Converting Extended Drive To Primary Drive?
Nov 2, 2012how can i convert extended drive to primary drive while doing allocation of drive during allocation of drive
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Changing Primary Partition From Storage Drive To OS Drive?
Oct 11, 2011I recently purchased a new motherboard. After reinstalling windows, I noticed that my primary partition is also on my Storage Drive. Is there a way to change it back to only the SSD?
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Jan 23, 2011I want to add a new internal 1TB HDD with 2 partitions: 100GB for scratch disk space for Adobe CS, Autocad etc. and the remaining 900GB for User Data. My OS/Apps is on a 90GB SSD with no partitions. I have read the tutorial on creating a new partition but several questions remain unanswered..
1. should both the "S" partition ("S"cratch space) and "U" partition (User Data) be extended partitions, or should the "S" partition be Primary? If I desired to direct temp files here and possibly a 2nd pagefile...would that dictate primary or extended type? Is it OK to perform all these functions on this partition (scratch space, temp, pagefile?).
2. I want the "S" scratch disk partition to be on the outer edge of the drive so that it is the fastest. Do I create this partition 1st or 2nd?
3. Since I'm not installing an OS on this HDD, the 100MB "recovery" partition will not be created on this one? Would it be advantageous to have such a partition if the other SDD with OS/Apps fails?
4. Does the tutorial here still the correct steps for what I want to do?Partition or Volume - Create New
How To Make A Drive Primary Drive For Downloads
May 13, 2012a friend is trying to download a big file from an ftp program to his pc, unfortunately it keeps downloading to his 30G partition that only has windows on it instead of the 1TB drive he's designated for download. The question is, how can he ensure that windows will download ftp files to his 1TB with plenty of room instead of downloading it to his Windows 7 partition drive? He says that Windows creates a ghost temp file of what he's downloading on the 30G and thats why he's having this issue..
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Nov 24, 2009Windows 7 is coming pre-installed on my new PC from Dell. It has two 500GB HDDs.
I want to partition the first drive into just a couple of partitions. I guess I will have to shrink the main partition to about 100GB for the OS and apps.
But my question is: that partition with the OS and apps will be a 'primary' one...what will my next couple of partitions be? Logical? Extended?
I'm not sure how to decide what type of partitions to have.
Converting External Hard Drive To NTFS - Showing Raw
Feb 20, 2013I'm having a problem to convert my external hard rive to ntfs its showing raw it don't pickup the volume label. I whet into prompt also and it doesn't seem to see the hard drive. I tried so many stuff already.
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Oct 19, 2011My disk crashed and had to reload everything, I took it to Toshiba service center. Before the crush my hard disk was just one big physical disk now I have: C: physical 150.84 GB(boot, page file, crush dump, primary partition)If so can you please tell me how to do it, never done this before, partitioning, and I don't want to make a mess out of it.
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Dec 9, 2011Any good guide or book I can read for SSD's. I wanna learn which one to choose, how to install. Wanna use it as a primary drive for the OS, and have a secondary drive. How to setup my OS and computer to do that.
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Dec 26, 2009I have a new Laptop with Windows 7 Home edition (factory installed). It has only primary C: partition.
Is there any tweak to partition the HDD directly using windows without re-formatting the HDD
C Drive Or Partition Lists As Primary?
Apr 10, 2011I just got my laptop back from Acer and they had given me a new hard drive. I restored a disk image backup that I had made from Acronis True Image. The backup seemed a little strange going in, but none the less it worked anyway. I then went to Disk Management to look at the setup and noticed that my primary partition is now listed as a Logical. I'm posting a screen shot of the partions and someone tell me if that looks right to them and if not how do I get my C drive back to Primary. As I said it boots ok but when I did the recovery with Acronis it didn't seem to go as smoothly as it should have.
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Nov 20, 2009Here's the scenario: I have a 1TB disk with several partitions on it.
#1: Primary partition with Vista on it.
#2: A 500GB primary partition used as storage/backup.
