Moving Boot Data To Data Drive
Aug 18, 2012
So I've been using my 64GB ssd as my windows 7 boot drive and i have a 1TB hdd as my data drive. Recently the my computer has begun to freeze up with errors like "explorer.exe" has stopped responding or "windows" has stopped responding and half of the time when i try to boot it says it cant find windows. This has lead me to believe that my ssd is dying despite being only a year old. I need to RMA my ssd but to do that i would be losing my boot drive for weeks. So I thought id try to create a system image so that i can simply put my boot drive on my hdd, but when i try to create the image it says that the image would be 711GB because its including all of my hdd (which contains all my user libraries and downloads). My question is: how do I make windows stop thinking that my hdd is a system drive so that I can create a reasonably sized image, or more generally: how can i easily move my boot drive to my hdd? Also, I've read some posts about using "easyBCD" to accomplish the latter but I'm not sure that's exactly what i need in this situation.
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Apr 23, 2012
I've had this laptop for a few months now and I got another hard drive called Data which is empty, my other hard drive called OS is where everything goes and I wondered if I can move games and other files to my Data hard drive without corrupting them. And if possible can I move a file called Program Files to my Data hard drive without causing any problems. My pc takes a long time to restart which I guess my OS decides. My OS got is 80gb of 238GB and my Data is 332gb big, with no files in it.
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Nov 13, 2009
I've been using Windows 7 pro 64bit for a while. My issue is that I want to put in a new hard drive and install windows 7 on that without loosing or moving all my data onto my new hard drive. Can someone tell me what is the most painless way to go abouts doing this?
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Aug 29, 2011
I was wondering... If I move my video, music, my documents folders etc. from my boot drive (ie C drive) to say a storage drive (D Drive), is the data completely removed from the boot drive or is it still there waiting to be erased next time a new file is written to it?
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Oct 31, 2010
I have a system drive on a workstation which is 1) removable, 2) contains 2 partitions - one for the sytem & data files, one reserved by the os.
I would like to use this drive and it's file data in an external drive case (SATA) connected to my notebook.
Will the notebook handle the external drive properly?
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Jun 2, 2011
forum i have a question. I have a kingston 30 gb ssd i use as my windows drive, and a 750 gb wd hdd for data/game storage. I have heard that you can ghost a file on the data drive into the x86 folder so that all new installs go there and then you still recieve most of the benefits of your ssd w/o clogging it up. I have an amd based system (dont know if that matters or not)
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Sep 1, 2011
I am having a new rig put together and ideally I want the following set up: Win 7, 64 bit on an SSD drive, along with all my software (MS Office, Adobe CS3 etc etc). I'd want to put all my data files on a separate hard drive. Is this possible? I keep hearing conflicting advice that windows registry doesn't like it and some software won't even install on an SSD. Is there anyone who can throw light on this?
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Nov 15, 2012
I am planning on getting a 256 GB Samsung 840 pro SSD, but I have some questions first. I plan on using it for my OS and my programs and games. How would I move that to the SSD? Is there anything else that would see a speed increase if moved to the drive? What would my libraries (videos, pictures, music) be like if my media was stored on my HDD? Is there anything else I should know before I buy one
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Nov 4, 2012
I have bought a new Windows 7 pc and put my old XP pc out to grass, I have removed the old Xp Hdd and mounted it into a usb Caddy. What I want to do is either use this as a duel boot Windows 7/xp or transfer all my xp data over onto my new pc.
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Jan 10, 2013
How can I move programs and files from my ssd boot drive to my data drive (Windows 7 x64 PC)?
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May 21, 2012
What is better when moving large amounts of files and data (20+) to either copy or cut the files? Or does it not make a difference?I was told cutting fragments your hard dive while copying does not
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Jan 16, 2012
This is my setup:
- PC1 runs Win 7 and Outlook 2010. It has my personal Inbox called Jon Local.
- PC2 runs Win XP and Outlook 2003. It holds my company data and is Server.
