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I thought this was going to be a whole lot more difacule than this. thank to you both

How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drive to be used for external storage or as a recovery Image

I am not very experienced myself but here is something you can try. from the start menu click run or search and type "msconfig" and click ok or run. click the "startup" tab in the system configuration window. look on the list of things with check marks. those are the programs that have to start...

CHICANO wrote."If the "system reserves C:" 100MB partition is losing free space it must be because something is filling it which should not, that partition is reserved for the boot sector and it should not be used. Check what is in it and move non system files out of it. " This turned out to be...

I don't know where the happy faces came from

I don't know where the happy faces came from

Thank you Chicano & Midnightsirtort for taking all this time to help me. This is what I have found. In Disk Management in the Win XP partition, there 3 partitions labeled “System Reserved (C:)” 100MB Healthy (system), “Windows 7 (D:)” 148.95 GB Healthy, and “ Windows XP (E:)” 316.71GB Healthy...

MidnightDistort: Is there a way for me to find out how mush I set this up for at this point? I have looked in computer properties, It says 6.90GB used and 309GB free space

Chicano You can go here to see what I have done up to this point just follow this link. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1915334/set-dual-boot-system-windows-bit-system-repair-disk-window-bit-system.html Thank you for the link you posted but I do not understand what it says. It's like a...

Now that I have this computer set and booting with two OS on the same hard drive I need to ask still another question; When I was educating myself with the how to's I read several times that I had to install programs like Anti-vires and other software that I wanted to use in each partition...

Just a quick up-date for those interested. I found an article in one of the Microsoft sites where I was able to download a clean copy of the windows 7 OS to a DVD as I had a valid key number, that took an hour and a half to download and another hour to write to the DVD. I now have windows XP &...

I had to replace my computer and when I did I upgraded to windows 7 OS. on a dell computer. I partitioned off a new hard drive so I would be able to use my printers, scammers & camera's in XP which I installed first on the hard drive. Then I installed Win7 on the other partition using a Win7 OS...

Thanks for the come back beoza. I have read that article or one just like it and understand the idea. I have tried it both ways and have the same issue each way. I can't get the Win 7 to boot up in XP, and with 7 on first it cant be seen in the system configuration/ window/ boot tab in XP after...

I have set up two partitions on a 500GB hard drive one 336GB (E) and the other 128GB (D) after installing the first OS ,Win&, another partition appeared “system reserved” 100MB showed up. All three partitions say healthy. I installed Win 7 first from a repair disk I made on the (D:) partition...