#3: A 50GB partition encrypted with Truecrypt, Logical drive
Now, I want to create a new Primary partition at the end of the drive, so I can install another copy of Windows 7. Notice my 500GB storage partition does not need to be Primary, but it is, and I cannot create any more Primary partitions. How can I change the storage partition to a logical drive, and have my new partition be Primary?
Primary Drive Locks Up Upon Boot?
May 31, 2011I plugged in my old IDE hard drive and had it set up as a slave and when I try booting up I get to the Windows splash screen and I hear my primary drive click and then the activity light stays solid and it won't boot. I tried a couple times and it wouldn't work so I unplugged the secondary drive and it booted right up
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Oct 7, 2011I have two other hard drives in my computer. My operating system now is on "E" drive. I'm wanting to replace my "E" drive with a larger and faster drive.
I am currently backing up my entire "E" drive on my "C" drive.
Is it possible to simply pull out my current "E" drive and install a new "E" drive and then restore my backup to my new "E" drive? Or is it more complicated than that?
Change Active Primary Drive
Nov 28, 2009In switching over from XP to 7 I found myself also buying almost all new components, except hard drives. Due to a number of events that no one would believe humanly possible, I managed to establish my "C:" and "D:" drives on hard drive 1, whereas hard drive 0 is a bunch of free space. The computer boots up to Windows 7 on "C:" on HD 1.
I want to switch cables on the SATA drives and then designate the new HD0 (which was HD1) as the primary active partition, but as we all know, I can't just switch cables as then the computer does not know to boot off HD0.
What the heck do I do to accomplish this?
Change Primary Hard Drive?
Nov 18, 2011So I have a 64MB SSD that I use as my boot drive, then I have 1TB in SATA. I have Windows loaded on my SSD and everything works great. What I want to know, how do I move the primary drive to the SATA? Right now, SSD is "C" and SATA is "E".
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May 6, 2009I have recently partitioned my c drive, to create a new drive g, i installed w7 on g and its fine and works...
c drive did have a version of vista on, i planned on downgrading it to xp...
i messesd something up trying to install xp over vista so booting up using w7, i manually deleted all the files from the c drive.... now its totally fubar, it wont let me install anything on it atall...
how can i format the c drive which is my primary partition... or so something with it? combine it back into the g partition or anything..???
i can only access my pc booting up using w7, which is running on the g partition..
Using A Secondary Drive With 64bit When Primary Is A 32bit
Jun 20, 2012So earlier this year I constructed my first computer, which I sunk about 2k into and made fantastic . But, having no experience, I installed a 32 bit Windows 7 OS, thereby limiting my available RAM. Since I am a gamer, this is a bit of an issue. Now I have a new SSD, and I was wondering if I could simply load a 64 bit OS onto that drive and boot from there, thereby avoiding the reformatting of my current drive.
The primary drive is a 1TB regular hard drive, the secondary is a 64Gig Samsung 830 SSD.
Boot From Smaller Drive And Use Larger One As Primary?
Jan 12, 2013Got a new 2TB hard drive (f and have it installed, obviously showing up as an empty drive at the moment. Is it possible to use my old 320GB (c drive as boot only but still have the new one as the primary drive, programs install there, download there etc? PC is a homebuild running Win 7 64bit.
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Apr 18, 2012I've had a Windows 7 PC that's motherboard recently broke so I have been trying to use the hard drive with another PC. The PC I'm trying to put it into has all Windows 7 compatible parts. I get to the starting windows screen and it restarts the computer and gives me the option to Launch Startup repair. I launched startup repair and it says that it cannot fix the problems automatically. I can hookup the hard drive as a secondary hard drive and access all of the files on it but I cannot make it primary it just wont boot. The computer that the hard drive originally came from did not include a recovery/install CD.
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Apr 15, 2011today I backed up my files when prompted by the little flag icon, they went on an external HDD. Updated everything. Went back to pc after tea, and when i switch on it can't boot windows.
1.. it asks me to put the cd in, when i do it goes through to the option to upgrade, repair or custom. If i try to custom install it tells me no drives were found.