I want to change this setup so that I only have all my Outlook data on PC1, running under Outlook 2010. So, I need to migrate the data from PC2 to PC1.
1. How do I do this?!
2. Do I need to convert the format of the data on PC1 to a new Outlook format?
3. Can I export the account settings? No idea what all the pop settings are and the passwords, so would be nice if I can export that and import into Outlook 2010.
4. I need to have the company data from PC2 separate from PC1. Will it give me two Inbox?
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Sep 3, 2011
Today I got black hawk down and installed it getting an error message saying An error occurred during the moving data process : -214702473 After googling it came up with answers saying something like anti cheat software requires me to an a administrator on my computer. I'm an administrator so I don't know why my computers not recognizing me as one?
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Dec 6, 2012
I have a system with 3 drives disk0, disk1, and disk2.What I'd ultimately like to do is install Windows 7 on disk0 and install Linux on disk1. Then I want to have disk2 split into 2 partitions(part0, part1) for programs and other misc install files.However I don't want disk1 and disk2part1 to be visible while using disk0 and disk2part0 and vice versa.Is there any way to make this possible?
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Dec 3, 2009
just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate on my second pc, all went well apart from it gets to amd data change update new data to dmi then..... stops, it wont budge, i haven't touched anything in the bios or added any new hardwear.When i reboot, same again, went into the bios and made sure i have it set to boot from hard drive first.
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Nov 7, 2009
After a successful installation of Windows 7, I have the following irritating problem:
Some data needs to be entered after each boot or even more frequently.
For instance, the username/password for the "Dial-UP/VPN" Internet connection is not kept across boots.
The setting of the desktop is not kept (e.g., the size of desktop icons).
This seems to be a system-wide permissions' problem to write to a certain directory (e.g., a directory where the system keeps the data is read only).
Can you suggest in which directory/file Windows 7 keeps desktop settings and login credentials - so I could check this directory/file permissions ?
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Nov 23, 2009
Well my drive E: was fine before but i guess i did something and now its saying it has 338GB free of 338GB, which is impossible because it has some files up on it
It also has a file called msdia80.dll, i read somewhere about it that it happens because you partition your drive but how do i get rid of it? or at least move it to C:
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Feb 1, 2013
I have two HDD that used to be in a D-LINK DNS323. I have windows 7 on a laptop. I have a HDD to USB converter to connect the drive to the laptop. How can I actually read the data from the HDD. I can't put them back in the DNS 323 because they will be formatted. If I remember right the drives were 1TB with 500 MB designated as RAID1. Most data was on the RAID 1 volume.
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Nov 13, 2012
Low disk space, Can transfer data on D drive to an external hard drive
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Mar 24, 2011
Is there a way to reallocate unused space from D drive to C drive without losing any data?
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Oct 23, 2009
now when I switch on the pc, after the white screen and before the boot appear a black screen that say verifying dmi pool data and it stop to this.
For the first time I change the boot priority and boot from the another hard disk and it start. But now when I Boot from any hard disk the message is always the same...
I can boot without any problem from dvd drive or another device. Any solution?
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Nov 16, 2011
I'm making a back-up DVD for Windows 7 installation. Do I choose Create data DVD or Boot DVD? What's the difference, since they will hold the same files.
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Aug 15, 2012
August issue 2012 of The Costco Connection it states " When using a high-capacity hard drive, it's best to create a complete copy of your computer. That way, if your computer whirs its final whir, you can restore your exact working environment onto a replacement computer". Am I expecting too much to think if my computer takes a dump that all I have to do to restore my computer completely is upload all the info on the external hard drive? Is this a mirror back up of my computer? If I had to format the hard drive will everything be normal after recalling the info from the external hard drive?
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Mar 19, 2012
I have a clients harddrive (XP Home) to extract their data.I just got a Win 7 laptop for servicing computers and discovered I bought a nightmare.I cannot set sharing access to the clients drive in order to extract their files.Any ideas on accessing other drives from Win 7?I have connected this one by USB and even cloned it to empty space on my Win 7 drive.I have been through advanced sharing at the root and every folder I can get to.
