system drive

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...

Good morning, my PC has two internal hard drives. One with Ubuntu installed and the other one with Win7 x64. After problems on Win OS, I decided to re-install it but, after re-booting from installation disc, it freezed, so I decided to re-install from inside Windows. That compelled me to work...

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...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

Hey guys, I hate to ask a question right on first post but this is rather an frustrating issue. Out of a sudden on a random reboot one day after installing new video card drivers for my ATi HD4830 card, it went "Operating System Not Found" or something similar to that. So I thought, weird...

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...

Hi. Can anyone help me with my problem? Here it is: first I setup a multi boot using XP and Win7 I installed XP first then Win7. It all works perfectly. (with a boot menu showing up during startup ie. Previous version of Windows & Windows 7 as choices) Windows XP is on my C:/ drive and...

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...