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Hi all. This is probably a newbie type question, but as much as I've worked with computers over the years, I've just never done this. Plus I'm wondering if Windows 7 has capabilities that might make this easier. I recently home-built a new computer for my parents (Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM...

Ok I find this to be a pretty weird problem. I have w7 RC 64bit installed successfully. My primary drive is first on the boot list of hdds and my current boot order is removable, cd-rom, hard drive and I have other boot methods disabled (had to because it was trying to do a network boot before)...

here are my specs; C2Duo 3.0Ghz Wolfdale, EVGA 750i SLI FTW, 4GB DDR2 Crucial Balistix, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black FALS HDD, 2x 500GB Seagate SATA2 HDD, 1x LG DVD SATA Drive, Corsair HX1000 PSU, 2x EVGA GTX275 in SLI., Case HAF932. Keyboard (G15) and mouse (G9) are USB from Logitech I installed...

Hello guys, Im writing here because this is my last hope , i really pray that you can help me!! Something like 2 months ago i started having problems with Vista...my PC is brand new and haven't had any problem , but then all of a sudden things started going wrong: My operating system ( Vista...

I am using a old motherboard which doesnt have a native SATA driver on the chipset (I think). When I installed WinXP on this computer I had to either use the press F2 (or was it F7) or something when installation, and have the driver on a floppy driver. Thats why I have a old 20 GB PATA disk...

I've been using Windows 7 for a while now but all the sudden I'm having an issue with one of my Hard Drives. I have a 320gig SATA as my primary system drive, a 500gig SATA data drive (this one is set to 'dynamic') and then an 120gig ATA drive (That I currently have no data on yet.) For a...

Hi, I am dual booting with XP and Win7, have both on 1 drive in 2 separate partitions. After installing Win7 one of my hard drives turned into a system disk (not the drive my OS's are installed on) and I cannot access it within Win7 only in XP. I have 6 internal hard drives and 6 external, the...

I did a clean install of W7 on a completely separate drive with my XP system drives disconnected. Can I modify the boot.ini on my XP system to implement a dual boot??????? What do I have to do on the W7 drive??? thx

Ok I need major help on this! I'm currently on Vista Ultimate. If I go to Administrative Tools and select Computer Management and select "Disk Management" I can see my drives. PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!! I have the drives like this: DISK_0 [150GB] "MAIN BACKUP (D:)" - 150GB NTFS [Active...

Every time I boot up my PC it tells me invalid system disk, please insert system disk and try again. I always have to use the windows 7 DVD to repair my OS. Does any one know the cause of this?

I am having a really difficult time "renaming" or "labeling" hard disk drives (ide) and (sata) and (usb) When I right click the drive and choose rename, it does nothing after I type the new name in, I also have tried to go into Disk Management to label them, same efffect, does nothing. (also...

Okay, read through many dual boot threads here but none seem to be quite like my problem. My system drive failed in a media center PC I have built. I used my XP MCE 2005 install CD to create a new system drive, on a 1TB disc which had formerly been reserved for movies only. There was still...

First off: I have ONE hard drive to work with here (not counting the fact that I'm on another computer to type this up) I can partition/format that hard drive ANY way required. The hard drive is currently partitioned as such: 40~GB NTFS (partition 1, empty), 7GB NTFS (.isos contained here)...

Hi, I have a computer with two physical sata drives on one of which is a 32 bit version of XP. I had Vista on the second untill this past weekend when I pulled it to install the new Windows 7 beta 64 bits. Before installing I used Partition Magic to re-partition and format. All went well with...

Yesterday I finally managed to upgrade from XP to Vista Ultimate after a few problems I encountered along the way. Today I decided to uninstall some programs that I no longer needed. So I first started uninstalling Corel Paint Shop Pro X. Halfway through the uninstallation process I got the BSOD...