi Guys....been a long time...busy busy. Bought a new computer for a group member....Win7 Professional, 64bit, and was setting it up when I decided to partition the HD (1TB) using Windows own 'Disk Management' (DM) tool....just divided in two, worked fine, assigned me a new drive letter, all...

Hi I'm new here and I do have a tiny background in installing Windows 7. As of my experience goes, all i have done are clean installs and for once in my life I have never done a not clean/unclean install before. Here's the thing, a friend of mine asks me to reformat his old acer notebook from...

Hey guys, figured I'd ask some experts if I can save this thing before I do a complete reinstall and lose everything. I was messing around with some software today trying to format an SD card to EXT4, and I ended up with a constant reboot loop and bsod. So I plugged the hard disk into another...

Okies, so today I backed up my files when prompted by the little flag icon, they went on an external HDD. Updated everything. Went back to pc after tea, and when i switch on it can't boot windows. 1.. it asks me to put the cd in, when i do it goes through to the option to upgrade, repair or...

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I have bought the upgrade of windows 7 to professional 64 bit system. Since my pc is running the 32 bit system I have to remove the old OS by deleting it on the hard disk. I have 4 partitions to my hard disk and I dont know which to format or delete or what. I have Disk 0 partition 1: System...

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I would like to know if Windows 7 will let you merge a previously partitioned drive back to a single partition. I had to partition my C: drive to 2 new partitions so that I could match the Corps of previous projects in which I no longer need. I have deleted the drive letters and in the disk...

I have a box with two 500 GB drives and Windows 7 installed in 3 partitions ( one partition in one hard drive and two partitions in the other hard drive). I have 2 additional Win7 installations, which I seldom use, so that I can have a failsafe resource to fix systems problems from in my main...

I Upgraded My Windows7 Starter To Ultimate Recently And Everything Was Going Fine, But I Wasn't Happy With The Disk Space Because I Had Ubuntu As Second OS And I Wanted More Space For Win7. ( Ubuntu Was In The same Partition As Win7 C: ). I Searched For Ways Of Increasing The Size Of The...

I got a HP computer that had win7prox86 on it and i want to format it and install the same copy of windows onto different partitions, are there any restrictions with that?

I am getting ready to install Windows 7 on my XP computor. Have checked and my computor is suitable. My present computor has 2 Harddrives, each harddrive has some partitions. Will a Windows 7 update effect files on the harddrive without the operating system? Re the partitioned hardrive with...

Windows 7 doesn't recognize my D partition though windows XP used to recognize it just fine on my computer, and it also used to work fine on that HDD using that same version of windows 7 on my old computer. My computer is a Dell Optiplex 745 and my HDD is WD10EARS (No Jumpers is being used)...

Hi. First, sorry for long post but I want to give you as much details as possible before asking my questions :-) I've two 1 TB disk running in raid 1 (2 partitions, both mirrored) under Windows 7 Ultimate. Its clean install on new computer. System was installed on single disk and then both...

I have an issue which I need resolved. My hard drive had about 5 different partitions, one for Win7 x86, Win7 x64, Misc, Encrypted Data and Virtual Machines. The Encrypted Data partition was secured with BitLocker - The OS-partitions was _not_ secured with BitLocker. Now what happened...

I have a laptop with a pair of 500Gb physical HDDs, each drive has 3 partitions. For the past 18 months I have been successfully running Vista (my original OS) on C: and Win 7 Home Premium installed on my G: partition on the 2nd physical drive. I think that Vista is irrelevant now and want to...

I have spent all day working on installing 7. I have an evga 608i SLI mobo with ACPI comploiant BIOS (it has an ACPI option in BIOS and according to release notes, evga improved ACPI+OS interaction). Well, every time I try to install, I get the message stating my BIOS is not fully ACPI...

I have a laptop I’m using for an imaging tutorial that I’m doing. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad L412. I would like to understand the present partitions before I repartition. I have: C: “Windows7_OS” 122GB free of 221 GB E: “SYSTEM_DRV” 500mb free of 1.17GB Q: “Lenovo_Recovery” 2.01GB free...

Hi, I've got a main hard drive, divided in two main partitions, with windows 7 on each one. I originally had windows XP on one and Windows 7 on the other but, as I want to move permanently to windows 7 I decided to delete XP and reinstall W7 over the top of it. This way, I'll have a backup...