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Can't install windows 8.1 - setup stucked

Recently I got a desktop with a hard disk Toshiba 500GB which has windows 7 installed on it. When turning on the computer, windows logo appears and it does not go beyond that. After about 30 minutes ...
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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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Error when resizing partition

I need help with resizing a partition. What I have so far: I currently have a single hard drive with 3 partitions. Partition 1 has 11.4GB. It is my recovery partition and so I don't really want to ...
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how to connect internal hard disk to laptop via usb? [closed]

I have a seagate internal sata hard disk as well as an external sata hard disk.Can i connect the internal hard disk via the external hard disk USB cable ? this is the cable i have with me
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Removing or overriding Windows 7 system image in windows 8

Before upgrading my PC to Windows 8.1, I did a standard Windows 7 backup to a 1TB hard drive. Now that I am in Windows 8.1, I would like to create a new System Image Backup, however I don't think the ...
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How to manage this unallocated space?

That's how my whole drive looks like and the options that I can do with the Unallocated space. I have unallocated that space from the C:/ drive. I want to make it Free and add it to the Free space on ...
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How to deny access from Windows 7 to a Windows 8.1 drive?

I have dual-boot with Windows 7 installed on one partition of my hard drive and Windows 8.1 installed on the other partition. How to deny Windows 7 users access to the Windows 8.1 partition?
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How to encrypt my system (harddisk) on Windows 8.1 pro?

on my previous laptop I ran Windows 7 with TrueCrypt to encrypt my entire harddisk (There was only one in that laptop). The reason I do this is because I create software for multiple clients and that ...
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Duplicated windows 8 recovery partition

Let's me describe what am I trying to do first. I bought a laptop from HP(HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j137tx) with windows 8.1 in it and plan to dual boot it into windows 7 and windows 8.1(for debugging ...
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Copy files in windows?

I have 2 HDDs, One 2TB empty and two 1TB full. I just want to copy everything from the 2 HDDs to the bigger one. I tried using the "normal" windows copy but windows refused to copy some files due to ...
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Two HD's, Truecrypt full disk encryption, formatting and installing windows

like the title says, I have two physical drives, C: and D;. Both are full disk encrypted with Truecrypt. I would like to format C: and install windows, I'm upgrading from windows 7 to windows 8.1 and ...
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