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Desktop PC with 2 Hard Drives?
I have a PC with Windows XP.
Somehow my uncle has connected another hard drive from my older PC into the current one. The 2nd hard drive contains a few files. I was wondering whether having 2 hard ...
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Installing Windows 8 Upgrade on a new hard disk [duplicate]
I am new to the forums, so sorry if I do anything wrong.
Me and my friend are making a joint computer build. It is my first time, but this guy has built a couple before. I currently have a Dell ...
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Why is the root of my hard drive acting like a picture folder?
I was browsing around and looking at some files in application data that my application saved (specifically screenshots) and I clicked the Show the contents of this folder or whatever it was to ...
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Windows XP not detecting IDE drive
I'm trying to install another hard drive into an old Dell I use as a server machine. I unplugged the main HDD with the OS, and plugged the secondary HDD in that IDE port, because it had linux on it ...
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Defragmentation stops and does not reduce below 52%
In one of my PC a single drive is not defragmenting. When i do it using windows defragmentation option the fragmentation does not reduce below 52%. I tried so many times and facing same problem. Then ...
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Windows XP blue screen of death even in Safe mode
So I was using CCleaner option to save HDD space, and when it "finished", my computer just went off. And now whenever I try to start it it shuts down with the Windows XP blue screen of death, even in ...
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Compaq Presario v6500 won't boot from CD
Trying to install Windows XP on a new HDD in a Compaq Presario 6500 notebook (model no 6501XX, originally shipped with Windows Vista 32bit).
However despite my efforts the computer refuses to boot ...
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Dismounting a disk prior to formatting
Windows XP sp3. Disk 0 = E:, Disk 1 = C:, boots from Disk1 (can switch in BIOS between boot disks). Installed Windows 7 on E: after Windows XP on C:. Want to format E: (wipe it clean) and install XP ...
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C:\System Volume Information is taking up 60 GB
I decided to do some spring cleaning on my laptop, and used a disk analyzer to free up some space on my C drive. I've managed to go from about 13 to about 33 GB of space, but I noticed that I was only ...
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Windows-based external HDD won't show up as any hardware on any OS
I gave my 2 TB Seagate external HDD to a fried who tried attaching it to her MacBook Air. She gave it back saying That nothing happened. So I read up a bit about NTFS and FAT32, etc, and didn't worry ...
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AHCI driver installed but XP32 SP3 won't recognize it - only IDE
I want to get my existing XP32 installation to switch from accessing the primary active SATA drive via AHCI instead of IDE. XP32 was originally installed via IDE.
I downloaded the appropriate ...
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Windows XP installation set up drive letters incorrectly
I recently (last night actually) installed Windows XP Professional SP3 onto my eMachine. When it was recognizing partitions on my hard disk, it set my system drive as drive letter L: (not the ...
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Mint cannot find HDD
Something went wrong with our home computers boot files for Windows XP, thankfully we had all the files backed up but we no longer had the Windows XP installation CD to reinstall Windows XP. So I have ...
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No dual boot screen with XP and Seven
I want to install different version of Windows on a PC.
I installed Windows XP on a first harddrive.
I add a harddrive (HD) on my PC, split it in three part
Since I have only one SATA cable, I ...
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Windows XP, write protect a partition on non-system disk
I need to be able to disable writing to disk, on a drive in Windows XP. I don't see this on Google searches...?
To be more clear, I'm not looking to protect the C:, but rather another HD called F:.
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Lost hard drive space after clone
I'm running XP and just cloned the current hard drive to a new SSD. After cloning my new SSD is exactly the same size as the drive I cloned from (80GB) - not 128GB as it should be.
I assumed there ...
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How to make dual boot by getting free space from Windows XP Primary Drive
I want to go for Dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu currently, Windows already installed in system with partitions as
C: 270GB (Primary Drive);D:10 GB and E:92 GB
I want to get 100 GB from C: ...
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Extract multiple files from USB HDD
I have to extract certain files (only a handful of extensions) from a USB HDD that contains more than 2 million files (in all possible formats and nested in several layers of subfolders).
Can anybody ...
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Unallocated space isn't seen by Windows XP setup
I'm trying to install Windows XP on a TravelMate 7530 laptop. I used WinSetupFromUSB to make an bootable USB installation disk.
The problem occurs when the installation is started. The step where ...
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Windows crash on new Hard Drive that was never formatted
I installed a new hard drive after someone removed the OS from my old drive thinking I would eventually slave the two together to recover my data. Unfortunately the new disk keeps crashing and I ...
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What happens when windows runs out of drive letters? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What if the hard disk is partitioned into more than 26 sections in Windows?
What happens when windows runs out of drive letters?
I searched Google and got no definite ...
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How to move a win xp installation from two partitions of same HDD to two separate discs?
I have a question regarding windows setup:
I have a win xp installed like this:
one disk drive with two partitions
C: - system data, etc.
D: - all user data (user accounts)
now I bought an SSD ...
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How can I protect a mounted drive's data from deletion?
In Windows, a Hard Disk partition can be a lettered drive (D:\, etc.) or it can be mounted on an NTFS folder (eg. C:\Downloads) . Mounting on a folder is an incredibly useful feature but poses a ...
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External HDD does not accept long filenames + other problems [closed]
My external USB harddrive was working fine until today. It doesn't appear to have a model number on it, but it's a 300 GB Toshiba. I'm running Windows XP, not sure which Service Pack.
I'm not sure ...
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Fastest way to nuke HDD and reinstall OS to a laptop?
I have a HP Pavilion dv2000 that I want to sell. But before that, I want to nuke the HDD and reinstall WinXP. The HDD currently has two partitions, one containing the OS (in NTFS) and one called ...
