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I faced a very unexpected issue yesterday and just thought of sharing it thru this forum and in case any one has any comments / inputs or any past similar observation. I have 2 HDDs 80 GB each. 1st has XP, all programs and my general data. The other is not in active use, just as additional...

Last sunday,i losted complete data from my hard drive,because of Dell Fools,i read thrice that only C Drive will be formatted,but it erased my whole drive,what i was trying to do was restoring the Factory Settings and i was left with 1 recovery partition,750MB and 1 C drive partition with 698...

Hey guys I have a laptop with a 320 gb hdd with 4 primary partitions. Now I want to convert one of the primary partition to logical. i don't want to lose the data on this partition as it contains all my music collection. I have seen some partition software on internet which claim to do this...

Now that i have bought G6 2005ax I wish to make a partition for installing windows 8 in my laptop when it arrives but I am scarred to do anything with the partition because I don't want to delete HP Recovery Manager. I am even not able to take a backup of the recovery manager because I don't...

My envy 15 had windows 7 64 bit home premium already installed on it. It had already 4 primary partitions, system, recovery, boot and hp tools. I deleted the hp tools partition and shrinked the size of the system partition and installed back track 5 on the new primary partition but by mistake i...

When my HDD was first partitioned and formatted, I kept my C drive 45GB. Now I want to add some space to C partition from other partition and make it 80GB. 1. I don't have any external backup HDD 2. I can backup only one partition among D,E,F 3. There is nothing valuable in C drive rather...

i just installed Windows7 on logical partition? What is active partition? How to make partition active and viceversa ? Is it ok to install on logical partition? My secondary Internal HDD is shown as external?why?

i tried to partition my laptop harddisk using paragon partition manager...but i got the message already four partitions are there so unable to create more partition...is there any ways to create more than four partitions....

I had installed Win XP on my HDD's 4th partition... I had heard from friends that installing Win 7 along with XP on other partition allows you to have a dual boot config.... But that's not so. Is there any way to have a dual boot config XP sp3 x86 installed on F: drive:-x 7 ultimate x64...

I have had made two partitions of one of my 2 TB HDD , one 1000 GB , another 862 GB . They are almos filled up , and i gelt it would have been better to have a single partition instead of two. Can i somehow merge the two without loosing current data ? There is too much of data and i cannot...

Hi, I have 2 years old laptop, acer 4530, yesterday its 160GB stock hard disk finally died (was giving sign from long), I replaced with 500GB WD500BPVT and issues started.. Now original hdd is useless, but somehow I was able to make its image so I have all my data and its not issue... but...

How to install gentoo linux 12.1 (x86_64) version in a separate partition in the Hard Disk of my system?

i have windows 7 . now i have only c and d drive and d is only used for recovery. i want to make some partition wichout formatting or reinstalling. i have tried the disk management of win 7. but it is unabale to solve my problem.

2nd partition of my 500gb seagate hdd is misbehaving, so i am interested in buying a hdd for backup. I checked at flipkart and i have not found seagate freeagent goflex with usb 3 but WD comes with usb3. wd prices are a little high like Rs.300 than seagate. so what is the verdict? WD or...

i am using hp dv6 7012tx..i have problm regading parttion of my hard drive..it has only 2 partition primary of 583gb and recovery of 20 gb...as hp havent provided copy of win 7 HP along...plz help me out...i have tried partition using disk management...

Hi friends, i have been scratching my head for quite some time over this. Can some one explain to me what is creating partition in windows and what is its use? please explain to me in layman's term.

Guys, i am in need of a free but still fully functional bootable partition manager, which supports all Windows file system, and preferably also supports Linux formats likes ext3, ext4 etc. Also, it should allow all features like merging, deleting, creating new partition or resizing the present...

Hello! I've bought a ASUS K53E BBR7 notebook. The first time I booted into Windows, I was prompted to make recovery DVDs. The program used is 'AI Recovery Burner' (I'm not sure if it is ASUS' product). My notebook has a recovery partition. I don't want the recovery partition taking up...

i have a WD my book 2tb external HD.last night i was deleting a huge number of files (18 GB that i have extracted from window7 disk).i came up a error about some corrupted files.the external HD froze and all drives vanished from the explorer. now today after plugging the HD ,two drives were...

I just bought a new motherboard which lacks any kind of IDE drive support. so my current IDE drive [with win XP installed] is useless now. i am currently using 2 HDDs, 40GB IDE and 1TB WD green SATA drive partitions:: HDD1 [IDE] C: 20GB [free 500mb] D:18GB [free 0GB] HDD2...