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How to upgrade Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping data in D and E drives?
I downloaded a Windows 8.1 .iso file and made a virtual drive using Virtual CloneDrive and mounted it. I want to upgrade my Windows 7 Ultimate to Windows 8.1 while keeping the data in D and E ...
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Share a program between 2 or more OS in one machine?
I was wondering if it is possible somehow to share or install a program in a common drive shared between 2 or more OS in one machine with dual (or more) boot?
For example, I have Windows 7, and ...
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Merge USB partitions into single partition on Windows 8.1
I was trying to install Ubuntu in dual mode on my PC, but it failed and it divided my USB drive into three partitions whilst making USB a bootable device.
Now I want to merge these USB partitions ...
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Secondary partition became primary
I was using Windows 10 some time ago and decided to go back to 8.1 by wiping out my main partition and installing 8.1 over it. Since I wanted to backup a lot of stuff, I made a secondary NTFS ...
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How create and format a new partition
I wiped my laptop and I am repartitioning its 1TB hard disk. I created four primary partitions without problems. But I cannot create a fift primary partition. When I try I get a message stating: disk ...
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How to extend C Drive in windows 8.1
I'm using Windows 8.1. It is installed on the C: drive.
The problem is that the drive is full. I have 200 GB of unallocated space, but I don't know how to merge it with the C: drive.
I tried to ...
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how to hide a partition with active VHD? [duplicate]
i'm trying to create a partition where it'd store an image of the OS with all the necessary software installed(i still need to find out how to do it) and an active VHD attached
something like this
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partition drive not appearing in explorer
I originally had a 2 terabyte hard drive partitioned as a 256GB OSX partition, and a 1600~ Dynamic disc (shows up as two blocks on disc management)
After i went on disc utility to delete my ...
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My windows 8.1 shows only C:
I have recently installed Windows 8.1, I was previously running 8.0. I had to convert to GPT while installing and had to format my disk. While installing I have created 6 partitions of which I can ...
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Shrinking/Extending partitions in Windows 8.1
I have a 4TB HDD and it was partitioned like
Partition 1
Unallocated 503GB
Unallocated 4GB
Partition 2
and I decided to extend second partition with these unallocated ones, BUT, such a problem ...
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Mystery partitions with dynamic disk RAID 1
I have mystery hidden partitions at the beginning and end of the hard drives in my Windows RAID 1 volume and I am trying to find out what their purpose is.
Here is the scenario -
Before installing ...
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Can I reduce the free space on my windows 8 Restore partition?
I recently did a hard drive clone from the out-of-the-box HDD of my new laptop to a smaller SSD. The cloning software (Acronis True Image HD) handled the resizing of the primary partition to make it ...
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I can't add an unallocated partition to my primary partition
I have a 40.00 GB sized unallocated partition and is ticking me off because I can't extend my primary (C:) Partition. I checked on C: context menu and it will not let me extend it. I do know that the ...
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Can't shrink to available partition volume in Windows [duplicate]
I have 1TB HDD with 800GB free space plus a typical System Reserved partition.
I removed system files before shrinking in Disk Management since suggested shrinking size was no more than 100GB
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Unable to shink C: Partion [duplicate]
I have been trying to shrink my C: drive partion but currently to no avail. I am unsure about using 3rd party software to do it (such as gParted or EaseUS Partition Master Free). So I have a 1TB ...
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