storage management

I installed Windows 7 Ult 64 bit trough Windows XP, but I installed on my non primary HDD to back up files. Once the files were copied to the new HDD I re-formatted my HDD. I have an issue with My Computer recording the space usage. It says I have used 553.GB of my 111GB Drive Link Removed Link...

My HD has 2 partitions, one for the OS (c: drive) and a second (unused D: drive) data partition. Just installed Windows 7 Professional on the OS partition - works great. My Questions - I had planned to put all my applications on the data partition but now I'm reconsidering and may want to put...

Hi, I have Vista 64 on C: and Windows 7 RTM on F: running simultaneously. I've got Win7 to the point where I can abandon Vista entirely. I was wondering if I could image the Win7 F: drive -- I use Acronis TrueImage -- and replace it onto C: eliminating the Vista instance for the Win7, then...

I installed RTM (x86), and did a "fresh install". When setup was done, I went to delete Windows.old and Windows.000. Windows.000 deleted OK. Windows.old ( which has /Windows and /Program Files directories in it ) won't delete. The OS keeps telling me I need "Trusted Installer" permission to...

I have my 500gig harddrive partitioned to a 50g (e drive) and 450g (h drive) with windows 7 on the e drive partition. I think there was a way to change the default partition in vista from the "c" drive to another one, was wondering if that's possible with windows 7. Instead of everything i...

ok, so i got a little problem or rather a worry : i had 352mb of free space and a zip file of 470+mb on the same hdd. as i didnt need some of the files in that zip, i deleted them (around 50mb). i did so directly out of winzip 10, which actually makes a new file out of the old but without...

I have installed Windows 7 on a secondary drive. Is it possible to boot up in either OS?

I used to have a Ubuntu install and my windows 7 install on different partitions but now I want to have my entire hard drive space for just windows 7. How do I recombine the old partitions? It's fine if I have to reinstall, I was planning on doing it for 7077 anyway. Any help is appreciated...

Is there a limit to the size of a boot partition for Windows? Seems like Win 7 will only install on partitions smaller than about 2TB. If this is the case, what is the best way to make sure all the user directories and public folders are installed to a different drive rather than the boot...

I have three HDDs, C: 500GBs D: 80GBs E: 250GBs. I previously had Vista running in the drive with 250Gbs. At that point it was labeled my C drive. So I went through numerous formattings to get my largest HDD to be the C drive. Now that I have the letters in order, I would like to remove the...

I installed windows 7 over an XP installation that had Windows Steady State installed on it with a 10 GB cache. Steady State is incompatible with Windows 7 so cache.wdp is installed taking up 10GB of space but I can't use Steady State to delete it. Cache.wdp only shows up when I use a disk...

1) i accidentally hit something in my music library and it isn't divided into folders anymore and i don't know how to get it back. it monitors the music on my local drive and the My Music folder on my Windows XP hard drive. now instead of showing it divided between folders, it shows it all as...

In the disk manager tool, I tried to partition (create/name) a new partition out of free, unallocated space. but the virtual disk service blows up and the partition is "created" but it gains no letter drive and is not usable. i tried rebooting and trying it again, no luck. same thing happens...

I have Ultimate 64 set up on a Gigabyte UD3P, Intel ICH10R, Raid 0 (2 HDD's). I'm not able to install Intel Matrix Storage Console. From another post, I read that Win7 installs newer raid drivers than what's on my Gigabyte install disk (and the Intel website). The Intel raid drivers were...

I have 3 partitions on 1 drive. My OS partition, 2 for just files and what not. Well the OS partition is fine (clean install on that partition), My Drive D is also fine, it just has pictures on it, but my Drive E (which was F before) is where the problem is. It shows that it has 40 GB left out...

Hey I had a dual boot of vista on another parition that i didnt need anymore so i eraced it but I cant seem to erace about 2 gigs worth of stuff in the windows folder including the folder and program files folder no matter what I try it wont give me permission to do it, ive tried some stuff it...

i have vista home premium installed on my acer laptop. now can i merg two partitions with out loosing my data. plz give me some way to merge partitions. thanx.:redface:

I have an HP dv6000 series laptop running Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit on 64 bit hardware platform. The harddisk size is 120 GB with four drive already created and about 53GBs of unformatted disk space. Off late when I tried creating a drive of 10GB I get a error message as follows "Windows...

Seems like a new entry to me. Anyone know what this is supposed to do?

Hi, is there a way to partition the disc in windows vista system it self or am I obliged to buy a disc partitioning programme. Thanks for your advice. Param