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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...

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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...

I have now built 3 machines using Win7 and I noticed an interesting problem: When installing on a machine that has more than one blank hard drive Win 7 seems to write some critical boot files to the second hard drive. I noticed that later if there are any issues with the second hard drive or it...

When I have the drive plugged in, Windows gets to the to the 'Starting Windows' page, hangs, and then restarts after about five minutes. Unplug it, and everything works normally. This drive has all of my movies, pictures, and of course: my entire life. Does anyone have any bright ideas on how I...

I posted a while ago about the WD My Book Essential external HD I got and the crappy Smartware and undeletable virtual CD. I've made 12 posts there and in every one I make a crack about what crap those 2 items are. Tonight I noticed I got promoted from occasional poster to adviser. Makes you...

Got an interesting one. I have one PC left running Vista that has two sets of spanned volumes as follows: All drives are dynamic. Silicon Image 3124 SATA Controller Card: Port 0 - 1TB Port 1 - 1TB Port 2 - 500GB Port 3 - 500GB Marvell Controller on MB Port 4 - 500GB Port 5 - 500GB...

Windows Files: Search, Indexing and Online Backup Windows Libraries and the Windows Search Index In this video, I will discuss with you: The power of the Library feature in Windows 7. The configuration of Indexing Options. And the ability to backup your files at any time, on the the Amazon...

Hi everyone, my hard disk is GPT partitioned for the benefit of Mac OS X and Linux. I recently created a new partition at the end of my hard disk but I can't seem to access it in Windows. Is there a way to get Windows to see the partition? My hard disk currently looks like this: Mac partition...

Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot -- Engadget Viking Modular Solutions, a division of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and leading manufacturer of innovative DRAM modules and flash solutions, today announced that its SATADIMM is available for immediate customer...

i have a laptop having genuine copy of windows installed the problem is that it has only one drive now i want to make more partitions but there is danger of loosing the genuine windows during partitioning process. is there any method to make partitions without any trouble remember that it has...

I was hoping to use my external WD Terabyte HD as a webshare/server/online HD. My intentions were to try and set up the harddrive to be accessible by anyone on the internet with ID and PASS. I have looked around and done some research on different ways to write/read on the harddrive. But FTP...

I've been dual-booting for about two months now on two seperate HDs. One HD is XP Pro SP3 - it was my first one - and then I added another HD and installed Win 7 on that. Recently, my 7 was crashing in a BSOD hard when I was playing a video game. I posted the minidump files online, and was...

I'm thinking of setting up a home server for back ups and file storage and sharing of my home network. Right now I back up each individual computer to my 2nd hard drive on my desktop. I would like a more efficient way of doing this and automated preferably. Werther I build or out of a box, I...

I upgraded to windows 7 a while back and have several issues. One is if my computer is on and I plug in my memory stick Windows does not read it. Only when I reboot will I be able to read the memory stick which is very annoying. Thoughts?

Ok I am just about going out of my mind with this one. I have a DNS 323 NAS device connected directly to my laptop with static IP's and a crossover cable (removed it from my network for troubleshooting simplicity). I am running Windows 7 Pro. I can access the web interface of this device, ping...

I recently picked up a new laptop. It came with W7 Home Premium 64-bit on a single partition. I want to do one of two things: 1. Repartition the 500GB disk so the O/S and programs use 60-70GB and have the rest available for "data" - the problem is the W7 partition tool won't let me get this...