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Sep 19, 2010
I was trying to limit access to my hard drive (D on the guest account, so i logged in as admin and went to security on properties and denied full control and users. But now even my admin account can't access the data drive. it says access denied. and the security tab is not there any more when i click properties. How can i fix this problem?
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Sep 30, 2009
1.I experienced a partition table corruption once,and it nearly killed me.So what I want to know is could it reduce the possibility of the partition table error if I put the data in 1st partition(rather than an OS),or if it's corrupt can I still access and read the data in 1st partition?I can reinstall OS but I can't reinstall data,you know.
2.Is the 100m hidden volume of Windows 7 useful?I don't need to encrypt my files,so can I delete it?I heard that if you format it first then do the installation Windows 7 won't create the volume.
And I wanna make a dual boot,if I discard that hidden volume will the dual boot fails or what?xp is more stable and I guess I won't change it,and that's the reason I put it in 2nd partition.Windows 7 is new,so I decide to drop it to the last partition because I may format and re-install it in the future.
I plan to do the re-installation and data transfer lately,so if it's pointless and no need to do that,please tell me soon.
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Jul 2, 2012
I have a win 7 hard drive that would not boot up. So I purchased a USB 2.0 to Sata/ide hard drive adapter in hopes of accessing the drive to copy the users files off of the drive. I see the drive in disk manager and it says that the drive is healthy & encrypted so enter the bitlocker recovery key for the drive, butI get the following error: 'f: is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect.
How can I get the data off of this drive?
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Dec 17, 2012
I have a pen drive having 4gb of data. After I plugged in that pen drive in one PC the datas are not showing. Kindly advice how can I recover the data. I also try to see hidden folders option but after that it also not showing. In properties it is showing 4gb of data in use.
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Apr 22, 2011
My computer is set up to dual boot WinXP and Windows 7, mostly for gaming compatibility purposes, but I love both OS equally to be honest. I'm trying to make both operating systems basically store and retrieve as much data from the same places as possible without destroying anything. For example, this is what I did so far...
- All drive letters are identical in both OS, to ensure maximum compatibility if running the same program on either OS.
- I have a shared Program Files folder which contains any programs that both OS can run and aren't entirely dependent on the correct registry keys on my "shared" hard drive, separate from my dual partitioned with the operating systems. Also on this drive is where I install my games and just about anything else both OS will use.
- Both OS use most of the same User's folder. I consider 7 my 'main OS', so my XP installation uses Windows 7's Documents, Music, Downloads, Favorites, and Videos folder, as well as a couple other of the personal settings folder. This works great for my games, both OS share most of my save game files so I can load a game in either OS and there's my progress.
So far everything is working great, but I want to take one final leap and I'm not sure of the effect, mostly because I'm not educated enough about program application data and what kinds of settings they store. Programs seem to store personal data in folders known as "Application Data" in XP and "AppData" in 7. From my understanding, this is pretty much how it goes... (XP Folder then Windows 7 Equivalent)
x:Documents and SettingsidApplication Data == x:UsersidAppDataRoaming
and
x:Documents and SettingsidLocal SettingsApplication Data == x:UsersidAppDataLocal
I know how to change where XP stores application data via the registry, what I'm wondering is will there be some kind of negative effect in doing so? Will it mess up my program data? This would be the last thing I can think of doing to minimize the amount of wasteful data stored between my operating systems. From what I'm seeing the programs I happened to install on both have exactly the same AppData in both folders.
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Feb 15, 2010
i have 2 hard drives 1 with win 7 beta but strangley i cant boot the final ver of windows 7 so im installing it onto the 2nd drive, and make it my main boot, now if i want to remove the beta boot record will i lose my files on that hdd.
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Nov 21, 2012
Can somebody please advise how to only copy data changes to a 2nd mirror drive (identical) is there any software free or buy that will do this job quickly as I have been doing it manually.I have 2 drive identical and I work on one for some time then I clone it to the 2nd drive but all I really want to do is copy the data/work only and not system files.
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