system drive

i have "imaged" my system drive using DriveImage XML I set it as active with windows disk manager. but when I try to boot it tells me that BOOTMGR is missing. however, bootmgr exists on the system reserved partition it is also in windows\boot\pcat and under windows\winsxs\......... so what is...

When you rename a user account in on a computer that is running Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2, the user profile path is not changed automatically. It may cause some confusion when the %SystemDrive%\users folder... More...

I had to do a re-install today with Windows 7. After the re-install it set up a drive labeled "System K" and I also have a folder called "Windows old". Now I did have back up disc that I made in June that I used after the re-install. That gave me back about 97% of my important info for my apps...

Fixes a problem in which a folder that is created under the root of system drive is missing ACLs, which may cause problems on the English version of Windows 7 Release Candidate 32-bit Ultimate. More...

Fixes a problem in which the screen turns black and the computer never powers off completely when you enable BitLocker for the system drive. Occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

On my new Toshiba Portege R830, the first partition on the SSD is a small 1.46G system drive that is marked as the boot device and as a Recovery Partition. The next partition covering most of the disk is the C drive. I didn't even know this could be done. Is this a new way of doing things? On...

Solid-state drives are wicked fast. Theyâre also expensive. So how do you get the performance benefits of an SSD upgrade without breaking the bank? Use a fast SSD as a Windows 7 system drive and install a conventional hard disk for use as a dedicated data drive. Here’s the right way to do just...

============================================================== sorry, i was wrong, ignore the tilte please, because i not using english OS at the time, so i directly translated the message, but the actuall mesage is: The selected volume is on a dynamic disk when i select the location to...

A while back I used Partition Magic Pro v7 (the last good one) to change some setting on my system drive. Surprisingly it worked (originally designed for win2K), but the problem is that it doesn't think that it worked. Now every time my computer boots it tries running the partition magic...

Hello, I'm new here and I'm sorry to have such a big first post. I have a bunch of questions and this might become a bit of a complicated story, but I'll try to be as direct as possible if you don't mind helping me out: I just installed Windows 7 (64bit) a couple of days ago. Everything...

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 I’m using for an imaging tutorial that I’m doing. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad L412. I would like to understand the present partitions before I repartition. I have: C: “Windows7_OS” 122GB free of 221 GB E: “SYSTEM_DRV” 500mb free of 1.17GB Q: “Lenovo_Recovery” 2.01GB free...

Hi lads, Got really big problem myself. Basically I have two partitions on my computer. C- active, system, primary partition D- boot, page file, crash dump, logical drive On both of them I have win7 installed. The problem is that I want to have only win7 from partition D working...

I have Win 7 Pro bought online during last winter's college student sale. No original CD, but I burned two copies of the download. I'm trying to reinstall Win 7 on a new processor and motherboard. Backed up the old system drive and have been trying a clean install with no success. During file...

I use a custome made programm which works only when the system hard drive shows up as "Disk0" and the RAID-0 disk (based on PCI-E card) appeares as "Disk1". I've just upgrated my OS from Windows XP Pro to Windows 7 Pro (hardware configuration is the same). After the first reboot the system...

Hi All, Alright heres the deal I have A Dell Inspiron 1564 laptop its got ~400 gig of HDD space. Now those idiotic people who installed my O/S thought 50 gig would be enough for anyone.. anyway My C: has my OS installed and I just have 4 gig of space after installing stuff on it and I have...

I recently had to do a complete reinstall of Windows 7 Pro 32-bit. I have 5 hard drives, 2 of which are on a RAID1 mirror, which happens to be where the OS is installed. For some reason, after installing the OS, I noticed that the Windows Boot Manager was placed on a different drive, apart...

My system drive is 63GB - yes GB... All that's on there is Windows 7 64-bit, and my applications. Data is elsewhere, cache files are elsewhere..... At this moment there's 420KB free on the drive... So, I started looking for what honking big bunch of garbage is eating this thing. Searching...

Greetings Win7 users, I could use your help. Here's the story: I have Win7 Ultimate x32 (relatively) recently installed on a pc with two HDD's, a 250g and a 500g. I use the 250g as a system partition and the 500g as a media drive (music, videos, photos); I carried this one over from a...

Hi, We are experiencing problems with Unattended instalation of Windows 7. Everything works fine except the <ProfilesDirectory> field which "change the location"/rename of USER and ProgramFiles folders from C:. First we try to move USERS do d:\ drive. < ProfilesDirectory > D:\Userss </...