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    Windows 10 Can you have multiple operating systems on a Windows PC?

    I'm on a Windows 10 high end laptop. I have the C drive and also D, E and G drives. G drive is a USB 2TB Seagate. Is it possible for me to install a Linux distribution on the G drive (or the D drive) and run this instead of the Windows 10 installation?
  2. Windows 10 Request Help in finding a way to Clean install windows 10 form a USB Drive

    I tried to fix a C:\WINDOWS\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt PC Boot error. When that didn't work I tried clean install clean install win 10 from a USB Drive with the windows 10 ISO installed on it. That didn't work either. When I got to the part " Where do you want to install windows" None of...
  3. Windows 8 My computer is slow opening files and folders?

    Hi Something that has been bugging me is that Windows 8 on my new computer is slow opening files and folders. I don't mean that it takes forever but when I click on almost anything in File Manager or on my desktop the waiting icon appears and it takes a couple of seconds for anything to...
  4. Windows 7 How much drive space is needed by Win 7 ?

    I'm just curious. I have a local disc C: and two storage drives. The Win7 operating system and a handful of applications are on the C: The folders on the drive add total about 28G. Yet, the blue bar shows 85G used and 85G free on the C: Why is this? Thx.
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 will NOT recognise my OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb SSD at the "Where do you want to install Windows"

    Hi all My computer is 6months old ASRock z68 Extreme4 MOBO i52500k OCZ Vertex 2 120Gb SSD - Main drive Samsung 1 Tb drive - storage drive initially i installed a legit copy of Windows 7 Professional and was able to select both drives at the "Where do you want to install Windows"...
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    Windows 7 Can't access a network drive - you do not permission to access

    I have two Window 7 peers hard wired thru an SMC. I'm not using homegroups. I can see the public shares on Peer 1 from Peer 2 and similarly I can see the public shares on Peer 2 from Peer 1. However I can't see drives (my storage drives) on Peer 1 from Peer 2. The opposite is also true. Get...
  7. Windows 7 How to remove software from boot

    A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...
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    Windows 7 system crashes goes for restart and then cannot boot...

    hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows. here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash. i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes...
  9. Windows 7 Securely Wipe a Dead Hard Drive

    Link Removed Dwma needs to return a dead hard drive to the manufacturer, and asked the Answer Line forum for a way to first remove sensitive data. Hard drives almost always contain some potentially compromising information, such as credit card and social security numbers. You should always...