primary partition

  1. treepi

    Windows 10 Windows 10 keeps installing bootloader on a seperate hard drive! Why?

    Below in my screenshot I have marked the W10 installation, W10 bootloader, and Linux install. For some reason, every time I install W10 it decides to install the bootloader on a seperate drive. When I boot into the linux drive grub shows W10 but I am unable to boot into it. I am able to boot...
  2. Neemobeer

    Windows 10 Manually Rebuilding a Windows Boot Partition (MBR)

    In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...
  3. blksith0

    Windows 10 Converting secondary partition to main primary one

    This image describes it well My question is, this will probably break something, so what steps should I take to fix things up after I delete and move stuff around like that?
  4. Bell Labs

    Windows 7 System and Boot Partitions...Combined?

    Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...
  5. MikeHawthorne

    Windows 8 Question about Disk Management?

    Hi Yesterday I was getting tight on space for my Windows 10 software etc, this is not the drive that Windows 10 is installed on. It's a separate partition on the same drive that Windows 8 is installed on. I decided to shrink my G:\ drive which is the Windows 8 partition, and move the space to...
  6. 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)...
  7. techgeekcasey

    Windows 8 Windows 8 Partitioning Question

    When I go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Storage then Disk Management I see this: Link Removed So my question is there a way to combine the volume that says "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" and "(C:) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dumps, Primary...
  8. R

    Windows 7 Understanding Partition Sizes and Unallocated Space on Cloned Drives

    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...
  9. J

    Windows 7 Extended primary partition and can no loger dual boot

    Hi all: I'm running windows 7 in a dual boot configuration. Both OS installs are on a single physical drive (drive 0) and partitioned as C: and D: The primary install is on C: and I needed to extend the partition as I was running out of space; however the D: partition was immediately to the...
  10. Kaschiro

    Windows 7 Cannot format my harddrive..I need partions...help

    I have 2 format programs recommended by GEEK, easus and mini tool partition...they will not allow me to do partition...The disk layout is C: system and files D: hp recovery data E:hp files...When I start I can do resize and get an allocated file, then on the allocated file I click create...
  11. navienavnav

    Windows 7 Parition ("E drive") suddenly went missing. Does not appear in Windows Disk Management tool or third

    In my Sister's laptop, running Windows 7 Ultimate x86, all of a sudden, while she was working on the computer, the "E drive" went missing which was a partition on the hard disk (I don't remember if it was a logical or primary partition). She tried restarting the system but to no avail. So, I...
  12. A

    Windows 7 Drive labeling confusion in Disk Management

    I have four internal drives and an external Drobo drive. The internal drives are my concern in this query. All are working well and I could just leave well alone, but my sense of order requires me to get all these different descriptions into conformity with each other. Active/Not Active...
  13. R

    Windows 7 Hard Drive Volumes

    In Disk Management I have three volumes: 9.11gb Healthy (Active Recovery Partition) 100% Free 50.89gb NTFS Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) 40 % Free 14.53gb Healthy (Primary Partition) 100% Free What are each and do I need all of them??? Thanks.
  14. P

    Windows 7 Let Win7 on 1st prim part see Win7 on 2nd prim partition but NOT other way?

    I have here the following partitioning on my hard disc 1 primarypartition firstWin7system 2 SystemReservedPartition bootable active hidden 3 primarypartition otherWin7system 4 extendedLogicalPartition otherStuff When I boot now I got the boot selection menu from partition 2...
  15. P

    Windows 7 dual booting problem

    new here so firstly, hi to all. i need some advice please, so hope some can help and am posting in the correct place. will try to describe the issues below. if i am not clear enough, let me know and i will do my best to explain better. anyway, i had win XP and win 7 installed as dual boot on one...
  16. julio99

    Windows 7 Partititioning Windows 7 HP/ Extended ??

    I'm back with a new problem. Today I tried to create a new Logical partition on my laptop by taking 1 of the 4 Primary partitions, (It was the 13 gb Arcade partition) and making it logical. I then resized the C drive partition to leave 75gb of un allocated space which I was going to use as a...
  17. P

    Windows 7 Why is separate 100 MB system bootmanager partition not always necessary?

    As far as I know Win7 introduces a new Bootmanager system. At old WinXP times the bootmanager was put into the first bootable partition on the first hard disc. This partition could contain the actual Windows XP itself in addition. From Win7 times on Bootmanager should be installed in a...
  18. C

    Windows 7 All Simple Volumes

    Windows 7 Service Pack 1 I decided I needed a new partition and have done something that I don't quite understand. The computer still boots up fine and everything seems just as it was, operation wise, but something is not like it was before. I have a 500GB HD and originally had 3 Primary...
  19. S

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Fails to Boot After Creating New Partitions: Need Help!

    Hello and good evening. Recently I installed windows 7 on computer, every thing worked great and i was enjoying windows 7 BUT there was a RAW space on my hard disk so i decided to make them 2 primary partitions, let say that my OS partition (Drive C) was about 30GB and there was 119 GB raw...
  20. yoshirocks

    Windows 7 delete primary partition

    I creatrd a partition using Spotmau Partition Genius for backup until I could get an external hard drive. When I click the partition in the program ti says "Unallocated". I can't do anything with the partition and it is not visible in Windows. I would like to know how to delete it and create a...
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