2It won't let me upgrade either.So i put the disc for the motherboard etc in and ask it to repair it says IDE drive doesn't exist or ALL primary partitions are occupied
Hard Drive Healthy And A Primary Partition But In-accessible
Nov 4, 2011I've just installed windows 7 ultimate 64 bit on my new laptop and when I checked my computer only one local disk was visible. When I checked disk management, this was the one shown. The disk has no name and file type.
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Oct 14, 2012I want to delete the hidden primary partition that came by default from transcend 4 GB pen drive model TS4GJFV30. It is preventing the drive to boot with windows 7. Also it is not allowing the drive to play media files on media peripherals.
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Jul 21, 2012I bought a new 2 Tb hard drive because my primary one was getting full. I would like to do a fresh install on the primary drive once I have moved over all the games, videos, pictures, etc. that I don't want to lose. I can format the primary drive and reinstall windows without affecting the content on the second drive, correct? Is there anything I need to know?
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Apr 25, 2011I recently reformatted my Windows 7 32bit system on my primary HDD (C). When I open My Computer, my secondary HDD (D) appears, but when I try to open it, it shows as empty. However, if I look at the properties of D, it says that only 200gb out of 500gb of free space is available. I booted into a live version of Ubuntu and the secondary HDD appears with all data in it and accessible, so I know there is nothing physically wrong with the drive. I know that I could brute force this problem by making a copy of the drive in Ubuntu, then reformatting it in Win7, but I'm hoping there's an easier solution that I'm just not aware of.
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Jun 3, 2011i had windows 7 OS in drive c . while i was partitioning drive c using disk management, disk 0 which has all recovery image drive c were converted to simple type.
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Aug 8, 2012I'm having an BSOD error, and it also refuses to write a minidump and kerneldump. So I can`t use any analysis tools. And yes, it's enabled!
Stop message: *** STOP: 0x00000F4 (0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFFA800F209B30, 0xFFFFFA800F209E10, 0xFFFFF80003787240)
After restart it sometimes does not find the primary hard drive. The error pops up from time to time. Sometimes from browsing the web, downloading or playing a game. It even pops up while I`m not doing anything at all. I did a checkdisk and it turned out clean.
Windows Wont Load After Change A Drive Type From Primary To Logical?
Sep 13, 2011I had 3 drives. my windows7 was installed on drive C. And I had 130GB unallocated space. I wanted to make new drive in this space with Minitool Partition Wizard.I read in mintool site that you can only have 3 primary drives. My E Drive was not important for me and I convert it to a logical drive and made a restart.Buuuut after restart my Windows 7 wont boot. Now I have fedora 15 and I see that all my drives and files are ok.
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Mar 14, 2012I installed Ubuntu on a older Toshiba laptop. When I boot up it asks me to select either Windows 7 or Ubuntu. I want to get rid of the Ubuntu disk partition and give that 2.9 GB space to my primary hard drive. I go into compmgmt.msc but I can't execute any commands on that disk partition.
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Nov 14, 2012I have a hard drive I want to backup to a 64gb flash drive and then restore it to another different hard drive than where it came from. I have windows 7 and office on my laptop and I want it on my desktop pc. There isn't close to 64gb of info on my laptop so it should be fine even though the hard drive says I have 160gb. It is all free space except for those programs.
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Aug 21, 2012I have a USB external hard drive that I keep all my documents etc on (had it for years)I upgraded from Vista Home to & Home Premium then had to upgrade recently to Professional to run my Sage. Through all these upgrades my ext. drive ran fine. Occasionally the drvie letter would change if I had something else plugged into the USB, this was always easily corected in disk management by changing the drive path.The connection on the case packed up so I had to get the drive put into a new case, now when I plug it in the drive is assigned G instead of F, I tried to change the drive letter allocation in Disk Management but it won't let me as the program still thinks I have a second ext. hard drive which is labelled F. I suspect this has happened because when the usb connection broke the drive was disconnected suddenly instead of a proper eject.How do I get Disk Management to remove the inactive drive - i can't find any obvious way - eject, delete etc are all missing when I click on tools or tasks.
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