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How should I format disk for a future Windows 7 install?
Just bought a 1Tb drive, to go alongside my 60Gb, 250Gb, and 1Tb drive collection. Eventually I'll get a new machine and install Windows 7 (currently XP). So how should I format the new drive, ...
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Windows 7 to Windows XP Network Drive
I had my Windows 7 computer connected to a Windows XP network drive before, but it is no longer working for some reason.
My Windows 7 machine can see the drive within the homegroup, but every attempt ...
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Get hardware information from old HDD with Windows installed on it
Recently, I had store cleaning at my work and I found a quite old 40gb IBM HDD.
I was wondering what hardware was installed with it, i.e what CPU, mobo, PCI/ISA cards.
It has Windows XP installed on ...
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Drive Mappings Erratically appearing/disappearing - Windows Ent Domain
We are having a very strange issue!
Windows 2003/2008 Domain (2003 DCs / 2008 File Servers)
Mixed Endpoint Environment - Win XP SP3 / Win7 Ent
1300 Users over several sites within a single domain
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Windows 7 doesn't boot when second hard disk is connected
I have two hard disks, one SATA and another IDE.
I have windows XP and 7 on the SATA one, and Ubuntu on the IDE. Both of them boot and work, the bios recognizes them.
After I installed Windows 7, ...
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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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Incorrect disk size reported for internal drive after attempting to boot from external drive
I wanted to run something off of my old Windows XP install, so I plugged it in as an external hard drive and attempted to boot from it. The machine blue screened on me. (I now know this is a bad idea)....
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Windows Installation Errors
Since yesterday I have been trying to install Windows on a Laptop I have. It used to have it, but for some reason when I booted up, it wouldn't boot, and it wasn't recognizing the hard drive.
I ...
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Do you need special permissions to access an old internal HDD from another computer?
I was trying to copy files from a friend's damaged laptop. The hard drive still works, so I simply put the hard drive into a 2.5mm enclosure and connected it to my laptop via USB. The drivers ...
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How to boot into Windows 7 after installing Windows XP on the same HDD?
I installed Windows XP in an unallocated space of a HDD that already had Windows 7 installed on. Installation completed, Windows XP boots, but Windows 7 won't. From the moment I press the power button ...
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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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How to initialize a bootable disk and keep it bootable?
I have a bootable hard disk from a dead Windows XP computer. I want to see what is in it and if I should get a replacement mother board for it. I hooked it up as a USB disk but it disk doesn't show up ...
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Booting an old XP HDD into a new computer
I am building a new PC and want to have my old PCs HDD in it as a second unit and boot to it whenever needed. I've heard that the odds of it actually booting are very low. But some say it can be ...
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Why is my USB drive treated as an internal hard disk drive?
I have a 8 GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I just purchased a few weeks ago. I use two systems, viz Windows XP and Windows 7 Professional. When I connect my drive to Windows 7, it'...
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Barbarism: WinXP Drive Transplanted to Win7 Hardware
I am contemplating doing something barbaric.
A computer, with obsolete / discontinued software that requires a Windows XP 32 bit environment, lost it motherboard. As a short term fix a Windows 7 64 ...
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