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How can I force an internal hard drive to power on or off when I want?
Obviously there are power management settings which Windows uses to determine when to power a hard drive off, and when to power it back on again. Powered down I assume doesn't mean absolute zero power,...
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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 answer.
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How to change logical partition into primary one?
Currently I have both Windows XP and Windows 7 installed as dual-boot.
I've been wanting to remove my XP installation for a long time (was waiting to buy an external HDD to backup the data) to get ...
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Is it possible to install WinXP side-by-side to existing Win7 and access my data from both?
My dad has Windows 7 64bit installed on his computer. He had, on his previous Windows XP-running computer, an arcane piece of software that does not work on the newer OS, no matter what we try with ...
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How do I access my old XP hard drive from my new Windows 7 system & hard drive?
I have two hard drives, a new one with Windows 7 and an old one with Windows XP. I booted the new system with Windows 7, which is installed on the new C hard drive. I can see my old Windows XP hard ...
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How do I change the partition that Windows 7 boots from (the "system" partition)?
(I've searched around but most cases deal with having two hard drives, not two partitions on one hard drive.)
My 1TB hard drive has two partitions: one for Windows XP and one for Windows 7. The ...
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Windows 7 turns hard drives with data to hard drives with unallocated space after they are used with XP/Vista
This question was asked by a user on Microsoft Answers website las year, but it had no answers so far (unsurprisingly). I am facing the exact same issue.
Here are the steps to reproduce this problem ...
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Hard Disk marked as Unallocated on Windows 7
I had an XP System and I installed Windows 7 on another Hard Disk so now I have a dual boot. However, when I boot windows 7, the hard disk where XP is installed does not always show up.
This started ...
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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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3 OS computer, Hard Drives Corrupted, Any way to save the data?
I have a computer. Its a pretty amazing computer. I built it myself. It has 3 500gb hard drives in it, all with different OS's: XP, Vista, and 7.
Some how, it seems ALL 3 have gotten corrupted. one ...
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Will Windows XP work on a Hybrid Hard Drive?
I'm looking into getting the Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard drive, and I'm planning on dual booting between Windows 7 and Windows XP. I know 7 and Vista have native support for taking advantage of ...
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My hard disc makes a clicking noise while I'm working, I sent it to a service which found nothing
He said that there was no problem with the hdd. He checked it out with crystalnfo and it worked. But before I took it there,the pc wasn't turning on. He said that there was a problem with the system ...
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Moving Hard Drive between PCs
I know there are duplicate threads with similar questions, but none hit the mark I needed, including the answers on them.
My question is as follows;
I have an oldish laptop that ran Windows XP. The ...
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dual boot windows 7 with xp hard drive compatibility mode
I need to get a Compaq 620 laptop with Windows 7 to dual boot with Windows xp
I tried running the Windows XP setup CD, but soon after I get a BSOD error
This page says that I need to change the hard ...
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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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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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