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Moving Windows 7 to an SSD
I've done some research and the most common answer seems to be to just reinstall Windows, but I really want to avoid that.
I'm attempting to move my Win7 install, including applications, documents, ...
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Single drive to RAID 1, RAID 1 to single drive, existing drive to new RAID 1 array [closed]
Lets imagine three situations:
1)You have two hard drives in your PC. Drive A contains Windows installation and other files. Drive B is an empty drive. Your Motherboard supports RAID 1(additionally 0 ...
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How to un-partition a drive on windows 7
I bought this laptop used from a friend. The laptop has 500gb of storage; however, the drive is partioned. The C: drive has an allocated space of 50gb whereas the partition has 396gb allocated to it. ...
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How do I changes a USB drive letter without the Disk Management snap-in
I've got a user who wants to be able change the dive letter a USB drive is being assigned. Naturally, I'd use the Disk Management snap-in. However, my user doesn't have sufficient privileges to run it ...
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Detecting/diagnosing drive “pauses”. Any good tools out there?
Tonight, while working away on my PC, it started temporarily freezing. First, I'd hear a louder-than-usual click from the hard drive bay. Then, nothing would seem out of the ordinary until I actually ...
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What could be wrong with my CD drive and how do you fix it?
My CD drive hasnt worked in about 8 months. I was burning CDs in a hurry and pulled it out because it was taking too long (probably an average amount of time). Im running a laptop (Toshiba Satellite ...
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How do I connect NTFS Seagate External Drive to Airport Extreme via a USB splitter?
I recently bought an Airport Extreme v. 7.6 and would like to connect two external hard drives via a USB splitter. One is a Western Digital Mac formatted drive and one is a Seagate 1 TB FreeAgent ...
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did not find any hard disk
I just bought a laptop. It came with Windows Vista Home. I wasn't that happy with the performance so I decided to downgrade to XP. I used a USB to USB cable and formated the hard drive.
I booted from ...
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How to increase VirtualBox virtual drive actual size?
I have selected "dynamically allocated" mode upon creating virtual drive. I was thinking it will grow automatically up to maximum size. But it constantly has "actual size" of 4Gb and does not growing ...
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Have optical drive connectors changed in the last year?
In early 2010 my motherboard freaked out, and I was able to drop in a new board and connect my two DVD drives that were initially bought in 2005.
Tonight my new components arrived to build my next ...
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Tool to mount a zip/rar/* archive as a Win drive and be able to read/write as a normal device?
I'm looking for some tool that, given a zip/rar/tar/* archive file, mounts it as a new Windows drive. Some tools are WinMount or WinArchive, but I need one that allows me to write/create/delete files ...
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Blue screen error in Windows 7
I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and keep getting a blue screen error. I think it has something to do with my hard drive, but I'm not sure if it is failing or not.
Here is the .dmp debug:
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How to provide users with isolated drive letters in Windows 2008 R2 (Terminal Server)
I need to be able to host several RDP sessions on a Terminal Server, where users of group A see a drive X: mapped to a given folder of the server and another group B see the same drive letter X: ...
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Showing memory usage bar under drive icon LEFT in Explorer
So it is one nice utility I had in my WinXP that shows memory usage bar under the drive icon LEFT in Explorer:
Vista drive icon shows it like this:
It calls Vista Drive Icon. This also shows "!" ...
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After updating Fedora, my drives are switched between /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
I have two hard drives:
internal (SATA)
external (USB).
Before updating Linux (Fedora), the internal drive was in /dev/sda and the external drive in /dev/sdb. Now, after updating, those two are ...
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Is it possible to mount a volume to a custom drive prefix, e.g. “myDrive:\”?
Am I just a dreamer, or does something like this exist?
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How can I make logical drive/folder appear as virtual removable drive in Windows 8?
I want to test the "Windows to go" feature of Windows 8.
But I have no 16 GB drive.
How can I make logical drive/folder appear as virtual removable drive?
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Why does my drive show as 180GB used, but copies only 40GB?
My computer crashed, so I removed the drive (with Windows XP Professional 32-Bit) and put this drive in another computer running Windows 7 64-bit.
Booting with Windows 7, when going to My Computer ...
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How to remove permanent map of a network drive on OS X Lion?
Some time ago I mapped a network drive on my Snow Leopard Mac, which was upgraded to Lion.
The network drive is not active any more and I receive popups all the time with the error:
There was a ...
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Boot computer without ubuntu external drive
I installed ubuntu dual boot on an external drive, now I can only boot using the hard drive. Even in my boot says it first searches for my usual boot location, but it still gives me an error while ...
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My drive says “drive corrupt and unreadable”. How can I fix it?
My drive says "drive corrupt and unreadable" in Windows. In Linux it's not getting detected at all. I cannot access my drive. It has lots of important data on it.
Is there some way to fix this? when ...
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Removable drive permissions
İ have 1 TB external HDD. Using it on both: office and home PC. Both are working with Windows 7. Now the problem is, to open contents of drive every time i need to change permissions (especially ...
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What happens when an SSD wears out?
Since SSDs are still fairly new, there isn't a history of posts saying "I reached my writes limit on 10% of my SSD... – and here is what happened (I.e. I lost 3 directories of work files. The entire ...
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What's the difference between a disk, and a drive?
Would this make the term 'disk drive' a slight misnomer?
Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term 'volatile' memory, but apprently 'hard disk drives' are also RAM and not ROM.... any ...
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Mount a remote Linux hard drive as another Windows 7 partition during boot?
