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    Windows 7 Network breaks down after period of satisfactory running

    I have a networking problem which has persisted for many weeks no matter what I try to fix it. The basic setup has been running for 7 years without this issue. The network is a Flight Simulator with a main Windows 7 PC driving the Flight Sim software and also acting as a server for another four...
  2. Windows 8 Windows 8.1 100% Disk Usage (Local System)

    Hello, I installed Windows 8.1 time ago.I can't play any games cause 100% disk usage(low fps).I've tried a lot of things to fix it but nothing.Sometimes it hits even to 20MB(Local System thingy). :( Thanks.
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    Windows 7 Combined Hard Drives

    I have two 1TB HDD"s combined into one for my D:\ totaling 1.81 TB. I have 88GB free space left. What would happen if I uncombined this drive or would it allow me to at all? I can deal with a few problems like it not knowing where a program is. I just don't want the drives to crash and need...
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    Windows 7 Duplicate Disk Signature Question

    64-bit Win 7, Home Premium, SP1. I recently recovered my C: drive to a new drive (via Symantec SSR Anyware to a new computer) and kept the same disk id on the new drive. Now I want to use the old C: drive on my new system (as an additional data disk) but of course windows won't mount it because...
  5. Windows 7 Option To "Extend Partition" Grayed Out In Disk Management (SOLVED)

    I guess I'll start with what gave birth to this problem: I was curious about OpenSUSE so I thought I'd try it out, I dual booted Windows with OpenSUSE and everything was fine, I gave it a go, exactly what I wanted to do, and then I was done with it. In the process of installing OpenSUSE however...
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    Windows 8 How to repair an external disk

    Hello My external disk fell on the ground. And since, it did not function. It did a bip when I plug or unplug it. The light indicator does not appear. The disk is visible when I go in computer management --> "computer-manage-device manager-disk drive" but it does not appear on "disk management"...
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    Windows 7 Recover Unallocated 250GB HDD After Windows 7 Reinstallation

    backed up my files on a 250g HDD reinstalled win7 on 500g HDD During install, I ignored the 250 and partitioned the 500g HDD like I have done thousands of times before. Then choise one of the partitions on the 500G HDD to install wnin7. Install complete and win 7 is on the proper partition...
  8. Windows 8 I messed up the folder structure [Win8.1]

    Hi everyone, I recently moved the main folders (Documents, Pictures, Videos...) to my secondary (non SSD) harddrive but I did a huge mistake. I set Documents to the Root D:/ folder (nowit's not called Documents anymore, but D:/), and inside of it i also put Pictures, Music, Videos and so on...
  9. Windows 7 cant shrink windows partitions enough

    hello to all! i am trying to help someone who commented on one of my YouTube videos on how to install Ubuntu. I have a step which involves shrinking a partition to make room for Ubuntu, and he has over 50GB of free space, yet can only take away 3000MB... if anyone could help that would be great...
  10. Windows 8 Reallocation of disk space TO the c:drive.

    I wanted to take space from my other volume I recently created volume. HP ENVY 600G memory. Having some serious problems, but this will help of I could get some space moved over.
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    Windows 7 How do i use a 64gb sdxc card on my windows 7 64bit laptop?

    Hi, i have just bought a sandisk 64gb extreme pro sdxc memory card for my camera, it works fine in the camera and saves pics to it, but every time i open it in windows it tells me i have to format the card, when i do format it, it goes through the whole process and then tells me the operation...
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    Windows 7 Files not showing on external drive

    Hi, I've got a Seagate 2TB external drive for backup. When I backup files and click on the drive it just says 'this folder is empty'. However, if i search for a file or directory it appears. I did read something to the effect that Windows 7 fails to show the files if a drive is very large but I...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Disk (C:) and (D:) help!

    I just installed Windows 8.1 and when I went to look at My Computer (This PC) it says I only have Local Disk (C: ) and DVD RW Drive (E: ). How come I don't have (D: )? And if anyone knows what do I need to do while re-installing my windows to get it?
  14. Windows 7 usb flash: has stopped to be read

    friend of mine own an older ibm notebook. running on win7 pro. the situation came to keeps me wodering how to solve it. I went through several online discussions and as it seemed it was not difficult find a same issue. its very usual problem as it seems! i got tried all provided tips to get it...
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    Windows 7 Seagate hard disk shows not formatted error, how to recover data

    I have a Seagate hard disk drive which has been divided into 2 sections (C drive, D drive) on my PC. Now, the D drive is inaccessible and it says the drive is not formatted. Should I format it? But will I lose everything on the drive after formatting?
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    Windows 7 Chkdsk on slow HDDs

    One of my HDDs was doing incredibly slow today what made me run chkdsk in the command line. It says that there was an error in a file with the number 337105 - so I would like to know which file on my harddrive this is. Do you know how to find out what files are concerned according to a given...
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    Windows 8 External HDD is read as a CD Drive

    I have a 1tb HP External HDD that has a lot of files on it. The drive worked fine until yesterday and when I plugged it into the USB port it activated as "CD Drive (G:) HP Launcher". I used explorer and was not able to locate any of my files. There are 2 files showing: 1. HPLauncher.exe 2...
  18. Windows 7 When renaming a fold "Photos" all contents disappear

    I had a folder full of photos on my external hard drive and moved them to my new computer. I copied the folder over to: "My Documents"->"My Folder"->"Photos" on my laptop's D: partition (C: contains Win7) When I click into the Photos folder I don't see any files and the file counter at the...
  19. OneDrive help needed fasr !!!!!

    I had a video file on OneDrive that has somehow disappeared. Does anyone know who I can contact at Microsoft to get this file back ? I need it to give it to law enforcement, as it's of someone breakinto my bedroom and stealing a few of my item's. The person is on probation and I need the video...
  20. Incorrect Disk Free Space information for a DFS client share

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