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How to shrink Windows 7 boot partition with unmovable files
I have just bought an HP laptop with Windows 7 (64 bit). It has a 500 GB HDD with three partitions: a small hidden system partition, a 12 GiB HP recovery partition, and a 450 GiB C:...
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16 GB USB flash drive capacity down to 938 MB
After writing the FreeNAS IMG to a 16 GB USB flash drive, I can now only use 938 MB. I used the Win32 Disk Imager tool to write the IMG to the device. Then later, when I inserted the the USB drive ...
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Why can't I delete all partitions on a flash drive in Windows 7?
Recently I purchased an ADATA C802 8GB flash drive. Since the drive was new I decided to run some of the HD Tune Pro (v4.50) performance tests on it, mostly just for the heck of it.
To avoid ...
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Windows detects GPT disk as MBR in EFI boot
This disk is OCZ VERTEX 128GB SSD. It is formatted as GPT from OSX. The disk layout is,
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: ...
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VirtualBox: using physical partition as virtual drive [duplicate]
Background: I am using VirtualBox installed on Windows 7. From within VirtualBox I am using Xubuntu as a virtual OS. The reason I chose this approach is so that I don't have to keep turning off ...
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"Enable file and folder compression" option when creating a new partition in Windows 7
It's my first time creating a separate partition (on Windows 7) to store all my data and I'm using the Disk Management tool, and I've been presented with the choice of whether to enable file and ...
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What is the recommended boot partition size for Windows 7?
I started using one big partition for everything and separating data out with folders when I got my current computer years ago. I'm preparing to upgrade my system from Windows XP to Windows 7, and I ...
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Why is windows not able to create a system partition?
I'm reinstalling Windows 7 64 bit, and I encountered an issue I've never seen before. I have a legit copy of Win 64 Professional, and I've installed it probably a half dozen times on this machine in ...
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Clone a Windows Installation to a 3TB Hard Drive; MBR to GPT
I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installed on my desktop. Unfortunately for me and my wallet my hard drive is failing. I have purchased a 3TB hard drive as a replacement for my current 2TB drive....
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Windows Disk Management Not Allow 'Delete Volume' and 'Extend Volume'
I am trying to delete my existing windows partition using disk management, when I am right clicked on the selected partition the 'Delete Volume' and 'Extend Volume' options are grayed out ( doesn't ...
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Can I delete the 'EFI System Partition' without harming other data on the drive?
I have three external HDDs in a USB enclosure. After a recent upgrade to Windows 7, during which these three drives were actually installed inside the PC tower, two of the three drives now have a ...
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Avoiding the pesky Windows 7 System Reserved Partition
I want to avoid the 100 MB "System reserved" partition which gets created when installing Windows 7 or Windows 8 on a blank hard drive. What is the easiest way do do this?
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Can I fix error 0xc0000225 without reinstalling Windows?
I have a system which dual-boots Gentoo Linux and Windows 7 using GRUB2. The computer has four drives, and Windows is installed on the third (last) partition of drive #2. The drive layout looks like ...
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Does or will exFAT support symlinks?
I've just acquired a brand new laptop. Did split my ssd in 3 partitions, one for win7, one for macOSX and one shared data partition. I chose exFAT for this partition, but i did not find how to create ...
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Online, "Smart" Partition Manager with Full Ext4 Support?
Is there any partition manager for Windows that can manage (resize, move, etc.) ext4 partitions?
Caveats:
Resize must be smart when resizing from the beginning of the partition.
Many partition ...
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