I would like to mount a hard drive on a remote computer (running on CentOS 6) as a Windows drive so that I can install programs to that drive. The primary hard drive for my Windows machine (which is ...
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Computer won't boot with external USB drive plugged in
I have a old computer which is way past its prime time.
It is still running however, so I installed Server 2003 to setup a file server at home.
Problem is, because it's so old, I can't extend the ...
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Windows: Give access to a drive only for given user(s)?
Using Windows Vista. What is the correct and best way to limit access to an entire drive (not the C windows drive) for all users except certain specified users (adhering to principle of least ...
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Windows: Prevent access to a drive for a user?
Using Windows Vista. What is the correct and best way to prevent access to an entire drive (not the C windows drive) for a particular user? Probably I prefer an NTFS solution rather than hiding ...
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Is there a way to make a USB 3.0 flash drive bootable to Windows?
My flash drive recently broke and Kingston sent me a replacement which is USB 3.0.
Tried making it bootable but it isn't recognized.
Anyone know how to fix this?
Im guessing you need to include the ...
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Can i boot my laptop with external dvd writer?
My Laptop DVD writer is not reading drives any more, so I thought rather than buying a new internal, I should get new external writer.
The only thing I will be using that is to boot the Laptop or PC ...
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Can I optimize Explorer.exe for a slow drive?
Is it possible to give a hint to Explorer.exe that it's dealing with slow drive, for example, something like a network share? Explorer should go easy with it, i.e. not constantly looking up ...
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Get List of Hard Drive Letter and Types From Registry
I have several Local Hard Drives such as C:, D:, F: and so on. Also several CD rom Drives.
I want to know where windows store these data (Drive Letters and Drive Types).
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How can I connect USB devices over a network
I'm looking for a free solution to connect USB devices over a network on Windows.
i.e. I want to be able to connect a device to one machine and have another machine believe the device connected ...
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My Passport Cannot Be Accessed As A Networked Drive
I purchased a 1TB WD My Passport drive. At first it wouldn't install plugged into a USB hub and then I realized the only USB 2.0 ports I have are on the front of my Dell. Running Windows 7 Home I ...
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Problems mapping network drive on Server 2003
I have 3 subnets:
a. class b
b. class b
c. class c
When I try to connect to an admin share on a 2003 server on a domain on subnet b from c I can't. The weird thing is I can connect to other ...
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Searching for “Flash drive mounting” software
I am working on Windows 7 Ultimate.
I have an ISO file and need write access to it. On virtual daemon I only can simulate CD-ROM drives without write access. Is there any mounting software that can ...
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Problem with DVD Drive - detects certain disks but not others
I have a Sony DVD RW DRU-V200S ATA Device; certain disks work fine with it, but it will refuse to run others.
I've done a couple of tests with different disks. It seems to work with audio CDs and old ...
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What is up with my CD-Rom drive on XP?
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I think this is a specific problem that is very strange. This is my first time on the forum, so I hope I am writing things correctly. I have a computer I built myself and here are the specs:
ASUS ...
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Boot from multiple USB drives
I want to setup a bootable USB drive for Windows7. As I read from tutorials everywhere, I need at least a 4GB drive to store the setup files. The problem is I don't have a single 4GB drive. I have two ...
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Remove a context menu item on OS X
I had Drive Genius installed some time ago and I still have an option in the context menu (Drive Genius Secure Erase) that came as a feature with that software. Unfortunately, though I have ...
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How does a computer know which CD/DVDs to boot from?
What actually happens when a user reboots his or her system with an OS disk (or other bootable disk) in the CD/DVD drive?
For example, when I put in my OS installation CD and start the computer up, ...
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Merge drive c: and d: whilst drive D: has program files
I have two partitions on my laptop and would like to merge drive D: to C: but, drive D: has program files in it and drive C: has the OS. I am running out of space on drive C: and would eventually like ...
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why did my USB thumb drive suddenly stop working in multiple computers?
Did not drop it or cause any trama to the device. It was working fine and then all of a sudden, the device is not recognized. I tried it in another computer too. It seems totally dead. Any way to ...
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Boot drive is incorrect one [closed]
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Two instances of Windows Vista on boot up after failed clean install
I have several hard drives installed. I normally use c: as my boot drive and a much larger drive ...
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Virtual join-directory on Windows
Problem:
Say I have a video spanned over 2 files (vid001.avi & vid002.avi) and each file is on a seperate CD/DVD. If the 2 files are in the same directory my player will automatically play the ...
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Seagate barracuda 2TB drive not loading/freezing system
A day ago, the drive would fail to copy certain files and had thought that this was a problem of the OS; later however, the system would only recognize the drive at certain times and so had to ...
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DVD Drive Issue
I got this problem on my laptop's DVD drive. I am using a VAIO laptop. I haven't use this laptop for months coz I have been to other states wherein I use desktop computers. I just arrived home after 2 ...
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CD/DVD Drive Not Working [closed]
I got this problem on my laptop's CD/DVD drive. Well, actually, i tried inserting CDs and DVDs on it but I don't know what's the problem for I tried so many CDs and DVDs but none of them worked. Can ...
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How to power a 3.5in drive from a laptop?
I have an Asus S96S and the screen went bad. So i want to make it a desktop.
I want to add a nice big hard disk thats relativley cheap. I don't want to use external power.
So basic question is, where ...
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Map entire network server to drive?
I have a samba server with about 10 different shares on it. I know you can map one of these shares to a drive, but could I just map the entire network server (showing each share) to a drive?
