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dashing.sujay

dashing.sujay

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mastercool8695 said:
thanks.
BTW, primary cannot be created too.
and there are 4 partitions of whom :
E : 100MB : Primary ----------------- Contains the freedos
C: 232GB : System, boot, Page File , Active, Crash Dump, Primary partition
D: 231GB : logical Drive
1000 MB :OEM Partition. -------------------- don't know what it contains

so there are practically, two OEM partitions.
one is the last one
another is the first one.

the last one doesn't have any drive letter and it also not visible in the "My Computer"

so, what should I do ?
also, the right click menu for the last 1000MB OEM partition only has "Help" option.
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That's the recovery partition (DOS) in your case. How did you deduce that 100MB is the one containing DOS ?
 
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mastercool8695

Cyborg Agent
dashing.sujay said:
That's the recovery partition (DOS) in your case. How did you deduce that 100MB is the one containing DOS ?
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sorry its actually 1000 MB , skipped a zero by mistake . sorry :|

and the drive has files, i opened a txt file and it read the terms and conditions for using the freedos system......
so, it must be the DOS drive.
also the Laptop came with DOS. so.
do you think its something else ?

i downloaded Easus partition trial, will upload the screenshot ASAP.
 
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mastercool8695

Cyborg Agent
rijinpk1 said:
did you try shrinking D drive in order to save space?
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so, should i delete the E drive ?
but how to backup that drive?
and Do i need to backup ?

yes, i tried shrinking,
1. when i tried 100Gb shrink (at that time 130GB was free) , it showed error, but i was using the PC at that time so, maybe it was because of the usage
2. when i tried 10 GB, it did shrink almost within 1 minute.

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also, when the C drive had 160 GB free, i tried to shrink it too, but the Windows disk Partition tool said that i can only shrink 5 GB of space in the C Drive. :|
 
Zangetsu

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
is it possible to uninstall skype and unmerge it from ms account?

i want to install and run separate skype (like in windows 7)
 
amjath

amjath

Human Spambot
Zangetsu said:
is it possible to uninstall skype and unmerge it from ms account?

i want to install and run separate skype (like in windows 7)
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Easy
*support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12211/how-do-i-unlink-my-skype-and-microsoft-or-facebook-accounts
u can log in using skype or ms account now
 
Zangetsu

Zangetsu

I am the master of my Fate.
amjath said:
Easy
*support.skype.com/en/faq/FA12211/how-do-i-unlink-my-skype-and-microsoft-or-facebook-accounts
u can log in using skype or ms account now
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Ok...this was for unlink
but what about installing separate skype...as I don't want to use the integrated skype
 
rijinpk1

rijinpk1

Aspiring Novelist
Zangetsu said:
Ok...this was for unlink
but what about installing separate skype...as I don't want to use the integrated skype
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you can download and install skype from the website. it will be separate.

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mastercool8695 said:
so, should i delete the E drive ?
but how to backup that drive?
and Do i need to backup ?

yes, i tried shrinking,
1. when i tried 100Gb shrink (at that time 130GB was free) , it showed error, but i was using the PC at that time so, maybe it was because of the usage
2. when i tried 10 GB, it did shrink almost within 1 minute.

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also, when the C drive had 160 GB free, i tried to shrink it too, but the Windows disk Partition tool said that i can only shrink 5 GB of space in the C Drive. :|
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shrink using EASEUS partition manager. not the inbuilt tool. it often creates troubles.
 
amjath

amjath

Human Spambot
I installed yesterdays update and loading screen is incredibly fast. But in the Welcome screen it is taking too much time to load. Any solution to reduce this
 
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mastercool8695

Cyborg Agent
rijinpk1 said:
why not try linux on virtual box? i dont know deleting E drive will have any bad impact.
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tried on virtual box, and it creats hell lot of troubles.
and i really want Linux on the base of the system :p
could even get rid of Windows.
I might go <Linux only> on my PC further on as well, since its giving lot of Bluescreens now and then.

how to take backup? i mean there are so many ways, which one do you recommend ?
copy paste ??
 
kaz

kaz

right here
My Firefox keeps crashing ever since I upgraded to win 8.1. I have updated it from ver 29 to ver. 30 and disabled all add-ons still it crashes every single minute even with just one tab open :(

Any idea what's wrong?
 
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