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External drive corrupted or inaccessible in Windows XP, but works on Linux
Today I connected my Western Digital 1 TB HDD to my Windows XP system and discovered that in Explorer, its name was changed from My Passport to Local Disk K which shows 0 KB and is inaccessible.
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One hard drive missing after converting from ide to ahci
I have two 500GB SATA HDD in my desktop running XP. After converting from IDE to AHCI, the HDD I use to store data can no longer be accessed from XP. It shows only the first partition as 150GB, and ...
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Does a hard drive degrade if we always write to the same directory?
I have a very heavy I/O application that is constantly receiving data through the network and writing to a specific directory on the HDD. Then, the application need to load the files from that ...
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Why do we need multiple passes to erase data securely? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is using multiple passes for wiping a disk really necessary?
I read some answers on a question that said that :
After deleting some data from a hard disk - Doing ...
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384 views
Check bad sector location
Doing a checkdisk on one of my partition in Windows XP, it reports that there is 4KB in bad sectors.
How can I know if this bad sector belongs to a file/folder or not, and if yes which file/folder it ...
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BSOD while migrating windows xp from physical drive to vhd in virtualbox [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
BSOD trying to migrate Windows XP from a physical to a virtual machine
this is not a new topic , i know, but i can't seem to add comments there
BSOD trying to migrate ...
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How to copy data (clone) from one partition to another in Windows XP?
I have installed a new hard drive in our PC running Windows XP and I wonder how to transfer the data from the old (small) data partition to the new (large) one.
My question concerns only a data ...
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How to recover the files from a deleted hard-disk partition? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover hard disk data?
I have accidentally deleted one partition of a disk (deleted in disk management).
I have to recover the files from that disk.
I have already ...
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Hard disks power down, even when set to “never” in “Power Options”
In Windows XP:
A few of my hard disk(s) power down occasionally, even when I have set them to "never" turn off, in the Control Panel's "Power Options", and even saved the new power-theme.
What do I ...
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Can I boot, format and install Windows XP without a keyboard?
How can I bootup, format and drive and install XP without a keyboard? Is it possible?
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Windows says “access denied” when copying files from one partition to another
I have a PC with two XP systems on it. I need to recover files from the old broken system to the new one – it's on another partition but on the same hard drive.
When I try open that folder it tells ...
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System Drive Partitioning in Windows XP - Slow C: Drive - Need options to delete and recreate C: (may be bad sector in drive) [closed]
My PC runs with 4 disk partitions with C(30 GB - Active System Drive), D(140 GB), E and F as drive letters.
Now, C drive is showing some problems and it takes too much time to format and install back ...
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Hard Drive checking [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I troubleshoot a slow hard drive?
I have a SeaGate drive and I ran the long and short generic tests and they passed. However, the system still seems slow after a ...
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Hard drive not correctly recognized on a new Windows 7 installation, but works correctly on Windows XP
I'm having problems configuring a hard disk in a brand new, clean Windows 7 installation. System specs:
Hard disk: WD VelociRaptor WD6000HLHX (600 GB, 10000 RPM)
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
BIOS ...
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Recovering licensed windows from bad hard disk
I have a Acer laptop which has Win XP installed. It's hard disk has gone bad. The laptop did not come with a recovery disk but instead had a Windows recovery partition on its hard disk. If I buy a ...
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Do I need a new hard drive [closed]
Do I need a new drive? How can I be sure? The system has been running slow even after defrags I get 15+ second boottimes
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Windows can't read the data on newly connected HDD but testdisk can both show them and recover them
I gave a friend of mine my internal 1.5TB HDD to copy alot of files for me. When he gave it back to me i tried reattaching it to my desktop but Windows couldn't read the HDD or recognize it, so i ...
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hard drive formatting error
I have a disk composed of a single partition. It is formatted in ntfs and has files in it. Linux reads them fine, and is able to write on it too. So the disk is fine, and it doesn't show any smart ...
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New hard drive/OS installation troubles
I recently suffered from a huge hard drive crash. I got a new hard drive for my laptop, an hp6910us (x2 turion, 3 gb ram...)
The HD is a 750GB 5400RPM SATA drive. After trying to install XP from CD, ...
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Monitor HDDs on all servers
Is it possible to monitor all servers and all hdds on all servers in our network from a central location? For example, does a utility or application exist which I can install on my own desktop, which ...
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Log hard drive temperature at regular intervals
One of our old computers is restarting randomly after some hours. I suspect the hard drive overheats. Is there a way to log the hard drive temperature every hour?
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How to shrink system partition on Windows XP? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to clone a Hard Drive to a slightly smaller Hard Drive?
I have a 400 GB NTFS system partition, with only 180GB used. I need to clone this to a SSD. When I used ...
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Removing a spare HDD from Windows XP causes User Profile to reset
I have 5 internal HDD's installed;
HDD 1 IDE partitioned into C (OS) [Pri], I [Logic]
HDD 2 IDE partitioned into F (Programs) Pri, G (Games) [Logic]
HDD 3 SATA partition H (Empty) [Pri]
HDD 4 SATA ...
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Two harddrives, Win7 on one and WinXP on the other
I currently have a PC with a single drive, with WinXP installed. I will soon be adding in another drive to this PC, which had Win7 installed on it (while it was in another machine).
When the PC ...
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How to easily replace the hard drive XP is booting from
I've bought a new SSD, and would like to replace the ageing hard drive that contains XP and C:\Program Files.
What's the easiest way to do this these days? I don't have the physical Windows CD* ...
