I ahve a new notebook that came with Vista Ultimate installed and the HD partitioned into C and D Drives. I want all my documents, Pictures etc to be stored on D drive because C is too small. I want to have one big C drive or a larger one. Can I do this using the Vista Disk management tools of deleting and expanding? There is no data in the D drive.
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I thought it's my HDD so bought Caviar Black and after installing Vista, few days it was running fine, then again, today I start to experience the same thing.
I noticed that my 280GB hard disk is seemingly suddenly down to 20GB. I see that my used shadow storage space is 86GB and the allocated shadow space is 88GB and the max shadow space is "unbounded." I have the commands to resize the max space, but I don't know what to resize it to. I know I have about 150GB of programs, files, etc on my c: drive. Can you advise? Is it possible to determine the actual number of restore points that are kept and then simply decrease that number? It would seem that with most problems you wouldn't necessarily want to go back more than 3 or 4 points, would you? I just don't know how the shadow size corresponds to the number of restore points that are kept. 80+ GB just seems completely unreasonable! Incidentally, I also have a recovery drive, presumably created by the computer mfgr (Dell) with 15GB total, and 5GB free.
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I've noticed that on the user folder, google earth takes some 1.8GB of space. The folder C:Windowswinsxs is growing almost every day and now it has reached 9.57GB So my question is can how can i free some 8GB safely? Is there any folder that keeps temp files that can be safely removed?
Since I bought this new laptop (toshiba Satellite a215-s7437) I've noticed that every day I check the available space of the hard disk it just keeps getting smaller. I formated the disk about a week ago and obviously it helped, but the problem is starting to reapear...Eg,yesterday it said I had about 147gb, today it has 145gb.... I didn't download nothing, what's worse, i've been deleting stuff to make more room... By the way, its a 200GB HDD, SQ004513V03.
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Anyway, how, instead of working with this bizarre set-up, could I "merge" C: and D: into one hard drive (in Windows Explorer's eyes, at least) so that I do not have files arbitrarily split into two?
Was just checking some information in my pc, and i noticed both of the Hard drives were quite hot, theres no problems with the fans or anything in there so im not sure if theres a problem or they just get like that. The pc has been on for alot of the day and alot has been installed on it since they are new.
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1> Checked the BIOS, both drives are shown (Tried the NATIVE and LEGACY settings)
2> Checked the cables and power supply ( Have put in a new PATA IDE cable for good measure)
3> Updated to SP2 thinking it would have a fix!
Searched Google and tried these Solutions
4> Uninstalled 3rd party Dvd writing software, which i had installed after discovering this problem. (Never had installed iTunes, roxio or zune software)
5> Checked registry values at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
There were no Upper or lower Filters entries.
6> Tried the Auto Fix at "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314060" this doesn't work as it says Computer settings already match.
7> Then tried the auto Fix it.................
i've googled this issue all over, and though i've found many people with the same problem, none of their 'fixes' have worked for me. hopefully you guys can come up with something (without reinstalling vista again!) to make it work. as a note, i'm running Ultimate x64 and all of my hardware specs are more than enough and i'm pretty positive that's not the issue.
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View 9 Replies View Relatedthis is really for windows 7 however I didn't see a group for that yet. We have replaced our old XP machines with Windows 7 and are now getting a red "X" on network drives. Some people don't have a problem and can access them and others get drive not available. How to fix? We have a Windows 2003 AD in mixed mode. Our people get their mapped drives from a batch file we created that looks like this: (net use p: \server1sharename /persistent:no) All servers and PC are up to date with all MS patches.
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I have Vista basic SP1 v.668 which mount on a laptop XP SP3 v.3264 two drive. The user name for the mount is the same user name I login to vista but witH Different password. After the XP returns from standby and I try the same Word 2007 file in the XP I get an error. Explorer indicate RED cross on the drives. When double-click I'm prompt to enter user name/password ( without the option to save password )
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