primary partition

On my computer I have 3 primary partitions: 1. "System reserve" which contains e.g.the Bootmamanger and MBR 2. First Win 7 installation ("main") 3. Second Win 7 installation ("reserve") When I boot now at first the Bootmanager on the first primary partition is called/started which in...

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...

Hello everyone, I want to thank this community for such a well maintained website. It is really helpful. I want to let you know that EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition v 5.0.1 will not create partitions out of the unallocated disk space I made in my hard drive using this application. When I...

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...

I am having real trouble installing windows 7 I have tried a clean install about 5 times and it fails at the end of installation after it's starting services. There is just a black screen with a flashing cursor at the top left of the screen. Last night I left it to see if it was taking a...

win7 is installed on partition C while xp is on E.But in win7,the real partition C becomes E and E becomes C.Why?How to change? I installed win7 in xp with daemon tools and win7137 iso.The last win7 I installed on C is 7100 RC. In xp,the real partition C also becomes E and E becomes C.But...

I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, partioned it into 2. Then I decided to shrink my origial drive which was already had 2 partitions. I shut down and it rebooted just fine. But now I noticed these folders in the new E: partition: Boot bootmgr BOOTSECT.BAK I know these files...

Hey everyone.. I'm new to this stuff and want to know what type of partition i need to create to multiboot... I want to be able to run either xp or windows 7... I know how touse the command prompt to be able to create a partition but i don't know what type of partition to use.. Do I make an EFI...

Need a bit of help here. I've been trying everything I could think of for the past 3 days but nothing is working out for me. I'm trying to set up W7 on my laptop, which already has Vista installed as the primary OS, and Ubuntu as a second OS. I was hoping the set up W7 as my third, but I've...