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I would like to install on disk 1. Disk 1 is emtpy, disk 0 has 3TB ExFat partition, disk 3 is the Windows installer. If I try to install Windows, it has error 0x80300024. BIOS boot order has Disk 1 on top. I have rebuilt the partition table of both disks. If I have disk 0 be empty, the it...

I know that as long as the system partition and boot partition are on the same drive, I can use a clone-tool to migrate Windows 11 to another hard drive with simple clicks. As I had some problems with Windows 11 (c-disk), I installed another version of Windows 11 on another drive (d-disk). It...

hi everyone need help to create a new windows 10 reserve partition as problems with windows booting up any help would be greatly appreciated froppers

I have had an SSD failing on me so I opted to upgrade to win10 also if I was going to lose my OS (I couldn't clove the drive). I have made a win10 installation on a different HHD and apparently (I didn't understand it then) the boot manager was still in the old SSD for replacement drive...

I have an xp machine with a new install on a 1T drive. Now I think I should have had a system partition so's I have the option of reformatting and installing another OS on there - without destroying all my data. Win10 has a shrink partition ability that leaves used portions of a drive...

Initial OS Windows XP. 250Gb HDD, 1 Partition C:. 4/2014 upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium. Still using single partition 250Gb C:. A year ago experienced various hangups and performance issues. Ran SeaTools by Seagate. Had HDD failures on long tests. Installed Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250Gb using...

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Hi everyone, I know for Windows, after XP, when you do an install, Windows creates two separate partitions. One being the System Parition (Housing all of the boot files, boot sector and it's code, and all sorts of decryption coding and the like) and it also creates the Boot Partition (housing...

Hey guys, My windows had crashed pretty bad and since it was cluttered anyway, I decided to make a clean start. since I just bought a new harddrive it seemed like the perfect moment anyway. So I installed Windows 7 to the new harddrive, leaving the old one with windows and everything, and after...

About a month ago my dell m6700 precision workstation got an error when I turned it on which said: "Unable to find operating system." This happened when I restarted the laptop. I still do not know what caused it to do it but for the last month I have been trying to fix it. In the end I couldn't...

Well, I've been working on this for a couple of days now, and I've researched this issue like crazy, but nothing I've found covers my situation, so I'm looking for some advanced help, please. I'm trying to perform a clean (custom) install of Windows 7 Pro 64-bit from the original retail DVD...

Whenever I get and install hotfixes/patches for Windows 7 a copy of them is stored somewhere on the system partition for backup/uninstall purposes. Where (in which directory) are they put in detail? How can I uninstall them? MS has just releases a patch to cleanup them through DIsk Cleanup...

Since Microsoft is removing the Backup utility from Windows 8.1, I have been exploring alternatives to that very useful utility. I know there are third party utilities that will work fine, but I would rather stay with a native version, if possible. It seems the utility WBADMIN is capable of...

Currently on my (new) computer there is only a (pre-)installed windows 8 In detail there is a 300 MB big active system partition (I guess with the Win8 boot manager). and a 200GB parition with Windows 8 Now I want to create a new partition (with 50 GB) and install Windows 7 on it. Is the...

Hi helpers, It's a very strange situation I am stuck on since yesterday. When I turned on my laptop yesterday, that windows did not load properly and came up with Blue Screen of death with this 'Unmountable Boot Volume' error. After tons of research online, I found so many different tricks to...

When I go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools> Computer Management>Storage then Disk Management I see this: Link Removed So my question is there a way to combine the volume that says "Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)" and "(C:) Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dumps, Primary...

Hi, So my dad got a "trusted" co-worker who is a computer guy to build our home computer for us while I was away (for a price). For the most part he has been helpful. However, he seems to have fractured the HD into some peculiar partitions arranged as follows: DISK 0: 465GB (mostly empty)...

Is it possible to delete the system partition (held Windows XP - no longer needed)? I have Windows 7 on the second partition, and don't really want to do a reinstall. It's partition is set as "C:" when Win7 is booted. Any way to make the second partition the system partition, then delete the...

Hello guys,'ve looked for everything that google and not found my solution. Is giving the following error when trying to install windows 7 in HD: "setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition" I've tried to do some procedures, but also can not create...

Hi all. I am having a problem with installing Windows 7 on my netbook (Novero Solana). I did a clean install (wiped out Windows 8) and when using a USB boot install of Windows 7, I encountered the following error (Disk 0 Unallocated Space): "Windows 7 install Error "Setup was unable to use...