partitions

I have a 80 GB and a 40 GB HDD on a Mercury 845GV Motherboard with 1 GB (512 x 2) Hynix RAM. Recently I installed the trial version of "AutoRun Pro Enterprise II" and after a week uninstalled it and restarted my PC and my HDD partions show up as CDROM. I can access the partitions by double click...

My brother's lappi model Compaq 610 had os XP while he bought it 6 months back. Core 2 duo / 300 GB Hdd / 3 GB RAM. Few days back the O/S crashed. I wanted to install xp sp2 but it gives BSOD in the process. Then I tried to install Win 7 but could not. It gives "0x80070570" error while it...

I have 4 partitions in my hard disk. I divided the 4th partition into 2 (ext4 and swap) and installed Ubuntu 10.04. After that when I logged into windows(XP) and deleted the 2 partitions on which I had installed Ubuntu, my grub disappeared. When I booted afterwards, the following error came...

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Hi ppl, Right now I formatted a p4 PC and installed windows xp. Now the problem- I tried to partition and now there are 3 partitions (somehow could not delete one) and 3 installations of windows xp. Please tell me a way so i can reset my pc and start from scratch ( install OS and Partition...

my system has a 500gb hdd. partitions > c,d,e,f,g... c and d are under 100gb where as the rest of the partitions are larger than 100 gb. os- xp sp2. now i messed up my os and reinstalled it. win xp sp2, however now i am not able to see the partitions e,f and g. Please help.... theres lots of...

i have a seagate 1tb hard disk, when i bought it, i created 5 partitions on it. but yesterday when i installed ubuntu linux on the system, it merged all those partitions into one, so i tried to format it again(with xp) but this time i was just able to create only two partitions...

Hello friends! Now, whatever I am going to say may be a little complicated but please be patient and help me out. I am on a Win 7 platform with two HDD. The first HDD contains the OS and the second had three partitions. All that I will be talking is about the 2nd HDD that contains all my...

Hi guys, needed some help on understanding partitioning..I read that a disk can be divided atmost into 4 primary partitions..with one of them if marked as extended..can be further divided into logical partitions.. but consider my disk management table which i ve posted below.it seems to be...

This morning, when I put the computer on I got the following screen(see pic) and when I restarted, everything was normal except that partitions 'D' and 'E' would not open. When I tried to open it, a message appeared saying that it needed to be formatted. Both the partitions were almost full. I...

Hello friends! I have a system with Windows XP SP3 installed n my C drive. I have multiple partitions and I am willing to install Win 7 on my D Drive thereby making my PC a dual boot system with Win XP & Win 7. I do the procedure to installing two OS in two different partitions as I have...

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...

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...

Guyz, Hw can I make ma partitions mount automatically when Ubuntu starts??I've Ubuntu 8.10 & it doesnt do so.

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hi friends, My Seagate 250 gb hdd has developed Bad Sectors. I have 3 partitions C, D and E and so far only on C drive bad sectors are to be detected. Have a few questions - 1. Can i still use the other 2 partitions by formatting the C drive and not storing any data ? 2. Any way to Isolate...

Those were days when Linux kernel supported 63 partitions in PATA disk but newer kernels put 15 partition limit in PATA disks too. Latest kernel, 2.6.28.x supports 63 partitions in PATA as well as SATA disks now. One of my old hard disk having 23+ partitions was lying around and I plugged...

My friend has a dell inspiron 1525. As the dell guys didnt partition the hdd; we had to do it ourselves. So i had to shrink the volume. And now i had a 66 gb volume which is grey in color and the label says - unallocated. Now i right clicked on it and tried to format it as ntfs and then a...

Hallo... I have a few query.If My computer have Windows Vista installed and I want to downgrade it and install XP completely removing Vista.Is it possible? I think it is possible.And what I have to do is to format all the partitions using Vista bootable DVD and exit and next time install XP...

I recently purchased a Dell laptop with 320gb HDD. But it came with two partitions, a 10gb backup partition and the remaining in 1 partition. I wish to partition this huge one into smaller ones. I entered disk management in administrative tools and clicked on split partition. But it showed a max...