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About : New Dell Inspiron 15 I recently purchase new 'Dell Inspiron 15' laptop n the original 'Windows 7 Home Premium' came pre-installed with it. I want to ask some queries related to it :- 1. There is no partition in HDD as whole 320 GB is in C: drive , is it necessary to partition d...

Guys.. This is the 1st time I am installing SUSE and I wanted to clear some of my doubts: I have the following computer specs: Core i3 2 GB RAM 320 GB HDD ATI Mobility Radeon 4330 1. Is creating a swap partition necessary while installing Suse 11.2? 2. Will I be able to install...

Since yesterday I am facing a typical problem. When I De-frag my C: or D: partition I am getting the following error after De-fragmentation is finished. De-fragmentation is complete for: (C:) Some files on this volume could not be De-fragmented. Please check the defragmentation report for the...

I was downloading stuff off torrents and wanted to resize a partition from 90GB to 100GB.I used Paragon Partition Manager to do so and during the operation it restarted and my pc wasn't booting after that.I lost all the data from that partition (86.4GB)! I used my ubuntu live CD and fixed the...

Multi Partition a USB Flash Drive in Windows Ever wondered how to set up more than one partition on a using Windows XP? In the following tutorial, I'll show you how to do just that. But first, let me explain how it works. By default, a USB flash drive is detected by Windows XP/Vista as...

I was using Vista on my primary partition C:\ and hv installed Windows 7 RC today on a second partition G:\ Can any1 tell me how can I Format C:\ through Windows 7, as it not allowing so (c:\ being a system partition) Due to unknown reason, I could not boot through Windows 7, so couldn't...

*www.paragon-software.com/free/giveaway.html#download The program is considered to be one of the better partition managers out there, and usually retails for $79.95. It features the ability to enlarge NTFS partitions without rebooting Windows, support for Apple BootCamp, a USB recovery...

This is the status of my partition table on my 250GB HDD There were 2 logical partitions (62 gb and 13.1gb) which I deleted. I want to now create partitions of 50GB and 25GB. But as I had 2 logical partitions of 62 and 13.1 gb earlier, I cant merger them to make a 75 GB partition and then...

I had Windows XP installed, with 4 partitions one of them was FAT32, others NTFS. Some Windows files got corrupted and the PC refused to start, so had to reinstall XP, later I found out that the FAT32 partition didn't show any contents, first I thought they got hidden, so took the necessary...

I downloaded a toh 98581rc2 ,, and ripped it.. the pc already has a dual boot setup.. wit xp on c: .. win 7 on D: ,, e: and f: are empty.. i intend to install osx on e: now c: is a 60gb primary partition.. d (100GB), e (100GB) and f (200 gb)all are logical partitions that belong to extended...

greetings , i wish to install pclinuxos minime on my hard disc but i have a situation.. i want to install linux on second hard drive (slave).....but the first partition on this drive has some data on it which i dont want to move any where else cause i dont have the space and i am too cheap...

ok guys, here's a problem.. (i knw im wrong..so plz guide me).. Here are the screenshots of the partition page (Ctrl Panel > Administrative tools > Computer Mgmt.) I wanna create 4-5 more partitions (all ntfs), but as i finish creating one PHYSICAL partition (look at the encircled...

Hi, I want to apply disk quota in CentOS (Similar as Red Hat). At the time of installation i created 3 partition as follows [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes...

Download Fedora11 32bit live cd and booted it using a pen drive. Within 70 seconds(after powering on), the boot process was over and I could see GUI. Now the problem is that when I start the installer and click NEXT, it shows a warning saying hard disk needs reinitialisation. If I ignore this...

Hello everybody: - I bought a new Seagate Barracuda 320 GB HDD. & plug it alongwith my existing 160 GB HDD & Boot from the New Seagate HDD & Install OS = XP SP-3 on it. 1st Problem: Disk Management shows capacity of New HDD = 298.09 GB. Where 20 GB can be gone?? I Partition it as...

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Hello, to all of you, Some days ago, the partition on my hard drive got corrupted, after that I used TESTDISK to search the partition it found the partition and revive that partition but now, whenever I click on any folder or on any file for opening I get message that "the file or folder is...

Guys, help me out here. There are three files in my c drive namely 1.AcroIEHelper.dll 2.AcroPDF.dll 3.pdfshell.dll that refuse to go. When i try to delete I get an error message "Acess is denied. Make sure the disk is mot full or right protected." when i format the partition the files...

I am having a Windows XP SP3 loaded laptop that has a Hitachi 80 GB SATA HDD formatted with NTFS. One of the partition of 25GB in size has some bad sectors. When I try to fix the error, I hear rattling sound and the system hangs. This problem also happens occasionally when I try to copy or move...

My friend's PC gave up on him a few days ago. I checked it and found that the boot loader has got corrupted, along with a few files going missing from the windows folder. My opinion is that most of the data can be salvaged before a full format by transferring data to another partition. I've...