partitions

Hello I've been thinking a while what partition should be used for data storage. Let's say I want just two partitions on my HDD for OS for data Shall I create two primary partitions or one primary and one logical? I don't know why but I've always created one primary and one logical...

Hi friends I am having a 1TB seagate internal HDD which is nearly 4 years old and was working fine till now. But in the last few months two of my partitions got deleted automatically and became unallocated. The partition size was nearly 225 gb in each of them. These 2 partitions were...

acer aspire latop with 4 GB ram , 1 GB graphics, 500 GB HDD. Black screen appears on startup. Tried the following to bring back the system to life :- 1) Used bootable windows 7 flash drive. Outcome : the system is stuck at windows logo 2) Used bootable ubuntu flash drive (took more than...

I want to reinstall my window losing installed programs on C partition. But without losing data other partitions. (D and E partitions) Options I have: Refresh my pc: Not useful Reset my pc: I'm gonna lose everything Lenovo OneKey Software : I will lose everything or it will only effect c...

Today my hard disk is wiped accidently by me is that any way to recover my drive partitions.

I created a 15-20GB partition for installing Ubuntu (trying it out), no more using it. So I want my 20GB back in one of my partitions. How can I do it ? My laptop is currently running in Windows 8.1

Why WD-500GB Take 4 Hours to Install Win-7 ? Dear friends actually few days back my WD-500GB Partitions crash and I was very shocked as it happen first time with me. So now when I recover my data + Partitions with: ( EaseUS Partition Master Free 9.3 ) and was successful getting 90% data +...

hi I have a laptop with a recovery partition of windows 8 (around 10gb) and other partition for data and software (around 500gb). So my question is that I want to create 5 partitions of 100gb each of my 500gb partitioned hdd. So if i create these 5 partitions, WILL MY WINDOWS...

Hi, I have a 500GB WD harddisk, which has two partitions...as I used it for downloading thru torrents via segate dockstar. On one partition Debian (Linux) is installed, the other partitions is used for storage and backup. Now the problem is that the transfer rate from HDD to PC becomes very...

I have seagate 500GB usb3.0 external hard-disk that keeps disconnecting by itself.. disconnection is so frequent that you can't even see folder contents.. I am connecting it to usb 2.0 slot.. Let me mention few points 1. I have little old machine so I don't have window 7 drivers installed...

Hello Digitians, I have HP Pavilion G6-2313ax laptop. I have installed Windows 7 ultimate x64 on it. I have created 4 partitions, 3 primary and 1 logical and in that logical partition, i have created 4 partitions. Here is the screenshot of Disk Management I tried to install Ubuntu 13.04 x64...

Bought a new Desktop PC a month back and installed windows 8 pro.Everything was fine untill today when I decided to install Ubuntu 13.04.I had a single 1 TB HDD with 3 partitions C-100GB, D-100GB, E-800GB wanted to install Ubuntu in a 30GB partition and shrinked drive D using Windows...

hi friends, i have never done partition before so need some clarification. i currently have C:/684gb & Recovery D:/13.7gb. is there a need for partition? also in case i do create partitions, then on which drive should i install apps & games, on the new partition created or on C:/ drive? i have...

I have Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC as multi-boot,trouble is i am running low on space and would like to delete the partitions containing Fed/Ubu so that the combined free space is added to my main C: HDD.i expect around 80GB to be freed. Please guide me on how to do this PS: I want to...

Hi all, Good morning. I have some softwares that always requires C: and D: drives for installation. What i have is 2 OS and want to install the same software (different Ver.) on both the OS but there will be only one C: and one D: drive and other two drives will E: and F: (4 partitions for 2...

I am using a PC with Windows 8 installed on it. The present HDD is Seagate 1TB with partitions C, D, E and F. H is the DVD writer. I am now planning to install an additional internal HDD with 2TB capacity. My query is whether I can have multiple partitions like I, J, K, L, etc. on my 2nd HDD...

I am having a weird issue that ubuntu and linux mint both during live cd are not identifying one of my partitions and enlist a single partition as 406 gb although there should have been two different partitions. While installing I want to know whether I should create a 10gb partition in...

Hello everyone...i have recently purchased a laptop and i am facing problem in making partitions of my 500gb hard-disk.. i am using windows 7 ultimate. i want to create basis partitions not dynamic. i have also tried softwares like easus partition bt i encountered an error. Plz help me to...

I have a 40Gigs HDD, with my Win 7 install on it. I also have a 360Gigs HDD divided into 4 partitions of 83.8 GBs each. Now the thing is, I want to retire my 40GB and add a new 1TB. But I don't want to do a re-install of the Win 7, it's smooth and has lots of software, whose setups can be a PITA...

Hey guys,I've just now have a fu**ing great problem. My old Desktop went kaput about a month ago which had 2 HDDs. A 6 year old 250 GB(with the OS on it) and a year old Seagate Barracuda 1 TB(with my movies,music,games and software setup on it). So I took out my 1 TB HDD and hooked it up to my...