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    Windows 7 Disk Management (diskpart.mmc) Problems

    Hello to anyone reading this. I have a Win 7 64 bit 2012 laptop (HP). My main disk (A Toshiba 320GB) is currently a Dynamic. I want to shrink my Win 7 Partition (Simple) to make room for Linux Mint. Whenever I try to shrink, it can only shrink by about a Gig, and it says "The partition cannot...
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    Shrinking partition C: on hard disk drive.

    I have recently replaced the hdd on my laptop with a 1TB disk I did a clean installation of Windows 10 and then installed Norton Security Software for protection purposes . After that I tried to shrink the single partition (which is shown to contain around 30 GB) to 200 GB so that I could set...
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    Windows 7 Deleting the system partiton?

    Is it possible to delete the system partition (held Windows XP - no longer needed)? I have Windows 7 on the second partition, and don't really want to do a reinstall. It's partition is set as "C:" when Win7 is booted. Any way to make the second partition the system partition, then delete the...
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    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...
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    Windows 7 Why i cant extend C partition??

    Hi I have a problema when making a bigger C partition (where i have win7). I get free space but i cant then use to expand C. I have win 7 , ultimate, 64 bits Im trying to do with paragon partition manager, from program and from cd boot maked from this program. This is my start...
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    Windows 7 Minimu size to shrink for c-partition

    I got a new Dell Win7 computer with 640 GB hard drive. But free space for C-Partition in the new computer is now 555gb. For my XP computers, the size of C-partition is about 60 GB. So I tried to shrink 555 gb size to 60 gb in the Disk Managment. I could not shrink to that low but only...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 & Vista dual boot problem.

    Recently shrunk my Vista partition on my laptop to created a new partition for a Win 7 install. All is working great, able to choose either partition on start up with no problems. Now here's where my problems lie: I want to get rid of my original Vista partition (C:) and add the free space...
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    Windows Vista Vista Partition Problem

    Hello guys... I use Dell Notebook with Vista Home Premium. I have 250 GB of HDD and i just recently shrink C: drive from (220 GB) to (180 GB) but i can't carry on after shrink. It said "There is no enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation" or something like that. I...