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I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the...
My new notebook has a number of partitions with windows 7 on one.
I would like to do a complete format and then install windows 7 on about a 20 gig partition.
Can anyone tell me how to go about this please as I can't find out how to do the format.
Thanks
Henry
About a week or so ago my asus laptop messed up and i got stuck doing a clean install of win 7. At first it would go straight to 100% on copying windows files and wouldn't do anything else so i reformated the drive. After that it started saying i had insufficient memory on the drive even...
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I just tried to install Windows 7 on two partitions on the same hard disk.
I managed to get to the point where I can choose from what partition to boot using EasyBCD but I get this screen only if the installation DVD is inserted in the drive.
I tried fixing the problem using the Windows 7...
All of a sudden my power management is behaving differently. I can no longer use the mouse to bring the computer out of sleep. I must use the button on the front of the machine. This isn't a big deal really, the issue (for me) is that while alseep it seems to lose touch with any USB devices...
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I have created 3 partitions of 40GB size from my hard drive.I have installed Windows Vista in C: drive and Windows 7 in F: drive. I would like to remove Vista from my system as I am not using it. So I want to know whether there would be any problem if Vista is completely removed. I...
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Hi everyone!I have problem with windows installation.About a month ago I decided to upgrade from vista to 7.I made a bootable usb flash disk and installed the os without any problem.A week ago I reformatted my hard disk and tried to install again the same...
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Can someone tell me whether all these are in use, and/or what they're all doing?
On my system disk, using Windows 7 Professional, I have:
$Recycle.Bin
Recovery
RECYCLER
System Volume Information
All my other partitions have all the above EXCEPT "Recovery", so I presume that one must be used...
I just replaced the hard drive in my laptop using the system image technique.
I recently did this on my desktop and was able to extend my c drive with the left over partition.
I have my extra space on drive E and want to extend it to C. Why can't I do this? How can I do this?
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i have a problem and i was wondering if somebody could help me.
i have 3 partitions one is for ubuntu another for windows7 and the other is for my files, like pics, music software etc.
in ubuntu i can see that drive open up pics and tunes, but when i run windows that drive does not show...
My hard drives have disappeared from Disk Management. Not sure when.
Only the DVD drive remains in the list.
Drives are still visible in Windows Explorer.
Drives work normally.
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I have two hard drives, each has two partitions, XP is on C and Windows 7 is on the second hard drive. XP was installed first. then 7 in a dual boot. When I am in XP I can see all the hard drives like normal. When I am in Windows 7 I cannot see the C drive with XP. Windows Explorer only...
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I've run out of space on my 320G "C" drive, and would like to add a second identical hard drive in a RAID 0 array on my Gigabyte EP45-DQ6 motherboard to improve both speed and space. This, of course, means wiping out the existing OS, and I don't want to do a fresh install if I can avoid it.
I...
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My computer won't boot into XP or 7 anymore after adding/remvoing extra hard drive
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2 7 (E)
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I plugged in an extra ide hard drive to see what was in it, after unplugging it, all of my drive letters became messed up so the windows...
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Hi, i have 2 partitions in my pc.
I had windows XP in one , so I installed
Windows 7 in the other.
I want to know if I uninstall XP
the Windows 7 will not have problen.
Because i had a situation like this before, but it was XP and Vista
and when i uninstalled XP the Vista didn't work.
The...
I've had my computer for about a year running XP with 2 harddrives in RAID (mirror). My motherboard, Asus P5NE SLI, has the RAID controller built in. These 2 drives are my only drives (other than an external USB drive). I wanted to get rid of RAID and just have 2 regular drives and install...
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So, the problem:
one of my HDDs suddenly disappeared, like it was turned off or something. I restarted the PC and the HDD reappeared and is fully functional since then. Right after the incident I checked some files on it. Well, most of the image files seemed to be damaged, that is...
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I have an old computer with Windows XP. I also have a new computer with Windows 7.
Is it at all possible to take the harddisk from my old XP computer, and install it in the new Windows 7 computer to create a "dual boot" machine?
It seems it is possible to create dual-boot systems, but my...
How do I wipe clean my Windows 7 hard disk?
My current installation had problems with viruses and I need to re-install Windows7.
And what size should I make the partitions?
I have a 500GB hard disk.
I tried booting off a DVD, but when it says "Where do you want to install windows?" the Format...