primary partition

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...

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...

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?

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I bought a new computer where Win7 is already pre-installed on partition C: In addition I want now to install a second "test" Win7 system on a NEW primary partition. AND a logical "data" partition. At startup I want to choose later between the 2 Win7 systems which one I want to boot. When...

Hi, I have severe trouble to get my Windows 7 run as dual boot together with Windows XP. The situation is a little bit complicated: 1. I had my Windows XP installed on harddisk A as primary partition. I saved this installation with Paragon Drive Backup. In error I restored this Windwos...

Hi, I need some help with this.. 'situation' I'm in :D What I want to do: Completely erase EVERYTHING on Disk 0, the ~298GB drive (i.e. Format it). Windows won't let me :(. Now from what I know, it won't let me because Disk 0 is the Primary Partition, and Disk 1 is an Extended Partition...

Hello, I run Windows 7 for at least 4 weeks and I never had problems with it, so I decided to remove the now unneeded XP Partition. My Problem is that after this Windows 7 refused to boot. I suppose that either the Windows Bootmanager was on the XP Partition I removed. My Partition Table...