storage management

After some investigations I found out that some (many > 100) files of my hard disc are "sparse" files. These sparse files are mostly *.pdf and *.avi files. From what I know so far sparse files are files which occupy not their full official size on the hard disc. I don't know why e.g. the...

Hi I posed a few days ago someplace that I found that defragmenting my C:\ drive gave me a real increase in read speed. From about 3 Mbs to 30. I defraged my B:\ drive (a partition of C:\) and today I tacked D:\ it was a long haul, mostly because it has the compressed back up of C:\ on it...

Hey guys, I would like to ask, which is better virtual cd or magic iso. I have tried both of them but I have not noticed any difference, currently im using magic iso, but I kind of miss the VCD interface as well as some of the features. Could someone please include the differences between...

I've had a major crisis this morning using Acronis to reclaim an empty 8gb partition. The hdd from left to right, in disk manager was: 8Gb Empty (formerly page file) || D:\Data 210Gb Data || R:\Recovery 80Gb Recovery Using Acronis I expanded the 210gb to include all the 8Gb so now it would...

Hp came with two drives. vista 64 set it back to factory specs and installed win7 64. seem okay. just noticed that the other drive is empty - correct. but properties says there is 43GB there! it is set up to show hidden files. how do i tell win7 64 that hey! the drive is empty. thanks

I have Window 7 Home Premium Installed on My HP Pavilion Dv6 i5 Notebook. I have only 1 Partition. I want to Install another Window and thats why i want to Make Another Partition for it (I Know About Shrinking of Drive but i won't do it because it make the shrinked Partition Dynamic, Which...

Fixes an issue in which you can disable the boot LUN in Device Manager if you use a DSM to claim the LUN for use with MPIO on a Windows Server 2008 R2-based or Windows 7-based computer. This issue occurs when the computer is configured to start from a... Link Removed

I used Paragon Partition Manager 11 to make a clone of my "C" boot drive. "C" is the HDD in position 0. The clone is in position 1, which prior to the clone operation was "D". I am sure that if I removed HDD 0 and replaced it with HDD 1, the system would boot to Windows 7. (I have done this on...

Hello all, I have a wierd problem. I am running windows 7 32bit, and every time that I reboot my pc one of my external usb hard drives its drive letter keeps changing. and its allways the same drive that keeps changing. can anyone please help, thank you very much

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I am trying to shrink a hard drive using W7 I get the following on any drive I try to shrink. This service cannot be started either because it is disabled or because no enabled devices are associated with it. OS is W7 64 bit, I have 4 internal hard drives two of them are 1.5 TB two are 750 gig...

Installed Windows 7 clean after a botched Ubuntu install. Wiped everything but there's still 15GB of unallocated space that I think is from an old recovery partition that I cannot associate with the 240GB (Primary partition) free space. How can I get rid of this extra 15GB? Edit: Cannot do this...

I would like to know if Windows 7 will let you merge a previously partitioned drive back to a single partition. I had to partition my C: drive to 2 new partitions so that I could match the Corps of previous projects in which I no longer need. I have deleted the drive letters and in the disk...

Whenever I try to eject a certain external hard drive using the little icon in the task window, I get a message that it is in use. I am very careful to be sure it is not in use but still get the message. This is a data storage disc. I am not aware of any programs on it that may be running in...

Ok i got a SSD awhile back and was able to install windows on it and have my users folder and default install folder on my normal HDD. It has worked ok till now but I'm sure i screwed a few things up when i did it because random programs still try to install on my SSD and when the install makes...

I am not sure if i need to partition my hard drive.......should i? I have a 1T hard-drive and i am installing windows 7 64bit OS.

Hi, As of now I only have 1 game installed on my fastest drive which so happens to be my OS drive (is that a good idea?) Also I would like to know what defrag to use so I can tell it to put that one installed game folder on my OS drive to the fastest part of the drive? I currently use...

I was doing a virus scan and saw there are like 20,000 files located inside the C:\$Recycle.Bin folder that were being scanned. I went to the folder to delete these files and there are no files to be found. Where is all this crap located and how do I wipe it out permanently?

Hi, i've currently disabled the autoplay to no action for all the options set in the autoplay options in control panel however whenever i connect a external storage like external hd thats split into 3 or 4 partitions i get 4 pop up options on what i want to do & its really annoying. Is there...

Lets start by saying I currently want my other half dead. Really painfully dead. My MereMale decided to play with the access control/Security tabs (Windows 7) within my neatly partitioned and organised drives. He says it was to stop the kids from stuffing things up, oh the irony. Anyways he...