primary

i want to install win vista but none of the drives i have shows it's compatible with it.i have a primary partition which is only 2gb so maybe i need to extend it.plz suggest any way to extend it or convert my logical drive into a primary partition.

HI! I was wondering how to attach IDE harddisk as slave, sata harddisk is the primary disk.

Hi I have a P4 2.4 Ghz 1GB+256MB RAM !60GB+20GB HDD. I had Win 2000 on my C partition and Win XP on G: (C & D-initially was the 20GB HDD configured Primary master initially) but I changed it to primary slave and 160GB as the primary master using the jumper. My Win 2000 developed a problem...

I don't know why but it's kinda weird. This is what I got : Rating = 1 Windows Experience Index : Unrated Processor = 5.7 (Intel E8400) Memory (RAM) = 5.9 (Corsair 2GB 800MHz) Graphics = 1 (ATi Radeon HD3650XT 512MB) Gaming Graphics = 1 ( Do ) Primary Hard Disk = 5.3 (14GB in Primary Hard Disk)...

I have a p4 2.4 Ghz machine ASrock motherboard 20GB HDD 256MB DDR RAM, Win XP Pro and Win 2000. I wanted to install another HD of 160 GB or 250GB. I wanted to keep this new (160 or 250 GB) HD as primary master and 20 GB as primary slave. Can anyone tell me the procedure to be followed after...

Till now i was using my AGP card for the display, but now for some reason i dont want to use it. So I want to use the primary display, but now i'm not able to get the display. I cleared the CMOS, yet the same prob. any solution. The AGP card is no more with me.

Hi ! Got a new Dell XPS M1530 (my bro's) some days back... Config: Intel C2D T7250@2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD, nVidia M8600GT etc.... Its pre loaded with Vista Home Premium 32bit. Now, the partitions shown in Disk Management are:: 78MB - EISA Configuration, 10GB (Recovery D: ) - Primary...

I have two hard disks. My $dows hard disk is Primary and Linux is secondary drive.Due to fear of overwriting the MBR of my $indows disk(primary) , I removed this primary Windows Disk physically and installed PCLinuxOS and later Ubuntu Gutsy on my slave Disk. Now Ubuntu's grub runs when I run...

In nero we get an option of " backing up hard drive ". The thing is that i want to know if i back up my primary partition just after a fresh installation of WinXP , can i use the same dvd to recover my primary partition to th e state of fresh installation ??? like we do in HP recovery n all...

I have 500 GB external hard disk kahan ki 500 gb :mad: 465 gb hard disk hai.:mad:I want to make 6 partitions.So how many primary partitions and extended partitions should i make?I know primary is used for booting windows etc.Dont know about the extended one.

Hi all, am on a upgrade...to replace my old pc running Athlon 3000+ Which one should i go for? Amd or Intel. am not going to overclock.... my primary use will be video encoding... how is quadcore? should i choose core2duo or settle with amd x2(as am not a overclocker) My budget is 15k for...

It is a 160GB Sata Seagate drive. I asked him to partition a 20GB C: and install Windows on to it. The rest I told him I'll partition it myself. Under Disk Management in Windows XP, the C: is being shown like an extended partition green in color. And I am not able to create more than 3 extra...

Hi guys .. i bought a system... with sata 320 gb hd.. and connected to a sata 1 pin on the mobo dvd writer is been connected to primary ide on mobo.. now i have got two probs.. 1.) my 320 hd is not showing as primary master .. instead its showing me a third slave...!!! the dvd...

I have a 200GB SATA hd and a 250GB IDE hd.Both is having xp on it.But whenever I connect both the drives only the IDE harddrive is booting up.I want the SATA drive to be the Primary and the IDE to be the slave.I want xp to booted from SATA?...What connection do I have to do in my motherboard for...

I want to transfer my Os(WIN XP Sp2) to next HDD (320 GB) from the existing 80 gb which i'm using right now. Because of bigger space fist one will be primary drive and later secondary. Will software like Norton ghost help me?

hello frns recently i fromatted windows n created a new partition of 5 gb out of 25 gb allotted to it earlier...nw d problem is that this partition(5gb) is created as primary partition....i want to join this with another 5 gb of partiton which is extended partition...how can i do this???

i recently upgraded my pc... i bought a 160gb SATA hard disk... I hav a old 80gb regular PATA hard disk.... i am not able make my SATA - primary n PATA- secondary.... but i can make pata primary with SATA working as a secondary... The reason i want SATA primary is that i can using PATA as a...

hi..i am having a 200 gb hardisk of which my c drive is having 80 gb. Now i am planning to install win xp/vista once more in some other partition by which i'll be having a dual boot setup.but i dont want this new os partiton having any connection with the default os partiton,which means i want...

hi..i am having a 200 gb hardisk of which my c drive is having 80 gb. Now i am planning to install win xp/vista once more in some other partition by which i'll be having a dual boot setup.but i dont want this new os partiton having any connection with the default os partiton,which means i want...

Hi guys, I have a 164 GB Sata 2 HDD with following partitions : C : 20 GB NTFS - Primary, Active - XP SP2 installed D : 10 GB NTFS - Primary - Vista Installed E : 15 GB FAT32 - Primary - Dump F : 20 GB FAT32 - Logical - G : 20 GB FAT32 - Logical - H : 25 GB FAT32 - Logical - I ...