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Where can I buy 5 terabyte external portable hdd?

Has anybody used Windows 7 Virtual Hard Disk for a bootable OS? I I ran across this Link Removed and wondered if there are any pitfalls. It looks like it might be an improvement over a Virtual PC. Is there a problem when deleting the Virtual hard Disk? Joe

I have recently got my Sony Vaio VPCSB19GG which runs i7-2620M Memory4Gb with Solid State Drive 256GB which comes with Windows7 Professional (64-bit). i have been using it for around 2 weeks and from the first day i had divided my SSD into 2 partitions C and D, and recently this problem occur...

Hi, Have tried the built in backup and am not happy as it keeps telling me that I don't have enough disc space left despite the fact that it is 1 terrabyte. Is there a good backup program (freeware)that I can use instead? Thanks!

My Grandfathers External Hard Drive broke and he want's to erase the data how can he do it, would it be possible if he could put it in Microwave for a few seconds

At the moment I'm putting my vast DVD collection onto an external HDD (around 600 DVDS) using DVDFab. You know the drills , remove all the crappy ads , copyright warnings and the rest of the junk. I just want the films and nothing else. So, what's the best option for me ? Buy a "media player"...

Hello  everyone, i have a question about partitioning a 2TB external hard drive that is formatted for 1.8 TB, i would like to partiotion it into (2) 500G partitions and whats ever is left as another partition, i dont remember how to go about doing it, if i think i remember correctly, i have...

Join Wade and Steve each week as they cover the Windows Azure Platform. You can follow and interact with the show at Link Removed. In this episode, Nathan Totten—Technical Evangelist for Windows Azure—talks to Steve about using the Link Removed to quickly and easily deploy one or more websites...

Hello all, I'm brand new to windows 7. I just installed last night to a Crucial c300 SSD (drive c:\). I want to have everything else go to my 2TB Seagate Barrracuda HDD (Drive b:\). I'm sure it's just a setting in disk management somewhere, but how can I set it so that the default installation...

Configuration:Disk 0 - System [C] - [special library folders pointed to D] Disk 1 - Data [D] - [changed to X for volume encryption process] Disk 2 - Copy Data [E] - [mirror of D] I have used truecrypt system encryption to encrypt Disk 0 I changed the drive letter of Disk 1 to X as I want...

Hi All I'm not sure if this is the correct category to Post this thread in so if it is moved I understand. I was troubleshooting my Raid Zero Array C: drive and while installing a saved System Image, approximately 1.2TB of data on my Raid 1 Array storage drive disappeared. While I deleted the...

I just recently purchased a 2TB WD20EARS Hard Drive and It is replacing another Hard Drive that Died. I Plugged it In, Everything seemed to be working fine. I Formatted it NTFS, Added Drive letter E to it (which was the same as the old drive its replacing). Copied all my data over to it and...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 I decided I needed a new partition and have done something that I don't quite understand. The computer still boots up fine and everything seems just as it was, operation wise, but something is not like it was before. I have a 500GB HD and originally had 3 Primary...

What is the difference between MS Windows 7 Backup and MS Synctoy? I am using Windows 7 Backup and only back up the four Libraries and some additional locations off of the C: drive totalling about 45 GB and Windows7 Backup now requires 151 GB of disk space on my external hard drive which only...

What is a good free program for Backing upentire laptop

I recently bought a new PC (Intel Core2 Quad, 6GB ram, Sata with 300GB HDD) and installed a new (OEM) version of Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) Everything was running fine until I decided I'd physically add the old 'primary' drive from my old Pentium 3 as a secondary/backup. It's only 120GB so...

Hi I'm the fresh man here, I want to konw if my 2008 server operating system showed:"low disk" how to solve it, the built-in disk management can not meet my need, I can not extend system drive, I search other web and they suggest me to use Partition Assistant server edition. Has any one used...

I have a laptop and I partitioned "C" into "C" and "F". Now I want to move the non-system, non Windows OS files to "F". I need to know which of the folders now on "C" I can move. I've attached a screencap. Which of the folders can I move? I guess I should not move Program Files Program Files...

The top 10 weirdest USB drives ever

Hi, I put two HDDs on GA P55A-UD4P motherboard in Raid1 type array (on Intel SATA Controller) and they were working fine for quite some time (2 weeks or so). One day, after Windows started up, I noticed a blue icon on Intel RST manager and it says that the array is initializing. What does...