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    Windows 7 Changing drive letters.

    If you have too many partitions or a daemon tools hosted virtual drive frozen or anything this article: Link Removed can help you.Drive letters can have a common problem as several of us experienced it. Tought that this may be helpful to someone.
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Installation Question

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Hey guys, me again! :] Refer to the Image above. When I get to this part of the Windows 7 installation, I will have 3 partitions (instead of the one unallocated space as shown above). I will have one for data, one for a recovery partition, and one for my...
  3. Windows 7 Trouble with Dual Boot two installs of Windows 7 on different partitions

    Trouble with Dual Boot two installs of Windows 7 on different partitions - SOLVED I am a musician and use my computer for my recording. I also use the same machine for everyday use. In order to keep my music system clean and optimized, I would run a dual boot of Windows XP. I successfully...
  4. Windows 7 How to set up a local network

    Local Networking Judging by the number of requests in this forum (mine included), it's not as straight forward as uSoft would have us believe to set up a local network in Windows 7. This is my solution to my problem which prevented me from accessing a newly purchased Laptop - unbeknown to me...
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    Windows 7 Question re. moving HD to new Windows 7 machine

    I have an old XP machine with a C: drive, two CD drives (D: and E: ) and a hard drive with three partitions (F:, G:, and H: ). I just got a new Gateway 4300 Windows 7 machine. It currently has a C: drive and a single DVD/CD drive (D: ). I would like to move my second drive from the old...
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    Windows 7 Switch Between Partitions.... Without Restart

    My drive is partitioned up into 3 sections: 1)STORAGE 2)MINE 3)HERS Does anyone have the answer as to how I can make it possible to switch between the partitions without having to restart my computer
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    Windows 7 Software to backup MBR / MFT

    Hi all.. Just wondering, is there any system tool i can use to backup MBRs / MFTs of NTFS partitions ? I mean not third party tools.
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    Windows 7 hide & lock 2 seperate partitions both with Windows 7

    I just recently got a new computer, and my brother tends to monkey with things. He's not very clean either, so I've installed to seperate instances of Windows 7 in a dual boot manner. One for him, one for me. Now when I log into either one, I can see the partition that is being used for the...
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    Windows 7 Trouble with dual boot XP32 and Windows 7 on same disk

    I have a raid 1 system drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 had XP64 on it, partition 2 is a logical partition and is just storage, and partition 3 has XP32 bit on it. I got my copy of Windows7 and went to install over the XP64 install and it worked great. Now I can't boot into XP32. These...
  10. Windows 7 strange occurance

    Alright...I loaded a retail version of 7 this morning (at home). No problems it seemed. I already had 3 partitions, two of which had operating systems, one XP Pro 64 bit and the other the rtm of 7 and one was strictly for files (the windows section had been removed previously). When the new os...
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    Windows 7 All kinds of Win 7 errors / getting frustrated...

    Alright well here's the deal, I have installed, reinstalled, downloaded, redownloaded, burned and reburned windows 7 from the msdn site. I have done this so many times because I have been unable to load a correctly working Windows 7 onto my system. I do get it installed and working rather...
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    Windows 7 AHCI with multiple partitions?

    My system was/is running XP Pro 32-bit. Just installed Windows 7 Professional 64. Installation went fine. Cleared partition C and did a regular install. BUT, I'd like to turn on AHCI, which I found instructions for, so I'm up for giving that a try. My concern is the other partitions on...
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    Windows 7 Clean install of Win7 Pro 64bit gone wrong

    I am having trouble with a clean install of Win7. I installed/formatted a new HD in prep for installing Win7. Installion went fine. Got to desktop. Everything looked great. Began loading updates, drivers, software. Was directed to reboot system to complete install, then got a message that...
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    Windows 7 Clean, Update, Custom, Migrate!? Makes My Head Hurt!

    OK, I now have a new laptop running Vista Ultimate 32, and an extra (as per tblount) HDD. My W7 Upgrade is "In The Mail". I want to end up with W7 Ultimate 64 with 2 partitions. Hardware specs are 3.06GHz Duo 2 T9900 processor, 8GB memory & 320GB HDD. There are no apps on the Vista system except...
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    Windows 7 folders seeing with media player. streaming

    I would be grateful for the panels view on the following: Clean install Win 7 onto 160Gb drive (2x80Gb partitions). 2nd 250Gd HDD formatted. 2x users accounts (1x standard and 1x admin) updated Win 7 right clicked and a changed location of My music/Pics/Videos to the 250Gb drive copied from my...
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    Windows 7 Missing harddrive

    I just installed windows 7 on my main computer, at the start of the installation process I had all the correct drives & partitions showing nicely. Now that I have installed Windows 7, my storage disk has gone missing. It no longer shows up in windows 7, I can't find any link to it anywhere. XP...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 CHKDSK problem

    Here's my setup: Video Card EVGA nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ Creative X-Fi Extreme Fatal1ty Pro Series ASUS P5Q Pro Turbo Intel Core 2 Quad 1TB w/ multiple partitions Other JBODs for storage 4GBs or RAM Win 7 pro 64-bit Previous OS: Win XP pro 32-bit 1. I did a clean install from XP 32 to W7 64 on...
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    Windows 7 Oh boy, Installed win7 in two different partitions

    Good evening everyone. The Conundrum: I want all my windows 7 programs on one partition. The partition where windows 7 installed is to small and won't allow me to upload any other programs. So now I can not download updates or anything because the partition is full. Boring background...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 not seeing hard drives or partitions

    So here's the situation: I have a 300GB IDE drive partitioned into three parts, and a new Western Digital 1 TB drive I just bought, along with a 500gb, and an 80 gb for my OS. Windows 7 recognized all of the drives, and all three partitions when I installed it, but after the installation was...
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    Windows 7 hard drive backup

    guys do i have to backup just my c:\drive or my entire hard disk...that is..oder hard drive partitions of the same hard disk also ?